Clearing agent commits suicide
Eight students die in accident
Information department launches anti-crime campaign
Ashanti NDC chairman funds school's workshop project
Clearing agent commits suicide
Tema (Greater Accra), 15 February 2000
The Managing Director of Afiboa Cargo Services, Mr. Kwaku Wiafe, allegedly committed suicide with a double-barrelled gun at his Community Five residence in Tema on Monday.
A resident of the area told the GNA that at about 7:30 a.m., people in his neighbourhood heard a loud noise coming from the direction Mr. Wiafe's house, followed immediately by the wailing of a woman.
On rushing to scene, the nighbours met the wife and her two children weeping with Mr Wiafe’s body lying in pool of blood a with a gun by his side in his bedroom.
A source close to the family told the police that while Mr. Wiafe's wife was in the main hall preparing the children for school, they heard a gunshot in the bedroom and rushed there only to find him in a pool of blood.
The cause for the suicide in not yet known and the police are continuing with investigations
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Eight students die in accident
Bolgatanga (Upper East), 15 February 2000
Eight students of the Bolgatanga Catholic Church Drama Troupe died last Saturday evening when a Nissan pick-up on which they were travelling was involved in an accident on the Bolgatanga-Navrongo road.
Twelve other students who sustained injuries are on admission at the Bolgatanga General Hospital, while others have been treated and discharged.
The deceased have been identified as Irene Borizina, a student of Bolgatanga Girls Secondary School, Felicity Gampie of Bolgatanga Secondary School, Rosaline Adimazoya, Rosemond Aganah and Esther Afia, all of Bawku Secondary School, and Moses Amoah of Bolgatanga Technical Institute.
The rest are Rose Afelbil of Saint Francis Secondary School, Jirapa, Mark Asante of Saint John's Junior Secondary School, Bolgatanga.
The students were on their way to Saint John Bosco's College in Navrongo to participate in a congress held by the Charismatic Movement of the church when the accident occurred.
Mr. Jerome Adintoghe, a student of the University of Ghana, Legon, who was also on the vehicle, told newsmen at the Bolgatanga Hospital that the driver was overtaking a Hyundai tipper truck when he lost control of the vehicle.
He said the vehicle, which was carrying 28 passengers, then skidded off the road, throwing the passengers onto the road.
The Hyundai truck, which was following closely behind, then ran over some of the students killing seven on the spot. The other student died later at the Bolgatanga General Hospital.
The driver of the pick-up survived the accident but could not be immediately reached at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, the police are investigating the accident.
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Return to top Information department launches anti-crime campaign
Sunyani (Brong Ahafo), 15 February 2000
The Brong Ahafo Regional Secretariat of the Information Services Department on Monday launched a three-week campaign to educate the people on how to combat crime.
Sixteen film shows and posters would be used to educate people in 204 selected towns and villages throughout the 13 districts of the region during the exercise.
The Regional Information Officer, Mr. Joe Debrah, told the GNA that the past year witnessed a series of armed robberies, killings and rapes in certain parts of the country, which posed grave danger and threat to the communities.
He said although the police have been doing a lot to curb the crime wave with some measure of success, there is the need for the people to be vigilant and help track down these criminals.
Mr. Debrah said he would, therefore, furnish the communities with the telephone numbers of all police commanders in the region so that the people can reach them for assistance in times of trouble.
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Return to top Ashanti NDC chairman funds school's workshop project
Yaase (Ashanti), 15 February 2000
Mr. P.E.K. Antwi, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has provided 20 million cedis for the construction of a workshop for the Yaase-Adwafo Junior Secondary School (JSS) in the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma district.
The gesture, which is in response to an appeal made by the school, is to help the school put into use carpentry and other vocational training tools supplied it by the government which have been lying idle for many years.
Mr. Antwi disclosed this at a fund-raising harvest organised by the chiefs and people of Yaase in aid of drainage systems for the town.
The NDC regional chairman reminded the people that it is only when they take the initiative to better their living conditions that they could expect assistance from the government and the district assembly.
Mr. Isaac K. Nyame, the District Chief Executive, asked the people to take the National Population and Housing Census seriously to help provide a reliable data for development planning.
He advised qualified voters in the area to register when the voters register is opened to enable them to exercise their franchise in the forthcoming general elections.
The assembly member, Mr. Obuadum Dente, said the people are paying special development rates of 3,000 cedis a man and 2,000 cedis a woman for resident citizens towards the street drains project. Non-residents are contributing 5,000 cedis a man and 3,000 cedis a woman.
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