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  • Police arrest 2 over bitten penis

    Two Nigeriens have been arrested by the Neoplan Station police in Accra for allegedly biting off the penis of their compatriot in an appalling attack.

    The two have been identified as Habib Lawani, 24, and Jibril Sumana, 23.

    The victim, identified only as Taller, was rushed to the Kaneshie Polyclinic for medical attention and is currently receiving treatment.

    The brawl, according to police sources, was as a result of a stolen mobile phone.

    Sources said the suspects and the victim had been friends for some months now.

    Recently, Taller had his mobile phone stolen at an area called Chisco near Neoplan Station, and he suspected Habib and Jibril for the theft and confronted them subsequently.

    The confrontation resulted in a brutal fight and in the process Taller had the hood or penal head of his penis bitten off completely by the suspects.

    His fellow compatriots moved in to separate the fight, but the penal head could not be found.

    The Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Effia Tenge, confirmed the incident and said the police received the information around 5:50 a.m. on Tuesday.

    She said an investigator had been assigned to the case and revealed that the arrested suspects also sustained various bodily injuries and would also be sent to the hospital for treatment.

    Source: Daily Guide Network

  • George Floyd vigil: No force applied in arrest of Ernesto Yeboah Police

    The Ghana Police Service has denied usage of force by the Police in arresting leader of the Economic Fighters League at a vigil in memory of George Floyd held last Saturday at the Black Star Square.

    Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Afia Tenge in an interview with ABC News noted that rather than force, the Police used appropriate and standard riot control management skills to disperse the crowd which had gathered without prior engagement with the Police.

    The Police fired warning shots to break up protesting members of the League who had gathered at the Regional Headquarters to demand the release of their Leader, Ernesto Yeboah who was earlier charged with failing to obtain a police permit for the protest on Saturday and for breaking the rules on public gatherings.

    An eyewitness, who wishes to be identified as Fatima told ABC News she had to scale a wall to escape the bullets being fired by the Police, hurting herself in the process.

    But speaking to ABC News, DSP Afia Tenge denied any allegations of the police manhandling protesters.

    “What I know is that the Police used appropriate and standard riot control management, equipment, skills and techniques to be able to get the crowd dispersed and even before that they had used engagements with the leadership and other people so I am not aware of any police manhandling anybody whatsoever,” she said.

    Source: abcnewsgh.com

  • Police to patrol churches and mosques in Kumasi

    The Kumasi Divisional Police Command has announced plans to deploy personnel to the various churches and mosques within its jurisdiction as adherents are preparing to worship in their numbers in the coming days.

    This is being done to ensure police presence at the places of worship, for effective enforcement of the COVID-19 preventive protocols, following the easing of some of the restrictions on public gatherings by the government.

    “We are anticipating most of the churches and mosques would be preparing to re-open to their members very soon.

    “Therefore, our decision is to patrol these facilities in making sure that the health and safety of the members were not compromised,” Chief Superintendent Frank Abrokwah, the Kumasi Divisional Police Commander, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Kumasi.

    The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in his recent address to lift the ban on church activities, said twenty-five per cent attendance with a maximum number of one hundred (100) congregants, could worship at a time in church or at the mosque.

    This was to be done with a mandatory one metre rule of social distancing between congregants, with a maximum duration of one-hour for each service.

    In addition to the mandatory wearing of nose masks, all persons at all times in churches and mosques, must also register their names and contact details, while hand-washing facilities and sanitizers are to be provided for their use.

    Chief Superintendent Abrokwah said churches and mosques were expected to hold limited services, and reminded Christians and Muslims of their obligation to be law-abiding to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.

    He commended some churches and mosques in the Metropolis for living up to expectation by doing the right thing on the first day of their service, after the ban was lifted.

    Greater Kumasi has recorded the second highest confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, with a total case count of 1,735 and 19 deaths, as of June 08, this year.

    Chief Superintendent Abrokwah said everybody was at risk. Consequently, there was the need for the people to take the required precautions in their lives to avoid contracting the disease and spreading the virus.

    Source: GNA

  • Police to patrol churches and mosques in Kumasi

    The Kumasi Divisional Police Command has announced plans to deploy personnel to the various churches and mosques within its jurisdiction as adherents are preparing to worship in their numbers in the coming days.

    This is being done to ensure police presence at the places of worship, for effective enforcement of the COVID-19 preventive protocols, following the easing of some of the restrictions on public gatherings by the government.

    “We are anticipating most of the churches and mosques would be preparing to re-open to their members very soon.

    “Therefore, our decision is to patrol these facilities in making sure that the health and safety of the members were not compromised,” Chief Superintendent Frank Abrokwah, the Kumasi Divisional Police Commander, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Kumasi.

    The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in his recent address to lift the ban on church activities, said twenty-five per cent attendance with a maximum number of one hundred (100) congregants, could worship at a time in church or at the mosque.

    This was to be done with a mandatory one-metre rule of social distancing between congregants, with a maximum duration of one hour for each service.

    In addition to the mandatory wearing of nose masks, all persons at all times in churches and mosques must also register their names and contact details, while hand-washing facilities and sanitizers are to be provided for their use.

    Chief Superintendent Abrokwah said churches and mosques were expected to hold limited services and reminded Christians and Muslims of their obligation to be law-abiding to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.

    He commended some churches and mosques in the Metropolis for living up to expectation by doing the right thing on the first day of their service after the ban was lifted.

    Greater Kumasi has recorded the second-highest confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, with a total case count of 1,735 and 19 deaths, as of June 08, this year.

    Chief Superintendent Abrokwah said everybody was at risk.

    Consequently, there was a need for people to take the required precautions in their lives to avoid contracting the disease and spreading the virus.

    Source: GNA

  • Driver flees as charcoal truck kills policeman on night duty at Atebubu

    An on-duty police officer has died after he was hit by a truck Monday evening, officials confirm.

    This happened around 7 pm at Petuda, a rural community on the Atebubu/Amantim road in the Bono East Region, though it still remains unclear what caused the incident.

    Police, however, said on Tuesday morning that the Kia Rhino truck loaded with charcoal was on its way to Kumasi from Atebubu when it suddenly knocked down the officer who was on night duties on that stretch.

    He was declared dead at the scene after his body, which got trapped under the truck, was recovered by his colleagues.

    Images obtained by Dailymailgh.com from the scene captures the dismembered body parts of the victim with bruised face, a situation police described as horrific.

    Identified as Corporal Tabong Takaazine, 36, his body has been deposited at the Yeji Government Hospital for preservation and autopsy.

    The yet-to-be-identified driver fled the scene. Police said in a statement that a search has been launched to get him arrested while investigations continue.

    The truck with registration number GS 32811 has since been impounded and towed to the Atebubu Police Station.

    Source: Daily Mail

  • 4 police commissioners bow out at age 60

    A farewell ceremony was held by the police administration for four commissioners who are proceeding on mandatory retirement.

    The now-retired commissioners are Prosper Kwame Agblor, who was the Director-General in charge of Legal and Prosecution; David Nennyi Ampah-Benin, former Director-General in charge of Special Duties; Alex Amponsah-Asiamah former Director-General in charge of Services and DCOP Simon Yaw Afeku former Director-General in charge of ICT.

    Having attained the age of 60, they must exist in conformity with the prevailing standard.

    In a short ceremony held at the Police Headquarters last Tuesday, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh, decorated the retired commissioners with distinguished service medals and praised them for their hard work and commitment to the Police Service and the nation.

    “The Police Service is proud of you and wish you the best as you start another journey of life,” he said as he presented plaques to them on behalf of the Police Management Board.

    Source: Daily Guide Network

  • Fumbisi murder case: Youth demand expedite action from police

    A group identified as Builsa South Youth Association (BSYA) is calling on the Ghana Police Service and other relevant authorities to speed up investigations into circumstances that led to the death of a young man from the Baasa community in the Builsa South District.

    The deceased, believed to be in his 30s, reportedly lost his life at about 9:00 pm on Wednesday, May 20 at Fumbisi in the Upper East Region after his throat was slit.

    He was allegedly killed in a fight between youth of the Wiesi and Baasa communities at the Fumbisi market, GhanaWeb had reported. Reports also had it that the two groups fought over a “girlfriend” and the led to the death of the young man.

    The youth group, while expressing its condolences to the bereaved family, acknowledged the incident was unfortunate, wishing such a thing never happens again.

    A statement by the group wants state authorities to intervene in bringing justice to the aggrieved while maintaining peace and this, according to them, would require expedite action.

    “We acknowledge the swift interventions of the District Security Council (DISEC), the District Police Command, the Chiefs of Fumbisi and Wiesi and their respective sub-chiefs concerned, the Assembly persons of the Communities concerned and all other opinion leaders that ensured that calm and peace prevailed in the District.”

    “We urge them to continue to work hard to maintain the peace while we call loudly on DISEC Chaired by the DCE, Hon. Daniel Kwame Gariba and all the authorities concerned to expedite action in bringing the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book,” the statement indicated.

    They are also calling on the District Police Command, the Regional Command and the Minister of Interior to act fast and swift to avert any reprisal.

    The youth have also been advised to exercise restraint in their commentary and rather assist the security agencies with information to apprehend the culprits and bring them to justice.

    Source: 3 News

  • Police impound taxi cab conveying 5 stolen goats

    The Police in the Central Region have impounded a taxi cab with five live goats which were abandoned by suspected thieves during an inspection by the police at Bawjiase in the Central Region.

    The Central Regional Police Public Relations Officer, (PRO) Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Irene Oppong told the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday.

    She said the Bawjiase police on May 28, at about 1:15 a.m on patrols intercepted a Nissan Matiz taxi cab with registration number GW 5466-19 with three occupants on board.

    DSP Tenge said a search conducted on the vehicle revealed five live goats and an Itel mobile phone.

    She said the three occupants escaped during the search abandoning the vehicle.

    The Police PRO said the vehicle and goats had been impounded by the police, adding that, the police have mounted a search for the arrest of the suspects.

    Source: ghanaiantimes.com.gh

  • The Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck had 18 previous complaints against him, police department says

    The former Minneapolis police officer seen in a video with his knee on George Floyd’s neck had 18 prior complaints filed against him with the Minneapolis Police Department’s Internal Affairs, according to the police department.

    It’s unclear what the internal affairs complaints against the officer, Derek Chauvin, were for. MPD did not provide additional details.
    Chauvin was fired this week, along with three other MPD officers who were present when Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck. Police have said they were responding to an alleged forgery at a corner store.
    Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who was unarmed and handcuffed, pleaded that he could not breathe. He was soon after declared dead at a nearby hospital, according to authorities.
    Floyd’s death and video of the incident have sparked widespread anger, destructive protests and calls for the officers involved to face criminal charges.
    Only two of the 18 complaints against Chauvin were “closed with discipline,” according to a MPD internal affairs public summary. In both cases, the “discipline issued” column indicated that a letter of reprimand had been issued in response.
    Chauvin was not the only officer on the scene that day with a history of complaints against him.
    Former officer Tou Thao had six complaints filed with internal affairs, one of which was still open, according to the public summary released Thursday. The other five complaints had been closed without discipline.
    The two other officers involved had no complaints filed against them, per MPD internal affairs.
    CNN has reached out to attorneys representing the officers for comment.

    One officer was the subject of a lawsuit

    Thao was also part of a 2017 excessive force lawsuit that was settled by the city of Minneapolis, according to a settlement obtained by CNN and an attorney for the plaintiff in the case.
    The lawsuit was brought by Lamar Ferguson, who claimed in the suit that Thao and another officer subjected him to “cruel and unusual” punishment when they arrested him in October 2014.
    According to the lawsuit, the officers used “unreasonable force,” including “punches, kicks and knees to the face and body while Ferguson was defenseless and handcuffed.” As a result, Ferguson suffered broken teeth, bruising and trauma, the lawsuit says.
    The city would go on to pay Ferguson and his attorney $25,000 to settle the lawsuit on December 11, 2017.
    Both the city and the officers denied liability in the settlement, according to a 2017 statement from the city of Minneapolis.
    According to the lawsuit, Ferguson was walking home from his grandmother’s house with his pregnant girlfriend on October 7, 2014, when they were approached by a Minneapolis police car with Thao and another office inside.
    The lawsuit claims the officers handcuffed Ferguson despite having no probable cause to believe he had committed a crime.
    The officers took Ferguson’s wallet and ID and the second officer ran the ID through the National Crime Information Center, a federal database, but no warrant showed up in the system, the lawsuit said.
    Despite this, the second officer “falsely stated that there was a warrant out for Plaintiff’s arrest,” the lawsuit states. The officer questioned Ferguson about a previous incident involving people who the officer believed were Ferguson’s family members, but Ferguson “said he had no information to tell the officers.”
    A physical altercation broke out, according to the lawsuit, then Thao threw Ferguson to the ground and began hitting him. Thao allegedly lifted Ferguson’s head up by grabbing the back of Ferguson’s hoodie as the other officer allegedly kicked him in the mouth.
    Ferguson was taken to a hospital, but allegedly the officers “expressed impatience with medical staff caring” for Ferguson. When he was discharged, the officers allegedly threw his discharge papers — including prescription painkillers — in the garbage as they left the hospital, the lawsuit states.
    Source: cnn.com

  • Ofankor murder: We can’t confirm if the interrogator in the video was a police officer – DSP Tenge

    Head of Public Relations of the Accra Regional Police Command, DSP Effia Tenge has said, that the person, captured in a viral video of an interrogation session involving the landlord who shot his tenant, cannot be confirmed as a police officer.

    The suspect, 38-year-old landlord, Victor Stephen Kankan, who shot his tenant, was captured responding to interrogations by an unidentified person, whom several reports have suggested was a police officer.

    Questions have since emerged, about the legality of the interrogation session which was recorded and disseminated on many platforms.

    Reacting to this in an interview with GhanaWeb, DSP Effia Tenge said it couldn’t be ascertained, as at Tuesday night, whether or not the person involved in the investigations was indeed a police officer.

    “I don’t have information on that yet” she said, whilst condemning the act.

    According to her, no investigation must be publicised.

    “No, it must not be so. No investigation should be done in the open.” She told GhanaWeb.

    Meanwhile, residents of the area; Ofankor, say, that the landlord, Victor Stephen Nana Kankam, is fond of issuing threats hence the killing of his tenant does not come as a surprise to them.

    The Abeka District Court has since remanded him into police custody for allegedly shooting and killing his tenant, Spark Benjamine over rent.

    Kankam, also known as Nii Kojo Konim Obio-Cyhoera, will undergo a test for COVID-19 before going into lawful custody.

    Provisionally charged with murder, the court, presided over by Ms Adwoa Achaama Ofosu, preserved his plea. Kankam is expected to reappear on June 8.

    Source: www.ghanaweb.com

  • Two in police grips for stealing water and sewage valves in Central Region

    Two persons have been arrested by police in the Central Region after they were accused of stealing chamber valves belonging to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).

    The suspects were arrested just before midnight on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at Ota City, a vicinity in Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality.

    The two have been named as Emmanuel Kwaku Abeka, 22, and Ramzh Kwasi Opare , 27.

    They were arrested after the Assemblyman for the area, Jones Darko Kwarteng, who became suspicious of their presence reported to the police.

    District Police Commander DSP Samuel Shadrach Amfoh said the two will be processed for court after investigations.

    “So the two have been detained. Investigations have begun and they will be arraigned before court tomorrow Friday,” the Police Chief told newsmen.

    Many communities in the national capital, Accra have been grappling with water outages in recent times. The GWCL has attributed the situation to increased water and equipment theft in affected communities.

    In April 2019 for instance, three male-adults were jailed after they were caught stealing water meters in the Ashanti Region.

    Razak Mohammed, 24, Ali Zakari, 27, and Suleman Mumuni, 20, were arrested at different locations within the Kumasi metropolis, and after police investigations, charged with the offences of stealing and causing damage to government property.

    They were convicted on their own pleas and given sentences ranging from nine months to a year in hard labour by separate courts.

    Source: Daily Mail

  • Lamu Senator wants probe into the shooting of his father by police

    Lamu Senator, Anwar Loitiptip, has called for investigations into an incident where his father was shot and seriously wounded by a police officer allegedly for failing to wear a facemask at their rural home in Laikipia North Sub County last Sunday.

    The Senator, speaking on Tuesday in Nanyuki town said that his father David Kiwaka 65 was shot on the thigh after a confrontation with five police officers from Doldol station as he waited to board a vehicle to Nanyuki who roughed him up before the shooting incident.

    The incident is said to have happened at Kiwanja Ndege area at 12.15 pm before Kiwaka was rushed to Nanyuki Cottage hospital where he is currently receiving treatment.

    “My father was shot on the leg in broad daylight at noon for allegedly failing to wear a facemask. Does failing to put on a mask warrant someone to be shot?” posed the Senator.

    Loitiptip adds that the officers pounced on his father with kicks and blows as he pleaded with them to let him retrieve his facemask from the bag he was carrying but they would hear none of that and when he attempted to escape he was shot on the leg.

    “We have since established that police constable Joseph Watila fired that shot that injured my old man and now we want the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) and the National Police Service to get to the root of the matter expeditiously so that justice can be done,” the Senator said.

    He added that the police had a mandate to follow the rule of law and wondered why they would shoot someone for failing to put on a facemask.

    When contacted over the issue, Laikipia County Police Commander Maxwel Nyaema however disputed mzee Kiwaka was shot for failure to wear a facemask but said that the victim was part of a group of members of the public who attempted to rescue a suspect who had been arrested at Kiwanja ndege area.

    Nyaema added that Kiwaka stabbed one of the police officers with a Maasai sword on the hand prompting the confrontation that saw him get shot.

    “The officers had gone to arrest a suspect named Peter Mureithi for assaulting his wife, but immediately he was nabbed about 10 members of the public descended upon them in a bid to rescue the suspect leading to the confrontation,” Nyaema said.

    He further added that investigation into the incident were still ongoing.

    Source: kbc.co.ke

  • Police will continue to arrest those who refuse to wear nose masks – Minister

    Mr Simon Osei Mensah, Ashanti Regional Minister, has warned that the police would continue to arrest recalcitrant persons who refuse to wear face masks as had been directed by the President.

    He said the wearing of face or nose masks was now mandatory and the police together with other security agencies, would ensure that everybody complied with it as part of measures to contain the further spread of the coronavirus in the Region.

    Speaking at the launch of an exercise to disinfect and fumigate all police stations, barracks and security installations in the Ashanti Region in Kumasi, Mr Osei Mensah, commended the regional police command for arresting and committing recalcitrant persons to do community work.

    The police as part of measures to enforce the wearing of the nose masks in the Region, have been arresting those who breach the directive and commit them to undertake community works such as cleaning the drains, weeding, picking of litters in public places, as well as sweeping of streets in Kumasi.

    This action by the police had had positive impact since most people now wear the nose masks and the Regional Minister is very happy about the outcome.

    The fumigation exercise, is being conducted by the Zoomlion Company Limited in over 158 police stations and barracks in the Region.

    It is part of several measures put in place by the government to improve upon environmental health in public places.

    Already, all markets, lorry parks and Senior High Schools in the country, have been fumigated to rid them of micro-organisms, rodents and reptiles.

    Mr Osei Mensah said the government was doing all these with huge financial commitments aimed at containing the further spread of the virus in the country.

    He pledged the support of the Regional Coordinating Council to ensure the success of the exercise in the Region.

    Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mr David Agyeman Adjem, Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, said the exercise had become necessary in view of the confirmation of COVID-19 positive cases in some police cells and barracks.

    He asked the officers to cooperate with the Zoomlion officials to ensure the success of the exercise.

    Source: GNA

  • Odumase Krobo Police arrest man for selling relabeled expired medicine

    The Odumase Krobo District Police has arrested a man for peddling an expired herbal medicine to unsuspecting residents.

    The suspect, Bismark Aboagye, was arrested at Agormanya Market, Saturday, May 15, 2020, while peddling the relabelled expired herbal drug.

    A Complainant Tettey Isaac Asare aged 45 a farmer who lives at Mampong a suburb of Odumase-Krobo went to the Odumase Krobo Police Station with four(4) bottles of the herbal drug labelled “EKUOBA MAL MIXTURE” and reported that on the same day May 15, 2020, he bought the herbal medicine from four young men who came to his house to sell to him at a total cost of GH 60.

    However, he said, after the culprits had left, he noticed the medicine expired on February 28, 2019 but relabelled with a new expiry date of 10 April 2022.

    The Complainant combed the area but did not find the suspects. Fortunately, he later found them selling at Agormanya Market center, therefore wanted the Police to arrest them.

    Police immediately accompanied the Complainant and arrested one of the suspects- Bismark Aboagye together with 157 plastic bottles containing the alleged expired medicine.

    The police went on a search in the room of the suspected arrested and retrieved 80 additional bottles at Ogome a suburb community of Somanya.

    The Herbal Concoction is prescribed to customers as having efficacy to treat stomach disorders, gonorrhea, and candidiasis.

    Many residents have reportedly purchased the herbal product on credit to be paid in two weeks.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Commander, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, confirmed to Kasapa News that, the local Police has detained the suspect to assist in the investigation.

    Source: Kasapa FM

  • Police Admin justifies decision to resume training of recruits despite coronavirus scare

    The Police Administration has justified its decision to resume the training of recruits in the country, despite the widespread concerns against the re-opening.

    According to the Service, the action does not violate the Executive Instrument on the imposition of restrictions.

    Critics have raised fear of possible outbreak following the resumption of training at these centres amidst the spike in the covid-19 disease.

    But according to a statement, signed by Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Supt. Shiella Abayie Buckman, the Service has put in place adequate measures to ensure that recruits are safe.

    “The ongoing training of Police recruits is in accordance with law. Regulation 4 of the Extended Imposition of Restriction, 2020(E.I 64) exempts security services including the Ghana Police Service from restrictions under the regulation”

    The statement also insisted that the Police Administration has put in place adequate measures to protect its men, while it observes health protocols and social distancing measures owing to the exponential figures in Covid-19 cases.

    Source: Kasapa FM

  • Trunk kills community police personnel during downpour in Ashanti Region

    A Community Police Assistant has died after a fallen tree fell on top of him on Sunday, according to the police in the Ahafo Ano Division of the Ashanti Region.

    The deceased has been named as Owusu Arhin, 35, who until his death was stationed at the Mankranso Police post.

    A 55-year-old chainsaw operator, Isaac Gyan, is being detained and questioned over the incident which occurred at about 12 noon in the Ahiamankwa Forest near Kunsu Wioso in the Ahafo Ano South District.

    The suspect was using a chainsaw to cut up the tree when the enormous trunk fell on top of the victim, the police said.

    Emergency services rushed to save the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

    His body has since been deposited at the Mankranso Plus Lab Mortuary “for further action”, the police said in a report sighted by Dailymailgh.com.

    A similar incident had earlier occured on Saturday at Motiakrom in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region.

    The deceased, Eric Ntam, was seeking shelter under a tree during a downpour when the trunk eventually fell on him, witnesses say.

    Source: Daily Mail

  • Nkwanta: Boy who was banished returns after police intervention

    Andrews Amoah, the 17-year-old boy who was banished by the Tutukpene community in the Nkwanta South District of the Oti Region, has returned to the town.

    The class six pupil of Tutukpene M.A. Basic School was on April 24, 2020, expelled from the community by the chief and elders over an alleged break-in.

    The Police, soon after, demanded the chief to produce the young boy in two weeks.

    Mr Innocent Komla Agblosu, the Municipal Social Welfare Officer told the Ghana News Agency that the teenager was found at Abotoase in the Biakoye District, having journeyed on foot from Tutukpene to Kadjebi before boarding a charcoal hauling truck.

    Mr Lawson Lartey, the Nkwanta South Municipal Police Commander confirmed to the GNA that the boy had been found and handed him over to his family.

    “The chief and his elders took me to a small river with a fresh calabash and ordered me to fetch the water. They prayed over it and asked me to drink. They then told me not to step foot in the community again or I will die.

    “At Nkwanta I spent four days without food. Only water, until I found a truck loading charcoal to Accra. I helped them and later joined them on their journey. But when we got to Abotoase the driver asked me to get down, gave me GHC 20 and told me to wait for them”, the boy, Andrews Amoah told the GNA.

    He narrated how he slept in the open at the Abotoase Market, and said he depended on food vendors for meals.

    Mr Prosper Amoah, father of the boy expressed gratitude to the media and the security agencies for their

    support.

    Source: Daily Mail

  • Blow for victims of police brutality as appeal is thrown out

    Five women seeking compensation for torture and police brutality meted on them during the 1992 “Mothers of Political Prisoners” demonstrations in Nairobi have suffered a blow after the Court of Appeal threw out their petition.

    A three-man bench upheld a High Court decision that dismissed the petition.

    “The claims of the five appellants, just like those whose cases have been decided, are a copy-and-paste work that betrays truth and reality. Nothing has been presented to warrant our interference with the conclusions made by the Judge (Isaac Lenaola), said justices William Ouko, Martha Koome and Daniel Musinga unanimously.

    They said that when the courts began compensating political prisoners whose cases were genuine, clear and proven, the floodgates appear to have been opened.

    A host of petitions have been filed by anyone who might have had a brush, no matter how slight, with the law, as well others who might just want to exploit the situation and reap where they did not sow, the judges observed.

    “We do not see why the genuine claims should fail, but those who see this as a cash cow, where it is imagined that one would walk in and walk out with money, should expect such outcomes as this” they said.

    The petitioners were Jacinta Wamwere, Mary Njeri Kuria, Cecilia Wangu, Margaret Wanjiru and Mary Njeri Kamau, all from Nakuru County and relatives of former political detainee Koigi Wamwere.

    They petitioned the High Court in 2013, citing violation of their fundamental rights and the Constitution, claiming that they were subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the State on diverse dates between March 3, 1992 and January 19, 1993.

    In their evidence, they said they had engaged in peaceful demonstrations agitating for the release of 53 political prisoners at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park, Nairobi, and later at the All Saints Cathedral,

    The court heard that they were brutally kicked, punched slapped and whipped by and slapped, beaten with by the police and General Service Unit officers.

    All the five testified before Justice Lenaola but did not call any other witnesses. The judges said the burden of proof was on them to present evidence to support the claims.

    In their appeal, the petitioners claimed that the trial court had rejected their case because it was filed many years after the the incident. And the bench dismissed their reason for filing the petition late because President Daniel arap Moi was still in power as a lame excuse.

    Source: nation.co.ke

  • Fear grips Upper East Police as they await coronavirus results

    Aside from the seven police officers who were reported to have tested positive for Covid-19 in the Bolgatanga Municipality, many others in the region are sitting on tenterhooks as they await their Covid-19 test results.

    Over 100 police officers, who were identified to have come into contact with the seven police officers, have had their samples taken for testing during a contact tracing exercise, and the results are yet to be released.

    Another group of police officers drawn from the Bolgatanga Municipality, Nabdam, Talensi and Bolgatanga East districts, and members of the SWAT and Visibility Units have also had their samples taken.

    Some of the police officers are anxious and waiting eagerly to know their Covid-19 status.

    A few that spoke with DAILY GUIDE said their partners were equally apprehensive and would only be at ease after their results had been released.

    The Upper East Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ampofo Duku, had earlier confirmed the seven positive cases and admitted that the sense of fear among personnel could affect their morale.

    DCOP Duku said many of the results of the samples taken had not been released and they were psyching themselves up for the outcome.

    Meanwhile, the Regional Police Command has put in place strict precautionary measures across all police stations in the Upper East Region, including handwashing and mandatory wearing of face masks by all police officers, including members of the public that visit the police stations on a daily basis.

    Source: Daily Guide Network

  • Police training school opens despite coronavirus scare

    The Ghana Police Service has reopened its training school in Koforidua in the Eastern Region despite the directive against school attendance by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

    The recruits of the training school who were asked to go home when President Akufo-Addo directed the closure of educational institutions have been recalled.

    On Sunday, May 12, 2020, the president announced an extension of the closure of schools, churches and mosques by another one month.

    The students started arriving on campus Sunday.

    Starr News checks reveal the recruits are not medically screened before entering their hostel.

    The recruits were seen Wednesday morning tidying up the environment of the Koforidua Police Training School. They were not wearing nose masks.

    Ghana has recorded 5127 confirmed cases of coronavirus with recoveries at 494. Another 130 patients are awaiting their second negative test to be declared recovered. 22 people have so far died from the killer bug with active cases at 4, 611.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command DSP Ebenezer Tetteh refused to comment on the matter saying the national headquarters is best placed to respond to questions over the reopening.

    Source: Starr FM

  • Vehicle tracker aids arrest of man declared wanted for murder, three others in Kumasi

    A man on police wanted list was on Thursday arrested after a vehicle he allegedly stole from a woman in Kumasi, was tracked and intercepted at Offinso in the Ashanti Region.

    Nana Kofi Owusu, 29, was arrested after a woman (name withheld), who works at the Center for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) at Fumesua in Kumasi reported to the police on Wednesday, May 5 that the suspect had bolted with her Toyota Corolla vehicle with registration number GE 1210-16.

    The victim had told the police that she became helpless after the vehicle developed a mechanical fault on the Adum-Kwanwoma stretch, while driving to work.

    “While looking for a mechanic to fix same suspect Nana Kofi Owusu aged 29 yrs emerged and offered to help. That the suspect managed to start the vehicle and sped away with same,” an incident report sighted by Dailymailgh.com read.

    Arrest

    Luck, however, eluded Kofi Owusu, when he was arrested by the police at Offinso on Thursday, at about 6:00am following a dispatch message and information provided by telecom giant, MTN Ghana, which has a car tracking service team in Accra.

    The suspect who was later handed over to the Asokwa Divisional Police Command for interrogation where investigations revealed that he had been declared wanted by the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service.

    “Picture of the suspect was sent to the Unit Commander who confirmed that he is wanted by the Unit in a case of murder,” investigators say.

    Other accomplices

    The suspect also named Collins Ankomah, aged 27; Kwadwo Samuel Gyamfi, 32 and one Daniel Owusu Aboagye, as accomplices.

    The three who have since been arrested confessed to the police during interrogation that they had committed several crimes including a recent robbery at Offinso in April this year.

    Items stolen during the operation from a victim known only as Gyamera included; a black Nissan X-Trail 4×4 vehicle with registration number AS 8150-10, a fridge, four foam mattresses, an air-conditioner and other domestic appliances.

    The items have been retrieved and impounded at Asokwa Divisional Police Headquarters.

    The suspects have been detained as the Ashanti Regional Police Command launches an identification parade and brief the media over the development.

    Source: Daily Mail

  • Angry Adabraka youth vandalise police station after dumping dead resident on police counter

    On Wednesday May 6, 2020, some incensed youth of Adabraka Sahara besieged their local police station to dump the dead body of their colleague on the counter (counterback) of the station.

    This was after their colleague who was being pursued by a police officer drowned in the Odaw drain after jumping in the water to escape arrest.

    Detailing the events of Wednesday in an interview with GhanaWeb, the Divisional Commander of Nima, ACP Abraham Akwei, said his outfit received an SOS call around 7:00 pm that day that the Adabraka police station was under attack by a group of irate youth in the area.

    “We were there yesterday (May 6, 2020) when we had an SOS call that our police station, that’s the Adabraka police station, was under a serious attack. They (the youth of Adabraka Odawna) had brought a dead body, dumped the dead body on the counter and assaulted the personnel on duty…the people were incensed that it was because of the presence of the police man. They thought maybe he was coming to effect arrest so they subjected this police man to a severe beating and he sent an SOS call to his colleagues. So two of them came to his rescue. They were able to extricate him and brought him to the police station,” He said.

    Revealing further details on the attack on the police station, ACP Akwei said the youth numbering over 500, after retrieving the dead body of their colleague from the river, stormed the police station to deposit the body on the counter at the charge office at the station and ended up assaulting officers on duty while causing damages to properties on the premises.

    “…Unfortunately, the police officers who were present at the charge office tried to calm them down and that would not work. So they ended up assaulting the police officers, they beat them up mercilessly and also caused damage to the service vehicles,” He added.

    ACP Akwei told GhanaWeb that his outfit upon receiving an SOS on the attack at the police station deployed men from the division and the region to the station but only met the presence of the abandoned dead body on the counter at the charge office.
    The body was then retrieved and sent to the police hospital morgue for preservation whiles the charge office was locked up until it was thoroughly disinfected to prevent any contamination and infection.

    According to the ACP, a follow up on the incidents of the night led to the arrest of 3 persons while a subsequent follow up investigations on the crime scene the next morning led to the invitation of another person, who claimed to be an eye witness, for questioning.

    When GhanaWeb earlier spoke to some of the residents of Adabraka-Odawna, including eye witnesses, they described their colleague as being innocent of any crime.

    To them, the scare of their colleague upon seeing the policeman and his subsequent drowning in the Odawna River qualifies as another form of police injustice on a civilian.

    But reacting to the accusations against the police service, ACP Abraham Akwei of the Nima division described the Adabraka Odawna neighbourhood as a hub for hardened criminals and drug peddling.

    According to him, the victim could have saved himself from the tragedy as he could have chosen to act differently.

    He stressed that the police remains committed to investigating the incident and will ensure anyone found to have broken the law is brought to book

    Source: www.ghanaweb.com

  • Georgia police arrest two for shooting death of unarmed black man

    Police on Thursday arrested two white men for the shooting death of an unarmed black jogger in Georgia whose killing was captured in a video that went viral, sparking massive public outcry.

    Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed on February 23 as he ran on a sunny day in his residential neighbourhood in the town of Brunswick.

    But the case gained national notoriety this week with the release of a 28-second cell phone video that captured the shooting.

    “Gregory & Travis McMichael have been arrested for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation tweeted.

    The two men were charged with murder and aggravated assault, according to a statement posted to the bureau’s website. They have been booked into the Glynn County jail.

    In the footage, Arbery is seen running down a residential street and approaching a white pickup truck that is stopped in the right lane with a man standing in the back.

    As Arbery tries to get around the vehicle, he is confronted by a second man holding a shotgun. An altercation ensues as Arbery and this man struggle, and the black man is shot once, then once more a few seconds later.

    The two white men were identified by police as Travis McMichael, 34, and his father Gregory McMichael, 64, who both live in Brunswick.

    According to the police report, Gregory McMichael told officers he thought Arbery was a suspect in a series of area burglaries and on the day of the shooting, while standing in his front yard, he had seen the young black man “hauling ass” down the street.

    McMichael said he went inside, got his .357 Magnum while his son grabbed a shotgun, and they went out looking for Arbery. When they finally caught up with him and Travis McMichael got out of the truck with the shotgun, Arbery began to “violently attack” him, the father said, according to the police report.

    The father said he saw his son shoot Arbery twice and Arbery fall to the ground.

    After the video footage went viral, a Georgia district attorney said Tuesday that a grand jury would be formed to see if there are grounds to charge the father and son.

    Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, retweeted the Bureau of Investigation’s arrest announcement and added that the “investigation remains ongoing,” as well as asked that residents call in with tips.

    He also praised the bureau, tweeting: “I applaud @GBI_GA Director Vic Reynolds and his agents for their swift action. Justice will be served.”

    Around the country, political figures, celebrities and people on social media expressed fury and called for the two men to be prosecuted.

    “The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now,” Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden tweeted Wednesday night.

    Arbery “was murdered by two white men, ON CAMERA, and dudes have not been arrested. come on, people,” actress Zoe Kravitz said in an Instagram post, before the arrest. It was shared by such figures as Billie Eilish and Kylie Jenner.

    Some drew parallels between this case and the shooting death of another unarmed young black man, Trayvon Martin, by a neighborhood guard in Florida in 2012.

    “We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!,” basketball great LeBron James said on Instagram.

    Source: AFP

  • Management of Kumasi Central Prisons calls for decongestion

    The management of the Kumasi Central Prisons has made an urgent appeal to the Government to consider decongesting the facility.

    This is to help ensure effective management of sanitation and promote healthy as well as hygienic conditions among inmates in the facility.

    Assistant Director of Prisons (ADP) Alhaji Ousamane Tasembedo, Deputy Commander of the Kumasi Central Prison, who made the call, said this was very critical in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, since some of the cells had to be used to serve as isolation centres for new inmates brought from the courts.

    He told the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi during a presentation programme that, the Command was doing its best to prevent the outbreak and spread of the virus in the facility and that all the preventive measures and protocols were being strictly observed by both the inmates and officers.

    The presentation was made by Nana Appiagyei Dankawoso I, President of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to support the officers and inmates in the fight against the virus.

    The items included 100 pieces of toilet papers, 100 pieces of carbolic soaps and gallons of hand sanitizers.

    ADP Tasembedo pointed out that the Kumasi Central Prisons, which was constructed to house only 800 inmates, currently, had almost 2,000 occupants.

    This, he indicated, had brought severe congestion and overcrowding in the various cells resulting in the spread of skin and other communicable diseases in the facility.

    ADP Tasembedo said decongesting the facility would help promote social distancing and reduce physical contacts and other human activities that could promote the spread of the virus in the facility.

    He called on Ghanaians to desist from stigmatizing ex-convicts, and rather, accept and help integrate them into the society.

    ADP Tasembedo thanked Nana Dankawoso for the support and pledged that the Command would put the items to good use to help improve the sanitary conditions of the inmates.

    Nana Dankawoso said he had been donating relief items to orphanages, widows and prisons for the past 13 years and pledged that he would continue to do more for the less-privileged in the society.

    He said during the COVID-19 lockdown period, he provided food items and personal protective equipment (PPEs) for some 350 widows in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern Regions.

    Nana Dankawoso called on other individuals and corporate organizations to support the Prisons Service to provide quality reformative services to inmates.

    Source:

  • Assembly man, 8 others arrested for mob assault

    The Assembly Member of Sakumono Village, near Baatsona in the Greater Accra Region, and eight others have been arrested for allegedly attempting to raze down the residence of the queenmother of the area.

    Those arrested, who included a woman, were part of a mob of about 200 who allegedly besieged the residence of the queenmother of Sakumono Village, Naa Borle Wulu II, and attempted to burn the palace.

    They are said to have accused Naa Wulu of using thugs to molest residents who practised open defecation in a bush near her palace since most residents of the area had no places  of convenience in their homes.

    There is no public toilet in the area.

    The mob, armed with sticks, cudgels, stones and machetes, according to the police, was led by the Assembly Member, Mr Richmond Sorgbordjor, 41, who allegedly incited the mob against the police when the law enforcers tried to calm the situation.

    Attack on police

    Briefing the Daily Graphic,  the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, said the Baatsonaa Divisional Police Command, about 10a.m. last Saturday, received information that a mob had attacked the queenmother and was attempting to burn her residence.

    A police patrol team from the division, led by the Divisional Crime Officer, Superintendent of Police Mr Bernard Ananga, went to the scene.

    DSP Tenge said Sorgbordjor, however, incited the mob to attack the police when the team reached the scene.

    In the process, she said, the mob — which had already caused damage to part of the queenmother’s palace — pelted the police with stones and shattered the right back window glass of an unregistered Nissan saloon car driven by the Divisional Crime Officer.

    She said the police arrested nine persons, including the Assembly Member and a woman whose identity was not made known to the media, while the rest escaped.

    Investigations by the police, DSP Tenge said, showed that the queenmother had been protesting against open defecation practice in the area due to its health implications, but her move infuriated the residents, leading to the mob attack.

    She said the police had intensified patrols in the area, while investigations continued.

    Source: graphic.com.gh

  • Police arrest four Akuapem chiefs for flouting social distancing protocol

    Police have arrested four sub-chiefs of Akuapem for flouting social distancing rule and other protocols put in place against the spread of COVID-19, Friday, May 1, 2020.

    The four chiefs whose names are not readily known were picked up hours after the installation process of the new Okuapehene had been done at Akropong-Akuapem.

    While sitting and making merry over the activities done in the morning, about 10 police officers stormed the meeting of chiefs and announced their intention.

    “We have been ordered to come and arrest four of your chiefs who according to information flouted the social distancing protocol against the spread of COVID-19,” one of the police officers said.

    In reaction, Chief of Amonorkrom, Osim Kwatia, welcomed the police officers and handed over the four suspects who have been alleged to have masterminded the flouting of the law.

    On Friday morning, Kingmakers of Akuapem initiated traditional processes to install their new Okuapehene amidst a thick crowd in total disregard to the social distancing protocol.

    The installation processes which took over three hours to be done was well welcomed by the people of Akropong-Akuapem.

    Source: McAnthony Dagyenga, Contributo

  • Special police operation uncovers 3 headless bodies at fetish priests backyard

    At least three headless bodies have been exhumed in a bush at a village called Sakyikrom, near Adeiso in the Eastern Region.

    A police team that carried out the operation hauled the person they suspected to have killed the two men and a woman to the scene to point the very spots where the bodies had been buried.

    A special police investigative team deployed mainly from the headquarters led by COP Ken Yeboah, head of Police CID discovered the human parts.

    The three human parts discovered were that of two males and a female, all without their heads.

    A search conducted by the police also retrieved fresh human head, skulls and other human parts tied in a polythene bag ready to be used for sacrifice.

    The police gave the suspects names as Power One, 40, and Famous, 36.

    COP Ken Yeboah told Adom TV that the police were sending the suspects to Accra to help in its further investigations.

    Assembly man of the area, Eric Abeisy who was at the scene expressed shock after seeing the dead bodies being retrieved.

    Source: Adomonline.com

  • Military, Police raid shrine; arrest two spiritualists over ritual murder

    Two spiritualists have been arrested in a Joint Security Operation carried out by Armed Police and Military personnel from Accra in the Eastern Region.

    The Shrine of the two spiritualists named Power 1 Herbal and Spiritual Center was raided at Adu Kwadwo Community near Maame Dede in the Upper West Akyem District Thursday, April 30, 2020.

    The two fetish priests arrested are known as Power 1 and Scorpion.

    They were arrested for alleged ritual murder, fraud, and the production of fake currencies.

    According to report, the joint armed security team that carried out the operation has exhumed remains suspected to be human bodies buried by the spiritualists.

    The suspects are being transferred to Accra along with the exhibits retrieved.

    Source: Kasapa FM

  • Jubilee House security operative, ex-soldier arrested in gold robbery operation

    Two national security operatives have been arrested by the police in the Western Region for their involvement in an alleged robbery incident at a mining site.

    They were part of a nine-member gang intercepted by the police at a checkpoint on the Asankragwa-Wasa-Dunkwa road while onboard an unregistered black Toyota Land Cruiser Prado on Friday, April 24, 2020.

    The duo have been named as 35-year-old Anas Adams, who is stationed at the Jubilee House the seat of government and George Osei, an operative at the popular Asomdwee Park in Accra.

    The rest of the suspects are; George Ohene Adjei 56 years, driver and owner of the vehicle; Jonathan Aryer 28 years, Unemployed; Agyeman Jackson, 29 years, Unemployed; Isaac Okuampah 29 years painter; Patrick Fordjour, 29 years, taxi Driver, Kumasi; and Samuel Obeng 35, who was allegedly dismissed from the Ghana Army and Kofi Asante, the alleged leader of the gang, who managed to escape.

    A search revealed a vehicle number plate with registration number AS 6646-20, gold concentrate in five gallons, 15 mobile phones, various foreign currencies, and bags containing military uniforms.

    Investigators said that the gang, raided the yet-to-be identified mining site near a place called Attala, about two hours drive from Asankragwa at about 4am on that fateful day.

    Disguised as security personnel, suspect Samuel Obeng allegedly wore one of the uniforms bearing the rank of Sergeant while Agyeman Jackson wore one other with the rank of a Private in order to commit the crime, the police revealed.

    They subjected some of the workers to beatings handcuffed and tied them with ropes and abandoned them to their fate and robbed them of their gold concentrate.

    “The supposed soldiers folded the military uniforms into their respective bags and fled in their vehicle. The workers managed to free themselves and ran away.

    “The police visited the scene and managed to retrieve the damaged handcuffs and the workers informed the police that the suspects came there to rob them of the gold concentrate. The suspects are in custody whilst the vehicle and all other items [have been] retained”, parts of a police report sighted by Dailymailgh.com read.

    Meanwhile, the police have since communicated the development to the National Security Secretariat at the Jubilee House about the arrest and detention of Anas Adams and George Osei.

    The complainants have also been “asked to report to the police to assist investigations”.

    Source: dailymailgh.com

  • Police impound 200 motorbikes in Accra

    The police have impounded an additional 200 motorbikes from riders for allegedly disregarding the social distancing protocol in various parts of the Greater Accra Region.

    Some of the riders were also detained while others bolted and abandoned their motorbikes upon seeing the police.

    The operation, dubbed “Operation social distancing,” was based on a directive from the Accra Regional Police Command to all divisional commands in the region following an earlier operation by the regional command in which 130 motorbikes were impounded, and some riders arrested.

    Operation

    Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr Frederick Adu, said the operations were carried out by the Baatsona, Kaneshie, Dansoman, Nima and the Tesano divisional police commands in their jurisdictions while the Accra Central Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) also joined in the exercise in their area of responsibility.

    He said the Dansoman Division impounded 60 bikes, Kaneshie, 40; Accra Central MTTD, 40; Tesano, 31; Baatsona, 19 and Nima, 10.

    Prosecution

    Mr Adu Anim explained that the operation was meant to enforce social distancing on motorbikes as part of measures to prevent the further spread of COVID-19.

    “Motorbike riders are banned from picking a pillion rider in order to observe the social distancing protocol and prevent the spread of the coronavirus as directed by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,” he said.

    He said the riders who were arrested had been screened and would be put before the Motor Courts.

    Ongoing exercise

    DCOP Anim said many people had misconstrued the lifting of the partial lockdown as freedom to go back to normal life and reminded all that, all the directives outlined by the President to help curb the spread of the infection were still in force.

    “The public is reminded that all the directives the President has outlined, including the ban on social, public and religious gatherings, motorbike riders carrying pillion riders to encourage social distancing are very much in place and they are advised to comply.”

    The exercise, DCOP Anim stressed, had not ended and warned that the police were likely to impound more motorbikes.

    Source: graphic.com.gh

  • Police seek public help to arrest people who pocketed spilled robbery cash

    The Tema Regional Police Command is asking the public to assist with information that could lead to the arrest of persons said to have pocketed spilled cash by robbers in Tema.

    The police have already charged seven persons with stealing in connection with the robbery incident that occurred in the metropolis Thursday afternoon.

    The seven were alleged to be among persons picked up in a swoop conducted by the police last Friday after a two-man armed robbery gang spilled the booty in their bid to escape from the pursuing police.

    A statement by the police issued Sunday said the seven suspects were arrested for taking part in the scramble for bank notes and that three of the suspects, namely Richard Attoh alias Amartey, 30, Qaadir Bancey, 31 and Awudu Mohammed alias Vuga, 36 admitted in their caution statement that they took part in the scramble and pocketed a total of GH¢2,500.00 from the crime scene.

    The other four suspects are Sulemana Bancey, 62, Kwesi Hanson Smith, 66, Kabul Akuaku, 53 and David Nartey Daniels, 30.

    Recall
    The Police in Tema on Thursday, April 23, 2020 responded to a robbery incident during which they shot and killed two suspected armed robbers who attempted to bolt with Gh¢123,345.00 in two polythene bags, belonging to two businessmen, a Ghanaian and a Lebanese who sell frozen fish at the Tema Fishing Harbour.

    The two had made a withdrawal from the Community One branch of Zenith Bank near the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) but were reportedly trailed by the two gunmen on a motorbike.

    In the course of a shootout and the resultant melee, one of the robbers allegedly spilled the booty on the street leading to onlookers scrambling for the money.

    According to the police only GH¢2,500 was retrieved from the incident and want members of the public who witnessed the incident to provide information leading to the arrest and retrieval of all the money robbed from the victims.

    Source: graphic.com.gh

  • 7 arrested for allegedly stealing over ¢120k robbery money at Tema

    Seven persons have been arrested by the police in Tema for allegedly taking part in the stealing of 120,845 cedis robbed from a Lebanese businessman last Thursday.

    According to the police, the seven suspects were part of eyewitnesses who scrambled for the cash thrown onto the street by the armed robbers as they were pursued by the police.

     

    Three of them, Richard Attoh alias Amartey, 30; Qaadir Bancey, 31; and Awudu Mohammed alias Vuga, 36, have admitted to having taken part in the scrambling and pocketing a total of 2,500 cedis from the crime scene.

    They have been charged with stealing, the police said in a statement.

    The other four suspects are Sulemana Bancey, 62; Kwesi Hanson Smith, 66; Kabul Akuaku, 53 and David Nartey Daniels, 30.

    According to the police, intelligence gathering led to the arrest of the seven suspects.

    “Police is therefore urging members of the public who witnessed the incident to  provide information leading to the arrest and retrieval of all the money robbed from the victim,” the police appealed.

    How the incident happened

    Two robbers on Thursday April 23 trailed the Lebanese, Mashood Hamid, from the Tema Community 1 branch of Zenith Bank where he had gone to withdraw 123, 345 cedis at about 12:30 p.m.

    At the TDC traffic light, they two robbers who rode on a motorbike ambushed him when the light turned red.

    They shot at the tyres of the vehicle to immobilize him before snatching the money, the police said.

    An alarmed was raised and a police patrol team within the area pursued them. The robbers were said to have engaged the police in a shootout which resulted killing the two robbers.

    One died on the spot and the other later at the Police headquarters.

    “The money scattered on the streets,” the Tema police said, noting people around then scrambled for the banknotes “leaving only 2,500.00 Ghana cedis salvaged by the complainant”.

    Police have described the gun used by the robbers as “powerful”.

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    Source:  3news.com

  • Bole: One killed, four injured in an attack on gold buyers

    One person was shot dead while four others sustained gunshot and machete wounds when some armed men attacked some gold buyers at Accra-Dollar Power, an illegal mining community in the Bole District of the Savannah Region on Sunday evening.

    The gunmen, some wielding machetes and other offensive weapons are said to have stormed the community and fired gunshots indiscriminately, resulting in the death of one person and injury to four others.

    The deceased, according to the police has since been buried in accordance with Islamic customs and traditions while the three others who sustained gunshot wounds and another machete wounds are said to be on admission at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital in the Bono Region.

    The police gave the names of two out of three persons who sustained gunshots as Yakuba Amani and Bobuka Mukaila while the names of two others who also got injured during the attack were not disclosed.

    The Savannah Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr Enoch Adutwum Bediako told Graphic Online that on April 21, 2020, one Salifu Issaka, a resident of Accra-Dollar Power in Bole accompanied by Abubakari Ibrahim reported to the police in Bole that on April 19, 2020, at about 7.30 pm some unknown armed men stormed the community and attacked some gold buyers.

    He said the gunmen in the process fired gunshots indiscriminately that resulted in the death one person and the injury of three others while another also sustained machete wounds.

    DCOP Bediako said the deceased, whose name he did not disclose was buried on the orders of the unit committee members of the community in accordance with Islamic customs and traditions while the other four who got injured during the attack are all on admission at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital in the Bono region.

    He said the Bole District Police Command have begun investigations into the incident to bring the perpetrators to book.

    Background

    Accra-Dollar Power , an illegal mining and a border town in the Bole district which has gained notoriety for such violent crimes.

    On February 6, 2016, the Daily Graphic published a story headlined: “Soldier Killed by unknown assailants”.

    The story read that a soldier who was part of the Bole District Security Committee (DISEC) to Dollar Power to assess the security situation in the area was shot dead by some unknown assailants.
    Three other soldiers and a fireman who were part of the convoy to Dollar Power also got injured in the attack.

    The incident occurred four years ago when the Bole district was then part of the Northern Region.

    Source: graphic.com.gh

  • Police release 134 persons arrested during swoop

    All the 134 persons arrested by the police during last Saturday’s swoop at Changli, a suburb of the Tamale Metropolis in the Northern Regional capital, have been released after screening.

    The Northern Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Kwabena Otuo Acheampong, who confirmed the release of the 134 persons to the Daily Graphic did not give the reasons assigned for their release.

    He said the 134 persons had been released on police enquiry bail to be reporting to the police.

    The police in the Northern Region last Saturday dawn conducted a swoop at Changli in their bid to arrest some persons in the community alleged to have subjected three police officers to severe beatings.

    The three police officers, including a female, went to the community on April 16, 2020 to effect the arrest of a suspect in a theft case but they were allegedly attacked by some residents, resulting in the female officer falling unconscious and being admitted at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) for three days. She is said to be recuperating from the injury she sustained during the attack.

    Aftermath

    Since the swoop on the community last Saturday, the police in the region have come under severe criticism for their alleged highhandedness and brutalities meted out to some residents of the area.

    During the swoop, a journalist with Accra-based television station, TV Africa, Mr Mohammed Baba Kamil, who was at the scene to report was also reported to have been hit by a stray bullet.

    However, the Regional Crime officer, Supt Acheampong, has since discounted the media reports that suggested that he (Kamil) was hit by a stray bullet.

    Mr Kamil who sustained injury on his head was treated and discharged on the same Saturday at the TTH and has since given his statement to the police.

    The Northern Regional chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in a statement issued last Monday, April 20, called on the Northern Regional Police Command to institute an investigation into the cause of the injury of Mr Kamil.

    The police has obliged the GJA and commenced investigations into the circumstances leading to the injury of the journalist and have called on eye witnesses to come forward with what they know about the issue.

    Court action

    Meanwhile the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, in an interview has threatened to sue the Northern Regional Police Command for what he termed as their “unprofessional conduct” following the raid on the Changli community last Saturday.

    He alleged that the raid on the community by the police had left a young girl with a stray bullet in her head and she was due for surgery to remove the bullet yesterday, April 22.

    Alhaji Inusah Fuseini said the girl who was sleeping in a room was awoken by the disturbances in the community and was hit by a stray bullet on her head.

    He said property including doors and TV sets were destroyed during the raid on the community by the police.

    Residents

    Meanwhile a press conference planned by the community last Tuesday, April 21, was put off as the community leaders said they were moving round to get the signatures of community members to attach to their statement to petition the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to register their displeasure about the incident.

    Some residents who spoke to the Daily Graphic claimed it was rather innocent residents who were arrested by the police during the raid.

    A resident who only gave his name as Rashid claimed the police destroyed the property of residents during the raid and subjected some of them to beatings.

    Related development

    Meanwhile the suspect who escaped arrest in Changli on April 16, 2020 which resulted in the attack on the three police officers was put before the Tamale District Court, last Tuesday, April 21.

    The accused, Mohammed Iddrisu Sahadatu, 38, was charged with two counts of assault on a public officer and resisting arrest, after which he was granted bail in the sum of GHâ‚¡3,000 with a surety.

    He would reappear before the court presided over by Mr. Yusif Amadu on May 5, 2020 for the case to continue.

    Source: graphic.com.gh

  • Operation COVID Safety: 8,000 police officers to self quarantine in Accra, Kumasi

    Following the suspension of Operation COVID Safety, a joint military and police operation to enforce the lockdown directives, about 8,000  police officers have been directed to self-quarantine.

    The move according to the police hierarchy is part of measures to check the spread of Coronavirus.

    The Director of Public Affairs, Ghana Police Service, Supt. Sheila Kessie Abayie-Buckman in a Citi News interview said the directive is to ensure the safety of its personnel.

    “The prime object of the Police is for the Police officers to be well before we can carry out our duties. So for Accra, Kumasi, Tema, and Kumasi, we are looking at not less than 8,000 officers to self-quarantine,” she said.

    “The Police Hospital has begun taking their samples but the samples are not tested by them but they have a strategy to take their samples. The Police Hospital has its headquarters in Accra but it still has a lot of regional clinics all across the country,” she added.

    Source: ABCNewsgh.com

  • East Mamprusi Police kill suspected armed robber, arrest others

    Police in the North East Region last Sunday shot and killed a suspected armed robber and arrested three others in an alleged attempted robbery incident on the Gushegu/Gbintiri road in the East Mamprusi Municipality.

    The deceased, whose name was only given as Mahamadu, was said to have been shot when he and his accomplices who were suspected to be on their way for a robbery operation engaged the police in an exchange of gunshots.

    The three other suspects identified as Amadu Sumana, Hamidu Issaka, and Musah Alima, who sustained gunshot wounds, are receiving treatment at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu while the body has been deposited at the same facility.

    The police also retrieved a single barrel shotgun, a locally manufactured Sten gun, 17 pistol ammunition in a magazine, 10 AAA cartridges, a rope, a hood, three mobile phones, two hats, three packets of royal cigarettes and a face mask from the robbers.

    Tip-off

    Briefing the Daily Graphic, the North East Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr Charles Domanban, said on Sunday, April 19, at about 2 p.m, the police received information that the suspected robbers who were armed with weapons were preparing to attack traders from their hideout at Kukpo, a village near Gbintiri.

    The police, upon the tip-off, swiftly dispatched personnel to the scene, and on reaching there, the suspects opened fire on the police personnel who also returned fire and managed to overpower them, killing one of the robbers instantly.

    Traders attacked

    DCOP Domanban indicated that the suspects were reported to have, earlier last Saturday, attacked some traders who were returning from Gbandabila Market at gunpoint and took their personal belongings.

    The police on receipt of that information, proceeded to the scene but the suspects had absconded.

    Upon a tip-off that the suspects were at their hideout preparing for another robbery on the Gushegu Gbintiri road, the police proceeded to the hideout, and on their arrival, the suspects opened fire on the police officers who also fired back. It was during this exchange that Mahamadu was killed and the other suspects, overpowered, DCOP Domanban stated.

    He added that the suspects were assisting the police with investigation and would be arraigned within the week.

    Source: grahic.com.gh

  • Ashanti region police investigate death of 1-year-old boy

    Police in the Ashanti region are investigating the suspected murder of a 1-year-old boy at Pakyi No. 2 in Amansie West District.

    Some unknown assailants reportedly killed and buried the unidentified infant behind the local police station at Pakyi No. 2, Nhyira News reports.

    The body, according to the report, was found following a tip-off by a security guard who claims to have witnessed the crime.

    Kwaku Atabisi said the perpetrators bolted on seeing him.

    The parents of the deceased remain unknown as nobody has lodged a missing child complaint.

    Authorities at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi have given the community one week to clear the corpse from the morgue for burial because the facility is congested.

    Assembly member for the area, Alex Donkor, says community leaders will liaise with police for a decision before the deadline expires.

    Meanwhile, the Chief of Pakyi No. 2, Nana Baffour Kofi Adjei, says the traditional authority has poured libation to invoke the spirits to help apprehend the culprits.

    Source: Myjoyonline.com

  • Suspect who led attack on police officers in Tamale granted bail

    The main suspect in the assault case on three police officers stationed at the Tamale District Police Criminal and Investigative Department, Mohammed Iddrisu Sahadatu, has been granted bail to the tune of GHC3,000 with one surety to be justified.

    The suspect, a resident of Changli, a suburb of Tamale, escaped arrest on Thursday, April 16 after leading an attack on the police officers. But was apprehended on the following day with the support of the Assemblyman of the Area.

    The case presided over by His Worship Yusif Amadu, of the Tamale District Court 2, has been adjourned to May 5, 2020.

    “Mohammed Iddrisu Sahadatu was charged with two counts of assault on a public officer and resisting arrest”, the Northern Regional Police Crime Officer Superintendent Kwabena Otuo Acheampong told the media.

    Background

    Sahadatu Iddrisu Mohammed according to the Police in Northern region instigated the assault on the three Police Officers who had visited her home in Changli on April 16 to arrest her over a theft case reported to the Tamale District Police Criminal and Investigations Department.

    Police revealed she called her sons who started assaulting the officers including a female officer Corporal Rita Aboagye.

    Some residents joined in assaulting the officers.

    Corporal Rita Aboagye was beaten to a pulp and left in a gutter while her colleagues fled to report the incident, about half a kilometre away.

    The Revenge Swoop

    Some police officers in Tamale after hearing the news of the assault on their colleagues went on rampage, unleashing violence on scores of residents in Changli in retaliation.

    Source: 3new.com

  • Suspect who led attack on police officers in Tamale granted bail

    The main suspect in the assault case on three police officers stationed at the Tamale District Police Criminal and Investigative Department, Mohammed Iddrisu Sahadatu, has been granted bail to the tune of GHC3,000 with one surety to be justified.

    The suspect, a resident of Changli, a suburb of Tamale, escaped arrest on Thursday, April 16 after leading an attack on the police officers. But was apprehended on the following day with the support of the Assemblyman of the Area.

    The case presided over by His Worship Yusif Amadu, of the Tamale District Court 2, has been adjourned to May 5, 2020.

    “Mohammed Iddrisu Sahadatu was charged with two counts of assault on a public officer and resisting arrest”, the Northern Regional Police Crime Officer Superintendent Kwabena Otuo Acheampong told the media.

    Background

    Sahadatu Iddrisu Mohammed according to the Police in Northern region instigated the assault on the three Police Officers who had visited her home in Changli on April 16 to arrest her over a theft case reported to the Tamale District Police Criminal and Investigations Department.

    Police revealed she called her sons who started assaulting the officers including a female officer Corporal Rita Aboagye.

    Some residents joined in assaulting the officers.

    Corporal Rita Aboagye was beaten to a pulp and left in a gutter while her colleagues fled to report the incident, about half a kilometre away.

    The Revenge Swoop

    Some police officers in Tamale after hearing the news of the assault on their colleagues went on rampage, unleashing violence on scores of residents in Changli in retaliation.

    Source: 3news.com

  • East Mamprusi Police kill suspected armed robber, arrest others

    Police in the North East Region last Sunday shot and killed a suspected armed robber and arrested three others in an alleged attempted robbery incident on the Gushegu/Gbintiri road in the East Mamprusi Municipality.

    The deceased, whose name was only given as Mahamadu, was said to have been shot when he and his accomplices who were suspected to be on their way for a robbery operation engaged the police in an exchange of gunshots.

    The three other suspects identified as Amadu Sumana, Hamidu Issaka, and Musah Alima, who sustained gunshot wounds, are receiving treatment at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu while the body has been deposited at the same facility.

    The police also retrieved a single barrel shotgun, a locally manufactured Sten gun, 17 pistol ammunition in a magazine, 10 AAA cartridges, a rope, a hood, three mobile phones, two hats, three packets of royal cigarettes and a face mask from the robbers.

    Tip-off

    Briefing the Daily Graphic, the North East Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr Charles Domanban, said on Sunday, April 19, at about 2 p.m, the police received information that the suspected robbers who were armed with weapons were preparing to attack traders from their hideout at Kukpo, a village near Gbintiri.

    The police, upon the tip-off, swiftly dispatched personnel to the scene, and on reaching there, the suspects opened fire on the police personnel who also returned fire and managed to overpower them, killing one of the robbers instantly.

    Traders attacked

    DCOP Domanban indicated that the suspects were reported to have, earlier last Saturday, attacked some traders who were returning from Gbandabila Market at gunpoint and took their personal belongings.

    The police on receipt of that information, proceeded to the scene but the suspects had absconded.

    Upon a tip-off that the suspects were at their hideout preparing for another robbery on the Gushegu Gbintiri road, the police proceeded to the hideout, and on their arrival, the suspects opened fire on the police officers who also fired back. It was during this exchange that Mahamadu was killed and the other suspects, overpowered, DCOP Domanban stated.

    He added that the suspects were assisting the police with investigation and would be arraigned within the week.

    Source: graphic.com.gh

  • Police kill robber, two shot in gun battle at Gbintiri

    The North East Regional Police Command have shot and killed a robber and wounded two others in a gun battle at Gbintiri.

    The body of the deceased Mahamadu has been deposited at the Baptist hospital Nalerigu while the two wounded suspects Musah Alima and Amidu Issaka have been treated and discharged into police custody.

    The North East Regional Police Commander, DCOP Charles Domanban who confirmed the incident to DGN Online said on April 18, 2020 at about 6:30 pm the suspects attacked some traders who were returning from Gbandabila market at Kolguna junction at gunpoint and took their personal belongings.

    According to him, the police received information and proceeded to the scene but the suspects absconded before they arrived.

    DCOP Domanban revealed that the police got a tip-off that the suspects were at their hideout preparing for another robbery on the Gushegu Gbintiri road, and therefore proceeded to their hideout.

    He said the suspects upon seeing the police opened which was returned by the Police who subsequently overpowered the robbers.

    In a related development, the police in the North East Region has also arrested four suspected armed robbers.

    The suspects are Amadu Sumana, Hamidu Issaka, Mahamadu and Musah Alima all of Fulani extraction, from their hideout at Kukpo a village near Gbintiri.

    Police retrieved a short single barrel gun, a locally manufactured Sten gun, 17 pistol ammunition in a magazine, 10 AAA cartridges, a rope, a hood, 3 mobile phones, 2 hats, 3 packets of royal cigarettes and a nose mask from the suspects

    Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

  • Police kill robber, two shot in gun battle at Gbintiri

    The North East Regional Police Command has shot and killed a robber and wounded two others in a gun battle at Gbintiri.

    The body of the deceased Mahamadu has been deposited at the Baptist hospital Nalerigu while the two wounded suspects Musah Alima and Amidu Issaka have been treated and discharged into police custody.

    The North East Regional Police Commander, DCOP Charles Domanban who confirmed the incident to DGN Online said on April 18, 2020, at about 6:30 pm the suspects attacked some traders who were returning from Gbandabila market at Kolguna junction at gunpoint and took their personal belongings.

    According to him, the police received information and proceeded to the scene but the suspects absconded before they arrived.

    DCOP Domanban revealed that the police got a tip-off that the suspects were at their hideout preparing for another robbery on the Gushegu Gbintiri road, and therefore proceeded to their hideout.

    He said the suspects upon seeing the police opened which was returned by the Police who subsequently overpowered the robbers.

    In a related development, the police in the North East Region has also arrested four suspected armed robbers.

    The suspects are Amadu Sumana, Hamidu Issaka, Mahamadu and Musah Alima all of Fulani extraction, from their hideout at Kukpo a village near Gbintiri.

    Police retrieved a short single barrel gun, a locally manufactured Sten gun, 17 pistol ammunition in a magazine, 10 AAA cartridges, a rope, a hood, 3 mobile phones, 2 hats, 3 packets of royal cigarettes and a nose mask from the suspects.

    Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

  • Police clash with residents in Paris suburbs amid lockdown

    Police fought running battles overnight in Paris’s low-income northern suburbs with residents alleging heavy-handedness by officers enforcing France’s strict coronavirus lockdown.

    Residents burned trash and cars and shot fireworks at police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas in the suburbs of Villeneuve-la-Garenne and Aulnay-sous-Bois, witnesses and police said on Monday.

    The tensions were ignited in the early hours of Saturday when a motorcyclist was injured during a police check in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, prompting about 50 angry bystanders to gather.

    A police statement said the group targeted officers with “projectiles” in a near two-hour standoff.

    The motorcyclist, 30, was hospitalised with a broken leg and had to undergo surgery after he had crashed into the open door of a police car.

    Residents allege the door was opened deliberately so that the rider would smash into it.

    The man will lodge a complaint against the officers, his family and a lawyer told AFP, while prosecutors have opened an investigation.

    By Monday morning, calm had returned to Villeneuve-la-Garenne after a second night of riots marked by suburban fires and explosions, an AFP journalist observed.

    The trouble had also spread to nearby Aulnay-sous-Bois, where police claimed they were “ambushed” by residents in a district of dense, high-rise social housing of mainly immigrant occupants who claim they are regularly the victims of harsh police treatment.

    Police said they were targeted by residents using fireworks as projectiles. Four were arrested.

    ‘Confinement and tensions’

    After the motorcyclist was injured on Saturday, rights group SOS Racisme issued a statement calling on authorities to shed full light on the incident, and urging police restraint “in this time of confinement and tensions”.

    Earlier this month, prosecutors opened an investigation into the death in detention of a 33-year-old man arrested for allegedly violating the home confinement measures imposed by the government to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

    Police said the man resisted arrest. According to his sister, he had suffered from schizophrenia.

    Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Sunday police had carried out 13.5 million checks since the lockdown started on March 17, with people allowed outside only for essential purposes, and then with a self-certified letter explaining their reasons for leaving their home.

    More than 800,000 people were written up for violations.

    Several complaints of brutality were lodged against French police during recent months of pension reform protests and “yellow vest” anti-government rallies.

    Source: France24

  • 134 arrested in dawn raid for brutalizing female police officer in Tamale

    Police sources at the Northern Regional Police Command have revealed to MyNewsGh.com that about 134 suspects were on Saturday dawn arrested in connection with the brutality of a Female Police Officer at Changli a suburb of the Tamale Metropolis.

    The security numbering over 200 comprising armed military and police personnel, according to the residents, entered the community at 3 am and begun breaking into homes and beating people up from their sleep.

    In the process, about 134 persons were arrested and are currently at the Regional Command undergoing some screening to fish out those purported to have engaged in the act.

    Meanwhile, dozens of residents are pouring from their homes to besiege the Northern regional police headquarters in protest against the conduct of the security services.

    It would be recalled that the unnamed policewoman was subjected to the beatings of her life at Changli when to she went to the area to effect the arrest of a woman suspected to be involved in a theft case under investigation.

    The son of the suspect mobilized some residents who beat the unarmed cop to pulp according to the Northern Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Otuo Acheampong.

    According to him, the policewoman became unconscious and was rushed to the Tamale Teaching Hospital where she was later resuscitated and is responding to treatment.

    Source: mynewsgh.com

  • Scrap dealer remanded after spraying substance into Police woman’s eyes

    Osman Amadu, a 22- year old scrap dealer, who allegedly sprayed some liquid substance into the eyes of a policewoman enforcing the restrictions on movement order, has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court.

    Amadu, charged with causing harm and failing to comply with the restrictions imposed by the President, has, however, pleaded not guilty.

    The Presiding judge, Mrs Afia Owusu Appiah, declined to grant bail to Amadu, saying the defence counsel had been unable to convince her that Amadu would not jump bail.

    Additionally, the Court explained that the charge of failing to comply with the restrictions imposed by the President, carried severe punishment or sentence.

    Amadu is, consequently, expected to reappear on April 29.

    The Court, therefore, directed the prosecution to file the disclosures on the accused and his counsel.

    It also directed the Registrar of the Court to take possession of the substance and involve the defence counsel and prosecution in presenting it to the forensic laboratory until the results were released.

    Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Gulliver Tenkorang told the Court that Lance Corporal Bernice Osei Wusu, stationed at Kaneshie Divisional Headquarters, was the complainant.

    Amadu was also a resident of Russia, Accra.

    The Prosecution said on April 10, this year, at about 0900 hours, the complainant was on a COVID SAFETY duty snap check at the Zongo Junction, near the Great Lamptey Mills School.

    He said, Amadu, who arrived at the point as a passenger of a taxi cab, became offended when Lance Corporal Osei Wusu asked where he was headed for.

    He, consequently, sprayed a liquid substance from a small bottle into the eyes of the cop.

    The prosecution said the complainant shouted for help so her colleague and other witnesses went to her aid.

    Amadu was immediately arrested and brought together with the substance to the Kaneshie Police Station for investigations.

    According to the medical report, the Prosecution said, she sustained severe eye injuries to both of her eyes.

    The Prosecution said Amadu admitted the offence and investigations revealed that was galavanting in breach of the the directives of the President.

    Source: graphic.com.gh

     

  • Police find 17 bodies at New Jersey nursing home after anonymous tip

    New Jersey police found 17 bodies in one of the state’s largest nursing homes after an anonymous tip said a body was being stored in a shed.

    A total of 68 people associated with the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation centres have recently died, with 26 having testing positive for Covid-19.

    Police did not find the body in the shed, but said the facility’s tiny morgue was “overwhelmed”.

    New Jersey has over 71,000 cases and 3,100 deaths due to the coronavirus.

    Over the weekend, the nursing home had requested 25 body bags from authorities. On Monday, police received the anonymous tip about a body being kept in a shed.

    Instead, they found the 17 bodies kept in a morgue built to house four.

    “They were just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring,” Andover police chief Eric Danielson told the New York Times.

    It is unclear whether any of the 17 deaths were due to the coronavirus.

    How big is the problem in care homes?

    Seventy-six patients have tested positive for COVID-19 along with 41 staff members between the two buildings, according to the Times .

    Thirteen bodies were moved to a refrigerated truck at a neighboring hospital, while the remaining four were to be sent to a funeral home.

    The nursing homeowner has since obtained a refrigerated truck for bodies, local media reported.

    Source: bbc.com

  • Scrap dealer sprays substance into police eye

    A 22-year-old scrap dealer is in the grips of the police for allegedly spraying some liquid substance into the eyes of a policewoman during enforcement of restriction duties at Kaneshie Zongo junction.

    The Accra Regional Police public relations officer, DSP Effia Tenge, told DGN Online that Suspect Osman Amadu was part of other occupants of a taxi cap that was prevented by the police from roaming in town as part of the restriction order.

    She said around 9 am on Friday, April 10, 2020, the policewoman was on a COVID-19 duty at the Zongo junction ensuring compliance of directives.

    DSP Tenge continued that the policewoman, name withheld, in the course of discharging her duties, stopped a taxi cabbie with the suspect on board.

    “Suspect was questioned about his movement but instead of answering the questions, he removed the said sprayed from his pocket and sprayed it directly into the eyes of the policewoman.

    She said the policewoman shouted for help and with the help of other officers who stood nearby, the suspect was arrested and handed over to the Kaneshie police.

    “The victim was then rushed to the police hospital where she was treated and has currently been discharged.

    DSP Tenge said. Suspect upon interrogations admitted to the offence and added that he did not know what came over him.

    “He is being processed for court on the counts of assault on a public officer and violation of the Restriction of Imposition Act, as the substance is being forwarded to the forensic laboratory for examination. ”

    Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

  • COVID-19: Two persons arrested for organising pool party

    Two persons have been arrested for defying the lockdown and ban on public gathering directives by organising a pool party at West Legon in Accra.

    The birthday celebrant and one of the hosts of the party were arrested and are being investigated by the Kwabenya Police.

    The two are also said to have been in possession of a weapon suspected to be unauthorised.

    In an interview on Accra-based radio station, Citi FM, the Commanding Officer for the Accra Regional Joint COVID-19 Operating Centre, Chief Superintendent Raymond Adofiam, said the police disrupted the party after a tip-off.

    He said there were about 15 revellers at the party when they arrived at the scene.

    “Upon a follow-up, we chanced on this particular one and it happened to be true so they were arrested. They are currently being investigated by the Kwabenya Police,” he said.

    In a related development, over the weekend, the Police at Obuasi picked up 49 persons, including a groom and his bride, for flouting the ban on social gathering protocols.

     

    Source: Graphic.com.gh 

  • Police arrest couple and guests at wedding ceremony at Obuasi

    The police in Obuasi have arrested 49 persons for participating in a wedding ceremony at Akaporiso, a suburb of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.

    The suspects, including the newly wedded couple, are alleged to have defied a presidential directive against holding public gathering exceeding 25 persons in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

    President Akufo-Addo on March 15 banned all public gatherings including conferences, funerals, weddings, church activities, schools for four weeks.

    But the couple and their loved ones defied the directive on Saturday, April 11 when they were joined in holy matrimony amidst merrymaking.

    Their enjoyment did not however last as the police who got wind of their gathering caused an abrupt end to their event. The couple are Philip Ahenekorah and Ama Fremah.

    The Obuasi Municipal Police Commander, DSP Martin Asenso told the media some of the guests managed to evade arrest.

    The 49 people who were arrested are likely to be charged with a breach of protocol on social distancing and public gatherings.

    Source: 3news.com

  • Police officer ‘accidentally’ shot by soldier at Tema discharged

    A police officer, Lance Corporal Francisca Tenge who was shot by a soldier at a checkpoint at Tema New Town has been discharged from the hospital.

    The soldier has also been handed over to the Military after he was held in detention.

    Lance Corporal Francisca Tenge was shot without confrontation.

    Reports indicate that the military officer, who had come for night duty and was preparing to leave his duty post was working on his rifle when the trigger of the gun accidentally went off. The Ghana Armed Forces is yet to issue an official release on the incident.

    Medical Director at Tema General Hospital, Dr. Richard Anthony, whose facility Lance Corporal Francisca Tenge was taken to earlier stated that she was responding to treatment after being shot close to her thigh.

    According to him, the victim was not bleeding when she was rushed in and was immediately attended to by the surgical team.

    “There were entry and exit wounds but the surgical team did their best and can confirm she is responding to treatment,” Dr. Anthony said.

    Asked how long it could take the victim to recover, he said that will depend on her body constitution.

    “There is no cause for alarm as we have attended to her. She will recover in due course,” Dr. Anthony assured.

    Source: primenewsghana.com