{"id":204671,"date":"2025-08-14T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-police-arrest-2-suspects-impound-cameroon-bound-pms-boat\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:09:52","slug":"cameroon-police-arrest-2-suspects-impound-cameroon-bound-pms-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-police-arrest-2-suspects-impound-cameroon-bound-pms-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Police Arrest 2 Suspects, Impound Cameroon-Bound PMs Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Marine police operatives on the waterways of Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State have smashed an illegal bunkering syndicate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">They arrested two suspected oil thieves and impounded a wooden boat loaded with the product around the Okposo axis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Leadership gathered that the suspects in the illegal business usually ship petroleum products to some central African countries through the Gulf of Guinea, especially the neighbouring Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The police spokesperson in the state, DSP Timfon John,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508140343.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine police operatives on the waterways of Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State have smashed an illegal bunkering syndicate. They arrested two suspected oil thieves and impounded a wooden boat loaded with the product around the Okposo axis. Leadership gathered that the suspects in the illegal business usually ship petroleum products to some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204672,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,6414,7202,4698,377,52107,34540,257,11436,662,254,4360],"class_list":["post-204671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-boat","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonbound","tag-impound","tag-news","tag-pms","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects"],"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\/204671","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=204671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}