{"id":254942,"date":"2024-11-23T06:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/23\/bawumia-branded-campaign-vehicle-burns-occupants-escape-unscathed\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T06:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T06:08:05","slug":"bawumia-branded-campaign-vehicle-burns-occupants-escape-unscathed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/23\/bawumia-branded-campaign-vehicle-burns-occupants-escape-unscathed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia-branded campaign vehicle burns, occupants escape unscathed\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Jaman North Constituency escaped unscathed when a pickup vehicle in which they were traveling caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The supporters were on their way from Sampa, the constituency capital to Seketia for a house-to-house political campaign, when the incident happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of the fire was not immediately known.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ghana News Agency (GNA) however, gathered that the Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia \u201cIt is possible\u201d-branded pick-up vehicle fitted with a public address system, a generator set, and other valuables of the occupants including their mobile phones and money were burnt.\u00a0<\/p><p>Mr Emmanuel Frempa Amponsah, an NPP polling agent and one of the occupants of the vehicle told the GNA they detected smoke from the backside of the vehicle while they were on their way to Seketia.\u00a0<\/p><p>He said the driver of the vehicle parked the vehicle to find out the cause of the smoke, adding that the vehicle caught fire immediately they got out of it, burning everything.<\/p><p>Mr Amponsah said the party had since reported the incident to the police.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div><div style=\"clear: both; overflow:hidden;margin:20px auto; width:100%; min-height:280px;\">\n                                                 \n                        <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p> \n                        \n                        \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Jaman North Constituency escaped unscathed when a pickup vehicle in which they were traveling caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday.\u00a0 The supporters were on their way from Sampa, the constituency capital to Seketia for a house-to-house political campaign, when the incident happened.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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