{"id":215077,"date":"2025-11-27T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-police-arrest-twenty-seven-suspects-in-major-operation-against-drug-peddling-in-northern-region\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:41:07","slug":"ghana-police-arrest-twenty-seven-suspects-in-major-operation-against-drug-peddling-in-northern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-police-arrest-twenty-seven-suspects-in-major-operation-against-drug-peddling-in-northern-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Police Arrest Twenty Seven Suspects in Major Operation Against Drug Peddling in Northern Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Northern Regional Police Command has announced the arrest of twenty seven people in a major operation targeting drug peddling and related crimes in Tamale and nearby communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Command explained that the arrests were made on November 19, during coordinated swoops carried out with support from the IGP&#8217;s Special Operations Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">It noted that the suspects, including Iddrisu Abdul Bassit, Iddrisu Sadick, Yawuza Hishan, Yakubu Yussif, Alhassan Abukari, Mutaru Daniel Fisco, Ibrahim Abdul&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511270588.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 Northern Regional Police Command has announced the arrest of twenty seven people in a major operation targeting drug peddling and related crimes in Tamale and nearby communities. The Command explained that the arrests were made on November 19, during coordinated swoops carried out with support from the IGP&#8217;s Special Operations Team. It noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215078,"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":[258,256,6414,6949,4508,4509,7373,257,4282,8556,35138,662,6324,254,4360,17413],"class_list":["post-215077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-drug","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-major","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-operation","tag-peddling","tag-police","tag-region","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects","tag-twenty"],"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\/215077","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=215077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}