16/07/08
Story: Mary Mensah
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service have arrested a 34 year old man for allegedly posing as a medical doctor from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The suspect, Kwabena Kissih succeeded in duping unsuspecting members of the public especially patients monies running into several thousands of cedis.
When his room was searched at Dama Estate at Satellite in Kuntunse after his arrest an amount of ¢640.00 and GH¢50.00 was retrieved from the room.
Two passports, passport application forms, application for employment forms, Ministry of Health folder No. 254684 bearing the name Sally Boakye Yiadom from Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, prospectus form the Nurses Training College, Korle-Bu Accra different passport pictures and other documents were found.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the CID, Inspector J. B. Darkwa somewhere in October, 2006 the suspect approached the complainant, a manager of a reputable organisation in Accra for assistance.
He introduced himself to the manager as being a medical doctor attached to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital but later disappeared.
He re-surfaced in February this year at complainants office and gave an excuse that he had to travelled to Canada for a course in medicine hence his long absence.
Suspect (Dr.) Kwabena Kissih visited complainant a number of times in the during February and March this year and each time he enters the complainant’s office his mobile phone rings and he will be giving instructions to his nurses to monitor conditions of patients.
Inspector Darkwa said there was a time when the complainant’s child fell sick and was taken to a clinic at Tesano and the suspect accompanied him there to examine the child and if needs be he will refer the child to a specialist, one Professor Antwi, a colleague of his at Korle-Bu.
He frequents complainant office and always heard him talking to his (in-law) in Canada about his wife's immigrant visa and he offered to assist because he doubles as a consulting doctor at the Canadian High Commission and could assist him by talking to the High Commissioner personally.
He later collected $ 1,340 for the processing of documents for the issuance of the visa but he kept telling him stories.
He went to complainants office in June, 2008 while he was on his way to the University of Ghana, Legon to check on his boss son admission letter.
Suspect called the head of Science Department on his phone to the hearing of complainant and later collected GH¢500.00 to enable him facilitate work on the admission process.
He again took GH¢180.00 on the admission issue and later brought admission forms which had been signed by the Deputy Registrar, Prof. (Mrs) Christiana Owusu Badu but it looked suspicious.
When the letter was taken to the to the University for verification it turned out to be fake so a report was made to the police and he was subsequently arrested.
Upon interrogation, the suspect admitted he forged the signature of the deputy registrar.
Suspect admitted to investigators that he completed Adisadel College and has not been to any University and neither has he read medicine therefore he is not a doctor of medicine as claimed. Investigation is on going.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
MADINA POLICE SWOOP ON CRIMINALS (Page 39)
11/07/08
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Madina Police yesterday arrested 47 suspected criminals at their hideouts in a dawn swoop to flush out criminals within its jurisdiction.
The three-hour exercise was carried out at the Atomic Junction, Haatso, Agbogba, IPS, Madina, Agyiriganno and Nmai Dzor areas.
Items retrieved from the suspected criminals, who were made up of 27 Ghanaians, 19 Nigerians and a Liberian, included whitish substances suspected to be cocaine and dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, computers, laptops, mobile phones, machetes, knives, screw drivers and other implements used in committing crimes.
According to the Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Ayittey, the exercise followed directives from the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to regional, district and unit commanders to ensure that crimes were brought down to the barest minimum.
He said already similar exercises had been carried out at Adabraka, Alajo, Avenor, the Neoplan Station, Circle, Kaneshie and La Wireless, all in Accra, to arrest narcotic dealers and peddlers, suspected armed robbers and violent criminals.
He said those arrested would be screened, after which an identification parade would be organised to enable their victims to identify them.
The Commander said appropriate charges would be preferred against those found culpable.
He said the exercise would be sustained to ensure that law-abiding citizens went about their duties without fear.
Chief Supt Ayittey said investigations were far advanced into the Ecobank robbery case and soon findings would be made public.
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Madina Police yesterday arrested 47 suspected criminals at their hideouts in a dawn swoop to flush out criminals within its jurisdiction.
The three-hour exercise was carried out at the Atomic Junction, Haatso, Agbogba, IPS, Madina, Agyiriganno and Nmai Dzor areas.
Items retrieved from the suspected criminals, who were made up of 27 Ghanaians, 19 Nigerians and a Liberian, included whitish substances suspected to be cocaine and dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, computers, laptops, mobile phones, machetes, knives, screw drivers and other implements used in committing crimes.
According to the Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Ayittey, the exercise followed directives from the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to regional, district and unit commanders to ensure that crimes were brought down to the barest minimum.
He said already similar exercises had been carried out at Adabraka, Alajo, Avenor, the Neoplan Station, Circle, Kaneshie and La Wireless, all in Accra, to arrest narcotic dealers and peddlers, suspected armed robbers and violent criminals.
He said those arrested would be screened, after which an identification parade would be organised to enable their victims to identify them.
The Commander said appropriate charges would be preferred against those found culpable.
He said the exercise would be sustained to ensure that law-abiding citizens went about their duties without fear.
Chief Supt Ayittey said investigations were far advanced into the Ecobank robbery case and soon findings would be made public.
GHANAIAN COP KILLED IN DAFUR (CENTRE SPREAD)
11/07/08
Story: Mary Mensah
The Police Administration has confirmed the death of General Sergeant Joseph Stanhope Dawson, 39, of the Airport Police Station in Accra during a United Nations (UN) Peace mission in Dafur Sudan.
Sgt Dawson, a native of Elmina in the Central Region, was among seven UN peace keeping personnel who died during an attack on them by Sudanese rebels on June 8, 2008.
Two other Ghanaian Police Officers, DSP Andrews Ekumah Boadu and ASP Yaw Ohene Takyi from the Brong Ahafo and Central Regional Police Commands respectively were among the 22 who sustained severe injuries during the attack.
According to the Administration, information received from the United Nations Department of Peace Keeping Operations (UNDPKO) in New York indicated that 10 UN police personnel, two military observers and two language assistants under escort of 51 Rwandese armed personnel were ambushed by militia men between Gusa Jamat and Wadah in North Darfur.
The incident led to the death of six others which included one Ugandan and four Rwandese while 22 others sustained injuries.
Meanwhile the Secretary-General of the UN, Mr Ban Ki Moon has condemned the attack as an unacceptable act of extreme violence against UN-AU peace keepers and called on the government of Sudan to do its utmost to ensure that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and brought to justice.
Mr Ban also expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the peacekeepers who lost their lives.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been in force since the beginning of this year trying to end the conflict that has raged in the Western Sudanese region since 2003, pitting rebels against government forces and allied militia, known as the Janjaweed.
An estimated 300,000 people have died either through direct combat or because of disease, malnutrition or reduced life expectancy, over the past five years in Darfur. Some 2.7 million people are now displaced, with many living across the border in eastern Chad.
The Police Administration has meanwhile expressed its condolence to the bereaved family.
Story: Mary Mensah
The Police Administration has confirmed the death of General Sergeant Joseph Stanhope Dawson, 39, of the Airport Police Station in Accra during a United Nations (UN) Peace mission in Dafur Sudan.
Sgt Dawson, a native of Elmina in the Central Region, was among seven UN peace keeping personnel who died during an attack on them by Sudanese rebels on June 8, 2008.
Two other Ghanaian Police Officers, DSP Andrews Ekumah Boadu and ASP Yaw Ohene Takyi from the Brong Ahafo and Central Regional Police Commands respectively were among the 22 who sustained severe injuries during the attack.
According to the Administration, information received from the United Nations Department of Peace Keeping Operations (UNDPKO) in New York indicated that 10 UN police personnel, two military observers and two language assistants under escort of 51 Rwandese armed personnel were ambushed by militia men between Gusa Jamat and Wadah in North Darfur.
The incident led to the death of six others which included one Ugandan and four Rwandese while 22 others sustained injuries.
Meanwhile the Secretary-General of the UN, Mr Ban Ki Moon has condemned the attack as an unacceptable act of extreme violence against UN-AU peace keepers and called on the government of Sudan to do its utmost to ensure that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and brought to justice.
Mr Ban also expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the peacekeepers who lost their lives.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been in force since the beginning of this year trying to end the conflict that has raged in the Western Sudanese region since 2003, pitting rebels against government forces and allied militia, known as the Janjaweed.
An estimated 300,000 people have died either through direct combat or because of disease, malnutrition or reduced life expectancy, over the past five years in Darfur. Some 2.7 million people are now displaced, with many living across the border in eastern Chad.
The Police Administration has meanwhile expressed its condolence to the bereaved family.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
POLICE NABBED SIX SUSPECTS (Page 3)
10/07/08
Story: Mary Mensah & Edward Turkson
The Accra Regional Police Command in collaboration with the Kumasi Police has arrested six armed robbers including a woman who were believed to have committed the Madina Ecobank robbery.
The group was paraded together with four other robbers in Accra yesterday but victims of armed robbery attacks failed to identify any of them.
The woman was not paraded alongside the other suspects but was interrogated by the investigation team.
The victims and eyewitnesses at Madina took turns trying to identify the suspects out of the lot but none of them could recognise any of the robbers.
Police sources said they were not deterred by the failure of the victims to identify the robbers and that they would continue with their investigations till the perpetrators were caught.
The six were arrested in Kumasi in another bank robbery attempt and were brought to Accra.
According to the police, the group were all resident in Accra but had been involved in several robberies in Kumasi and Accra.
It would be recalled that the Tuesday, June 24, 2008 issue of this paper carried the story of gunmen numbering about five who struck at the Madina branch of Ecobank in broad daylight the previous day, shot and killed a cop guarding a bullion van and made away with GH¢60,000.
The operation brought activities on the busy streets of Madina to a halt for more than three hours, during which eyewitnesses said the robbers disembarked from a blue-black Toyota Corolla saloon car with no registration number, and took positions on the premises of the bank to wait for the arrival of the bullion van.
When the van arrived, the gunmen proceeded to enact with precision what appeared like a well-rehearsed military operation.
Story: Mary Mensah & Edward Turkson
The Accra Regional Police Command in collaboration with the Kumasi Police has arrested six armed robbers including a woman who were believed to have committed the Madina Ecobank robbery.
The group was paraded together with four other robbers in Accra yesterday but victims of armed robbery attacks failed to identify any of them.
The woman was not paraded alongside the other suspects but was interrogated by the investigation team.
The victims and eyewitnesses at Madina took turns trying to identify the suspects out of the lot but none of them could recognise any of the robbers.
Police sources said they were not deterred by the failure of the victims to identify the robbers and that they would continue with their investigations till the perpetrators were caught.
The six were arrested in Kumasi in another bank robbery attempt and were brought to Accra.
According to the police, the group were all resident in Accra but had been involved in several robberies in Kumasi and Accra.
It would be recalled that the Tuesday, June 24, 2008 issue of this paper carried the story of gunmen numbering about five who struck at the Madina branch of Ecobank in broad daylight the previous day, shot and killed a cop guarding a bullion van and made away with GH¢60,000.
The operation brought activities on the busy streets of Madina to a halt for more than three hours, during which eyewitnesses said the robbers disembarked from a blue-black Toyota Corolla saloon car with no registration number, and took positions on the premises of the bank to wait for the arrival of the bullion van.
When the van arrived, the gunmen proceeded to enact with precision what appeared like a well-rehearsed military operation.
FUND ORGANISES SCIENCE SCHOOL FOR JHS GRADUATES (Page 25)
1/07/08
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Tetteh Quarshie Educational Fund, promoters of science education in the rural areas in collaboration with Hershey Corporation of Pensylvania, USA, has organised a vacation science school for junior high school graduates in Mampong in the Eastern Region.
The aim of the vacation school was to help graduates in the rural areas to focus on science education and to give them a head start before going to senior high school.
According to the President and Founder of the fund, Mr Horace Dei, it was the belief of the organisers that if special programmes were made available to the young ones from the early primary to middle school age it would help them to make informed choices in the future.
He said the fund was established some eight years ago to assist schools in Mampong and its environs and so far it had developed a complete computer learning centre, a carpentry centre and an uncompleted home science centre for students in the community.
Mr Dei said the fund had also supplied computers, textbooks and other learning materials to some schools in Mampong.
Opening the school, Professor Marian Addy from the University of Ghana advised the students not to shy away from science and mathematics.
She said science was very important in the life of every nation, and that all advanced countries had taken science very seriously.
She said many pupils saw science as a subject for only brilliant pupils and that “you are just as good as anybody else so talk to yourself and examine yourself”.
She urged the participants to take the vacation school very seriously because by so doing they would become citizens who took decisions based on facts and knowledge.
For his part, Rev J. K. B. Appiah-Acheampong, Supt Minister of the Methodist Church, advised the participants to take the training very seriously.
“As young ones it is important to take every opportunity that comes your way and try to do something that will benefit you and the society you live in,” he said.
Learning materials were distributed to the participants.
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Tetteh Quarshie Educational Fund, promoters of science education in the rural areas in collaboration with Hershey Corporation of Pensylvania, USA, has organised a vacation science school for junior high school graduates in Mampong in the Eastern Region.
The aim of the vacation school was to help graduates in the rural areas to focus on science education and to give them a head start before going to senior high school.
According to the President and Founder of the fund, Mr Horace Dei, it was the belief of the organisers that if special programmes were made available to the young ones from the early primary to middle school age it would help them to make informed choices in the future.
He said the fund was established some eight years ago to assist schools in Mampong and its environs and so far it had developed a complete computer learning centre, a carpentry centre and an uncompleted home science centre for students in the community.
Mr Dei said the fund had also supplied computers, textbooks and other learning materials to some schools in Mampong.
Opening the school, Professor Marian Addy from the University of Ghana advised the students not to shy away from science and mathematics.
She said science was very important in the life of every nation, and that all advanced countries had taken science very seriously.
She said many pupils saw science as a subject for only brilliant pupils and that “you are just as good as anybody else so talk to yourself and examine yourself”.
She urged the participants to take the vacation school very seriously because by so doing they would become citizens who took decisions based on facts and knowledge.
For his part, Rev J. K. B. Appiah-Acheampong, Supt Minister of the Methodist Church, advised the participants to take the training very seriously.
“As young ones it is important to take every opportunity that comes your way and try to do something that will benefit you and the society you live in,” he said.
Learning materials were distributed to the participants.
ANOTHER MURDER IN TEMA (Page 1B )
26/06/08
Story: Mary Mensah
Unknown assailants on Tuesday night ambushed the manager of the Total Filling Station at La, gunned him down in his house and escaped without taking anything from him.
The deceased, Solomon Lamptey-George, 69, and his wife had just returned to their home at Tema Community 11 after the close of work when the incident occurred.
Mr Lamptey-George was still behind the steering wheel, while his wife, who had come down to open the gate, was first attacked by the assailants, who were wielding machetes and guns.
They then approached the deceased in his car and, without demanding anything, shot him in the forehead and ran out of the house.
According to Stephen Lamptey-George, a son of the deceased, who also works at the filling station, on Tuesday his father officially handed over the management of the station to officials of Total and left for the house about 5:30 p.m. with his wife, Madam Beatrice Dowuona, who is his (Stephen’s) stepmother.
Stephen said he usually accompanied his parents home but on Tuesday he had other businesses to attend to so he asked them to take the lead.
He said about 8.00 p.m. he had a call from his stepmother that his father had been shot by three men.
Stephen said he rushed home and his stepmother informed him that when they reached the house, she got out and opened the gate, after which his father drove into the compound.
Madam Dowuona told Stephen that as she was about to close the gate, two young men, one wielding a machete and another a gun, pushed her and opened the gate. Another also jumped the wall into the compound and shouted, “Where is the money?”, to which she replied that she had no money.
After that, Stephen said, the assailants turned their attention to Mr Lamptey-George, who was still sitting in the car, and shot him on the forehead.
He said his stepmum started screaming and the men ran out of the house.
The Tema Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent J. Dogbeda, confirmed the incident and said the body of the deceased had been deposited at the Police Hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy, while investigations continued to ascertain whether it was a robbery attack or otherwise.
He said nothing was taken from the car, adding that an amount of Gh¢1,200, mobile phones and other valuables were all intact in the car.
Early last year, two men, the then Deputy Managing Director (Operations) of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), Mr Rokko Frempong, and a retired officer of the Public Works Department (PWD), Nii Kwartey Quartey, were gunned down under similar circumstances in Tema.
Story: Mary Mensah
Unknown assailants on Tuesday night ambushed the manager of the Total Filling Station at La, gunned him down in his house and escaped without taking anything from him.
The deceased, Solomon Lamptey-George, 69, and his wife had just returned to their home at Tema Community 11 after the close of work when the incident occurred.
Mr Lamptey-George was still behind the steering wheel, while his wife, who had come down to open the gate, was first attacked by the assailants, who were wielding machetes and guns.
They then approached the deceased in his car and, without demanding anything, shot him in the forehead and ran out of the house.
According to Stephen Lamptey-George, a son of the deceased, who also works at the filling station, on Tuesday his father officially handed over the management of the station to officials of Total and left for the house about 5:30 p.m. with his wife, Madam Beatrice Dowuona, who is his (Stephen’s) stepmother.
Stephen said he usually accompanied his parents home but on Tuesday he had other businesses to attend to so he asked them to take the lead.
He said about 8.00 p.m. he had a call from his stepmother that his father had been shot by three men.
Stephen said he rushed home and his stepmother informed him that when they reached the house, she got out and opened the gate, after which his father drove into the compound.
Madam Dowuona told Stephen that as she was about to close the gate, two young men, one wielding a machete and another a gun, pushed her and opened the gate. Another also jumped the wall into the compound and shouted, “Where is the money?”, to which she replied that she had no money.
After that, Stephen said, the assailants turned their attention to Mr Lamptey-George, who was still sitting in the car, and shot him on the forehead.
He said his stepmum started screaming and the men ran out of the house.
The Tema Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent J. Dogbeda, confirmed the incident and said the body of the deceased had been deposited at the Police Hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy, while investigations continued to ascertain whether it was a robbery attack or otherwise.
He said nothing was taken from the car, adding that an amount of Gh¢1,200, mobile phones and other valuables were all intact in the car.
Early last year, two men, the then Deputy Managing Director (Operations) of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), Mr Rokko Frempong, and a retired officer of the Public Works Department (PWD), Nii Kwartey Quartey, were gunned down under similar circumstances in Tema.
I'LL PURGE POLICE PRESIDENT KUFOUR PLEDGES (Lead Story)
21/06/08
Story: Mary Mensah
President J.A. Kufuor has pledged to clean up the Ghana Police Service and purge it of the cocaine controversies that have stigmatised the institution lately.
He noted that the image of the Police Service had been brought into disrepute by the questionable handling of narcotic cases but commended the men and officers for the high professionalism displayed during the country’s 50th anniversary celebration, the African Union Summit, African Nations Cup tournament and the 12th UNCTAD conference.
The President was addressing the 41st cadet officers graduation at the Police College in Accra yesterday.
To regain their dignity in the eyes of the public, the President urged all personnel of the service to resolve to expose the bad lot in their ranks, whom he said were tarnishing the hard-won image of the service.
Commending the police for their good work during the international events hosted by Ghana, the President said, “The Police Service was at its best in all these landmark occasions and this should convince the nation of the great potential of the service,” adding that the government would go to all ends to help the service to realise and sustain that potential to underpin the law and order of the country.
Reflecting on the state of the service eight years ago when he assumed office, President Kufuor indicated that the entire service stood at 15,983 in a country with a population of about 22 million and that worked out to a ratio of 1,126 people to one policeman.
The President said over the past seven and a half years the strength of the police had been increasing steadily to the current 22,313, which had improved the ratio to one policeman to 994 citizens, bringing Ghana closer to achieving the UN standard of one policeman for every 500 individuals.
He said additionally, police divisions had increased from 30 to 54, police districts from 140 to 188 and police stations from 626 to 675, adding that the government’s goal was to extend the services of the police to the remotest communities in the country.
The President indicated that the government appreciated the enormity of the accommodation problems facing the service and hinted that substantial investments were already being made to provide residential accommodation in many of the barracks.
He added that the government was engaged with some companies in designing modern and suitable barracks for service personnel in strategic areas in the cities and that in the course of this year, an agreement would be reached for the actual implementation of the housing policy.
Other policies, one for the provision of vehicles, communication gadgets and modern office equipment, he said, had already been approved by Cabinet.
President Kufuor said in pursuance of the policy of modernising the service and making it more efficient, the government hads adopted a programme to standardise the vehicles and models that were suitable for the nation’s security services, taking into account the terrain, durability and maintenance.
“There must be no room for the violation of the rules and regulations of the service. This is what the nation expects you, the graduating cadet officers, to uphold and your conduct should reflect the quality of training you have received at this college,” he said.
In all, 135 cadet officers and two officer cadets passed out from the college after six months’ training.
The overall best cadet award went to Cadet Officer Charles Asiamah Agyei.
Story: Mary Mensah
President J.A. Kufuor has pledged to clean up the Ghana Police Service and purge it of the cocaine controversies that have stigmatised the institution lately.
He noted that the image of the Police Service had been brought into disrepute by the questionable handling of narcotic cases but commended the men and officers for the high professionalism displayed during the country’s 50th anniversary celebration, the African Union Summit, African Nations Cup tournament and the 12th UNCTAD conference.
The President was addressing the 41st cadet officers graduation at the Police College in Accra yesterday.
To regain their dignity in the eyes of the public, the President urged all personnel of the service to resolve to expose the bad lot in their ranks, whom he said were tarnishing the hard-won image of the service.
Commending the police for their good work during the international events hosted by Ghana, the President said, “The Police Service was at its best in all these landmark occasions and this should convince the nation of the great potential of the service,” adding that the government would go to all ends to help the service to realise and sustain that potential to underpin the law and order of the country.
Reflecting on the state of the service eight years ago when he assumed office, President Kufuor indicated that the entire service stood at 15,983 in a country with a population of about 22 million and that worked out to a ratio of 1,126 people to one policeman.
The President said over the past seven and a half years the strength of the police had been increasing steadily to the current 22,313, which had improved the ratio to one policeman to 994 citizens, bringing Ghana closer to achieving the UN standard of one policeman for every 500 individuals.
He said additionally, police divisions had increased from 30 to 54, police districts from 140 to 188 and police stations from 626 to 675, adding that the government’s goal was to extend the services of the police to the remotest communities in the country.
The President indicated that the government appreciated the enormity of the accommodation problems facing the service and hinted that substantial investments were already being made to provide residential accommodation in many of the barracks.
He added that the government was engaged with some companies in designing modern and suitable barracks for service personnel in strategic areas in the cities and that in the course of this year, an agreement would be reached for the actual implementation of the housing policy.
Other policies, one for the provision of vehicles, communication gadgets and modern office equipment, he said, had already been approved by Cabinet.
President Kufuor said in pursuance of the policy of modernising the service and making it more efficient, the government hads adopted a programme to standardise the vehicles and models that were suitable for the nation’s security services, taking into account the terrain, durability and maintenance.
“There must be no room for the violation of the rules and regulations of the service. This is what the nation expects you, the graduating cadet officers, to uphold and your conduct should reflect the quality of training you have received at this college,” he said.
In all, 135 cadet officers and two officer cadets passed out from the college after six months’ training.
The overall best cadet award went to Cadet Officer Charles Asiamah Agyei.
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