{"id":212869,"date":"2025-11-07T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-court-sets-nov-13-for-mustapha-hamids-passport-release-application-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:55:29","slug":"ghana-court-sets-nov-13-for-mustapha-hamids-passport-release-application-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-court-sets-nov-13-for-mustapha-hamids-passport-release-application-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Court Sets Nov. 13 for Mustapha Hamid&#8217;s Passport Release Application Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">The Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra will on <em>November 13<\/em> hear an application filed by <em>Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid<\/em>, seeking the release of his passport in the ongoing <em>GH\u00a2291 million case<\/em> involving allegations of <em>extortion, abuse of office<\/em>, and <em>money laundering<\/em> against him and nine others in connection with the <em>National Petroleum Authority (NPA)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Dr Abdul-Hamid contends that the release of his passport is necessary to enable him to travel to <strong>Canada<\/strong> to attend a <strong>political engagement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070337.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 Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra will on November 13 hear an application filed by Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, seeking the release of his passport in the ongoing GH\u00a2291 million case involving allegations of extortion, abuse of office, and money laundering against him and nine others in connection with the National Petroleum Authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212870,"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":[258,256,11814,6185,4508,4509,52817,6636,13048,257,15922,4346,6011,7123,254],"class_list":["post-212869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-application","tag-court","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hamids","tag-hearing","tag-mustapha","tag-news","tag-nov","tag-passport","tag-release","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/212869","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=212869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}