Suspect arrested in connection with the death of two people
Wa, Oct. 01, GNA - Kotia Damburo 30, is helping the Wa Police in investigations into the death of Donle Dayi 35, a farmer and his son Jabare Dayi 12, at Wechau in Wa West District. The suspect allegedly hit their heads with a pestle while asleep in the night killing them instantly.
Briefing Ghana News Agency on the incident, Police Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, Public Relations Officer of Ghana Police Service at Wa, said on September 28 the suspect out of no provocation picked a pestle and hit the heads of the deceased persons resulting in their death. Police Inspector Tetteh said, Dayi's wife Madam Anwo Dayi who was lying nearby was also hit on the head and became unconscious and was rushed to Wa Regional Hospital for treatment. He said Damburo had appeared before a court and remanded in prison custody while police continued with their investigations. In another development, Abudu Kpuusu 28, alleged to have hit Halili Zanabu Batie 45, with a pestle on the head killing her instantly was helping the police in their investigations. Police Inspector Tetteh said on September 29, at Yala village in Wa East District, the deceased met two children fighting and went to separate them.
He said mother of one of the children came in to fight her accusing her for supporting the other child against her son. In the process the suspect arrived and supported his wife to fight the deceased during which he hit the deceased's head with a pestle she collapsed and died instantly. He said the accused had been remanded in prison custody pending investigations into the incident.
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Fake doctor in police grips
Aflao, Sept. 28, GNA- The Police at Aflao has apprehended Richard Brown Afful, 27, who posed as a medical practitioner, trained at the University of Ghana Medical School. Afful, a citizen of Apam, in the Central Region, operated under the name Dr. Richard D. Manneh, with two certificates. The first one was issued on July 27, 2001, qualifying him as medical office and the second one, issued on July 20, 2004 qualifying him as a surgeon.
Mr. Ahmed Yakubu, Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge of the police at Aflao, told GNA that the suspect used those documents to secure a job with a Hospital at Aflao about three weeks ago as a medical practitioner.
He said authorities of the Hospital a few days after employing the suspect, doubted his professional competence and verified the authenticity of the certificates from the University of Ghana Medical School.
Mr. Yakubu said this led to the revelation that the suspect's registration number as a doctor belonged to Dr. Richard Kwame Mannah, a graduate of the medical school, who passed out on September 15, 2006 and was currently doing his Housemanship at the Korlebu Teaching Hospital.
He the suspect after his arrest gave his real name as Richard Brown Afful and admitted that a man whose name he could not remember but knew he was now in the United Kingdom, forged the certificates for him. ASP Yakubu said the suspect told the Police that he was looking for employment to raise funds to enable him begin an educational programme in fulfilment of his dream of becoming a medical doctor. He said the suspect would be charged for impersonation, false assumption of professional title and forgery.
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GNA
'419' Money Wired To Ghana
Nigerian nabbed in e-mail scam
WINNIPEG -- A Nigerian refugee who had been living in Toronto is in custody after Winnipeg police made a landmark arrest in connection with a West African e-mail scam.
It is the first time a Canadian police agency outside of Toronto has made such an arrest, but it came after an 84-year-old Winnipeg man was bilked out of more than $30,000.
Most people have received e-mails that pitch far-fetched scenarios and offer outrageous sums of money, but these types of fraud cases are tough to solve because scammers use a variety of untraceable means - web-based e-mail accounts and wire transfers, for example.
Arrests are rare. But in this case the suspect came to police. He told the victim he was coming to Winnipeg to pick up more money, so the victim, who by that point had realized he had been duped, alerted cops.
The suspect was arrested last Friday when he arrived at the senior's home, said police spokesman Const. Jacqueline Chaput.
Toluwalade Alonge Owolabi, 36, of Toronto, is charged with fraud over $5,000, fraud under $5,000 and five other offences.
The senior wired the $30,000 to a bank account in the African country of Ghana, but officials there will not co-operate with police
The senior will likely never recover the money.
Chaput said the scam began when the senior replied to an unsolicited e-mail that promised a share of a $1.5 million inheritance that, unknown to him, does not exist.
The man was told to wire an upfront fee of $37,500 to receive the supposed windfall. He wired $30,000 and was pressured to send more.
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Ashanti police retrieve live cartridges from suspected robbers
Kumasi, Aug. 22, GNA - The Ashanti police have retrieved a packet of live cartridges from three suspected armed robbers who planned to rob traders on the Kumasi-Wa road.
A thorough search on them also revealed six locally-manufactured guns, two sets of overalls, knives, three masks, three mobile phones, a military hat, three dark spectacles, three pairs of gloves and GH=A2141 cash.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Frank Adu-Poku, Ashanti Regional Police Commander, announced this at a press conference in Kumasi on Wednesday.
The suspects are, Jacob Tieku 25 and Steven Kumkye 24, both livestock dealers and Adams Nagaayen 34, a mason. DCOP Adu-Poku said the suspects had planned about a month ago to attack traders who commute the Kumasi-Wa road but luck eluded them when they were arrested upon a tip-off.
He said the suspects acquired their ammunitions at Denyase near Offinso.
DCOP Adu-Poku said two accused persons, Kofi Richard Gyampoh 29 and Kofi Siaw 21, on trial at an Obuasi Circuit Court, for stealing a car, were assisting police to find the whereabouts of a driver they hired who had been on the run since May 1, this year. He said Gyampoh hired a taxi cab driven by Francis Owusu Acheampong on May 1 at Obuasi under the pretext of travelling to Bogoso. DCOP Adu-Poku said when they reached Bogoso, Gyampoh picked Siaw and all of them spent the night at a hotel at Asomdwee village and returned to Obuasi at dawn the following day. He said particulars on the vehicle had been changed when it was found in the house of Gyampoh's brother-in-law. DCOP Adu-Poku therefore, appealed to the public to assist the police to eliminate crime and not underrate ability of the police to fight crime in the country.
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Robbery syndicate in police custody
Accra, Aug. 22, GNA - A three-member syndicate, including a woman, who stole valuables of passengers who boarded a taxi cab, on Tuesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with stealing. Ibrahim Mohammed, a trader, Rosemary Boateng, a hairdresser and Evans Appiah-Amponsah, a driver, are alleged to have used a taxi cab with registration number GT 51166 R to carry out their acts. Rosemary, Mohammed and Appiah-Amponsah have pleaded not guilty to stealing.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector Victoria Azumah Baduanah said the three normally used the taxi to pick unsuspecting travellers to various destinations.
On reaching a point where the passenger would alight they asked the passenger to open the door, but the accused persons under the pretext of assisting the passenger ended up stealing mobile phones, cameras, passports, certificates and monies. The court remanded them into police custody to re-appear on September 4.
Inspector Appiah-Amponsah said on July 26, this year, the accused persons on their normal operation took a passenger, Mr Opoku Agyeman from Dimples Junction to Achimota in Accra. She said when the complainant got to his destination and wanted to alight, he could not do so because the door had been locked by the central lock system.
The Prosecutor said Rosemary and Imbrahim, who were with the victim at the back seat, pretended they were helping him to open the door but they stole his mobile phone and GH=A220 (200,000 cedis). She said two weeks later, the victim saw a publication of a story in the newspapers of the three being involved in similar offence and reported his experience to the police. Prosecutor Baduanah said the members of the syndicate, who had been in the business for four years, were arrested on August 1. 21 Aug. 21
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Five suspects arrested for murder
Asukyerema-Kumado (E/R), Aug. 22, GNA - Five suspects have been arrested by the Nsawam Police for murdering a 17-year-old girl, Atsuikpi Adanu at Asukyerema-Kumado village near Adeiso in the West Akim District.
The suspects are Kwabena Adanu Kumado, the father of the deceased, 70, Kwabena Denteh Kumado, 32, brother of the deceased, Tosu Kumado, 29, Francis Govena, 30 and Pastor Joshua Ananu, 31, the pastor of a prayer camp at Adeiso.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency Superintendent Daniel Asare Nyanpong of Nsawam Police said the suspects were arrested after the body of the deceased was found along a footpath leading to their farm at Okorase near Adeiso on Friday, August 17. He said the body had been deposited at Nsawam Government Hospital morgue for autopsy while investigations continue.
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Four arrested in Techiman Military/Police swoop
Techiman (B/A), Aug 17, GNA - Four people were arrested in a joint Military-Police operation codenamed "Operation Come Life" at Techiman on Thursday for dealing in narcotic drugs.
Maxwell Asiedu Kwarteng, alias 'Last Killer', a 32-year-old driver, Sulemana Rahim, 42, trader, Jafaru Salu, 35, watchman and Alex Takyi, 33, trader, have been placed in custody.
The 150-strong contingent was led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Kwaku Ayesu Opare-Addo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Commander and Captain S S Mezor of the Number Three Garrison in Sunyani. DCOP Opare-Addo said the exercise was part of an operation to rid the Region of criminals and Indian hemp and other narcotic drug dealers especially at Techiman, because of the commercial activities in the town.
The Regional Police Commander called on the public to alert the Police on suspicious characters in their areas and asked landlords to monitor the activities of their tenants.
Chief Inspector Afoakwa Bretuo of the Sunyani Municipal Police Station told newsmen that the operation followed reports of an upsurge in the activities of Indian hemp dealers.
He said a quantity of leaves and substances suspected to be Indian hemp and cocaine, mobile phones, scissors, one locally manufactured pistol and two locally manufactured rifles were retrieved in the operation.
Superintendent Kwadwo Peprah Addai, Techiman Municipal Police Commander, told GNA that the Techiman Police recorded 2,084 criminal cases in the first quarter of this year as against 8,011, last year. They included stealing, assault, fraud, defilement, robbery, murder, rape, attempted rape, child trafficking and possession of Indian hemp.
Mr. Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, in an interview explained that the exercise was aimed at clamping down on criminals.
He appealed to banking institutions, filling station owners and business enterprises to support the Police to combat crime in the Region.
Sergeant Mohammed Mahama of the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) attributed the increased cases of robbery and stealing to the influx of people from all walks of life to the Techiman market.
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Apinamang builds Police Station
Apinamang (E/R), Aug. 3, GNA - The Apinamang community in the Kwaebibirem District is building a police station to provide them with security.
The building, estimated to cost GH(20,000 (200 million cedis), is almost completed and expected to be inaugurated this month as part of the celebration of the Akobredwa festival, which is marked for the first time in 30 years.
The Apinamanghene, Osabarima Oware Asarepinkro III, announced this during the installation of Dr F.A.Y Agyare-Bray, a Surgeon as Tufuhene under the stool name, Bafour Agyare Adjei I, and Bafour Yaw Boateng, a farmer, as Nkosuohene.
The Med Gold Mining Company at Dokyi near Apinamang donated GH(1,500 (15 million cedis) towards the project. The district assembly had also extended streetlights to the project site.
Nana Apinamanhene said he was reviving the festival to promote greater unity, peace and brotherhood among the people and to serve as catalyst for the mobilization of the people for development. Osabarima Oware Asarepinkro said the two men were chosen for their sterling achievements in their respective fields and he was hopeful that they would help to uplift the town.
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Shoot out with police, two robbers killed
Sunyani, June 26, GNA- Two suspected armed robbers were on Tuesday killed when they engaged the police in a shoot-out at Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Kwaku Ayensu Opare-Addo, Brong Ahafo Regional Police Commander told newsmen on that at about 1730 hours on Monday, the police in Techiman received information that a Toyota land cruiser vehicle with registration number GE 7575X was parked on the Techiman-Nkoranza road in a suspicious manner.
He said a team of policemen rushed to the area and saw four persons, including a woman in the vehicle, but they suddenly sped off, as the police vehicle got closer to theirs.
The regional commander said the vehicle in the process hit an on-coming Tico taxicab but the driver refused to stop and headed towards Techiman.
DCoP Opare-Addo said the police later found the Land Cruiser packed at the Total filling station in Techiman but when they got closer the occupants opened fire on them and they replied.
He said the suspected robbers moved their vehicle but were chased by the police until they abandoned the vehicle at Tanoso, near Techiman as the driver and the woman fled into the bush.
Two of the occupants who had apparently been hit by police bullets were found dead inside the vehicle.
DCoP Opare-Addo said the police found five mobile phones, two screw drivers, one locally manufactured pistol, four cartridges, three bunches of keys, three wrappers of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp and an unspecified amount of money on the bodies of the dead robbers.
He said the police have intensified a search for the man and woman on the run, whilst the unidentified bodies had been deposited at the regional hospital in Sunyani.
The regional commander appealed to the various health facilities to report to the police any person with gunshot wounds seeking treatment. DCoP Opare-Addo stated that the vehicle used by the alleged robbers was snatched from its owner in Kumasi at gunpoint and the owner had even called the regional command claiming ownership. He said the robbers were alleged to have robbed some passengers on Sunday on the Sampa road of huge sums of money and mobile phones.
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Armed robbers attacked passengers from Hamile
Wa, June 21, GNA - Armed robbers on Monday attacked passengers who were returning from Hamile and made away with personal belongings and cash running into millions of cedis.
The passengers, who were mainly traders on board a mummy truck with registration number GE 8490W, met their ordeal at about 2300 hours at the Kamba Bridge between Nandom and Lawra where the armed robbers blocked the road.
Police Public Affairs Officer, Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, told the Police said 100 million cedis was taken away from them. He said the amount was the daily sales of goods the two traders had made at Hamile and mobile phones belonging to some of the passengers were also taken away. Inspector Tetteh said no arrest.
He appealed to communities along the road to be on the look out for suspicious persons and report them to the police. In another development, the Wa Police has also nabbed 17-year-old butcher, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, for dealing in a fake 20,000 cedi note. The fake note has a serial number ER 4283962 and was issued on August 4, 2003.
Briefing the GNA on the event Inspector Tetteh said Adamu, who was in the company of two others now at large, went to a store at Wa on June 19 and used the note to buy cigarette. When Mr. Robert Salia, the storekeeper, checked the note he realised it was fake and raised an alarm that led to the arrest of the suspect.
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Police arrest 118 suspected criminals in Ashanti
Kumasi, June 20, GNA- A total of 118 suspected criminals have been arrested since Monday in the Ashanti region following an intensive operation mounted by the police to curb the high incidence of robbery in the region.
The suspects, who were arrested particularly in Kumasi and other parts of the region, are believed to have been involved in a series of crimes including car snatching, street, residential, workplace and highway robberies.
Briefing newsmen in Kumasi on Wednesday on the arrest, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Jonathan Yakubu, Director-General in-charge of Operations, decried the ascendancy of robbery in Ashanti, saying the region has now outstripped Greater Accra, which traditionally was noted for recording higher robberies nationwide. He said for instance that out of the total of 234 robbery cases recorded throughout the country since April to date, Kumasi alone registered 130 representing 55.5 per cent of the national total whilst Accra recorded 67 cases representing 28.6 per cent. DCOP Yakubu indicated that following this development a team of crack policemen had been detailed from the Rapid Response Unit, Panthers Unit, Mobile Force and National Police Headquarters in Accra to support their colleagues in Ashanti to help curb the numerous crimes in the region.
"We will pursue criminals and suspected criminals in the region day and night through vehicular and mobile patrols till we flush all of them out to enhance the peace being enjoyed by residents", he noted. He added that the arrested suspects would be screened in due course and those found to be culpable of the crimes mentioned would be prosecuted.
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NGO Commends B/A Police ( Brong Ahafo districts )
The Chief Executive of Sunyani based NGO, Access to Justice, Rev. Nana Adjei Ntow, has commended the B/A Regional Police Command for its exemplary work within the last twelve months under the command of DCOP Kwaku Ayensu Opare-Addo and Sunyani Disrict Commander, Chief Inspector Christian Tettey Yohuno.
"The B/A regional Police and especially the Sunyani District Police have indeed been proactive and prevented several serious crimes without which the region would never have been as peaceful as it is now", Nana Adjei Ntow told Space FM in Sunyani.
He added that some suspected armed robbers and other criminals have been arrested to protect properties and lives in the Sunyani municipality.
"Instant justices (lynching) have been prevented to save innocent lives while offenders have been prosecuted. Civil liberties have been protected by the Sunyani Municipal Police command", he noted.
Rev. Ntow pointed out that in an instance, the Regional Commander DCOP K.A. Opare-Addo, personally intervened with his private vehicle whilst off duty to save the life of a juvenile who was about to be lynched as a suspected robber.
He said some senior detectives at the Sunyani district police command have put the profession above their own health needs.
"Serious bloody clashes have been avoided at Atronie, just to mention a few. This undoubtedly is a clear demonstration of genuine dedication needed for Ghana to move forward as far as law enforcement and the rule of law is concerned", he said.
Rev. Ntow said another distinguished professional character of the Sunyani Police Boss is that "he always carefully listens to both sides of every dispute that is brought to him before he decides on what to do".
This laudable conduct has not always been the case with the B/A Police until the current administration took over.
“Access to Justice” has observed that the general public has not been as quick in encouraging the police service as they do in condemning it when something goes wrong".
"We therefore wish to remind the general public that the police officers depend upon us in solving crimes and maintaining peace, and so we should all support the police in the fight against crime".
Our only advice to the B/A Police Service, is to keep it up and never be distracted by anyone, because “good deeds are usually written on water and the bad ones on brass”.
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Space FM,Sunyani
Three remanded for dealing in pirated Copyright works
Accra, Aug. 03, GNA - The Copyright Office and the law enforcement agencies together with the Video and Film Producers Association of Ghana have arrested three Nigerians for dealing in locally produced pirated audio and audiovisual works in Tema.
The three, Joe Oreki, John Upkai and Dennis Opasi, have been remanded in police custody by the Tema Circuit Court to reappear on the August 15.
A release signed by Mr Alfred Kumi-Atiemo, Assistant Director of the Copyright Office, said items seized were mainly locally produced audiovisual works.
The statement said the Tema Community 1 District Police Commander, Superintendent Mr S.K. Tetteh, said he received information from stakeholders that some people were selling pirated works at the Community 1 market.
"We therefore quickly mobilized our men and moved in at that night and in the process the police arrested the three Nigerian suspects who had displayed large quantities of assorted pirated audiovisual works." In the release, Mr Bernard Bosumprah, Copyright Administrator, said the Ghana Police Service had been helpful in clamping down on activities of pirates.
He said the anti-piracy exercise was now being carried out at night instead of the day because those who dealt in such pirated works had shifted their activities to the night in order to avoid the Copyright Office taskforce.
The Copyright Administrator said three of such joint night anti-piracy operations organised in less than two weeks at the Overhead Bridge at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Kaneshie Market, Centre Maria and Sukura in Accra and Tema Community 1 Market caught culprits by surprise. Mr. Bosumprah said the team succeeded not only in seizing pirated audiovisual works but also pornographic materials, including locally acted ones.
He expressed concern at the rate at which pornographic materials were flooding the market.
Mr. Bosumprah appealed to stakeholders and civil society to support the Copyright Office in the fight against pirates. Mr. Kwaku Boakye of Danfo B.A. Production, a film producer, said most pioneers of the Ghanaian movie industry had collapsed as a result of the activities of pirates.
He said the stakeholders would team up with the law enforcement agencies and the Copyright Office to sustain the fight against piracy.
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Veep calls on public to support Police
Ejura (ASH) July 25, GNA- Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has called on the public to support the Ghana Police Service to fight the growing incidence of crime. He said the police alone could not fight crime, hence the need for the general public to provide information and the necessary support to facilitate their work.
Vice President Mahama was speaking at Ejura, in the Ejura-Sekyere-Odumasi District of the Ashanti Region, as part of a day's official visit to the District. He said such co-operation would help minimise armed robbery and rid society of anti-social elements. Responding to a number of demands of the chiefs and people, he said the town's market, which he described as one of the biggest in the country would be provided with a fire tender. He said the Ejura Secondary School would also be upgraded and provided with a bus.
The Ejurahene (Chief) Nana Kwaku Sarfo II threw his weight behind the aspiration of Vice President Mahama to succeed President John Agyekum Kufuor in the 2008 General Election. "One unique thing that exists between you and the District is the fact that your Special Aid, Mr Asamoah Buabeng comes from Sekyedumase Royal Family while your Protocol Officer, Mr Enoch Osei Mensah comes from Ejura Royal Family.
"Your Excellency, we believe that the people of Ejura-Sekyedumase District will look at this connection between you and the District and support you in your desire to succeed President John Agyekum Kufuor as the next President of Ghana."
Vice President Mahama used his four-day official visit to the Ashanti Region, to visit Obuasi, where he inspected works on the Obuasi Children's Ward and the 12-kilometre Obuasi-Akrofuom road, being executed at the cost of 12 billion cedis (12 million Ghana cedis). He tasked the contractor to speed up work, which was started last September and schedule for completion in December, this year. "The people cannot wait to travel on good roads," he observed. During an interaction with the chiefs and people of Fomena, he asked them to be law abiding to ensure peace during the enstoolment of a new chief to succeed the late Nana Ofori Agyeman II.
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Two suspected armed robbers arrested at Bibiani
Bibiani (W/R), July 23, GNA - Two armed robbers who mounted roadblocks and snatched mobile phones and money from people have been arrested and placed in police custody at Bibiani.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Felix Toya, Bibiani District Police Commander, told the GNA in an interview that on Friday police had a tip-off that a gang of armed robbers had mounted road blocks and were robbing passengers at gunpoint.
He said since the district police command had no vehicle at their disposal, an alternative arrangement had to be made to track down the robbers.
Mr Toya said before the police could mobilize forces, a policeman who was on duty at the Bibiani branch of the Amanano Rural Bank arrested the two suspects while the rest managed to escape. He said during a search on them the police retrieved a number of mobile phones and money from them. Mr Toya said two people who sustained injuries through gunshots by the robbers had been treated and discharged at the Bibiani Government Hospital.
They are Mr Augustine Appiah, a businessman from Sankore, and Miss Comfort Gyasi, a teacher at Kwapong in Brong-Ahafo Region.
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Techiman police kill 2 armed robbers
The Techiman police on Monday 25th June, 2007 engaged in a fierce shoot out with three suspected robbers on the Techiman-Tanoso road killing two of them in the process.
This occurred after the police had gotten a tip off from a Wenchi based police officer (name withheld) who was by then returning from Nkoranza that the robbers who were using a Toyota land cruiser with registration number GE 7575X were preparing to launch attack from a near by bush on the Techiman –Nkoranza road at about 5. 00pm.
According to a police source immediately after the tip off the police quickly set off towards the Nkoranza road but on their way met the suspects riding at top speed heading towards Sunyani direction of the road. The armed police did not give up but instead chased them to a portion of the road and decided to communicate with their fellow officers in the regional capital and waited at the Buoku junction whiles their colleagues at Sunyani closed in.
According to the police source the suspected armed robbers who were bent on achieving their goal decided to return to the Techiman end of the road.
This time luck eluded the suspects because the police saw them from afar and decided to chase them on the Techiman - Tanoso road setting the pace for an intensive shoot out. On reaching Tanoso Township, the suspected armed robbers parked the car just by the road side, pulled out locally manufactured pistols and engaged the police in a fierce gun battle. In the ensuing battle, two of the robbers were killed instantly.
The policemen led by Superintendent Addae Peprah took the dead bodies to Sunyani for autopsy. The Techiman municipal police command has made an appeal to the general public, more especially residents in Tanoso and its neighbouring communities to help trace the runaway suspect who they believe has been severely wounded.
In recent times the robbers have been tormenting the lives of innocent residents in Techiman, depriving them of their valuable properties. Anytime armed robbers find things difficult in Accra and other big cities, they decide to operate along the Kumasi-Techiman-Tamale
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Ransford K. Agyemang, Classic Fm, Techiman
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Shoot out with police, two robbers killed
Sunyani, June 26, GNA- Two suspected armed robbers were on Tuesday killed when they engaged the police in a shoot-out at Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Kwaku Ayensu Opare-Addo, Brong Ahafo Regional Police Commander told newsmen on that at about 1730 hours on Monday, the police in Techiman received information that a Toyota land cruiser vehicle with registration number GE 7575X was parked on the Techiman-Nkoranza road in a suspicious manner.
He said a team of policemen rushed to the area and saw four persons, including a woman in the vehicle, but they suddenly sped off, as the police vehicle got closer to theirs.
The regional commander said the vehicle in the process hit an on-coming Tico taxicab but the driver refused to stop and headed towards Techiman.
DCoP Opare-Addo said the police later found the Land Cruiser packed at the Total filling station in Techiman but when they got closer the occupants opened fire on them and they replied.
He said the suspected robbers moved their vehicle but were chased by the police until they abandoned the vehicle at Tanoso, near Techiman as the driver and the woman fled into the bush.
Two of the occupants who had apparently been hit by police bullets were found dead inside the vehicle.
DCoP Opare-Addo said the police found five mobile phones, two screw drivers, one locally manufactured pistol, four cartridges, three bunches of keys, three wrappers of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp and an unspecified amount of money on the bodies of the dead robbers.
He said the police have intensified a search for the man and woman on the run, whilst the unidentified bodies had been deposited at the regional hospital in Sunyani.
The regional commander appealed to the various health facilities to report to the police any person with gunshot wounds seeking treatment. DCoP Opare-Addo stated that the vehicle used by the alleged robbers was snatched from its owner in Kumasi at gunpoint and the owner had even called the regional command claiming ownership. He said the robbers were alleged to have robbed some passengers on Sunday on the Sampa road of huge sums of money and mobile phones.
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Sex scandal rock Ghana police in Darfur
... Deported Officer Being Protected
THE hard-won reputation of Ghana in International Peace-keeping built over the years by its crop of peace keepers was dented in Sudan last year, when a Senior Police Officer serving in the African Union (AU) Peace-Keeping Mission in Daffur, was caught in a sex and extortion scandal and deported to Ghana.
However, almost one year after the top ranking Police Officer was found guilty of the sex scandal and deported back home, the Police Administration has kept the matter close to its chest and instead of taking punitive action against the sex-crazy cop, has quietly rewarded him with a lucrative position as the head of Motor Traffic &Transport Unit (MTTU) at Akim Oda.
The action by the IGP, Mr. Patrick Acheampong and his men has raised concerns as to whether the Police has a set of laws made for junior officers, and another different set for the senior officers.
THE SUN’s intelligent source in El-Fasher the headquarters of the AU Mission at Daffur-Sudan, indicated that ASP Ayamgah Yakubu, from Ghana who was Chief of Personnel for the AU mission at the time exploited his zip a little too much for comfort in a game of misconduct.
“Due to the countless complaints against ASP Yakubu, to the AU COMMISSIONER Mr. Parly from South Africa and his deputy Mr. Henry Dadzie, Ghana instituted its own investigations into the matter to ascertain its authenticity,’ a top-ranked AU Officer who pleaded anonymity told THE SUN on the phone.
At the end of the investigations ASP Yakubu was found culpable. A charge of sexual harassment and extortion of money from Police monitors were proferred against him. After preliminary work the case was forwarded to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, where he appeared before a panel who tried him and pronounced him guilty.
After the trial he was deported back home in August, 2006 for the Police Service to act on his case.
A circular dated September 22, 2006 was issued by the AU at El-Fasher, explaining the circumstances that led to his deportation. Under Police Service rules if an officer was found to have mis-conducted himself the way Ayamgah Yakubu did, he was immediately sanctioned.
However ASP Yakubu never suffered the fate that should have befallen him instead, he was hurriedly posted to Akim Oda to head the divisional MTTU. When THE SUN reached the Police Public Relations directorate, DSP Kwasi Fori in February this year for his reaction, he requested for a questionnaire to that effect. However after almost five months after the questions were filed, the Police Administration has failed to debunk or confirm the issue.
When reached on his cell number of 0246-831697 on Friday press time for his version of the case, ASP Yakubu first owned up to the ownership of the cell number, but when fed with the facts of the case he changed his tongue, and suddenly denied being the owner of the line.
THE SUN had originally made contact with his office at Oda, which gave out his number only for him to first own up, and later deny ownership altogether.
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-Jale Dominic, THE SUN
W/R branch of FDB warns public of fake officer
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Takoradi, June 12, GNA- The Western Regional Zonal Office of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Tuesday advised the public not to transact business with an unidentified person who has been posing as an enforcement officer of the board.
A press release from the Board signed by Mr George Pentsil, Western and Central Regional Zonal Officer, said some sachet water producers in the region have reported that an unidentified person has extorted money from them at their manufacturing premises.
It said the unidentified person used a fake identity card with the logo of the board bearing the name Emmanuel E. Walters. The release said, "This person has visited Juabeso, Bawdie, Inchaban and other places and is believed to have accomplices". It said, "The Board wishes to inform the general public that officers of the Board who do perform legitimate assignments do carry their identity cards which should be thoroughly inspected to secure their identity".
The release assured the public that the Board is making every effort to bring the impersonator to book. It advises the general public particularly food sellers, sachet water producers and shop owners to report such dubious characters to the Police and the Board for prompt action.
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GNA
Court remands six for alleged murder
Sunyani, June 11, GNA - The Sunyani Magistrate court has remanded six farmers, including a woman, into prison custody for allegedly killing a 38 year old hunter, at Atuahenekrom near Sunyani. The pleas of James Obeng, Kwasi Mensah, Kofi Mensah, Charles Mensah, Kwame Duah, and Doris Opoku Agyeman were not taken on the charges of murder, abetment and transferring firearm without authority. They were remanded into prison custody to re-appear on June 18, 2007.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Martin Defeamaphor, prosecutor, told the court, presided over by Mr. Albert Zooga that the accused were friends of the deceased, Daniel Akumani and lived in the same area at Atuahenekrom.
He said on May 15, last year the accused together with the deceased went on a hunting expedition. The prosecutor said Obeng, who was armed with a single barreled gun, unlawfully transferred to him by Doris, allegedly saw an antelope and shot at it from afar but hit Daniel killing him instantly. The prosecutor said the accused went to their various homes without informing anybody in the village about the incident. He said at about 2300 hours on the same day the accused went back for the deceased's body, which they carried and dumped by the Atuahene-Abodasi road and placed his (deceased) gun beside him to make it seemed as if he was victim of a serial killer. ASP Defeamaphor said a witness in the case found the body of the deceased the next morning and reported to the police. Police investigations led to the arrest of all the accused who admitted the offence in their caution statements.
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GNA
Two charged with gang rape
Kumasi, June 9, GNA - Two friends have been arraigned before a circuit court in Kumasi for allegedly gang raping a 16 year old girl. Kofi Twumasi, mechanic, 20 and Fred Amoako, barber, 19, whose plea was not taken have been remanded to re-appear on June 13.
The court issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a third accused person, a female accomplice who allegedly offered her room for the commission of the crime.
Giving the facts of the case, Miss Ellen Kwawukumah, a State Attorney, told the court presided over by Mr Ernest Yao Obimpeh that both victims and the accused persons lived at Atonso Buokro, a suburb of Kumasi.
She said on May 5, last year Twumasi and Amoako met the victim and invited her for soft drinks but ended up lacing it with "Pusher" an alcoholic beverage, which made her drunk.
The prosecutor said the two took advantage of her condition, took her into the third accused person's room after obtaining her permission and had carnal knowledge of her until she become unconscious. Terrified and traumatised by the ordeal she had gone through, the victim did not report the incident to her mother and did not go home but rather went to live with a friend.
Up till May 22 the victim had not returned home until her mother' friend spotted her and informed the mother, the prosecution said. The victim's mother made a report to the police following her daughter's revelations to her and the accused person was arrested, the prosecution added.
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GNA
Armed robbers kill 45- year-old woman
Akyem Oda, June 6, GNA- A 45 year old woman, Akua Boaduwaah, was shot dead on Tuesday when armed robbers attacked passengers in a bus at Akyem Asantemang on the Akyem Oda - Agona Swedru road. The armed robbers succeeded in robbing them of undisclosed sums of monies, mobile phones and other valuables. Corporal William Agbenyegah, a soldier on course duty at the Jungle Warfare Training School at Akyem Achiase, who was also on board the bus was shot in the stomach and had to go through surgical operation at the Akyem Oda Government hospital.
Jafaru Zakari, the driver of the vehicle with registration number GT 356x was shot in the head and is in critical condition at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sampson Agbeko, Akyem Oda Divisional Police Crime Officer told the GNA that at about 2130 hours on Tuesday, policemen on duty at the Akyem Asantemang barrier reported that eight armed men wielding AK 47 rifles blocked the road a few kilometres away.
He said the robbers suspected to be of Fulani extraction stopped a fleet of vehicles from both directions on the road and subjected the passengers to severe beatings and robbed them of their possessions. Mr Agbeko said the robbers managed to escapee into the thick forest before the police got to the scene.
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GNA
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POLICE NAB 5 ODA ROBBERY SUSPECTS
Five people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in last week’s killing and violent robbery that occurred on the road between Asantemang and Akyem Asuboa in the Birim South District in the Eastern Regional.
The five, including two women, are said to be part of a group of eight armed robbers suspected of killing a woman, Madam Mary Akua Boadua, severely injuring three others, including a soldier, and violently robbering the rest of their property.
The suspects include Charles Essien, alias Kofi Kaya, 33, said to be the ringleaders, Kingsley Djan, 21, based at Burma camp in a driver’s mate.
The women, believed to be their girlfriends, are Monica Koranteng, who lives in Accra, and Barbara Donkor, who resides at Teshie.
They were arrested at their hideout at Akyem asuboa from where the police also retrieved weapons, including a military bayonet, an axe and a knife, a talisman and two vehicles belonging to Essien.
Briefing the Daily graphic at Akyem Oda, the Divisional Police Commander, Mr. Ben Atadana, said highway robbers had attacked about 100, passengers in 12 vehicles.
He said during police investigations, they had a hint that a notorious criminal from Asuboa who resided in Accra had come to the town three days earlier with some strangers and they were suspected to be the robbers who attacked the passengers.
For the reason, the Divisional Commander said, he dispatched a team of policemen to Asuboa last Monday afternoon to investigate the matter and arrest the suspects.
He stated that when the police men entered Essien’s house, he was there with Djan, a native of Agona Nsaba but staying at Burma Camp in Accra, and Asare, a native of Asuboa.
Mr. Atadana said when Essien’s room was searched, the police found a military bayonet, an axe, a knife and a talisman.
He said the police seized two vehicles belonging to Essien – an Opel Astra caravan, with registration number GE 5360 W, and a Renault, with registration number GW 3646 r. The Renault was hidden at another village.
According to the divisional Commander, during interrogation, the suspects denied any knowledge of the robbery and claimed that they were sales promoters of ice chests, hair clippers, hair dryers, rechargeable lamps and tape recorders, some of which were found in the room.
He said they mentioned some of their business partners as Justice, Remeo, Eugene and Nii, all of whom were based in Accra.
But, according to Mr. Atadana, that was not true because the profit margin from the sales promotion could not give them enough money to buy such valuables like cars and decoders.
He said police investigation revealed that the robbers had been operating at Oda, Accra, Kasoa, Kumasi, Techiman and Sunyani, using the sales promotion as a cover up.
Mr. Atadana stated that in Accra, the robbers stayed at the Fober Guesthouse at Nungua and a number of hotels in Kumasi, Sunyani and Techiman, adding that they did not stay at one hotel for more than three days for fear of being arrested.
Some of the victims, the woman who was shot dead, Madam Boadua, had identified Essien thus, “You Kofi Kaya, it was only yesterday that I bought palm fruits from your mother so you are a familiar person.”
As soon as she mentioned his name and that of his mother, Essien shot her at close range in the Mercedes Benz bus which was carrying five other passengers and foodstuffs.
The Divisional commander said Jafaru Zakaria, who was driving from Accra towards Oda, was also shot in the face, completely destroying one eye, because he knew some of the robbers, since he came from Asuboa.
Mr. Atadana said the robbers, who were familiar in the area, fled through the bush and went to Akyem Manso, where they had hired a room form their girlfriends, to share their booty.
He said when the police went to the place, they discovered three chips of the mobile phones the robbers had stolen from their victims and a number of money wrappers.
Mr. Atadana said one of the victims, Mr. Samed Seidu, the District Director of Olam Cocoa Purchasing company, had identified one of the mobile phone chips as his.
He said the police had intensified their search for the other suspected robbers.
Meanwhile, the Birim South District Chief executive, Mr. Frank Kwame Bosomtwi, who has given the police patrol vehicles, has made a passionate appeal to the public to provide vehicles, fuel and communication gadgets for the police to enable them to function more effectively.
Source : Ghana Police
Mason jailed 18 years for robbery
Agona Swedru, May 31, GNA- A circuit court at Agona Swedru has sentenced a 34-year-old mason to 18 years imprisonment in a hard labour for robbery.
Ralph Cudjoe, who pleaded guilty with an explanation to the charge of robbery and unlawful entry, would have his 18 years imprisonment run concurrently.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Raymond Martey told the court presided over by Mr. Charles A. Wilson that the two victims of the robbery were traders and brothers staying in the same house near Swedru Secondary School.
DSP Martey said the accused who claimed to be mason living at Agbogbloshi in Accra on 26 May 2007, at about 0300 hours together with three others now at large attacked the victims at the house. The prosecution said the robbers used cement blocks to destroy a metal gate, entered their room and beat the victims. DSP Martey said the victims handed over 2.260 million cedis and two mobile phones to the robbers, who ordered them to surrender the money phones.
He said following a tip off, the police went to the scene of the robbery and arrest Cudjoe who went to hide at the toilet and the three others bolted. DSP Martey said Cudjoe confirmed that he committed the offence and said one Charles and Baah from Agona Kwanyako brought him to the house to engage in the robbery. 31 May 07
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GNA
Policeman denies taking money to let Asem Dake free
Accra, June 5, GNA - One of the three policemen alleged to have aided Sheriff Asem Dake, a prime suspect in the disappearance of 76 parcels of cocaine from MV Benjamin, on Tuesday denied that he saw Asem Dake and refused to arrest him after he had offered him money. General Sergeant (GS) David Nyarko told the Accra Fast Track High Court that he never went to Sherrif Asem Dake's house at Tema Community five.
Answering questions under cross-examination by the prosecution, he maintained that he was truthful to the court and that he was not throwing dust in the eyes of the court. GS Nyarko, who is standing trial with Detective Lance Corporal Dwamena Yabson and General Lance Corporal Peter Bondorin, is being held on charges of engaging in prohibited business and corruption by public officer.
Nyarko, Yabson and Bondorin have pleaded not guilty. A fourth policeman, Detective Sergeant Samuel Amoah, is on the run. He jumped bail after an Accra Regional Tribunal granted him and his accomplices bail.
GS Nyarko denied that he and the accused persons, together with other fishermen sat in a taxi and followed Asem Dake to his house to collect money.
GS Nyarko said he did not know Yabson until they were arrested and escorted to the Greater Accra Regional Police Station. The accused denied looking on while Sherrif Asem Dake parked 76 parcels of cocaine into a white van at Kpone beach. He maintained that he did not witness the parking of parcels into any van while at the Kpone Beach. "Mr Lord, it is not true that Lance Corporal Bondorin who was in taxi crossed Sergeant Amoah and I and convinced us to abandon the arrest."
GS Nyarko maintained that he used his father's pension benefit to purchase a car adding that he did not receive any proceeds after the operation at Kpone Beach.
The case of the prosecution is that on April 26, last year, MV Benjamin arrived on the high seas of Tema. The vessel was carrying 77 parcels of cocaine imported by one Sheriff Asem Dake. Soon after the vessel arrived, the parcels of cocaine were offloaded unto two canoes, which sailed to Kpone Beach, near Tema. Some fishermen, who spotted the canoes became suspicious and called the owner of the canoes.
The owner of the canoes and others informed Sergeant Amoah who was stationed at Tema Newtown. He in turn mobilized the other accused persons and they proceeded to Kpone Beach. At the beach, the accused persons looked on until Asem Dake offloaded the drugs into a four-wheel vehicle. The accused persons then followed the vehicle to Tema where Dake gave them some money for which they failed to arrest him. Hearing continues on June 7.
5 June 07
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GNA
10 Cops Busted In Cocaine Deal
The crazy importation in commercial quantities of a substance believed to be COCAINE, and the even more daring recruitment of 25 Police personnel armed to the teeth by five businessmen to shepherd the substance through Ghanaian territory to the Ivory Coast, has thrown the whole image of the Ghana Police Service into disrepute.
By some strange circumstance, 10 police personnel out of the number and five businessmen were arrested pending investigations into the whole sordid affair. Embarrassingly and shockingly, the destructive substance had been imported through the Takoradi Harbour by the unnamed businessmen said to be of Ghanaian origin, who daringly managed to recruit the security personnel from the ARMOURY SECTION, and other sensitive divisions of the Ghana Police Service for the deal.
THE SUN can conveniently say, it has in its custody at least a list of names of members of a most sensitive unit, who were busted in the messy deal.
In a sordid Columbia-style operation escorted by the disgruntled Police men some five days ago on Thursday, May 31, it had to take the smartness and alertness of some patriotic Police grouping of the Sekondi Takoradi division, who had to dig well into their reservoir of policing tactics to arrest the roguish nation-wreckers around Half Assini upon a tip-off from their bosses in Accra.
According to skin-on-head Police sources, the Police personnel employed the 10 fleet of quality cars to carry the unquantifiable substance through the Ghana corridor to the Ivory Coast.
A deep-throat Police source hinted THE SUN that, each of the implicated personnel was promised some ¢100 million each to ensure the successful execution of the deal.
Investigative calls to DSP Kwasi Fori of the Public Relations Directorate of the Ghana Police Service on his cell number was greeted with a “ YES, BUT I DON’T HAVE THE FACTS AND DETAILS” because we are touring Ashanti Region answer. Yet another call to the Western regional Police Commander, ACP Kofi Arthur Duku, who led his team for the arrest bounced off the communication wall when he failed to respond.
However a very very higly-placed Police capo was quick to confirm to THE SUN, when it pushed to find out the truth or authenticity of the matter.
The fresh case of DRUG DEAL comes against the background of the recent KOFI BOAKYE COCAINE TAPE SCANDAL, and the fact of Ghana fast appearing to be a drugs courier destination in West Africa.
Source:
Jale dominic The SUN
Ex-serviceman jailed 45 years for armed robbery
Cape Coast, May 21, GNA - Ignatius Howe, 40, an ex-serviceman, was on Monday sentenced to 45 years imprisonment in hard labour by a high court in Cape Coast for robbing a businessman in June 2005. He had pleaded not guilty.
Prosecuting, Ms Patience Klinogo, a Principal State Attorney, told the court that Howe, who had been dismissed from the Ghana Armed Forces and four other armed robbers at large, attacked one Mr Anthony Kwabena Emil, a businessman at Eyifua, a suburb of Cape Coast. They robbed him of 5,850,000 cedis, a mobile phone and some clothing and bolted but Howe was arrested when the victim pointed him out at an identification parade after the police had later carried out a swoop on criminals.
The convict denied being among those who robbed Mr Emil.
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GNA
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