{"id":68591,"date":"2025-06-19T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68591"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:32:13","slug":"ghanaians-in-abuja-protest-alleged-harassment-by-nigerian-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/19\/ghanaians-in-abuja-protest-alleged-harassment-by-nigerian-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians in Abuja Protest Alleged Harassment by Nigerian Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Ghanaians staged a protest at the Nigerian High Commission in Abuja on Wednesday, accusing the Nigeria Police and EFCC of persistent harassment and intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators, many of whom are investors in the River Park Estate project, decried repeated arrests, police summons, and unresolved investigations dating back to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Lead developer Kojo Mensah said the harassment is threatening their businesses. Protesters demanded President Tinubu and Ghana\u2019s President Mahama intervene and called for the removal of IGP Kayode Egbetokun.<\/p>\n<p>The protest follows a court case filed by Jonah Capital and others, seeking an injunction against further interference and N200 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>They also demanded the release of a long-delayed report by the Special Investigation Panel, which allegedly cleared them but has yet to be made public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Dozens of Ghanaians staged a protest at the Nigerian High Commission in Abuja on Wednesday, accusing the Nigeria Police and EFCC of persistent harassment and intimidation. The demonstrators, many of whom are investors in the River Park Estate project, decried repeated arrests, police summons, and unresolved investigations dating back to 2012. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68593,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68591\/revisions\/68593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}