University College of Education to become
full university
Former appointees to be taken as saboteurs
Prophet, ‘Komfo’ in who is who contest
Korle bu declares 97 patients as paupers
Aflao wants Paramountcy status
Rape victim’s dad wants case dropped
Man Impersonates Kwesi Nduom-and defrauds Revered Minister
Ninety-year old man demands Pension plan
The University College of Education Winneba (UCW) is to be elevated to
the status of a full university, according to a Daily Graphic story.
The Minister of Education, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, who
announced this when he toured the facilities of the campus said plans are afoot
to improve and expand the structures of the college and also improve the
student/lecture ratio.
Funds will be made available from the Ghana Education Fund (GETFund)
for the rehabilitation and expansion projects, he said.
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Former appointees to be taken as saboteurs
Persons appointed by the erstwhile government as members of the town
and area councils in rural communities who continue to pose as such will be
regarded as saboteurs of the new government.
They have therefore been asked in their own interest to desist from posing
as appointees.
The District Chief Executive for Abura Asebu-Kwamankes, Andrew Mensah,
who stated this, added that their continued stay in office is tantamount to
flouting the laws of the land and also sabotaging the efforts of the present
government.
He told the 2nd ordinary meeting of the assembly at Abura
Dunkwa on Thursday and explained that all such appointments were revoked by the
President on February 20, this year, stressing that under this new dispensation
their tenure of office has elapsed and therefore they are no more members of
the council.
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Prophet, ‘Komfo’ in who is who contest
A Prophetess and a traditional priestess are locked in a fierce battle
of who is who with the priestess accusing the prophetess of poaching.
The Mirror, reporting the incident, says the two who reside at Mandela,
a suburb of Accra, incidentally share a common boundary.
Linda Twum, the prophetess and founder of the City of the Lord Temple
who spoke to the paper, claims Okomfo Shie, the priestess, has over the past 10
months been accusing her of driving away all her customers through her prayers.
She further alleged that the priestess has accused her of stealing one of her
gods, thus reducing her spiritual powers.
Prophetess Twum said Okomfo Shie is blaming her for driving away her
children from her home because her prayers were haunting them, adding that on
Sunday September 23, while she was holding a meeting with her church elders at
the church premises, Okomfo Shie came there accusing her of using the powers of
“Maame Water” (Goddess of Water) in her church activities.
Okomfo Shie allegedly further told the congregation that she had come
to do battle with their prophetss and her powers since she had not been
allowing her to have her peace of mind.
After tempers cooled down, Okomfo Shie was said to have organised eight
“machomen” from Dansoman who came to the church premises and destroyed some
property and also assaulted some of the church members.
The matter was reported to the Weija Police and the “machomen” were
arrested.
The Weija Police confirmed the story when contacted and said that prophetess
Twum had agreed to settle everything amicably with Okomfo Shie while the latter
on her part had paid of all the damages caused by the ‘machomen’.
The Mirror says however, that when it contacted Okomfo Oshie at her
residence for her side of the story, she became angry and refused to talk.
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Sampson Torgbevi, a tailor at Dabala in the South Tongu District, who
allegedly entered the ancestral fetish shrine of the Adzoko Family at Deme,
near Dabala, with the intent to steal, is to serve 10 years imprisonment with
hard labour, on the orders of the Sogakofe Circuit Court.
According to the prosecutor, Chief Inspector S.K. Nanevi of Dabala,
Torgbevi, alias Kisaku Golokpo, on the night of July 29, entered the shrine and
stole a fetish stool and a kettle.
The prosecutor said Torgbevi was arrested during investigations and
arraigned before the court. He was charged on two counts of unlawful entry and
stealing, to which he pleaded not guilty.
The court, presided over by Mr Mustapha Logo, found Torgbevi guilty and
convicted him accordingly.
Before handing down the sentence, Mr Logoh pointed that in southern
Ewe-land, ancestral stools and other paraphernalia for traditional worship are
invaluable assets, some of which are centuries old.
The judge stressed that Torgbevi, being an Ewe, knows or should have
known that stealing a family’s ancestral stool was a serious act, saying by
stealing the stool he did not steal a mere stool but the very sole, history,
tradition, culture and belief of the Adzokos.
Torgbevi’s act, the judge pointed out, needed to be ruthlessly dealt
with since people like him are worse than evil and thus have no place in civil
society.
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Korle bu declares 97 patients as paupers
Ninety-seven patients were declared paupers by the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
between January and August this year resulting in the loss of more than ¢50
million in revenue to the hospital, reports The Ghanaian Times.
The waiver of the bills, which ranged from ¢200,000 to ¢1 million
became necessary after investigations into the backgrounds of the patients by
the hospital’s Social Welfare Department “found them too poor to bear the cost
of treatment.”
Mr Kombian Kambrin, the Hospital Administrator, told the Times in Accra
last Tuesday that 552 patients also absconded without paying a pesewa for
services rendered to them.
Mr Kambrin, who was speaking to the paper in an interview, said the
hospital, after declaring the patients as paupers, notified the sector Ministry
for a refund. “Whether or not the refund is paid is another issue,” he said.
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Aflao wants Paramountcy status
Togbe Amenya Fiti V, Chief of Aflao Tradition Area, has appealed to the
government to assist in raising the area, into a paramount status.
He explained that the traditional area was expanding at a faster rate
because of activities at the border and therefore upgrading its status would
accelerate development.
Togbe Fiti made the appeal when chiefs and elders of the Aflao
Traditional Council paid a courtesy call on the Volta Regional Minister, Kwasi
Owusu-Yeboa, at the residency at Ho.
Togbe Fiti described the Aflao Township as an ECOWAS City because of
the influx of ECOWAS City because of the influx of ECOWAS nationals to the town
and urged the government to expand infrastructural development there.
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Rape victim’s dad wants case dropped
Mohammed Ganda, a prison officer and the stepfather of a girl who was
defiled by Sergeant Godfred Nimoh, another prisons officer at Sunyani, has
written to the police to stop pursuing the case since the victim is of the
legal age of 18.
He was said to have stressed in the letter that the victim’s statement
were inconsistent even though the police were yet to conclude their
investigations.
Police Superintendent M. Salifu, the Regional Crime Officer, told the
‘Times’ in Sunyani that that Ganda had earlier been asked by the police to
provide the birth certificate of the victim as he claimed not to know her real
age.
Sergeant Nimoh, with two wives and six children, was said to have defiled
the victim on four previous occasions. He has denied having had carnal
knowledge of her.
Asked whether the police would discontinue investigations, the crime
officer said they were yet to decide.
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Man Impersonates Kwesi Nduom-and defrauds Revered Minister
A man described by the police as one of Ghana’s most celebrated
fraudsters has been arrested.
Micael Anthony Quantse, 34, who operates under 10 different names was
grabbed when he impersonate and presented himself as Dr. Kwesi Nduom, Minister
of Economic Planning and Integration to defraud a revered minister.
He so mesmerised Reverend James Nii Amponsah of Accra and succeeded in
defrauding him to the tune of 30 million cedis.
Quanste, after his arrest, was quickly arraigned before the Accra
Circuit Tribunal on Friday, September 21, and the Judge, Imoro Ziblim has
remanded him in prison custody until Thursday, October 11.
The court had heard that Quantse on various dates, used the name of Dr.
Kwesi Nduom, and a medical officer, Dr. Kofi Nyametse, and collected an amount
of 5.7 million cedis from Rev. James Nii Amponsah in the name of a non-existing
company, Padway Ghana Limited.
He told the man of God that the monies were meant for the Minister who
is a partner in the company. The suspect also employed the same tactics to
collect an Opel Kadett Caravan and a Renault Estate private car from the victim
with the promise to pay 3.1 million cedis and 3 million cedis respectively
within a month but vanished after collecting the cars.
Quantse also collected 60 bags of rice worth 12.2 million cedis from
Rev. Amponsah with the pretext of cooking them for a large American delegation
of Padway Ghana Limited, whom he claimed were due to arrive in the country, but
instead sold them and pocketed the money.
Rev. Amponsah said he obliged to the request because the suspect had
used the Minister’s name and thought it was a genuine business.
He disclosed that his suspicion heightened after he made enquiries at
the office of the Minister where the Minister’s secretary denied any
relationship between the suspect and the Minister.
Rev. Amponsah also said, he later made enquiries at the Register
General’s Department only to realise that Padway Ghana Limited has not been
registered as a company.
Rev. Amponsah said it was then that he realised that he had been
defrauded and reported the suspect’s conduct to the Tesano Police an August 28
who effected his arrest.
“What is painful is how I hosted the suspect in my house and gave him a
treatment befitting a business tycoon,” said Rev. Amponsah.
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Ninety-year old man demands Pension plan
The 90-year-old man, Mr. Emmanuel Sokpor, who worked with the Khup- Chandanis continuously for 67 years without pension, gratuity or End-of-Service Benefit, has requested his employers to build him a two-bedroom self-contained house.
He has made other demands in consultation with his lawyers. Mr. Sokpor
who made this known to “The Spectator” said that these are among a number of
requests, which would be laid bare at the negotiation table when both parties
meet.
Mr. Harry Khup-Chandani, Managing Director of Plastic Packaging
Products and Tandoor Restaurant in Accra, however, agreed to pay the oldman
some money after the amicable negotiation between lawyers of both parties.
Mr. Khup-Chandani, in our earlier report, was quoted, as saying that he
owned the old man nothing and was, therefore, not prepared to pay him anything.
A representative of Georgette Francoise and Associates, the legal firm
handling Mr Sokpor’s case told “The Spectator” on Tuesday that, the old man
instructed them to negotiate on his behalf on the terms he requested for.
The legal representative said the two-bedroom house the old man is
demanding, would enable him to have a decent accommodation and is
non-negotiable, but money involved is negotiable.
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