{"id":1262419,"date":"2022-12-07T06:21:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T06:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/07\/police-hunt-mps-who-attacked-female-colleague-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T06:21:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T06:21:45","slug":"police-hunt-mps-who-attacked-female-colleague-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/07\/police-hunt-mps-who-attacked-female-colleague-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt MPs who attacked female colleague\u00a0in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"381\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Parliament-696x381.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Senegal Parliament\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Police in Senegal are searching for two opposition lawmakers who attacked a female MP during a brawl in parliament last week.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Massata Samb slapped Amy Ndiaye, and Mamadou Niang kicked her in the stomach during a justice ministry budget vote on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ndiaye then threw a chair at Mr Samb before the speaker suspended proceedings.<video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/trim.AF6A10D8-779D-4342-9FD5-F249CA04EAAA.mov\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Dakar have launched proceedings against the two male MPs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The violence in parliament was widely condemned in Senegal and came during an annual UN-backed awareness campaign about violence against women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"h-HHfa7Ualw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asantehene\u2019s Advice: Don\u2019t always go after white collar jobs, venture into farming (6-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h-HHfa7Ualw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Senegal are searching for two opposition lawmakers who attacked a female MP during a brawl in parliament last week.\u00a0 Massata Samb slapped Amy Ndiaye, and Mamadou Niang kicked her in the stomach during a justice ministry budget vote on Thursday.\u00a0 Ms Ndiaye then threw a chair at Mr Samb before the speaker suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}