POLITICS

AG authorised discontinuation of Delta 8 case – Prosecutor

ACP Okyere Darko, the prosecutor at the centre of the release of the eight members of the Delta force – a vigilante group – has hit back at the Information Ministry for claiming that the Attorney General was unaware of the circumstances leading to their discharge. A Kumasi Circuit Court Wednesday struck out the case against the eight who allegedly ...

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Bawumia to begin 4-day tour of Northern region today

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, will today, May 18, 2017 begin a four-day tour of the Northern region. The tour which is his first since he assumed office will afford him the opportunity to tour most parts of the region and also visit his hometown. A correspondence from government on the tour said the Vice President will first pay ...

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Bond Saga: NDC is going to ‘internationalize their incompetence’ – Baako

Kweku Baako says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will make a mockery of themselves for petitioning a US regulatory body to investigate the recent $2.25 billion bond issued by the Government of Ghana. The NDC minority has filed a complaint with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States of America to commence investigations into the US$2.25 billion ...

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Delta 8 discharge: Premature to pass judgement – Short

Former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has called for calm in the wake of the discharge of the eight members of the dreaded group – Delta force- by a Kumasi Circuit Court Wednesday. The news of the release of the eight who raided the court in Kumasi to free 13 of ...

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Give me the next joke! – Kweku Baako tells Afoko family

The family members of Gregory Afoko, who is standing trial at an Accra Fast Track High Court in connection with his alleged role played in the gruesome murder of the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, Adams Mahama have hinted they will petition the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Attorney General on what they ...

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Why 8 Delta Force members were freed

Eight (8) members of the Pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force who were standing trial for aiding 13 of their colleagues to abscond were yesterday Wednesday May 17, 2017 freed by a Kumasi Circuit Court for want of evidence. When the case was called, the Principal State Attorney Marie Louise-Simmons told the Court that the state was no ...

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Government’s statement on Delta Force release disingenuous – Amaliba

A private legal practitioner, Abraham Amaliba has described as disingenuous the explanation by the Ministry of Information on the discharge of some members of pro-NPP vigilante group, Delta Force on Wednesday. He argued that the prosecutor could not have taken any unilateral decision in such a grave legal matter of high public interest. For him, the ministry’s intervention is only ...

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Minister sabotaging my confirmation – Tolon DCE-nominee

The embattled district chief executive-nominee for Tolon, Hajia Amamata Sayibu, has accused the Northern Regional Minister Saying Salifu Saeed of creating a false sense of tension in the area to sabotage her appointment. Salifu on Monday, acting on advise of the Regional Security Council, called off a planned endorsement process at the district capital citing heightened tensions and threats of ...

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