{"id":180793,"date":"2024-09-18T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T03:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-accountant-jailed-2-years-for-stealing-ghana-police-church-money\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T05:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T03:18:12","slug":"ghana-accountant-jailed-2-years-for-stealing-ghana-police-church-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-accountant-jailed-2-years-for-stealing-ghana-police-church-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Accountant Jailed 2 Years for Stealing Ghana Police Church Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">An accountant who dishonestly appropriated GH\u00a240, 433.50 from the Ghana Police Church has been sentenced to two years in prison by an Adentan Circuit Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Edward Unicorn, 32, told the court that he used the money to wager bets and asked for the court to grant him bail to work and pay it off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Unicorn was charged with stealing. He pled guilty with an explanation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;I spent the money by playing Aviator (an online betting game). I staked it and never won. I was desperate to win but lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Related&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409170831.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accountant who dishonestly appropriated GH\u00a240, 433.50 from the Ghana Police Church has been sentenced to two years in prison by an Adentan Circuit Court. Edward Unicorn, 32, told the court that he used the money to wager bets and asked for the court to grant him bail to work and pay it off. Unicorn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[27664,258,256,6581,4508,4509,5696,5108,257,662,254,10184,5114],"class_list":["post-180793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accountant","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-church","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-jailed","tag-money","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stealing","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}