Togolese Paedophile Jailed 20 Years

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The Tema Circuit Court yesterday sentenced a 45-year-old Togolese to 20 years’ imprisonment with hard labour for defiling two children at Kpone-Kokompe, near Tema.
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The accused, Mawuli Amegadzie, is also to be deported back to the Togo after he has finished serving his sentence.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of unnatural carnal knowledge and defilement under the Domestic Violence Law, Act 723, and was sentenced on each count as such. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Matilda Tetteh told the court, presided over by Mrs Justice Lorinda Owusu, that the convict and the complainant in the case, Mr Eric Kofi Amankwah, reside in the same vicinity at Kpone-Kokompe.

She said the complainant, who also doubles as the father of the children, aged eight and 11, received reports from a trader who also resides in the neighbourhood of his children’s constant visits to the convict’s residence.

Following earlier information of an alleged defilement case, for which the convict was remanded in police custody last year for a month but was released for lack of evidence, the complainant confronted the children over their association with him, which they denied.

Further interrogation by their father as to their acquisition of new children’s dolls, quantities of candies and other playing materials in their possession led to the younger of the two confessing to receiving them as gifts from the convict after he had sucked their genitals on each occasion.

Chief Inspector Tetteh noted that Mr Amankwah, equipped with the information, lodged a complaint at the Tema regional office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), from where a team, with the help of the Kpone Police, managed to arrest the convict after two hours of resistance, during which he bolted into a nearby bush on seeing the police approaching.

Amegadzie, who looked distressed throughout proceedings, pleaded guilty to the offence, while still holding on to his earlier explanation of his attraction to young boys any time he saw them, following his persistent failure to get an erection around women as a result of a spell cast on him by his stepmother.

Project To Make Volta Lake Safer Launched

A project to reduce accidents on the Volta Lake and also make travelling on the lake safer has been launched at Tapa Abotoase in the Biakoye District of the Volta Region.

Dubbed, “The Volta Lake Enhancement Project”, it is in response to a recent disaster on the lake which claimed the lives of more than 20 people.

The project, which is a collaboration among Zoil Services Limited, a subsidiary of Zoomlion, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), is aimed at reducing the loss of lives on the lake.

Under the project, 10,000 life jackets will be provided for boat operators and users, while 2,000 people will be recruited, trained and equipped with the capacity to monitor and ensure that lake users adopt safe practices in their operations.

The Naval patrol team on the lake will also be provided with speed boats, and disaster response/rescue teams will be provided with communication gadgets and other disaster management logistics will be established at vantage points along the lake.

Launching the project, the Deputy Minister of Transport, Mrs Dzifa Aku Attivor, said GMA investigations indicated that major causes of accidents on the lake included overloading and drunkenness, lack of effective enforcement, licensing and sanction regimes for offenders, lack of satisfactory lake transport, incompetent boat operators, among other factors.

She noted that although the GMA and the Volta Lake Transport Company (VLTC) had endeavoured to intensify efforts at implementing a number of lake safety measures, which led to a drastic reduction in the rate of accidents on the lake, recent events on the lake indicated that a lot more needed to be done.

She indicated that as part of efforts to improve safety on the lake, the MoT, together with the GMA, had embarked on regular educational campaigns in the communities along the lake.

For instance, brochures in English and the local languages had been produced on inland water safety code, she said.

In addition, she said, the MoT was setting up a fund to support the project and urged all district assemblies along the lake and other stakeholders to contribute their quota.

Proceeds from the fund are expected to be used to support boat owners to acquire modern and safer boats, remove stumps from the lake and secure patrol boats for the Naval task force.

Mrs Attivor expressed the MoT’s appreciation for the kind gesture of Zoomlion in supporting the ministry’s determination to make life more meaningful for communities along the Volta Lake.

The Director of the GMA, Mr I.P. Azumah, advised the people to use the life jackets donated for the purpose, not to be used as decorative items in the rooms of the recipients.

He noted that the use of softwood for boat construction, coupled with the tree stumps in the lake, did not augur well for safety.

He, therefore, called for alternative materials such as fibre glass and aluminium for the construction of boats to enhance the nature of the boats on the lake.

Zoomlion donated 1,000 life jackets, 10 motorbikes and 10 bicycles to the MoT to support the project. It also donated GH¢5,000 and 40 bags of rice as relief items to the victims of the October 19, 2009 accident.

Present at the ceremony were members of the Volta Regional Caucus in Parliament, members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport, some district chief executives (DCEs) in the region and traditional rulers.

Minister To Discipline M/DCEs For Lateness

Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has decided to take disciplinary action against 17 out of the 21 municipal/district chief executives (M/DCEs) in the region for reporting late at a public function.

The M/DCEs, together with heads of ministries, departments and other top officials of the assemblies as well as members of the Audit Report Implementation Committee (ARIC) were supposed to report at the New Capital View Hotel, Koforidua, at 8 a.m. on Monday for a sensitisation seminar on auditing.

But by 10.30 a.m. only four of the M/DCEs, namely Messrs Joseph Omari (Kwahu South), Napoleon Amoako (Birim North), Joseph Tetteh Angmor (Upper Manya) and Tom Budu Akyemansa and a handful of the other participants were present.

That angered Mr Ofosu Ampofo, who said he had taken the issue very seriously and would punish the district political heads, although he did not specify the nature of the disciplinary action.

“You are being paid with the taxpayer’s money and given all the necessary support, including vehicles to be prompt at public functions, and I will not take any explanation for not being able to come at the appropriate time”.

He then directed the officials registering the participants to provide him with the list of the M/DCEs who reported late for the necessary sanctions.

Later in an address, Mr Ofosu Ampofo asked ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) as well as the municipal/district assemblies which had not yet constituted ARICs to do so in order to ensure that recommendations contained in all audit reports in their respective organisations would be implemented.

Mr Ofosu Ampofo, who dwelt extensively on public auditing and how it affects the operations of the assemblies, expressed hope that the MDAs/MMDAs would give ARICs unrestricted access to documents and employees as well as the necessary administrative and logistical support to do their work.

He also cautioned the MDAs/MMDAs to be guided by the principles of probity, transparency and accountability which the Government stood for, adding that any public service manager who mismanaged the affairs of his or her organisation would face the full rigours of the law.

A resource person, Mr Richard Ntim of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Ghana, asked the participants to follow laid-down regulations in auditing to avoid being sent to committees for questioning.

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Otumfuo Destools Nana Agyei Bi III

The phenomenon of multiple land sales, in which many traditional leaders in the country are alleged to have indulged, has claimed the stool of a prominent chief in the Ashanti Region.

In a landmark case at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi on Monday, the Chief of Atwima, near Kumasi, Nana Kofi Agyei Bi III, was accused by 12 people, including the popular actor Adu Kofi, alias Agya Koo, of indulging in multiple land sale.

The submissions of the plaintiffs were upheld after the deliberations, subsequent to which the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, announced the destoolment of Nana Agyei Bi.

Agya Koo had told the meeting of the Kumasi Traditional Council (KTC) at the Manhyia Palace that he had bought four plots of land from Nana Agyei Bi for a hotel project, only to realise later that the land had been sold to other people.

All the other victims who appeared before the KTC also made various allegations against Nana Agyei Bi, claiming that they had lost huge sums of money as a result of his actions.

The chief, a member of the Kronti Division of the Kumasi Traditional Council, was found to have caused the demolition of a building on one of those pieces of land.

The victim in that matter had already hauled Nana Agyei Bi before a law court, but before last Monday’s meeting at the Manhyia Palace, Nana Agyei Bi had denied causing the demolition of the said building situated on the boundary between Atwima and Atope.

But at the meeting, the chief sent an apology through the Omanhene of the Manso Nkwanta Traditional Area, Nana Bi Kusi Appiah, to the Asantehene, admitting his role in the demolition of the building and indicating that he had been sent to court over the action.

Before announcing the decision to destool the chief, the Asantehene said he took a serious view of Nana Agyei Bi’s action, especially as the chief lied to him.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu said he had heard about all that was going on in Atwima which implicated the chief in various issues.
He expressed regret that Nana Agyei Bi had misapplied the authority given him, for which reason he had to be destooled.

The Asantehene also stated that the chief did not show any respect to his elders and was even at loggerheads with the queen of the area.


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Court Slaps GH¢1,000 Cost On Two Workers

Two workers of Blue Skies Products Ghana Limited, a fruit processing company at Nsawam in the Eastern Region, risk going to prison, if they are unable to pay GH¢1,000.00 cost slapped on them by the Industrial and Labour Division of the High Court.

This followed an order by the court, presided over by Mr Justice Kwabena Asuman-Adu, for the two workers to pay the cost within seven days, effective November 6, 2009, “else I will be compelled to commit them into prison.”

The two workers, Richard Brakatu and Felix Djan, had filed an application before the court praying for an order of committal for contempt against the acting General Manager of Blue Skies Products Ghana Limited, Mrs Ruth Smith Adjei.

According to the applicants, they issued a writ against Blue Skies Products Ghana Limited and three others, including Mrs Adjei.

They contended that while the suit was pending, the respondent declared the first applicant, Richard Brakatu redundant and went ahead to write a letter to Felix Djan, warning him in a bid to intimidate or coerce them to discontinue the suit.

The applicants further contended that the actions of the respondent, therefore, amounted to interference in the suit calculated to prevent them from going on with the suit.

This, they further argued, was “an affront to the administration of justice and it brings same into disrepute and as such contempt of this court.”

“By making the first applicant redundant, his status as an employee has been compromised, an act intended to obstruct him from pursuing his claim.

“The act of the respondent in respect of the application was made in bad faith. It was done to undermine the administration of justice by ignoring laid-down procedures for carrying out redundancy exercise and disciplinary actions under respondent’s own Pay and Conditions Hand Book and the Labour Act 2003 (Act 651),” an affidavit in support of the application averred.

It further asserted that the warning letter sent to Felix Djan conflicted with the Hand Book and sought to intimidate and coerce him to abandon the pursuit of justice and contradicted with Regulation 1 of Legislative Instrument 1833.

In her affidavit in opposition, the respondent affirmed that she had done nothing wrong to denigrate the authority of the court and was, therefore, not guilty of contempt.

In its ruling, however, the court said the applicants failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the actions of the respondent were contemptuous.

The judge, Mr Justice Asuman-Adu said the standard of proof required in contempt proceedings was proof beyond reasonable doubt.

“The applicants could neither do this in their affidavit in support nor in their counsel’s submission in court. All they did was to tell the court what the respondent did which is not in doubt.

“As to whether the act constitutes contempt, they could not prove that beyond reasonable doubt,” he remarked.




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Two Arrested Over Bawku Shooting

Two young men have been arrested in Bawku in connection with a shooting incident at the outskirts of the municipality.

A 26-year-old unemployed man, Rashid Bukari, a Mamprusi, and his accomplice, Justine Hado, a Yanga by tribe and teacher at the Methodist JHS in Bawku, were picked up by soldiers after the two had been given a hot chase to their hideout.

Security personnel seized 34 rounds of AK 47 ammunition from Rashid, who was wearing a military jacket when he was arrested.
The two have been detained at the Bawku Police Station and are being questioned.

In a telephone interview, the Bawku Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Musah Abdulai, said about 8 a.m. yesterday gunshots were heard around Patelme, a suburb of Bawku.

Mr Abdulai, who is also the Chairman of the Municipal Security Committee, said security men were immediately dispatched to the area and, on their arrival, they saw Rashid in a military uniform and running into a house.

He said the soldiers and the policemen gave Rashid a hot chase and caught up with him in the house when he was trying to undress, adding that he was immediately arrested, together with his accomplice Hado.

The MCE denied assertions that the soldiers had manhandled the suspects by stripping them naked, explaining that at the time of Rashid’s arrest, he had removed the military jacket he was wearing and was left with only a pair of trousers which the security personnel held while sending him to the police station.

He said the situation in Bawku was now calm and commended the security personnel for the quick and swift manner in which they responded to the security threat.

“Today is a market day and these people were just trying to put fear in the people by creating a panic situation,” he said.

Mr Abdulai warned that the security agencies were on high alert and would not sit down for some unscrupulous persons to continue to create tension in the municipality.

Esther Smith gave husband’s baby to another man

Esther Smith, has given out a baby fathered by her husband to another man in Germany has rocked the world of Christendom, leaving Ghanaians wondering what led the successful artiste to such scandal.

Esther, who shot to fame in 2003 with her debut album, reportedly parted ways with her ‘osofo’ husband of four years in the most scandalous way possible after abandoning her three children with her husband, Rev. Ahinkan Bonsu, on him in Kumasi. She has since opted to stay in Germany with a new man whom she has chosen to name a child believed to have been fathered by her husband, after. The news is that Esther Smith may have shagging it out with her new man while her Kumasi-based Pastor husband waited for her return from a concert trip from Holland all these months.

There are indications that the gospel singer may have opted to name the baby fathered by her Kumasi-based husband after the new man to facilitate easy procession of immigrant documents for her to stay in Germany, where she presently resides. Esther Smith is said to have returned the bride price and all items used in performing her marriage to her husband through her family three weeks ago. Her official wedding is yet to be cancelled by a court of law, though.


Reports suggest that her husband, the Kumasi-based Rev. Ahinkan Bonsu told Channel R, an Accra-based radio station, that his wife travelled to Holland last December in the company of other musicians who were invited for a show in The Netherlands. According to him, Esther, who was four months pregnant at the time, travelled without informing him because of a misunderstanding between them over a music video she had produced with Morris Babyface, a producer.


Pastor Ahinkan said he confirmed from the man who invited his wife to Holland that his wife had indeed moved to join another man in Germany, and delivered his baby, who had been named Bright Luciano Smith Bonsu at an out-dooring ceremony at a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Germany after her new man. “Where we’ve got to we cannot hide the truth.

It is about four years now that I married Esther. Since then I have not had any peace,” he reportedly said, claiming that his wife continuously insulted him and his family during their marriage. Esther’s husband, who claimed he wrote most of her popular songs, said he has always suspected his wife of having extra-marital affairs.

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A Thirten Year Old Ghanaian in New York jumped to his death

(11/09/09) THE BRONX - Witnesses say a 13-year-old Bronx boy jumped out of the window of a 21st floor apartment to his death Monday.

Friends of the boy, who is called Judah, says he wanted to play basketball outside, but when his mother said he couldn't, he went out to the apartment balcony and jumped to his death. Family members consoled each other Monday night outside the Tracy Towers on Mosholu Parkway.

Police do not suspect foul play in the teen's death. myghana.weebly.com

llegal mine collapse kills 15; 13 women

At least 15 people working in an illegal gold mine in western Ghana were killed when the mine collapsed.

Thirteen of those who died in the privately owned gold mine in Dompoase town were women, police told the BBC.

The accident, which officials described as the country's worst mining disaster, happened on Tuesday when about 30 people were working in the mine.

Police have said they fear that more bodies will be recovered from the collapsed mine.

"This is the biggest mining tragedy that has ever hit Ghana," western region police chief Kojo Antwi Tabi told Agence France Presse. "The government must take measures to control the activities of miners," he added.

The BBC's Casper Leighton in the capital, Accra, says Ghana has large gold reserves and alongside the multinational mining companies, locals dig pits in the hopes of striking gold themselves.

Safety measures are poor or nonexistent, he says. While men generally do the digging it is often women who carry out the soil for sorting.
Police say they are looking into the possibility of criminal negligence but that the owner of the mine was one of those killed.

Court orders abortion for girl, 15

A court has ordered that a 15-year-old girl who was defiled by two friends and got pregnant should undergo a legal abortion.

The Circuit Court at Goaso in the Brong Ahafo Region presided over by Mr. Osei Kwame, gave the order with the consent of the girl’s parents to enable her to continue her education, she is in primary six.
The two friends were last Monday sentenced to seven years imprisonment each, after pleading guilty to defilement.

Police Chief Inspect Charles Arthur told the court that the accused, William Anaaba, a barber and his friend, Kofi Sarpong, a palm wine tapper, both 24 lived at the same room at Emehame, near Goaso while the girl lived about four kilometers away.

He said Anaaba had been in sexual relationship with the girl for some time and on November 3, unknown to the girl’s parents, she went to Anaaba’s house to inform him that she was two months pregnant and asked Anaaba to give her money for abortion but Anaaba said he did not have money.
The girl then decided to live with the two friends until she got the money.

The prosecution said while Anaaba was away at work, Sarpong slept with her for the three days that she spent with them. When she returned home afterwards and was questioned by her parents, she narrated the incident to them.

The parents reported the case to the police and the Goaso Government hospital confirmed she was pregnant.

Boy arrested for having sex with a goat

Axim (W/R), 12 Nov., GNA- A-16-year old Ivorian refugee at the Krisan Refugee Camp near Eikwe in the Ellembelle district, has been arrested by the Police for having sex with a female goat.

The suspect, who is a primary 6 pupil and an orphan, has been charged with unnatural carnal knowledge.

The Nzema-East Municipal Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Lovelace Tesutor, told the GNA at Axim. He said on November 09 this year, at about 1 am, Mr. Keita Tibou, 37, and the wife, Madam Rosemary Muhammed, 32, both refugees at the camp were hinted by one Alogino, a neighbour, at the camp that the suspect was having sex with their goat.

DSP Tesutor said the couple was shocked when they came out to witness the act and shouted which woke people in the neighbourhood who thronged the scene.

The suspect then abandoned the beast and fled but was pursued and handed over to the Police. DSP Tesutor said the suspect told the Police that his bestial affair had lasted for two weeks. He has since been remanded in Police custody.

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