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The Army had also appealed to the media to understand that the Army may sometimes have to use minimal force to ensure compliance of law and order and "this must not be misconstrued".
The Commanding Officer of the 6 Infantry Battalion Lieutenant Kernel Albert Kwabena Adu said this in an address to officers at the weekend in Tamale during a dinner night for the Senior Officers, which is usually used to take stock of the year.
Lt Adu said "the Army is the friend in development and is there because of the people but mostly its functions are misunderstood by people, especially the media leading to several negative impressions about its image".
He called on the media to understand the Army's work and see it as a friend for collaborative and effective development and for a crime free society.
The Minister Designate for the Northern Region Mr Moses Bukari Magbenba said the government was considering building accommodation complex for all the security agencies in the country and the Northern Region would be the first to benefit from the package, which would be assisted by the government of South Korea.
He said the support of the security services in the maintenance of peace and security was paramount and could not be misinterpreted and urged them to continue in their efforts to fight violent crime since the region was turbulent.
Mr Magbenba pledged a cash donation of GH¢1,000 towards a piggery project of the 6 Infantry Battalion. | | | | ______________________ |
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| * Saturday, 6 February 2010 | | Vice President denies blackmail story * Source: GNA | Accra , Feb. 6, GNA - The Office of the Vice President has described as highly irresponsible, a deliberate attempt by a section of the media to malign the government through claims that some public officials attempted to blackmail a journalist.
A statement signed by John Abdulai Jinapor, Media Co-ordinator to the Vice President, said the story on an Accra radio station could best be described as a fabrication, calculated to impugn the reputation of the Vice President.
It refuted claims that Mr John Dramani Mahama assisted Baby Ansabah, the journalist with money to pay compensation to the family of a pastor he allegedly knocked down in a motor accident.
The statement said it was also false that officials of the National Democratic Congress capitalised on the assistance to blackmail Mr. Ansabah.
It said neither has the Vice President given out any money to Mr. Ansabah nor coerced him to make any confession.
According to the statement, despite the clear denial by a family representative of the deceased pastor and Mr. Ansabah about the report, Joy FM reported the allegations.
"While the Mills government believes in the freedom of the media and will continue to promote that, the media must desist from the deliberate peddling of falsehood and the fabrication of stories intended to malign personalities and institutions," the statement said.
The statement advised journalists to remember the basics of journalism and endeavour to promote professionalism in the trade. | | > BACK to TOP < | Ghana International AirFlight Makes Emergency Landing * Source: myjoyonline | Joy News has learnt that a UK-bound Ghana International Airlines flight has had to make an emergency landing in Algeria.
The GIA flight GO101 is said to have landed in Algiers after passengers said they heard a loud explosion.
The 115 passengers are said to be in a state of shock, although there were no casualties.
The incident happened early Saturday morning and the passengers have since been airlifted to Libya where they are awaiting another aircraft to fly them to London, their final destination.
The flight from Libya should touch down at Gatwick by 7:30pm, GIA boss Gifty Annan-Myers told Joy News in an interview.
Mrs Annan-Myers described the flight's landing as rather 'precautionary.' | | > BACK to TOP < | Hohoe Midwifery Training School faces closure * Source: GNA | The Hohoe Midwifery Training School risks closure due to an eminent water crisis, Ms Narki Doku, Principal of the School has said.
Speaking at the matriculation of its third batch 83 students for the Diploma in Midwifery programme in Hohoe, she said the School's overhead metal reservoir was leaking and the school had not got the financial capacity to undertake such a huge project.
She said appeals had yielded no result with the Ghana Water Company always threatening to disconnect the water line as treated water leaked.
Ms Doku mentioned other challenges of the School as lack of general infrastructure, shortage of tutors, inadequate learning and teaching materials and accommodation for teachers and students.
Mr Victor-Hermann Condobrey, the Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive, said he would try his best to salvage the situation. | | > BACK to TOP < | 2 Prophets Busted * Source: Daily Guide | TWO PERSONS who managed to con three women at different locations by posing as prophets, are currently cooling off in a police cell.
The two men swindled the women of several thousands of cedis, CFA francs and personal belongings.
The accused persons, Eric Mensah alias Kumah, a 47-year-old driver who resided at Ho, and Silvanus Dei, a 45-year-old kente weaver, were arrested at their hideout by the police and brought before the Ashaiman Circuit Court presided over by Seyeram Yao Azumah.
The two accused persons arrived at the court in handcuffs together with other persons standing trials at the same court. They sat a few metres away from persons believed to be their relatives, as they waited for their case to be called.
When the accused persons were called to the dock, Eric Mensah pleaded guilty, but with an explanation, while Silvanus Dei pleaded not guilty to all the six counts leveled against them.
Mensah then confidently explained to the court that he had come to accept what he did as indeed wrong, pleading for leniency since his family’s livelihood depended on him. He added that his family’s well-being was the main reason why he confessed to committing the crime.
He was also quick to say that he did not spend his share of the booty because he felt it would have been wrong to do so.
Reacting, counsel for Silvanus Dei, the second accused person, indicated that his client was only Mensah’s employee, who had also been led to believe that he (Mensah) was a prophet. He added that his client, thinking that Mensah was a ‘Man of God’, did as he was instructed.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector P.Y. Aheto, recounting the incidents that led to the arrest of the two, told the court that on January 6, 2010, the two accused persons were said to have gone to the Cocoa Marketing Board (CMB) area in Accra, where they posed as prophets. They successfully duped one Dorothy Teneshe, a business woman and resident of Keta in the Volta Region, who had come to Accra to buy goods.
The two were said to have approached the woman and made certain prophesies about her life. They told her to close her eyes for special prayers. The victim, who had cash and a mobile phone in her hand bag, obeyed, but by the time she opened her eyes the suspects had vanished with her handbag which contained GH¢900, CFA 80,000 and personal effects.
According to the prosecutor, two weeks after that incident, the accused persons moved to Tema where they again duped a certain Beatrice Akpolu, a caterer at the Tema General Hospital on January 27, 2010, capitalizing on her health status.
They claimed God had revealed something about her health to them.
The two allegedly told the caterer she had health problems because some of her colleagues had invoked curses on her. They asked that she gave an apple and GH¢1.00 to a beggar so the curse would be reversed.
Chief Inspector Aheto indicated that after the prayers the lady’s handbag containing GH¢500.00, one Segem mobile phone, voters ID card, Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) cheque book and other belongings, which she had left with Silvanus, vanished along with the ‘men of God’.
Continuing with his narration, he stated that the two suspects defrauded one Ayievu Isabella, a business woman, the following day. From her they were able to pinch GH¢3000, CFA 320,000, two mobile phones, one portable fertilizer bag containing personal effects, several coins of both Ghana cedis and CFA franc at Tudu in Accra.
The prosecutor told the court that the two then relocated to Ashaiman, where they checked into a hotel. Luck however eluded them when a co-worker of one of their victims, Beatrice Akpolu, who was present when they ripped her off, raised an alarm upon seeing the pair. Two policemen, W.A Danso and Detective Gawo of the Ashaiman Divisional Headquarters, rushed to the scene and arrested them.
A search conducted in their hotel rooms revealed personal effects of their victims, together with the cash and some other items hidden in a dustbin. They were immediately whisked to the police station.
The two ‘prophets’ confessed to the crime in their caution statements to the police, and after investigations, they were charged and put before the Ashaiman Circuit Court.
Eric Mensah, after admitting to the offence, was sentenced to five years each on six counts and all were to be served concurrently at the Nsawam Prisons. On the other hand, Silvanus Dei is still in police custody and will reappear on a later date.
Shortly after the verdict of the court, Mensah, who could not tell the court his exact age, begged to be pardoned as he has now regretted his actions and would never do such a thing again for as long as he lives. | > BACK to TOP < |
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| | | | * 06.02.2010 | Girl Dies In Pit * Source: Daily Guide | A 15-year-old girl died in a tragic accident at Sefwi-Nkateaso, near Awaso, when an old pit from which she was digging red clay collapsed on her.
As has been the traditional practice by typical rural population, 15-year-old Akosua Boadua had gone for the clay to paint the kitchen.
Akosua went with two other young girls who escaped unhurt.
Police Detective Inspector Tobias Amoadza of the Bibiani Station told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the body of the deceased had been deposited at the Bibiani Government Hospital for autopsy.
He said whilst busily engaged in the breaking up of the clay, a loose wall of the pit came tumbling down and buried her under a heap soil, killing her instantly.
Boadua fell into the pit at about 0800 hours.
In another development, Moses Tsiteh, a herbalist, and Christian Adzako, a Junior High School pupil, on Monday appeared before a Ho High Court for manslaughter.
They pleaded guilty and were each granted bail in the sum of GH¢20,000 with a surety.
They will reappear in court on February 22 this year.
Assistant State Attorney, Comfort Tasiame, told the court presided over by Justice Kofi Essel Mensah that on October 16, 2006, one Bright Addo, now deceased, consulted Tsiteh at Lomnava, near Tsito in the Ho Municipality, for fortification against cutlass wounds.
She said after the fortification, Tsiteh used the cutlass on Addo, but it slipped off his body without any cut.
Madam Tasiame said Adzako, who had also come to consult Tsiteh for some spiritual assistance, also decided to test the cutlass on Addo, but this time around it left a deep cut on the latter's upper arm, resulting in profuse bleeding.
She said Tsiteh and Adzako rushed Addo to the Ho Municipal Hospital, but he was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Madam Tasiame said Tsiteh and Adzako were subsequently arrested, while a post mortem examination conducted on Addo indicated that he suffered "monadic shock" due to the cut.
Ernest Gaewu, a lawyer who acted as a friend of the court, pleaded for bail for the accused persons. | | | | | | |
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