Ashanti Today

  One of the damaged vehicles Chairman of the Ashanti Regional Security Council, Mr. Simon Osei Mensah, has directed Police at Effiduase to immediately declare any of the School Prefects of the Krobea Asante Technical-Vocational Institute wanted and pursue them for arrest. Similarly, any parent or guardian hiding any of the students of the school should surrender him or her to the Police also immediately for the law to take its cause in an effort at finding a solution to the rampage that occurred at the school at the weekend. Mr. Osei Mensah gave the directive after a visit to the school at Asokore in the Sekyere East district in the Ashanti region. Mr. Osei Mensah announced the composition of a five-member Investigation Committee to unravel all circumstances regarding the riot including the legalities, culpability of individuals and groups at the school, values of the damaged vehicles and other properties saying that, ultimately, the students will bear the full cost since gove...

  Dr. Foster Ansong-Director of Operations, National Ambulance Service The National Ambulance Service says it received about three point-seven million(3.7m) prank calls in a year. Ironically, the Service received a total of 110 thousand genuine emergency calls in a three-year period spanning 2020-2022. According to the Director of Operations of the National Ambulance Service, Dr. Foster Ansong, the prank calls impede people in emergency situations from easily accessing the service thereby thwarting real time response to emergency situations to save lives. Dr. Ansong disclosed this to a section of the media at Kenyase in the Kwabre East Municipality in the Ashanti region during an interview. He had led a team from the National Ambulance Service to train participants of a training programme in Basic Life Support. “ When we talk about prank calls, that one, it’s serious. If we’re to put together the data, from that same 2020 to 2022, prank calls alone are in millions. Even i...

  Dr. George Akuffo Dampare(with folded arms) with Ashanti Rgl GNFS Commander at the scene The Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akufo Dampare showed his humanness while interacting with personnel of the Police Service and relatives of the deceased Sergeant of the Anti Robbery Squad as part of his visit to the scene of Sunday midnight’s inferno at Apromase in the Ashanti region. In the company of some senior police officials from both the national headquarters and Ashanti Regional Command, the head of the Ghana Police Service was at the scene in the Ejisu Municipality in a swift reaction to the news of the catastrophe of the burning to death of Sergeant Asante Baafi Owusu, his wife, Millicent Achaa and their 4-month old baby boy, Samuel Kwabena Baafi Nyamedo in a domestic fire outbreak that occurred at their Flats on the last floor of a two-storey building within the police barracks at Apromase. Ashanti Today has gathered that the wife, Millicent had returned to the barr...

  ADO 11 Danie Antwi-Ashanti GNFS Command PR Unit A total of 14 persons were trapped to death in the Ashanti region last year when the houses in which they were gutted by wildfire. The figure shows a sharp increase of nine over the five recorded in 2021.   The victims included both the young and old with one of them being a 75-year old retired staff of the Ghana Audit Service whose five-bedroom residential facility was razed down in an inferno last year. The Ashanti Regional Fire Service Command has expressed serious concern about the situation and subsequently advised private residential facility developers to seek professional guidance about the most appropriate safety and security measures to put in place during construction. An official at the Public Relations Unit of the Command, ADO II Daniel Antwi, made this known to Ashanti Today in an interview in Kumasi. He noted, despite the situation being a major cause of concern, people continue to provide unsafe protect...

Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe-University Relations Officer, KNUST in the studio of Garden City Tv Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, has assured parents/guardians and prospective 1st year students of an elaborate residential accommodation measures already in place for fresh students this academic year. According to the management, apart from the six traditional Halls with a combine bed capacity of about nine thousand, there are three other Halls on campus thus Hall Seven, SRC’s and the Brunei Complex which add up to the on-campus accommodation.  Discussing matters of fresh admissions and students’ accommodation for the new academic year on GBC’s Garden City Tv’s ‘Anopa Bosuo’ Morning Show in Kumasi monitored by Ashanti Today , KNUST’s Deputy Registrar in charge of University Relations Office, URO, Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe, disclosed that, in addition to the available on-campus accommodation, management has entered into agreement with operators o...

Kwakwa Sarpong(with red band around the neck) addressing the media There is a brewing tension at Asaaman near Agona in the Sekyere South district in the Ashanti region for which the youth and aged are making distress calls on interested parties and authorities to treat as a matter of urgency to avert any potential bloodshed.  According to the inhabitants, even though raging chieftaincy differences among the various royal families has denied the town of some important socio-economic progress in recent years, they will be more content with the peace and security enjoyed over the years than be saddled with violent conflict because of the parochial interest of certain individuals and groups at the expense of the entire important traditional community.  These issues came to the fore at a news conference organized by some concerned youth of Asaaman to draw the attention of duty bearers including the security agencies and the Manhyia Palace to quickly intervene to quell the rising st...