{"id":1265033,"date":"2022-12-14T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/eoco-claim-of-37-stolen-vehicles-challenged\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:53:41","slug":"eoco-claim-of-37-stolen-vehicles-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/eoco-claim-of-37-stolen-vehicles-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"EOCO claim of 37 stolen vehicles challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"406\"  alt=\"\" title=\"EOCO-620x406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/EOCO-620x406-1.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"406\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/EOCO-620x406-1.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"EOCO-620x406\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The General Secretary of the Vehicle and Assets Dealers Union of Ghana, Clifford Owusu, has challenged the Economic and Organised  Office (EOCO) concerning its recent operation that led to the retrieval of 37 luxury vehicles suspected to have been stolen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Owusu, first of all, said the number of vehicles towed by EOCO following the alleged operation is \u201c200 getting to 300\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Martin Asiedu-Dartey on <strong>TV3<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Midday Live <\/em>on Wednesday, December 14, the General Secretary of the Union said they have documents on all the vehicles EOCO is claiming were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release issued by the Office on Tuesday, December 13, the intelligence-led operation was carried out in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).<\/p>\n<p>It, therefore, advised prospective vehicle buyers to conduct due diligence prior to the purchase of vehicles, stating that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Owusu said they have, since the operation on Friday, December 9, held meetings with EOCO over the action, insisting that \u201cthose vehicles were bought from America and Canada\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He explained the modus operandi of EOCO during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmediately they entered the garage, they just pick the cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the statement by EOCO is false and that \u201cthey are alleging that the vehicles were stolen vehicles but for us they are not\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the Vehicle and Assets Dealers Union of Ghana, Clifford Owusu, has challenged the Economic and Organised Office (EOCO) concerning its recent operation that led to the retrieval of 37 luxury vehicles suspected to have been stolen. Mr Owusu, first of all, said the number of vehicles towed by EOCO following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265033","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=1265033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}