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Charged with threat of death and having unnatural carnal knowledge with minors, the court reserved Armah's plea.
He was remanded into prison custody to reappear on May 5, pending further investigations.
Chief Inspector I.A.A. Ahor, the prosecutor, said two of the victims are 11 years each, while the remaining two are nine years.
He said at about 0430 hours on February 13, Armah asked the victims to accompany him to an out-dooring ceremony at Teshie in Accra.
Prosecution said on reaching the Maritime yard at Teshie, Armah dragged the victims into a nearby bush where he removed a talisman and after warning them with a death threat, he took turns to have anal sex with the victims.
Soon after the act, Armah led them to a spot where they were sighted by a Good Samaritan who sent them to Teshie Police Station.
The victims narrated their ordeal and were offered medical forms for examination.
Armah was later arrested by the Police.
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| Latest Ghana News Thursday, 22 April 2010 WEEK 16 - 2010 | * Thursday, 22 April 2010 | Traders threaten to march through Accra ...naked * Source: GNA | Accra, April 22, GNA - Traders operating near Novotel and Tema Lorry Station in Accra, on Thursday threatened to march through the principal streets of the Accra Metropolis naked.
This would be in protest of alleged resettlement at the Pedestrian Shopping Mall at Adabraka without the appropriate rehabilitation at the Mall.
"In fact where they want to resettle us is an eyesore; the mall lacked proper lay-out, is a flood prone area during the rainy season sometimes leading to loss of lives and property," Madam Victoria Mensah, Market Queen, Tema Station Traders Association, said.
She was addressing the media after placard-bearing members of the association, wearing red arm bands, had demonstrated to express their disapproval about the impending decongestion exercise in Accra.
They alleged that Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) had decided to embark on the exercise on Saturday, April 24.
The traders appealed to AMA to rehabilitate the mall, construct additional stalls before embarking on the decongestion.
The women accused the leadership of Novotel Traders Association of allegedly embezzling funds belonging to them and negotiating with some officials of AMA to ensure that the exercise was carried out.
"The leadership have not rendered account on levies collected from us. We even suggested that some of the monies collected should be used to improve facilities and make the mall more conducive to their operations but all to no avail," she said.
When GNA contacted the leadership of the association, Mr. McCarthy Aggrah, Novotel Market Coordinator, he refuted the allegations and explained that they were only collaborating with AMA to ensure their smooth resettlement at the mall.
"We only suggested that each trader should pay GH¢50 to assist with the rehabilitation and even with that they have refused to pay," he said.
Mr. Aggrah said the association had regulations guiding its activities and under no circumstance would the leadership misuse the association's funds. | | > BACK to TOP < | | Woman Sold For GH¢600 * Source: Daily Guide | THE TEPA Circuit Court, presided over by Osei Kwame Gyamfi has thrown a 50-year-old local food vendor in Kumasi, Afia Agyemang aka Afia Sika, into jail for offering a 38-year-old woman (name withheld) she worked with for sale.
Afia Sika wanted to sell the woman for GH¢6000 (¢60million).
The court also punished the woman for stealing GH¢300 from the Tepa Police Commander's office whilst being interrogated.
The convict was found guilty by the court on two counts of human trafficking and stealing, and was consequently sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment on the first charge and five years on the second respectively.
The sentences are to run concurrently. The facts of the case, as presented by the prosecution, led by Inspector Andrew Asiedu Banafo, were that on October 7, 2009, police received information from a reliable source that the convict, who was hitherto operating a 'chop and drinking bar' at the Kumasi Race Course, was hatching plans to sell some of her workers.
Acting on the information, the prosecutor said four personnel from the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID), led by the Divisional Crime Officer, ASP Adu Boahen, arranged to meet with the convict to finalise the amount involved and terms of payment in the deal.
After several minutes of tough bargaining, both parties peacefully settled on GH¢6000 as the price for the victim who was to be sent to Cote d'Ivoire for ritual purposes.
Inspector Asiedu Banafo told the court that an officer from the Ghana Education Service (GES) whose services were engaged as part of police investigation strategy, introduced himself to the convict as the dealer who badly needed the victim for ritual purposes in Cote d'Ivoire.
According to the court, Afia Agyemang, who looked restless whilst being paid the money, received a cash sum of GH¢2,000 and a cheque for GH¢4,000, which she hurriedly put in her handbag.
The prosecutor said prior to the payment of the money, a police patrol team organized by the Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Matthew Osei Adjei, had cordoned off the area where they were meeting.
“So immediately after the money had exchanged hands, the patrol team was signaled, whereupon the convict and the CID personnel were apprehended for the offence. They were taken to the commander's office where the CID officers introduced themselves as police officers,” the prosecutor told the court.
Whilst being interrogated, the Inspector said the convict strangely managed to steal GH¢300 from the commander's office to the chagrin of all those present. From James Quansah, Kumasi | | > BACK to TOP < | | Over 70 houses reduced to rubbles in Teshie * Source: Myjoynline.com | Some residents in the Ledzorkuku Krowor constituency in Teshie, a suburb of Accra have vowed to hit the streets on Thursday after their houses were razed down.
The Municipal Assembly demolished over 70 structures on Wednesday alleging the houses were cited on green belts and water ways.
Justifying the demolishing, Stephen Nketia, Municipal Works Engineer told Joy News the residents were adequately informed not proceed with the structures but paid no heed.
They were also informed to relocate well over a year, but failed to do so, he said.
According to him, the Krowor Municipal Assembly granted no permits to the residents and warned them to desist from going ahead with the buildings, but they defied the warning.
But some of the residents claim they were not adequately informed.
Others who admitted their failure to acquire permits said government ought to have exercised a bit more restraint.
They say the problem could easily have been solved without their houses reducing to rubbles.
The aggrieved residents say they will demonstrate on Thursday to draw government's attention to their predicaments.
Story by Nathan Gadugah | | > BACK to TOP < | | Minister loses wife * Source: Myjoyonline.com | The Deputy Minister of Energy Alhaji Inusah Fuseini has lost his wife.
The wife died yesterday morning at the Police Hospital in Accra during child birth.
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, who is also the Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, was said to have broken down completely when President Mills broke the news to him.
The family says she might have died out of negligence on the part of the hospital.
The family is therefore demanding immediate postmortem before Mrs Fuseini is buried, even though it is against its Islamic belief.
Expressing the family's disappointment to Joy News, a member of the family Alhaji Sumani says nobody in the family “is satisfied” with the conduct of the hospital.
He explained that if the hospital authorities had allowed a “competent gynaenacologist” to handle her, instead of a midwife, the woman would have survived through expert's inducement – probably would have recommended a caesarean birth when she was in difficult labour.
Meanwhile, sympathizers have gathered at the family's house near the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre to console the bereaved family.
Mrs Fuseini is survived by one child. | | > BACK to TOP < | Bolga wants DCEs to be elected by popular vote * Source: GNA | Bolgatanga, April 21, GNA- Participants at a Constitutional Review forum held in Bolgatanga on Tuesday called for the popular election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives.
They pointed out that people at the grassroots level should be allowed to elect their DCEs as most of the time, people appointed as DCEs were people not abreast of common issues in the community which they are supposed to govern.
They advocated that present and past Assembly members should be encouraged to contest for the position of DCE since majority of them had worked with the Assembly and had acquired the needed skills and experience to serve the people as DCEs.
Participants were also of the view that the number of Ministerial appointments by the President was too high and should be pruned down to reduce the burden on state resources.
Mr. Alexis Ayamdor, a development worker with Ibis West Africa, an NGO, indicated that there were many Chief Directors and other technocrats in the Ministries who were more experienced to man the ministries without political supervision.
The participants called for a blue print for all Governments to follow as far as the policies and programmes of the country's educational system are concerned since the sector was being toyed with by Governments.
The participants further indicated that the Attorney General's Department and the Ministry of Justice should be decoupled to ensure fair and proper administration of Justice.
They expressed concern about the low remuneration of Assembly members and asked that like Members of Parliament who enjoy better conditions of service including ex-gratia award, Assembly members should also be paid from the consolidated Fund, adding that this would attract more competent and experienced persons to the Assemblies for effective decentralization and development.
The participants were of the view that the concept of the decentralization system being practiced at the Municipal and District Assembly level was inefficient and asked that under the review of the constitution, stringent mechanisms should be put in place to make it more effective.
The four year term of office of the President under the 1992 constitution, the participants noted, should be maintained and not be extended.
Participants asked that women should be given equal opportunities like their male counterparts in governmental positions as they formed more than 50 per cent of the country's population.
Opinion was sharply divided on the right of chiefs to be actively involved in politics.
Mr. Gabriel Scout Pwamang, a member of the Commission entreated the public to take the exercise seriously by making concrete submissions to enable the Commission produce credible report for the advancement of constitutionalism in Ghana.
He said Ghana has over the years has been adjudged the touch bearer of good governance and therefore there was the need to improve upon it.
He entreated people who could not submit their views at the forum to do so through the Regional Coordinating Councils, Municipal and District Assemblies and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE).
The team of the Constitutional Review Commission which is in the Upper East Region would cover all the nine Districts in the Region and is expected to educate the people on the constitution, inform the public about issues regarding the constitution and to elicit their views and opinions on the operation of the constitution. | > BACK to TOP < | NPP organiser challenges his suspension from the party * Source: Myjoyonline.com | The New Patriotic Party’s regional organiser in the Ashanti Region, Kennedy Kankam has challenged his party’s decision to suspend him from the party for alleged divisive comments he made.
He is reported to have suggested on a local radio station that the Akyem members of the party are behind recent agitation for the Ashanti members of the party to be prosecuted by the Attorney General.
NPP Ashanti regional secretary, Sam Pine confirmed the suspension to Luv FM in Kumasi, saying, the decision was based on preliminary investigations conducted by the disciplinary committee of the party after a complaint was filed by George Eyisi Boateng, founding member of the party.
The secretary said a letter to that effect is due to be delivered to Mr Kankam.
Speaking to Joy News, however, Mr Kankam said he has not received such a letter and described the action taken by the party’s executives as unconstitutional.
Quoting the party’s Article 3, of the NPP constitution, Kankam said “Any decision to suspend a member shall not be taken unless the nature of the complaint has been communicated to the member in writing and disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against such a member.”
This, he said the party has gone contrary to because they did not communicate anything to him in writing. He also added that the Regional Executive Committee made up of elected officers and their deputies, all constituency chairpersons in the Ashanti region, all MPs in the region, all patrons and founding members of party in the region who are supposed to constitute the people who can come out with this decision.
Kankam stated that as far as he is concerned, he is still the regional organiser and that there is nothing like a suspension because what they are doing is unconstitutional and they don’t have the mandate to do that. | > BACK to TOP < |
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| All about the Ghana Election 2008 | | | | * Thursday, 22 April 2010 | Deputy Upper East Regional Minister involved in motor accident * Source: GNA | Bolgatanga, April 22, GNA - The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mrs Lucy Awuni was on Thursday morning involved in a motor traffic accident near Binduri, while on her way to inspect rainstorm ravaged villages in the Garu-Tempane District.
Mrs Awuni is receiving medical attention at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital at the time of filing this report.
Three Journalists, who were travelling with her and received various degrees of injury were; Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed of "The Ghanaian Times"; Mr Abdul Hammid of "Daily Graphic" and Mr Abdul Issahaq of Metro Television. Mr Mumuni Ibrahim, the Bodyguard of the Deputy Minister, received a cut on the ear and bruises on the hands.
The Deputy Regional Minister's driver, Akantalikum Builsa attempted to avoid a pothole and in the process the vehicle veered off the road and rolled over thrice. | 3 Persons Found Dead in Water * Source: Daily Guide | THREE YOUNG men who were said to be in their early thirties, died in the Ashaiman Irrigation Dam on Tuesday evening when they went there to bathe and wash their clothes, as the whole town was brutally hit by acute water shortage since last Thursday, April 15, 2010, which the early settlers of the town said had never been experienced before.
Two of the deceased persons could not be readily identified.
The third person was said to be a resident of Kaketo, an Ashaiman suburb, a father of two and a famous truck pusher in the area.
According to eyewitnesses' accounts, the supposed truck pusher arrived at the dam at 11am with a heap of clothes to wash because of the water crisis.
As soon as he finished washing and drying his clothes, the eyewitnesses recounted, the young man lay in the sun for quite awhile, and when he woke up, he did a few pushups, stretched his limbs, and went into the water to perhaps wash down.
An eyewitness narrated that because there were a lot of people bathing in the water, the young man moved farther away, “but after sometime, when almost everybody had come out of the water to relax, some of us realized the guy had not come out so we raised an alarm as it was getting late, with most people deserting the dam for their various homes”.
According to sources, as soon as they raised the alarm, a young heavily-built man, whose name they gave as Alhaji, succeeded in bringing out the truck pusher.
Not too long after the body of the Kaketo resident had been drawn from the water, the eyewitnesses said they heard people yelling from another part of the dam and when they rushed to the spot, they said, “We saw two young male bodies floating on the water and quickly, Alhaji and one other guy went in to bring the bodies to the bank”.
The Ashaiman Lebanon Police, the eyewitnesses said, reported at the scene to carry the bodies away. Nonetheless, when DAILY GUIDE followed up at the Police Station, the personnel on duty disclosed that it was rather the Central Police in Ashaiman that reported at the scene and took the three dead bodies to the Tema General Hospital mortuary.
Relatives have reported at the police station to identify the bodies.
The water crisis in Ashaiman has brought several activities in the area to a standstill.
From Inusa Musah, Ashaiman | Pharmacists lament over high tariffs on product license * Source: GNA | Accra, April 22, GNA - Pharmacist Noah Acolatse, Chairman of the Community Practice Pharmacists' Association (CPPA), on Thursday appealed to government to do something about the sudden upward revision of Drug registration and renewal by the Food and Drugs Board (FDB).
He said the 100 percent increase, would not only have serious adverse implications on the pharmaceutical industry, but also impact negatively on efforts to ensure drug availability, accessibility and affordability by the vulnerable in society who would naturally carry the heaviest burden of diseases.
Addressing the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the CPPA in Accra, Pharmacist Acolatse said the increase, could also pose challenges to Ghana's effort to provide quality health care and be an impediment on measures aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG).
Held under the theme; "The Business of Health - A Pharmaceutical Perspective," the two-day meeting is expected to provide opportunities for better engagement with the public sector and consider newer and better ways of improving their interactions towards improved health and productivity at the community level.
It would also afford members the opportunity to analyze their financial risks, newer roles, analyze constraints to their participation towards better health at the community level, including access to capital, insurance cover, human resource as well as regulatory framework oversight.
Mr Acolatse stated that the recent hike in the registration fees could not be substantiated as such costs would be transferred to patients with detrimental effects.
He explained that by the FDB's own definition, if on the average, companies carried between 20 to 150 products or product forms, they would have to pay between 20,000 to 150, 000 dollars annually just to maintain their product license in Ghana.
Mr. Acolatse said by this calculation, the FDB was hoping the situation would translate into an additional five to 10 percent increase in medicine cost in Ghana making it much affordable to patients.
He said the situation was unfavorable to players in the pharmaceutical industry, as most of them were small and medium scale operators adding that already duties and taxes on drugs as well as raw materials accounted for about 36 percent of drug cost in Ghana with about 85 percent of all allopathic medicines being imported.
Pharmacist Acolatse enumerated challenges as a result of the new fees as the downsizing of imported medicines list by companies, discouragement to research and development-based companies from registering their products in Ghana, most local pharmaceutical industries folding up and the proliferation of counterfeit drugs as well as smuggling.
Pharmacist Acolatse cautioned that for a country which was already faced with the huge burden of unemployment, government should not allow the few local pharmaceutical companies to drop out of business and reminded the FDB of the dangers of importing counterfeit drugs, if the fees remained prohibitive.
He said it was the vision of the current executives of the CPPA to make community pharmacy the pivot for healthcare and advocacy at the community level, and to redefine its position as specialists health service providers in the communities.
Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor, Minister of Health, in a speech read for him by Mr. Samuel Boateng, a Director of the Ministry, said government would continue to pursue practical interventions to address challenges facing the Community Pharmacy Practice in Ghana.
The Minister said government was aware of the high cost of capital, human resource, inadequate and inequitable distribution of infrastructure and limited market access.
Dr. Kunbuor said that the situation was even worsened by the cluster of pharmacy outlets mainly in the urban areas and said "these will create the enabling environment to enable the community practice pharmacist realize their most professional potential".
He said Ghana needed an effective public private partnership with key stakeholders such as the Association to influence the performance in healthcare delivery and his Ministry was ready to engage all stakeholders both private and public in a multi-stakeholders forum to address the high price for medicine in Ghana.
Dr. Kunbuor explained that government would work to support the National Health Insurance Authority in its fight to reduce delay in reimbursement of funds and curbing fraudulent activities.
He acknowledged the critical role of the CPPA as the first point of call of access to essential medicine at the community level and commended the members for their contribution to the employment opportunities in the job market.
Dr. Kunbuor said as community pharmacy practitioners, members should see their training in pharmacy, customer orientation and accessibility to clients as vital to their core business of medicine supply and assist their clients in the quality use of medicine and also to maintain professionalism in their conduct. | | . |
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