{"id":1920,"date":"2019-01-13T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2019-01-13T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T17:44:31","slug":"top-manager-of-ghana-ports-tortured-and-murdered-after-senior-staff-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/13\/top-manager-of-ghana-ports-tortured-and-murdered-after-senior-staff-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Manager of Ghana Ports tortured and murdered after Senior Staff Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> A top manager of the Ghana Ports and Harbours who is also the Marketing  and Public Affairs Manager, Josephine Asante has been murdered in cold  blood, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed.<br><br>  News of her murder follows one that was carried out on a top Manager of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), two weeks ago.<br><br>  He was shot dead by unknown assailants in Gbangu in the East Mamprusi  District of the Northern Region, as MyNewsGh.com exclusively reported.<br><br>  Joseph Miigaai Jakperuk who is Deputy Distribution Manager of Accra  East Region of GWCL was traveling to his hometown in the Bunkpurugu  District when he was stopped by the hoodlums in the night who after  barricading the road with pieces of wood, pulled him out of his cross  country vehicle and shot him.<br><br>  Josephine Asante of Tema Ports was however trailed by her murderers  into her home at Community 25 in Tema where they somehow had access to  her bedroom and murdered her with a knife. MyNewsGh.com cannot confirm  the number of people who committed the act.<br><br>  The incident occurred on Saturday midnight when the top Ports Manager  had returned from a Senior Staff Party of the Ghana Ports. Her  blood-bathed body was however found this morning as murderers had locked  her inside the bedroom and threw the key into the main compound and  bolted unseen, MyNewsGh.com was told.<br><br>  Her children broke down the door to find her dead in a pool of blood after they were unable to reach her in the morning.<br><br>  The incident has been reported to Police who have taken custody of the body for investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/mynewsgh.com\/\">mynewsgh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A top manager of the Ghana Ports and Harbours who is also the Marketing and Public Affairs Manager, Josephine Asante has been murdered in cold <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/13\/top-manager-of-ghana-ports-tortured-and-murdered-after-senior-staff-party\/\" title=\"Top Manager of Ghana Ports tortured and murdered after Senior Staff Party\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[75,283],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crime","tag-gpha"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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