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  • Nigerian Signwriter jailed 15 years for abduction, defilement

    A Nigerian Signwriter who abducted a 14-year-old girl and defiled her has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Gender Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters, Accra.

    Efe James Edema, 19, charged with defilement and abduction, pleaded guilty.

    The court presided over by Mrs Abena Amponsah Boansi convicted Edema on his own plea.

    Prosecution led by Inspector Opoku Aniagyei narrated that the complainant was the father of the victim.

    Inspector Aniagyei said the complainant resided at Ayikuma together with the victim and that the accused resided at Nungua.

    The prosecution said last year Edema went to work at Ayikuma and befriended the complainant and the family.

    It said, however, during September 10, this year, the accused, now convict, informed the complainant that his work had ended at Ayikuma, and that he would be returning to Nungua.

    To the surprise of the complainant, the prosecution said the complainant in the evening of September 10, this year, realised that the victim was no where to be found after Edema had left.

    It said the complainant went round in search of the victim but to no avail.

    The prosecution said the complainant, therefore, reported the matter to the Police at Ayikuma on September 11, 2022.

    It said the complainant then posted the pictures of the victim on the status of his phone and other social media platforms.

    Afterwards, the prosecution said the complainant was informed by his brothers at Nungua that, they had seen a girl who resembled the victim in the company of Edema.

    The prosecution told the court that the complainant asked his brothers to snap pictures of the accused and the victim and send same to him (the complainant).

    When the pictures of the victim and Edema were sent to the complainant, he identified the victim.

    The prosecution said the complainant went to the Nungua Police Station with an Extract of Occurrence from Ayikuma Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit for assistance.

    It said Edema was nabbed by the Police and the complainant was issued with a medical report to send the victim to the hospital for examination.

    A full medical report on the victim was submitted to the Police.

    Source: GNA

  • Canadian Murder Case: Police pray for time to build duplicate docket

    The Police say some documents needed to build a duplicate docket in the murdered Canadian case are not ready.

    According to Chief Inspector Jacob Nyarko, the Police were yet to receive the full autopsy report on murdered Frank Kofi Osei, the Ghanaian domiciled in Canada.

    He, therefore, prayed the Adenta District Court to give the prosecution some time to get all the necessary documents and reports to build the duplicate docket and forward same to the Office of the Attorney General for advice.

    The court adjourned the matter to November 11.

    Safina Mohammed Adizatu, a student, and Michael Fiifi Ampofo Arku, the two accused persons, are in lawful custody over the murder of Osei at Ashalley Botwe School Junction, in Accra.

    Osei, a Ghanaian domiciled in Canada, was in the country for a vacation when he was allegedly murdered last month.

    Safina, also known as Safina Diamond on social media, and Arku, are said to have stabbed Osei several times on his chin, jaw, back and strangled him.

    Charged with conspiracy and murder, the two accused in the company of their respective lawyers, had their pleas reserved.

    Narrating the facts, the prosecution led by Chief Inspector Jacob Nyarko, said Safina was a 23-year-old Level 100 student of the University of Ghana, and Arku, a Technical Officer of the Crop Research Institute, Kumasi.

    The prosecution said Osei, now deceased, was a Ghanaian domiciled in Canada, who was in Ghana on vacation.

    It said on July 24, this year, Osei visited Safina, his fiancé, who resided at Ashalley Botwe School Junction, Accra, and decided to pass the night there.

    According to the prosecution, the accused later allegedly dragged the deceased from the first floor of the storey building through the staircase and dumped him at the gate of the house near where the deceased had parked his Toyota Tundra and washed the blood stains off the staircase.

    The prosecution said Safina called a police officer and said her boyfriend visited her, and had died in her room.

    The court heard that the police called members of the Police Patrol Team, which rushed to the scene and found the body of Osei lying at the gate of Safina’s house, but (she) Safina and Arku were nowhere to be found.

    The prosecution said the police traced Safina to Ashalley Botwe School Junction and nabbed her.

    It said Arku after allegedly committing the act, absconded to Kumasi, adding that efforts were underway to apprehend other accomplices on the run.

     Source: GNA

  • NYC man arrested for fatally stabbing individual who didn’t say ‘Thank You’

    A New York City man has been arrested after allegedly fatally stabbing a man who confronted him for not saying “thank you.”

    NBC News reports the incident took place on Sept. 20 around 11:30 p.m. Joan Nunez, 37, opened the door of Tobacco Road Corp near President Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn for Edwin Pedroza, 42.

    “It was just about not saying ‘thank you’ for opening the door for him,” employee Kharef Alsaidi told WABC. Alsaidi explained that Nunez opened the door for Pedroza, who failed to thank him for his nice gesture.

    “Why don’t you say, ‘Thank you for opening the door’?” Alsaidi claims Nunez said, to which Pedroza responded, “I didn’t tell you to open the door for me.”

    A verbal dispute erupted into a physical altercation, as both men fought off one another. Alsaidi said Nunez taunted Pedroza, saying, “Stab me if you can do it.”

    From there, Pedroza withdrew a knife and stabbed Nunez in the abdomen and neck. “The victim started screaming, ‘He stabbed me, he stabbed me,’” Alsaidi said.

    After Nunez stumbled back into the store, where he reportedly was “bleeding all over the floor,” the victim was subsequently rushed to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

    Pedroza biked away from the crime scene, before he was arrested Friday morning in Brooklyn and charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.

    Source: Complex.com

  • Three persons remanded for conspiracy to commit crime

    Three persons have been remanded into police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for conspiring to commit crime and causing unlawful damage.

    Mr Amankwah Dotse, aged 38, Mr Emmanuel Kpobi, aged 50, and Mr Raphael Agboli, all Land guards, were jointly charged with conspiracy to commit crime and causing unlawful damage.

    Again, Mr Agboli, was charged with two counts of threat of death.

    They pleaded not guilty to all the offences levelled against them.

    Mr Yaw Dankwah, counsel for the accused persons, prayed for their bail, saying that they were not a threat to society and not a ‘fright risk.’

    He said his clients had a fixed place of abode, as well as people of substance to stand as sureties.

    Prosecution opposed the bail on the grounds that the accused persons would interfere with police investigation if granted bail.

    The prosecution said the investigator needed ample time to do an investigation on the land.

    He said there was the need to conduct a forensic investigation on a suspected Indian hemp found on one of the accused persons.

    The Court presided over by Mrs Evelyn Asamoah remanded the accused persons into police custody to reappear on October 24, 2022.

    Police Chief Inspector Samuel Ahibor, prosecuting, told the Court that complainant, Mr Jonathan Kwabena Ofori, was a Businessman and resided at Ofankor-Accra whilst the accused persons were residents of Kpobikope-Mayera.

    The prosecution said suspects Mensah Dogbe and Godson Atakorah were at large.

    Chief Inspector Ahiabor said in 2004, the complainant acquired 20 plots of land at Mayera from Nana Ansah Henry and Dr Kumah for building purposes.

    The prosecution said the complainant walled the land and put up a two-bedroom house on it for his caretakers, Erica Blankson and Emmanuel Owusu Danso, witnesses in the case.

    Chief Inspector Ahiabor said on August 20, 2022, the accused persons went and broke a portion of the fenced wall and sold part of the complainant’s land to one Michael Sackey.

    The prosecution said the matter was reported to the Police and the accused persons were arrested.

    Chief Inspector Ahiabor said during investigations, the accused persons were warned by the Regional Police Command not to go to the land again.

    The prosecution said on October 12, 2022, the accused persons went back to the land, pulled a pump action gun on the caretakers, and threatened to kill them.


    Chief Inspector Ahiabor said the Anti-Land Guard Team from Accra Regional Police Headquarters rushed to the scene and arrested the accused persons.

    The prosecution said a search conducted in Mr Dotse’s bag revealed one wrap of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.

    Chief Inspector Ahiabor said investigations were still ongoing to apprehend suspects at large to assist police investigations.

    Source: GNA

  • Cop who shot 17-year-old in McDonald’s parking lot charged, teen still on life support

    A Texas cop who was previously reported to have been fired after shooting a teen in a McDonald’s parking lot has now been charged.

    Per a report from the Associated Press, 25-year-old James Brennand was still in custody as of Wednesday morning after turning himself in the prior evening. Brennand, who was fired last week, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault by public servant.

    Erik Contu, 17, was eating inside his car when Brennand (as seen in subsequently shared body cam video) approached and told him to exit. At the time, Brennand claimed, he believed the vehicle was the same one that had “evaded him” the night before. As the car is seen being driven away, the officer fires into the vehicle, hitting Cantu.

    When reached for comment by Complex on Wednesday, an attorney for Contu’s family confirmed that the teen remained on life support.

    “We have no comment to the former officer’s arrest at this time,” the family said. Our main priority is Erik’s recovery. Erik is still on life support and is non-responsive but his oxygen levels are showing an improvement. We are being patient and optimistic that better health is coming. Please continue to keep Erik in your thoughts and prayers.”

    The San Antonio Police Department confirmed Brennand’s arrest when reached for comment. A rep also confirmed that detectives with SAPD’s homicide unit had filed the two aforementioned aggravated assault charges following a criminal investigation.

    In a previously released statement following the announcement that Brennand’s employment had been terminated, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said the officer’s actions “were not in accordance” with the expectations of the department.

    “Swift action was taken by the chief to terminate the officer and I am relieved that this decision is final,” Nirenberg said at the time.

    Source: Complex.com

     

     

  • Bagre Dam spillage: Over 700 farmlands destroyed in Talensi district

    Some local farmers numbering about 700 have had their farm crops destroyed by the Bagre dam spillage in the Talensi district of the Upper East Region.

    Their produce namely millet, cassava and watermelon among others have been washed away.

    The farmers say they have lost everything to the water spillage.

    Some of them who spoke with Class 91.3 FM’s Upper East regional correspondent Moses Appiah complained about how they have lost everything they invested into the farm as a result of the unannounced spillage.

    The District Director of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Alpha Robert, speaking in an interview noted that his outfit has begun doing some assessment-based reports to ascertain the levels of the danger of the spillage on farmland.

    He added that the assessment is only for record-keeping and not to seek relief items for the affected farmers.

  • The funny 1959 story of how a thief unsuccessfully wanted two slaps in order to be released

    Even before his case was heard in court, a thief by the name of Daniel Laryea, tried a more unconventional attempt with the woman he had stolen from, hoping it could have been the perfect getaway for him: two slaps and I go scot-free.

    This, however, was rejected and he had his day in court, getting twelve months in jail imprisonment from a magistrate of an Accra court in April 1959.

    According to the Wednesday, April 1, 1959, edition of the Ghana Times newspaper in GhanaWeb’s possession, with the title, “’Mad’ thief asked for two slaps,” it details the rather intriguing court case of how Daniel Laryea wanted to get easily for his crime.

    The man, an unemployed resident of Accra, was in court for stealing seven yards of a white drill from a market woman at the Makola No. 1 market, Madam Florence Quaye.

    According to the report, Laryea made more than one attempt at getting off the hook even before the case was heard in court.

    “Madam Florence Quaye, whose white drill was stolen, told the court that later after Daniel Laryea was asserted, he went to ask her privately to see the police to dismiss the case. Thomas Kwesi Hammond, who arrested the accused at the market told the court that Laryea pleaded to be freed.

    “’He asked me to give him two slaps and set him free.’ Of course, the police did not slap him, he took Laryea to the station and charged him with the offence,” portions of the newspaper report stated.

    The report added that on the day of the judgment, the thief acted very absentminded and stubbornly, refusing to answer questions asked him.

    It was when the Magistrate, E. A. Bannerman, interjected that Daniel Laryea left perhaps, his last dose of theatrics, although it wasn’t enough to save him.

    “Then the Senior Magistrate, who must have been a spectator to many of such tricks, told Laryea in a cool advising voice: ‘I have seen this several times, have you anything to tell me?’

    “Then Laryea, struggling with the police in the dock, tried the last trick: ‘Your Worship, I am hungry, I can’t do anything,” it added.

    The Ghana Times report concluded by providing a criminal history of the thief.

    “According to his record, Laryea had six previous convictions of stealing,” it concluded.

  • Mankessim murder: Another suspect grabbed at Akwakrom

    Another suspect has been arrested in connection to the Mankessim murder.

    Report gathered by this portal indicates that the suspect popularly known as Kobbie in the area is the husband of Akyere, Nana Clarke’s niece.

    According to information, Kobbie was hired to dig the hole in which Georgina Asor Botchwey, an nursing trainee was buried at Nana Clarke’s house at Mankessim.

    Kobbie was apprehended in Akwakrom, a community in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region following police intelligence.


    Meanwhile, the accused persons, Michael Ekow Clarke Quansah (Nana Clarke) and Pastor Michael Darko Amponsah (Sofo Kofi) were put before the Cape Coast District Court 2 presided over by Her Lordship Bernice Mensima Ackon on September 22, 2022.

    The two however were charged with conspiracy to commit crime to wit murder and murder, contrary to section 46 of the Criminal and Other Offences Act 1980, Act 29.

    The prosecution, DSP Daniel Gadzo pleaded with the court to give them some time to conclude their investigations.

    The case was adjourned to October 4, 2022.

  • ‘I forgot about myself’ – Barber grabbed with drugs at police station

    A barber who went to visit his friend on remand at Baatsona Police Station, has ended in Police cells for possessing drugs.

    Abdulai Hamza was grabbed with 13 wrappers of whitish substances and three wrappers of plant materials, all suspected to be narcotic drugs.

    Charged with two counts of unlawful possession or control of narcotic drugs, Hamza pleaded not guilty.

    Hamza told police personnel that, “I forgot about myself when I went to the Police Station.”

    Hamza has been remanded into lawful custody by the court presided over by Mrs Rosemary Baah Tosu and he is expected to reappear on October 10.

    Prosecuting Police Inspector Josephine Lamptey said the complainants were Police personnel from Baatsona Police Station.

    Inspector Lamptey said accused who resided at Baatsona, on September 18, this year, called at the Station to visit his friend known as Gideon Sedzro, a remand prisoner.

    Prosecution said Hamza was there to ask Sedzro what he would like to eat.

    The prosecutor said the Police gave him permission to talk to his friend.

    However, prosecution said, the Police suspected him following his suspicious gestures and movements.

    Prosecution said therefore conducted a search on him and 13 wrappers of whitish substance and three wrappers of plant material suspected to be narcotic drugs were found.

    According to prosecution, the alleged narcotic drugs were found in Hamza’s shirt which he claimed ownership.

    The prosecutor said the exhibits had been forwarded to the Forensic Science Laboratory for analytical examination.

    Source: Ghanaweb.com

  • Police Service launches enhanced visibility policing strategy

    The Ghana Police Service has launched a community-based policing strategy that will foster collaboration between personnel of the service and local authorities to enforce law, order and security in metropolises, municipalities and districts across the country.

    Such collaboration will also enable the public to identify, prioritise and address pertinent issues of crime in their various communities.

    Dubbed: “Enhanced visibility and community policing strategy”, the plan will build on past community policing experiences to enhance police operations.

    The police will also intensify day and night patrols within small defined areas in various police districts and establish good relations, rapport and trust with residents of those areas.

    Also, district police commanders, who will be the main drivers of the strategy, will be required to develop security and crime prevention plans with stakeholders in their respective jurisdictions.

    Visibility

    The Director-General of the National Patrol Department of the Ghana Police Service, Commissioner of Police (COP) Paul Manly Awini, who launched the strategy document in Accra yesterday, said the plan would not only increase police visibility in communities but also ensure that personnel worked more in collaboration with opinion leaders and state agencies to sustain law and order in those areas.

    He said over the past decade, the community policing concept had made a significant contribution to the fight against crime in the country, hence the need to further enrich the concept and make it more effective.

    “It has become necessary to increase police visibility in zones where the fear of crime still exists and where crime and anti-social behaviour affect the daily lives of members of the public,” COP Awini said.

    The strategy, he said, integrated key elements of a community crime fighting and removal of fear of crime initiative, adding: “The launch of this strategy comes at a time when the Police Administration is making efforts to transform the law enforcement agency and make communities safer for the people.”

    It would also enhance crime prevention campaigns, in partnership with neighbourhood watch committees, residents associations, community protection assistants and other stakeholders, he said.

    COP Awini further said strategies developed by stakeholders at MMDAs would become their road map, an important element of local police accountability.

    Commendation

    The D-G commended consultants and the technical working group for their efforts at producing the final document for the implementation of the strategy.

    He also expressed gratitude to the German Development Agency (GIZ) for providing support and expertise for the Police Service for the development of the strategy.

    COP Awini urged the public to support the police in making the strategy effective, saying: “Security is a shared responsibility between the police and members of the public.”


    Source: Graphiconline

  • R. Kelly trial: Witness testifies she was sexually abused by the singer

    A woman at the heart of R. Kelly’s second federal trial has testified that the R&B singer had sex with her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18.

    The 37-year-old woman, known as “Jane”, said that improper contact with Kelly began when she was just 13.

    The singer is on trial in Chicago for child pornography, obstruction of justice and other charges.

    His lawyers have insisted he is not “a monster” and deserves a fair trial.

    Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is facing 13 criminal charges including creating and receiving child pornography, obstruction of justice and enticing minors into sexual activity.

    He is already serving a 30-year prison sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking and racketing in a separate trial held in New York last year.

    The current case rests in large part on the testimony of “Jane”, one of his accusers. Prosecutors allege that Kelly made at least four videos with Jane, parts of which will be shown to jurors.

    In court on Thursday, Jane testified that Kelly had sex with her “uncountable times” starting when she was 15. Jurors were shown photographs of her in high school to illustrate how young she appeared at the time.

    Over the course of her two-hour testimony, Jane described a number of sexual encounters that Kelly allegedly recorded. In one video, Kelly appeared to hand her money.

    When asked why, Jane alleged that Kelly believed that “if it was released for some reason, he [Kelly] would say I was a prostitute”, according to the Chicago Tribune.

    One of the videos was also at the centre of a separate 2008 trial in which Kelly and Jane both denied it was them in the tape. Kelly was ultimately acquitted on all charges.

    Asked about that earlier denial on Thursday, she told jurors that she ” was afraid something bad would happen to Robert”, according to the Associated Press.

    “I was protecting him.”

    Some analysts have characterised the current trial as a do-over of the 2008 trial, in which the singer faced 14 charges of child pornography.

    Two of Kelly’s former employees are also facing charges in this trial. Derrel McDavid, his former business manager, is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, and Milton Brown is charged with receiving child pornography.

    Both men have pleaded not guilty.

    During opening statements earlier this week, attorneys for Kelly and the two former employees dismissed the charges and called on jurors to give Kelly a fair trial despite widespread public attention, and decried a “mob-justice” climate surrounding the case.

    Additionally, they alleged that some of those expected to testify were “criminals” who have previously “extorted him” and secured immunity deals from prosecutors.

    Source: BBC

  • Six persons on bail over theft of GHS47,333.38 worth of fertilizer

    An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail to six persons who allegedly stole 353 bags of fertilizer valued GHS147,333.

    38, belonging to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).

    Charles Adavlo, Sadick Abubakar, Daniel Asante and Eric Twum are on a GHS40,000.00 bail with two sureties each, to be justified.

    Somalia Mustapha and Haruna Ajaililu, on the other hand, were granted a GHS110,604.38 bail with two sureties each, all to be justified.

    They have all denied conspiring to steal the items.

    The Court presided over by Mrs Ellen Offei Ayeh ordered them to come back to the Court on August 8, 2022.

    Prosecuting, Police Inspector Wisdom Alorwu told the Court that the Complainants were Policemen from the Accra Regional Police Headquarters whilst Al Charles Adavlo and Abubakar were drivers, and both resided at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region.

    He said Asante was a Mason and Twum, a dispatch rider and that both lived at Jamasi in the Ashante Region. Prosecution said Mustapha and Ajaililu were also a driver and a driver’s mate, respectively and both resided at Techiman in the Bono East.

    Inspector Alorwu said on June 30, 2021 the Accra Regional Police Command had information that the accused persons and other accomplices yet to be arrested, had stolen COCOBOD fertilizers meant for cocoa farmers. They culprits were transporting the fertilizers from Accra through Dadeso to Burkina Faso.

    The Court heard that a team of Policemen was dispatched to track the suspects and apprehend them.

    The team, prosecution said, monitored the accused persons from Accra and arrested Adavlo, Twum, Asante and Abubakar at Jamasi on July 01, 2022 together with a Hyundai Mighty Truck with the registration number GR 521-12 loaded with 88 bags of the fertilizer valued GHS36,729.00.

    He said Adavlo led the team to Dadeso where Mustapha and Jalilu were also arrested together with a KIA RHINO Truck, registration number AS 8049-18 loaded with 265 bags of fertilizer valued GHS110,604.375.

    The accused persons mentioned the names of other accomplices who are yet to be apprehended, prosecution said, adding that they were escorted to the Accra Region Police Headquarters and the trucks with the 353 bags of the exhibit fertilizer, valued GHS147,333.375 were impounded.

    Inspector Alorwu said a man-hunt was arranged for the other accomplices and that the accused persons after investigations were charged with the offences.

    Source:GNA

  • Man remanded over unlawful possession of firearms

    A Tamale High Court, presided over by Justice Richard Kogyapwa, last Friday remanded in police custody a 34-year-old man for unlawful possession of fire arms.

    The plea of the accused, Mohammed Issah alias “waters”, was not taken and he is to reappear on April 25.

    Prosecuting, the Northern Regional Chief State Attorney, Salia Abdul-Quddus, prayed the court to remand the accused in police custody to enable him to assist with further investigations.

    However, counsel for the accused, Ibrahim Yussif, prayed for bail but the bail application was dismissed by the court.

    Facts

    The facts, as presented before the court, are that on Thursday, April 8, this year the suspect was arrested at a snap check point at Pigu on the Tamale-Bolgatanga Highway during a routine police intelligence operations.

    He was believed to have smuggled the arms from Togo through Cinkasse and on his way to the regional capital, Tamale.

    The police conducted a search in the vehicle and retrieved six 9mm Calibre Bruni pistols which were concealed in a package he covered with a smock.

    Police also retrieved one dagger in his possession.

    Commendation

    Meanwhile, the Police Administration, in a statement, commended the Northern Regional Police Command, especially the team that was involved in this operation, for their diligence.

    While assuring the public of its resolve to ensure a safe and secure environment for all, the police have urged the public to continue to assist them with leads to enable them to fight crimes.

    Source:  graphic.com.gh 

  • Jealous fetish priest reportedly shoots testicles of 25-year-old man in a fight over woman

    A 39-year-old Fetish Priest is being held by the Mankranso Police for allegedly shooting a man in his testicle in a fight over a woman at Dwenewoho in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region.

    The victim, Kwasi Peter, 25, was said to have been shot on Monday, January 24, 2022, after accusing the suspect of having sex with his wife.

    Speaking to OTEC News Kwame Agyenim Boateng, the victim, Kwasi Peter said he confronted the priest after seeing him with his wife in compromising positions on several occasions.

    “I never believed rumors about the affair between the priest and my wife until I saw the two going on errands on several occasions mostly around 11-pm in the night. I confronted him when my wife’s attitude confirmed her affair with the priest but he shot me in the process.

    “This is not the first time he’s sleeping with a married woman man, we have evidence of his acts in our community and so could not sit down for him to destroy my marriage,” he said.

    The suspect who has only been identified as Okomfo Raster according to eye witness shot the victim with a single barrel gun.

    While Kwasi Peter is currently nursing his wounds at the Mankranso Government Hospital, the suspect is currently in the grip of the police assisting investigations.

    Meanwhile, some area boys who were infuriated by the incident have also burned down the house of the priest.

    The Assembly Member of the area Emmanuel Kobi Tumfour who confirmed this said calm has however been restored in the community following the arrest of the Priest.

    Source: otecfmghana.com

  • Farmer sentenced to 24 years imprisonment over defilement

    A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced a farmer to 24 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a five-year-old girl.

    The convict, Richard Wonder, 24, pleaded not guilty to the charge but was later found guilty by the court.

    Prosecuting, Detective Chief Inspector John Asare Bediako told the court that the complainant (name withheld) was is a cook and an aunt to the victim.

    He said both the complainant and convict lived at Jukwa Frami in the Hemang-Lower-Denkyira District of the Central Region.

    Chief Inspector Bediako said on Friday, October 01, at about 1230 hours, the convict met the survivor on her way to buy chewing gum and lured her to his room under the pretext of giving her coins and had sexual intercourse with her.

    He said when the convict later released her to go home, she narrated her ordeal to the complainant, who made a formal report to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Cape Coast.

    Prosecution said the victim bled profusely after the act and was sent to the hospital for examination, treatment, and counseling.

    Source: GNA

  • Collaboration between public and police critical to crime prevention – Yaw Akwada

    There is a need for close collaboration between the police and the public for effective crime prevention.

    This collaboration should be typified by early police response to distress calls by the citizenry, which is critical to crime prevention.

    Mr. Nana Yaw Akwada, Executive Director, Bureau of Public Safety, told the Ghana News Agency that while crime threatened every society, its prevention and control was best achieved when in addition to other measures, the police worked closely with the citizenry.

    Mr. Akwada who spoke on the recent killing of a policeman in Accra, as he escorted a bullion van, encouraged the police not to be disheartened by criticism from certain sectors of the public, even if they might sound harsh.

    “All over the world, the police have achieved some of their greatest reforms after they have been heavily criticised following certain unfortunate incidents of crime,” he said.

    Mr. Akwada observed that certain criminal acts evoked intense feelings of disdain in people, and often led to heavy criticism of the police by certain portions of the public.

    He said those criticisms simply had to be looked at objectively and utilised towards improving the efficiency of the police.

    Mr. Akwada also urged the public to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings.

    He said it was important to call the police whenever criminal activity was suspected, because that could prevent serious crimes from taking place.

    Mr. Akwada said it was very important to realise that effective police work could best be achieved when there was maximum cooperation between the police and the public.

    He also urged the security agencies to make maximum use of security gadgets such as CCTV and body cameras,

    Unidentified armed men attacked a bullion van at about 1130 hours on Monday, June 14 within James Town in Accra, leading to the death of a policeman who was on board and a lady.

    The incident has sparked discussion from several sectors of the public as well as individuals on the incident. The Police administration has asked the public to provide it with information on the incident through the Accra Regional Police Command, any nearest Police Station or call Police Emergency numbers, 191 or 18555.

    The Bureau of Public Safety is a registered entity under the laws of Ghana as a Non-profit Organization with an interest in matters of Public Safety and security, Health and Environment.

    Source: GNA

  • Four arrested for stealing church instruments

    Police at Akyem Ofoase in the Eastern Region have arrested four persons suspected of stealing church instruments.

    The suspects are; Kofi Adu a 30-year-old driver, Stephen Frimpong a 27-year-old farmer, Anane Blabo a 25-year-old illegal miner and Bismarck Adu a 25-year-old unemployed.

    Police say the suspects broke into the Assemblies of God Church and Open Bible Church, both in Akyem Ofoase, and stole the instruments including a keyboard and amplifiers.

    The suspects, according to an Adom News report, after their successful act of burglary, took the instruments to Akyem Oda where they were caught by some residents as they tried to sell the items.

    Akyemansa District Police Commander, DSP Ransford Nsiah told Adom News that the four will be arraigned before the court on Friday, January 15, 2021.

    Source: Ghanaweb

  • Two illegal miners remanded for stealing

    The Nkawie circuit court has remanded two illegal miners into prison custody for assault and stealing at Asuowin, in the Amansie West District.

    Emmanuel Boakye Mensah 19, and Kwabena Agyeman 24, were said to have attacked their victim at a drinking spot in the town at night and made away with his hand bag, containing mobile phone, money and other items.

    Their pleas were not taken and would reappear before the court presided over by Mr Johnson Abbey on January 19, this year.

    Detective Chief Inspector Comfort Amankwaa told the court that both the complainant and the accused persons resided at Asuowin.

    She said at about 0930 hours on January 3, the accused persons entered the drinking spot, beat the complainant and snatched his bag valued at GH¢50.00 which contained a mobile phone valued at GH¢400.00 and other items and bolted.

    A report was made to the Asuowin police who arrested them in three days.

    Chief Inspector Amankwaa said the police were still investigating the case.

    Source: GNA

  • 4 arrested for attempting to sell firearm, ammunitions

    Two policemen and two civilians, who allegedly attempted to sell a number of firearms and ammunition at Alajo in Accra have been arrested by the police.

    They were caught with one unregistered pistol and 20 rounds of ammunition of 9mm ammunition,59 rounds of M16 ammunition, 38 rounds of AK assault rifle ammunition and 58 rounds of G3 ammunition.

    The security personnel are Lance Corporal(L/Cpl) Emmanuel Abusah Yao and L/CplSulayman, all of Visibility Unit of Police at the headquarters in Accra, and civilian accomplices, only identified as Dokpor,31, driver, and Abdul Samed Yussif,40, also known as Matata, a trader.

    Police have retrieved an unregistered pistol, 20 rounds of 9mm ammunition, 59 rounds of M16 ammunition,38 rounds of AK 47 assault rifle ammunition and 58 rounds of G3 ammunition as exhibits.

    The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)EffiaTenge, who disclosed this to the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday, said the suspects were in police custody assisting in investigations.

    She said on December 17, 2020, when the police had information about someone offering arms and ammunitions for sale at Achimota, they followed up and met Yao and Dokpor on board an unidentified taxi cab.

    DSP Tenge said when the police interrogated the suspects, they claimed they had more weapons for sale and scheduled the following day for the transaction.

    She said the police surveillance team arrested them at Alajo when they attempted to carry out the arms transaction.

    “The spot search in the bag of Yussif revealed one unregistered pistol and 20 rounds of ammunition of 9mm ammunition,59 rounds of M16 ammunition,38 rounds of AK assault rifle ammunition, and 58 rounds of G3 ammunition,” DSP Tenge said.

    Source: Ghanaian Times

  • KIA Security man busted for stealing 10 iPhone 8 phones

    A Security man who is said to be working with Aviance Ghana Limited has been nabbed for stealing ten pieces of iPhone 8 phones.

    In a video that has since gone viral, the Security man is seen removing the phones from different sides of his working gear to the shock of onlookers after his arrest.

    After taking the phones which he had hid in his pocket, shoes and socks, a voice in the video is heard calling for a thorough search on him because he cannot be trusted.

    Clearly, the man was going to sell the phones to get his Christmas money but luck eluded him in an attempt to outsmart his bosses.

    Click the link to watch the video

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CI5BPFmJdng/?utm_source=ig_embed

    Source: My News GH

  • Man, 54, pours acid on 18-year-old girlfriend, mother

    An 18-year-old girl and her mother have been hospitalized after an acid attack allegedly by a 54-year-old man.

    The suspect, Nana Yaw Mante, a businessman allegedly poured the acid on his ex-girlfriend and mother while in a room at Awukugua in the Okere District of the Eastern Region.

    Both have been hospitalized and undergoing treatment.

    The suspect was convicted few months ago by Koforidua Magistrate Court “A” to a fine of Ghc1,200 and ordered to pay a compensation of Gh1000 to the victim for filming and circulating sexually explicit videos and pictures of the victim.

    Background

    The 54-year-old Businessman was put before a Koforidua Magistrate Court for filming and circulating nude videos of his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend.

    He was charged for obscenity contrary to section 281(i) B of the Criminal Offence Act,29/60.

    The Prosecutor, Sergeant George Defia told the Court presided over by His Worship Nana Osei Assibey on Tuesday, May 19 that the convict and the victim, a Senior High School dropout are both natives of Awukugua in the Okere District of the Eastern Region.

    According to the prosecuting Officer, two years ago, Nana Yaw Mante met the victim who had dropped out of school due to financial challenges, and under the pretext of assisting her to go back to school, took undue advantage and entered into a sexual relationship with her.

    Family of the victim became suspicious and confronted the accused person but he denied having sexual relations with the victim. The relationship hit the rocks due to disapproval and pestering by the family. However, in 2019, the convict convinced the victim and they reunited.

    Nana Yaw Mante, for fear of losing the victim again, told her that he had taken her to a shrine and the gods were demanding to see her nakedness.

    In November 2019, he lured the victim to Dawu near Adukrom-Akuapem where he recorded series of sexually explicit videos of themselves.

    He later circulated the videos of the victim to her Aunty and two other men he alleged were also dating the victim. The videos went viral on social media in February 2020.

    The victim reported the incident to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) at the Regional Police Headquarters in Koforidua.

    He was arrested on February 7, 2020 and in his caution statement admitted recording the sexually explicit videos of the victim and sharing same.

    The receivers of the videos confirmed to Police during interrogation that the accused sent it to them but denied circulating it on social media.

    Source: Starr FM

  • Ajumako Essiam: One arrested after police find gun, military-style equipment in hotel

    One person has been arrested at a hotel in Ajumako Essiam after a gun and military-style equipment were found in a hotel room.

    On the morning of December 12, police acted on intelligence to raid the hotel room in question which was said to have been occupied by three men who checked in a day earlier.

    Only the suspect, Raymond Quarshie, was picked up during the operation.

    A search in the room revealed a Czech-made pistol loaded with seven rounds of ammunition.

    The pistol is said to have been registered in the name of one Dr. Kwabena Dufour.

    Military camouflage attire, military boots, desert boots, three handcuffs, one jackknife, a hood, a mask, military belt, three bulletproof vests, a black muffler among others were also found in the room of the suspect.

    Raymond Quarshie was subsequently brought to the Regional Criminal Investigations Department office at Cape Coast alongside all the items found in the room for investigations to continue.

    Source: citinewsroom

  • Three in police custody for lacing drinks with Indian hemp

    Three persons, including a 14 year old minor, are in police custody in Tema for allegedly lacing customers’ drinks with Indian hemp.

    The suspects, Jessica Mensah,30 who is the bar operator at Monte Carlo drinking spot in Tema and Charity Yeboah, 30, a bar attendant, as well as a 14-year old minor (name withheld) an errand boy were arrested on Saturday, November 28, 2020 for selling bottles of drinks suspected to be laced with cannabis

    The Tema Regional Police Command Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector, Stella Dede Dzakpasu who confirmed the arrest to Graphic Online, said a total of 668 bottles of drinks of such nature were recovered by the Police.

    She said the police was conducting further investigations into the case and advised the public to be sure of substances they patronise in order not to fall victim to such practices.

    Source: Graphic.com.gh

  • Tamale shop owner arrested with firearms, narcotics

    The Northern Regional Unit of the Drugs Law Enforcement Unit (DLEU) under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has arrested a provisions shop operator at Banvim, a suburb of Tamale, for unlawful possession of narcotic drugs and firearms.

    The suspect, Hamza Ziblim, aged 30, who has been detained by the police to assist with further investigations, was arrested based on intelligence gathered by the DLEU to the effect that he was dealing in narcotic drugs, including cannabis and tramadol.

    Exhibits

    The Northern Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent of Police, Mr Bernard Baba Ananga, who briefed the Daily Graphic on the arrest, said a search conducted by personnel of the DLEU during the arrest of the suspect in his shop revealed three empty AK 47 assault rifle magazines concealed in a yellow polythene bag; one silver and brown-coated pistol, make Blow F2 loaded with two live rounds of ammunition (7.65mm) concealed in a black polythene bag.

    He said the police also retrieved a black waist bag containing a black pistol loaded with six live rounds of ammunition (7.65mm), three live BB cartridges and an ammunition packet with 60 live rounds (7.65mm) of ammunition.

    “Also found in the shop were two tablets of Tramadol 120 miligrams (mg),17 tablets of Tramadol 50mg and a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis, all concealed in a white polythene bag.

    “ Also retrieved was a one-metre long sword,” the regional crime officer added.

    Supt Mr Ananga stated that the suspect claimed ownership of all the exhibits and stated that the silver-coated pistol was supplied to him by one Saddick, while the AK 47 magazines were obtained from one Mohammed in Tamale.

    Arrest

    Supt Mr Ananga said the suspect was arrested on November 24, 2020 around 8:30 p.m. when personnel of the DLEU of the Northern Regional Police Command proceeded to Banvim, a suburb of Tamale, after receiving an intelligence report.

    He said the team met Ziblim at his shop, and provided a search warrant and subsequently found the exhibits. Having failed to provide any legal proof for possessing the items, he was arrested and charged with illegal possession of narcotic drugs and firearms.

    The regional crime officer said the operation by the police was part of efforts to rid the metropolis and entire region of criminal elements.

    Source: Graphic.com.gh

  • Mason remanded into custody for stealing

    A 26-year-old mason has been remanded into police custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court for stealing gold nuggets at Kotokuom, in the Atwima-Mponua District.

    The plea of Kofi Frimpong was not taken and he would reappear before the court, presided by Mr. Johnson Abbey, on November 30, this year.

    Prosecuting Detective Inspector Anthony Acheampong told the court that the complainant, Mumuni Yakubu, had a small scale mining site at Kotokuom.

    He said on November 12, this year at about 2100 hours, the suspect together with three other accomplices now at large, went to the site and loaded some of the heaped sand containing the nuggets into a sack.

    Detective Acheampong said a security man at the site who saw them loading the sand, fired warning shots and they bolted.

    He said Frimpong in the course of running away fell into a gutter and was arrested and handed over to the Nkawie police.

    The prosecution said in his cautioned statement, Frimpong admitted the offence and was therefore charged and brought before the court.

    Source: GNA

  • Two domestic workers jailed seven years for stealing

    Two domestic workers have been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for stealing $14,000 and GH¢10,500 belonging to their mistress.

    Dorcas Ahenkorah is to serve four years, while Regina Akosua A. Aboagyewaa will serve three years.

    The two were found guilty on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime and stealing at the end of the trial presided over by Mrs. Ellen Ofei Ayeh.

    In the case of Regina, she is said to have used her share of the booty to rent a two-bedroom and purchased a mobile phone and other personal effects.

    Dorcas also is said to have used her share of the booty to renovate her father’s house at Akim Awisa in the Eastern Region.

    The court however earlier acquitted and charged one Bright Amoah who was charged with abetment of crime.

    Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Fusieni Yakubu said the complainant Nana Adwoa Agyeman Afrifah is a businesswoman residing at Labone Estates in Accra.

    The Prosecution said Regina and Dorcas were house helps to the complainant and they resided in the same house with the complainant, while Bright, unemployed resided at Mallam Gbawe and a fiancée of Regina.

    The Prosecutor said Regina lived with the complainant for about six years while Dorcas also lived with her for about three years.

    The Prosecution said the complainant was experiencing a series of theft of her money in her bedroom but did not know who was behind it. She however did not report the case to the police.

    According to Prosecution on December 21, last year, the complainant kept white envelopes containing GH¢15,000 and $14,000 in her brown lady’s handbag under her bed.

    On December 22, last year, the complainant realised her GH¢10,500 and the $14,000 had been stolen.

    The prosecution said the complainant suspected the convicts.

    Upon her suspicion, the complainant invited Regina and Dorcas and questioned them about the rate at which her monies were disappearing in her bedroom and they admitted that they had been stealing the monies.

    The Prosecution said both of them told the complainant what they used the money for.

    Regina later led the complainant to retrieve the items she used the booty to acquire.

    The Prosecution said on December 30, the complainant reported the matter to the police, and the accused were arrested.

    During the investigation, Regina admitted in her investigation caution statement that she mooted the idea with Dorcas and Dorcas agreed to it.

    Regina said Dorcas kept watch, while she stole their mistress.

    The prosecution said Regina bought some personal effects, a phone totalling GH¢5,513.

    Additionally, Regina stated that she rented a two-bedroom apartment at Mallam Gbawe at a cost of GH¢7,200, where she intended to go and stay with her fiancée Bright.

    The prosecution said Dorcas also had GH¢43,500 as her share of the stolen money and used same to renovate her father’s house at Akim Awisa.

    Dorcas bought herself a mobile phone.

    Police investigation led to the retrieval of $2,100 equivalent to GH¢11,550 and GH¢100 from Regina.

    In the case of Regina, $1,700 equivalent of GH¢9,350 and GH¢3,760 was retrieved from Dorcas.

    Source: GNA

  • Fridge repairer jailed 5 years for blackmail; demanded sex from female teacher

    A 27-year-old fridge repairer apprentice has been jailed five years for blackmailing a female teacher with threats of posting her nude photos and videos on social media.

    The Ho High Court, presided over by Justice Eric Baah, found Cephas Agbebianu Anani guilty on three counts of defrauding by false pretence, extortion and publication of obscene material, and consequently sentenced him to five years imprisonment on counts one and two, and three years for the last count.

    The sentences are, however, to run concurrently.

    Delivering his judgement last Friday after a full-year trial, the judge noted that Anani had violated the social media policy, indicating that he deserved a 25-year jail term for the crime, but that he had dealt leniently with him because he was a first-time offender.
    His sentence, Justice Baah said, was to serve as a deterrent to others.

    Online conversation

    Anani, who resided at Gbi-Kledjo, near Hohoe in the Volta Region, was reported to have had online conversations with the victim on Facebook between December 2018 and January 2019 using the username Gwada Thoni and a photograph of Prince William of the United Kingdom as his display picture to misrepresent himself to the victim.

    The Prosecutor, Chief Superintendent Ayamga Ayakubu Akoglo, said Anani obtained the WhatsApp number of the complainant and managed to convince her to send her nude pictures and videos to the Gwada Thoni Facebook account.

    The victim reportedly obliged and forwarded the requested nude materials to the fake account of the accused via messenger.

    The blackmail

    Upon receiving the materials, Anani started blackmailing her through his WhatsApp number 0554948428 that he knew her at Gbi-Kledjo, and that she should pay GH¢2,000 or must allow him to have sex with her 10 times.

    The convict then threatened her that if she failed to send the said amount or refused him sex, he would publish her nude pictures and videos on social media for people to watch to prove that he was serious.

    The victim, shocked about the threat, told Cephas that she did not have much money to give him and further begged him not to publish the nude materials.

    Anani, however, instructed the lady to send GH¢100 to him to book a hotel room where he could have sex with her.

    Chief Superintendent Ayamga explained to the court that out of fear, the victim sent the money to him to book the hotel room at Afegame Hotel as demanded, but unknown to him, the complainant had reported the matter to the police at Hohoe.

    Following the complaint, the Hohoe police, on surveillance, went to the hotel on the said meeting date but the convict, who appeared at the hotel as arranged, managed to escape arrest.

    The complainant identified him as someone she knew at Kledjo, which led to his arrest at his hideout at Kpoeta.

    In court, Anani denied all the charges and upon a plea by his counsel, Emile Atsu Agbakpe, he was granted bail in the sum of GH¢20,000 with two sureties.

    Source: Graphic.com.gh

  • V/R: Gbefi residents allegedly attack Kpando police officers; free suspect

    Residents of Gbefi in the Kpando Municipality of the Volta Region have allegedly attacked police officers from the Kpando Command and freed a suspect who was arrested to assist in investigations in a threat of murder case.

    The incident according to Citi News sources allegedly occurred in the presence of the Chief of the area, DSP Hilarious Avornyo who doubles as the Commander of the Anfoega District of the Ghana Police Service.

    According to Citi News Sources in the area, an indigene of Gbefi who is a resident abroad reported to the police on Sunday morning about a threat of murder made on his life by the Asafoatse [Asafoatse Agulo] of Gbefi over a piece of land which the complainant claimed was being used for the cultivation of marijuana.

    Eight police officers from the Kpando command who managed to arrest the suspect after giving him a hot chase were allegedly attacked by residents numbering about 400.

    The mob allegedly attacked the police officers and seized a Tecno phone belonging to one of the officers.

    The residents also forcefully took custody of the suspect who was handcuffed by the police officers.

    DSP Avornyo told Citi News he was at the scene but will only speak to the media with authorization from the Volta Regional Police Command.

    Source: citinewsroom

  • Police Inspector arrested for helping suspected robber to illegally acquire gun

    A police officer in the North East Region, Inspector Felix Gbekle, has been arrested for allegedly assisting a robbery suspect to acquire an illegal firearm.

    Preliminary investigation into the case showed that the Inspector allegedly used his position as a police officer to facilitate the licensing of a pump-action gun found in the possession of the robbery suspect, Adam Musah, while the gun was still in the custody of the Police.

    According to a police statement from the North East Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kwadwo Antwi, the arrested officer has also been interdicted under regulation 105 of the Police Service Regulations, 2012 C.I. 76, while the criminal matter continues.

    The police officer is being held for aiding and abetting.

    Citi News gathers that disciplinary proceedings have started against him.

    Meanwhile, the North East region police commander says the public must be assured that the police administration will not shield any of its officers who are found to be engaged in any illegality.

    “I want to use this to assure the public that Police Commanders and the Administration take any case of wrongdoing against a police officer seriously so that the few who can tarnish our image are disciplined accordingly, for the majority of professional police officers to serve our communities,” he said.

    Source: citinewsroom

  • Man grabbed for attempting to smuggle wee into police cells

    A man, who allegedly attempted to smuggle some substance, suspected to be cannabis, and other contraband goods, into the Kaneshie Police cells, has been arrested.

    Nurudeen Arafat, 21, allegedly concealed the cannabis, quantities of amphetamines and diazepam tablets, and a packet of cigarettes with a lighter in an empty sachet water bag.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Effia Tenge, speaking to the Ghanaian Times in an interview in Accra yesterday, said the suspect was in custody assisting in investigations.

    At about 6 pm last Friday, she said Arafat went to the Kaneshie Police station to give the contraband goods to an inmate whose name was given only as Manaf on remand for robbery.

    DSP Tenge said the police found the cannabis and other contraband goods in the bag and arrested Arafat.

    The Police PRO said the suspected cannabis would be taken to the forensic laboratory for examination.

    Source: Ghanaian Times

  • Coronavirus: Locked down areas recorded 47.1% increase in crime rate GSS

    The coronavirus pandemic has since March undoubtedly had a devastating impact on households, businesses, and the local economies in Ghana, and the world at large.

    With almost every sector experiencing change of a sort, the pandemic gave way to more negative effects than positive.

    The most recent survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), tagged the Local Economies Tracker, proved that the three-week partial lockdown in Accra and Kumasi during the early times of the pandemic paved way for more criminal activities to take place.

    The report indicated that localities in locked down districts experienced the highest increase in overall crime rate and other forms of crime with a percentage of 47.1.

    Overall, three out of ten communities, that is 34.1% of localities in the country saw an increase in crime during the lockdown period.

    Theft and burglary were the two most common crimes, with 31.4% and 13.1% respectively. This was followed by an increase in domestic violence (3.7%) and assaults (3.1%) in communities.

    Government Statistician, Prof Samuel Kobina Annim, throwing more light on the figures stated that, “Clearly, the evidence pointed to the fact that as a result of COVID-19, there was an upsurge in crime across all the three different districts. Specifically, if you put all these three districts together, at least a third of the localities in these districts indicate that there has been an increase in crime.”

    “The district that suffered the most as a result of COVID-19 from the perspective of crime is locked down districts and if you cut down on all the components of crime, that is, theft, burglary, violence, assault and murder, we see that the locked down districts was the hardest hit. Specifically, we had close to 50% of localities in locked down districts indicating that. Of the different types of crime from theft to murder, theft was the highest across all the three districts.”

    The COVID-19 Local Economies Tracker was conducted on a total of 2,770 localities in the country from May to June 2020.

    The districts in the various regions were segmented into three domains; that is, the locked-down districts which include 40 districts, border districts made up of 47 districts, and other districts which do not fall into any of these categories.

    Source: citinewsroom

  • Ejisu police arrest 11 suspected criminals in a swoop

    The Ejisu District police have arrested 11 persons suspected to be involved in various criminal activities in a swoop carried in some communities in the Municipality.

    The swoop led by Inspector Julius Akpelime was to clamp down on criminal activities such as drug peddling and robbery which were rising in communities such as Adadientem, Achinakrom, Abenase, and Onwe.

    Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Stephen Ngissah, Ejisu Divisional Police Commander told the Ghana News Agency that the police were going all out to rid the municipality of criminal activities which were increasing in the area.

    He said the suspects who were currently in police custody would be screened and those identified to be involved in criminal activities would be prosecuted.

    Among the suspects were Akwasi Frimpong 41-years, Kodjo Banir 34-years, Emmanuel Boakye 23-years, Noah Kwabena 40-years, and Keane Addo 26-years.

    The rest were Kweku Badu 21-years, Kodjo Sarpong Okyere 21-years, Agyeman Richard 25-years, Nana Kwame 21-years, Hayford Agyepong 22-years and Agyenim Boateng 29-years.

    ACP Ngissah said substances suspected to be narcotics were found on some of them during the swoop.

    He assured residents in the area that the police were on top of the situation and urged them to give information to enable the police to arrest all criminals from society.

    Source: GNA

  • Car snatcher reportedly jailed 12 years

    A 29-year-old man, Kwaku Oduro, also known as Agya Kwabena Oppong, a taxi driver and a native of Konongo has been jailed by an Accra circuit court for 12 years for carjacking.

    According to the prosecution, on 31 August 2020, Kwaku Oduro hired the services of a taxi driver around 2:30 am from Achimota overhead to Anyaa.

    However, a few meters to his desired destination, Kwaku Oduro signalled the driver to stop exactly where two young men were by then waiting.

    The taxi driver sensed danger upon seeing them and immediately sped off with Kwaku Owusu to the nearest police station and called out for her.

    The police took custody of Mr Oduro for investigations into the complaint of the driver.

    At the station, another complainant who had also fallen victim to car snatching the previous day and lost his Daewoo Matiz taxi cab in the process, identified Kwaku Oduro as the same suspect who snatched his vehicle through the same modus operandi.

    Kwaku Oduro could not deny the allegation and broke down in confession, pleading for forgiveness.

    He was subsequently arraigned and found guilty of an attempted robbery by a Circuit Court.

    He was convicted to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour, as he awaits further trial for his involvement in the other carjacking crimes.

    Source: Class FM

  • Fake currency dealer in Police grips

    The Kpando Police have arrested Ebenezer Jomo, a 24-year-old Okada Rider, who resides at Aloyi, a suburb of Kpando, for transacting business with fake currency at Gabi.

    Police Detective Sergeant, Mr Agyin Osei, Head of the Kpando Criminal Investigations Department (CID), told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that on September, 9, this year, at around 2000 hours, Jomo attempted to transfer fake Ghana Cedi notes through mobile money to a relative but was found out.

    He said the vigilance of the vendor thwarted the criminal intention of Jomo when GHC300.00 out of the GHC700.00 Jomo tried to send were fake notes.

    He said Jomo then attempted to bolt but was apprehended by some witnesses at the scene.

    The Detective Sergeant said Jomo admitted to the offence and pleaded for clemency as he was the bread-winner of his family.

    He said Jomo confessed that he got the currency from a dealer in Accra, who sold the fake GHC 300.00 to him for GHC 50.00. but failed to show his identity, location or mobile number.

    The accused would be arraigned on Monday, September, 14.

    Source: GNA

  • Lactating mother jailed for harming step daughter

    A 21 year-old lactating mother and a seamstress apprentice who harmed her step daughter at Nyankoman in the Aowin Municipality has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by the Enchi District Magistrate court.

    The court in addition ordered Mary Ackaah, alias Assor, to pay a fine of GH¢1,200 or in default serve six months in prison.
    She was convicted on her own plea of guilty.

    Detective Inspector Joseph Kwadwo Agyare, prosecuting the case, told the court presided over by Mr Eric Baah Boateng that Hannah Mensah, the complainant, resides at Yiwabra, while Kwame Agyemang, a witness, is one of the parents of the victim (name withheld) who is eight years old and a primary two pupil.

    He said the victim lived in the same room with her father, siblings and the convict at Nyankoman.

    Errands

    The prosecution said at about 10. a.m on May 26, 2020, Mary invited the victim to run some errands for her, while she was playing with her friends in the neighbourhood but the victim did not respond to the call.

    He said later in the day, the victim went home to have her supper and Mary upon seeing her got upset and decided to lash her with a cane but in the process the cane hit the victim’s left eye which became reddish and swollen.

    Inspector Agyare said Mary kept what happened to herself and even warned the victim not to tell the father or else she would subject her to severe beatings.

    Victim lied

    He said when the victim was questioned by the father about her injury, she lied that it was his younger brother who hit her left eye with a stick while they were playing and so the father sent her to the Episcopal health centre at Nyankoman for treatment.

    The prosecution said on May 27, the complainant paid an unannounced visit to the victim but seeing her condition, she rushed her to the Presbyterian health centre in Enchi, where a referral note was issued to her to send the victim to the Agogo Hospital in the Ashanti Region to seek further medical attention.

    He said the complainant thereafter made a report at the Enchi Police station, where a medical report form was issued to her on behalf of the victim for a medical examination, and later Mary was apprehended.

    Inspector Agyare said a medical report from the hospital indicated that the victim was totally blind in the left eye.

    He said the convict confessed to the act in her caution statement and after investigations she was charged with the offence.

    Source —GNA

  • Man arrested for possessing an AK-47 rifle loaded with 52 rounds of ammunition

    The Police in Techiman Municipality of the Bono East Region has arrested a 40-year-old man, Martin Agyei for possessing an AK 47 assault rifle loaded with 52 rounds of ammunition.

    According to the Police who confirmed the incident to MyNewsGH.com, Martin Agyei was arrested while they were on a snap check duty at Kodie in his attempt to enter the Ashanti Region with the weapons on suspicion of using them to engage in armed robbery

    The suspect who was driving a Daewoo Matiz with registration number AS 880-16 to Kumasi was thoroughly searched.

    it was in the process that the discovered the items found in his car which included one AK 47 assault rifle No. 74369511, two magazines loaded with 26 ammunition each, one butcher knife, one locally manufactured pistol, three mobile phones, two pullovers, a pair of white glove, one power bank, two pairs of sandals, cash of GHC 1050.00, two Chinese Yuan and one US dollar.

    Martin Adjei has since been detained and his car impounded by the Ghana Police Service to help the Police in its investigation.

    Source: My News GH

  • Two foreigners jailed for acquiring Ghana voter card

    Two foreign nationals were sentenced to two years each in prison by the Keta Circuit Court for unlawful acquisition of the Ghana Voter Identity (ID) card.

    The two, Okafor Wale, a 47-year-old Nigerian and Yao Dieu-Donne Evoda, a 22-year-old Togolese, were each convicted on charges of registering for Ghana Voter ID card when not qualified and a prohibited immigrant.

    Evoda was slapped with an additional charge of abetment of crime.

    Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Obrako Sarpong Bempah, the Aflao Police Commander, said the convicts, who lived in the country for over ten years, managed to get people to vouch for them to register for the card on July 10.

    He said the Togolese first got Ghanaian neighbours to vouch for him as an eligible applicant to acquire the card and he later got one person in addition to himself and convinced the Nigerian he lived in the same house to also register.

    Mr Bempah said the Nigerian after acquiring the card tried to cross over the border through an unapproved route at ‘Beat 11’ in Aflao and was arrested by an Immigration officer, who he tried to beg using the Ghana Voter card as his trump card.

    The Police Commander said upon interrogation, he confessed his nationality and mentioned his Togolese accomplice.

    They were arrested and subsequently handed over to the Police for action.

    “We sent them to court on July 13. The second appearance was on July 27 on which day the court took their plea and deferred pronouncement on the case to July 30. They got two years each on all the counts which run concurrently,” he said

     

    Source: GNA

  • 49-year-old remanded for shooting 3 persons at a funeral

    A 49-year-old man, Eric Richard Ashie has been remanded into police custody by the Sowutuom Magistrate Court for shooting and injuring three persons during a funeral ceremony at Joma, in the Ga West District.

    The victims of the shooting incident are Kamal Nurideen, 13, who sustained a bullet wound to his head and is said to be in a critical condition at the 37 Military Hospital; Fuseini Amidu, 16, and Mohammed Abdul Tawab, 26, both of whom were treated at the Oduman Clinic for various injuries and have since been discharged.

    Speaking in court, Prosecuting Sergeant Regina Nyarko said Police Patrol Team in the Anyaa District were carrying out patrol duties when they got wind of a shooting incident at Joma on July 25, 2020, around 2:35 p.m.
    The prosecuting officer told the court that when the team got to the scene (the funeral grounds), a mob had already apprehended Ashie and subjected him to severe beatings on suspicion of pulling the trigger and firing shots at the victims.

    Some good Samaritans are, however, said to have rushed the victims to the Oduman Clinic, near Ablekuma, where Tawab and Fuseini, who had bloodstains all over their bodies, were admitted while Nurideen was transferred to the 37 Military Hospital for treatment.

    Investigators who visited the third victim, Nurideen at the 37 Military Hospital found out that he was being prepared for surgery to remove a pellet in his forehead.

    Presiding Magistrate Stephen Tabiri, remanded Ashie in police custody to reappear before the court on August 28, 2020.

     

    Source: www.ghanaweb.com

  • Five Kingsmen charged with contempt in Western Region

    The Sekondi High Court Two has pronounced a GHC12,500 fine on five Kingsmen belonging to the Mpintsin Royal family for interfering in the chieftancy affairs of the Effia Brempong Yaw Ntwea Royal Family in the Effia-Kwesiminstim Municipal Assembly of the Western Region.

    The five, who are not members of the Brempong Yaw Ntwea Royal Family of Effia would in default serve a three-month jail term as announced by Her Ladyship Hannah Taylor who presided over the case of contempt involving Ebusua Kyeame Ekow Tawiah, Maame Yaaba, Joseph Nyantakyi, John Arhin and Mena Nsia.

    They will in default of the payment of the fine serve a three months jail term.

    The five, according to the Court left their jurisdiction and rather wished to install one John Arhin, a tutor at the Ahantaman Secondary School as Chief over the Brempong Yaw Ntwea Royal Family where their kinship had no bearing contradicting an earlier judgement by the Western Regional House of Chiefs ruling in 1974.

    The Judicial Committee of the Western Regional House of Chiefs ruling held at Sekondi on Thursday, 28th April in 1974 declared the two families as separate entities who cannot interfere in the affairs of each Royal family.

    The Judicial Committee of the Western Regional House of Chiefs who sat on the matter in 1974 included Awulae Kwesi Amakyi III as chairman, Nana Hima Dekyi XIII and Nana Kofi Adianka IV as members with A. P. Pepra ESQ as counsel.

    In 1974 a judgement from the Western Regional House of Chiefs specified that the five persons now convicted with contempt were not close to the Effia Royal Family and therefore cannot install a chief.

    The Judicial Committee, also ruled that the two separate Stools at Effia and Mpintsin could not succeed each other in any way thence, any attempt by a member of Mpintsin branch to occupy the stool is improper, and vice versa.

    Again the Western Regional House of Chiefs Judicial Committee specify that the petitioner, Opanyin Kweku Walabai, whose descendents are the five, are from the Mpintsin branch and definitely not part of the Brempong Yaw Ntwaa Family resident at Effia.

    Moreover, Nana Brempong Yaw III and Nana Brempong Yaw IV are properly of the Effia branch of the Brempong Yaw Ntwaa Family and have therefore been properly enstooled on the Effia Stool.

    On the contrary, the five defied the House of chiefs ruling and somewhere in October 2017 tried installing one John Arhin as a chief whiles Nana Brempong Yaw IV was still the occupant of the stool at Effia and of the Brempong Yaw Ntwaa Family.

    The five, from the Mpintin Royal Family, were therefore convicted for contempt despite plea by their counsel for the court to have mercy on them since they had regretted their action.

    However, Her Ladyship Hannah Taylor ignored the counsel’s plea and finally pronounced a custodial sentence to the tune of GHC2,500.00 on a person or in default serve three months in prison.

     

    Source: Daniel Kaku, Contributor

  • Guard stabs man to death during misunderstanding

    The police at Agona Swedru, Central Region, have mounted a manhunt for a private security guard, Abraham Adatsi, for stabbing a 69-year-old man to death.

    The incident happened during a misunderstanding between the now deceased and the guard in front of the Swedru branch of the ADB Bank where the latter was stationed.

    The police are calling on the public to assist in arresting the suspect who is currently on the run after fleeing the scene when an angry mob attempted to lynch him.

    The suspect, together with his brother George Adatsi, were both on night duty on the fateful day when the incident happened.

    Misunderstanding
    It is unclear what may have triggered the misunderstanding between Abraham and the deceased, John Kwame Akponu, but information gathered indicates that a misunderstanding arose between the suspect and the deceased around 11pm last Thursday night.

    The ensuing confrontation attracted passers-by and other individuals to the scene who managed to calm them down and separated the two. Abraham who was still not satisfied, pulled a knife and stabbed the deceased in the stomach.

    George who had allegedly left the scene earlier to pick up his phone which was on charge not too far away from the scene, only heard eye witnesses shouting “the man has been stabbed” following which he quickly rushed to the scene only to find the deceased in a pool of his own blood.

    What worsened the plight of the deceased was that many taxi drivers failed to convey him to the hospital. The eye witnesses however managed to convey him to the Swedru Government Hospital only for him to pass away the following morning.

    Confirmation
    Confirming the incident to Graphic Online, the Swedru District Police Commander, Superintendent Seth Yirenkyi on Tuesday noted that George Adatsi made an official complaint to the Police that he was on duty together with the suspect when a misunderstanding arose between them but both were separated by some passers-by.

    He told the Police that his brother (Abraham) pulled a knife and stabbed Akponu who was rushed to the Swedru hospital for emergency medical attention, saying that the Police followed up to the hospital for first had information but could not get access to Akponu since he was being attended to at the theatre.

    “The police again paid a visit to check on the victim only to be informed that Akponu had passed on”, he said.

     

    Source: Graphic.com.gh 

  • Father causes arrest of son for possessing human parts

    The Eastern Regional Police command has arrested a 20-year-old Samuel Asare for possessing some body parts suspected to be human parts.

    The arrest was effected on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, after the suspect’s father reported the matter to the Akuse Police in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality.

    According to the Police Regional Command, the suspect’s father, Amoako Attah on Tuesday morning went to the station and reported that he went to his son’s room and found some bones suspected to be human parts.

    The Eastern Regional Police, PR unit recounted that together with the suspect’s father, went to his house where the suspect’s room was searched and the human parts found.

    The things parts found were decomposed bones suspected to be human skull, jaw and ribs.

    The suspect, Samuel Asare was arrested and sent to the station together with the suspected human parts.

    The police said, they also observed that the suspect was beaten up by his father so he was sent to Salvation Army Clinic where he was treated, discharged and sent back to police custody.

    Meanwhile, the bones have been sent to the Peki Government hospital morgue for preservation and subsequently be sent to the Police hospital.

    The police indicated that suspect Samuel Asare has since refused to answer any question though investigation continues.

    Source: www.ghanaweb.com

  • Man grabbed after allegedly bolting with rented vehicle

    A 40-year-old unemployed man, accused of stealing a rented a Toyota Corolla vehicle valued at GH¢55,000 at Dansoman, Thursday, appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.

    Akoto Osei, has, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing.

    But the Court, presided over by Ellen Ofei Ayeh, remanded Osei into Police custody to reappear on July 20.

    Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Emmanuel Ohene Agyei said David Dzakah, the complainant, was the manager of Addison Lee Ghana Limited, a car rental company based in Dansoman; while Osei resided at Weija.

    On March 9, this year, Osei rented the vehicle, with registration number GT 4646-16, from the Company at GH¢230.00 per day for a four-day programme in Accra, he said.

    Osei made a part payment GH¢690 and promised to pay the balance of GH¢230.00 upon the return of the vehicle on the fourth day.

    However, on March 12, which was the fourth day, Osei failed to return the vehicle and it was also detected that the tracking device fixed on the vehicle had been disconnected.

    Mr Dzakah, two days later, reported the matter to the Police who contacted Osei on phone.

    He told the Police that he was at Ada and promised to return the vehicle the following day.

    The Prosecution said Osei, however, switched off his phone, following which information about him was sent to other car rental companies within and outside Accra.

    On June 26, this year, Osei went to another car rental company in Labone to rent another car, but he was arrested, it said.

    He was then escorted to the Police at Dansoman for further investigations.

    In his caution statement, the accused stated that he gave the vehicle to a friend by name Kofi Arhin but did not know his residence.

    When Arhin was contacted on his mobile phone, he promised to return the vehicle to the Dansoman Police Station on June 30, this year, but failed to do so,” the Prosecution added.

     

    Source: GNA

  • Police nab Islamic scholar who cut off boys finger

    The Takoradi Divisional Police Command has arrested Islamic Scholar Abubakar Mustapha, popularly known as Mallam Bawa, who allegedly cut off the finger of an 18-year-old boy accused of stealing a wall clock and other items from an Islamic school.

    Mallam Bawa was brought in by some Muslim clerics and family members after efforts by the police to trace him proved futile.

    They arrived at the police station around 11:00am on Wednesday, a few minutes after the police had returned from his house to try to effect his arrest.

    The brother of the victim had earlier led the police to the house of the four other accomplices including a 15-year-old, who was later released when the complainant informed the police that he was innocent.

    Police investigations are underway and it is expected that Mallam Bawa would soon be arraigned before court.

    Mallam Bawa is the prime suspect behind the cutting off of the finger of 18-year-old Abubakar Sadick, popularly known as Bin Ladin, whose offence was stealing a wall clock from an Islamic school at Collins Avenue, a suburb of Takoradi.

    Mallam Bawa, together with his accomplices, tied the victim with an electric wire, placed his hand on a wooden cluster and cut off the little finger on his right hand.

    They then dipped the wounded hand in hot oil.

     

    Source: 3 News

  • Grandmother arrested for selling grandchild for GH¢8,000

    A 45-year-old grandmother and two other persons have been arrested for allegedly selling her two-month-old grandchild for GH¢8,000 at Anyaa in the Ga Central municipality of the Greater Accra Region.

    Grandma Comfort Okai is said to have taken the baby from her 29-year-old daughter and sold her through a third party to a childless woman.

    After taking the baby, the childless woman, in addition to paying GH¢8,000, rented a room for the baby’s mother and her seven children and also bought a new refrigerator for them.

    The woman who bought the baby and her agent are in police custody for investigations.

    Burden

    Confirming the arrest, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia Tenge, said on June 3, 2020, the Anyaa Police received a report that a woman had sold her grandchild.

    When Madam Okai was arrested, she told the police that she had sold the child to free herself from child care burden, since her daughter already had seven children with different men.

    Mrs Tenge said Madam Okai told the police that she had been weighed down by the burden of caring for her daughter’s children, for which reason she took the decision to sell the eighth child.

     

     

    Baby buyer found

    Madam Okai, according to the police, sold the baby through a 55-year-old woman who concealed the identity of the buyer but rented accommodation for the mother of the baby and her children and also provided a refrigerator for them.

    Mrs Tenge said the woman who acted as an agent initially told the police that the baby was with her childless sister in Takoradi in the Western Region and then later took the police to Ashaiman and Odorkor, both in the Greater Accra Region, in search of the buyer.

    After taking the police on the fruitless journey, she finally led them to recover the baby from the buyer at Dansoman in Accra.

    The buyer and the agent were subsequently arrested to assist with investigations.

     

    Graphic.com.gh 

  • Driver jailed for stealing church instruments

    A 28-year-old driver, who unlawfully entered a chapel and stole musical instruments, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Nkawie Circuit Court.

    Moro Suleman was said to have entered the Power Life Anointing Ministry Church at Mpatoam in the Amansie West District, and made away with a keyboard, amplifier, mixture, curtains and other items in the Church.

    He pleaded guilty to unlawful entry and stealing and was convicted on his own plea.

    Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Sylvanus Dalmeida, told the court presided by Mr Johnson Abbey that, the complainant, Pastor Emmanuel Wiredu, was informed by a church member of the theft on May 28, this year, at about 7:30 am.

    He said an hour later, another person called the complainant and informed him about the arrest of the convict at Nkawie with the items.

    DSP Wiredu said the complainant went to the police station and identified the items as those of the Church.

    Suleman admitted the offence in his caution statement and was therefore, charged and brought before the court.

     

    Source: GNA  

  • Court remands cargo agent over dud cheques

    The Kaneshie District Court has remanded into police custody a 50-year-old cargo agent who lodged at a hotel from January 11, to May 21, and later issued dud cheques to cover his bills.

    Michael A. Gyasi denied issuing the two dud cheques of the Access Bank.

    He will be brought back to the Court on June 24.

    Police Inspector John Baidoo told the Court presided over by Rosemond Dodoa Agyiri that Mr Kofi Agyare, a receptionist of the AMPAQX Grand Hotel is the complainant.

    He said the accused, a cargo agent at the Tema Harbour on January 11 this year, went and lodged at the hotel located at Asylum Down in Accra.

    Inspector Baidoo said the daily charge was ¢150 and his bill accrued to ¢19,000 as at May 21.

    He said Gyasi then paid ¢8,350 and afterwards issued two separate cheques of ¢1,700 and ¢2,000 for the outstanding balance but the cheques were dishonoured when presented at the bank.

    The Prosecution said this led to his arrest and after he was cautioned, he was arraigned.

    Source: GNA  

  • Police arrest all-female counterfeit money gang in Kumasi

    A special operation by the Ghana Police Service has led to the arrest of 15 women, who are part of a gang printing and spreading fake currency notes across the Kumasi Metropolis.

    The gang was rounded up at separate locations in the metropolis on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, police sources confirmed to Dailymailgh.com

    A member of the gang, Joyce Ama Asare, 33, had earlier been arrested at the Ejura market on May 24, when she was going round buying items with some fake 100 and 200 Cedi notes to the sum of ¢1,100.

    The arrest of her accomplices followed earlier operations at other locations in the Metropolis and other Districts in what officers have described as most significant to detect counterfeiting.

    Arrest

    When police arrived at Embassy Hotel, one of the hideouts in Kumasi at about 10pm, eight persons were arrested. They have been named as; Diana Asamoah, 24, Abena Boatemaa, 33, Afia Pokuah, 40, Abena Gyamfuah, 28 and Charlotte Oforiwaa, 29.

    The others are; Joana Yeboah, 29, Sandra Oforiwaa, 30 and Serwaa Rebecca, a teenager.

    A genuine cash sum of ¢32,658 while another ¢17,000 worth of suspected fake notes — in denominations of 200, 100, 50, 20 and 10 — were retrieved from the suspects.

    The team also made a stop at the Ducor Hotel at Abrepo in Kumasi where the seven other suspects were arrested. They were in separate hotel rooms when police stormed the facility just before 11pm.

    They have also been identified as Antwiwaa Ama Victoria, Esther Akua Asamoah, Theresa Adwoa Oforiwaa, Irene Ama Serwaa, Yaa Afful and Patience Nyarko.

    A genuine cash sum of ¢2,000 and suspected counterfeit notes in various denominations totaling ¢24,110 were seized by the armed policemen.

    “Assorted items like microwave, wall clock, bicycle, cooking oil, silver set, soap, pepper, tubers of yam, agro chemicals were retrieved from them purported to have been purchased with fake currencies just to gain genuine currencies,” the police said in a statement.

    The suspects have since been detained and will face court soon while the seized cedi notes have also been sent to the Bank of Ghana for examination.

    Other investigations

    Police believe the two hotels could have a role to play in the illicit printing of the notes and may invite management for questioning.

    Efforts are also underway to arrest other accomplices, the police said.

    At the time of filing this report, however, a nursing mother was also in custody at the Feyiase Police Station after a bag load of fake notes were found on her.

    She was arrested on Tuesday, by traders at the Aputuogya market where she embarked on a shopping spree. Witnesses say she may have been lynched but for the timely intervention of the police.

     

    Source: Daily Mail

  • Armed gang inflicts cutlass wounds on Deputy Upper West Regional Minister

    The deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, has been attacked by unknown armed gang Thursday night.

    The incident happened just before 9pm at a walking distance from his Sombo residence in the regional capital, Wa.

    The attackers, who were on a motorbike approached and inflicted cutlass wounds on the Deputy Minister without any provocation.

    He was rescued by police motorbike patrol officers and sent to the hospital after sustaining injuries on the right arm, Police in the Upper West Region said in a terse statement.

    No arrest had been made at the time of filing this report but the police told Dailymailgh.com that investigations have commenced.

    Attacks on notable political figures have been rampant in the Upper West Region. On May 9, 2019, the chairman of the Daffiama-Busie-Issah constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was shot and killed by armed gang.

    The late Mr Richard Bayiviala Polibong was returning from official party duties in one of the electoral areas in the constituency when the incident happened.

    Investigations are yet to uncover the circumstances behind the attack as the NDC continues to push for justice for the deceased.

    No arrest has yet been made.

    Source: Daily Mail GH | Ghana

  • Jealous husband in police grips for killing wife

    A 60-year old man is in the grips of the Sawla police for allegedly killing his wife, Bora Bonbiatey, 57, at Gando a suburb of Tuna in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the newly created Savannah Region.

    PAD FM sources say Yikatey Somatey, the suspect who had accused his wife of cheating with another man in the same community lured the deceased to a bush to perform some family rituals and ended up pouring pepper into her eyes.

    He then inflicted multiple wounds on her until she met her untimely death.

    The source told PAD FM the suspect later dumped the lifeless body of the woman at a nearby bush and absconded.

    Luck however, eluded Somatey whiles he was trying to escape.

    The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Police Commander, ASP Degraft Armah Adjei, who confirmed the incident to journalists said the uncle of the deceased reported to the police that the suspect had killed his niece.

    According to him, the police found the deceased in a pool of blood with multiple cuts on her head and right eye at the scene.

    DSP Adjei said the suspect will be arraigned before court after investigations are concluded.

    Meanwhile, the body of the deceased has since been handed to the family for burial.

     

    Source: Ananpansah B Abraham, Contributor

  • Man cuts off sons ear, burns his fingers for stealing ¢250

    Fifty-five-year old Osmanu Mumuni has been arrested by the Weija Divisional DOVVSU for physically abusing his 10 year old son.

    On May 17, 2020, at 10 am the police received a report from the mother of the child that the day before, her ex-husband Osman Mumuni whom the boy stays with, cut off part of the right ear of her son with a blade and also placed his fingers in an open fire after suspecting him of stealing ¢250.00.

    The incident occurred at at Obuom-Domeabra.

    The victim who was going through severe pains at the time of the report and with marks of assault all over his body was sent to the Amanfro Poly Clinic where he was treated and discharged.

    He has been handed over to his mother as investigations and further prosecution continues.

    The suspect Mumuni Osmanu who is in police custody confessed to the crime but claimed the victim is disobedient.

    The police have advised parents, guardians and child care givers not to mete out violence on their children for wrongdoings, especially now that they are at home, “as the harm that is usually caused leaves lasting effects on them; physically, psychologically, mentally, emotionally, and a wide range of effects and these effects can be very devastating.”

    Meanwhile, Osmanu is being processed for court for the law to take its course.

     

    Source: MyJoyOnline.com Â