Mob beats up cops, releases suspect
Landlord rapist saved from mob's wrath
Sixty percent service personnel to teach in rural areas
'Let information flow'
Pickpocket forced to expel $100
One man dies over guinea fowl
Mob beats up cops, releases suspect
The Ghanaian Times reports that a mob mainly youngmen from Ahenkro near Offinso in Ashanti, last Saturday attacked three policemen and freed their colleague being escorted to the Kodie Police Station in connection with an assault case.
The policemen, who were subjected to slaps and beatings, were named as Inspector K. Azaah, Sergeant J. Akensi and Constable Daniel Gaisie, all attached to the station.
Briefing the 'Times' here on Friday, police sources said that the station last Saturday morning received a report of assault involving the suspect, Kwabena Brobbey, also known as 'Teller', at Ahenkro.
Constable Gaisie was detailed to trace and escort the suspect to the station to assist in investigations.
Brobbey was said to have attacked Constable Gaisie and slapped him several times for inviting him to the police station.
The constable fled to the station and the sources said that inspector Azaah, the station officer, angered by the treatment meted out to his man, decided to effect the suspect's arrest himself.
Accompanied by Sgt Akensi, he succeeded in arresting the suspect but while waiting by the side of the road for a vehicle to the station, a group of people, including the suspect's mother, attacked them and rescued the suspect. A search have been mounted for their arrest.
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Landlord rapist saved from mob's wrath
Adjetey Adjei, 54, a landlord was nearly lynched by an angry mob when he was caught defiling a 12-year-old girl at Ajako, near Abokobi, last Monday, reports the Times.
Adjei was severely beaten, and but for the intervention of some neighbours, would have been lynched.
He was later frog-marched through the whole village, with angry parents and children booing, before he was eventually handed over to the police at Ayi Mensah.
The girl, who lives in the neighbourhood, was saved by neighbours who were attracted by her cries for help.
Mr Alexaunder Okunnor, a resident of the village, is reported to have told the paper that on September 3, the girl who was selling cassava cakes (Agbeli Kaklo) called on Adjei to enquire whether he would buy any.
Adjei lured her into his room and sexually assaulted her. A tenant of his, who heard the scream and cries of the girl, rushed out of his room and called for help.
"Adjei's house was invaded and he was caught red-handed with his trousers down, having just completed the illegal sexual act", Mr Okunnor alleged.
He said that the helpless girl was found with her panties torn and blood oozing from her private part. The police are still investigating.
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Sixty percent service personnel to teach in rural areas
Six out of 10 national service personnel will be posted to the rural communities to teach during the 2001/2002 service year, reports the Daily Graphic.
The rest, who are mostly professionals, will be posted to the district assemblies, which will assign them their specific duties, whiles about 1,000 personnel will be stationed at the universities as teaching assistants.
The acting Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), K.C. Appiah-Num, said in an interview in Accra on Friday that in all, 16,000 graduates and diplomats have been listed for the national service programme this year, adding that an amount of ¢392 billion will be required for the programme for the period.
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'Let information flow'
A senior Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), B. J. da Rocha, has strongly recommended a reduction in the number of documents classified as confidential to ensure the public's access to information.
The Daily Graphic quotes him as saying: "There are too many secrets in the country and the fewer they are made, the better it would be for this country to move forward."
He noted that apart from documents, which are classified as confidential, public places such as the Independence Square, Post Offices, Ports and Harbours are designated security zones and photographers, including those working for media houses, are debarred from taking pictures there.
Mr da Rocha said this at the launching of a draft bill on the Right to Information, initiated by the Institute of Economic Affairs, a public think-tank, in Accra on Friday and called on Parliament to spell out information to which there is an unqualified right of access and that which is exempt from access.
The twenty-eight-page draft document on the Right to Information Bill was launched by Ms Elizabeth Ohene, Minister of Media Relations and Government's Spokesperson.
The document, which is a working paper, is intended to stimulate interest and bring out suggestions for the formulation of a final document, which Parliament can be persuaded to pass into law.
The ceremony was attended by members of the Council of State, Ministers of State, MPs, media practitioners and the academia.
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Pickpocket forced to expel $100
The act of pick-pocketing has been so perfected that anyone in Accra can be quietly relieved of his money, passport, cheque-book or entire salary together with his back-pay, in a split-second. It is almost magical! writes the Spectator.
The Weekend paper continues that the capital has become so infested with the stylish thieves that a lady with a bag gets home only to realise that the money she is carrying is nowhere to be found, by 'courtesy' of a small hole created, through which the money is spirited away.
The experience of Kassim Yakubu Basha, is however, one of melodrama, according to the paper. He boarded a bus, and the man who sat next to him, leaned slightly towards him as if he wanted to spit through the window.
This seemed perfectly normal. But moments later, Kassim found out that the 100 dollar bill in his breast pocket was no longer there. It was amazing because no one had put his fingers into his pocket, and so the money could not have been anywhere else.
Anyhow, the man next to him, Samuel Nyarko, became his prime suspect, because of his proximity. Samuel, 20, unemployed, was confronted and scrupulously searched but nothing was found on him. When he was questioned about the missing money, he refused to speak. This further aroused suspicion.
Samuel was taken to the Nima Police Station and when he was questioned, he admitted swallowing the 100-dollar bill.
He was detained in police cells whilst being monitored. The following day, when Samuel visited the toilet, the money was expelled. He then handed it over to the police.
Samuel was put before the Osu Community Tribunal last Wednesday, chaired by Nana Donkor, charged with stealing. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years imprisonment in hard labour.
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One man dies over guinea fowl
A 35-year-old man, Ajusikum Anorm, did not only lose four guinea fowls, but his life as well when the suspected thief allegedly suffocated him on a rice farm, reports the Mirror.
According to Inspector Ali Seidu of the Sandema Police Station, Kwabena Akandewen, 48, who was released from prison barley two months ago, allegedly stole the four guinea fowls from Siniensi in the Builsa District of the Upper East Region, and sold them at the Sandema Market.
When Anorm was told by some neighbours that they saw Akandewen with the birds at the market, he decided to chase him to retrieve his guinea fowls. However, when Anorm met Akandewen, he had already sold the birds and was returning from the market.
According to Inspector Seidu, Anorm confronted Akandewen and in the process a struggled ensued between them.
During the struggle, they found themselves in a flooded rice field, where the ex-convict held the head of Anorm who was blind in one eye and suffocated him.
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