3/10/08
Story: Mary Mensah
THE European Organisation for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is to hold its 8th EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa in Ghana.
The programme, which starts today, is on the theme, “Use of Satellite Data for Monitoring Climate Change and Water Resources”.
More than 150 meteorological experts from Africa and Europe are expected to attend the forum.
Briefing the press in Accra, the International Relations Officer of EUMETSAT, Dr Vincent Gabaglio, said the organisation organised the user forum in Africa on a biennial basis and each time in a different African country.
He said the aim was to reinforce the already well-established dialogue between EUMETSAT and African user communities and their national meteorological services in order to optimise the use of satellite data and products in Africa.
Dr Gabaglio said the forum would also offer an excellent opportunity for the users of satellite to provide direct feedback and recommendations to EUMETSAT, which would be considered when preparing future activities.
He said during the forum, demonstration stands would be set up at the entrance of the Accra International Conference Centre, where the forum would be held, to showcase the use of EUMETSAT satellite images, data and products in various applications — meteorology, oceanography, marine, etc.
Dr Gabaglio said at the end of the forum, it was expected that a clear set of recommendations would be agreed upon by all parties.
A Director at the Scientific Division of the Meteorological Department, Mr Andrew Nkansah, said Ghana started using satellite in 1989 and currently had two receiving stations.
He said one of the new systems had been installed at the Kotoka Airport to serve the aviation industry, while a back-up had been placed at the headquarters of the meteo office to monitor other activities.
He said EUMETSAT had enhanced the capacity of the images that came through satellite, saying that was very useful for meteo operations in the country and elsewhere in Africa.
Monday, October 27, 2008
FOUR NABBED FOR PRINTING FAKE CURRENCY (Page 28)
28/09/08
Story: Mary Mensah
Four men believed to be members of a money printing syndicate which has been circulating fake GH¢20, Gh¢10 and GH¢5 in the country have been arrested by the Madina Police in Accra.
The four, said to be operating at Asylum Down in Accra, are said to be part of a bigger syndicate, and that the police were on the heels of other members of the group currently on the run.
Bundles of large quantities of the printed currency notes concealed in a black suitcase, fake $100 bills, computers, inkjet printers, a pistol with ammunitions, five computer hard disks, 13 cartridges with different colours and money wrappers, among others, were found in the house where the police said the syndicate operated from.
Those arrested are Joseph Osafo, a 26-year-old graphic designer and leader of the syndicate, Appiah Kubi, 30, Frank Owusu, 28, and Stephen Kofi Nortey Kommey, 20.
According to the Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Ayitey, the modus operandi of the group was to travel to the various regions during market days to circulate the fake money to traders.
He said two members of the group who were on their way to Koforidua in the Eastern Region with large quantities of the money were arrested at the Ayi Mensah barrier by plain clothes personnel who had laid ambush for them.
Chief Supt Ayitey said on September 24, 2008 the Madina police had information about the syndicate who had planned to circulate the fake currency inKoforidua on a market day.
He said based on that information a group of personnel were quickly dispatched to the Ayi Mensah barrier where they laid ambush and at about 10:00 a.m. a taxi pulled up with two occupants.
He said when the two men were searched bundles of the fake currency were found in their pockets and some compartments of the taxi.
The commander said the two suspects, both traders, told the police during interrogation that the supplier of the fake notes lived at Asylum Down.
He said they led the police to the house at Asylum Down where Osafo lives, and he was arrested together with another suspect, and the aforementioned items seized from him.
Chief Supt Ayitey said following interrogation Joseph admitted the offence and claimed he started circulating the currency about two months ago and mentioned other accomplices.
Investigations are continuing.
Story: Mary Mensah
Four men believed to be members of a money printing syndicate which has been circulating fake GH¢20, Gh¢10 and GH¢5 in the country have been arrested by the Madina Police in Accra.
The four, said to be operating at Asylum Down in Accra, are said to be part of a bigger syndicate, and that the police were on the heels of other members of the group currently on the run.
Bundles of large quantities of the printed currency notes concealed in a black suitcase, fake $100 bills, computers, inkjet printers, a pistol with ammunitions, five computer hard disks, 13 cartridges with different colours and money wrappers, among others, were found in the house where the police said the syndicate operated from.
Those arrested are Joseph Osafo, a 26-year-old graphic designer and leader of the syndicate, Appiah Kubi, 30, Frank Owusu, 28, and Stephen Kofi Nortey Kommey, 20.
According to the Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Ayitey, the modus operandi of the group was to travel to the various regions during market days to circulate the fake money to traders.
He said two members of the group who were on their way to Koforidua in the Eastern Region with large quantities of the money were arrested at the Ayi Mensah barrier by plain clothes personnel who had laid ambush for them.
Chief Supt Ayitey said on September 24, 2008 the Madina police had information about the syndicate who had planned to circulate the fake currency inKoforidua on a market day.
He said based on that information a group of personnel were quickly dispatched to the Ayi Mensah barrier where they laid ambush and at about 10:00 a.m. a taxi pulled up with two occupants.
He said when the two men were searched bundles of the fake currency were found in their pockets and some compartments of the taxi.
The commander said the two suspects, both traders, told the police during interrogation that the supplier of the fake notes lived at Asylum Down.
He said they led the police to the house at Asylum Down where Osafo lives, and he was arrested together with another suspect, and the aforementioned items seized from him.
Chief Supt Ayitey said following interrogation Joseph admitted the offence and claimed he started circulating the currency about two months ago and mentioned other accomplices.
Investigations are continuing.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
CHURCH ELDERS DONATE TO POLICE HOSPITAL (Page 47)
29/09/2008
Story: Mary Mensah
Ministers and Elders of the Ghana Police church have presented various items valued at GH¢8000 to the Police Hospital at a ceremony in Accra.
The items include bedside cabinets, wheel chairs, screens, furniture, disposable gloves, theatre boots wardrobes and air conditioners.
The church has also adopted the female ward of the hospital and pledged to expand and refurbish the reception area to make waiting more comfortable.
Presenting the items, the Superintendent Minister, Very Rev Twum-Baah of the church said the presentation forms part of the church's social responsibility.
He said on a recent visit the elders of the church realised that the hospital lacked certain basic facilities so they decided to help.
He pledged the church’s continuous support to the hospital and expressed the hope that the items will assist the hospital in providing quality service to patients.
Dr Godfried Asiamah, Medical Director of the hospital who received the items thanked the church for the gesture.
He said the government alone cannot provide all the needs of the hospital, adding that such initiatives from the public were always welcome.
CAPTION
Picture: Dr Asiamah, (left) in a handshake with Very Rev Twum-Baah, Chaplain of the church.
Story: Mary Mensah
Ministers and Elders of the Ghana Police church have presented various items valued at GH¢8000 to the Police Hospital at a ceremony in Accra.
The items include bedside cabinets, wheel chairs, screens, furniture, disposable gloves, theatre boots wardrobes and air conditioners.
The church has also adopted the female ward of the hospital and pledged to expand and refurbish the reception area to make waiting more comfortable.
Presenting the items, the Superintendent Minister, Very Rev Twum-Baah of the church said the presentation forms part of the church's social responsibility.
He said on a recent visit the elders of the church realised that the hospital lacked certain basic facilities so they decided to help.
He pledged the church’s continuous support to the hospital and expressed the hope that the items will assist the hospital in providing quality service to patients.
Dr Godfried Asiamah, Medical Director of the hospital who received the items thanked the church for the gesture.
He said the government alone cannot provide all the needs of the hospital, adding that such initiatives from the public were always welcome.
CAPTION
Picture: Dr Asiamah, (left) in a handshake with Very Rev Twum-Baah, Chaplain of the church.
2 COPS INTERDICTED FOR ALLEGED EXTORTION (Page 19)
29/09/2008
Story: Mary Mensah
TWO policemen who allegedly extorted GH¢25,000 from a student at Madina have been interdicted by the Police Administration.
General Lance Corporal Emmanuel Awadzie, stationed at the Adentan Police Station and Lance Corporal Solomon Awuku of the Madina police have been placed in police custody and are currently assisting the police in their investigations.
The Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, DSP Kwesi Ofori, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in Accra, said at about 11.00 p.m. on September 10, 2008, Lance Cpl Awadzie sought the assistance of Cpl Awuku at the Madina Police Station to assist him arrest the student at his house at Akatsi Abor, a suburb of Madina, for an unknown offence.
He said the two policemen drove in Awadzie’s car to the Agbogba Police Post and reported to another policeman on duty at the charge office that they needed assistance to effect the arrest of a wanted suspect.
He said after Cpl Awadzie had convinced the third policeman to believe that they were indeed performing an official assignment, he made entries into the station notebook, picked a riffle and followed the two.
DSP Ofori said between 1.00 am and 2.00 a.m. the three policemen broke into the room of the complainant while he was in bed with his fiancee.
He said they told the complainant that he was on the police wanted list at headquarters and they had been sent to effect his arrest for investigations.
DSP Ofori said they arrested and handcuffed the complainant and the girlfriend after which they ransacked the whole room in search of money.
When they failed in getting any money in the complainant’s room, they packed a computer with accessories together with some documents into a VW Passat saloon car with registration number GR 979 Z belonging to the complainant.
They asked the complainant where he had kept his money and after threatening to shoot him he told them that the money was at the house of his girlfriend.
They drove the complainant and his girlfriend to her house where they collected the GH¢25,000.00 and afterwards released them and sped off in their car thus abandoning the complainant's car.
A complaint was later lodged at the Madina Police Station and the policeman from Agbogba police was arrested because he was in uniform during the incident.
Upon interrogation, he mentioned the two others as those who sought his assistance to help in apprehending a wanted suspect from his hideout.
DSP Ofori said since the beginning of the year, 74 police officers had been dismissed from the service for gross misconduct.
He said 91 personnel were also sacked in 2007, adding that this was being done to inject sanity into the service to serve as a deterrent to others.
Story: Mary Mensah
TWO policemen who allegedly extorted GH¢25,000 from a student at Madina have been interdicted by the Police Administration.
General Lance Corporal Emmanuel Awadzie, stationed at the Adentan Police Station and Lance Corporal Solomon Awuku of the Madina police have been placed in police custody and are currently assisting the police in their investigations.
The Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, DSP Kwesi Ofori, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in Accra, said at about 11.00 p.m. on September 10, 2008, Lance Cpl Awadzie sought the assistance of Cpl Awuku at the Madina Police Station to assist him arrest the student at his house at Akatsi Abor, a suburb of Madina, for an unknown offence.
He said the two policemen drove in Awadzie’s car to the Agbogba Police Post and reported to another policeman on duty at the charge office that they needed assistance to effect the arrest of a wanted suspect.
He said after Cpl Awadzie had convinced the third policeman to believe that they were indeed performing an official assignment, he made entries into the station notebook, picked a riffle and followed the two.
DSP Ofori said between 1.00 am and 2.00 a.m. the three policemen broke into the room of the complainant while he was in bed with his fiancee.
He said they told the complainant that he was on the police wanted list at headquarters and they had been sent to effect his arrest for investigations.
DSP Ofori said they arrested and handcuffed the complainant and the girlfriend after which they ransacked the whole room in search of money.
When they failed in getting any money in the complainant’s room, they packed a computer with accessories together with some documents into a VW Passat saloon car with registration number GR 979 Z belonging to the complainant.
They asked the complainant where he had kept his money and after threatening to shoot him he told them that the money was at the house of his girlfriend.
They drove the complainant and his girlfriend to her house where they collected the GH¢25,000.00 and afterwards released them and sped off in their car thus abandoning the complainant's car.
A complaint was later lodged at the Madina Police Station and the policeman from Agbogba police was arrested because he was in uniform during the incident.
Upon interrogation, he mentioned the two others as those who sought his assistance to help in apprehending a wanted suspect from his hideout.
DSP Ofori said since the beginning of the year, 74 police officers had been dismissed from the service for gross misconduct.
He said 91 personnel were also sacked in 2007, adding that this was being done to inject sanity into the service to serve as a deterrent to others.
4 ARRESTED FOR PRINTING FAKE CEDIS (Page 14)
29/09/2008
Story: Mary Mensah
Four men believed to be members of a money printing syndicate which has been circulating fake GH¢20, Gh¢10 and GH¢5 in the country have been arrested by the Madina Police in Accra.
The four, said to be operating at Asylum Down in Accra, are said to be part of a bigger syndicate, and that the police were on the heels of other members of the group currently on the run.
Bundles of large quantities of the printed currency notes concealed in a black suitcase, fake $100 bills, computers, inkjet printers, a pistol with ammunitions, five computer hard disks, 13 cartridges with different colours and money wrappers, among others, were found in the house where the police said the syndicate operated from.
Those arrested are Joseph Osafo, a 26-year-old graphic designer and leader of the syndicate, Appiah Kubi, 30, Frank Owusu, 28, and Stephen Kofi Nortey Kommey, 20.
According to the Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Ayitey, the modus operandi of the group was to travel to the various regions during market days to circulate the fake money to traders.
He said two members of the group who were on their way to Koforidua in the Eastern Region with large quantities of the money were arrested at the Ayi Mensah barrier by plain clothes personnel who had laid ambush for them.
Chief Supt Ayitey said on September 24, 2008 the Madina police had information about the syndicate who had planned to circulate the fake currency inKoforidua on a market day.
He said based on that information a group of personnel were quickly dispatched to the Ayi Mensah barrier where they laid ambush and at about 10:00 a.m. a taxi pulled up with two occupants.
He said when the two men were searched bundles of the fake currency were found in their pockets and some compartments of the taxi.
The commander said the two suspects, both traders, told the police during interrogation that the supplier of the fake notes lived at Asylum Down.
He said they led the police to the house at Asylum Down where Osafo lives, and he was arrested together with another suspect, and the aforementioned items seized from him.
Chief Supt Ayitey said following interrogation Joseph admitted the offence and claimed he started circulating the currency about two months ago and mentioned other accomplices.
Investigations are continuing.
Story: Mary Mensah
Four men believed to be members of a money printing syndicate which has been circulating fake GH¢20, Gh¢10 and GH¢5 in the country have been arrested by the Madina Police in Accra.
The four, said to be operating at Asylum Down in Accra, are said to be part of a bigger syndicate, and that the police were on the heels of other members of the group currently on the run.
Bundles of large quantities of the printed currency notes concealed in a black suitcase, fake $100 bills, computers, inkjet printers, a pistol with ammunitions, five computer hard disks, 13 cartridges with different colours and money wrappers, among others, were found in the house where the police said the syndicate operated from.
Those arrested are Joseph Osafo, a 26-year-old graphic designer and leader of the syndicate, Appiah Kubi, 30, Frank Owusu, 28, and Stephen Kofi Nortey Kommey, 20.
According to the Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Ayitey, the modus operandi of the group was to travel to the various regions during market days to circulate the fake money to traders.
He said two members of the group who were on their way to Koforidua in the Eastern Region with large quantities of the money were arrested at the Ayi Mensah barrier by plain clothes personnel who had laid ambush for them.
Chief Supt Ayitey said on September 24, 2008 the Madina police had information about the syndicate who had planned to circulate the fake currency inKoforidua on a market day.
He said based on that information a group of personnel were quickly dispatched to the Ayi Mensah barrier where they laid ambush and at about 10:00 a.m. a taxi pulled up with two occupants.
He said when the two men were searched bundles of the fake currency were found in their pockets and some compartments of the taxi.
The commander said the two suspects, both traders, told the police during interrogation that the supplier of the fake notes lived at Asylum Down.
He said they led the police to the house at Asylum Down where Osafo lives, and he was arrested together with another suspect, and the aforementioned items seized from him.
Chief Supt Ayitey said following interrogation Joseph admitted the offence and claimed he started circulating the currency about two months ago and mentioned other accomplices.
Investigations are continuing.
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