Guard dog eats baby's genitals
Man, 24, jailed 8 years
‘Increase loans to rural women’
Escalating crude prices, others affect CEPS cash
Shipping activities to be safe, quick, reliable
Father damages daughter's organ?
Guard dog eats baby's genitals
A horrifying incident occurred on a farm at Tiadene, a village near Seikwa in the Brong Ahafo Region at the weekend, when a dog chewed off the genitals of a three-month-old baby boy. The baby died later on the way to a health facility.
Mr yaw Barning, a resident of the area and close associate of the baby's father, told The Mirror that the baby was asleep under a shed on the farm when the incident occurred.
He said while the baby was asleep, his father, Mr Dompala Dagarti, made the dog to lie beside it to protect it while he did some work on the farm.
Mr Barning said while Mr Dagarti was working on the farm, he heard the shrill cry of the baby and rushed to the area only to find it in a pool of blood with the dog eating the last portions of the genitals. The baby died whiles being rushed to the clinic.
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Man, 24, jailed 8 years
The Mirror says a 24-year-old man would regret the day he decided to extend his stealing habits to the backyard garden of a Roman Catholic priest.
Sylvanus Agbakpe, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing two bunches of plantain from the farm of Rev Theodore Hevi, of the Fodome Parish of the Catholic Church on August 4.
Agbakpe, who is an ex-convict and described by the police as notorious, pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing and was convicted on his own plea by the court, presided over by His Honour U.P. Dery.
Prosecuting, Chief Inspector David Gomashie, told the court that on August 4, Rev. Hevi discovered that two bunches of plantain on his farm had been harvested by an unknown person.
The prosecutor said when all efforts to trace the foodstuff failed, some sympathisers became suspicious of Agbakpe.
According to Chief Inspector Gomashie, one Mr Selormey Kotsi, approached Agbakpe and feigned interest in the foodstuff, assuring him that he (Kotsi) would secretly send it to Accra the following day.
Mr Gomashie said Agbakpe was arrested and handed over to the police when he brought out the plantain from a nearby bush.
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‘Increase loans to rural women’
Participants at a public forum on poverty reduction have asked the government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to increase the present loans offered to women in the rural areas to ¢3.5 million.
The participants contend that the present loans, which range between ¢100,000 and ¢500,000 per beneficiary, are woefully inadequate.
According to them, if this was not done, the government’s poverty alleviation programme would be a mirage, since the present range of loans could only be spent on food and other domestic needs, instead of being used to expand their businesses.
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Escalating crude prices, others affect CEPS cash
Mr Kofi Opoku-Ntiamoah, Commissioner of Customs Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS) said escalating prices in crude oil as well as the unfavourable import and export trades had affected trade, consequently the revenue mobilization of the service.
He however, indicated that CEPS was determined to fulfil its projections for the 2001 fiscal year by mobilizing revenue to enable the government to finance its recurrent budget and other development programmes.
Mr Opoku-Ntiamoah disclosed this at an Advocacy Seminar on clearance and shipment procedures for importers and exporters in Accra on Thursday.
About 60 participants from the business community within the Private Enterprise Foundation (PEF) attended the two-day seminar jointly organised by PEF and Customs Excise and Preventive Service under the United Nations Development Programme Private Sector Programme.
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Shipping activities to be safe, quick, reliable
The Ghana Shippers Council (GSC) has initiated new programme in a bid to bring shipping related activities close to the business community in a quick, safe and reliable manner, reports The Ghanaian Times.
Mr Emmanuel Martey, Acting Chief Executive of the GSC made this know at the maiden meeting of the council at Tamale on Thursday, which was attended by some members of the business community from the North.
He disclosed that the council in partnership with a private firm, Ghana Community Network (GCNET) has began a project to replace the current manual and cumbersome documentation with an electronic transmission which would process trade and custom documents faster.
Mr Mantey mentioned that the council was playing a facilitating role in the development of transport infrastructure to ensure that transport problems of importers and exporters were reduced.
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Father damages daughter's organ?
He was firm in his resolve to extricate himself, "I did not do it to my daughter; God forbid. Forgive me if I should ever do such a thing" - Kojo Akpagah told an Accra Circuit Tribunal this week in defence of a charge of incest brought against him.
He swore before the court that what he was said to have done was preposterous. But a medical report on the 12-year-old girl shown to the tribunal reveals that the girl's cervix is widely opened and damaged, a situation, which medical experts described as unusual for a girl of her age.
The Spectator says Mr E. Anderson Yeboah, presiding, granted the accused, 38, a ¢10 million bail to be justified. The accused will appear before the tribunal again next Wednesday, September 5.
According to the Paper, The prosecution is now faced with establishing its case against the accused, given the stories of the two sides in the matter.
Police Inspector Mary Aglayo, told the court that Akpagah, a railway-crossing keeper, lives at Fise near Amasaman with his daughter. His wife had gone mentally ill.
The accused, she said, took advantage of the absence of his wife and started having sex with the girl.
The girl continuously complained to her grandmother about her father's conduct, but she (grandmother) did not believe the story and ignored the girl's complaints, until concerned neighbours decided to take up the matter and they did so swiftly.
They monitored the activities of Akpagah at home and arrested him, after they became suspicious. They handed him over to the Pokuase police for investigations.
The police referred the matter to the Women and Juvenile Unit of the Police for further investigation. During interrogation, the accused denied the offence but was charged to appear before the court to answer.
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