Author: Krobea

An independent parliamentary aspirant in the Assin South Constituency in the Central Region fears his people will drive him away if he rescinds his decision to contest the 2020 election. Joseph Kofi Damtse, who is a member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) but was disqualified from contesting the primaries, explained that the chiefs and people have poured libation to support his independent bid, so failure on his part to go ahead with would mean disappointment to the people. The former US Army Officer gave the hint in an interview with Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Sunday, October 18.…

Getafe striker Jaime Mata’s second-half penalty condemned Barcelona to their first La Liga defeat of the season. Mata slotted his 56th-minute spot-kick into the bottom corner following Frenkie de Jong’s foul on Djene Dakonam. Lionel Messi struck the post for Barcelona in the first half while Antoine Griezmann fired over at close range. Juan Hernandez also hit the crossbar for Getafe with five minutes remaining. Defending champions Real Madrid also suffered a shock 1-0 defeat by promoted Cadiz earlier on Saturday. Barcelona and Real go head-to-head at the Nou Camp in the first El Clasico of the season next Saturday…

State election officials across the US are reporting record numbers of voters casting their ballots ahead of election day on 3 November. More than 22m Americans had voted early by Friday, either in person or by mail, according to the US Election Project. At the same point in the 2016 race, about 6m votes had been cast. Experts say the surge in early voting correlates to the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused many people to seek alternatives to election day voting. On Tuesday, Texas, a state that has relatively tight restrictions on who can qualify for postal voting, set a…

Former President John Dramani Mahama says from all indications the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has set out to organise a flawed election on Monday, December 7. “Who accepts a flawed election? Nobody. And everything the Electoral Commission is doing is showing that we are heading to a flawed election,” he observed. Addressing supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Abura on Thursday as part of his five-day campaign tour of the Central Region, Mr Mahama “we are not trouble makers” but the EC appears to be pushing them beyond their limit of forebearance. “We want to make sure that…

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has charged the security agencies, particularly the Ghana Police Service, to ensure that the December 7 elections pass without any incidents of violence. He said the police should deal with whoever would want to foment trouble before, during and after the elections. He gave this charge on Thursday, October 15, when the Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, called on him at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi. “The peace of the elections is in your hands,” the king of the Asante Kingdom said in local language Twi. “The IGP has assured that the police are…

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…