Security & crime

 

The Ejisu District Court in the Ashanti Region presided by Mr. Kwaku Baah Frempong has remanded into prison custody one Kwame Sabastine aged 26 and a resident of Ejisu Manhyia for allegedly cutting portions of railway lines. His accomplice one Rasta is at large.

Kwame is to be brought before the court again on the 10th of this month. Briefing the court, the Prosecuting Officer, Chief Inspector Jessie Ashongmor said on the 16th of July this year, a witness in the case was returning from town at about 1:30 am and on reaching the path where the railway lines are located saw fire at a distance.

This raised suspicion and as the witness got closer to the scene, Kwame Sabastine and his accomplice were seen cutting the railway lines. Chief Inspector Ashongmor said Kwame and his accomplice upon seeing the witness attempted to escape.

They were however apprehended by some town folks after an alert was raised by the witness and handed them over to the police at Ejisu.Story by GBC

The Ghana Police Service is the most corrupt institution in the country, a research conducted by Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) together with other stakeholders has stated.

In total, 24 institutions were sampled for the said survey.

The research was christened; Corruption in Ghana, Peoples Experiences and View.

The survey aimed to unearth corrupt institutions and provide data that will guide the formulation of policies in arresting the menace.

According to the survey, more than 17.4 million bribes were paid in 2021 with police officers topping the list of officials who take bribes at 53.2%.

The Ghana Immigration Service Officers and GRA customs officers followed in that order.

The two institutions garnered 37.4% and 33.6% respectively, while elected government representatives are at the bottom of the list at 2.9%.

The survey also started that people with the highest level of (tertiary) education were 1.6 times more likely to have paid a bribe than people with no formal education.

Again, 10 out of the 16 regions in the country recorded a prevalence of bribery higher than the national average.

There are, however, sizable variations across the 16 regions of the country.

The prevalence of bribery in the Bono East, Savannah and Volta regions, for example, is substantially lower than the national rate, at 11.8, 14.5 and 19.1 per cent, respectively.

Also in the Western North, Ahafo and North East regions, bribery is substantially higher, at 53.4, 47.0 and 41.9 per cent, respectively.Source:myjoyonline.com

 

 

 

Two masons, Kwaku Kesse aged 21 and Owusu Foster aged 34, have appeared before the Ejisu District Court in Ashanti for allegedly robbing a bus conductor of personal belongings. Both the accused are residents at Krapa Number One in the Ejisu Municipality, while the complainant is a resident at Effiduase in the Sekyere East District of Ashanti.

Briefing the court presided over by Mr. Kwaku Baah Frempong about the facts of the matter, the Prosecuting Officer, Chief Inspector Victoria Afaribea Mensah said on the 30th of last month, while Joshua Tetteh the complainant was waiting at the frontage of a drinking spot on the shoulders of the road to board a vehicle to Ejisu, Kesse in the company of a gang passed in front of him.

After going a short distance, the gang returned to question Tetteh on why he was staring at them when they were passing by.

An argument ensued between members of the gang and Tetteh and in the process, Kesse pulled out a scissors and ordered him to follow them to a lotto kiosk which was about 50 metres away. Chief Inspector Afaribea Mensah said for fear of his life, Tetteh obliged and upon reaching there, Owusu and other members of the gang emerged from their hideout and surrounded him.

They then accused Tetteh of being a police informant who has been assigned to monitor their movement, a claim which Tetteh refuted, saying that he was a bus conductor and had nothing to do with the police.

Not satisfied with the response, Kesse asked the complainant to call some people on phone to confirm that he was a bus conductor. Chief Inspector Afaribea Mensah said no sooner had Tetteh begun to make the calls than Kesse seized the mobile phone and asked the complainant to leave the place.

The gang however trailed the complainant and attacked and robbed him of his personal effects including another mobile phone and an amount of one thousand 200 Cedis and absconded.

Chief Inspector Afaribea Mensah said the complainant then reported the matter to the police, leading to the arrest of both Kesse and Owusu.

Meanwhile, Kesse has been remanded into police custody, while Owusu was granted 20 thousand Cedis bail with two sureties. This was after the complainant told the Court that Owusu did not take part in the robbery.Source:GBC

 

The Ejisu District Court in Ashanti presided over by Mr. Kwaku Baah Frempong has sentenced two traders, Bright Owusu and Isaac Amoateng to six months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing. Narrating the facts of the matter to the Court, the Prosecuting Officer, Police Chief Inspector Rebecca Sedufia said Owusu and Amoateng on the 16th of June, conspired to steal from an unsuspecting woman at Ejisu.

According to Chief Inspector Sedufia, the two arrived at a spot near to the Ejisu market at about 1:30pm and met one Priscilla Osabutey who was the complainant in the case. Owusu inquired from Priscilla if she knew one Aunty Mary who sells bowls at the market, who he was to deliver some items to her, to which she replied in the negative.

Chief Inspector Sedufia said while the conversation was ongoing, Amoateng who was standing at a distance, drew closer and said he knew the mentioned Aunty Mary and obliged to lead them to the woman’s store.

In the market, Amoateng pointed at a store that he claimed belonged to Auntie Mary and Owusu left to deliver the aid items, while Amoateng and the complainant waited.

On his return, Owusu told the complainant and Amoateng that he will reward them with some gold nuggets for their assistance, but asked them to buy naphthalene balls to clean the nuggets.

The prosecutor said Amoateng left to buy some naphthalene balls and on his return, he asked the complainant to leave her belonging with them and proceed to buy the naphthalene balls for her own use.

When returning, the complainant saw the two running away with her bag which contained a mobile phone valued at 750 Cedis and an amount of 250 Cedis. She then raised an alarm and with the help of some taxi drivers, they were apprehended and handed over to the Ejisu Police.Source:GBC

 

The Ejisu District Court in Ashanti has remanded two persons in police custody for allegedly defrauding a building engineer of 41 thousand Cedis under the pretext of selling a vehicle to him. Akwasi Wiafe, a 42-year carpenter and Akwasi Ofori, a trader aged 46 are to make their next appearance in court on the 15th of this month.

Akwasi Wiafe hails from Nkoranza in the Bono East region and his accomplice Akwasi Ofori resides at Atonsu in Kumasi, while the building engineer, who is the complainant in the case resides in Sunyani. Presenting the facts of case to the Court, Chief Inspector Yvonne Asomaning said on the 11th of last month, the complainant and his brother who is also a witness in the case were travelling from Accra to Sunyani and on reaching Ejisu Krapa, they spotted a Toyota Corolla LE Saloon Car with registration number GR 7586-21 packed by the roadside with a “FOR SALE” sticker and phone number 0209456408 pasted on the windscreen.

According to Chief Inspector Asomaning, the complainant called the number and told the receiver that he was interested in buying the car. Wiafe and another person who is at large arrived some few minutes later to negotiate the price with the complainant and 41 thousand Cedis was agreed for the purchase.

Chief Inspector Asomaning said the complainant then left for the bank and brought the agreed amount to Wiafe who in turn handed over to him the car key and documents covering the vehicle to the complainant.

Wiafe then told the complainant that he had to collect a passport picture and an Identification Card from the owner of the car who is a nurse at the Ejisu Government Hospital to facilitate the change of ownership. Wiafe then drove the car to the said hospital, with his accomplice, the complainant and his brother as occupants.

Chief Inspector Asomaning said upon reaching the hospital, Wiafe and his accomplice told the complainant and his brother to wait outside, of which they obliged.

However, having waited for a period of time with Wiafe and his accomplice not showing up their phones also switched off, the complainant went to the parking only to find that the Toyota Corolla salon car missing. He later made a formal complaint to the police after searching efforts of searching proved futile.

Chief Inspector Asomaning said, on the 26th of last month, Wiafe and Ofori were spotted with the same vehicle with the “FOR SALE” sticker on the windscreen at Abuakwa-Sepaase Junction. The police at Nkawie were alerted, which effected their arrest.Source:GBC

 

The Juaben Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region, presided over by Mrs. Rosemarie Afua Asante has sentenced a 22-year-old labourer, Kofi Duffour to 15 years imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old class three pupil at Kumawu Besoro.

Narrating the facts of the matter to the Court, the Prosecuting Officer, Police Inspector Charles Vitashie said on the fifth of May this year, the victim was left by her mother in the house when she left home at about 6am.

At about 11 am, Duffour came to the house and requested for drinking water from the girl, which she obliged. Inspector Vitashie said after drinking the water, Duffour pounced on the girl and had sex with her on the veranda in front of the room.

The girl narrated her ordeal to the mother upon her return to the house and a formal complaint was made at the Bodomase Police Station where an extract was prepared and forwarded to the Effiduase Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit for investigation.

Inspector Vitashie said Duffour was arrested, he admitted to committing the crime and was subsequently processed for court.Source:GBC

The “Sodohene” of Toase near Nkawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality of Ashanti, Nana Yaw Agyei has appealed to the security agencies in the country to continue to render selfless services to Ghana now that the country is on red list of the terrorists.

He said this is the time that the security agencies should prove to the entire world that they are indeed patriotic citizens. He disclosed to this paper that in as much as Ghana’s hardworking security men are patrolling at all times, they must also not forget to put in place basic security measures in place in order to contain the situation.

Nana Yaw Agyei who is also the Kyidomhene of Mpasatia also urged the President to provide all the necessary equipments to the security agencies in order to fight terrorists and other security related issues in question. He said security of every nation is Paramount and “we must do well to achieve it”.

Nana Yaw Agyei

He reiterated that any nation that jokes with her security issues has tendencies to achieve less in all the sectors for her citizens. According to him, in as much as we are dealing with the physical aspect, we must also not relent in our efforts to put it before God for nothing is impossible to Him.