{"id":198109,"date":"2025-05-15T00:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-3-armed-robbers-get-19-years\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:27:31","slug":"ghana-3-armed-robbers-get-19-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-3-armed-robbers-get-19-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 3 Armed Robbers Get 19 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The Ho Circuit Court, last Friday, sentenced three armed robbers to a total of 19 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mercy Sokpe, 22, Atsu Kumasa, 25, and Godfred Dzidonu, 19, who were charged on two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">They pleaded guilty to the charges, and the court, presided by Mr Osman Abdul-Hakeem, sentenced the three to three years each on the charge of conspiracy to commit robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Atsu Kamasa and Godfred Dzidonu were additionally sentenced to five years each for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505140275.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 Ho Circuit Court, last Friday, sentenced three armed robbers to a total of 19 years imprisonment. Mercy Sokpe, 22, Atsu Kumasa, 25, and Godfred Dzidonu, 19, who were charged on two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery. They pleaded guilty to the charges, and the court, presided by Mr Osman Abdul-Hakeem, sentenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9663,4508,4509,257,1840,254,5114],"class_list":["post-198109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-robbers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198109","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=198109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}