{"id":17001,"date":"2018-12-21T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=17001"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:05:44","slug":"christian-atsu-pays-freedom-ten-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/christian-atsu-pays-freedom-ten-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Atsu pays for the freedom of ten prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Newcastle player Christian Atsu have freed ten prisoners in the\u00a0Cape Coast Prison Annex by paying their court fines.<\/h3>\n<p>Reports\u00a0 are suggesting that he plans on releasing 40 more prisoners before the ending of December 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OMqPPrQs5z\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/christian-atsu-pays-release-nine-african-prisoners\/\">Christian Atsu pays for release of nine African prisoners<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Christian Atsu pays for release of nine African prisoners&#8221; &#8212; Sahara Football\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/christian-atsu-pays-release-nine-african-prisoners\/embed\/#?secret=5H9NgJ5pij#?secret=OMqPPrQs5z\" data-secret=\"OMqPPrQs5z\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In October this year, Atsu prevented a mother and her two daughters from spending three months in prison for taking some leftover corn estimated at GH\u00a210 which did not belong to them.<\/p>\n<p>A court found them guilty and consequently sentenced all three including a lactating mother after they were unable to raise GH\u00a2 360 slapped on them.<\/p>\n<p>He came to the rescue of the convicts and through the Crime Check Foundation donated GH\u00a21,000 for their release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle player Christian Atsu have freed ten prisoners in the\u00a0Cape Coast Prison Annex by paying their court fines. Reports\u00a0 are suggesting that he plans on releasing 40 more prisoners before the ending of December 2018. Christian Atsu pays for release of nine African prisoners In October this year, Atsu prevented a mother and her two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8417,3347],"tags":[3875,5620],"class_list":{"0":"post-17001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-ghplayersabroad","9":"tag-christian-atsu","10":"tag-newcastle-united"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/prison.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4qd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16351,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/christian-atsu-pays-release-nine-african-prisoners\/","url_meta":{"origin":17001,"position":0},"title":"Christian Atsu pays for release of nine African prisoners","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"November 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghana and Newcastle United ace Christian Atsu has helped release nine African prisoners to date, it has emerged. 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