{"id":737190,"date":"2022-01-06T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T08:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/farmer-burns-aunts-house\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T08:18:30","slug":"farmer-burns-aunts-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/farmer-burns-aunts-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Burns Aunt&#8217;s House &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A farmer who set his aunt\u2019s two-bedroom house on fire at Sokode Etoe near Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Sunday, January 2, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Dzomeku Godsway, 35-year-old claimed that he set the house ablaze in retaliation to a failed promise from his aunt.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the aunt had promised to give him one of the rooms, but she later discovered that the room had been rented out.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Public Affairs at the Volta Regional Police Command, DSP Efia Tenge indicated that the suspect was arrested for stealing and arson.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from her office explains that on Sunday, January 2, 2022, \u201cthe Police received a complainant that the suspect had set a two-bedroom self-contained house ablaze at Sokode Etoe near Ho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team was dispatched to the scene. They found two rooms burnt. Other personal effects in the room were also burnt to ashes.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this the suspect was arrested at the Ho Lorry Station upon a tip-off. He was subsequently interrogated to ascertain some facts. In his response, the suspect confessed that his aunt promised to give him one of the rooms but later rented it out.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he set the house ablaze to cover up for stealing a mattress and an amount of Ghc500 from the tenant of the said room.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is currently in Police custody assisting with investigations and will be put before the law court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Fred Duodu, Ho (k.duodu@yahoo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer who set his aunt\u2019s two-bedroom house on fire at Sokode Etoe near Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, has been arrested. The incident happened on Sunday, January 2, 2022. Dzomeku Godsway, 35-year-old claimed that he set the house ablaze in retaliation to a failed promise from his aunt. According to him, the aunt had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737190","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\/737190","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=737190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}