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Kwabena Mensah Woyome has described as depressing the continuous trial of his brother – Alfred Agbesi Woyome – over the GHc51.2million supposed judgment debt paid to him by the State. “What is happening to my brother is a sad thing,” bemoaned the MP for South Tongu on Morning Starr Wednesday July 26, 2017. According to him, his beleaguered brother duly ...

Thieves have turned their attention to the Upper East Regional Hospital, targeting motorcycles belonging to staff, patients and visitors on a daily basis. A multiple-source report, supported by some worried-looking staff at the hospital, indicates that five motorbikes were taken away at the hospital by thieves in the second week of this July alone after their owners had parked them ...

The leadership of parliament will later today, Wednesday, 26 July meet with Commissioners of the Electoral Commission to intervene in the ongoing fight between Chair Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Class News’ parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan has gathered. He said the meeting will come right after the EC boss finishes briefing the house about how much the election ...

Six persons have been arrested by the Obawale Police in the Eastern region for refusing to participate in a Communal labour held at the Pepetifi community in the Yilo Krobo District. The six persons are; Tetteh Denis, Djaba Ismael, Tettey, Tetteh Bazuka, Tetteh Bless and Michael Odesti-Bless. The six persons are being processed for Court. According to Bismark Amgbor, a ...

Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has sent notice to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that it will resist any attempt(s) to witch-hunt any appointee of former President John Dramani Mahama. The notice follows Monday’s raid (July 24, 2017) of the residence of the former Minister of Power, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, by some officials from the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) ...

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has suggested that the government’s efforts to create a special prosecutor’s will be a wasted venture if sections of the draft Bill currently before parliament are not removed. According to him, a clause in the bill which states that the Special Prosecutor must not investigate and prosecute corruption offences relating to the Public Procurement ...

Tears rolled down my eyes freely as I watched the lynching of Major Adams Mahama by the jubilant mob on that eventful day. My physiology has a natural tendency to repulse injustice with tears. Anytime a semblance of injustice or gross unfairness possesses my soul, tears would gush down my cheeks in little streams of protest and sadness. My softly ...

Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP) has demanded the arrest of the Electoral Commissioner and all her two deputy commissioners. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong speaking on Adom TV’s Badwam Tuesday said the embattled commissioners must be arrested as part of efforts to causing further investigations into allegations of corruption at the EC which the commissioners are leveling against one another. “The ...

Chair of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, will Wednesday appear before Legislators to respond to questions about the heated internal wrangling at the elections management body. She will also brief the Parliamentarians on how funds generated from the replacement of voter ID cards and the sale of media accreditation cards ahead of 2016 elections were spent. Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, ...

The Christian Council of Ghana has reiterated the need to use Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms to address the current dispute at the Electoral Commission (EC) in order to put an end to the intensifying uproar between some staff and the Chairperson of the commission, Charlotte Osei. Speaking to JoyNews Prime, the General Secretary of the Council, Dr. Kwabena Opuni Frimpong, ...