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I Need A Visa To Visit Odododiodoo…Show Me Where The Consulate Is

Eric — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:56:58 +0000

Audio Attachment: Listen to Ursula Owusu

Today, Im being told Ihad no legitimate business in Odododiodio so I should not have gone there and that if I ever want to visit Odododiodoo or any other constituency apart from Ablekuma South, I have to apply for and be issued with a visa? Ok, tell me where the consulate for Odododiodio is? They should show me where to apply for a visa so I can visit Odododiodio, were the words of Madam Ursula Owusu, aspiring New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South.

She was responding to critics who have slammed her for her decision to go to Odododiodoo and who opine she only suffered an assault because she was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

A couple of weeks ago, Ursula Owusu, in the company of Samuel Abu Jinapor, an aide to Nana Akufo Addo, presidential candidate of the NPP, had visited the Odododiodoo constituency to encourage supporters of the party to register in order to vote in the upcoming December elections when she was attacked by a group of macho men suspected to be linked to the NDC parliamentary aspirant for the constituency, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije.

However, some members of the ruling party say the NPP aspirant had it coming since she had no business going to the Odododiodoo constituency to educate prospective voters.

But contributing to discussions onPeace FMs Kokrokoo Morning Show, the Gender Advocate questioned the logic behind remarks that she had no business visiting another candidates constituency aside Ablekuma South.

They accuse me of abandoning my constituency and somewhat trespassing into another constituency. For over 20 years, I have journeyed throughout the country educating women on their rights and explaining legal issues to them, long before I decided to go into mainstream politics. And now, simply because Im running for parliament, I should stop what Ive been doing for ages? For me, I believe this is what God has endowed me with to help others and I will not allow people to stop me, Ursula said.

In a tone dripping with deep sarcasm, she added: We have a sitting MP in Odododiodio; he is not even demanding that one seeks permission before coming to his constituency, but someone else who is seeking to become the mouthpiece of the constituents in Parliament, is now acting as Lord over all he surveys and demanding for a visa? I wonder if such a person is the one the people of Odododiodio want to be their MP.

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Bawumia: Focus media discussions on issues not personalities

Eric — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:27:09 +0000

Bawumia: Focus media discussions on issues not personalities

The Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has admonished the media to focus its discussions on issues that will develop the country rather than those that attack and denigrate personalities.

According to Dr. Bawumia, the repeal of the Criminal Libel Law under the Kufuor administration and the freedom the media is enjoying now should not be taken for granted, and must be used as a means of building national consensus.

Dr. Bawumia was interacting with the media where he indicated that focusing on issues that unite the country would help propel its relevant sectors, especially as we approach this years elections.

He said: As free as our media is, there are positive aspects to it as well as negative aspects, but I do acknowledge that the positive aspects outweigh the negative aspects. We see of some press houses or newspapers just trying to tear people down.

I will hope that as we proceed in this years election, we will focus discussions on issues and away from personalities. I think its important for this country, we owe it to this country to really focus on issues, the running mate of Nana Akufo-Addo said.

Dr. Bawumia, who was a former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana, will on Wednesday, May 2, deliver the 2012 Ferdinand O. Ayim Memorial Lectures on the topic The State of the Economy.

The lecture will take place at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Independence Avenue, Accra, at 6pm.

Fetish priest sentenced to death by hanging

Eric — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:19:15 +0000

A Koforidua High Court Wednesday sentenced a 37-year-old fetish priest to death by hanging after he was found guilty of murdering a 30-year-old trader,, Rita Baah, at Okorase, near Koforidua.

Joseph Tetteh, alias Mallam, was unanimously found guilty by a seven-member jury for murdering Rita, alias Afia Atta, at his shrine at Domeabra, a suburb of Okorase, on November 15, 2009.

The judgement came after a two-year legal battle in a case that saw most lawyers in Koforidua declining to defend the spiritualist in a bid not to incur the anger of residents of the regional capital where Rita was very popular.

Luckily, a lawyer from Nkawkaw, Mr Kin Hussein Ibn Alhassan, took up the case to defend the convict.

Pronouncing the sentence, the presiding judge, Justice Simon Suurebareh, said, You are to be taken back to the prison where you came from and you will be hanged with a rope till you are dead and your body will be buried at a place the Republic may order.

After the sentence by the court, which was attended mostly by the family of the deceased who were clad in black, Tetteh, who wore a T-shirt over a pair of trousers, sat undisturbed.

Only God knows how innocent I am. I will come out while those who want me to be jailed will pay dearly, he remarked.

Prior to the sentence, a State Attorney, Ms Akpene Motey, had told the court that Rita was a trader residing at Osabene, Mile 50, near Koforidua, while the convict, who was 25 at the time he murdered Rita, resided at Domeabra Junction at Okorase, near Koforidua.

She said about 12.50 a.m. on November 15, 2009, the Chief of Ahwerase-Akuapem, Nana Semanshia Ohene Ansah Akofa II, and four of his elders were travelling from Akropong-Akuapem to Suhum.

When they reached Okorase, they saw the convict on his motorbike, with registration number GN 8843 Z, heading towards Mile 50 in Koforidua.

They thought the convict had stolen a goat when they saw something tied to the motorbike and when they got closer, they saw a human hand stick out of the cloth used to wrap the body of the deceased, Ms Motey said.

On seeing the human hand, Nana Akofa and his elders sped to catch up with the convict.

When they caught up with him, they confronted Tetteh and when they tried to arrest him, he abandoned the motorbike and Ritas body and ran away.

Nana Akofa and his elders called the Koforidua Central Police Station to report the incident and a number of police personnel were later dispatched to the scene, where they found marks of violence on the body of the deceased, she stated.

The State Attorney said that the convict was later arrested in a bush by a search party at Tei Nkwanta, also near Okorase.

She said the police accompanied him to his shrine where he lived and found a bloodstained hammer, a knife, red calico soaked with blood, the deceaseds slippers, wristwatch, purse and mobile phone, as well as a mat soaked with blood.

Justifying her call on the jury to enter a verdict of guilty, Ms Motey said a medical report adduced in the court by a pathologist revealed that Rita had sustained a 4.2 centimetre deep cut on her head, fractured skull, marks of violence on her body and suffocation that caused her death.

From these pieces of evidence, Rita died from sustained damage to the brain, trauma, fractures to the skull and these unlawful harm were intentionally caused by the convict, she stated.

According to her, the convict had been inconsistent in giving evidence in court and to the police.

In evidence in court, the convict said he was taking the deceased to the hospital, but in his caution statement to the police, he said he was going to dump the body of Rita at Osabene, where she lived, she told the court.

She said when police investigators went to the convicts house, they found a pair of trousers and a sponge stained with blood which the convict admitted that he had used to clean the blood in the shrine.

She informed the court that the convict, in his evidence, had attempted to shift blame on his landlord, Papa Yaw, and his friend, Martin, as those he suspected to have killed the deceased.

If the convict had not killed Rita, the first thing he should have done was to have reported her death to the police or call for help from his neighbours, but because he knew what he had done, he attempted to clean the bloodstains from his shrine, she noted.

Responding, the defence counsel, Mr Alhassan, said the prosecution and all those who testified in the case had failed to prove the convicts guilt beyond reasonable doubt, as no thorough investigations were conducted into the death of the deceased.

The investigations carried out by the prosecution were an armchair one, he said, asking, Will it be enough to say that the body of the deceased was found in his shrine and hence he is guilty when some people might have killed Rita?

According to him, the prosecution also failed to bring to book the landlord and his friend, as well as heed the order by a magistrate court to take the landlord and his friend to the Police Hospital in Accra for a forensic test to determine fingerprints on the hammer and the knife found in the convicts house.

Besides, the prosecution failed to take the landlord and his friend for laboratory tests to have their fluid and spermatozoa to determine who had intercourse with the deceased, Mr Alhassan said, adding that the prosecution failed to do this because the police could not afford GH4,000 for the test.

Is GH4,000 more valuable than the life of an innocent man before this court? he asked the jury, saying that there are loopholes and doubts in the case presented to this court by the prosecution.

Kennedy Agyapong sent to ICC

Eric — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17:43 +0000

The Ghana Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has petitioned the court to investigate the genocidal statements and ethnic-cleansing pronouncements of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong.

The petition was presented by three members of the coalition, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, Mr Eric Akomayi and Mr Fortune Sase.

In a brief remark at the presentation, Mr Arthur, who is the legal officer of the coalition, said the petition was presented in pursuant to Article I5 of the Rome Statute of the ICC.

In doing so, the Ghana Coalition for the ICC believes firmly in the view expressed by the court on January 24, 20I2 that it is better to avert future acts of genocide and violence, it said.

In the petition, the coalition said that events in Ghana since 2009 gave cause to believe that politicians, especially within the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), were plotting to unleash violence, war, genocide and ethnic cleansing either prior to or in the event that they lost the December 20I2 elections.

Since losing the 2008 elections, the rhetoric of the opposition NPP and its leadership has assumed very inflammatory and alarmingly belligerent tones. Both publicly and in secret, they have urged their followers to resort to violence in order to win the 20I2 elections, it said.

It explained that those developments did not augur well for the safety and security of the people of Ghana and it is in this regard that we have taken the decision to bring to the attention of the ICC the genocidal and call to kill comments of a leading member of the NPP and MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, for investigation and action, it said.

The petition indicated that the coalition would provide evidence to show that Mr Agyapongs statements for ethnic cleansing of some tribes in Ghana followed a pattern set by the leadership of the NPP.

It explained that speaking on his radio station, Oman FM, on Friday, April I3, 20I2, Mr Agyapong declared war in Ghana and challenged Ghanas National Security Co-ordinator to arrest him if he could.

He also proceeded to incite the Akan population in the Ashanti Region to attack any Ewe and Ga persons they come into contact with, it added.

It said the coalition believed that Mr Agyapongs statements made him liable for prosecution under Article 3C of the United Nations Convention on Genocide.

The petition added that Ghana was about the most stable democracy in Africa, with relatively strong institutions, and expressed the confidence of the coalition in the ability of the Electoral Commission to conduct free, fair and transparent elections in December 20I2.

It said the prospect of violence was real, especially in a situation where the countrys Judiciary appeared unwilling to punish individuals who incited or engaged in violence.

In light of the above, we appeal to your outfit to commence investigations into Mr Agyapongs conduct, with a view to bringing him to justice within the framework of international law, it said.

It called on the ICC to adopt a more proactive posture, rather than wait for crimes against humanity to be committed before bringing people to justice.

The petition cited a number of statements by some leaders of the NPP which, according to the coalition, had continued to serve as motivation for other officials of the party to preach violence and incite ethnic sentiments.

The coalition also provided the ICC with audio recordings, newspaper cuttings and other evidential materials necessary for the ICC to consider the petition.

Charles Taylor found guilty of war crimes, sentencing slated for May 30

Eric — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:07:17 +0000

Liberia’s former President Charles Ghankay Taylor has been pronounced guilty of war crimes against humanity at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague.

He was found guilty of all 11 charges against him and is due for sentencing on May 30, 2012.

While the court said he was not the mastermind in the crimes he was charged with, he was found guilty of aiding and abetment their commission. Taylor was found guilty of secretly fueling the violence by engaging in arms trading and arming the former Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels even when an embargo was in force, and at the same time publicly participating in peace processes.

During the brutal assault, RUF fighters chopped off the limbs of helpless civilians with machetes, killed, raped and robbed their victims.

The charges against Taylor were:
1 Acts of terrorism (war crimes)
2 Murder, (Crimes Against Humanity)
3 Violence to life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons, in particular murder (war crimes)
4 Rape (Crimes Against Humanity)
5 Sexual slavery and any other form of sexual violence (Crimes Against Humanity)
6 Outrages upon personal dignity (war crimes)
7 Violence to life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons, in particular cruel treatment (war crimes)
8 Other inhumane acts (Crimes Against Humanity)
9 Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15 years into armed forces or groups, or using them to participate actively in hostilities (Other serious violation of international humanitarian law)
10 Enslavement (Crimes Against Humanity)
11 Pillage (war crimes)

Vomit Woyome Cash – Rawlings Tells Mills

Eric — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:03:28 +0000

The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former President, Jerry John Rawlings, has set a tall order for President Atta Mills within the next two months before he (Rawlings) will join the 2012 campaign of the NDC.

Chief among the conditions is that the GH51.2 million fraudulently paid to Alfred Agbesi Woyome for his so-called financial engineering, when there is no proof of work done for the government, should be refunded within the next two months, possibly before the next celebration of June 4, sources close to the meeting held with Volta regional chiefs have told Daily Guide.

The Volta chiefs had met with Mr. Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, at his Ridge office on Tuesday with the intention of brokering peace between the two leading figures of the ruling party, but the meeting was inconclusive, according to Michael Teye Nyaunu, MP for Lower Manya, who sat through the over three-hour meeting.

According to Mr. Rawlings, he did not see how he could mount an NDC platform within the tenets of the probity and accountability philosophy of the NDC if the money was not returned promptly.

This is the first time the former president is commenting on the controversial Woyome saga which was rocked the government.

Daily Guide gathered the details of the meeting a day after Mr. Rawlings met the retinue of the chiefs from the Volta Region operating under the name Royals for peace and development at his office in Accra.

Mr. Rawlings came out of the closed door meeting which started around 3pm till about 7:15pm drenched in sweat.

Among the several issues that emerged after the meeting was the former Presidents discontent about the numerous unfulfilled promises of the Mils administration and the level of tension in the country which appeared to be more than what Kofi Adams, spokesperson for Mr. Rawlings, and the chiefs, Togbe Adela Adelakoe ll of Wheta, told a section of the press.

He asked the chiefs why for the first time in history, a simple voter registration exercise had generated so much tension in the country.


	Alfred Agbesi Woyome

Mr. Rawlings asked for the removal of certain individuals and groups of persons from key and influential positions in both the party and government, including Central Regional Minister Comfort Ama Benyiwa Doe, Party General Secretary Johnson Asiedu-Nketia and Ato Ahwoi, who is seen as the defacto Prime Minister.

Others are the Reform Boys Goosie Tanoh, Kyeretwie Opoku, and Dr. Obed Asamoah and Kojo Boakye Djan, the former AFRC member who recently joined the NDC and is standing as Jaman South parliamentary candidate.

According to the NDC founder, it would be very difficult to share the same platform with Boakye Djan because of the insults he had heaped on him.

Mr. Rawlings was said to have complained bitterly about how Benyiwa Doe embarrassed his wife, Nana Konadu, after the NDC congress in Sunyani.

He was said to have recalled with nostalgia how the Central Regional Minister caused a group of thugs to deny Mrs. Rawlings the mere opportunity to use the Cape Coast Town Hall where she was scheduled to meet and address some FONKAR members as part of her thank you tour of the region, even though she had dully paid for it.

In the case of Mr. Asiedu Nketia, whose diminutive physic has earned him the nickname General Mosquito, Mr. Rawlings said he could not foresee himself campaigning with the man who had referred to him as a barking dog.

As part of the pre-conditions, the NDC founder wanted the removal of Ato Ahowi an influential member of the Mills administration and head of the kitchen cabinet, from the key positions in government whilst the likes of Gossie Tanoh, Kyeretwie Opoku and Obed Asamoah and a host of others who left the NDC to form National Reform Party (NRP) and the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), and recently rejoined should be made to go back since he could not be in the same ship with individuals who had denigrated him on various platforms.

The former President was said to have told the chiefs in plain language that he could not in any way share the same platform with the Mills appointees unless they were sacked from the NDC.

He asked the chiefs whether they had passed through the Castle and found for themselves where the problem of the frosty relationship was coming from.

Mrs. Rawllings on her part asked the chiefs whether their mission was because they wanted them to be part of the NDC campaign simply because the election was getting closer. She said the insults they had received from Mills boys like Okudzeto Ablakwa, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Alhaji Bature and others were too unbearable.

Video: Ken Agyapong: A Tale of Two Bails – Pt 1

Eric — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:14:27 +0000

The New Patriotic Partys Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, can now enjoy the comfort of his bed, after spending three grueling nights in the cells of the Bureau of National Investigations.

His crack legal team secured his release in an unprecedented marathon session on Thursday that led to him being granted two bails in one day. Hon. Agyapong, who was arrested and charged for allegedly inciting and inflaming passion, was released on health grounds and is on a GhC400, 000 bail.

The Accra High Court was the centre of attraction in Ghana on Thursday and could have been mistaken as a rally ground. It was full of drama, suspense, excitements and disappointments.

Citifmonline.comwas right at the scene and brings you part 1 of what took place in the infamous Kennedy Agyapong saga. Enjoy part one of A Tale of Two Bails in the video below:

NPP commends Judiciary for upholding rule of law

Eric — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:11:07 +0000

The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, has commended the judiciary for upholding the rule of law and not doing the will of President Mills in the ongoing saga involving the Assin-North Member of Parliament, Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, but rather proceeding to grant him bail.

In a statement issued by the NPP Chairman, he noted that the Attorney General, knowing well that the magistrates court had no jurisdiction to hear the matter, took Ken Agyepong to that court only to request for the court to remand him in police custody for an additional two weeks.

It was merely to seek to keep the Member of the Parliamentary in custody in order to teach him a lesson, Jake noted, describing the treason charges levelled against Mr. Agyapong only as a mockery of the law being perpetrated for reckless partisan advantage.

Jake maintained that had the magistrate done the will of the President and his appointees and remanded Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong for two (2) weeks, no one could have answered for the reaction of those showing him [Kennedy] support in Accra, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Kumasi and other cities and towns across Ghana.

According to the NPP Chairman, since the police had shown by their arrest of Hon. Kennedy Agyapong that they are not fearful of taking action against a senior NPP politician, they must also show their even handed application of justice by taking action against NDC orchestrated violence and or incitement to violence, during and before the ongoing registration exercise.

Jake recounted statements made by Mr. Amatepe, deputy Volta Regional Minister, who called on Ewes in the Region at Aflao and elsewhere, at the time of the visit to the region by President Mills, to beat NPP Akan registration monitors.
The NPP Chairman also cited the example, for police action, of NDC thugs photographed going through the Odododiodio Constituency with guns, shovels, pickaxes, cutlasses and clubs wreaking havoc and terrorising residents.

Let the Ghana Police meet this challenge, Jake charged.

According to the NPP Chairman, the ongoing brouhaha surrounding NPP firebrand Kennedy Agyepong is a deliberate ploy by President Mills to intimidate and cow the entire leadership of the NPP into submission.

Jake noted that President Mills in deploying state resources against political opponents is prepared to sacrifice the rule of law and the national interest to satisfy his desire for his own political gain, by the use of violence and cheap propaganda.

The NPP chairman noted that the primary aim of arresting, detaining and prosecuting Ken Agyepong is first and foremost to put the fear of the Asomdwehene in the NPP and secondly to punish Ken for leading the crusade on the GH51 million Woyomegate scandal and other dubious multi-million dollar judgment debts made by his government mainly to his major financiers.

It is obvious that President Mills and his administration have been rocked by Kennedy Agyapongs expos on the judgment debt scandals, in which GH51.8 million was doled-out to Mr Woyome, and arbitration settlements of 35 million and 94 million were given to Waterville and CP Construction Ltd, respectively.

These payments were illicit because no evidence was proffered to support the claims. On the contrary, government ignored all the glaring evidence that the claims were fraudulent, Jake added.

Jake noted that President Mills agenda of seeking to discredit the character of Ken Agyepong will not whitewash the criminal wrongdoing of his administration.

Mr Obetsebi-Lapmptey reaffirmed the NPPs backing of Hon Ken Agyepong adding that the NPP remains firmly behind the Hon. Kennedy Agyepong in his quest for justice in the unfounded accusations of treason made against him.

Jake continued, We would not sit by and allow the rule of law to be transformed into the misrule of Mills.

3,829 Biometric Applicants Challenged

Eric — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:08:48 +0000

A total of 3,829 had their applications challenged throughout the country as of the end of the second phase of the biometric voters registration exercise.

Currently, the Electoral Commission (EC) has registered eight million voters.

The acting Director of Communications of the EC, Mr Christian Owusu-Parry, who disclosed this in an interview with graphic.com.gh, said the Brong Ahafo Region topped the number of challenges with a total of 775 cases, followed by Ashanti, 681; Greater Accra, 588 and Central, 555.

The rest are Eastern, 290; Northern, 261; Volta, 31, Upper East, 86 and Upper West, 85.

Mr Owusu-Parry said the records show that the Ashiedu Keteke District in the Greater Accra Region recorded the highest number of challenges at the district level with 453, followed by Upper Denkyira West in the Central Region with 397, Jasikan in the Volta Region, 144, while Dormaa Municipality in the Brong Ahafo Region recorded 115 challenges.

An applicant may be challenged on the grounds that he or she is not a Ghanaian citizen, is below 18 years, is not resident of a locality, is not of sound mind, is previously registered or is not the person he or she claims to be.

District Registration Review Committees have been set up in each district to investigate the challenges and report on their findings to the commission.

An applicants registration as a voter may be challenged by anybody who qualifies to be registered as a voter. A challenge on the eligibility of an applicant to register as a voter will not stop him or her from going through the process if he or she insists that he or she is qualified.

The applicant would be allowed to go through the process except that he or she will not be issued with a voter identity card until the challenge is determined by the District Registration Review Committee.

If an applicant is challenged, both the applicant and the challenger will appear before the committee for hearing and determination of the challenge.

Man arrested for registering 15 times

Eric — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:06:40 +0000

A 47-year-old man has been arrested by the Odorkor Police in Accra for registering 15 times in the on-going biometric voters registration (BVR) exercise.

Archibald Laryea was picked up at the Naroda polling station at Sakaman in the Ablekuma North Constituency in Accra Tuesday, when he attempted to register for the 16th time.

He run out of luck when the electoral official detected that he had already registered at Tantra polling centre using a different name.

He however denied this when he was questioned insisting that he had never registered.

Mr Laryea was then handed to the police where after series of interrogation he admitted the offence.

Narrating the event to graphic.com.gh, the district police commander, DSP Jordan Quaye, said the incidence occurred at 10:30 in the morning.

He said the registration officer at Naroda polling station, Mr Asare Baffour, called the police that they had in their custody a man who had attempted to do double registration with different names.

According to Mr Asare Baffour, the finger print scanner detected that Mr Laryea had registered on April 8, 2012 at Tantra with the name Nii Laryea.

DSP Quaye explained that upon their arrival at the polling station, Mr Laryea tried to flee and in an attempt bit the thumb of one of the corporal by name Mr William Afedo.

He said they took him to his residence at Dansoman where they discovered that he had managed to acquire 15 BVR cards using different names.

DSP Quaye said, they also found 13 old registration cards and some toy revolvers under his bed.

DSP Quaye said the suspect would be arraigned before court at the appropriate time.

Advising all eligible voters, he warned them to desist from the act since the law would prosecute offenders.

DSP Quaye also urged personnel of the Electoral Commission, especially the electoral officers at the various polling centres, to be vigilant to ensure that multiple registration was eliminated and offenders reported.

The names Mr Laryea used in his registration were: Gufhid Quist Jox Provencal, Qusitjox Danfo Kwetey, Epicurus Ahenu Tarlo, Justice Fred Provencal, Philip Obletey Tackie, Victus Wilfred Juqwyjbusu and Anthony Akote.

The rest are Victor Wilfred Abety Moux, Victor Gloveuched, Victor Wilfred Nampty, Provencal Kwetey Buzim, Laryea Archibald, Emmanuel Nii Laryea, Job Maxwell Auashong. He used different ages on all his registration cards.