{"id":736295,"date":"2022-01-05T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/man-34-arrested-for-setting-relatives-house-ablaze\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:43:20","slug":"man-34-arrested-for-setting-relatives-house-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/man-34-arrested-for-setting-relatives-house-ablaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 34, arrested for setting relative\u2019s house ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Wednesday,  5 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>starrfm.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-05<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/26899581.295.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect was arrested at the Ho lorry station upon a tip-off\" title=\"The suspect was arrested at the Ho lorry station upon a tip-off\" width=\"295\" height=\"164\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The suspect was arrested at the Ho lorry station upon a tip-off<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">A 34-year old farmer, Godsway Dzomeku has been arrested by the police in Ho for setting ablaze his aunt\u2019s two-bedroom house at Sokode Etoe, a community in the Ho Municipality of the Volta region.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the police, \u201cOn Sunday, January 2, 2021 police received a complaint that the suspect had set a two-bedroom self-contained house ablaze at Sokode Etoe, near Ho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice visited the scene and found two rooms burnt together with other personal effects,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was subsequently arrested at the Ho lorry station upon a tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>He is said to have confessed to the police that his aunt promised to give him one of the rooms but later rented it out.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is also said to have gone to steal an amount of GHS500 and a mattress from the tenant\u2019s room on the day of the incident before setting the house ablaze to cover up for his deeds.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been in custody assisting police investigations and will be put before a court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of Wednesday, 5 January 2022 Source: starrfm.com.gh 2022-01-05 The suspect was arrested at the Ho lorry station upon a tip-off A 34-year old farmer, Godsway Dzomeku has been arrested by the police in Ho for setting ablaze his aunt\u2019s two-bedroom house at Sokode Etoe, a community in the Ho Municipality of the Volta region. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736295","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\/736295","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=736295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}