CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Police personnel at Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region have killed a suspected robber on the Mampong-Ejura highway after engaging in a fierce gun battle. The suspect was part of a six-member gang terrorizing passengers between Woraso and Sataso stretch of the highway at about 8 pm on Saturday 12 December 2020. …

Asare Kofi Israel, a communicator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has received 40 strokes of canes for insulting a queen mother. The incident reportedly happened in Jaman South in the Bono East Region of Ghana where he was said to have used harsh and violent words on the queen mother of …

The District Chief Executive for Ajumako Enyan Essiam District, Emmanuel Ransford Kwesi Nyarko has been arrested by the Central Regional Police Command for leading thugs numbering about 15 to assault a police officer at Ajumako Ocheso. According to DSP Irene Oppong the Central Regional Police PRO said, on December 2, …

Masked armed robbers numbering five on Sunday dawn attacked the Ahantaman Rural Bank Limited in Abura, in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region. Police investigators confirm to MyNewsGh.com that two of the robbers armed with pump-action guns first attacked the colleague Security men at their security post. They tied …

The man who snatched a ballot box in the Sene West constituency in the Bono East Region on Election Day, 7 December 2020, has been convicted by a court. Thirty-nine-year-old Christian Nukpeta is to spend three months in jail. He has also been banned from registering and voting in any …

A 39-year-old fisherman has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for interfering in the just-ended elections at the Sene West constituency in the Bono East region. Christain Nukpeta who a resident of Tato Bator is reported to have snatched a Parliamentary ballot box at one of the polling stations in …

A mobile money operator was on Tuesday shot and killed by unidentified gunmen at Denase in the Afigya Kwabre North District of the Ashanti Region. Augustine Yaw Boadu, 40, was shot in his shop at about 19:43 hours, his younger brother, Atta Stephen had told the police. The victim sustained …

Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) says all recorded incidents of deaths and injuries in the just-ended elections are being investigated by the Police Service. He said the outcome of the investigations would be made known to the public. Mr Oppong-Boanuh said the elections resulted in five deaths …

Richard Ibrahim Adamu, a driver, who allegedly took two taxis from two of his colleagues to transport his clients but ended up selling them has been put before an Accra Circuit Court. With him in the dock are Alhassan Kamal, a Scrap dealer, who received the two taxis as scraps …

A team of Police and Military officers have retrieved an AK47 rifle loaded with 50 rounds of ammunition from the office of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) Member of Parliament-elect for Savelugu in the Northern Region, Alhaji Iddris Yakubu Abdulai Wednesday evening. According to the Northern Regional Police Commander, COP Timothy Yoosa …