{"id":219733,"date":"2026-01-08T23:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-mahama-condemns-attack-on-class-fm-reporter-confirms-interdiction-of-fire-officers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:23:40","slug":"ghana-president-mahama-condemns-attack-on-class-fm-reporter-confirms-interdiction-of-fire-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-mahama-condemns-attack-on-class-fm-reporter-confirms-interdiction-of-fire-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President Mahama Condemns Attack On Class FM Reporter, Confirms Interdiction of Fire Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">President John Dramani Mahama has confirmed that officers of the Ghana National Fire Service involved in the assault of a Class FM reporter have been identified and interdicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He described the incident as unacceptable and against the principles of media freedom and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">He stressed that attacks on journalists will not be tolerated under any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The President, who noted that he is a journalist by training,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601080366.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>President John Dramani Mahama has confirmed that officers of the Ghana National Fire Service involved in the assault of a Class FM reporter have been identified and interdicted. He described the incident as unacceptable and against the principles of media freedom and professionalism. He stressed that attacks on journalists will not be tolerated under any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219734,"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":[258,256,1398,6285,7610,6824,6600,4508,4509,48511,7780,257,6749,2450,13658,254],"class_list":["post-219733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-class","tag-condemns","tag-confirms","tag-fire","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-interdiction","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-president","tag-reporter","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\/219733","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=219733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}