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An Ondo State Magistrate Court sitting in Akure,  the state capital,  has ordered the remand of a 14-year-old boy, Marvelous Asefon for allegedly killing his neighbour, Sunday Ogele.

It was gathered that the defendant was arrested by the men of the State Police Command for stabbing the deceased to death with a pair of scissors during a scuffle over a girlfriend,  in Oka Akoko, the headquarters of Akoko South-West Local Government Area of the state in April.

He was later charged to court and arraigned on one count of murder.

The charge read,  “That you, Marvelous Asefon,  ‘m’ on April 20 Sunday, 2023 at 8:pm at Kanmu, Oka-Akoko in the Ondo State Magisterial District, did kill one  Sunday Ogele ‘m’ 17 years old by stabbing him with scissors in his rib, which led to his death.”

According to the prosecution, the offense contravenes Section 319(1) and 316 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. 2, Laws of Ondo State, 2016.

The defendant however pleaded not guilty to the charge but his plea was not taken by the court.

The prosecutor, Martins Olowofeso, in an application, urged the court to remand the defendant at the correctional center pending the issuance of advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions of the state.

The magistrate, Folashade Aduroja ordered the remand of the defendant and adjourned the case till June 11 for further hearing of the case.

A 40-year-old man who allegedly abducted and sexually molested a 10-year-old girl at Anaji Queen of Peace near Takoradi has been arrested by the police.

The man, whose name was given only as Thomas and a mason by profession, allegedly kept the little innocent girl in his room for six days while the parents were looking for her.

According to sources, the suspect would lock the little girl in his room when he was away to work and would allow her to come out when he return from work.

Speaking to DAILY GUIDE in an interview, the father of the victim, Confidence Fiadzo, commended the police for their swift intervention in arresting the suspect.

He indicated that he used to stay at Mpatado with his children, including the 10-year-old girl, and that they moved to the Anaji area not long ago.

He said in the early morning of Saturday, May 6, 2023, his 10-year-old daughter decided to go and fetch water from a well at Anaji Queen of Peace, which is about 10 minutes walk from their new residence, and did not return.

He noted that when he realised that his little daughter was not returning, he asked her elder siblings to go and search for her but they could not find her.

“They combed all the area, including the location of the well and all uncompleted buildings, but they could not find my daughter,” he added.

He said later he reported the case to the police and made some radio announcements, and published her photograph on social media.

Mr. Fiadzo told DAILY GUIDE that a female neighbour of the suspect later saw the little girl come out of the man’s room.

According to the neighbour, because the man did not have a wife or a child, she became suspicious after seeing the little girl coming out of his room. So she reported the case to the Anaji police.

The police quickly rushed to the place, rescued the girl and arrested the suspect, and called the father to inform him.

They later directed the father to send her daughter to the hospital for an examination, and it was there that the doctors confirmed that the little girl was sexually molested by the suspect.

The suspect is currently at the Kwesimintsim Police Station assisting in investigations.

Source: daily guide network

Police are searching for five armed men who attacked and raped a woman in broad daylight on Monday 15th May 2023 in St John's.

The woman was reportedly walking along a road off Friars Hill Road about 4:30pm, when she was pounced upon by 5 men with guns. She was reportedly dragged into nearby bushes and raped by at least two of the men. Her daughter reportedly raised an alarm when she saw her mother's bag along the roadside.

Police say the victim is receiving psycho-social support in the wake of the traumatic experience. Anyone with information which can assist the police's investigation is being asked to contact the Criminal Investigations Department at 462-3913, or the Crimestoppers at 800-8477.

May 19, 2023, St.Johns, Antigua and Barbuda

18 year-old Keane Gregoire of Nut Grove was pronounced dead at the Sir Lester Bird Medical Center on Friday, following a traffic collision.

Keane was a passenger inside a motor car that got into a collision around 2 am on Thursday 18 May on the All Saints Road.

The allegations are that the driver of a Grey Toyota BB motor was traveling from South to North along the same road at a high speed, when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle.

The vehicle reportedly skidded off to the Western side of the road before colliding into a concrete column.

Fire Officers from the St. Johns Fire Station were called on the sceneand had to use the Jaws of Life to remove Keane, along with another 19 year-old passenger of Freeman's Village from the wreck.

Both passengers were transported to the sir Lester Bird Center by the Emergency Medical Services with varying injuries.

The driver of the vehicle reportedly fled the scene of the accident and is currently being sought by the police.

Keane was pronounced dead shortly after midnight on Friday.

The police are appealing to anyone with information surrounding the accident to contact the traffic department at Police Headquarters at 462-0125.

The police are further appealing to the driver of the vehicle to present him\herself at any police station without delay.

As part of the Ghana Police Service’s transformational agenda to improve the delivery of policing services to the public, the Police Service has decentralized criminal clearance services in the country as a first step towards a full automation process.

Effective Monday, 22nd May 2003, persons seeking criminal clearance can do so in any of the 25 Police regions across the country.

Currently, all criminal background checks are conducted exclusively at the CID Headquarters, Accra, and individuals and organisations who require this service have to travel all the way to Accra just for this purpose.

In order to ease this burden, the criminal clearance service has been decentralized to all the twenty-five (25) Police Regions across the country and the service can now be assessed from these locations without the need to come to Accra.

Currently, the Ghana Police Service has twenty-five (25) Police Regional Commands across the country where this service can be assessed. These are:

• Ahafo Regional Police Command-Goaso

• Bono Regional Police Command-Sunyani

• Bono East Regional Police Command-Techiman

• Ashanti Regional Police Command -Kumasi

• Ashanti South Regional Police Command -Bekwai

• Ashanti North Regional Police Command-Mampong

• Tema Regional Police Command-Tema

• Central Regional Police Command -Cape Coast

• Central East Regional Police Command -Kasoa

• Central North Regional Police Command-Assin Fosu

• Eastern Regional Police Command-Koforidua

• Eastern South Regional Police Command-Kibi

• Eastern North-Mpraeso

• Northern Regional Police Command -Tamale

• North-East-Nalerigu

• Savanah-Damango

• Upper East Regional Police Command -Bolga

• Upper West Regional Police Command-Wa

• Volta Regional Police Command-Ho

• Volta North Regional Police Command-Hohoe,

• Oti Regional Police Command-Dambai

• Western Regional Police Command-Takoradi

• Western Central Regional Police Command-Tarkwa

• Western North Regional Police Command-Sewi Wiawso

• Accra-Nima Police Station

The decentralisation of the criminal clearance process is expected to make the service more accessible and convenient for individuals across the country, thereby bringing another policing service closer to the doorstep of the public.

“We continue to urge the public to support us in our effort to become the best institution in the country and a reference point for Africa and beyond”.

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A 38-year-old farmer has shot his girlfriend a 45-year woman at Breman Nkonya near Breman Asikuma in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region of Ghana.

According to reports the Suspect Kwame Popularly known as Otwea Amokua had a misunderstanding with his girlfriend a 45-year woman called Nkrumah over Chop Money( house keeping money).

It is revealed that the suspect always fights with the victim anytime she asks him to increase the house keeping money.

Speaking to journalists ,an eyewitness Kofi Tawiah who lives in the same house with the victim and six others narrated that after shooting the victim, the suspect has warned to shoot his  all the six neighbours should they attempt to intervene in their dispute.

According to the source, the suspect bought a new double-bar gun with some bullets and went and showed it to his friends.

The victim was rushed to the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital for Treatment but in critical condition.

The gun of the suspect together with some bullets were retrieved and sent to the Breman Asikuma Police Station.

The Victim is a widow with Four Children; she started a relationship with the suspect after the death of her husband. 

Meanwhile, police and residents in the Community are manhunting for the suspect.

By uniquenewsgh.com

Police in the Northern Region are investigating an incident that led to gunshots in Yong Dakpemyili, a community in the Tamale Metropolis Northern Region of Ghana.

Sources in the community say there were gunshots in the town on Thursday, May 18, 2023.

They attributed the shooting incident to a long-standing chieftaincy dispute between two brothers in the community.

The Assemblyman for the community, Abdul Wahab Dawuda confirmed the incident in a Citi News interview disclosing that some residents sustained injuries.

“There were some gunshots as a result of two brothers feuding over a chieftaincy title. One side was to perform some particular traditional activity and some people sustained some injuries, but there is currently calm in the community, but we don’t know what may happen next.”

Sources within the Northern Regional Police Command have revealed that, the police visited the community to restore calm and order, but no arrest has been made yet.

Despite the restoration of calm, residents are still living in fear and socioeconomic activities have slowed down significantly.

Both sides of the conflict have recorded deaths, injuries and the burning and destruction of properties running into several thousands of Ghana Cedis over the years.

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A 30-year-old man has been beaten to death at Sefwi Ahibenso in the Bodi District of the Western North Region.

Kwadwo Afful, who reportedly sold marijuana (weed), failed to render sales to his boss who had given him the drug to sell.

A report by Adom News revealed that some men in his boss’ circle ganged up on the deceased, subjecting him to severe beatings and leaving his lifeless body on the street of Ahibenso.

Confirming the sad incident to Adom News, the grandfather of Kwadwo Afful, Daniel Kwasi Tawiah explained that he saw a crowd on the street and he proceeded to check what it was about only to find out what had happened to his grandchild.

Mr Tawiah said he immediately informed the police at Bodi who later picked up his grandchild’s body and deposited it at the Juaboso Government Hospital morgue pending investigations. 

A resident, who spoke to AdomNews, appealed to the police to arrest the suspects and help bring justice to the family. 

He said the arrest and subsequent prosecution will reduce the spate of lawlessness in the area. The suspects are currently at large.

Source: Adomnews

Ghanaian forex trader, Bright Kojo Onipayede has sued Albert Nathaniel Hyde popularly known as Bongo Ideas for defamation. 

Kojo Forex as he is widely called claims that Bongo Ideas published some statements about him on Twitter, damaging his reputation.

He is, therefore, demanding a compensation of 1 million Ghana cedis and a perpetual injunction restraining Bongo Ideas from making any further defamatory statements about him.

Giving more details in the lawsuit which he shared on his Twitter handle, Kojo Forex said an unqualified apology must also be rendered on social media and the defamatory tweets made retracted.

In April this year, Kojo Forex had sent a stern warning to the blogger, after Bongo Ideas went on a Twitter rant about him.

Among other things, Bongo had alleged that “Forex trading alone did not get you these things. You do other shady business.”

Again, he claimed that “the FX thingy is just a small part of the secretive online business empire (I will explain later) he runs. His profits from FX, as he makes it seem, do not come because he is a genius in the game. There are oldgees in the game who will tell you that he is a liar.

“You will soon be disappointed that FX is not a get-rich-quick-scheme. Only the Ponzi schemers make it seem so, which he is.”

These allegations were refuted by Kojo Forex, who claimed that the blogger was attacking him because he refused to mentor him.

The social media banter between the two ended with a threat from Kojo Forex to drag Bongo to court to prove the claims made against him, hence the current lawsuit.

Meanwhile, Bongo Ideas is known to troll celebrities on Twitter with the likes of Nana Aba Anamoah, Serwaa Amihere, Asamoah Gyan, Shatta Wale, Fella Makafui, Black Sherif and others constantly getting attacked by him.

Find a copy of the court document below:

Source: myjoyonline.com

It appears popular Ghanaian socialite cum musician, Mona Faiz Montrage, popularly known as Hajia4Reall may not go down alone if she’s found guilty of fraud in a $2 million romance scam case currently ongoing in the United States.

Hajia4Reall, who was arrested in the United Kingdom and extradited to the US on May 12, 2023, to face six charges, has pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan federal court.

According to Ghana’s Financial Intelligence Centre (IFC), which is working in conjunction with INTERPOL and FBI on the case, all persons within the social and business network of the suspect are now persons of interest in the investigation.

Hajia4Reall is known to particularly have many associates in both entertainment and business circles in Ghana, and was an ambassador for some business brands.

The Deputy Manager of IFC, Shaun Henry Osei, made the disclosure in an interview with Accra-based Starr FM.

“Obviously, she’s not going to be working alone, she’s going to be working in a network. The evidence that you have access to will actually lead you to be able to find out who her greater network is and obviously, if you find her greater network, by instinct you will want to look at those people because then they become persons of interest.

The FIC is Ghana’s national centre for the receipt and analysis of suspicious transaction reports and other information relevant to establish offences of money laundering or terrorist financing and proliferation financing (ML/TF&P) and disseminating actionable intelligence to competent authorities.

The centre is appealing to the public to volunteer relevant information on possible financial crimes for them to take the necessary actions.

“You can report to the FIC for starters. We receive reports from accountable institutions, from individuals so you can make a report and send it via mail and you can even bring it personally. Some of these young guys we see, I know most have been attributed to fraud but some are into very legitimate business. They are into forex trade and other business… Forex trade, I’m not certain what the law says on it, but what I can say is that when it comes to crypto and other things I think as a country we don’t yet have a definitive position on that per what the Bank of Ghana is saying and usually when there’s space like that people are likely to explore.”

The 30-year-old model appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday, May 15 for her alleged involvement in a series of romance schemes targeting older people who lived alone.

She’s set to be released on home detention to her aunt’s New Jersey residence in the coming days on a $500,000 bond with GPS tracking via an ankle monitor, her lawyer and the prosecutor’s office have confirmed.

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced the unsealing of a six-count Indictment charging Hajia4Real for her role in a series of romance schemes and for laundering the proceeds of those scheme.

Mona 4Reall is a public figure who rose to fame as an influencer through her Instagram profile, under the username ‘Hajia4Reall,’ which at one point had approximately 3.4 million Instagram followers and was among the top 10 profiles with the most followers in Ghana.

She was arrested in the United Kingdom where she had gone to perform at the Ghana Music Awards UK edition and was en route to Ghana.

According to the court, from 2013 thereabout through to 2019, the influencer was a member of a criminal enterprise based in Ghana that committed a series of frauds against individuals and businesses in the United States, including romance scams that targeted mostly elderly victims.

The prosecution said Hajia received money from several victims of romance frauds whom members of the Enterprise tricked into sending money.

Among the false pretences used to induce victims to send money to Montrage were (i) payments to transport gold to the United States from overseas; (ii) payments to resolve a fake FBI unemployment investigation; and (iii) payments to assist a fake United States army officer in receiving funds from Afghanistan.

The court said in one incident with her victims, Hajia used her real name and spoke to the victim several times by phone, later sending the victim a tribal marriage certificate purporting to show that she and the victim had been married in Ghana.

“The victim sent Montrage approximately 82 wire transfers totalling approximately $89,000 to purportedly help with costs associated with Montrage’s father’s farm in Ghana.”

The court added that “In total, Montrage controlled bank accounts that received over $2 million in fraudulent funds from the Enterprise.”

Source: myjoyonline.com

The Lagos State Police Command has detained Issa Majafara for allegedly being in possession of a police uniform.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the suspect was apprehended by a surveillance patrol team on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on Iyana-Iba Market Road in the Ojo area of Lagos. Hundeyin stated that the suspect had no fixed address and was found with two pairs of trousers, a camouflage T-shirt, and a police face cap.

“During interrogation, the suspect claimed he picked the uniform from the dustbin. “The case is under investigation. The suspect will be arraigned in court soon for impersonation,” he said.

Hundeyin has cautioned members of the public to be wary of suspected criminals who wear police or other security uniforms. He has urged residents to report any impersonators to the police and has reminded them that genuine security personnel have their names printed on their uniform.

He advised residents who are unsure about someone wearing a security uniform, to report it to the nearest police station or patrol team.

Source:punchng.com

Six people were killed after a fire broke out at Loafers Lodge on May 16.(AP: Newshub)

New Zealand police have arrested a man and charged him with two counts of arson in connection with a fire at a Wellington hostel that killed at least six people.

Key points:

Police say they may file more serious charges in relations to the deaths

The suspect has not yet been named by police

About two hours before the fatal blaze, there was a couch fire at the hostel which was not reported to emergency services

Police said the investigation was ongoing and they could file more serious charges in relation to the deaths at the scene.

Earlier, police said they had launched a homicide investigation.

The suspect, who was not immediately named by police, is scheduled to make his first appearance on Friday in the Wellington District Court.

Earlier, police removed the first two bodies from the Loafers Lodge hostel and said they planned to remove the next two on Friday.

Police Inspector Dion Bennett said was possible they would find more victims as officers continued their scene examination.

"The damage on the third floor is significant," Inspector Bennett told reporters.

"The debris is piled high and there is much for them to move and search underneath."

He declined to say if they had found accelerant or other evidence of criminal behaviour at the scene.

The Loafers Lodge offered 92 basic, affordable rooms with shared lounges, kitchens and laundry facilities to people of a wide range of ages.

Couch fire just hours before fatal blaze

Police said there had been a couch fire at the Loafers Lodge hostel about two hours before the large, fatal fire on Tuesday.

They said the couch fire was not reported to emergency services at the time, and they were investigating to see if there was any link between the two fires.

The fatal fire ripped through the building early on Tuesday, forcing some people to flee in their pyjamas. Others were rescued by firefighters from the roof or dived from windows.

Safety tape is seen cordoning off a four-storey building with visible fire damage to the top floor 

The fire caused serious structural damage to the hostel.

The Loafers Lodge offered 92 basic, affordable rooms with shared lounges, kitchens and laundry facilities to people of a wide range of ages. Some people were placed there by government agencies. Others worked at a nearby hospital.

Emergency officials said the building had no fire sprinklers.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the nation's building codes did not require sprinklers in older buildings where they would need to be retrofitted.

"I have asked the minister for housing to look particularly at issues around building regulations to see whether there's anything more that we should be doing right at this point," Mr Hipkins told reporters on Wednesday.

Source:ABC news 

The Accra Circuit Court One has handed down a judgment, sentencing a Nigerian citizen to eight years of imprisonment with hard labour for impersonating COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah on social media and defrauding unsuspecting individuals.

The convict, Bright Daniels, who was already serving a sentence at the Nsawam Prisons when he committed the crime, initially denied the offence but was found guilty after a full trial.

DSP Emmanuel Nyamekye, Deputy Superintendent of Police, provided the details of the case to the Court, presided over by Mrs Afia Owusua Appiah. The complainant in the case was COP Mrs Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, the former head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and currently serving as the Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).

The offender, Bright Daniels, is a Nigerian national who had previously served a seven-year jail term at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons.

The court was informed that Daniels' accomplice, Livinus Amadianaeze Ugwu, who is also a Nigerian and an ex-convict, is currently evading arrest.

According to DSP Nyamekye, in April 2021, COP Addo-Danquah discovered a fake Facebook Messenger account created in her name, using her picture, which was being used to extort money from a police personnel by falsely promising them opportunities to secure slots in United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) missions in Somalia and Sudan.

The individual behind the fake account contacted the victims and instructed them to make payments through a mobile money network.

One of the victims, Detective Chief Inspector Baffoe, paid GH¢10,000.00 to the provided number, which was later withdrawn by Bright Daniels.

Investigations revealed that the phone number used in the scam was traced back to the vicinity of the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons in the Eastern Region.

Further investigations led to the discovery that Daniels was the user of that phone number. The police conducted a search, during which they recovered a Samsung Galaxy A02 phone used by Daniels to communicate with Ugwu, as well as a Tecno feature phone that was used to receive money from Detective Chief Inspector Baffoe.

Forensic examination of the devices revealed that Daniels and Ugwu conspired to exploit the name and photograph of COP Addo-Danquah to fraudulently obtain money from police personnel, promising them slots in the United Nations and African Union Missions in Somalia.

Daniels was found to have obtained the SIM card with the number 02******* that was used to receive money from their victims.

After admitting to the offence, Daniels was charged and brought before the court following the completion of the investigations.

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A 47-year-old EMT officer, Alhassan Kunfo, has been arrested by police at Bole, in the Savannah Region, for allegedly defiling two children.

According to a close source, the victims, aged five and seven years, are neighbours of the suspect.

They were reportedly passing behind the suspect’s house when he lured them into his room and proceeded to sexually assault them.

Suspect Kunfo allegedly threatened the children before leading them home.

The seven-year-old victim, who was in pain, informed her parents about her ordeal while she was taking her bath.

The case was immediately reported to the Bole police who facilitated his arrest.

According to the police, he will be put before the Bole District magistrate Court.

Source: myjoyonline.com

TWO MALES have been apprehended for, allegedly, stealing an amount of GH¢21,000 from a fire scene.

Suspects Emmanuel Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar, allegedly, stole the money from a house, which was on fire.

The incident happened at Daaban New Site, in Kumasi on Sunday, May 14, 2023.

According to a police report, the fire started from a wooden structure behind the main building around 11am.

The wooden structure, which served as a warehouse and contained assorted clothes, got burnt into ashes.

Reports indicated that the personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) rushed to the scene to douse the fire.

The two suspects, who also feigned to be helping to douse the fire, took advantage of the situation to steal an amount of GH¢ 21,000.

The victim of the theft, one Justice Amoako, personally reported the case to the police.

According to Mr. Amoako, he was at church when he received a distressed call of fire burning his house around 11am.

The complainant said when he reached home he realised that the suspects had entered his living room to steal the cash.

A police statement, sighted by the paper, disclosed that both Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar are in police custody.

“That the burnt structure served as a warehouse for the complainant,” part the police statement pointed out.

“It was disclosed that the complainant was called from church and informed that his warehouse was on fire.

“That when he reached home suspects Emmanuel Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar had entered his living room and stole cash of GH¢21,000, which was in a bag and kept in his bed room.”

With the assistance of the patrol team, the report said, the suspects were arrested and detained for investigations, adding, “Emmanuel Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar are in custody.”

A video of a chief performing rituals for a 38-year-old man who reportedly defiled a 12-year-old girl has hit social media.

The victim is said to be the younger sister of the said man’s wife.

While the details of the story appear sketchy, in the video, the man is seen carrying a goat on his shoulders as some community members and others escorted him to the spot for the ritual.

A voice was heard in the video questioning the man about his actions, while a woman was also heard expressing her disappointment in the 38-Year old man and hurling insults at him in the Akan dialect.

Source:myjoyonline.com

Former Chief Executive Officer of defunct Capital Bank, Ato Essien has been given a grace period up to July 4 to redeem his financial obligations under a plea deal he entered with the state.

The Attorney General was expected to move an application on whether Ato Essien should be jailed for not paying GH¢20 million he was expected to pay by April 28, 2023.

But before the state could do that, the presiding judge, Justice Eric Kyei Baffour noted that he is inclined to adjourn the case considering some claims in the convict’s affidavit in opposition

According to the Judge, Ato Essien has outlined how he plans to liquidate some properties to raise over $300,000 to settle the amount.

The state which was not opposed to the stance of the Judge only notified the court that the amount promised is not substantial to settle the outstanding amount of GH¢55 million.

The Judge then adjourned the case to June 4 with the consent of the parties and urged Ato Essien to go according to what he has committed to in his affidavit if he truly cares about his freedom.

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An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into police custody a 40-year-old tile setter for insulting President of the republic of Ghana Nana Akuffo-Addo.

Raphael Okoe Ankrah, also known as Okoe Killer was arrested after police saw a video posted to social media showing the accused using very unsavoury words on the President.

He has since pleaded not guilty to offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace.

The Court presided over by Mr Samuel Bright Acquah, ordered that Ankrah be brought back on May 30, 2023.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Maxwell Oppong told the Court that Ankrah lived in Jamestown.

He said on May 15, 2023, the Police saw a viral video in which the Ankrah was seen insulting the President.

ASP Oppong said the police had to arrest Ankrah because the video was not only vile but had annoyed and agitated the public.

The Police’s Intelligence Directorate tracked Ankrah and arrested him at his hideout at James Town in Accra.

The prosecution said Ankrah admitted the offence in his investigation cautioned statement and was accordingly charged.

Mr Yaw Dankwa, Ankrah’s Defense Counsel who prayed for bail for the accused, said the charge did not support the facts, which he said was political, because his client denied the offence upon his arrest.

He suggested that the said video could have been manipulated and until it was presented and scrutinised in court, his client was innocent of the charges.

Mr Dankwa said Ankrah, a “responsible father” with a wife who had a two-week baby, was not a flight risk. 

He said Ankrah had “people of substance” ready to stand surety for him.

The prosecution, opposing the bail, pleaded with the Court to send the accused to the psychiatric hospital as he told police he was not in his right frame of mind.

ASP Oppong said that based on Ankrah’s utterances in the video, he would be safer in police custody because his life was in danger in his community.

On him not being a flight risk, the prosecution said Ankrah was a squatter living in an uncompleted building with no fixed place of abode, but his lawyer said there were no uncompleted buildings in James Town.

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A former contestant on the reality TV show “Mentor” has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of manslaughter.

Bismark Ato Foster was found guilty after a trial in which prosecutors argued that he was responsible for the death of another individual, Razak Mohammed at Nungua Coco-Beach on September 26, 2016.

The charges against him included murder and the use of an offensive weapon.

Bismark had originally been charged with second-degree murder, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Following deliberations, the jury reached a guilty verdict of manslaughter and the use of an offensive weapon against Foster.

Initially, the jury returned a 6-1 guilty verdict. However, after further deliberations, the jury found Foster guilty.

Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh, presiding over the case at Criminal Court ‘3,’ sentenced Foster to life imprisonment, as recommended by the jury.

Additionally, he was given a 25-year sentence for the use of the offensive weapon, both of which will be served concurrently.

Foster’s defense counsel made a plea for mitigation, citing his client’s first-time offender status and his good conduct throughout the trial.

Furthermore, the defense noted his commitment to attending all court proceedings.

The judge issued the life sentence to Foster, despite defense attorneys emphasising his young age, bright future, and claiming him to be a victim of circumstances.

The prosecution argued that the offense was serious, requiring a life sentence as a deterrent to others, and that the gun had been fired twice, implying intent.

After hearing both parties, Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzu handed down a life sentence.

Meanwhile, Foster’s legal team has declared they will launch an appeal against the conviction and sentence.

A 45-year-old man, Kwabena Yehoah has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and defiling a 15 -year-old girl at Kasoa Ofaakor in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central Region of Ghana.

According to reports, the victim left home after visiting her sister at Ofaakor and since then she was nowhere to be found.

The Suspect is said to have seen the victim in the community and dragged her to his room, defiled her, and locked her.

He reported having bought her food whenever he returned from work but turned her into a sex machine and had sex with her anytime he likes .

According to residents, they regularly heard the sound of someone moaning coming from the suspect’s room which led them to report the issue to the Police.

Kasoa Ofaakor Police invaded the suspect’s house and found the victim tied with a rope in the corner of one of the rooms and got him arrested.

The victim was sent to the Hospital for a medical checkup.

The Suspect is currently in custody assisting police with the investigations.

Source: Kasapa FM