The Denkyira Boase town in the Central region has become a ghost town following the ghastly lynching of an army officer there by residents, StarrFMonline.com has gathered. According to Starr News’ Central regional correspondent, Kwaku Baah-Acheamfour “most of the young people have fled” because they suspect that there will be retaliatory attacks from the military. Residents of the Denkyira Boase ...
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Blame Rawlings partly for our defeat – Victor Smith
Former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Ambassador Victor Smith has explained that the party’s Founder and Chairman of the Council of Elders, former President Jerry John Rawlings is partly to be blamed for the NDC’s abysmal performance in the 2016 general elections. Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia’s Programme, the former spokesperson for the Rawlingses explained that as ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo must show leadership over lawlessness – Apaak
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must show leadership and put in place stringent measures to check acts of lawlessness that is creeping into the society, Member of Parliament for Builsa South Clement Apaak has said. His comments come after a soldier Captain Maxwell Mahama was attacked and killed by a mob in Denkyira Boase in the Upper Denkyira West district ...
Read More »NDC strategises to win 2020 election
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it is in a hurry to take back political power which it lost to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) through what the party described as ’deceit and lies’. According to the NDC, the ruling government’s performance, since it took power in January this year, has been a disaster, a clear indication that ...
Read More »Lynched Army Captain was protecting illegal Chinese miners – DCE
The military captain who was reportedly lynched by some residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region was the leader of a military detachment dispatched to the community to protect some Chinese engaging in illegal mining (galamsey) in a forest reserve in the area. The late Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber while ...
Read More »Policeman mistaken for armed robber; shot and killed by patrol team
A police patrol team on Sunday dawn allegedly shot and killed a police officer who was escorting an ‘OA’ passenger bus to the Northern region. Identified as Lance Corporal Robert Kumi Ackah of the Tamale Rapid Deployment Force, he was said to have been mistaken to be an armed robber by his colleagues and killed near Dawadawa, on the Buipe-Kintampo ...
Read More »MPs’ visa fraud saga: Speaker pursues diplomatic resolution
Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Oquaye is adopting diplomacy in resolving visa fraud allegations against some Members of Parliament, Kate Addo, Acting Director of Public Affairs of Parliament, has said. It will be recalled that the British High Commission accused some MPs of facilitating into the UK the entry of some supposed relatives, with such persons overstaying their visas. The ...
Read More »Kwesi Botchway report out today
The 13-member Kwesi Botchway Committee probing the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) 2016 election defeat is expected to present its report to the party today, Tuesday, May 30. The committee was set up early this year to investigate t circumstances that led to the party’s defeat and was expected to submit its report within three months. However, the committee could not ...
Read More »Chasing Asia Huang’s shadow: A case full of xenophobic gesticulation
I applaud the outcry and the passion being displayed by the Ghanaian media and the populace regarding the problems associated with illegal mining. I, however, have some deep concerns about the approach with which we want to deal with the problem. In my humble opinion, the prescribed treatment we have assigned to this canker is not lacking some element of ...
Read More »Sacked Customs Officers blow GHC1.2 billion
Some 15 senior officers of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), who were recently arrested, are allegedly responsible for the loss of GH¢1.2 billion in revenue, according to a hint dropped by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to him, the revelation emanated from the efforts his government is making to block revenue leakages at the country’s ...
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