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NPP likely to go to court to challenge poll results

The New Patriotic Party is likely to head to the courts over what it alleges are gross irregularities in the results of the 2012 elections.

A member of the Communications team of the party John Boadu gave the hint in a discussion on Multi-TV and Joy FM, Monday.

He said the leader of the party Nana Akufo-Addo, an astute politician will not head to court if he had no credible evidence to support his claim.

The party is reeling under a painful election defeat and is accusing the ruling party of widespread rigging.

The party had petitioned the EC chairman to withhold the declaration of the results until their concerns are addressed but the EC Chair, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan went ahead with the declaration, Sunday evening in line with his promise of declaring the election results within 48 hours after polls.

The only democratic option available to the NPP is the courts and John Boadu believes the party will take advantage of this option.

Even though, he did not mention the exact constituencies, the deputy Communications director said they have evidence to show that in ten constituencies a total 53,000 votes were added to that of the NDC candidate.

He said the National Executive Council of the party will be meeting, Tuesday to take a decision on the next line of action.

He advised supporters to remain calm and not indulge in any acts of violence.

“We will take all means legal to ensure credibility is brought to the figures in the election results,” he assured.

http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=259045&comment=0#com

kaffy4tope: Shut d bleep dia. Just because ure from a Godforsaken tribe, a tribe known as the origin of enormous crimes commiting in Nigeria 2day doesn't mean you should vest your uncontrollable anger and stupid frustrations on d well respected, peaceful and easygoing YORUBAS.
You should be in d corner of ur room by now, covering ur face, cos most of dese heinous crimes came frm no where but ur stupid and God rejected tribe. Even ur retardeen, dull, actionless, dindinrin president u hv can never underestimate Yorubas. No be Obasanjo put am dia? If not for Baba wey dey rule frm Ota Farm, ur olodo president would hv long gone.
Just dt lemme see u ever talk to Yorubas lyk dt in ur life "ti sonpanna o ba ti fe pa e"
Finally, wheneva u see a yoruba fellow, u knw hw to address them? say 'YESBOSS'

IF IGBO IS A GOD FORSAKEN TRIBE THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT Yoruba IS. THE CRIMINAL OBJ HE IS REFFERING TO JUST DISCRAGED HIMSELF IN GHANA LAST WEEK. THATS NOT ALL, BELOW IS JUST A LIST OF THE BEST LEADERS FROM Yoruba LAND OR ODUA REPUBLIC...



Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo: Ex convict

Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo: Ex convict

Bola Tinubu: Alleged Ex convict in the US

Olabode George: Ex convict

Donaldson Oladipo Diya (the weeping general): Ex convict

Abdulkarim Adisa: Ex convict

Tajudeen Olanrewaju: Ex convict

Tafa Balogun (former IG): Ex convict

Sunday Ehindero (former IG): In prison custody awaiting trial

Moshood K Abiola: Died in Detention!*****

kaffy4tope: Shut d bleep dia. Just because ure from a Godforsaken tribe, a tribe known as the origin of enormous crimes commiting in Nigeria 2day doesn't mean you should vest your uncontrollable anger and stupid frustrations on d well respected, peaceful and easygoing YORUBAS.
You should be in d corner of ur room by now, covering ur face, cos most of dese heinous crimes came frm no where but ur stupid and God rejected tribe. Even ur retardeen, dull, actionless, dindinrin president u hv can never underestimate Yorubas. No be Obasanjo put am dia? If not for Baba wey dey rule frm Ota Farm, ur olodo president would hv long gone.
Just dt lemme see u ever talk to Yorubas lyk dt in ur life "ti sonpanna o ba ti fe pa e"
Finally, wheneva u see a yoruba fellow, u knw hw to address them? say 'YESBOSS'

The rantings of an educated illiterate. The frustrations of a man who claims his tribe are most educated yet even their professors destroy the faces of their children with horrible tribal marks in the name of tradition. Group of gorillas that still shiit in nylon bags even in the 21st century. WHen you look yourself in the morrow, what will u tell your parents for doing these to you? You are not supposed to be alive, go hang yourself or better still kill your parents for destroying your already horrible face.
Fattest, ugliest, dumbest, noisiest, blackest and dirtiest black race ever

osifred: Check the meaning of uninvited guest and gate crasher.

My sister got wedded last two month the husband underestimated the number of well wishers from my paternal and maternal family (before you star shouting, we are africans and family members count) but for my quick intervention it could have being something as I gave out my two canopies. For goodness sake I wouldn't let my extended family members outside because there names were not in a gadamn VIP list.

@op u must make provision for both invited and uninvited guest. Lets say you boss at work wasn't on the list and he showed up, will it be fair to bounce him or you invited just him and he came with a friend?

Bottom line don't create enemies for yourself because you want a classic wedding. On a lighter mood. The more the merrier

God bless you, you talk like a real African, not those AMERICAN WANABE...

zinfly: I need suggestions please. i am getting married soon and would like 300 guest maximum. i have already been advised by a few friends that they will be bringing their friends.

Firstly i find that rude as i understand weddings are meant for close friends and family.

I am considering getting bouncer and security.

Is this acceptable in Nigeria.

MY FRIEND, DONT BE RIDICULOUS, THIS IS NIGERIA, AFRICA, AND NOT A WHITE MANS LAND...
NO MATTER THE AMOUNT OF BOUNCERS USED, UNINVITED GUESTS WILL COME TO YOUR WEDDING WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

CAN U TELL ME WHY U DONT WANT MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE? ARE YOU THAT STUPID AND STINGY? OR IS THIS THE ONLY THING U LEARNT FROM YOUR WHITE SLAVE MASTERS?

THIS IS AFRIKKA FOR GODS SAKE. PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GONNA COME TO YOUR WEDDING UNINVITED. THEY ARE NOT COMING TO BEG YOU FOR FOOD, BUT IF THEY SEE FOOD THEY WILL FORKING EAT, AND IF THERE'S NO FOOD THEY WILL FORKING GO.

TAKE THIS XMAS FOR EXAMPLE. I AM IGBO AND I LOVE MY CULTURE/TRADITION. I HAVE SPENT ALOT OF MONEY BUYING DRINKS AND FOOD ITEMS THAT I WILL SHARE TO PEOPLE THAT WILL VISIT ME IN THE VILLAGE THIS XMAS. 90% OF THESE PEOPLE WILL COME UNINVITED, AND I AM NOT GOING TO CHASE THEM AWAY FOR ANY REASONS WHATSOEVER.

THEY ARE NOT COMING TO BEG ME FOR FOOD, BUT WHEN THEY COME I EXPECT TO SERVE THEM FOOD AND DRINKS, WHETHER I AM IN THHE HOUSE OR NOT, ANYONE WHO VISITS ME WILL BE PROPERLY TAKEN CARE OF. WHEN THEY ARE GOING IF I HAVE ANY GIFTS I WILL GIVE THEM. I PERSONALLY HOST OUR VILLAGE WOMEN EVERY DECEMBER 26TH AND NEW YEAR DAY IS FOR OUR VILLAGE MEN. ALL THESE COSTS ME SO MUCH MONEY, BUT I AM HAPPY TO DO IT BC ITS FUN. HOW WOULD U FEEL IF U ARE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD AND NO HUMAN BEING VISITS YOUR HOME? THEN U WILL BE HAPPY? MAYBE THE PROBLEM IS THAT U DONT LIKE CROWD?

WELL WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT PLACES SO DIFFERENT THINGS WORKS FOR US. I LOVE PEOPLE, I CANT IMAGINE TURNING RICH OR POOR GUESTS AWAY DURING MY WEDDING. MY TRADITIONAL WEDDING WAS IN CAPE COST OF GHANA AND I SET A LASTING LEGACY IN THAT PLACE. U ONLY DO THESE THINGS ONCE, SO THERES NO NEED BEING STINGY. IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO ENTERTAIN GUESTS THAT MEASN U NEVER REACH TO SETTLE DOWN. I BELIEVE IF A SENATOR OR MILLIONAIRE COMES TO YOUR WEDDING UNINVITED YOU WONT TURN HIM AWAY?

You see the way most people are happy that this womans mother has been kidnapped.
For the first time on Nairaland, Nigerians are praising kidnappers simply bc this woman is not from yorobberland. Now i know why Nigeria is a failed state.

WHAT HAS NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA DONE, I mean what crime did she commit to deserve this? I could remember many of you lunatics were even supporting confirmed criminals like TINUBU when he was arrested, you all went sentimental bc he is Yoruba abi? I mean tinubu is a confirmed criminal that has bad records everywhere with dozens of foreign banks accounts as evidence, yet you lots were rallying round him claiming he was being prosecuted unjustly by PDP?

But this is a case of an innocent old woman, a professor for that matter There has never been any proven evidence that NOI has stolen Nigerias money. Even if she has, what has it got to do with her mother? ARE YOU GUYS READY TO RECEIVE GODS WRATH AND JUDGEMENT BASED SOLELY ON THE SINS OF YOUR FOREFATHERS?


I HOPE YOU GUYS WILL PRAISE KIDNAPPERS WHEN IT HAPPENS TO ANY NIGERIAN POLITICIAN, NOT JUST BC SHES NIGER DELTAN?

Chief Justice Sets Up Complaints' Secretariats for Post Elections Petitions

The Judicial Service on the authority and direction of Mrs Justice Georgina T. Wood, the Chief Justice of Ghana, has established two public complaints secretariats in anticipation of post-2012 election petitions.

They are the Chief Justice’s Secretariat and the Office of the Chief Registrar-General.

This was contained in a press release signed by Justice Alex B. Poku-Acheampong, Judicial Secretary and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra.

The mandate of the two secretariats will be to receive and file complaints and queries from the public on pending election petitions before the courts after the December 7th general elections and take the necessary action on them.


It said the purpose of the arrangement was to ensure that post-election petitions placed before the courts, were determined in a timely fashion.

The two secretariats can be reached by email on elections@judicial.gov.gh and edisputes@judicial.gov.gh and by telephone on the following hotlines: 0203356029 and 0203356030.

The release said the initiative of the Chief Justice was part of a raft of measures that the Judicial Service had taken towards the speedy disposal of election disputes.

It said the Service in 2008 produced a Manual on Election Adjudication in Ghana ahead of the general elections of that year to serve as a useful guide for Judges in adjudicating electoral disputes.

It said a 2nd edition, an improvement on the maiden one, has been produced this year, which includes subject matters that were not previously covered in the first edition in addition to a digest of some previously decided cases and a list of statutes that are applicable to the conduct of elections in Ghana.

http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=259011&comment=0#com

Ghana opposition cries foul in presidential race

Ghana's main opposition party said on Sunday the country's presidential election had been rigged, raising concerns of unrest in a nation seen as a bulwark of democracy in an unstable region.

The New Patriotic Party called on the electoral commission to delay announcing results hours after local media projected its candidate Nana Akufo-Addo had narrowly lost to incumbent John Dramani Mahama.

"These results cannot be forced down the throat of the people of Ghana," NPP chairman Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey told reporters at a news conference in Accra.

The poll is a test of whether Ghana can maintain more than 30 years of stability and progress in a region better known for coups, civil wars and corruption.

A cliff-hanger election in 2008, in which Akufo-Addo lost by less than 1 percent, pushed the country to the brink of chaos, with disputes over results driving hundreds of people into the streets with clubs and machetes.

Local news outlet Joy News used counts from polling stations to project a narrow Mahama victory in the first round vote.

Obetsebi-Lamptey said he had evidence of electoral workers conspiring to rig tallies and added the party had sent a formal letter of complaint to the election commission asking for an audit before full results are released.

Election commissioner Kwadwo Afari-Gyan told Reuters he was not yet aware of the NPP complaint, and declined to say when the body would announce a winner.

At least two hundred supporters of Akufo-Addo, wearing red headbands and shouting "We want peace, we want SHS", faced off with riot police and soldiers near the Election Commission building. SHS refers to Akufo-Addo's promise to provide Ghanaians with free education through senior high school.

Akufo-Addo, a British-trained lawyer, has also criticised the ruling party for failing to root out government graft.

Mahama served as prime minister for former leader John Atta Mills and took over the presidency in July after Mills' death from illness. He has vowed to use rising oil revenues to jumpstart development, create jobs, and combat poverty.

But in a country where campaign messages rarely influence voting choices, many believe most of Ghana's 14 million voters cast their ballots based on ethnic, social or regional ties.

"We have a fair idea what the outcome of the elections will be," Mahama said at his house in a leafy suburb of Accra on Sunday. "But as a law-abiding political party, we shall wait for the electoral commission to make an official declaration."

A run-off is possible December 28 if no candidate wins an outright majority. Ghanaians are also electing a parliament, in which Mahama's party has enjoyed a slim majority.

An oil-driven economic boom has brought more wealth to the country, but also fears that it could suffer the graft and turmoil that often plagues energy-rich developing nations.

TROUBLED POLLS

Voting was plagued by delays after hundreds of newly-introduced electronic fingerprint readers - used to identify voters - failed on Friday and forced some polling stations to reopen on Saturday to clear the backlog.

Ghana television stations aired long infomercials on Sunday, between election updates, showing clips of wars that have erupted in neighbouring countries interspersed with testimonials from Ghanaians about the importance of maintaining peace.

"This election has been hard, but we must remember Ghanaians are one and we must love each other and remain peaceful," said Wellington Dadzie, 69, a former soldier who lives on the outskirts of the capital Accra.

Ghana has had five peaceful and constitutional transfers of power since its last coup in 1981. Its residents like to say "Ghana in peace, not in pieces".

Neighbouring Ivory Coast tipped into civil war last year after a disputed 2010 poll and regional neighbours Mali and Guinea-Bissau have both suffered coups this year.

Oil production in Ghana - which is also a big cocoa and gold producer - started two years ago and oil field operator Tullow Oil says it expects to boost output further in 2013.

"These elections are important not just to Ghana but for the growing number of states and actors seeking to benefit from increasing confidence in Africa," said Alex Vines, Africa Research Director at Chatham House.

http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=258963&comment=0#com

NPP to prove alleged electoral fraud later today

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Director, Nana Akomea, has told Joy News the party will release figures from over 20 constituencies where there were major discrepancies between results from the polling stations and those declared at the collation centres.

He said the party, so far, has enough evidence to prove there was voter fraud in at least 20 constituencies, adding that the results were tampered with before reaching the Electoral Commission (EC).

The NPP has since the projection and declaration of the election results insisted the polls were rigged in favour of President John Mahama. Its flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has refused to concede defeat.

Speaking on Joy FM’s Election Headquarters Monday, Mr. Akomea maintained that differences between results recorded at polling stations and that declared by the EC will shock Ghanaians and give the NPP a strong case in contesting the outcome of the elections.

He said that the party will be taking its complaints to a lower court, saying the public can expect the NPP to release a more definitive statement on the alleged fraud later today, Monday.

The country will be able to move forward together, he explained, once the evidence is on the table and the concerns are addressed to everyone’s satisfaction.

Mr. Akomea also thanked the party’s supporters for their votes, commended the Ghanaian people for their good conduct during the elections, and said that this election’s results suggest a country split down the middle in terms of political preferences.

http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=259001

Buncha fools laughing over their calamity.
Whats the fuss about if i may ask?
Do you guys know how much he was paid for this?
Only if you morons know how much this guy has made in the last 3 yrs you wouldn't be laughing at a very very successful man.
In real life none of you laughing at him can tie his shoe lace and thats a fact.

BEST NEWS OF THE MONTH.
THATS THE WAY TO GO.
OUR LEADERS ARE USELESS OTHERWISE NIGERIA IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN INDUSTRIAL HUB BY NOW.
TELL ME WHY TOYOTAS ETC WONT BE FORCED TO SET UP PLANTS IN NIGERIA...

I NEED TO RUN FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY, I HAVE THE VISION TO TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND WITHIN 4 YEARS. WE DON'T NEED OIL AND GAS TO BE GREAT, WE NEED A GOOD LEADER WITH VISION. NIGERIA WAS A MUCH BETTER AND PROSPEROUS COUNTRY BEFORE THE ADVENT OF OIL

Umunede: Statement: NPP disagrees with E.C declaration of results



The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Afari Djan, this evening made a declaration on the December 7 presidential election, declaring President John Mahama as the winner with 50.70% of the valid vote.

As the New Patriotic Party leadership made it clear to him earlier this evening, in a meeting requested by us and called by the National Peace Council, with the other political parties in attendance, we have serious reservations about the validity of what the Chairman of the Electoral Commission has done in declaring results that, by the evidence, do not reflect the mandate of the required majority of the Ghanaian electorate.

The National Chairman of the Party has accordingly convened an emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of the NPP on Tuesday December 11 to lay out the steps that the party will take in light of these events.

In the meanwhile, we are calling upon all NPP members and supporters to remain calm.

 

......signed......
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie
General Secretary of the NPP




Source: NPP Communications Directorate

I hope they can sort this out ASAP without fomenting trouble. We dont want Ghana to go the Kenyan way

Techwriter: Ghana must go, Ghana must go! Well they left to build their country and soon you would be needing VISa to enter Ghana. Their democracy is working, their light is working, their education is working. Anyway I doubt if the Igbos would do better if all Nigerians begin to shout Biafra must go! Biafra must go!! Cos in this Lagos, landlords & Fashola are already saying it silently and in the North Boko Haram believes that action speaks faster than words

WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY TRYING TO SAY?

PetroDolla: the elections were largely free and fair. I voted for Nana Addo and the NPP, but I think the resuts were fair.

Observing the results, I think the NPP did not make as much gains as expected in the Ashanti areas. that, to my mind, was a major setback.

They should accept the results and move on. that's what democracy is all about, the will of the majority.

LONG LIVE GHANA!

Congratulations to Mahama and the NDC. I ALWAYS MAINTAINED ITS NOT EASY TO WIN A SITING PRESIDENT IN AFRICA NO MATTER HOW WE PRETEND.

My wife voted NPP. I wanted Nana Addo to win coz he has made a lot of promises and I wanted to see if he can deliver on his promises. I know African politicians are sycophants, they hardly deliver on their electioneering promises. I can remember late president Atta mills promised to reduce petrol price but the moment he won the election he increased petrol prices 4 times before he died.

I still believe the NPP government of Kufour did wonders for Ghana that the current crop of NDC leaders cannot match.

But I think Nana Addos ALL DIE BE DIE rantings didn't help him. But his free SHS promise did give him some votes.
Generally it was a free and fair election. The opposition accepted the result already and will move on. Next time they should field a better candidate.

ocelot2006: Dude, the only Ghana and Nigeria share in common are the English language and the geographical subregion. Other than that, you're not in the same league with us. The Federal Republic of Nigeria is, and will always be, leagues ahead of your beloved Ghana. Fact.

WORD

Rossikk: I mentioned a lot more things than phones and laptops, such as cars, Suv's trucks, buses, lorries, cement etc. Obviously Ghana is not in Nigeria's league in manufacturing or you would have posted more items.

If these guys have brains they would have learnt one or two things from my post. They cannot produce carrot in Ghana and u expect them to manufacture wheelbarrow.

Take transportation industry for instance. How much does it take to float a standard airline? Why are Ghanians comfortable leaving their aviation industry, banking sector, construction etc in the hands of foreigners?

Abrantie: RLG Communications: Laptops & Phones MADE IN GHANA

http://www.rlgghana.com/

Zepto: LCD TVs, Tablets and Laptops... MADE IN GHANA

http://www.zeptoghana.com/

Reroy Cables: Ethernet and Electrical Cables... MADE IN GHANA

http://www.reroycable.com/

Lol the fool is bringing companies that assemble made in China phones and laptops? The same RLG laptops that doesnt last 3 months? My wife bought one in the name of patriotism but it broke down after 3 months and they had to give her another one which broke down again after 4 months.

And he is even listing electric cables as an achievement hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Nigga we talking money and u talking nonsense.
In Agbara industrial estate, Ogun, I can list 10 cable manufacturing companies just in one industrial zone alone. THESE GUYS ARE RETARDS...

SmoothLIFE: If that is your analysis then, it is no wonder your country is a mess! Ghana WAS the fastest growing economy in the world last year!! While the only thing you lead in was bombs and other recalcitrant behavior!!!

MUGU< ghana was the fastest growing economy last yr when u started pumping oil, NOW WHAT? Hahahahahaha... Did you become the fastest growing economy bc you can produce matches or even wheel barrow? U cant even produce carrots and onions in Ghana, you IMPORT EVERYTHING bc you are too lazy...

Even Equatorial Guinea had that record for long time when they opened up one of their biggest oil fields... MUGU

Rossikk: Stop telling lies. As we speak, daily power outages are ravaging Ghana including Accra. It was on the news even today (enCA South Africa news channel). Also, at least 50% of the Ghanaian population is not connected to the national grid at all. So you have SERIOUS problems with electricity, pipe borne water etc. Stop lying about the state of your country.

Ghana power cuts:

http://www.modernghana.com/news/427059/1/ecg-under-investigations-over-unexplained-power-cu.html

Ghanaians openly defaecate for lack of pipe borne water:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201109121695.html

Debating with these short niggas is a complete waste of time. He brags about light and water as if they have same in Ghana. My wife is in Ghana for days now bc of their presidential election and shes been running generator. Electricity goes on and off in Ghana like 5 or more times daily. This is the reason they want to vote the ruling party out, bc the Ghanaian economy is messed up things are getting very hard and no jobs for their illiterate youths.

ASK THIS NIGGA WHAT GHANAIAN MADE PRODUCTS THEY HAVE IN OR OUT OF GHANA? IN GHANA WE FLOOD THEIR SHOPS/MARKETS WITH MADE IN NIGERIA PRODUCTS: NODDLES, CEMENT, BODY CREAM, HAIR CREAME, BISCUITS, CHEWING GUM, EVEN GALLA AND LA CASERA ARE HOT CAKE IN GHANA. You will see Nigerian companies in every sector of Ghanaian economy, from banking to aviation, construction, IT, Fashion etc. The only Ghanaian item u see in Nigeria is Alomo bitters, if this is not failure then tell me what it is.

Our airlines alone makes millions of dollars out of Ghana daily. Only God knows how much Glo makes in Ghana. The internet link they are using to rant on nairaland is routed through Nigeria.

Abrantie: Uhm... I make great sense. After all, if you were so damn productive and intelligent, Nigeria would be heaven on earth. Instead, common commodities like ELECTRICITY or PIPE WATER or GOOD ROADS we take for granted in Ghana is hard to come by in Nigeria. Why?

MUGU, hahahaha you said you take good roads and water for granted in Ghana? Nigggga dont make me laugh abeg.
Can you mention the roads u are referring to in Ghana? How many highways do u have? Ghana that has only 6 flyovers when Lagos state alone has over 27 flyovers and counting? Are you MAD U cant build roads without dashed money from USA.
Show me the pics of your roads in Ghana and I will pull world class road networks from any Nigerian state like Akwa Ibom and those standard of road does not exist in Ghana bc ghana cannot pay world class construction companies like Julius Berger, ghana can only afford to pay poor Chinese construction companies with outdated equipments.

There is no running water in Ghana. Everyone buys water. Niggaa take your ignorance elsewhere

Gbawe: My brother, you may have a point. As at 2 hours ago, and with 140 wards counted out of around 200, Mahama leads by 50.8% to Akuffo-Addo's 48%. Mind you, a run-off may await if things remain that close. Akuffo-Addo's "die be die" talk is pure 'basa basa' nonsense. Yet I think his SHS free education may have gained him appreciable mileage. For neutral yet concerned folks, like me and you, may the best man win.

I said it, the sitting president has won. I pity Akuffu Addo for loosing yet another presidential election for the second time.

Ghanaian With Arms and Ammunition Arrested in Lagos

Lagos — Men of the Nigerian Customs Service have arrested a Ghanaian with arms and ammunitions in Lagos.The suspect who is a middle-aged man was arrested with the assorted dangerous imports, including a pistol, explosives, several rounds of live ammunitions and different firearm handling kits.

The suspect, Kwaku Antwi-Boasiako was nabbed at his residence, Road 27 D5B, Victoria Garden City, Lagos, following a tip off.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201006071437.html

Accra second worst city in the world?

Accra has been listed as one of the worst cities in the world on a travellers' website
The capital of Ghana was number two on a list compiled by Lonely Planet, based on feedback from its website users.
Crime-hit Detroit, Michigan, topped the poll ahead of Accra, which was described as " Ugly, chaotic, sprawling and completely indifferent to its waterfront location.".

"To think Accra is worse than war-torn Kabul, in Afghanistan, and cities with slums in India, is just a joke."

Seoul in South Korea was third followed by Los Angeles, US and Wolverhampton, England.
Introducing Accra (on /www.lonelyplanet.com)
With its back mostly turned to the Gulf of Guinea, taking little advantage of its waterfront location, Accra crawls up and over a modern landscape, gobbling up real estate and producing a chaotic low-rise skyline. Originally a scattering of villages controlled by Ga chiefs, today it’s a sprawling city that extends eastwards almost 25km to the neighbouring city of Tema. Its congested and pockmarked pavements; baking streets that in the midday heat can make a block feel like a kilometre; shanty towns and genteel leafy suburbia; chop bars and gourmet restaurants; hiplife and highlife; all combine to make Accra at once exhausting and exhilarating.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=174482

GHANA Man Chews Baby Girl

Sefwi Asawinso, a farming community in the Sefwi Wiawso District of the Western Region, was yesterday thrown into a state of shock when news broke that a 40-year-old teacher had allegedly eaten his one-month-old baby girl.

Nathaniel Nsetor, a teacher at Dokukrom Junior High School near Sefwi Juaboso, 'chewed' little Yaa Ohenewaa, leading to her death.

Timothy Bassah, Sefwi Asawinso District Police commander, who confirmed the story to DAILY GUIDE, noted that the suspect was in police custody pending further investigations.

He said that Nsetor hailed from the Volta Region and had married Vida Nimako, a native of Sefwi Brafo near Asawinso, for over 20 years and were blessed with five children.

Because of his work, the suspect and the wife were not staying together but Nsetor visited the wife almost every weekend at Sefwi Brafo.

ASP Bassah noted that over the weekend, the suspect travelled from Dokukrom to Sefwi Brafo to visit the wife and the one-month-old baby girl.

According to the district police commander, on Monday at about 12:30am, while Nsetor, the wife and the baby girl were sleeping, the suspect woke up and began to behave abnormally by shouting and praying on top of his voice so the wife became alarmed and went to call her mother who was also staying in the same house.

The police officer said while the wife was returning, she met the suspect carrying the one-month-old baby girl in his arms and when the wife insisted that Nsetor hands over the baby to her, the suspect started beating the wife and ran with the baby towards a nearby bush.

He said Vida shouted for help so people came around and as they chased the suspect for the baby, they could see Nsetor chewing the face of the baby girl like a cannibal, with the little girl crying.

He disclosed that the “cannibal” began chewing the baby girl from the nose, then the ears, the forehead and the eyelid.

The district police commander indicated that when the people managed to arrest the teacher, they realized that the baby girl, who was still in his arms, was dead. They then handed over the suspect to the police.

He pointed out that the deceased had been deposited at the morgue of the St. John of God Hospital at Sefwi Asafo.

From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi

http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=187933&comment=0#com

Why Ghana’s Economy Is Behind That Of Haiti’s

“Ghana is a typical example of the world’s worst-managed economies: It’s a country that shouldn’t be poor, but it is. The West African nation’s gross domestic product per capita fell 9% last year to $621, ranking it 154th out of 184 countries tracked by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), below resource-impoverished Haiti. With a $3 billion trade deficit last year and $4.9 billion in external debt, Ghana is struggling to pay its bills even as it sits on some of the world’s biggest reserves of gold and bauxite, as well as considerable amounts of offshore oil, which is being developed by Anadarko Petroleum and others....”(Ghanaweb - Wednesday, 9 June 2010).
This is the sobering snap-shot of the state of affairs of Ghana today - 53 years after being the first African country south of the Sahara to gain independence. Do we still have to be boastful of that accolade when the report says that we are below Haiti - a resource-poor country that is perennially devastated by natural disasters?
The report is a serious indictment on all the people who have held political power in Ghana since 6th March 1957. The harshest indictment however is reserved for the late I K Acheampong and Jerry John Rawlings whose disastrous combined 27 years rule actually destroyed the social fabric and the economy of Ghana. These were people whose educational and professional training could never have remotely made them candidates for any national leadership – but shot themselves into power, thinking that with guns and bullying, Ghana would become like any of the developed countries we know. What is most distressing is that the person who ruled Ghana longest and therefore on whose shoulder much of the blame for the sordid picture painted by the IMF should be placed, Rawlings - is still arrogantly parading himself as the best leader Ghana has ever had. As a paranoid and megalomaniac he still foolishly believes that other than him, no person is fit to rule Ghana. The down-trodden citizens of Ghana including the woman in front of the shack whose picture accompanied the IMF report should march to him to demand real accountability – and ask why they should be worse off than Haitians.
Much has been written about why we are still poor in spite of the fact that we sit on “massive” gold and bauxite reserves and now have billions of barrels of oil under our sea. This article will reinforce some of the reasons that have already been expounded in the past. I will as also try to provide some suggestions on how we can break off the chain of poverty.
The first major cause of our deplorable state of affairs is simply that we have, since independence, been unfortunate to be ruled by mediocre leaders. Some of these leaders had very little understanding of how to run a government - because of their very poor educational standards. Acheampong, attended only a commercial school to learn, in those days, book-keeping, typing, short-hand and perhaps commerce. Rawlings who has ruled Ghana the longest time, another self-imposed leader, even failed his GCE “O” levels at Achimota College. Who in his right senses could have given these two men managerial positions in his enterprise? Military training which they received is not geared towards the management of a modern economy – it’s about how to defeat the enemy in the battlefield. Who therefore doubts that the malaise, poverty and despondency we see around today in Ghana is not the result of the disastrous intervention in our national affairs by these two men?
Not even Kwame Nkrumah, a highly educated man could provide the vision and strategic leadership the country required to transform Ghana into a world-class country at the time we gained independence. By saying so, I am bench-marking him against the likes of Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia, Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and the two leaders of South Korea (Park Chung-Hee and later Chun Doo-Hwan). His management of Ghana’s economy was not up to scratch by any standard. The socialist policy he adopted was a complete failure. How could he have transformed Ghana’s economy into a world-class economy when he appointed misfits - half-educated and illiterate men and women to strategic positions in his government? This is where the problems of Ghana started.
I will excuse Prof K A Busia and Dr Hilla Limann’s brief rules which were abruptly interrupted by military opportunists.
Kufour came to meet a run-down economy at the beginning of 2001. For example 9,000 cedis was exchanged for $1, interest rate was above 40% etc. He did quite well to stabilize it but unfortunately he could not bring about the transformation Ghana required to put us on the path to become an industrial and economically viable country. At the time he was leaving office the fundamentals of our economy had not changed - the country was still exporting raw cocoa and timber logs, farmers were using cutlasses to make farms, we were still importing rice from Thailand and biscuits from Sri Lanka; the bucket latrine system was what the majority of Ghanaians living especially in the big towns and cities used; clean piped water was still a dream for majority of Ghanaians; the educational system was churning out illiterates and half-literates from the JSS and SSS system into non-existent job market. Certainly he had the opportunity to set the pace for a complete transformation of the Ghanaian economy during his eight-year rule but sadly he lost focus, especially during his second term.
And Atta Mills? From the little we have seen about him, 18 months after assuming office, certainly he not the strategic and visionary leader Ghanaians were yearning for after Kufour. He seems to have been so much overwhelmed by the gargantuan problems facing Ghanaians that he is still confused as to where to start and where to end. It is certain that by the time he leaves the scene, the squalor we saw in the photo accompanying the IMF report will still be there, if not worse. Under Atta Mills Ghanaians must not hope that their lots will be bettered in any way – even if the oil money starts flowing into the economy.
If Ghanaians are looking for answers as to why their standard of living today is below that of Haiti, they must not look far – our leaders since independence have been mediocre or at best, inept especially the military adventurists.
The second major cause, a direct consequence of our mediocre leaders, lies in the poor development of our human capital - as a nation - since independence. Countries like Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, India and Brazil (my model 20th Century countries) are thousands of years ahead of us in terms of economic development because they placed serious emphasis on developing their human capital to meet their national needs. Through sound and relevant educational systems they produced the right people to power their economies and so Korea for example has home-grown world class companies like Samsung, Kia, Hyundai etc that are producing world-class electronic goods and vehicles for world consumption. India’s motor manufacturing companies like Tata and Mahindra are making good inroads into the world market. Brazil leads the world in the bio-fuel technology. The economies of these countries are growing in leaps and bounds because their educational systems are producing the right calibre of personnel required by their industries and society at large.
The countries mentioned above and indeed all economically advanced countries have shown that no country can attain economic greatness if its population remains largely illiterate or semi-literate and the emphasis in its primary and secondary education is to produce people with the ability to read and write, and at the universities, to produce graduates with degrees in the humanities.
I stand to be corrected but I dare say that since independence in 1957, no conscious effort has been made at national level by any government to link the needs of commerce, industry and technology with our educational system – from kindergarten to university. We have not been able to produce the cadre of professionals and scientists the country requires to propel the economy to greater heights. The few top mathematicians and scientists we produce leave the country or end up in the classroom - not in the research and development laboratories of companies.
Ghana, rather sadly, for nearly twenty-seven years had the misfortune of being ruled by small-minded military opportunists - Acheampong and Rawlings. Because of their own poor educational backgrounds they saw academic achievement as source of irritation or threat to their regimes. Acheampong, for the best part of his six and a half years rule, was at war with university students especially when opposition to his union government idea gathered momentum. Rawlings found it fit to close our Universities for more than one academic year, disrupting the universities’ programmes and admission of new students.
I must also mention the fact that during the regimes of both Acheampong and Rawlings many fine minds the country could have utilized in its development were hounded out into exile. These Ghanaians who fled from the country – medical doctors, physicists, bio-chemists, engineers, computer scientists, accountants etc are now helping the economies of their adopted countries – the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, South Africa etc to advance further whilst Ghana retrogresses.
The third major cause of our poverty is the fact that since the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, there has never been any serious national planning – to determine the future needs of the country and how to achieve them. I will still link this factor to the mediocre leadership Ghana has had in the past. The evidence of this is the fact that very little has changed in the country since independence - we have the same road network (still narrow and pot-holed). There are no proper sewerage and drainage systems in our cities and towns. We have the same colonial railway lines which have all now decayed. Our state buildings including hospitals, schools, courts, ministries etc are in serious state of disrepair. Our educational system is dysfunctional. Our population growth is one of the highest in the world. We have an unacceptably high infant and maternal mortality rate. Our energy supply is erratic etc. These are all evidence that the country never planned in the past.
The 1992 Constitution of Ghana calls for the establishment of a National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) (Section 86). Can the NDPC (if it has been established) put into the public domain, the national plan it has developed since the Constitution came into effect? The public has an interest in knowing what plans have been developed for Ghana say for the future. How has the NDPC been monitoring and evaluating the performance of those charged with the execution of the plans? I will not be surprised if after one and a half years in power the current government of Prof Mills has not yet developed a national plan - just as his predecessors, perhaps, failed to do. And let me state emphatically that parties’ manifestos are not plans but mere policy outlines. A plan consists of goals or objectives to be achieved, what will be achieved, what the measures of achievement are (indicators), the resources required to achieve them and how achievement or non-achievement will be monitored and measured.
Yes it’s true that Ghana has enormous resources - some yet to be tapped, including the oil reserves but the key to our transformation from our current state of hopelessness to prosperity does not lie with politicking, deception or short-term planning but the nation looking beyond twenty five from now and asking: Will we have enough energy to power our industries, offices and homes? Will our roads and railways be adequate and in good condition to move people and goods? Will our colleges and universities be able to produce the right calibre of people to man all the various aspects of our 21st Century economy? Will our population growth be sustainable? Will our cities be able to cope with large influx of people? These are some of the issues that should be occupying our minds now and which should be incorporated into our national development plan.
Had such serious and hard thinking exercise been done in the early 80’s and a national development plan drawn up and executed with determination, Ghana would be a different country by now. We would not be bench-marked against Haiti but perhaps against Malaysia, South Korea or Singapore – countries that have per capita income of more than $15,000.

The fourth major cause of our misery is simply that as a nation, we seem not to know the priorities on which to spend our scarce resources. It’s mind-boggling that a small country like Ghana, with over 60% of its citizens living below the poverty line, could once have close to 90 ministers and deputy ministers in government. What do our many ministers, and deputy ministers do? Prof Mills promised Ghanaians that he will have a lean government but he now has more than 70 ministers and deputy ministers. Think about the resources this battalion of politicians consume monthly and you will understand why Ghana is poor. Was it worth it that in the midst of the hopelessness we see all around us, the country could spend $50 million or so to celebrate our 50th independence anniversary?
The last major cause of our poverty is the unattractiveness of Ghana as an investment destination. Whoever says Ghana is attractive to investors is living in a fool’s paradise. We may be able to attract some mining and oil companies but we cannot attract world-class companies like Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Samsung, Daimler Benz, Hitachi, and Sony etc to establish manufacturing plants in Ghana. The reasons are not far-fetched:
1. Our environment especially Accra, the capital city is a major deterrence. The city looks clumsy with buildings put up everywhere – apparently with no planning. And who wants to come and live in filth and die from malaria? Again who wants to live in a city where it will take you four hours or more to travel from one part of it to the other due to traffic congestion?

2. We do not have the critical mass of qualified people in Ghana who can be employed by the companies named above should they decide to establish plants in Ghana. Few people in Ghana are graduating in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT). Our pathetic JSS/SSS system and universities are not producing the scientists and mathematicians we require for our national economic and technological development.

3. The endemic culture of bribe-taking that has permeated the entire Ghanaian society is a big disincentive to the growth of business and foreign investment - the catalyst for economic growth. Now no public service in Ghana is rendered for free. Everywhere employees expect to be given something for services they render. People who come into the country to do genuine business find such practice unacceptable and nauseating.

4. Many of our laws are archaic and do not provide the right legislative environment to attract big foreign businesses. An example is our Companies Act of 1963 and company registration procedure. They urgently need reform.
How do we get our economy out from the woods and climb above Haiti?
Ghana requires a visionary, bold, intelligent, educated and disciplined leader. Those who are aspiring to be elected as president must examine themselves and their conscience thoroughly to see if they meet the standards of leadership qualities set by people like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore or Mahathir Mohammed of Malaysia or Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea. I have chosen these people as my bench-mark leaders because they started from the scratch the same time Ghana won its independence from the British.
We do not now need a president who is going to fan the rivalry between the NPP and the NDC or a president who is going to spend all his/her energy pursuing his/her political enemies and getting them thrown into prison. The problems facing Ghana are enormous and we require a level-headed, disciplined and visionary leader to put us on the right track. The era of small-minded and mediocre leaders has ended.
The electorate must reject any aspiring leader who will be exploiting their predicament by making wild and impossible promises just for votes. Ghana has had enough of those “promises” leaders including the liberating, redeeming and revolutionary military adventurists. The aspiring leaders must come out with plans and strategies on how within the four or eight-year mandate, they can make us overtake Haiti in the short-term and equal Singapore in the long-term. Ghanaians must then look at how feasible and realistic the plans are and vote for the leader who they trust has the qualities to execute the plans. The politics of criticism and promises should end with Prof Atta Mills.
I propose that in the final year of the present government, that is 2012, the NDPC must convene a national planning conference to draw up a sixteen-year national strategic developmental plan for the next four successive governments. The Commission may invite experts including those outside the country to participate in the conference. The blue-print national development plan developed, covering every aspect of our society and economy will then become the national manifesto for all the political parties. After all, all the political parties in Ghana have a common understanding of the fundamental problems facing the country. In their campaign, they will have to convince Ghanaians about the strategies they will employ to achieve the goals and objectives of the first four years of the plan.

The key to transforming the economy of is for Ghanaians to elect a visionary, disciplined and well-educated leader. Fortunately we have such people both - inside and outside Ghana. The next leader of Ghana must not be afraid to call in some our best brains that are leading and managing complex organizations in other countries to help. The problems facing Ghana are not unsurmountable. With the right leader, we shall soon count ourselves among the best countries in the world.

PK BOATENG

The writer is a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is a consultant on corporate strategy and public finance management. Personal comments on the article can be sent to him via his e-mail address: pkboateng@gmail.com

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Ghana's health sector ranked 2nd most corrupt

A report by the World Bank called "Quiet Corruption" has revealed that 95 per cent of resources allocated to the health sector in Ghana was diverted into the pockets of individuals.

Ghana is second to Chad in terms of the most corrupt when it comes to managing resources in the health sector in Africa.

“Quiet Corruption” is an annual Africa Development Indicators report that revealed that the problem of corruption goes beyond bribes and graft and affects health, education, and agriculture sectors on the continent.

The 2010 report painted a gloomy picture of Ghana’s health sector alleging that officials are failing to deliver government goods and services to the ordinary people they are aimed at.

The sordid situation has saddened the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). The commission said it has begun developing vigorous programmes to change the attitude of Ghanaians when it comes to corruption.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday, deputy Commissioner of CHRAJ, Richard Quayson, indicated that the commission’s upcoming conference on integrity is a step towards addressing the issue of corruption in the country.

According to him, “because we are not committed to the systems we have put in place, we do not make it work and that also allows people to now begin to see the individuals so that they can get their corrupt practices recognised in the system. ”

“You speak to some institutions and the first impression that they give you is that what you are bringing up is ideal, but it will not work in Ghana.

"In other words they are saying that it should not work so if even you try to introduce it they would make sure that they frustrate the system so that it does not work,” Quayson noted.

CHRAJ said prosecuting people found to be corrupt will not address the situation totally until a vigorous educational campaign is carried out.

“Mindset also has behavioral attitude which has to do with corruption as well and our approach is not just improving the system or getting the system right, but also about the individuals or the people in the society, working on the people to change their attitude,” he added.

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Cocaine valued at 29.9 million dollars burnt

Accra, Nov. 17, GNA - Four hundred and sixteen (416) kilogrammes of cocaine seized by the Police at Ataabadze Junction, near Cape Coast two years ago, was on Wednesday burnt into ashes in Accra following a court order.

The Fast Track High Court order came after the drug had been tendere= d in evidence by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Bernard Ananga, t= he investigator. Soon after the cocaine with the street value of 29.9 million dollars= , hidden among cow hide, had been tendered in evidence, the prosecutor, Chi= ef State Attorney Ms Valerie Amate, prayed the court that it should be destroyed.

The court therefore ordered that the destruction should take place behind the Independence Square in the presence of the officials of the Gh= ana Standards Board, security agencies, the Registrar of the Court, the prosecution and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A clerk of the court is expected to furnish the court with a report on the destruction. Four persons arrested in connection with the drugs have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime and possessing narcotic drug without lawf= ul authority.

Samuel Agoe Mills Robertson, a 49-year old auto mechanic and driver, last year pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the court. Charles Lartey, one of four accused persons, was admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢50,000 with a surety and to be reporting to the Police tw= ice in a week.

Derrick Armah Kwarteng, a 49-year old contractor and David Agyemfra, alias Chuku Owura, a 30-year old herbalist, have since been on remand. The facts are that on June 28, 2008, Kwarteng contracted Robertson t= o cart cocaine from Asankraguaa in the Western Region to Accra for a fee of=

40,000 dollars and he agreed. The prosecution said Robertson therefore recruited two people, Agyem= fra and Mike Eben, as escort for the drug. On that same day, Robertson used h= is Toyota Saloon car with registration number GW 31 Z and conveyed Agyemfra and Eben to Asankraguaa where they met Kwarteng at a hotel. Kwarteng also handed over a four-wheel drive vehicle with registrati= on number GR 1204 Y loaded with travelling bags each containing 20 slabs totalling 380 slabs of suspected cocaine to Robertson and his escorts. Robertson drove the consignment with Agyemfra and Eben, who were on board= , as security to Takoradi where they stayed overnight. The prosecution said the Cape Coast Highway Police Patrol team intercepted the vehicle, which had on board Robertson, Kwarteng and Agyemfra. However, Agyemfra and Eben escaped into the bush but the policearrested Robertson. When a search was conducted it was found that the travelling bags contained 20 slabs each of whitish powdery substance suspected to be cocaine.

The prosecution said during police interrogation Robertson offered t= he Police 6,000 dollars in order to free him. Robertson therefore called Lar= tey who was in Accra to bring the amount but as soon as he arrived the Police arrested him. Agyemfra and Kwarteng were spotted in a saloon car near the Police Station where Robertson was and they were also arrested. Robertson further told the Police that the drug belonged to Kwarteng= but he has denied it.

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CONFESSIONS OF GHANIAN SCAMMER- I Killed 28 Family Members Through Juju

Residents of Atobiase, a farming community near New Edubiase in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, were numb with shock on Monday morning following the discovery of strange circumstances that have led to a series of deaths in one family unit.

Twenty-eight persons, comprising 18 women and 10 men from the Aduana clan at Adansi-Atobiase, within a space of a few years, had been untimely dispatched to their graves by a charm that was said to have been buried at the centre of the family house.

Kofi Appeaning, a member of the family, who is also the Ankobeahene of the community, purportedly confessed to placing the juju pot for purposes of money ritual popularly called “sakawa.”

The substance had since been removed from the belly of the earth, but not after it had allegedly killed parents of the Ankobeahene as well as his siblings, nephews and children, without the anticipated money, because the protagonist had flouted the rules of the juju.

The Adansi Kuntumpa fetish priest, based at Patakro near Akrokerri, who performed the necessary rituals which involved incantations and slaughtering of rams to appease ‘the money-ritual’ god, also had his share of trauma, as the charm reportedly jerked him and he fell flat to the ground in his first attempt to remove it.

Deputy head of the clan, Stephen Kwaning told newsmen shortly after the ritual exercise at the Atobiase community that a certain pastor revealed the ritual acts of Kofi Appeaning, who is also an auto-electrician at Obuasi, to the family 25 years ago, but they never believed him.

According to him, the pastor made the revelation when the alleged ‘sakawa man’ fell sick and was sent to the man of God for spiritual healing.

Opanin Kwaning said the family started recording a series of deaths to the amazement of everybody in the community, thereby heightening suspicions that the auto-electrician’s money ritual was responsible for the deaths; even though he initially denied this.

He narrated that the family became alarmed when they counted 28 deaths in a space of 25 years, with at least one death every year.

The clan head indicated that the family was compelled to consult the oracle for answers shortly after the 28th death.

At the shrine, he said, it was revealed that a money ritual charm buried under the cover of darkness by the auto-electrician, who wanted to get rich quick, was responsible for the deaths and until it was removed, the family could not bury the fresh corpse; and they risked another death if they defied the order.

The Abusia Panin narrated that Kofi Appeaning popularly called Kegya confessed before the oracle about the ritual he had performed and declared his preparedness to support its removal.

And it was that exercise, spearheaded by the Adansi Kuntumpa fetish priest, which took place on the dawn of Monday, attracting curious and astonished residents to the scene.

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Mighty Jets' Owner Arrested by NACOB

The owner of Tudu Mighty Jets, a premier league club based in Accra, has been arrested in the fallout of the nabbing of 15 Narcotic Control Board (NACOB) operatives stationed at the Kotoka International Airport.
Abubakar Nallah, fondly known as Abu Sundoko, in his early 30s, is the bankroller of the premier club, having nurtured it from a humble beginning to its present status.
It is thought that Fatimatu Abdulai, one of the NACOB staffers believed to be the contact person between the anti-narcotic agency and the drug barons, dealt with the club owner and therefore mentioned his name during interrogations at the BNI.
Others who have fallen to the security agents in the crackdown are Jerry John Abio, Mutawakilu Yahaya Iddi, Dennis Adu Twum Gyimah and Timothy Abolimpo.
Some police personnel attached to the National Security were also arrested over their involvement in the case. They are L/Cpl Eric Akufo Darko, Sgt Peter Ansong and L/Cpl Yakubu Issaka.
A soft-spoken personality, according to those who know him, Abu Sundoko has interests in a number of businesses, among them jewelry.
A Tudu boy born of a Nigerian father but living outside the place now, he is a wealthy young man whose transfer of players has changed the fortunes of the club.
He is known to be a close associate of the Vice President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Jordan Anagbla, with whom he runs the now lucrative club whose training base is Akosombo in the Eastern Region. Jordan Anagbla is the CEO of the club.
DAILY GUIDE has further learnt that he was earlier arrested and released, but rearrested as some pointers in the ongoing probes into the drug market landed on him.
The head of NACOB, Akrasi Sarpong disclosed that a decision was taken to keep the name of the young man under the lid to ensure a hitch-free investigation.
This however did not work and the details were finally released yesterday.
Another Tudu youth, Abubakar Ayuba made an appearance before an Accra court on Monday charged with the possession of a quantity of rolls of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine.
The Accra suburb of Tudu is indeed notorious for harbouring small-time drug peddlers who sell the stuff on behalf of barons that have left the area for more plush parts of town.
Drug barons, it is a known fact, make their money through the illicit export of the stuff by couriers.
A man who arrived in the country recently, after supposedly serving a jail-term in the US, is said to have picked up a quarrel with the baron whose “goods”, as the stuff is known in the local underworld, he had taken abroad.
The baron demanded the proceeds but when the courier said the demand was nonsensical since the mission failed, a quarrel ensued. Security agents are said to have picked a lead from the development.
A DAILY GUIDE report yesterday had it that 15 staffers of NACOB operating at the Kotoka International Airport were arrested and detained in BNI cells for conniving with drug dealers.
One of the peddlers, a white man arrested in Amsterdam, had sung so loudly that investigators were able to lay hands on the drug enforcement officers, ironically.

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