The Ghana Police Service has launched an investigation into an alleged assault on three Catholic missionary priests in the Oti Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to reports, the priests were attacked by local youth while traveling with government officials to inspect a plot of land. The confrontation escalated when the youth accused the priests of attempting to steal equipment from the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP). One of the priests was injured during the assault and received medical treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police have clarified that the priests were treated as victims and not detained during the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inspector-General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has assured the President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference that a thorough investigation will be conducted to bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Police Service Launches Investigation- Assault on Catholic Priest (Oti Region)<\/p>\n
The Ghana Police Service has launched an investigation into an alleged assault on three Catholic missionary priests in the Oti Region.<\/p>\n
According to reports, the priests were attacked by local youth while traveling with government officials to inspect a plot of land. The confrontation escalated when the youth accused the priests of attempting to steal equipment from the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP). One of the priests was injured during the assault and received medical treatment.<\/p>\n
The police have clarified that the priests were treated as victims and not detained during the investigation.<\/p>\n
Inspector-General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has assured the President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference that a thorough investigation will be conducted to bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}