CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Residents of Kenkase, a town along the Kenyase-Fawoade road in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region were in shock on Tuesday, March 22 when a popular mobile money operator in the town was allegedly robbed by armed robbers at gunpoint. The incident in broad daylight at about 12noon …

An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced a 28-year-old Community Police Assistant (CPA) to four years imprisonment over charges of impersonation and defrauding by false pretences. Mark Apiu is said to have collected ₵12,000 from a finance officer to enlist the officer’s sister into the Ghana Police Service but failed to …

A 36-year-old man identified only as Tetteh is alleged to have stabbed his girlfriend to death over a breakup at Gyaesaaye, a community in New Edubiasi in the Ashanti Region. The suspect, popularly known as ‘Aboboyaa’ is reported to have killed the deceased Diana Boafo, a hairdresser on Friday, March …

The Forestry Commission, through its surveillance task force, has arrested 55 illegal miners in the Atewa Forest Reserve over the last six months. Madam Joyce Ofori Kwafo, Head, Corporate Affairs and Media Relations, Forestry Commission, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said a total of 15 different operations …

The head pastor of Muzama International Church, Gomoa Amoanda branch in the Central Region, Pastor Isaac Arthur has been arrested naked by the Youth of Gomoa Buduatta for attempting to sodomize a 25-year old man. Information gathered by EIB Network Central Regional Correspondent, Yaw Boagyan indicates that the pastor first …

A failed parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Subin constituency in the Ashanti region, Mr Kwadwo Villey Acheampong has been dragged to court for allegedly defrauding a businessman of Ghc700,000. Mr Kwadwo Villey Acheampong, is accused of collecting the said amount after he advertised his six-bedroom …

A 26-year-old man has been nabbed by the North East Regional Police Command for allegedly kidnapping a five-year-old girl at Walewale. The victim, who had gone to school, is said to have gone missing two weeks ago when she did not return home from school. The North East Regional Police …

Officers at the Elmina District Police Command of the Ghana Police Service are on the heels of a spiritualist by name Kweku Bar for directing a family to bury their 2-year-old son alive. The boy is said to be suffering autism and was sent to the spiritualist for healing at …

Three young men in Akatsi have been sentenced to a total of 60 years imprisonment by the Sogakope Court last Friday. The three, Godsway Sedofia, 19, Seraphim Torgbor, and Destiny Adzakpo, both 18, were sentenced for conspiring and robbing an ‘okada’ operator of his motorbike at gunpoint Each of them …

Komenda Police Command has arrested a couple and a 70-year-old grandfather for burying their two years old autistic child alive at Dutch Komenda in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem Municipality of the Central Region. Owing to the medical condition of the child, a spiritualist convinced the couple, Abas Sualihu, 37 …