{"id":185060,"date":"2024-11-21T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-53-pistols-74-magazines-seized-at-tema-port\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:30:15","slug":"ghana-53-pistols-74-magazines-seized-at-tema-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-53-pistols-74-magazines-seized-at-tema-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 53 Pistols, 74 Magazines Seized At Tema Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has seized a 40-foot container at the Tema Port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The container numbered MEDU4496951 was shipped from the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Officials found 53 pistols, 74 magazines, and 65 live rounds of ammunition concealed in suitcases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The shipment, which had been falsely declared as containing vehicles and personal effects, wasfollowing thorough investigations by the GRA&#8217;s Intelligence and Preventive Units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Commissioner of Customs, Brig Gen Zibrim&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411210239.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>The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has seized a 40-foot container at the Tema Port. The container numbered MEDU4496951 was shipped from the United States. Officials found 53 pistols, 74 magazines, and 65 live rounds of ammunition concealed in suitcases. The shipment, which had been falsely declared as containing vehicles and personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00590683:c7b1d4e99edc8963bdb46b086b8b0b21:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,50031,257,50030,7137,7936,254,12656],"class_list":["post-185060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-magazines","tag-news","tag-pistols","tag-port","tag-seized","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tema"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00590683:c7b1d4e99edc8963bdb46b086b8b0b21:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185060","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=185060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}