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GRi Newsreel 02 - 09 -
2003
Asuogyaman NPP elects parliamentary candidate
Second Mfantseman District STME
ends at Saltpond
Membership of Okwahuman Health
Insurance Scheme increases
Communities urged to base HIV/AIDS
education on local setting
Thirty-six undergo puberty
rites at Ekumfi Abor
Rev Mensah chairs Assoc. of
Charismatic Churches
Stop constructing unauthorised speed
ramps - Civilians urged
Judge calls for simplification
of land registry
Father and son steal goat for
soup
SDA church to form
virgins clubs
Peace Seekers seek reconciliation with Rawlings
UN to pass resolution for international force on 1 Oct
GES Director General bemoans exams leakages
DCE decries poor results of BECE in district
Court grants chief ¢100m bail
Asuogyaman NPP elects parliamentary candidate
Akosombo (E/R), Sept. 2, GNA - Mr Kofi Osei-Ameyaw, 43, Ghana's
Consular-General for Australia, was on Sunday elected the parliamentary
candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Asuogyaman constituency
for the 2004 Elections at a special constituency congress held at
Akosombo.
Mr Osei-Ameyaw polled 72 votes to beat the District Chief
Executive of Asuogyaman and former NPP parliamentary candidate for the
constituency for the year 2000, Dr Godfried Kofi Siaw, who polled 37
votes.
Earlier two other contestants, Mr Thompson Kumi and Mr Emmanuel
Wellington Ntow-Bediako stepped down in favour of Mr Osei-Ameyaw.
Mr
Osei-Ameyaw said his victory was for the NPP and thanked Dr Siaw and the
constituency executive members of the party for the efforts they put in to
build the party.
He urged party members to bury the differences that
came up prior to the special constituency congress and to unite to ensure
that the party wins the constituency elections in 2004.
Dr Siaw said
the strategy towards the 2004 elections should focus on the NPP and not
individuals. He, therefore, called on members of the party to join hands
to ensure that the party wins the constituency seat come next year.
He
donated an NPP flag to each of the party's 108 polling stations in the
constituency to signify the beginning of the campaign towards next year's
elections.
Addressing the delegates, Mr Dan Botwe, NPP General
Secretary, said the Asuogyaman constituency was one of the 140
Parliamentary seats that the NPP had planned to win at the 2004 elections
and pledged that the party would do all that it takes to take the seat
from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Mr Botwe warned that in
its bid to win the constituency, the NPP would "crush anybody who would
stand in its way whether within the party or outside the party".
Dr
Francis Osafo-Mensah, Eastern Regional Minister, called for unity among
all factions within the party in the constituency and urged them to make
efforts to win over functionaries of other political
parties.
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Second Mfantseman District STME ends at
Saltpond
Saltpond (Central Region), Sept. 2, GNA - A week-long Science
Technology and Mathematics Education (STME) clinic organised for 100
students selected from Junior and Senior Secondary schools in the
Mfantseman District has ended at Saltpond.
It as the second to be held
in the district and was sponsored by the District Assembly.
Activities
were centred around lectures on science, moral education and career
guidance.
Participants also solved simple mathematical problems,
underwent some Computer training and Batik production.
They went on
field trips to the Cape Coast Technical School where they were assisted to
produce some simple household tools and the Food and Flavour Factory at
Asebu, where citrus is processed into jam.
Giving her impressions about
the clinic, Maame Ekua Tawiah Croffie, of the Nfantseman Girls Secondary
School appealed to the District Education Directorate to organise future
clinics in rural institutions to expose the students to science.
She
also appealed to the directorate to procure adequate funds to enable the
clinic to be organised twice in a year.
Mr Frank Neequaye, Presiding
Member exhorted students to take their studies seriously and set
achievable goals for themselves.
He urged them to share the knowledge
they acquired at the clinic with their mates who could not attend.
Mr
Isaac Bart-Addison, District Director of Education advised teachers to
adopt practical and simpler methods of teaching science subjects to make
them easier and more attractive to students.
Miss Vivian Etroo,
District STME Co-ordinator, expressed gratitude to the assembly for
funding the programme and commended the participants and the resource
persons for their hard work and dedication.
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Membership of Okwahuman Health Insurance
Scheme increases
Nkawkaw (Eastern Region), Sept. 2, GNA - The Okwahuman Health Insurance
Scheme formed two years ago in the Kwahu South District has registered
18,958 members as against 8,000 the previous year and collected 1.3
billion cedis to cater for the health needs of members.
The membership
is made up of 11,793 newly registered and 7,165 old ones who renewed their
registration, an increase of more than 100 percent.
The Chairman of
the Board of Directors, Nana Adarkwa Boadi Yiadom II announced this at the
second annual general meeting of the scheme at Nkawkaw on Saturday.
He
said 244.6 million cedis was spent on the health bills of 600 members at
the Kwahu Government and the Holy Family hospitals at Atibie and Nkawkaw
respectively.
The Board Chairman, who is also Kwahu Prasohene commended
the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), sponsors, for
donating 10 bicycles, two motorbikes, a computer and 80.8 million cedis to
the scheme to enhance its operations.
He said only eight percent of the
district's population of 230,000 have registered and appealed to all
residents to enrol to supplement government's efforts to provide quality
and affordable health care service to the people.
Nana Yiadom appealed
to the government, NGOs and other development partners for assistance in
the form of vehicles and other logistics to facilitate education on the
scheme.
The Eastern Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Ebenezer
Appiah Denkyira in an address read on his behalf attributed the increase
in the membership within two years to the efficient management of the
scheme.
He said the Ministry of Health has initiated a number of
activities in all the 15 districts in the region to implement the scheme
and called for effective collaboration from all stakeholders to ensure its
success.
Ms Helen Dzikunu, a Senior Programme Officer of the DANIDA
thanked all the major players in the scheme for their contribution and
co-operation, which had sustained the programme in the district.
She
advised the management of scheme to increase enrolment from the present
level to improve its financial status and to sustain it when donor support
is withdrawn.
Ms Dzikunu advised them to consider the poor and
disadvantaged population who may not afford the payment of their premiums
and liaise with relevant bodies for assistance to enable them to benefit
from the scheme.
The District Chief Executive, Mr Raymond Osafo Djan
said with the passing of the National Health Insurance Bill, more people
would register with the scheme to enhance its financial position.
He
advised members who quit the scheme after benefiting from it to put a stop
to the practice in order not to make it collapse and announced that the
government had donated 100 million cedis to support it.
The District
Director of Health Services, Dr Joseph Larbi Opare in a welcoming address
said the objective of the Ghana Health Service is to change the public
health idea to community health service where communities will adopt
hygienic practices to help eradicate diseases associated with unhealthy
environment.
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Communities urged to base HIV/AIDS education on
local setting
Gomoa Ankamu (Central Region), Sept.2, GNA - The Gomoa District
HIV/AIDS Focal Person, Mr Eric Akobeng on Sunday urged community based
organisations (CBOs) engaged in the fight against the spread of the
disease to base their education campaign on conditions prevailing in the
communities.
Mr Akobeng said CBOs are best suited to accomplish the
task because they are familiar with conditions that promote sexual
promiscuity in their communities.
"If, for instance, it is funeral wake
keepings that are encouraging the spread of the disease, find ways of
getting the opinion leaders to do something about it," he advised.
He
gave the advice at a workshop organised by the Progressive Club, a Gomoa
Ankamu based CBO for church leaders and hairdressers at Gomoa Ankamu with
sponsorship from the Ghana AIDS Response Fund (GARFund).
Mr Akobeng
urged church leaders to use part of their time to sensitise their
congregation on the HIV/AIDS pandemic noting that, "If sex accounts for 80
per cent of HIV/AIDS infections and Ghana is predominantly a Christian
country then they would have failed in their preaching against
immorality."
Alhaji Osman Moro Fukuyama, a member of the Gomoa District
AIDS Committee who took the participants through the mode of infection
prevention and management of the disease said the lifespan of people
living with the virus decreases as they engage more in sex.
Mr Kingsley
Halm, a National Service Personnel exhorted parents to ensure that their
children are asleep before they themselves retire to bed.
Mr John
Kobina Yamoah, chairman of the CBO urged religious leaders to get more
actively involved in the campaign through sermons and other
retreats.
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Thirty-six undergo puberty rites at Ekumfi
Abor
Ekumfi Abor (Central Region), Sept. 2, GNA - Thirty
six girls between the ages of 15 and 18 have undergone puberty rites "Bra
gor" and were out-doored at a durbar at Ekumfi Abor in the Central Region
at the weekend.
The customary rite practised by their ancestors was
discarded but was re-introduced and refined to conform to modern cultural
practices.
Mr Kwamina Amoasi-Andoh, Chairman of the Unit Committee and
a member of the Mfantseman District Assembly said the re-introduction of
the rite seven years ago was to instil moral discipline in the youth and
also to curb teenage pregnancy.
Mr Amoasi-Andoh said the
re-introduction of the rite has helped to reduce the incidence of teenage
pregnancies, adding that only four girls had become pregnant without going
through the mill.
He said young girls in school who were found to have
began experiencing their menstrual periods are made to wait until they
complete the Junior Secondary School.
This, he said is to instil fear
into them to abstain from early sex to ensure that they complete at least
the JSS since any girl who becomes pregnant without going through the rite
is sanctioned along with her partner.
Mr Amoasi-Andoh said after going
through the rites the girls are encouraged to further their education and
those who cannot be supported are made to learn trades under a special
scholarship package instituted by the community.
He said the practice
has become an annual affair, which precedes the Akwanbo festival.
Mr
Amoasi-Andoh said widows and widowers who lost their spouses during the
year are also cleansed of evil spirits, a practice to get them out of the
hardship they are often subjected to, adding that, this year 10 widows and
a widower underwent the practice.
Nana Amoasi VI, chief of the town
urged Ghanaians not to discard all old cultural practices, stressing that
some are still relevant to our everyday lives and can help in curbing
indiscipline in the society.
Miss Christine Antor, Principal Nursing
Officer (Public Health) and Mfantseman District Co-ordinator of HIV/AIDS
who spoke about the disease advised the girls who have undergone the rites
not to regard it as a freedom to indulge in sex.
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Rev Mensah chairs Assoc of Charismatic Churches
Accra, Sept. 2, GNA - The Reverend Steve Mensah of Christian
Evangelistic Ministry (CEM) was at the weekend elected Chairman of the
National Association Charismatic Christian Churches (NACCC).
Rev
Mensah, who replaces Bishop Dag Heward Mills of Lighthouse Cathedral, was
elected at the end of the four-day annual Conference of the NACCC held at
the Lighthouse Cathedral in Accra. He is to serve a two-year term.
He
beat three other nominees, the Reverend Dennis Osei-Manu of the Soul
Clinic International Church (SCIC) and the Reverend Robert Ampiah-Kwofie
of the Charismatic Christian Evangelistic Ministry.
NACCC is an
Association of over 200 charismatic churches across the country.
In an
interview with Journalists, Rev Mensah said it was time to bring order
into the church, saying, "currently there are a number of persons who have
established churches and are acting contrary to Christian
teachings."
He said such churches must be under the NACCC to ensure
that their activities did not impinge on the rights and ignorance of their
membership.
Rev. Mensah, a founding member of NACCC, said it would go
out to bring all charismatic churches under its umbrella to help to bring
their operations in line with societal norms.
Rev. Mensah said NACCC
would also begin to play greater role in shaping national development and
thought.
He said NACC's yearly national inter-denominational church
service would continue to be the highlight on its calendar at which the
Association would seek to reconcile the nation.
Rev. Mensah said the
nation had reached a stage where every Ghanaian must contribute to its
development.
A citation read by the Reverend Emmanuel Kwabena Ansah,
Senior Associate Pastor of the SCIC, said Rev. Mensah was elected due to
his passion for the development of souls in the remotest parts of the
country.
"Since the formation of the NACCC in 1999, you have faithfully
performed your role as National Co-ordinator par excellence. Your election
onto the NACCC Board confirms the confidence and trust in you as an
effective net-worker in the body of Christ."
This years' Conference was
presided over by the Reverend Eastwood Anaba of the Fountain Gate
Chapel.
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Stop constructing
unauthorised speed ramps - Civilians urged
Accra, Sept. 2, GNA - The Ga District Assembly and the Accra
Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) have started removing unauthorized speed ramps
on urban roads in and around the Metropolis.
Mr Abass M. Awutu,
Transport Planner of the Department of Urban Roads told the Ghana News
Agency in an interview on Monday.
He said other safety measures apart
from the speed ramp could be used to check road accidents since a ramp is
needed mostly in a local settlement area, school or hospitals where
pedestrian activities go on.
Mr Awutu said the Department had come out
with a procedure, which allowed people, who expressed the need for a speed
ramp in their area to apply from their assemblies.
He said the request
would be assessed to determine whether there is need for a ramp or other
safety measures and asked people to follow the procedure.
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Judge calls for simplification of land
registry
Ho (Volta Region), Sept 2, GNA - Mr. Justice Paul Gyaesayor, the Volta
Regional Supervising High Court Judge, on Monday called on stakeholders in
land administration to make land title registration easy and
affordable.
He blamed the cumbersome processes and the expensive nature
of land registration procedures for the myriad of problems, disputes and
litigations bedevilling the sector.
Mr Justice Gyaesayor was speaking
at the Volta Regional Consultative Outreach Programme on Land
Administration Project (LAP) for land sector agencies.
He said parties
to land litigations failed to respect the laws on landand courts'
decisions giving rise to the high incidence of disputes and loss of
lives and property.
Mr Gyaesayor said the courts are inundated with
land cases, some as far back 34 years and more are filed on a daily basis.
He called for the modernisation and simplification of the language
used in land indentures for easy administration and
understanding.
"Even members of the Bench and Bar sometimes find
problems in the interpretation of indentures to their clients," he
said.
Mr Kwasi Owusu-Yeboa, Volta Regional Minister, in a speech read
for him, appealed to the government to restore confidence in the land
market as a development strategy towards alleviating poverty in the long
term.
He called on land sector agencies to shun their parochial and
selfish interests and work in a coordinated and concerted professional
manner to promote efficiency and dispatch in land administration in the
country.
Madam Theresa Tagoe, Deputy Minister of Lands and Forestry,
said the LAP is a long-term commitment by the government to enhance
socio-economic growth by improving security of tenure, simplify the
process of acquiring land, developing land markets and fostering prudent
land management to be achieved in 15 years time.
She said these would
be based on coherent and consistent policies and laws supported by
appropriate institutional structures.
Madam Tagoe appealed to public
land agencies, chiefs, family landowners and civil society to co-operate
and collaborate to make the project successful.
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Father and son steal goat for
soup
Asamankese (Eastern Region), Sept. 2, GNA - The Asamankese Circuit
court has fined a young man 400,000 cedis for stealing a goat and
slaughtering it for "pepper soup" at Asuokaw near Asamankese.
Prosper
Zilevu and his father, named only as Agbeko, who is on the run, stole the
animal valued at 300,000 cedis. He pleaded guilty and will go to jail for
three months if he fails to pay the fine.
In addition, Zilevu has been
ordered to compensate the owner of the goat, one Alhassan Adams with
350,000 cedis or serve additional three months in jail with hard
labour.
Detective Police Inspector J.F. Idan, prosecuting, told the
court that the owner of the goat, Alhassan Adams, lived in the same
community with Zilevu and his father.
He said Adams had been losing his
goats from his pen to thieves and had all along suspected Zilevu and his
father as the culprits but could not confront them because he had no
evidence.
Inspector Idan said on August 7, at about 1930 hrs, Adams'
animals returned from grazing without one of the female
goats.
According to the prosecution, Adams became suspicious and
immediately informed the village's unit Committee leaders who sent some of
their members to accompany Adams to the house of the accused.
At the
house, they met Zilevu and his father getting ready to enjoy a meal of
goat pepper soup.
The court heard that on seeing the complainant and
members of the Unit Committee, Agbeko abandoned the food and took to his
heels leaving behind his son.
The Committee members took Zilevu to the
Police station together with the rest of some left over of the uncooked
meat, the prosecutor said.
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SDA church to form virgins clubs
Akumsa-Domase (B/A), Sept. 2, GNA - The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA)
Church is to form virgin clubs in its branches to enable young female
members to lead morally upright life.
Pastor Israel Nana Tuffour,
President of the South Central Ghana Conference of the Church announced
this at the weekend at a five-day annual camp meeting of the Nkoranza
South District branch of the Church at Akumsa-Domase.
He said the
programme was launched recently at the Church at Asokore in Ashanti Region
when 100 young girls offered to join the club and carry out educational
campaign against sexual promiscuity at all branches.
Out of the 100
girls examined by doctors, 94 of them proved negative to any form of
sexual practice and have been registered as the pioneers of the SDA church
virgins club, the Pastor added.
Pastor Tuffour said the clubs would
also help the youth to guard themselves against HIV/AIDS or to drop out of
school as a result of pregnancy.
He disclosed that the Adventist
Development Relief Agency (ADRA) had decided to assist the youth in the
Church to go into the cultivation of psychic nuts towards a bi-chemical
diesel project.
ADRA will provide the seedlings of the nuts, popularly
known as 'nkrangyedua' to enable interested youth and farmers to undertake
the project, the pastor added.
He appealed to traditional leaders and
landowners to release enough plots of land to the youth to undertake the
project.
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Peace Seekers seek reconciliation with Rawlings
Accra (Greater Accra) 2 September 2003 - Peace Seekers International, a
non-governmental organisation, on Tuesday said it has initiated moves to
meet and reconcile with former President Jerry John Rawlings.
"We are ready to stretch our hands of friendship to him as his
former boys, we believe there must be an end to hostilities in the
interest of nation building," the Coordinator of Peace Seekers,
Alhaji Abubakar Daanaa, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview
in Accra.
The group comprising former Military, Police and Intelligence personnel
is led by Group Captain Thomas T. Kutin, a former Commissioner of
Transport and Communications under the Acheampong Regime.
Alhaji Daanaa said Ghanaians must begin to think about national
interest and be prepared to sacrifice personal interest for the benefit of
future generations.
"Hostilities, cold war, rancour and bitterness retard progress and
we are prepared to bury the past and focus on the future in unity."
He said Peace Seekers would also initiate moves to reconcile President
John Kufuor and former President Rawlings. The two men are prominent
personalities and Ghanaians stood to gain from if they co-operated, Alhaji
Daanaa said.
Alhaji Daanaa said as a first step towards reconciliation, Peace
Seekers organised a get-together at the weekend for some victims and
perpetrators of atrocities to strengthen the reconciliation.
He said the media hold the key to true reconciliation and they should
be held accountable for any derailment. Alhaji Daanaa expressed regret
that as victims and perpetrators try to reconcile some media practitioners
continued to read unjustifiable and unnecessary meaning to it.
"Some of them behave as if they stand to benefit from a divided,
troubled and tension packed society. This must stop." Group Capt.
Kutin said: "It is only when peace has been made among the living
that the dead, who have been wronged will smile for peace on earth and,
indeed, rest in peace."
He said members of the group have opted for reconciliation and were
prepared to forget the past and to focus on the present and look forward
to the future.
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UN to pass resolution for international force on 1
Oct
Accra (Greater Accra) 2 September 2003 - The United Nations Security
Council is expected to pass a resolution on 1 October, to give legal
backing for an International Stabilization Force in war-torn Liberia.
The UN Peacekeeping Force would take over from the Nigerian-led
Vanguard Force to enforce the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
signed by the stakeholders in Accra on August 19.
Ghana's Foreign Minister, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who led a
five-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) team to
brief the Council on the outcome of the Peace Agreement, said on Tuesday
that the resolution would give the peace initiative the needed momentum.
"We should be careful not to allow the peace process in Liberia to
slack," he told a press conference in Accra. He said his team and
Council members had fruitful discussions that lasted about three hours.
"We believe we made an impact to have a resolution in place on 1
October," he said.
The team, comprising ECOWAS Executive Secretary, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas
and Foreign Ministers of Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria, also met with
US government officials.
Nana Akufo-Addo, who described the meeting as successful, said it
focused mainly on demobilization and disarmament of combatants.
"Essentially, the combatants are mostly young people, who should be
in school," he intimated. The meeting also focused on restructuring
of the Liberian Army.
The Foreign Minister said ECOWAS lost a unique opportunity in 1997 to
disarm combatants and that this time round care was being taken not to
repeat that mistake. He said the US committed itself to the provision of
logistics to facilitate the peacekeeping efforts in Liberia amidst other
competing demands.
Nana Akufo-Addo said logistics had been the bane of the peace mission
adding, "the same problem is affecting the deployment of Ghanaian
troops". However, he said, the problems were being resolved to enable
the Ghanaian troops to be deployed as soon as possible.
Answering questions from Reporters, Nana Akuffo-Addo said there were no
discussions about former President Charles Taylor and his indictment
during their deliberations in the United States. Later in an interview
with the Ghana News Agency, Nana Akuffo-Addo said, besides the
Reconciliation Commission provided in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,
ECOWAS negotiators had no intention of setting up a war crime tribunal to
try those who committed atrocities during the prolonged conflict in
Liberia.
"The issue of a war crime tribunal is not in the agreement and we
do not intend to do anything else apart from what the Comprehensive Peace
Agreement provides," he stressed.
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GES Director General bemoans exams leakages
Aburi (Eastern Region) 2 September 2003 - The Director General of the
Ghana Education Service (GES), Rev Ama Afo Blay has expressed regret about
the involvement of parents in the leakage of examination papers of both
Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the Senior Secondary
Certificate Examination (SSCE).
She said she was surprised to see some parents moving heaven and earth
to pay huge sums of money for examination questions as well as pay to gain
admission for their children but refuse to accept increase in school fees.
Rev Afo Blay was speaking at the second Annual Delegates' Congress of
the Eastern Regional Students Representative Council (SRC) at Aburi on
Monday.
She noted the instances where Headmasters and Policemen were assaulted
by some students because they refused to allow them to cheat in the
examination hall and described the situation as unfortunate and pledged
that the GES would do all it could to remove this canker from the system.
She advised school authorities to constantly conduct internal
examinations to build up student's confidence so that they would not be
scared and or become nervous during the final examinations conducted by
the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
She stressed the need for the SRC to be used to instil peace and
discipline in second cycle institutions to facilitate blossoming of
academic excellence.
Rev. Afo Blay asked class representatives and the SRCs to regularly
hold consultations with their class and student body to ensure that all
potential causes of riots and misunderstanding are identified and dealt
with at the initial stage rather than when it had gone out of hand.
She advised students not to abuse their youthful age so that they would
be able to face the challenges of adulthood and urged them to start
developing definite goals for themselves for the future.
The Regional President of the Council, Master Salifu Suleman appealed
to the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports to replace guidance and
counselling tutors since they were old and their techniques and methods
were not suitable for the present day youths.
The Eastern Regional Director of Education, Mrs Awurabena Ahwoi, who
chaired the function, advised the students to set targets for themselves
and to strive to acquire skills that would useful to them in the future.
She advised them to abstain from early sex in order not to contract the
deadly disease HIV/AIDS.
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DCE decries poor results of BECE in district
Adwuman (Ashanti Region) 2 September 2003 - Bright Addai-Mununkum,
Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District Chief Executive, has decried the poor
results of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the
District.
Even though, he did not give any statistics, he said for three
consecutive years, the BECE results in the District had not been
encouraging.
Addai-Mununkum said the District Assembly would, therefore, do
everything possible to change this trend for the better. These were
contained in a speech read on his behalf at the fund-raising harvest at
Adwuman in aid of the Catholic Primary and Junior Secondary School on
Sunday.
The DCE cautioned parents not to turn their children into breadwinners
but should send them to school to acquire knowledge in their formative
years.
He suggested to the assembly to enact a byelaw that would make it an
offence for a parent to refuse to send his child to school and instead
engage him in child labour. Osei Boateng, Chairman of the Parent-Teacher
Association (PTA) of the schools, called on the people to continue to
contribute towards raising the standard of education in the town. The
fund-raising yielded ¢2.1m.
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Court grants chief ¢100m bail
Nkawie (Ashanti Region) 2 September 2003 - The Atwima District Court on
Monday, granted Nana Kusi Amankwaa Marfo, Chief of Nkawie-Panin standing
trial for manslaughter, ¢100m bail with two sureties to be justified.
The court barred Nana Marfo from entering Nkawie-Panin until further
notice and is to deposit his passport at the Nkawie Police Station and
report to the Nkawie Police every Wednesday.
Nana Marfo is standing trial for allegedly beating Opanin Kwadwo Manu,
aged 70, severely leading to his death. The deceased lived with Nana Marfo
in the same house at Nkawie-Panin. Then sometime in July this year, Nana
Marfo gave the deceased three-month's notice to quit the house.
However, when the accused met the deceased on the night of 23 August,
he allegedly beat him up. Good Samaritans took Opanin Manu to the Nkawie
Police.
The Police gave him a medical form and he was then rushed to the Nkawie
Government Hospital where he was admitted but died the next morning.
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