The High Court in Accra has ordered the Nsawam Prison Authorities to produce Pius Ayoma, a private Security man charged with attempted murder and robbery who was rearrested after escaping from police custody. Ayoma, on the night of March 2, escaped from lawful custody after appearing at the High Court …
Read More »Farmer allegedly commits suicide in police cells at Duakwa
Mr Kobena Fii Kwao, a 60-year-old farmer in the early hours of last Thursday, allegedly committed suicide by hanging in Agona Duakwa Police cells after he reported himself to the Police for killing his wife, Madam Abena Asabea. According to Mr Joe Buabeng, a family spokesperson, the deceased reported the …
Read More »Ghanaian cells show man’s inhumanity to man – FixTheCountry Convenor laments
Convenor of the FixTheCountry movement, Mawuse Oliver Barker-Vormawor has said that the deplorable conditions in Ghana’s cells aptly capture the inhumanity of man to man. Mr Barker-Vormawor revealed in a Facebook post that there is overcrowding and inmates are treated inhumanely including being denied food. Mr Barker-Vormawor, who had been …
Read More »Fetish Priest in bio-chemist murder case dies in cells
One of the three fetish priests who have been held for the alleged murder of a-64-year-old Bio-Chemist at Adeiso in the Eastern Region, Christian Awoe Gamelie aka Power One, 40, has died in lawful custody. Power one, who was the first accused person together with two others have been in …
Read More »12 inmates pour hot porridge on cop to escape Accra police cell
12 suspects were on the run in Ghana’s capital Accra on Sunday after they escaped from jail in a violent breakout that left a police sergeant with bruises. The mass cell break occurred at about 6:40 a.m. at the Zenu-Atadeka police station located in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality. According to a …
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