A
statement issued in
The
statement said Certificate of Entitlement is ¢1.62m, returning resident
¢530,000 and long-term ¢1.105m. It said visa fees once paid are non-refundable.
The statement reminded applicants that the British High Commission only accepts
Barclays Bank Drafts as payment for visa fees.
Applicants
should obtain a draft for the correct amount from Barclays’ Bank. “If, however,
drafts for the new amounts are not immediately available, for an interim period
applicants can provide a bank for the old visa fee and then top-up the
difference in cash.
“For
example, previously a standard visit visa cost ¢485,000, it now costs ¢530,000.
Applicants may therefore obtain a Barclays Bank Draft for ¢485,000 and pay the
remaining ¢45,000 in cash at the British High Commission on presentation of the
visa application.”
The
statements also reminded applicants that Barclays Bank charges an
administration fee of ¢20,000 for the provision of bank drafts. This is in
addition to the visa fee and is non-refundable.
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Nsauaem (Western Region)
Making the
appeal at a press conference at Nsauaem yesterday,
the family declared that the press conference held by the chief and people of Nkroful in October 2002 asking for the return of the First
President's body was improper because no member of Dr Nkrumah's family was
present.
J. A Armah, a legal practitioner, who was the spokesman for the family, said
the family was “opposed to both the statement made at the said press conference
and the petition sent to the NRC in their entirety.”
“The request
for the remains of Dr Kwame Nkrumah to Nkroful was
definitely wrong and misconceived,” he said. Armah said, “What the chief and
people of Nkroful have petitioned for does not belong
to them and no member of Dr Nkrumah's family was among the signatories to the
petition to the NRC.”
He said it was
the family's prerogative and customary rite to decide where, when and how to
bury the remains of one of its members. “A chief at the birth place of any
person cannot claim the right to bury that person for the simple reason that
the deceased was accidentally born in his area of jurisdiction.”
Armah expressed
concern about the neglect of the Western Region in terms of development despite
the fact that the region contributed about 50 per cent of the country's foreign
exchange earnings.
He said all the
roads in the region were in bad shape and appealed to President J.A Kufuor to
fulfil his promise of repairing roads in the region. Armah appealed to the
government to rescue the Aboso Glass factory, Bonfira Tyre Company and to re-open the Tarkwa
Gold Refinery, to support the Essiama Oil Mill, to
reactivate the Bamboo Factory at Apaitaim and to
assist the Subri Industrial Plantation.
“We strongly
believe that President Kufuor will not neglect the Western Region in terms of
education, health, employment and development,” Armah said.
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Sekondi (Western Region)
Odeneho Gyapong Ababio, President of the National House of Chiefs, speaking
to the GNA in an interview on Thursday, said most chieftaincy disputes were the
result of wrong people occupying stools.
Odeneho Gyampong Ababio said the Research Committee, chaired by Professor B.
Nabilla of the
He said the committee
would document lines of succession of all the 192 traditional areas in the
country. The committee would cover 40 traditional annually due to financial
constraints and the report would be sent to the traditional areas for approval.
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This followed a
brief meeting in chambers between the trial judge and counsel on both sides.
Immediately after the meeting, a clerk of the Fast Track Court (FTC) hearing
the case announced the date, but assigned no reason for the adjournment.
It is, however,
believed that it was due to the boycott of the courts by members of the
Greater-Accra Regional branch of the Ghana Bar Association. The four accused
persons standing trial at the FTC in the GREL divestiture case are Hanny Sherry Ayittey, treasurer of the 31st December
Women's Movement, Emmanuel Amuzu Agbodo,
former Executive Secretary of the Divestiture Implementation Committee (DIC),
Ralph Casely-Hayford, businessman and Sati Dorcas Ocran, housewife.
They are facing
various charges on bribery and corruption in connection with the privatisation
of the company. They have all pleaded not guilty and are currently on bail in
their own recognisance.
Johnny Quarshie-Idun, David Lamptey, J E
Senoo, Rodney Heward-Mills
and Tony Lithur are defending the accused persons. Ms
Gloria Akuffo, Deputy Attorney-General, is leading
the prosecution team made up of Osafo Sampong,
Director of Public Prosecutions, and Augustine Obour,
Assistant State Attorney.
After a
peaceful demonstration at the premises of the Supreme Court on Wednesday,
members of the association resolved to withdraw their services from the law
courts today in protest against what they termed “the illegal filing fees”.
They resolved
to be on strike until “the illegal filing fees” were withdrawn, pending the
proper placement of the proposals for the increase before Parliament.
Meanwhile, the National Executives of the Association would hold a meeting with
the Chief Justice over the issue this afternoon, after which they would brief
members on its outcome.
Prince
Frederick Nii-Ashie Neequaye,
spokesman of the association who spoke to newsmen at the Supreme Court premises
said before “the illegal filing fees”
were announced, an application for the filing of letters of administration, for
instance cost between three and five thousand cedis.
Prince Neequaye said the fee had shot up to as much as 204,000
cedis. He said previously, it cost a lawyer only 30,000 cedis to file a writ in
a land case, but "the illegal filing fee" is now one million cedis.
The spokesman said "the illegal filing fee" of an injunction now
stood at 300,000 cedis, as against between five and 10,000 cedis previously.
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Nsuaem (Western Region)
The property is
made up of a palace and four flats he built for his family and his successors
after his installation as a chief of Nsuaem on
Throwing more
light on Dr Nkrumah's property, a spokesman for the family, J. E. Armah, said
Dr Nkrumah's mother, Madam Nyaniba, hailed form the
Royal Agona family but went and stayed at Nkroful in
the Nzema East District where she gave birth to Dr
Nkrumah.
He said after
the death of his uncle, Nana Aduku Adaa II, Chief of Nsuaem, Dr
Nkrumah succeeded him as the chief of Nsuaem under
the stool name of Nana Aduku Adaa
III and all the necessary customary rites were performed including putting him
on the Agona Royal family Black stool at Nsuaem.
Armah supported
the family's claim with a copy of a Daily Graphic newspaper that showed Dr
Nkrumah's installation in its edition of
He claimed that
a few years after his enstoolment, Dr Nkrumah built a
palace and four estate houses for himself and his successors, adding that the
inhabitants of Nsuaem provided communal labour.
Armah said due
to his numerous duties he could not visit Nsuaem
regularly to perform his traditional role and placed his nephew Adzea Nyame Ayeh
to act as regent on his behalf.
Armah said
since the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah the palace and the estates were confiscated
to the state the family had sent many petitions to successive Heads of State
for the release of the property to it but to no avail.
He said it was
when the last general elections were approaching that the family received a
letter dated
He said it was
a matter of regret that Dr Nkrumah's assets remained confiscated to the state
in spite of all that he did for
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Elmina (Central Region) 24 January 2003- The Presiding
Member of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA)
District Assembly, Frank Appiah, on Thursday said the failure of the Attorney
General's Department to gazette its bye-laws had made the administration of law
and order in the district difficult.
Appiah said
that the absence of such laws had rendered the assembly a “toothless bull dog”
and had made the assembly's effort to stem vices like child loitering and
harassment of tourists and truancy futile.
The presiding
member who was addressing the first session of the assembly at Elmina, in this regard, appealed to the A-G's department to
expedite action on all by-laws submitted for final approval to enable the
assembly enforce law and order in the district.
On chieftaincy,
Appiah also expressed concern about the numerous chieftaincy disputes in the
area, and their effect on socio-economic development and called on all factions
involved to settle them amicably to facilitate development.
He pointed out
that the assembly needs peace and tranquillity in its efforts to reduce poverty
and ignorance in the district. Appiah reiterated the need for the assembly
members to eschew all forms of political, religious and personal negative
tendencies and to remain neutral in disputes.
The District
Chief Executive (DCE), Nana Ato Arthur in his address
asked the finance and administration sub-committee and the accounts and budget
and planning units of the assembly to evolve strategies to step up revenue
generation as a “matter of urgency”.
This, he said,
was imperative, as the assembly was last year able to realise only
411,866,556.39 cedis of the internally generated revenue target of
571,637,400.00 cedis.
He however,
announced that the Assembly was able to settle about 70 per cent of its
indebtedness to contractors and suppliers adding that his administration
inherited a debt of 3bn cedis and had a balance of 900m cedis to pay.
On development,
the DCE, enumerated a number of projects being carried
out with the support of organisations like the European Union, and through
government interventions such as the HIPC relief and district assemblies common
and the GETFund.
These include
the construction and renovations of school buildings, the provision of toilets,
potable water and health facilities. He however, charged assembly members to
rekindle communal spirit in their areas to facilitate the early completion of
projects.
On the new
transport fares, he expressed concern that transport operators are not
conforming to the 40 per cent increase agreed upon and warned that drivers who
flout it would be brought to book.
Nana Kodwo Eduakwa V, chief of Attonkwa who stood in for the paramount chief of the Edina
traditional area, Nana Kodwo Conduah
VI, appealed to the assembly to find a lasting solution to the problem between
the canoe and 'Seiko' fishermen once and for all to avert any possible clash
between the two groups.
A new fire
service station for the township, was later commissioned a by the DCE, to bring
to two, the number of fire stations in the district. Speaking at the ceremony,
Nana Arthur, regretted that there were 12 major fire
outbreaks in the district last year, which resulted in the loss of property
running into several millions of cedis.
Agyarko Attobrah, Regional Fire
Officer appealed to fishermen to stop storing petroleum products in their room,
since it was the major cause of fire outbreaks in the area.
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Ashongman (Greater Accra)
He said the
campaign was a challenge for the nation to change "and for this to happen,
the citizens need to change their attitudes first before we can achieve our
goals". President Kufuor said this in a speech read for him by Jake
Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister of Information and Presidential Affairs, at the 74th
Annual National Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Mission (AMM),
The three-day
convention under the theme: “Curbing Indiscipline in Society - The Role of
Religion,” was to take stock of the
President
Kufuor acknowledged the contributions of the
“When we are
all disciplined, the nation will be a disciplined nation,” he said, and urged
both Muslims and Christians to disseminate the message to make
“Leaders do not
change people but they can only inspire people. Meanwhile, they can only change
themselves.” He, therefore, urged all Ghanaians to make the decision to change
to make the country a peaceful one.
Maulvi A. Wahab Adam, Ameer and Missionary-In-Charge of AMM,
He said the war
against indiscipline launched by the Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, was an
effort towards orderliness and good sense and deserved the active support of
the entire citizenry.
Maulvi Adam said the belief of blasphemy among a section
of Muslims had regrettably contributed to the creation of disharmony in
relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims at both national and
international levels.
He said a lot
of violence had been perpetrated and a lot of blood spilled in the name of God,
ostensibly to punish blasphemy. “If there is any religious book that prescribes
punishment for blasphemy in the world that book is not the Holy Quran,” he said. Maulvi Adam
described the recent carnage in
The riots
occurred after Mulsims considered an article in a
newspaper on the abortive Miss World contest in
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Ashongman (Greater Accra)
He said any
development that comes to the area would not be for the present and the coming
generations of the people in Dagbon alone but for the nation as a whole. “While
government should endeavour to facilitate a process of resolving the disputes
and conflicts, a lot will depend on the willingness of the parties to live in
peace and the desire to reconcile and bequeath to the present and future
generations areas free of conflicts.”
Maulvi Adam, who was speaking at the 74th National Annual
Convention of the
It was under
the theme “Curbing Indiscipline: The Role of Religion.” He said, “Land and
chieftaincy disputes had threatened the peace and security of our communities.
In particularly, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission is
deeply saddened by the tragedy in Dagbon and wishes to add its voice to the
appeal to both gates to give peace a chance.”
“The same
appeal goes to our compatriots in other parts of the country. We have been
spared the agony and pain that have afflicted some of our neighbouring
countries, wreaking untold havoc on the people,” he said, and asked God to have
mercy on them and deliver them from their moments of extreme tribulations.
On discipline, Maulvi Adam said in Islam, discipline was considered to be
so crucial to the development of the individual and society that it had been
made an integral part of worship.
He said the
three-day convention would not only stimulate further debate on the issue but
would bring about the necessary attitudinal change that would reduce
indiscipline from the society.
The Apostolic
Nuncio in
He said, “The
two religions have roles to play in bringing discipline in
He said people
living with the disease carry along with them the stigma of shame, isolation
and discrimination and urged the public to show such people love and change
their negative attitudes towards them.
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Ankasa (Western Region)
He was
commissioning the first phase of visitor facilities and staff accommodation for
at the Ankasa Conservation Area in the Western Region
estimated at 4.6m Euros by the European Commission.
The Ankasa Conservation Area is about 500 kilometres square on
the Takoradi - Cote d'Ivoire Highway with up to 300 plant species per hectare
and 43 mammal species such as the common Diana Monkey and the endangered West
African chimpanzee.
The
Vice-President said the unprecedented assault on the nation's forest resources
by chain saw operators, illegal miners and bushfires placed a national duty on
Ghanaians to maintain and conserve the remaining vegetation zones by
encouraging community integrated forest programmes to help create a congenial
climate for agricultural development, Vice President Mahama told the Chiefs and
people of the area.
The project
belonged to them and must defend and protect every aspect of it to derive the
full benefit, he said. “To achieve meaningful conservation, land owners, local
communities and other stakeholders must begin to play a more active role as
contained in the new forest and wildlife policy,” Vice President Mahama added.
The government
has put in place broad strategy to develop the technical skills and managerial
competence, economic potential as well as the promotion of popular
participation in the programme.
He said PADP
was aimed at developing resource management plans to enhance biological
diversity conservation in two important protected areas. Stefan Frowen, EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation, said the Ankasa Conservation Area remained one of the unexploited
tropical rain forest, adding that,
“The pressure
to exploit timber in the conservation areas appears to be enormous and growing
as other forest resources becomes scars”, he said. Tourism development, Frowen said was an important means to safeguard the future
of conservation areas.
He said
visitors to the Conservation Area has risen from less than 100 between 1990-97
to more than 1,500 during in 2001. “These are still modest and need significant
increases if they are to make any real impact,” Frowen
said.
Joseph Aidoo, Regional Minister said the natural resource
endowment of the region was a base for eco-tourism development, which must recognised and supported. The commissioning of the
facilities signified a milestone for the development of tourism in the Region.
Thomas Broni, Deputy Minister for Lands and Forestry, giving an
overview of PADP and said the Ankasa Conservation
Area and the
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Accra (Greater
Accra) 24 January 2003- The originators of the European Union (EU) idea,
Germany and France, were on Wednesday urged to initiate moves that would enable
Europe to scale heights, bringing the Union closer to the hearts of the people.
Jean-Michel Berrit, the French Ambassador to Ghana, at a reception in
Accra to mark the 40th anniversary of the Elysee
Treaty signed on 22 January 1963 by the two countries to end an old rivalry,
said the experience of Germany and France and what they have been subjected to
in their past history was unique.
The cooperation
achieved was still unequalled and unprecedented in European history, Berrit said. “As originator of the European Union idea, we
have to take actions that would enable
The two
countries, he announced, were marking the day by the organisation of joint
meetings between the two governments and their parliaments. The German
Ambassador, Harald Loeschner
said the Franco-German partnership was a symbiosis, yet there was the need for
both sides to complement, energize and further each other's political, social
and economic goals.
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Accra (Greater
Accra) 24 January 2003- Alexander Samuel Abbia-Kwakye,
a former security guard at the Flagstaff House on Wednesday petitioned the
National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), sitting in Accra, for an increase in
his monthly pension from the present 169,000 cedis.
He told the
Commission that at best his unlawful arrest and detention for nine months,
following the military coup in 1966 that ousted Kwame Nkrumah's Convention
People's Party (CPP) reformed him into a more religious person who does not
play with his church activities.
“Those hard
experiences and prison life transformed me into a new creation. I've been a new
creation since then. I don't play with my church activities anymore,” Abbia- Kwakye said when the
Commission asked what impact torture and prison life had on him.
After his
narration, the Most Revered Charles Palmer-Buckle, a member of the Commission
wished Abbia-Kwakye, who turned 72 on
Abbia-Kwakye, told the Commission that on 25 February the day
after Afrifa and his men ousted the CPP in 1966, one army officer by the name Zaleringu, in-charge of the Army Guard Regiment collected
all guns from all the security men including their personal items.
Abbia-Kwakye said they were then taken to the Burma Camp, and
kept there till the following morning, and sent to the Police Headquarters at
about 0800. "Later the soldiers made us lie straight on the ground facing
the sun, and also sprayed hot tea into our eyes. Because of the beatings, one
is forced to urinate on himself in the open."
Abbia-Kwakye said they stayed at the Police Headquarters for
four days before they were sent to the Nsawam
Prisons, where they spent nine months. He said most of the detainees had since
died when they were released on
General
Emmanuel Erskine, a member of the Commission, said
those who died on duty after the
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Accra (Greater
Accra) 24 January 2003- Francis Murphy Anane, a former Assistant Superintendent
of Police, on Thursday appealed to the Attorney General to repeal the Police
Amendment Act, PNDC Law 194 A of 1988.
He made the
appeal in a statement to the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) in
Anane, now an
employee of the Ghana Employers' Association, read the three paragraph law to
the Commission, saying that it was passed as a cover up for the "unlawful
dismissals" carried out by the PNDC administration in the Police Service.
The Law states
that the PNDC in consultation with the Police Council shall have the power to
dismiss, remove or take any disciplinary action, as it may consider necessary
against any member of the Police Service.
“No court or
tribunal shall entertain any action whatsoever or take any decision, make an
order or grant any relief in any proceedings in respect of any claim arising
from any dismissal, removal or disciplinary action taken against a member of
the Police Service...”
He said the law
at that time, vested power in the Chairman of the PNDC to dismiss police
personnel in consultation with the Police Council. However, he was reliably
informed that in carrying out the dismissals, Justice Daniel F. Annan, the then
Chairman of the Police Council, was sidelined.
He claimed that
the Chairman of the PNDC, Flt. Lt Jerry Rawlings, the head of security, Captain
Kojo Tsikata (Rtd) and the
then IGP, Dewornu drafted the law.
“That law was
an afterthought, which came into effect only after we had been unlawfully
dismissed for no apparent offence and when we challenged our dismissal we were
slapped with this law, which was gazetted on
He said several
police officers were dismissed under the law, but most of them are now dead,
adding that the earlier it was removed from the law books the better it would
be for the nation.
Anane told the
Commission that since his dismissal he has lived with extreme hatred for former
President Rawlings to the extent that Rawlings' photograph makes him angry.
“Anytime I see
Rawlings' picture I get annoyed,” he said. “As a result of shock from the news
of my dismissal, my wife gave birth to a still born baby after seven months of
pregnancy.”
He said he has
done everything he could to seek redress for his unlawful dismissal but to no
avail and therefore, requested the Commission to either ensure that he was
reinstated to serve his remaining 10 years or given his entitlements.
Narrating
circumstance that led to his dismissal, Anane said sometime in 1988, whilst
serving as the Head of the Nima Police Unit, he was accused of signing an
insurance report for someone to collect insurance benefit in the
He said he
denied the allegation but he was transferred to Bimbilla pending investigation.
Anane said whilst at Bimbilla, his mother died and he came to
“I retuned to
Bimbilla, handed over my district to the officer in charge of Yendi and came to
Anane said he
sent separate petitions to Chairman Rawlings, the then Ombudsman, Andoh, Justice Annan, Chairman of the Police Council and
recently to the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ),
but all to no avail.
He said he was
not charged with signing any insurance report as was alleged, adding that since
his dismissal he has not received any end-of-service benefits. In another case,
Madam Rose Apedoe told the Commission that 400 bags
of cement worth 20,000 cedis and other properties including break fluid,
soldiers led by one Mary Tay confiscated clothes, detergents and other items
worth about 300,000 cedis. The items were seized from her uncompleted building
in
She said
additionally she was assaulted and held in detention at the Gondar
Barracks for two weeks before being released to go home without any of her
confiscated items. Madam Apedoe said she has not
sought redress anywhere because her late father advised her not to jeopardise
her life fighting for those things. Now, however, she thinks the environment is
conducive for her to seek redress.
Rev. Father
Palmer-Buckle, member of the Commission, assured the complainants that the
Commission would make the appropriate recommendations for redress. He urged
them to make use of the counselling session of the Commission to ease the
inherent anger they have developed against the perpetrators of abuse against
them.
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Bole (Northern
Region)
He said it was
wrong for a section of the public to think that people go into politics because
they want to enrich themselves. “Politics is not a gold mine but a
responsibility for those elected to serve their people and the nation.”
Debrah was reacting to a query from a contributor at the
People’s Forum at Bole that people go into politics to enrich themselves. He
urged Ghanaians to be courageous to fight injustices, indiscipline and
corruption in the society that had eaten deep into the very fabric of the daily
lives of the people.
Debrah called on the people not to allow politics to
divide them but to be united and pool resources to develop their communities.
He said the government would improve roads, agriculture, health and educational
infrastructure and would complete good projects initiated by the past
government in the district.
He assured the
people that the national cake would be equally distributed and appealed to all
ethnic groups in the district to co-exist peacefully to ensure development.
People, who
took terms to ask questions at the forum, urged the government to build the Bui
Dam, the Bamboi road and improve on television
reception in the area. They called on the government to create a separate
region for the Gonja people to enhance the rapid development of the area,
noting that they had been denied development as a result of the crisis in
Dagbon which they said they were not part of.
Some of them
also urged the government to fill ministerial vacancies as soon as possible to
enable such ministries to function effectively and efficiently. In reaction to
the creation of a separate region for Gonja people, Debrah
told them that the Dagbon crisis was not affecting Bole alone but the whole
country. The Minister also explained to the people the rationale behind the
increases in fuel prices and urged them to bear with the government.
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Accra (Greater
Accra) 24 January 2003- John Kweku Mensah, a former Telecommunications
Inspector at the defunct Post and Telecommunication Corporation (P&T),
Thursday told the National Reconciliation Commission that he was redeployed
from P&T without any end-of-service benefits.
He said after
working with the corporation for 24 years, between 1960 and 1984, he only saw
his name in the People's Daily Graphic newspaper among two hundred other people
as having been redeployed for various reasons.
The reasons
assigned for the redeployment included, corruption, inefficiency and thefts,
among others. "I used to work with the engineering department and I was
never given a query for inefficiency, neither did I have the opportunity to do
any of the things assigned as reasons for the redeployment," he told the
Commission.
In his
statement, Mensah said he got employed in P&T, Takoradi in 1960 and was
transferred to Tema in 1961, where he worked as Telecommunications Inspector
till
He said whilst
on leave, he was told by friends on
He said, he
then sent a petition to the then Ombudsman, Justice E. K. Andoh,
Ebo Tawiah, formerly of the
PNDC era, PNDC Secretary for Transport and Communication, Secretary-General of
the TUC and P&T workers union, but nothing good came out of all that.
“I later got to
know that the exercise was carried out nationwide but every individual was left
on his or her own to seek redress,” he said. Mensah said he received his Social
Security benefits but was denied his end-of service-benefits though others on
the list of deployed persons received theirs.
In a related
development, Joseph Yaw Koblah, a former driver at
the State Transport Corporation (STC) told the Commission he was denied his
end-of service-benefits on his retirement due to an alleged theft.
In his
statement he said he retired from STC in July 1988 at age 60, and in September
he was invited to the Nima Police Station. “When we got to the station the
officer in-charge told me my name had been mentioned in connection with the
diversion of several gallons of diesel oil between
“Though I
denied the charge, I was made to sign three statements before I was pushed into
the cells where I met some colleagues who said they were also there for the
same reason.”
Koblah said his wife then sent petitions to the IGP
following which an order was given for them to be allowed bail only after the
presentation of an indenture covering a landed property.
He said on 24
January1989, he and his supposed accomplices were arranged before the
Greater-Accra Regional Tribunal and charged with the offence and sentenced to
six months imprisonment.
“One Agbeshie requested that we be freed because there was no
evidence to charge us, but some characters in the system disagreed. “Two years
after my release from prison STC served me with a letter of dismissal although
I had retired from STC long before those accusations were framed against me,”
he said.
“Since then I
have been denied my end of service benefit.” Koblah,
who is obviously old and weak, therefore, appealed to the Commission to
investigate the matter and ensure that he was given what was due him.
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Accra (Greater
Accra) 24 January 2003- President Festus Mogae of
Botswana and the Rwandan leader Major-General Paul Kangame
left Accra on Thursday for their respective countries after participating in
the Global Coalition for Africa Forum, which ended on Thursday.
The forum under
the theme: “NEPAD and Security,” was also attended by other African leaders,
including President Olusegun Obasanjo
of
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Madina (Greater
Accra)
An official of
the party told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that a national re-organization team
has been formed to see to the effective rebuilding of the party's structures
nation-wide.
The official
named members of the team as Danny Ofori-Atta, Alhaji Jamatutu,
Alhaji Hassan Benneh, Ben Bediako, Nana Opoku, Ms Cecilia Akwetey and Hajia Ayishetu.
The team under
the chairmanship of Ofori-Atta is mainly tasked to tour the entire country and
reorganize its members at the branches, constituencies, districts and regional
levels. This is in preparation for a National Congress this year. The Party
urged Ghanaians living at home and abroad to join them.
GRi…/
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