Page 3: Daily Graphic, September 17, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE arrest of a 72-year-old retired General of the United States Air Force for allegedly recording two naked women in his hotel room has stirred controversy within the police service over the real motive behind the arrest.
Before his arrest, General James Kellim had lodged a complaint against a businesswoman based in Accra, Patience Boateng, who is being prosecuted for defrauding the general of more than $50,000. And the arrest has raised suspicion within the service that it could be a ploy by some individuals to torpedo the prosecution.
Subsequently, the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), DCOP Frank Adu-Poku, has ordered the release of Gen Kellim from the police cells because he suspected foul play in the matter.
General James Kellim was arrested by the police last Tuesday but the action sparked controversy and anger within the service to the effect that it was intended to disrupt the case against Patience Boateng, manageress of a hotel in Accra, who has been charged with using the retired soldier’s ATM card to withdraw various sums of money from his account.
When the case was set for prosecution, Patience Boateng petitioned the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau (PIPS) against unlawful arrest, which made the PIPS to order the Commercial Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to suspend the investigations and prosecution.
The Director-General in charge of Legal and Prosecutions, DCOP James Oppong-Buanuh, told the Daily Graphic that he ordered the prosecution of the suspect in the case brought by Gen Kellim because enough evidence had been adduced against Patience Boateng.
Other senior officers wondered why PIPS did not refer the matter to the appropriate unit to investigate but held a press briefing on it.
According to them, although PIPS could have effected the arrest, the unit should have handed the case to a unit to investigate, since PIPS was an internal professional investigative body to deal with the conduct of police personnel but not criminal matters involving civilians.
When the head of the Commercial Crime Unit, Superintendent Maame Yaa Tiwaa, was contacted, she declined to comment on the issue except to say that she and her investigators were due to appear before PIPS on Friday, September 18, 2009, on the same matter.
Counsel for Gen Kellim, Mr Joe Debrah, told the Daily Graphic that the conduct of the personnel who effected his client’s arrest was a dent on the Ghana Police Service.
“This is not the Ghana Police Service but some individuals in a private effort under the guise of public duty to torpedo the real case. These are the things that impugn the name of the police,” he said.
He said when the PIPS wrote to the CCU to suspend the prosecutions, they petitioned the Inspector General of Police in a September 8, 2009 statement expressing concern about the instructions of PIPS.
He said the IGP’s attention was drawn to the fact that it was only the Attorney-General who could enter a Nolle Prosequi since the case was a felony.
A lawyer and criminologist, Professor Ken Attafuah, described the arrest and publication of the incident as a sad story.
He explained that Gen Kellim had not produced any pornographic material and sold it or distributed for commercial purposes as frowned upon by the law.
Prof Attafuah said the state had no business in the bedroom of anybody, including a hotel room, where the sexual activities of consenting heterosexual adults are carried out.
According to him, if obscenity was alleged, then the critical ingredients of producing it for sale and distribution to corrupt public morals must have occurred, stressing that “if it is for private consumption, no offence is committed”.
Besides that, he said the comments by the head of PIPS, ACP Timothy Ashiley, at the briefing that Ghanaian women should be wary of white men who promised them marriage and sending them abroad were racist and xenophobic.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Police confirm case against Lamptey Mills
Front Page: Daily Graphic, September 15, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE Daily Graphic can confirm that the embattled proprietor of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills, spent 20 hours and five minutes in the cells of the Ministries Police Station, where he was detained last Wednesday.
Although he has come out to deny knowledge of any case against him, records at the Ministries Police Station indicate that he was sent to the cells at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 and released at 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, September 10, 2009.
Highly placed sources at the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) told the Daily Graphic yesterday that Mr Joseph Sackey of House No. 391/1, Korle Gonno, stood surety for him at the time of his release on bail in the sum of GH¢5,000 last Thursday.
The sources said Lamptey Mills, alias Mr Tee, allegedly admitted impregnating one of his former students and forcing to marry the 16-year-old girl.
According to the sources, the suspect, who is expected be arraigned soon, allegedly told the police that the building he promised the girl was at the roofing level.
Lamptey Mills, the sources said, also allegedly promised to take the then yet-to-be-born child to South Africa for education, while the mother would remain in Ghana to continue her education to the university level.
The suspect, the sources said, claimed that the relationship with the girl started when he was paying the victim’s school fees after she informed him that her parents were unable to pay her fees.
The Daily Graphic, in its September 11, 2009 issue, reported the arrest of Mills by the police for impregnating and forcing to marry the girl.
One year after the girl had given birth, Lamptey Mills had failed to keep to his promise of building a house for her, providing for the upkeep of mother and child, as well as restoring the girl to school.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening and he spent the night in cells at the Ministries Police Station.
However, after his release on Thursday afternoon, Lamptey Mills denied impregnating a 16 year-old former student of his school and subsequently forcing her into marriage.
Speaking to Citi News on Friday, Mr Enoch Lamptey Mills denied ever committing the alleged crime.
He accused the Daily Graphic, which published the story on Friday, for peddling falsehood and using its front page to destroy him and to tarnish the image of his school.
“It is completely false. If somebody has brought you a false story, why can’t you call me to find out? Nobody called me. I didn’t know anything about it till this morning think the front page of the Daily Graphic is only designed to destroy people,” he said
“I would come out with a press release soon to clear my name,” he added.
Great Lamptey-Mills Institute, formerly Lamptey-Mills Institute, was established on February 4, 1963 by the Late Rev. Abraham Samuel Lamptey-Mills after whom the school was named. The Junior High School Department was later established on September 31, 1994 by the current director of the school, Mr Enoch Lamptey-Mills.
The Senior Secondary Department was also founded in 2005 by the same director.
He was among a number of persons who received national awards last year.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE Daily Graphic can confirm that the embattled proprietor of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills, spent 20 hours and five minutes in the cells of the Ministries Police Station, where he was detained last Wednesday.
Although he has come out to deny knowledge of any case against him, records at the Ministries Police Station indicate that he was sent to the cells at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 and released at 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, September 10, 2009.
Highly placed sources at the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) told the Daily Graphic yesterday that Mr Joseph Sackey of House No. 391/1, Korle Gonno, stood surety for him at the time of his release on bail in the sum of GH¢5,000 last Thursday.
The sources said Lamptey Mills, alias Mr Tee, allegedly admitted impregnating one of his former students and forcing to marry the 16-year-old girl.
According to the sources, the suspect, who is expected be arraigned soon, allegedly told the police that the building he promised the girl was at the roofing level.
Lamptey Mills, the sources said, also allegedly promised to take the then yet-to-be-born child to South Africa for education, while the mother would remain in Ghana to continue her education to the university level.
The suspect, the sources said, claimed that the relationship with the girl started when he was paying the victim’s school fees after she informed him that her parents were unable to pay her fees.
The Daily Graphic, in its September 11, 2009 issue, reported the arrest of Mills by the police for impregnating and forcing to marry the girl.
One year after the girl had given birth, Lamptey Mills had failed to keep to his promise of building a house for her, providing for the upkeep of mother and child, as well as restoring the girl to school.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening and he spent the night in cells at the Ministries Police Station.
However, after his release on Thursday afternoon, Lamptey Mills denied impregnating a 16 year-old former student of his school and subsequently forcing her into marriage.
Speaking to Citi News on Friday, Mr Enoch Lamptey Mills denied ever committing the alleged crime.
He accused the Daily Graphic, which published the story on Friday, for peddling falsehood and using its front page to destroy him and to tarnish the image of his school.
“It is completely false. If somebody has brought you a false story, why can’t you call me to find out? Nobody called me. I didn’t know anything about it till this morning think the front page of the Daily Graphic is only designed to destroy people,” he said
“I would come out with a press release soon to clear my name,” he added.
Great Lamptey-Mills Institute, formerly Lamptey-Mills Institute, was established on February 4, 1963 by the Late Rev. Abraham Samuel Lamptey-Mills after whom the school was named. The Junior High School Department was later established on September 31, 1994 by the current director of the school, Mr Enoch Lamptey-Mills.
The Senior Secondary Department was also founded in 2005 by the same director.
He was among a number of persons who received national awards last year.
SCANDAL - Lamptey Mills granted bail
Front Page: Daily Graphic, September 12, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE proprietor of Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills has been granted a court bail by the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU).
He has been formally charged with forceful marriage of a minor and failing to take responsibility as a father.
The DOVVSU is also investigating the mother and grandmother of the girl for aiding and abetment of crime.
At the time of filing this report, the two women had been invited by DOVVSU for interrogation.
The victim’s biological parents are divorced and was staying with the mother and stepfather.
The Daily Graphic in its September 11, 2009 issue, reported the arrest of Mills by the police for impregnating and forcing to marry a 16-year-old former student of his school.
One year after the girl gave birth, Mills had failed to keep to his promise of building a house for her, providing for the upkeep of mother and child, as well as restoring the girl to school.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening and spent the night in cells at the Ministries Police Station.
He was granted bail late Thursday, September 10, 2009 by the police.
The Public Relations Officer of DOVVSU, Chief Inspector Irene Oppong, explained to the Daily Graphic yesterday that the suspect could not be charged for defilement because at 16 years, a female could consent to sex as provided by the law.
Moreover, she said, since the family members consented to the performance of marriage rites, it would be out of place to charge the suspect for defilement.
Chief Inspector Oppong said it was on that basis that the police were holding the parents of the girl for aiding and abetment of crime.
She said the suspect after his arrest, had also allegedly promised to fulfil his obligations as a husband and father to mother and child.
The suspect is alleged to have started going out with the victim, who was then in the boarding house of the school at Kasoa.
After the girl became pregnant, Mills approached the family of the girl to abort the pregnancy but the suggestion of aborting the foetus, which was then less than two months old, was declined by the girl’s parent following which Mills offered to perform the marriage rites after asking the girl to stay out of school to take care of herself and the pregnancy.
He also allegedly promised to take care of the girl, build a house for her and support her to return to school to continue with her education.
However, according to police sources, after performing the rites, Mills abandoned the girl and her family until he was informed that the girl had given birth.
They said on hearing that the girl had given birth, the suspect informed the family of the girl that he doubted whether he was responsible for the pregnancy and demanded a DNA test to be conducted.
According to the sources, after failing to show up on promised dates for the two parties to go for laboratory samples to be taken for the DNA test to be conducted, the family of the girl reported the matter to the police.
Section 14 (1) of the Children’s Act, 1998 provides that “No person shall force a child: (a) to be betrothed; (b) to be the subject of a dowry transaction; or (c) to be married.
Subsection 2 of Section 14 provides that “the minimum age of marriage of whatever kind shall be 18 years”.
The penalty for contravening the above as stated in section 15 provides that “Any person who contravenes a provision of this sub-part commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding GH¢500 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both."
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE proprietor of Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills has been granted a court bail by the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU).
He has been formally charged with forceful marriage of a minor and failing to take responsibility as a father.
The DOVVSU is also investigating the mother and grandmother of the girl for aiding and abetment of crime.
At the time of filing this report, the two women had been invited by DOVVSU for interrogation.
The victim’s biological parents are divorced and was staying with the mother and stepfather.
The Daily Graphic in its September 11, 2009 issue, reported the arrest of Mills by the police for impregnating and forcing to marry a 16-year-old former student of his school.
One year after the girl gave birth, Mills had failed to keep to his promise of building a house for her, providing for the upkeep of mother and child, as well as restoring the girl to school.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening and spent the night in cells at the Ministries Police Station.
He was granted bail late Thursday, September 10, 2009 by the police.
The Public Relations Officer of DOVVSU, Chief Inspector Irene Oppong, explained to the Daily Graphic yesterday that the suspect could not be charged for defilement because at 16 years, a female could consent to sex as provided by the law.
Moreover, she said, since the family members consented to the performance of marriage rites, it would be out of place to charge the suspect for defilement.
Chief Inspector Oppong said it was on that basis that the police were holding the parents of the girl for aiding and abetment of crime.
She said the suspect after his arrest, had also allegedly promised to fulfil his obligations as a husband and father to mother and child.
The suspect is alleged to have started going out with the victim, who was then in the boarding house of the school at Kasoa.
After the girl became pregnant, Mills approached the family of the girl to abort the pregnancy but the suggestion of aborting the foetus, which was then less than two months old, was declined by the girl’s parent following which Mills offered to perform the marriage rites after asking the girl to stay out of school to take care of herself and the pregnancy.
He also allegedly promised to take care of the girl, build a house for her and support her to return to school to continue with her education.
However, according to police sources, after performing the rites, Mills abandoned the girl and her family until he was informed that the girl had given birth.
They said on hearing that the girl had given birth, the suspect informed the family of the girl that he doubted whether he was responsible for the pregnancy and demanded a DNA test to be conducted.
According to the sources, after failing to show up on promised dates for the two parties to go for laboratory samples to be taken for the DNA test to be conducted, the family of the girl reported the matter to the police.
Section 14 (1) of the Children’s Act, 1998 provides that “No person shall force a child: (a) to be betrothed; (b) to be the subject of a dowry transaction; or (c) to be married.
Subsection 2 of Section 14 provides that “the minimum age of marriage of whatever kind shall be 18 years”.
The penalty for contravening the above as stated in section 15 provides that “Any person who contravenes a provision of this sub-part commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding GH¢500 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both."
Police foil armed robbery
Page 19: Daily Graphic, September 12, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
TWO suspected armed robbers were arrested last Wednesday, September 9, 2009, by the police as they began to assemble to rob in a house at New Achimota, Accra.
Maxwell Mohammed Amin, 24, alias Pussycat, and Uche Ogbonna, 28, are currently in custody at the Accra Regional Police Command.
Surprisingly, Pussycat, a deportee from Italy, was on the wanted list of the police for leading a robbery operation at Ashongman, this year.
Some arms were later retrieved from his residence at the Sodom and Gomorrah slum after he was pursued to the house.
Briefing newsmen in his office yesterday, the Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, ACP Christian Tetteh Yohuno, said within the month of August 2009, the police had information that some armed robbers wanted to attack a house around the Kingsby Hotel at New Achimota.
He said based on that intelligence report, the police planted some personnel in the said house, and for four consecutive occasions, the armed robbers failed to show up.
According to him, the police became suspicious that there was someone in the house who was relaying information to the armed robbers.
ACP Yohuno said when the police had the latest information, they decided not to lay ambush in the house, but to monitor events from a close range.
He said in the night of September 9, 2009, the day the gang was expected to attack the house, the police monitored the grouping place of the gang until they all assembled.
Unfortunately for the police, he said, three members of the gang managed to escape, while Pussycat and Uche were arrested.
ACP Yohuno said it was at the police station that Pussycat was identified as a member of the robbery gang that robbed a house at Ashongman Estates on June 28, this year.
He said it was also detected that Pussycat had trimmed his hair, making him look different from who he was in a picture the police had.
He recalled that on June 28, 2009, some robbers attacked a house at Ashongman and took away GH¢2,800, $1,500, £1,000 and 10 mobile phones.
The Daily Graphic, in its July 1, 2009 edition, published the arrest of two members of the said gang, identified then as Joseph and Ben, while they were attempting to escape from neighbours and the police when their victim shouted for help.
In its August 7, 2009 edition, the Daily Graphic again reported the arrest of two more suspects involved in the June 28, 2009 Ashongman robbery.
Rauf Suleiman, 28, and Godwin Kofi, 21, are the latest to be arrested after two others, Joseph Adam, 21, and Ben Kwame, 22, had been arrested on the day of the robbery.
The fifth suspect, who was then identified only as Pussycat, was the only suspect yet to be arrested.
ACP Yohuno said it was a good news arresting Pussycat in the foiled New Achimota robbery as all members of the Ashongman robbery had been nabbed.
He said soon after the Ashongman robbery, Pussycat had moved out of the Sodom and Gomorrah area to live at Abeka, where he was operating from, with new members of a robbery gang.
Story: Albert K. Salia
TWO suspected armed robbers were arrested last Wednesday, September 9, 2009, by the police as they began to assemble to rob in a house at New Achimota, Accra.
Maxwell Mohammed Amin, 24, alias Pussycat, and Uche Ogbonna, 28, are currently in custody at the Accra Regional Police Command.
Surprisingly, Pussycat, a deportee from Italy, was on the wanted list of the police for leading a robbery operation at Ashongman, this year.
Some arms were later retrieved from his residence at the Sodom and Gomorrah slum after he was pursued to the house.
Briefing newsmen in his office yesterday, the Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, ACP Christian Tetteh Yohuno, said within the month of August 2009, the police had information that some armed robbers wanted to attack a house around the Kingsby Hotel at New Achimota.
He said based on that intelligence report, the police planted some personnel in the said house, and for four consecutive occasions, the armed robbers failed to show up.
According to him, the police became suspicious that there was someone in the house who was relaying information to the armed robbers.
ACP Yohuno said when the police had the latest information, they decided not to lay ambush in the house, but to monitor events from a close range.
He said in the night of September 9, 2009, the day the gang was expected to attack the house, the police monitored the grouping place of the gang until they all assembled.
Unfortunately for the police, he said, three members of the gang managed to escape, while Pussycat and Uche were arrested.
ACP Yohuno said it was at the police station that Pussycat was identified as a member of the robbery gang that robbed a house at Ashongman Estates on June 28, this year.
He said it was also detected that Pussycat had trimmed his hair, making him look different from who he was in a picture the police had.
He recalled that on June 28, 2009, some robbers attacked a house at Ashongman and took away GH¢2,800, $1,500, £1,000 and 10 mobile phones.
The Daily Graphic, in its July 1, 2009 edition, published the arrest of two members of the said gang, identified then as Joseph and Ben, while they were attempting to escape from neighbours and the police when their victim shouted for help.
In its August 7, 2009 edition, the Daily Graphic again reported the arrest of two more suspects involved in the June 28, 2009 Ashongman robbery.
Rauf Suleiman, 28, and Godwin Kofi, 21, are the latest to be arrested after two others, Joseph Adam, 21, and Ben Kwame, 22, had been arrested on the day of the robbery.
The fifth suspect, who was then identified only as Pussycat, was the only suspect yet to be arrested.
ACP Yohuno said it was a good news arresting Pussycat in the foiled New Achimota robbery as all members of the Ashongman robbery had been nabbed.
He said soon after the Ashongman robbery, Pussycat had moved out of the Sodom and Gomorrah area to live at Abeka, where he was operating from, with new members of a robbery gang.
Friday, September 11, 2009
SCANDAL AT SCHOOL * Proprietor of Great Lamptey Mills held for impregnating 16-yr-old
Front Page: Daily Graphic, September 11, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE proprietor of Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills, has been arrested by the police for impregnating and forcing to marry a 16-year-old former student of his school.
He is alleged to have performed the marriage rites to make his 16-year-old victim his wife, after impregnating the girl who was then a student of Great Lamptey Mills Senior High School at Kasoa.
He is being held on charges of compulsion of marriage of a teenager.
Police sources said one year after the girl gave birth, Mills had failed to keep to his promise of building a house for her, provide for the upkeep of mother and child, as well as restore the girl, who is now 17, to school.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening and spent the night in cells at the Ministries Police Station.
According to the police, the suspect started going out with the victim, who was then in the boarding house of the school at Kasoa, and when the girl became pregnant and informed him and her parents about it, Mills approached the family of the girl to abort the pregnancy.
Her parents, however, declined the suggestion of aborting the foetus, which was then less than two months old, following which Mills offered to perform the marriage rites after asking the girl to stay out of school to take care of herself and the pregnancy.
He also promised to take care of the girl, build a house for her and support her to return to school to continue with her education.
However, according to police sources, after performing the rites, Mills abandoned the girl and her family until he was informed that the girl had given birth.
They said on hearing that the girl had given birth, the suspect informed the family of the girl that he doubted whether he was responsible for the pregnancy and demanded a DNA test to be conducted.
According to the sources, after failing to show up on promised dates for the two parties to go for laboratory samples to be taken for the DNA test to be conducted, the family of the girl reported the matter to the police.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, Chief Inspector Irene Oppong, confirmed that the suspect was under custody and assisting in investigations into the matter.
Section 14 (1) of the Children’s Act, 1998 provides that “No person shall force a child: (a) to be betrothed; (b) to be the subject of a dowry transaction; or (c) to be married.
Subsection 2 of Section 14 provides that “the minimum age of marriage of whatever kind shall be 18 years”.
The penalty for contravening the above as stated in section 15 provides that “Any person who contravenes a provision of this sub-part commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding GH¢500 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both”.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE proprietor of Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills, has been arrested by the police for impregnating and forcing to marry a 16-year-old former student of his school.
He is alleged to have performed the marriage rites to make his 16-year-old victim his wife, after impregnating the girl who was then a student of Great Lamptey Mills Senior High School at Kasoa.
He is being held on charges of compulsion of marriage of a teenager.
Police sources said one year after the girl gave birth, Mills had failed to keep to his promise of building a house for her, provide for the upkeep of mother and child, as well as restore the girl, who is now 17, to school.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening and spent the night in cells at the Ministries Police Station.
According to the police, the suspect started going out with the victim, who was then in the boarding house of the school at Kasoa, and when the girl became pregnant and informed him and her parents about it, Mills approached the family of the girl to abort the pregnancy.
Her parents, however, declined the suggestion of aborting the foetus, which was then less than two months old, following which Mills offered to perform the marriage rites after asking the girl to stay out of school to take care of herself and the pregnancy.
He also promised to take care of the girl, build a house for her and support her to return to school to continue with her education.
However, according to police sources, after performing the rites, Mills abandoned the girl and her family until he was informed that the girl had given birth.
They said on hearing that the girl had given birth, the suspect informed the family of the girl that he doubted whether he was responsible for the pregnancy and demanded a DNA test to be conducted.
According to the sources, after failing to show up on promised dates for the two parties to go for laboratory samples to be taken for the DNA test to be conducted, the family of the girl reported the matter to the police.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, Chief Inspector Irene Oppong, confirmed that the suspect was under custody and assisting in investigations into the matter.
Section 14 (1) of the Children’s Act, 1998 provides that “No person shall force a child: (a) to be betrothed; (b) to be the subject of a dowry transaction; or (c) to be married.
Subsection 2 of Section 14 provides that “the minimum age of marriage of whatever kind shall be 18 years”.
The penalty for contravening the above as stated in section 15 provides that “Any person who contravenes a provision of this sub-part commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding GH¢500 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both”.
Student arrested with police pistol
Page 14: Daily Graphic, September 11, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
AN 18-year-old student has been arrested by the police for attempting to sell a pistol belonging to the Ghana Police Service.
Solomon Konadu was arrested at Accra New Town, while waiting for the prospective buyer.
At the time of filing this report, the police in Accra were getting in touch with their Brong Ahafo Regional counterparts to identify the source of the pistol with registration number 189966.
The Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Christian Tetteh Yohuno told the Daily Graphic yesterday that after his arrest, Solomon told the police that he brought the pistol from Sunyani, where he was based.
He said the suspect claimed that he found the pistol in the drawer of a table he collected from a deceased man’s house.
According to him, Solomon said he decided to sell it because he did not need it.
In a related development, ACP Yohuno said a team of police and military personnel had retrieved five pistols, a toy gun, nine rounds of ammunition and a bottle containing red substance suspected to be alcohol.
He said three persons suspected to be an armed robbery gang, however, managed to escape while a taxi driver, Kojo Anthony, in whose car the suspects were, has been arrested.
He said a snap check team mounted on the Ring Road West, opposite the premises of State Housing Company, spotted the taxi approaching around 12:25 am and asked the driver to stop.
ACP Yohuno said the occupants of the vehicle reluctantly got down from the vehicle when they were asked to. He said when one of them came out with a black handbag, he was asked to discharge its contents for inspection.
According to him, the person threw the bag at the policeman and jumped across the road, scaled the Awudome Cemetery and escaped with the other two.
He said before the other security members could get close, they had all scaled the wall of the cemetery.
ACP Yohuno said the driver could, however, not escape and he was subsequently arrested.
Story: Albert K. Salia
AN 18-year-old student has been arrested by the police for attempting to sell a pistol belonging to the Ghana Police Service.
Solomon Konadu was arrested at Accra New Town, while waiting for the prospective buyer.
At the time of filing this report, the police in Accra were getting in touch with their Brong Ahafo Regional counterparts to identify the source of the pistol with registration number 189966.
The Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Christian Tetteh Yohuno told the Daily Graphic yesterday that after his arrest, Solomon told the police that he brought the pistol from Sunyani, where he was based.
He said the suspect claimed that he found the pistol in the drawer of a table he collected from a deceased man’s house.
According to him, Solomon said he decided to sell it because he did not need it.
In a related development, ACP Yohuno said a team of police and military personnel had retrieved five pistols, a toy gun, nine rounds of ammunition and a bottle containing red substance suspected to be alcohol.
He said three persons suspected to be an armed robbery gang, however, managed to escape while a taxi driver, Kojo Anthony, in whose car the suspects were, has been arrested.
He said a snap check team mounted on the Ring Road West, opposite the premises of State Housing Company, spotted the taxi approaching around 12:25 am and asked the driver to stop.
ACP Yohuno said the occupants of the vehicle reluctantly got down from the vehicle when they were asked to. He said when one of them came out with a black handbag, he was asked to discharge its contents for inspection.
According to him, the person threw the bag at the policeman and jumped across the road, scaled the Awudome Cemetery and escaped with the other two.
He said before the other security members could get close, they had all scaled the wall of the cemetery.
ACP Yohuno said the driver could, however, not escape and he was subsequently arrested.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Three American Drug suspects picked at KIA
Page 3: Daily Graphic, September 10, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THREE Americans were yesterday arrested at the Kotoka International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Two of the them, Abena Serwaah, 19, and Shadrack Ntiamoah Bamfo, 23, are of Ghanaian parentage while the third, Joanne Gabriel, 21, is an African-American.
Besides concealing the suspected drugs in the three pairs of snickers they wore, Abena and Joanne had stuffed their private parts with four large lump-size of the drugs. Joanne alone carried three of the four lump-size drugs in her private parts. Also found on Abena Serwaa was a talisman believed to have been secured to protect them against arrest.
For his part, Shadrack also concealed 19 pellets of the suspected drugs in his underwear.
They were arrested while going through departure formalities to travel to New York.
The three suspects had arrived in Ghana on September 2, this year, on the sponsorship of someone identified only as Alhaji Saibu.
The suspects were allegedly sent to Ghana by the boyfriend of Abena Serwaah, whom they identified as Abubakari Issaka, who is based in Bronx, New York.
Interestingly, Abu, as the suspects called him, was also the former boyfriend of Joanne.
Confirming the arrests to the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, the acting Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board, Mr Yaw Akrasi-Sarpong, said Abena and his boyfriend, Abu, had earlier visited Ghana in May this year.
He said information gathered by NACOB indicated that Abena and Shadrack knew they were coming to Ghana for the drugs.
Joanne, he said, was, however, convinced by Alhaji Saibu and one Black Sunday while in Ghana to carry the drugs along.
Mr Akrasi-Sarpong said efforts were underway to apprehend Alhaji Saibu and another gentleman whom the suspects identified as Black Sunday.
He explained that Alhaji Saibu and Black Sunday met the suspects on arrival, booked the hotel for them and also provided them with the drugs.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THREE Americans were yesterday arrested at the Kotoka International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Two of the them, Abena Serwaah, 19, and Shadrack Ntiamoah Bamfo, 23, are of Ghanaian parentage while the third, Joanne Gabriel, 21, is an African-American.
Besides concealing the suspected drugs in the three pairs of snickers they wore, Abena and Joanne had stuffed their private parts with four large lump-size of the drugs. Joanne alone carried three of the four lump-size drugs in her private parts. Also found on Abena Serwaa was a talisman believed to have been secured to protect them against arrest.
For his part, Shadrack also concealed 19 pellets of the suspected drugs in his underwear.
They were arrested while going through departure formalities to travel to New York.
The three suspects had arrived in Ghana on September 2, this year, on the sponsorship of someone identified only as Alhaji Saibu.
The suspects were allegedly sent to Ghana by the boyfriend of Abena Serwaah, whom they identified as Abubakari Issaka, who is based in Bronx, New York.
Interestingly, Abu, as the suspects called him, was also the former boyfriend of Joanne.
Confirming the arrests to the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, the acting Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board, Mr Yaw Akrasi-Sarpong, said Abena and his boyfriend, Abu, had earlier visited Ghana in May this year.
He said information gathered by NACOB indicated that Abena and Shadrack knew they were coming to Ghana for the drugs.
Joanne, he said, was, however, convinced by Alhaji Saibu and one Black Sunday while in Ghana to carry the drugs along.
Mr Akrasi-Sarpong said efforts were underway to apprehend Alhaji Saibu and another gentleman whom the suspects identified as Black Sunday.
He explained that Alhaji Saibu and Black Sunday met the suspects on arrival, booked the hotel for them and also provided them with the drugs.
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