Ghana Post Elections

The Ghana Police Service has arrested six persons suspected to have played roles in the murder of the journalist Ahmed Hussein Suale. The undercover journalist was shot dead at Madina in Accra on January 16, this year. The suspects have been interrogated, their statements taken and released on police enquiry bail. The Director General in charge of Public Affairs of the Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mr David Eklu, who made this known in Kumasi yesterday, however, declined to mention the names of the suspects. In addition to the six, he said, the police had also given statement forms to Mr Kennedy Agyapong, Mr Kwasi Nyantakyi and Anas Aremeyaw Anas, all suspects in the case, to be filled and returned to the police. Mr Eklu, who was in the Ashanti Region to brief the media on the Police Administration’s communication strategy, said the police were looking for a cartographer to give them an artist’s impression of the perpetrators as had been given t...

The Accra High Court has granted bail in the sum of Gh₵5million with two sureties to a former CEO of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Mrs Sedina Tamakloe Attionu. Attionu was on Monday granted bail by the court, presided over by Mrs Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, after she pleaded not guilty to 78 counts of causing financial loss to the state, stealing, contravention of the public procurement act, among other charges The court also granted bail to Mr Daniel Axim, a former Operations Manager of MASLOC, who has been accused of conspiring with Mrs Attionu to allegedly cause financial loss to the state. MrAxim was granted bail in the sum of Gh₵1 million with one surety. Per the bail conditions as ordered by the court, the sureties must be people of good character with no criminal record or under any criminal investigations. Also the court ordered the accused persons to deposit their passports at the court’s registry. The case has been adjourned to March...

The Inter-Party Coalition for National Sovereignty (IPCNS), a political pressure group, has announced that it would embark on a demonstration in Accra on Thursday, February 7, to protest against what it describes as the breakdown of security in the country. The coalition is made up of political parties, including the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), the Convention People’s Party (CPP), the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), the All People’s Congress (APC) and the People’s National Convention (PNC). According to them, the open display of impunity and acts of violence instigated by pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante groups in the wake of last Thursday’s Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election had reached an alarming proportion, therefore, necessitating the need for an immediate and effective remedial action before the unthinkable happens. They made this disclosure at a press conference in Accra to express their displeasure over the violent clas...

Former President John Mahama has condemned Thursday’s violence at La Bawaleshie during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. Men dressed in black polo shirts and khaki trousers stormed a polling station where voting was ongoing to elect a new MP. The men are alleged to have fired gunshot and even slapped Ningo-Prampram MP Samuel George, who in a video, appeared to be questioning them. The NDC reacted to the violence by withdrawing from the by-election, accusing the NPP and the president of deliberately intimidating voters and their polling agents. Police in a statement put the number of injured persons to six and dispelled rumours that there were fatalities. They say the injured are responding to treatment at Legon and 37 Military hospitals. But Mahama, who blames the NPP for the violence said the NDC can do worse, warning the governing NPP that the opposition party will meet it boot for boot in 2020. John Mahama made the comments in the Volta Region on Thu...