CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Six land guards arrested at Nyanyano

The Central East Regional Police Command has arrested six land guards at Nyanyano Kakraba in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The group was said to be supervising the reconstruction of a building demolished a month ago. The Police Command and the Gomoa East Assembly on 29 March …

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Fetish Priest shoots himself, wife and 9-year-old child at Abowinum

A 39-year-old fetish Priest, Kwesi Tando, has shot himself, his wife Abena Ketsewa, and his nine year old child, Richmond Tando, over marital issues at Enyan Abowinum in the Central Region. The sad incident happened Wednesday May 11, 2022 in the evening around 10 PM. According to residents, the Fetish …

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Chief, 76, hangs himself at Assin Brofoyedru

A 76-year-old Chief and Pastor of the Apostolic Resurrection Society Church at Assin Brofoyedru in the Central Region has hanged himself in a bush. The deceased is said to have left for farm on Tuesday but did not return home. Upon a search, he was found hanging on a tree …

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Bawku: 5 arrested over killing of four persons in renewed gunfight

Five persons have been arrested by the Bawku divisional police command in the Upper East Region in connection with renewed ethnic conflict that have claimed the lives of four persons. Even though the police are yet to unravel the cause of the disturbances, sporadic gunshots ensued among ethnic groups in …

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40-year-old mechanic butchered, stabbed to death at Aboaso

A clash between two feuding youth from Aboaso and Hemang in the Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti region has led to the death of a 40-year-old mechanic, Akwasi Owusu.  The two feuding factions were said to have crashed during a ceremony at a guest house in Sarfo, a suburb …

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Three allegedly shot dead in renewed clashes at Bawku

Three persons have been reportedly shot dead in what appears to be renewed clashes between some Kusasis and Mamprusis in the Old Kariama Market area of Nyatinga in the Bawku municipality last night. This comes barely days after the West Africa Centre for Counter-Terrorism and Extremism 2022 report pointed to …

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Thieves break into church, steal all musical instruments

A church at Manso-Datono in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti Region for the second time this year, have suffered the wrath of some criminals. Members of the community on Monday, May 9, 2022, woke up to news that the chapel of Christ Redeemer Church has been ransacked by …

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64yr-old man arrested for allegedly threatening Supreme Court judge

A 64-year-old retired quantity surveyor with the State Housing Corporation, Livingston Bosso, was last Friday, May 6, 2022, arrested for allegedly threatening a Justice of the Supreme Court. About 4 plain-clothed men who were accompanied by a uniformed police officer on Friday picked Mr Bosso in a black Toyota Land …

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Jealous man pours acid on lover

A 34-year-old tricycle rider, Bright Boso, has been sentenced by the High Court in Accra to 10 years in prison for pouring acid on his girlfriend on suspicion of infidelity at Ashongman Estate at Dome Kwabena Constituency in the Greater Accra Region. Narrating her ordeal on Angel FM’s Anopa Bofo …

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Soldier allegedly beats suspected thief to pulp at Kasoa

A military officer who has been identified as Solomon Ntow has allegedly led a mob action against a civilian Michael Obassi, a foreign national who was suspected to be a thief. Even though some opinion leaders of the Millennium City community (Kasoa) where the incident took place suggested that the …

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