{"id":3244,"date":"2024-08-22T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2024-08-22T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:40:44","slug":"30-year-old-man-attacked-by-mob-for-allegedly-stealing-diesel-in-shama-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"30-year-old man attacked by mob for allegedly stealing diesel in Shama District&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/images.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3245\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A young man believed to be in his 30s was nearly lynched for siphoning fuel at Old Daboase Junction in the Shama District of the Western region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect, Kofi Nyarko, popularly known as Skeleton, siphoned diesel from a truck at Kumasi Kakrabam on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports by Adom News\u2019 affiliate, Shama Radio reporter, Papa Kojo Nunoo suggest that, there had been reported cases of siphoned fuel in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents who busted Kofi were convinced he had a hand in the previous incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite running to seek refuge on top of a moving commercial vehicle, he was chased while the beating continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The angry mob dragged him down, forcing the driver to park the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents have lamented the rampant theft in the community and have threatened to deal ruthlessly with any thief arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man believed to be in his 30s was nearly lynched for siphoning fuel at Old Daboase Junction in the Shama District of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}