A/R: RITUAL KILLINGS: MAN ARRESTED FOR KILLING PREGNANT WOMAN AND TRYING TO KILL ANOTHER ONE
Killings anywhere is a big subject and when those killings especially become serial, it become bigger headlines.
Past week, news of the alleged murder of two boys by a 28-year-old self-acclaimed architect, Richard Appiah at Alaska Junction in Abessim of the Sunyani Municipality in the Bono Region got many talking.
IGP visited the community, promised to bring finality to ritual killings, and vowed to deal with crime perpetrators according to the law of the country.
But it seems things are escalating and worse crimes are happening in some parts of the country specifically in the Ashanti Region.
A man believed to be in his early 40s has been caught by the residents of Adjamesu in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region attacking a pregnant pregnant woman with a machete in her room whiles her husband was in the bathroom.
According to the report, the incident happened around 10 pm last night while the victim was alone in the room.
Husband to the victim, Mr. Kwame Afrifa disclosed that the suspect sneaked into the abode of his pregnant wife and begun struggling with her trying to dissecting her belly for the reasons best known to the peperteator alone.
Bra Kwame added that the helpless woman shouted weirdly which drew the attention of his elder brother outside the house and he quickly rushed to the room to ascertain what was going on.
The suspect sensing danger, came out of the room with the sharp matchete to slash anyone trying to venture but with the intimidation on the part of the people gathered there to shoot him, he feared and subsequently overpowered.
“He was naked, holding matchete pretending to be mad person to beat the minds of the locals but when beaten mercilessly, he confessed to be in a gang of Four (4) hunting for pregnant women to kill them for their bloody sakawa business”, the husband of the victim, Bra Kwame told Silver FM’s FILASCO DEGENERAL today.
He confessed killing a pregnant woman in another locality with his gang but luck eluded him trying to kill another that fateful day.
Both hands were tied to the legs and was hit from all angels by the angry locals.
The other Three (3) members were able to outsmart the people and run.
The timely intervention of the police saved his life.
He (suspect) has therefore been handing over to the Dominase Police after severe beatings whiles the victim has also been sent to the Dominase health facility for treatment.
VOLTA REGION: PROPHETESS ACCUSED OF BEHEADING EIGHT ( 8) YEAR OLD BOY AT MAFI- DOVE.
The residents at MAFI- DOVE in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region have been thrown into a state of Fear as an Eight-year-old boy has been beheaded by a Prophetess.
The prophetess, whose name is yet to be determined according to the report was seen with another guy kidnapping the Boy ( Deceased) to a nearby river in the Area.
The informant narrating the Incidence stressed that the guy Holding the boy threatened him ( Informant) with Knife if he tries to follow them.
The informant According to him rushed to the Town to inform other guys in the town about the scene. The mob upon reaching the River didn’t see the Kidnappers and returned to the Community.
The Boys later proceeded to the Kidnapper ( guy’s) house to inspect his room and upon breaking into the room, they saw the beheaded body of the Eight (8) year old boy in the room.
This Horrible incident happened yesterday around 10 pm
9-year-old boy shot dead at Awutu Breku Awubia Festival
A 9-year-old boy has been shot dead during a gun firing display as part of the custom in the celebration of the Awubia Festival by the Chief and People of Awutu Breku in the Central Region.
Per the custom of the Chiefs and people of Awutu Breku, gunshot follows immediately after the Chief Priest(Otwor) has finished performing rituals to the gods at the durbar grand and this nontarget gunshot, unfortunately, hit the boy who was pushing a disabled boy whiles others are in a coma.
Residents raise alarm over gallamsey activities destroying their water bodies, call for immediate intervention:
Residents of Anumso, Ofoase, Ohwimase, Achiase, and its environs have complained bitterly over how illegal mining activities are causing the communities.
The worried residents speaking to this reporter indicated that their only source of water, River Annuru has been polluted and coloured by the activities of these illegal miners who are suspected to be operating with a chanffan machine on the said river. Residents of the aforementioned towns which fall under respective districts such as Bosome Freho, Bosomtwi, and Asante Akyem are mainly known to be farmers. But their hopes in gaining from the farming activities are gradually fading out as these illegal miners keep on tormenting their farming activities.
Nana Tabi Bonsu lll, Chief of Bomfa Akyiase speaking to this reporter disclosed that he and the entire traditional council has lodged a formal complaint to the Pemenase police station in the Bosome Freho district of the Ashanti region so that they could help fight the galamsay operators who invade in their river bodies to mine.
Briefing the media, Okyiame Sarpong, chief linguist to the Akyiase chief cautioned that whoever’s found in the Anuro river will be chased out and dealt with.
He called for government intervention before the galamsay gets out of hands in Bosome Freho district.
He pleaded with the District police commander, Ashanti Regional Police command, and IGP to collaborate with the chiefs to fight this canker.
Alhaji Bodinga Commission Stores In The New Tafo Market
As part of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo idea to improve economic activities in the country
The Eastern Regional First vice chairman of the New Patriotic Party NPP who is also the chairman of the Works Committee in the Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly has commission 124 newly built stores in the New Tafo market
Alhaji Bodinga was conducted around the market by the Abuakwa North Coordinating Director, the Prising Member, Mangoasi Assembly Member, and some delegations from the Works Committee
Addressing the people, the chairman of the Works Committee said, the project would help improve economic activities in and around Abuakwa North, and this is a greater idea of the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo – Addo
We must all support vehemently and take good care of the project, government as we all know is of the people by the people and for the people, and through our support the president can make it to the apex
Gender/Social Protection & Local Government Ministries train and give capital to over 300 people in Offinso North to enter into production
The Ministry of Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection through a project dubbed “Ghana Productive Safety Net” have trained and giving start-up capitals to about 300 people in Offinso North District of the Ashanti region to begin production and petty trading in order to make meaningful livelihoods.
Speaking in an interview with Asta/Winners Fm’s Nana Kwadwo Adu during the passing out and handing over ceremony at Akumadan, Mr. Desmond Duametu National Officer in charge of the project revealed that this initiative by President Akuffo Addo led NPP’s government is aimed at helping People of Ghana to get something doing on their own without always depending on Government for jobs.
Mr. Desmond Duametu, National Officer for Ghana Productive Safety Net project.
Mr. Desmond Duametu, National Officer for Ghana Productive Safety Net project.
For their parts, MP for the area Hon. Augustine Collins Ntim who doubles as a deputy Minister for Local Government and his award-winning DCE Hon. David Kwasi Asare Boakye “Adwumawura” unanimously thanked the President for choosing Offinso North as one of the 80 pilot districts for the project and devised beneficiaries to go and start doing something to better their lives.
MP Hon. A. C. Ntim and DCE Hon. David Kwasi Asare Boakye “Adwumawura”, Offinso North.
MP Hon. A. C. Ntim and DCE Hon. David Kwasi Asare Boakye “Adwumawura”, Offinso North.
Finally, Mr. Albert Sefa Boampong Zonal Coordinator for the Ghana Productive Safety Net project, and some of the beneficiaries also shared their experiences with Peace News correspondent Nana Kwadwo Adu of Asta Fm.
Mr. Albert Sefa Boampong, Zonal Coordinator and some Beneficiaries of the Ghana Productive Safety Net project.
DEPEND ON YOUR TITHE AND OFFERING NOT CONSULTATION FEE- THE PASTOR TELLS FELLOW PASTORS
The founder and head pastor of Sons of God Prayer Ministry, Rev. Eric Tweneboah Kodua has urged his fellow pastors and prophets to stop collecting consultation fees from church members and use tithe and offerings for their activities.
According to Rev. Eric Tweneboah Kodua, a consultation fee is not the right way that a pastor should use to collect money from his or her church members.
What do pastors and prophets use consultation fees for? – he asked.
Some pastors and prophets use that money for luxurious cars and buildings of mansions.
Pastors and prophets should not even charge consultation fees. They can use tithe and offering to do whatever will help the church.
SINCE 2000 I WON BOTH PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME BY HARD-WORKING EXECUTIVES – NDC CHAIRMAN
Mr. Robert Gyan(chairman Gyan) acting chairman for the NDC party in the Amenfi East Municipal hinted that He is the first acting chairman to won the presidential seat for the NDC party since 2000 and also won the Parliamentary seat.
Chairman Gyan in an interview with Rivers FM newscaster stated that he suffered a lot before winning 2020 as an acting chairman, he said sometimes there was a misunderstanding in the party and also a lot issues in the party and because of that, the opponent party (NPP) use that advantage to campaign against them but because of his hard work, they won the election and won it massively.
Chairman Gyan stated that this is just the beginning of the 2024 elections that will be won hands down.
Finally, chairman Gyan explained that the party Executives also do marvelous work that helps them to the won the 2020 election.
IS-K, or Islamic State Khorasan Province, which said it had carried out the attack, is a branch of the Islamic State group.
It is the most extreme and violent of all the jihadist militant groups in Afghanistan.
The blast tore through crowds of men, women and children outside Kabul airport.
Dozens of Afghans trying to leave the country were killed. In addition to the US personnel killed, two British nationals and the child of a British national were among the dead.
“We will not forgive, we will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Mr Biden warned the perpetrators on Friday.
Roughly 5,000 US troops are still stationed at Kabul airport, processing Afghans desperate to leave.
This is the first US drone strike reported in Afghanistan since Thursday’s blast.
“The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target,” said Captain Bill Urban of Central Command. “We know of no civilian casualties.”
Chief Imam gives GHS50, 000 for the construction of the National Cathedral
The National Chief, Imam Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, on Thursday, 26 August 2021, made a contribution of GHS50, 000 for the construction of the National Cathedral.
The cathedral is President Nana Akufo-Addo’s promise to God after he was elected President in the 2016 election.
The national chief imam made the donation when the board of trustees for the National Cathedral project paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Accra.
The spokesperson for the Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shuaibu in a Citi News interview said the gesture was to further deepen the peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims in the country.
According to him, the donation by the Chief Imam is to demonstrate the mutual cooperation that exists between Ghanaians of all religious faith.
“As Ghanaians, we are all practitioners of a different faith, and we are able to sit around the same table and have an opportunity to discuss things and whatever comes by way of disagreement to really work and maintain our harmony, and we should not do anything to disturb our relationship. In fact, he said we should not use politics to disturb our relationship, and that we should keep politics aside and rather, as practitioners of different faiths, let’s all get united and see what we can do in the interest of our country.”
“He also said we should be mindful of that fact that God has given us peace at the time when nations around us have been plunged into conflict, and he said it is in the spirit of solidarity and mutual cooperation that he donated the GHS50,000 as a token contribution towards the construction of the National Cathedral.”
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, Apostle Opoku Onyinah, who was pleased with the contribution, called on Ghanaians to emulate the gesture.
We are extremely grateful to the Chief Imam for the contribution and also to those who haven’t understood the concept to exercise patience and follow the advice of the National Chief Imam that we should not begin to accuse one another and that religion should bring us together and should not divide us.
The Finance Minister announced in parliament that Ghanaians should voluntarily make a donation of GHS100 towards the project which is expected to be constructed at a cost of $200 million.
Meanwhile, vice-president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said he has also contributed towards the construction of the cathedral and he will contribute more as the project progresses.
Speaking at the Adabraka Official Town branch of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana on Sunday, 22 August 2021, Vice-president Bawumia underscored the importance of the Cathedral, and urged all to help build it “for Ghana and for the glory of God.”
“As you all know, there are efforts to build a National Cathedral”.
“It is very important that we build the Cathedral. It is a voluntary exercise; anybody who wants to contribute can contribute. I have contributed, and I will contribute some more”.
“So, I encourage everybody to think about it and let’s build it. It is not for anybody. It is for Ghana and for the glory of God,” he emphasized.
A voluntary, national contribution for the construction of the cathedral would further cement Ghana’s standing as a religiously diverse country living at peace with itself”.
“Ghana is Africa’s second most peaceful country, with adherents of many religions living and working together to build the nation”.
“The construction of the cathedral would add further to our enviable record of peaceful co-existence,” he stated.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, accompanied by senior members of the Clergy, laid the foundation stone for the Cathedral on March 5, 2020, to signal the start of construction. A National Cathedral Secretariat has since been set up to raise funds from individuals and the private sector for its construction, while work continues apace.
The cathedral will house a series of impressive chapels, a baptistery, a 5000-seat two-level auditorium, a grand central hall, music school, choir rehearsal, art gallery, shop, and multi-use spaces.
It will also be home to Africa’s first Bible Museum and Documentation Centre, dedicated to Christianity and nation-building in Ghana.
A new ceremonial route and landscape will be linking the Cathedral site to Ghana’s prominent, celebratory landmarks – Independence Square, Osu Cemetery, the State House, and Africa Unity Circle.
We’re focused on alleviating the suffering of Ghanaians — Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that the prime focus of the Akufo-Addo government has been the promotion of inclusive policies to alleviate the suffering of Ghanaians.
Delivering a keynote address at the 11th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) in Accra on Thursday, August 26, Dr. Bawumia told the workers that the ultimate objective of every policy the government has undertaken since 2017, is to positively impact the lives of everybody in one way or the order, “without leaving anyone behind.”
The Vice President, who acknowledged that the government has not totally eradicated problems, especially in the midst of covid-19, shared with the workers a number of inclusive policies the government has undertaken to mitigate the suffering of Ghanaians since 2017.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, the President on January 7, 2017, promised to rebuild this country as Ghanaians faced daunting challenges including declining economic growth, rapidly falling value of the Cedi and constantly rising inflation and interest rates,” said Dr. Bawumia.
“While we have not totally eliminated the suffering of Ghanaians and Ghanaian workers, we can point to specific policy interventions that have mitigated the suffering that we talked about,” Dr. Bawumia said.
The Vice President listed several social interventions including de-freezing of public sector employment, which has led to the recruitment of thousands of nurses and teachers, creation of NABCO to reduce graduate unemployment, expansion of recruitment into the security services and reduction of electricity tariffs.
Other interventions he listed included: restoration of nursing and teacher trainee allowances, employment interventions through the Youth Employment Agency, industrialization through 1D1F, abolition of many taxes, employment opportunities to people with disability to man toll booths, Free SHS, government’s covid-19 alleviation packages, among others.
The Vice President also shared with the workers numerous entrepreneurial initiatives and support systems by the government, which he said are aimed at further boosting employment opportunities for the youth.
With speakers at the conference agreeing that covid-19 has had a debilitating effect on the economy and workers, Dr. Bawumia assured delegates and Ghanaians that government will continue to do more to further ameliorate the impact of the pandemic on the economy and Ghanaians.
Bawumia shares defining first-term legacies of Akufo-Addo’s government with ICU
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that the government of President Akufo-Addo has worked towards the interest of Ghanaians by pursuing progressive and impactful policies.
Addressing delegates at the 11th Quadrennial Conference of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in Accra on Thursday, August, 26, Dr. Bawumia shared with the worker’s inclusive interventions by the Akufo-Addo government, which he described as defining legacies of the President.
“I will share with you developments which I believe have defined the President’s legacy. These are his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unprecedented financial sector clean-up, the digital transformation of the Ghanaian society, and social interventions,” Dr. Bawumia said.
The Vice President, who recounted the mountain economic and social challenges the Akufo-Addo government inherited from the previous NDC regime, extensively listed how the government’s various interventions have addressed, or mitigated these challenges since 2017.
Prudent Economic Management
The Vice President said, much of the government’s successes have been due to its prudent economic management, which he noted, expanded the economy prior to covid-19.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, the President on January 7, 2017, promised to rebuild this country as Ghanaians faced daunting challenges, including declining economic growth, rapidly falling value of the Cedi and constantly rising inflation and interest rates.’
“Three years over the planning period, between 2017 and 2019, the economy recorded significant expansion. Average growth in national output more than doubled from 2.8 percent (2014-2016) to 6.96 percent (2017-2019). The growth of agriculture more than doubled from 2.5 percent to 8.3%.”
“We halted de-industrialization, rebounded manufacturing growth, and expanded job creation. The fiscal deficit declined from 6.8 percent of rebased national output in 2016 to 3.8 percent and 4.8 percent between 2018 and 2019 in that order.”
“Inflation dropped steadily from 15.4 percent at the end of 2016 to 7.9 percent at the end of December 2019.”
Digitization
Another important legacy of the Akufo-Addo government, which the Vice President shared with delegates, is a digitization and its continued impact on society and the Ghanaian economy.
. He said the government’s economic transformational agenda, was underpinned by the creation of digital infrastructure such as digital national identification system, property address system, the inclusion of the non-formal population into the financial sector through mobile money interoperability, amongst many others, whose benefits, he said, are obvious and impacting lives.
Social interventions to reduce suffering
Dr. Bawumia noted that the most important part of prudent economic management and all that government has achieved, is their impacts on the lives of the people, which he said, has been a priority to the Akufo-Addo government.
“While we have not totally eliminated the suffering of Ghanaians and Ghanaian workers, we can point to specific policy interventions that have mitigated the suffering that we talked about,” he said.
The Vice President listed several social interventions including de-freezing of public sector employment, which has led to the recruitment of thousands of nurses and teachers, creation of NABCO to reduce graduate unemployment, expansion of recruitment into the security services.
Others he listed included: restoration of nursing and teacher trainee allowances, employment interventions through the Youth Employment Agency, industrialization through 1D1F, abolition of many taxes, employment opportunities to people with disabilities to man toll booths, Free SHS, government’s covid-19 alleviation packages, among others.
Impact and management of COVID-19
Just like other speakers, Dr. Bawumia acknowledged the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the economy and Ghanaians, as well as the government’s swift response to the situation to mitigate the impact on Ghanaians and businesses.
“The country has clearly and unequivocally made strides in inclusive growth. All these strides were made before the destructive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020,” the Vice President said.
“The severe, debilitating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the day-to-day lives of Ghanaian workers, most especially on industrial workers, cannot be overemphasized.”
“The worldwide debilitating effects of the pandemic included disruptions to supply chains in production, economic slowdown, uncertain demand in markets, and the loss of jobs and livelihoods. There has been a dramatic increase in shipping costs globally. For example, the price of shipping goods from Asia to Europe increased from $2000 per container in August 2020 to $12000 per container in August 2021 with its attendant impact on prices of goods (such as cement iron rods, etc.) globally.”
The government responded swiftly. Through the implementation of the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP):
The government increased COVID-19 testing facilities from the initial (2) to sixteen (16) and equipped several hospitals across the country with the capacity to test for COVID-19;
Government-subsidized electricity consumption for 4,772,512 customers from April 2020 to March 2021. Electricity consumption for 1,620,907 lifeline customers was fully covered while the consumption of other customers was subsidized by 50 percent; Government increased the average monthly water supply by over 40% and provided free water supply to over 10,000,000 Ghanaians, and Government disbursed GH¢412.88 million to support over 270,000 businesses which helped save over 650,000 MSME jobs.”
The leadership of the ICU also commended the government’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic and urged the government to continue to do more to mitigate the impact, especially on workers.
Ketu Youth in Development Network in the Volta Region is demanding President Akufo-Addo open the borders to save them from dying from hunger.
Ghana’s land borders have been closed since March 15, 2020. The decision was announced by the President as a measure to control the importation of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) into the country.
After more than a year, the Ketu Youth in Development Network says people living in and around border areas of the Volta Region are suffering.
“Our mothers and sisters who hawk around the Ghana and Togo border for their daily bread are now siting at home due to absence of an alternative means of livelihood, drivers are complaining about low patronage due to the border closure while they continue to pay huge price for fuel. Artisans who buy their raw materials from Togo have to shut down their businesses because they do not have a means to access them,” part of a release from the group dated August 15 read.
Fed up with the economic hardships, the group is demanding the reopening of Ghana’s borders to ensure those whose sources of livelihoods have been taken from them get something to do to feed themselves and their families.
“We are by this release reminding the President about his deliberate silence on the closure of the land borders and the economic impact it continues to have on the indigenous people in and around those areas, especially the southern part of Volta Region.
“Therefore, we are appealing to the conscience of the president as the father of the nation to as matter urgency open the land borders, so that economic activities can be partially restored to reduce the current hardship the people are subjected to. We believe with all the safety protocols and the strict enforcement therein, livelihood would pick up once again,” the release from Ketu Youth in Development Network concludes.
Charcoal Truck Causes Massive Traffic Due to Overturn
Trucks are a common sight on our country’s highways and interstates. These vehicles are an important part of our economy, carrying goods from one place to another to meet the demands of our growing population.
Although they are essential to society’s survival, large vehicles can pose a high risk to our roads, especially when truck drivers are negligent, trucks left in disrepair and company owners ignoring government safety regulations.
An Overturn Charcoal tractor-trailer on Mataheko-Accra Road is causing massive traffic disruptions this Wednesday Afternoon. As a result, traffic is being diverted.
According to a report from the scene, it looks like the Track slid on its side off the road, but nothing is confirmed yet.
Traffic scene
There’s been no word on what caused the charcoal truck to overturn and no accident recorded.
We reaching out to the nearest Ghana Police Station to please find out the cause and help reduce the heavy traffic.
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