{"id":33026,"date":"2023-05-09T06:32:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=33026"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:43:31","slug":"police-arrest-two-people-for-allegedly-attacking-a-radio-presenter-in-tamale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/05\/09\/police-arrest-two-people-for-allegedly-attacking-a-radio-presenter-in-tamale\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Two People For Allegedly Attacking A Radio Presenter In Tamale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police have today Monday, 8th May, 2023 arrested the two people who allegedly attacked, Abubakari Sadiq, a presenter with the Dagbong Radio station in Tamale while he was hosting a programme at the station on 3rd May, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the attack, the Police visited the scene but the suspects had bolted. A video footage of the incident was obtained to aid the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suspects, Iddrisu Hardi alias Pagaaza and Mumuni Osman are in custody assisting investigation and will be put before court, the Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government condemned the attack on the journalists by a former regional communications officer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/tag\/national-democratic-congress-ndc\/\">National Democratic Congress (NDC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Ministry condemns the act and urges The Ghana Police Service and relevant agencies to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators,\u201d a statement issued by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Thursday, May 4 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAttacks on journalists should not be countenanced. Severe and speedy response from law enforcement agencies is necessary to prevent copy-cat acts and maintain Ghana\u2019s status in upholding press freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police have today Monday, 8th May, 2023 arrested the two people who allegedly attacked, Abubakari Sadiq, a presenter with the Dagbong Radio station in Tamale while he was hosting a programme at the station on 3rd May, 2023. Following the attack, the Police visited the scene but the suspects had bolted. A video footage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":33027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[6850,6975,5304,11394,8203,6693,10507,913,4028,192,375,707,2264,10197,1557,10342,281,5146,12764,421,12410,5238,8033,3954,594],"class_list":["post-33026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-aid","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-attacks","tag-cat","tag-congress","tag-court","tag-democratic","tag-freedom","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-police","tag-ghana-police-service","tag-government","tag-investigation","tag-kojo-oppong-nkrumah","tag-law","tag-ndc","tag-nkrumah","tag-oppong-nkrumah","tag-police","tag-press-freedom","tag-tamale","tag-video","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51034,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33026\/revisions\/51034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}