{"id":975401,"date":"2022-02-03T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/just-in-police-arrest-takoradi-mayor-charged-for-verbal-assault-threat-against-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:01:20","slug":"just-in-police-arrest-takoradi-mayor-charged-for-verbal-assault-threat-against-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/just-in-police-arrest-takoradi-mayor-charged-for-verbal-assault-threat-against-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In: Police Arrest Takoradi Mayor; Charged For Verbal Assault, Threat Against Police Officer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/9b97ebce4b4c4d0db65b06ce59aca8cb\"\/>The Ghana Police Service has confirmed its Western Regional Command has arrested the MCE for Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Mr. Abdul-Mumin Issah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was after he reportedly described a police inspector as ugly and threatening to use his powers to have him transferred.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from the Police, Mr. Abdul-Mumin Issah has been arrested for an alleged motor traffic offence, verbal assault, and offensive conduct against a police officer who was performing his lawful duty.<\/p>\n<p>The Police statement further confirms that the Takoradi MCE, Mr. Abdul-Mumin Issah will be arraigned before the court tomorrow Friday, February 4, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MCE has been charged on three (3) counts of Assault of a public officer, Offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace and Disturbing the peace in a public place contrary to Sections 205, 207 and 298 respectively, of the Criminal Offences Act of 1960 (Act 29). He has also been charged for Dangerous driving contrary to Section 1 of Act 683 of 2004 as amended by Act 761 of 2008,\u201d part of the official Police statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The MCE who was driving a Toyota Land-cruiser with registration number GE 5615-20 is alleged to have driven dangerously and carelessly while approaching a police snap checkpoint at the Kwasimintsim Cemetery on Wednesday, 2nd\u00a0February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>When one of the police officers on duty attempted to stop him, he verbally assaulted and threatened him.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the follow button for more updates when ever published.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Pytas-Post (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAbdul-Mumin Issah<br \/>\nGhana Police Service<br \/>\nTakoradi<br \/>\nWestern Regional Command<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has confirmed its Western Regional Command has arrested the MCE for Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Mr. Abdul-Mumin Issah. This was after he reportedly described a police inspector as ugly and threatening to use his powers to have him transferred. In a statement from the Police, Mr. Abdul-Mumin Issah has been arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975401","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=975401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}