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Security Analyst and Executive Director of Jatikay Centre for Human Security and Peace Building Adib Saani has described as “disingenuous” the move by government to provide security for members of Parliament (MPs). According to him, the move is a betrayal of the trust the ordinary Ghanaians have put in the MPs, who appear to have left their followers to their fate. The decision to beef up personal security for the country’s lawmakers was announced in Parliament on Tuesday after the Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery, met the legislature in a closed-door meeting. He told journalists after the meeting that 200…

A total of 18 suspected cases of kidnapping were reported to the Sekondi Police Command in the Western Region between February and October 2020. However, all of the cases turned out to be a false alarm after thorough investigation by the police. Sekondi Divisional Police Commander Chief Superintendent Dima Zoiku told the media in Sekondi-Takoradi that the police have been on high alert following the case involving the four missing Takoradi girls. “Because of the four missing Takoradi Girls case, the police administration has decided not to take incidents of such nature as a joke or lightly and I can…

President Donald Trump has returned to the campaign trail less than two weeks after testing positive for coronavirus. He told thousands of supporters, many not wearing masks, that he could give them “a big fat kiss”, at a rally in the battleground state of Florida. His rival, Joe Biden, speaking in Ohio, accused the president of “reckless behaviour” since his diagnosis. The two presidential candidates are scrambling to secure votes with three weeks until the 3 November election. Opinion polls suggests Mr Biden has a 10-point lead over Mr Trump nationally. However his lead in some key states is narrower…

The Chairman of Parliament’s Select Committee on Defence and interior, Seth Kwame Acheampong, says the committee is meeting the Inspector General of Police, James Oppong Boanuh, this week to brief the members on the security situation in the country. According to Mr Acheampong, there are so many security challenges which require attention in the country. “This week we are meeting the IGP as a committee,” he said on 3FM’s morning show, Sunrise. “We have written to him and when he appears to us, we will mandate that he brings the said statistics to us and we will share it with…

There was a heated confrontation between the former Municipal Chief Executive for Ejisu, Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh, and Member of Parliament for Effiduase Asokore Constituency, Dr Ayew Afriyie, at the studios of Akoma FM on Monday, October 12. “Are you alright?” a livid Dr. Ayew Afriyie quizzes Mr Yamoa Ponkoh as the two politicians launched scathing attacks on each other on Ghanakoma hosted by Kofi Asante Ennin. Mr Yamoah Ponkoh had called the MP a “liar” for stating that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) executed only three developmental projects in the Effiduase Asokore Constituency. In his hot-tempered rebuttal, the MP engaged…

Final year students in Kenya are reporting back to school after the government rescinded its earlier decision to scrap the academic year because of coronavirus. In primary schools, only grade four and class eight pupils will resume face to face learning from Monday. Form four students in secondary schools are also reporting back to schools to prepare for national examinations scheduled for March. Ordinarily, the final year students would have sat for the examinations at the end of this year. Kenya’s national teachers’ union Secretary General, Wilson Sossion, told the BBC Newsday programme that the reopening was being done cautiously.…

Many Ghanaians no longer give attention to the case count of the deadly coronavirus disease but it keeps increasing in the country. From the latest release by the Ghana Health Service (GHS), the total number of cases has gone past 47,000. The current total number since Thursday, March 12, when the country recorded its first two index cases, up to Wednesday, October 7, is 47,005. But recoveries-cum-discharges have risen exponentially, to 46,398, leaving only 301 patients with the disease. Among these, about 195 are in the Greater Accra Region, which has so far recorded the highest number of cases in…

The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Friday, October 9 impounded a consignment said to contain pistols illegally imported from Turkey. The ammunitions were concealed in the consignment of personal effects. They belong to one Felix Wallace, who has been arrested by the marine police. He had come to clear his 1X20 footer container of household goods and personal effects but upon a physical examination of the consignment, a pistol was found hidden in a box. The matter attracted personnel from Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and National Security, who have taken the matter up for investigations.…

Hundreds of constituents in the Asokwa Constituency participated in the second edition of Akoma FM’s ‘Constituency Watch’ outdoor event. The event, which is an offshoot of the GhanAkoma morning show, creates the platform for the electorate to engage political leaders on their developmental and social needs. Show host Kofi Asante Ennin put the spotlight on politics of development with the Municipal Chief Executive for the area, Akwanuasa Gyimah, the Parliamentary Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Amoh Kamel, and an Independent Parliamentary Candidate, Eric Osei. Others on the show were Ashanti Region Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)…

3news.com has intercepted pictures from the crime scene of the murder of the Member of Parliament for Mfantsiman Constituency in the Central Region, Ekow Kwansah Hayford. The MP was killed by suspected armed robbers on his return from campaigning in Abeadze Dominase on the Mankessim road. He was shot multiple times in his stomach. His body has since been deposited at the Saltpond Hospital awaiting autopsy. Source: 3news.com|Ghana