{"id":185158,"date":"2024-11-23T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-security-expert-cautions-against-influx-of-firearms-into-country\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:34:51","slug":"ghana-security-expert-cautions-against-influx-of-firearms-into-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-security-expert-cautions-against-influx-of-firearms-into-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Security Expert Cautions Against Influx of Firearms Into Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>A security consultant, Professor Kwesi Aning, has raised the alarm over the growing sophistication of firearms entering the country, particularly during election years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong>He said the development signalled an increased demand for military-grade weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><strong>Prof. Aning&#8217;s assertion follows the recent interception of 40-foot container containing concealed cache of firearms and ammunition at the Tema Port, by Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><strong>The container, numbered MEDU4496951 and&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411220202.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>A security consultant, Professor Kwesi Aning, has raised the alarm over the growing sophistication of firearms entering the country, particularly during election years. He said the development signalled an increased demand for military-grade weapons. Prof. Aning&#8217;s assertion follows the recent interception of 40-foot container containing concealed cache of firearms and ammunition at the Tema Port, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185159,"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":[258,256,8316,5042,8957,10476,4508,4509,8835,257,4586,254],"class_list":["post-185158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cautions","tag-country","tag-expert","tag-firearms","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-influx","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/185158","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=185158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}