Ashanti Today

A visit by Ashanti Today to the some Colleges of Education in the Ashanti region showed that students have started arriving on the various campuses from their short break.  There is however an atmosphere of uneasy calm among those students for fears of confrontation by their leaders as a result of the declared indefinite strike by the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana, TTAG.  At the Saint Louis College of Education in Kumasi, an appreciable number of the students had already reported to school upon the resumption of academic activities from Today.  Some of them however complained to our Correspondent that they had already been confronted by their SRC Executives for defying the strike orders which is to press home the teacher trainees’ demand for restoration of their Allowance.  A number of parents who accompanied their wards to school, also looked apprehensive about the fate of their children on campus amidst the uncertainty of whether or not the children can

The Police in the Ashanti region have arrested four persons including a media practitioner with Atinka FM, an Accra-based private radio station, Anthony Antwi-Otoo, for allegedly conspiring to blackmail and extort an amount of 300 thousand Ghana Cedis from the Chief Executive Officer of the Peace and Love Hospital, Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe Addai.  The other three who have also been arrested are Mike Osei Bobie Kesse, a Records Officer and Videographer at the Hospital, Prince Kwarteng, a musician living at Tabora in Accra and Awuni Azure popularly called Kwame Isaac, also a musician staying at Agona-Bobikumah. The other suspect in the case, Marcus Kofi Otabil, who is also said to be a journalist, is however on the run and being looked for by the Police for arrest.  The Police were able to retrieve from the suspects, 27 Patients’ private confidential Folders from the Hospital.  Speaking to journalists in Kumasi, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, ACP Ampofo Duku

The Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit, DOVVSU, of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Benjamin Dokurugu says the emergence of posting of nude photographs of some people through the social and new media has become the new challenge to the fight against crime as well as particularly domestic violence.  This challenge, according to the DOVVSU Coordinator, requires that the Unit also repositions and re-strategizes itself to tackle effectively. Speaking to Ashanti Today in Kumasi, DSP Dokurugu explained the serious problems that the new sophisticated crime poses to not just the individuals and families involved in such acts, but the national socio-economic development.  He said apart from the victims losing their self-worth, confidence, serious emotional and psychological stability, their ability to work to their optimal best is also undermined.  In certain instances too, such cases lead to homelessness, broken relationships as a well

A total of 138 members of the New Patriotic Party have filed their nomination forms to contest in the party’s upcoming Parliamentary primaries in the Ashanti region.  Vetting of the contestants is scheduled to start tomorrow. Speaking to GBC’s Garden City Radio in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NPP, Sam Pyne, disclosed that the number of women MP aspirants has increased from the seven in 2011 to 11 this year.  According to him, seven of the candidates are to contest unopposed. The concerned Constituencies include Tafo Pankrono, Manhyia South, Ejura-Sekyedumase, Afigya-Kwabre and Offinso North.  

COP James Oppong-Boanuh A Commissioner of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, who is in charge of Services of the Ghana Police Service, says the face of policing the world over is fast changing.  This follows the new and more difficult crimes such as terrorism. According to the Commissioner of Police, new crimes such as terrorism pose serious threat to world peace with the operations of groups like Boko Haram in Ghana’s neighbourhood being a clear case.  He has suggested to the Police administration to adopt new methods of law enforcement and fighting crime saying that the traditional methods of operations are now more enough to deal with such threats.  Addressing a forum for police personnel and civilians in Kumasi, COP Oppong-Boanuh however noted that it does not mean the Ghana Police must discard its routine duties such as bank guards as well as   visibility patrols in the communities.  The new challenge, COP Oppong-Boanuh emphasized, should be operations of the Se