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  • Putin’s ‘private army’ recruiting Russian convicts ‘with HIV and hepatitis C’

    The Wagner Group – dubbed by some as Putin’s private army – is apparently lowering its standards and recruiting Russian convicts suffering from serious diseases including HIV and hepatitis C for the Ukraine war, according to UK intelligence, citing the organisation’s head, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

    The Ministry of Defence says that in earlier conflicts the Wagner Group has maintained “relatively high recruitment standards” with many of its operators previously serving as professional soldiers.

    But the MoD added on Twitter that the admission of prisoners with serious medical concerns highlights “an approach which now priorities numbers over experience or quality”.

    Source: Skynews.com

     

  • Prison has taught me how to respect women Ex-convict shares experience

    For many men, after becoming successful in life, they tend to forget about the women in their lives they toiled with to reach their current status.

    Their monies and wealth now control their moves at the detriment of their family and no one seems to be able to advise them on what to do.

    Such is the story of Ohene Kofi Agyekum, a man who seems to have learnt his lessons in life after he was convicted.

    Agyekum who spoke to Crime Check TV monitored by MyNewsGh.com, said while at home, he never respected his wife who is a nurse by profession because he had money.

    He said he never spent on his wife but rather, he spent on other women, alcohol and friends who never advised him to do the right thing.

    However, he ended up in jail when he invested the money into a business venture with another friend which involved car sales but it flopped.

    After his conviction, he noted that although he treated his wife unfairly while he was a free man, his wife did not pay him back with the same coin because she sacrificed her time and energy to ensure that he was ok.

    “When I got the problem, I could not tell my wife because I was shy about it and the fact that I never respected and treated her right was another thing. But my wife provided me with all the support. She visited me and we spoke on phone often. I had to tell her not to come here because she can use that money to take care of our four children,” he told Crime Check Television in an interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com.

    He called on all men to respect their women because they are their backbones and without them men are nothing.

    Source: My News GH

  • 29-year-old ex-convict beaten to death in Cape Coast

    An ex-convict Papa Sam popularly called Assemblyman was on Wednesday dawn allegedly found beaten to death by some unknown persons at Aquarium, a suburb of Cape Coast.

    Sam was a resident of Ntsin also a suburb of Cape Coast and was said to have been released from prison not long ago.

    A resident of Aquarium who pleaded anonymity told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the 29-year-old man known in the area as an ex-convict was last seen in the company of three others around 1200 hours in the vicinity.

    According to the witness, the gang attempted to steal in the area and were pursued but the other three managed to escape.

    The GNA noticed that the deceased was pelted with stones and cement blocks which damaged his face and some other parts of his body.

    The incident drew a large crowd to the area and as at 9 in the morning, the body partly covered with plantain leaves, stones, pieces of wood and cement blocks, was still lying at the spot where the incident occurred.

    The police are yet to visit the scene.

    Source: GNA