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The Kumasi Circuit Court Four, presided over by John Ekwow Mensah has pardoned the 13 members of the Delta Force for their actions at the KMA Circuit Court on April 6 2017. The accused persons who were answering charges on conspiracy, assault on public officer, causing unlawful damages and rioting escaped from the court after the judge Mary Senkyere had remanded them into prison custody. Allegedly aided by their supporters, the 13 accused persons defied the court ruling and unlawfully escaped through the back door reserved only for judges. During today’s hearing at the Kumasi Circuit Court Four, lawyer of…

The President of Ghana Rugby, Mr Herbert Mensah, has applauded the Ghana Rugby Family for embracing the values of Rugby by accepting its “Challenge Tournament Challenge” to raise funds for the upcoming World and Africa Rugby Challenge Tournament involving Benin, Ghana and Togo. Ghana Rugby will be hosting one of the Africa Rugby Challenge Tournaments that will see Benin, Ghana and Togo compete between 28 April and 6 May 2017 at the Accra Sports Stadium for an opportunity to advance its chances of eventually qualifying for the much coveted Rugby World Cup. The Challenge Tournament is partly sponsored by Africa Rugby…

In my two previous articles, I commented on the challenge from the rising spate of political volunteerism and the Delta Force’s ‘aboakyer style’ eviction of the President’s appointee for the position of Regional Security Coordinator for Ashanti. I recall describing it the first political test for the IGP who hasn’t been in office for more  than two months. More so, when the President had encouraged him to deliver his job without any discrimination of political colour or position in society. So it came to pass that the Delta Force chaps were arrested and put before court for the criminal act…

South African President Jacob Zuma has branded protesters calling for his resignation “racists”, saying they held placards that were derogatory about black people. Thousands of people took to the streets after he sacked the finance minister. The latest protests protests organised by several opposition parties and civil society groups. “The marches that took place last week demonstrated that racism is real and exists in our country,” he said. Zuma plays the race card – By Milton Nkosi, BBC News, Johannesburg Many South Africans have said President Zuma is blatantly playing the race card on an issue-based protest against his own…

The 10 persons, including five Chinese nationals who were arrested for allegedly engaging in illegal mining activities along the Ankobra River in the Western Region, have for the second time been remanded by the Sekondi High Court. They are Dong Cheng, 30; Hung Jian, 51; Ning Guorui, 42; Yin Biquiang, 46 and Li Zilong, 44; Eric Owusu, 28; Kwabena Adjei, 50; Nana Adu, 42; Kwasi Owusu, 28, and Kofi Darko, 21. The court presided over by Justice Edward Amoako Asante refused bail for the accused persons, and ordered for the seizure of all items that were being used for their…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has with immediate effect, banned government officials from purchasing state vehicles. The decision has been necessitated by what the President described as an abuse of the policy by previous governments. “That policy will no longer work. No official is going to have the opportunity to buy any official car…Nobody is going to have that capacity anymore,” President Akufo-Addo said at the end of a three day retreat for all his ministers and cabinet at the Peduase Lodge in the Eastern Region. He said ending the policy would put an end to the phenomenon of claims…

A civil society group, Right Alliance-Ghana, has described as unprofessional, the conduct of the Police before, during and after the infamous Delta Force attack on a Circuit Court in Kumasi that caused 13 accused persons to escape from custody. The group says the action of the Police in the episode is “most unprofessional, inept and suspicious” primarily because the Police in the Ashanti Region provided only two truncheon-wielding officers to protect the court for a such an explosive case. In a statement issued Monday, Right Alliance said utterances by member of parliament, Kennedy Agyapong among others, gives them enough cause…

The independent Presidential Candidate in the 2016 general elections Jacob Osei Yeboah has stirred the controversy surrounding the operations of Kumasi based political vigilante group with affiliation to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Delta Force. The man who is also referred to as Joy2012 has blamed the trial judge Mary Senkyire for not ‘thinking through’ her judgement thereby angering the vigilante group to attack the court. It would be recalled that members of Delta Force, a vigilante group affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have attacked a Kumasi circuit court and freed their members who were standing trial.…

A seeming tension between the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) and the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) is likely to bring academic work at the various technical universities in the country to a halt. POTAG is accusing the Council of championing an agenda that is sabotaging the transition processes of polytechnics to fully fledged technical universities. At a news conference in Takoradi Monday, executives of POTAG claimed the NCTE has dissolved all the interim councils for these technical universities without ensuring the constitution of permanent one as required by the Technical Universities Act 922 of 2016. Section 42[1] of…

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