CRIME & PUNISHMENT

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 …

An NPP supporter has been busted for stealing at a pharmacy during yesternight’s nationwide celebration of the election victory. After the EC Chair declared Nana Akufo-Addo the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election, scores of NPP supporters flooded the streets of Accra, Kumasi, Tema and other places to celebrate. One …

Eleven (11) suspects have been arrested in connection with the burning of the Electoral Commission Offices at Fomena in the Ashanti Region. Police retrieved among other items two foreign made pistols, a number of machetes and gallons of petrol used in the operations by the hoodlums who were transported to …

Residents of Manso-Datano in the Ashanti Region woke up Sunday morning to a bizarre scene of a man, aged 24, was found dead, hanging on a tree. The family could not tell what might have pushed Kwabena Gyimah to take his own life. Mr Kwaku Addae, Uncle to the deceased, …

Sunday Bawa and Musa Ayuba, both labourers, who smeared powdered pepper on a taxi driver’s face to rob him of his car at Teshie, have been put before an Accra Circuit Court. Bawa aka Joe Apussy, 23, and Ayuba, 25, have been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, attempt to …

The Jacobu District Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has launched a manhunt for armed robbers who shot and killed two Chinese nationals at Asuoso Fenaso in the Amansie Central District of Ashanti Region on Saturday, December 5. The armed robbers are said to have invaded the house of …

The Ashanti Bekwai Circuit Court has sentenced one Kwame Obeng Tutu, 28-year-old fortune teller to seven years imprisonment in hard Labour for stealing. Tutu, who stole mobile phones and other items pleaded guilty with explanation that his wife was in labour, thus, he needed money for Caesarean operatiion. The Court …

An Accra Circuit Court has acquitted and discharged Samuel Offei Kweku Gyan, a 25-year-old student who was accused of sodomising a co-tenant’s 11-year-old son. Gyan was freed after the court had tried him on the charge of Defilement of a child under 16 years. The court presided over by Mrs …