{"id":1272155,"date":"2022-12-31T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/sawmill-operator-shot-dead-at-agona-asafo\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:15:49","slug":"sawmill-operator-shot-dead-at-agona-asafo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/sawmill-operator-shot-dead-at-agona-asafo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawmill operator shot dead at Agona Asafo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"449\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/audio-cocoa-farmer-shoots-himself-dead-696x449.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Gun\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo: Gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A 43 -year -old sawmill operator, Kweku Yeboah, has been shot dead by a man at Agona Asafo in the Agona East District of the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been identified as 25-year-old Sowah.<br \/>The deceased was reportedly shot in his thigh on Friday while making a phone call in front of his house.<\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old son of the deceased, who witnessed the incident, told Adom News he was playing football with his friends when they heard a heated argument ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He, however, didn\u2019t know his father was involved only to hear a gunshot shortly.<\/p>\n<p>They rushed towards the direction of the gunshot and found his father in a pool of blood amidst threats from the suspect to shoot anyone else who comes closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, therefore, had to wait until the suspect entered his car and fled the scene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager said his father did not make it and died upon arrival at Agona Swedru Government Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the wife of the deceased, Ama Okyerewaa, said she was shocked after the news was broken to her.<\/p>\n<p>She said she cannot fathom what could have led to the shooting because her husband has no issues with Sowah.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed the unfortunate incident comes on the back of several threats the suspect has made on some people.<\/p>\n<p>Despite several complaints lodged with the Agona Swedru District and Divisional Police Command, no action was taken.<\/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=\"x-wBEfZSOiE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Promoting Skill Development: North Dayi tailors and hairdressers want TVET centers built (30-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-wBEfZSOiE?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>File photo: Gun A 43 -year -old sawmill operator, Kweku Yeboah, has been shot dead by a man at Agona Asafo in the Agona East District of the Central Region. The suspect has been identified as 25-year-old Sowah.The deceased was reportedly shot in his thigh on Friday while making a phone call in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272155","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\/1272155","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=1272155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}