{"id":230263,"date":"2026-04-13T02:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-police-arrest-man-over-viral-video-threatening-churches\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:54:27","slug":"ghana-police-arrest-man-over-viral-video-threatening-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-police-arrest-man-over-viral-video-threatening-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Police Arrest Man Over Viral Video Threatening Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Ghana Police Service has arrested a 22-year-old man, Evans Puplampu, for allegedly causing fear and panic through a viral video in which he posed as a bandit and issued threats targeting churches in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The suspect was arrested on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at Ashaiman Community 22, following what the police described as sustained intelligence gathering and surveillance after the video gained widespread attention on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">A statement shared with The Ghanaian Times by the police&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100526.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 Ghana Police Service has arrested a 22-year-old man, Evans Puplampu, for allegedly causing fear and panic through a viral video in which he posed as a bandit and issued threats targeting churches in the country. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at Ashaiman Community 22, following what the police described as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230264,"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":[258,256,6414,9516,4508,4509,6867,257,662,254,8718,8066,13080],"class_list":["post-230263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-churches","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-man","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatening","tag-video","tag-viral"],"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\/230263","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=230263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}