{"id":2683,"date":"2019-02-19T09:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:28:28","slug":"ndc-shootings-government-expresses-condolences-to-bereaved-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/ndc-shootings-government-expresses-condolences-to-bereaved-family\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC shootings: government expresses condolences to bereaved family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghana.gov.gh\/\">government of Ghana<\/a> has condemned  the reported shooting incident that took place at the Ashanti Regional  Headquarters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)  leaving one dead and another in intensive care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group \naffiliated with the NDC known as the &#8216;Hawk&#8217; took the law into&nbsp;their&nbsp;own \nhands; like normally seen in an action movie and engaged in a \nfree-for-all gunshots with a taskforce also belonging to the NDC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/one-shot-dead-in-scuffle-at-ndc-party-office-in-kumasi\/\">one person died and\u00a0another seriously injured<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n police in its preliminary investigations has revealed that it is on a \nmanhunt for four persons in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a \nstatement issued and signed by Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong \nNkrumah, government has expressed condolences to the bereaved family and\n has wished the injured a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also urged the Ashanti Regional Police Command to \u201cspeed up investigations to bring the perpetrators to book\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cGovernment  reiterates that violence should be eschewed from all spheres of our  national life. Citizens and groups are further encouraged to desist from  actions that create a state of insecurity in our nation,\u201d<\/em> the statement added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/peacefmonline.com\">peacefmonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The government of Ghana has condemned the reported shooting incident that took place at the Ashanti Regional Headquarters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/ndc-shootings-government-expresses-condolences-to-bereaved-family\/\" title=\"NDC shootings: government expresses condolences to bereaved family\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[482,191,453],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-kojo-oppong-nkrumah","tag-ndc","tag-vigilante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}