CRIME & PUNISHMENT

UCC student in police grip for ‘kidnapping’ SHS girl

A 22-year-old Level 300 student of the University of Cape Coast is in the grips of the Sekondi police for kidnapping an 18-year-old Senior High School student. The suspect, Simeon Cephas Andoh Dadzie, was said to have lured the girl from Sekondi to his hostel in Cape Coast and camped …

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UCC student in police grip for ‘kidnapping’ SHS girl

A 22-year-old Level 300 student of the University of Cape Coast is in the grips of the Sekondi police for kidnapping an 18-year-old Senior High School student. The suspect, Simeon Cephas Andoh Dadzie, was said to have lured the girl from Sekondi to his hostel in Cape Coast and camped …

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Storekeeper wanted for stealing building materials

Bright Ashiagbor, 33, a native of Tegbi in the Volta Region is wanted by the Police for allegedly stealing building materials valued at GHc8,000. 00 belonging to Berock Ventures Limited, a building construction firm based at the Spintex Road in Accra. The suspect who was a storekeeper of Berock Ventures …

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Mobile money robbers grabbed

Two men accused of robbing a female mobile money vendor of GHC 900 in a moving taxi are in the grips of the Fomena District Police Command in the Ashanti Region, pending further investigation. Kwadwo Sarfo, 20, a cabbie, and Kofi Agyemang, 37, a steel bender, both residents of Kumasi-Abrepo …

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Mentally challenged man 19, butchers bathing woman, 32, at Nkawie

A 32 year old woman, Ruth Pokuah, has been butchered by a 19 year old mentally challenged person in her house while bathing by a mentally challenged person at Nkawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya South district of the Ashanti region. The incident happened on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, at 8 …

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Chinese supervisor assaults worker at site

A Chinese Supervisor at Zhongmei Engineering Group Limited, the construction company constructing the Pokuase Interchange has allegedly assaulted one of the Ghanaian workers at the site. In an interview with the GNA, the Secretary General of the General Construction, Manufacturing and Quarry Workers Union (GCMQWU), Mrs Comfort Agambaa, said she …

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14 illegal miners arrested at Kenyasi

Fourteen alleged Ghanaian illegal miners in the general area of Kenyasi and its environs in the Adansie North Districts of the Ashanti Region have been nabbed by Ashanti Forward Operating Base (FOB Ashanti) patrol team. The illegal miners were arrested on Monday 13 January 2020 by a patrol team led …

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JHS 1 student commits suicide

A 12-year-old first-year Junior High School (JHS) student last Monday morning shocked the residents of Aiyinabo in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region after he was found dead hanging in his room. He had used the mother’s headscarf to commit the act. The student, identified as Samuel Opoku-Boateng of …

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Blind orphanage director sells twins

Samuel Kwapong Darko, a visually impaired person, who is the owner of the Eye Of the Lord Day Care Centre located at Dzatsui-Newton near Nsawam in the Eastern Region, has been arrested together with his wife and three staff members for allegedly conspiring and selling 18 months old twins for …

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Defunct UT Bank’s Kofi Amoabeng charged with stealing, money laundering

The founder of UT Group, Prince Kofi Amoabeng has been put before an Accra circuit court for his role in the collapse of his bank in 2017. Mr. Amoabeng is facing charges of stealing and money laundering. Citi News‘ court correspondent, Fred Tettey Djabanor said Kofi Amoabeng was put before …

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