I Endorse The Politicking Of Arrest Of Airport Security Capo – Sammy Awuku

Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party has expressed disappointment in the National Security, claiming that the arrest of the Managing Director of SOHIN Security, Solomon Adelaquaye, in the United States of America for trading in illegal drugs has imprinted a “scar” on the security apparatus.

Speaking on Peace FM Tuesday, Sammy Awuku posited that the National Security has fallen short of commendations and thus expressed doubt about its ability to investigate the drug menace.

US security authorities arrested Mr. Adelaquaye in May for trafficking a substance believed to be heroin, leading to the suspension of his company’s contract with the government of Ghana.

Till the rise of the drug issue, SOHIN Security which was contracted about a year ago by government, through the National Security, was authorized to enhance security presence at the Kotoka International Airport.

Nonetheless, pejorative reports about the arrest of the drug baron left some political figures and the nation gobsmacked with some functionaries within the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) alleging that the drug baron was a financier of the governing party.

They also raised red flags about the background checks conducted by the Ghana Airport Company before employing the services of SOHIN Security Company.

Following the arrest, some critics also linked him with the National Security Coordinator, Lt. Col Larry Gbevlo Lartey, purportedly pointing to the suspect’s close relationship with him.

As a result, the critics stridently called on the National Security Coordinator to cede his authority while President Mahama sets up a public inquiry into the matter.

Though Lt. Col Gbevlo Lartey, speaking to an Accra-based radio station, denounced his association with the drug peddler, Sammy Awuku, however expressed distrust in the National Security apparatus.

He asked; “Do you know how many drugs he can traffick in a day? For a month? For six months and to a year? So, we must thoroughly investigate it to avert the possibility of a conspiracy.”

He found it ‘ridiculous’ to depoliticize the issue, especially when the incumbent government stopped at nothing hurling salvos at the erstwhile Kufour government when a similar event took place under his (Ex-President Kufour) watch.

To him, the drug scandal “is a major scar on the conscience of our national security; the arrest of the SOHIN Boss…I cannot trust the National Security to investigate this matter.”

“I endorse the politicking of it by people,” he concluded.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Based On What Intelligence Info Did Mahama Draw The Arson Conclusion? Kweku Baako Asks

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has cautioned government and security agencies against making speculative comments about the fire outbreaks that have over the weeks struck some markets in the Accra metropolis.

According to him, claims that the recent fires might have been caused by arsonists are premature and asked government to produce evidence to support such claims.

Emphasizing his point on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” on Wednesday, Kweku Baako pointed out that such sweeping statements and unproven speculations by government and security officials could breed cynicism.

“These things; if officialdom, you shout arson but you don’t follow the train and provide evidence, and we don’t do the prosecution of the suspects; eventually it leads to cynicism and disbelief and mistrust of the system,” he said.

The seasoned journalist also questioned the logic in placing a ransom on the heads of the alleged arsonists and wondered who advised the president to arrive at that conclusion. To him, it would have been apt if the GHc25, 000 was given to the person who identified the perpetrators only after the government, through the help of the security agencies, concludes forensic tests to corroborate their claims.

“But I cannot agree that intelligence services, security services and the President can speculate…They are not entitled to continue speculating,” he insisted.

He also sought answers to the question which seemed to bother his mind; “how did they find the point of explosion?”

Inferring from the findings by the Ghana Fire Service which pointed to the source of the fires that razed the Makola No. 2 market, the New Crusading Guide editor was of the view that if circumstantial evidence by the Service has proven that the incident happened as a result of some technical fault, then, they should “be able to determine what led to the explosion if it’s petrol somebody place there and lighted it, they will know. If it’s electrical fault, they will know…”

Also, touching on the engagement of American experts to assist the Ghanaian security core to find out the causes of the recent fire rages, he said the move is an admission that the country’s security or intelligence outfit is not up to task.

The declaration, he stated, meant that “we don’t have the capacity to undertake that particular exercise. So what I think as a nation we should be doing is to look at the option of improving on our intelligence agencies; Fire Service and so forth.”

He, however, was of a strong view that the fire experts engaged by government will do a professional job.

“American (forensics) experts can never be induced to lie. Those people are professionals…Those doing the forensic, look, you can’t get them to lie…,” Kweku Baako said.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Mahama Must Call Inter-ministerial Taskforce Team To Order

A leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has challenged President John Mahama to ensure that members of the Inter-ministerial Taskforce Team, who took the law into their own hands by ransacking Hansol Mining Company are apprehended and made to face the full rigours of the law.

The CPP’s National Youth Organizer, James Kwabena Bomfeh, also called Kabilla, was visibly displeased with the harm done to the company by some of the security personnel involved in the Taskforce’s operations and advised them to consider their authority granted them as a privilege.

A number of security officials last Wednesday ransacked the premises of the Hansol Mining Company on suspicion that the company was involved in illegal mining, but according to the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the team rather made away with some valuables belong to the company.

The security officers, he disclosed, “took away money, gold and any other valuable they could lay their hands on and later touched the workplaces despite the fact that they saw no foreigner.”

He further revealed that they also plundered other containers and its contents “which had nothing to do with the mining activities. They also burnt down a new product called ‘wo ntumi milk maker’, which is due to be launched next month.”

“I am sure no other businessman in Ghana has suffered my fate in the history of this country”, he lamented; averring that the security services are taking advantage of President Mahama’s directive for them to check illegal mining activities in the country by rather exploiting people and enriching themselves overnight by looting and leaving businesses in a ramshackle condition.

Commenting on the issue on “Kokrokoo” Monday morning on Peace FM, the CPP National Youth Organizer also called on government to adopt a holistic approach in solving the canker in the mining sector.

“I’m challenging the President that if he is interested in these matters, the security personnel who perpetrated these acts and stole Mr. Antwi Bosiako’s materials should be questioned because if you arrest somebody for illegal mining, it doesn’t mean you should steal his things”, he said.

He warned security agencies to refrain from “bullying” people with their authority.

“If you are a Police officer; if you are a BNI officer, if you are a security force, see it as a privilege to serve humanity. Don’t use your power to bully people,” he stressed.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Pratt Slates Inter-ministerial Taskforce Team On Illegal Mining

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has called on the Inter-ministerial Taskforce Team established by President John Mahama to flush out illegal miners to cease taking the law into their own hands by subjecting alleged illegal miners to instant punishment.

The team which was set up last month has been accused of deviating from the task it was set up to do. Some claim the committee has foregone its major task of seizing machines and equipment of illegal miners by burning everything to the ground.

The Inter-ministerial Task Force on Illegal Mining, which is chaired by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has other ministries such as the Interior, Defence, Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration as well as Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, making up the team.

Commenting on the activities by the taskforce team in some regions, the outspoken journalist emotively issued caution to the authorities to comport themselves in handling the culprits.

He expressed strong disapproval with the conduct of the taskforce and questioned the logic in their actions.

Making reference to the recent damage to property belonging to HANSOL Mining Company, Kwesi Pratt described as “senseless” the alleged gross extortion, setting ablaze of site structures and equipment belonging to small-scale miners in the country, particularly those with different political affiliations.

He admonished the security taskforce to desist from burning the equipment used by the small-scale miners but to ensure that justice takes its cause whenever they mount a search for the illegal miners.

“Let’s test the law in the court,” he insisted.

He also bemoaned the culture where eventhough the Mining industry of Ghana accounts for 5% of the country's GDP and minerals make up 37% of total exports; the government retains just a 10% carrying interest in mining companies to which it grants a license, stressing that the blame should not only be placed at the doorsteps of the influx of Chinese nationals who have infiltrated the mining sites.

To him, “the problem in the mining sector is not galamsey. Galamsey may be a problem but there are bigger problems”, and appealed to government to identify the root cause of problems associated with mining in the country.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Gbevlo Lartey: I Don’t Give A Hoot...

National Security Coordinator, Lt. Col Larry Gbevlo Lartey has denied any close association with the embattled Managing Director of SOHIN Security, Solomon Adelaquaye who is facing charges related to illicit drugs trade in the US.

Gbevlo Lartey also debunked claims that Mr. Adelaquaye was head of security at the airport saying his (Adelaquaye’s) company was only responsible for security at “peripheral places” such as the car park.

Solomon Adelaquaye was arrested by US authorities in May for the trafficking of a substance believed to be cocaine, and government subsequently suspended the contract with Sohin Security.

Following his arrest, the opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] alleged that he was a financier of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and questioned the background checks conducted by the Ghana Airport Company before hiring Sohin Security Company.

Some even pointed to the suspect’s close relationship with the National Security Coordinator, with critics calling on him to step aside whiles President John Mahama institute a public inquiry into the matter.

But speaking on ‘News Night’ on Joy FM today, Col. Gbevlo Lartey stridently distanced himself from the drug baron, stating categorically that he does not “know him.

"I’ve never had a conversation with him” and added that he “talked with that guy only once” when his security personnel made dubious claims to some properties.

He also disclosed that the US Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) acted in close collaboration with their Ghanaian counterparts to apprehend the suspect.

“These things are all operations that we started from beginning to the end. So, it has nothing to do with porosity of security at the airport. These operations are operations that we ourselves have organized to get the people to get into the US and be arrested…It’s not cocaine, it was heroin.”

Whiles blaming the media for misleading the public and trying to rope him in, the National Security capo said he is undaunted by the attacks on his character.

“This politicking of it doesn’t really bother me. I don’t give a hoot about it. I’ll continue doing my work to the best that I can,” he asserted.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Mahama's Comments Were "Prejudicial" - Sammy Awuku

The Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party has taken a swipe at President John Dramani Mahama for his recent comments on the outcome of the election petition at the Supreme Court.

Addressing executives and members of the ruling National Democratic Congress during the 21st anniversary of the party, President John Mahama averred that the outcome of the election case will prove his government guiltless of the claims by the petitioners of the NPP, challenging his legitimacy as the fourth President under the Fourth Republic.

He expressed no doubt about the results of the Presidential elections, stating firmly that the governing party won “clearly in free and fair elections.”

But in a sharp riposte to the President’s comments, Sammy Awuku described as “prejudicial” such submissions seemingly vindicating the Mahama-led government.

He wondered why President Mahama would come to a conclusion when the case is still pending in the court and thus insisted on Peace FM’s morning programme “Kokrokoo” that the “President’s comments were unfortunate, prejudicial and avoidable.”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Leave National Security Out Of “Dirty” Cocaine Talk - Sam Pee Yalley

A Public Interest Lawyer and a leading member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sam Pee Yalley has warned th general public, especially politicians to cease linking the National Security apparatus with drug trafficking.

To him, it is inappropriate to associate the National Security Coordinator, Col (rtd) Larry Gbevlo-Lartey with drug barons.

Official reports received on Wednesday indicated that the Managing Director of Sohin Security Company, Solomon Adelaquaye, has been busted over cocoaine in the United States of America as part of a drug trafficking syndicate.

The alleged drug dealer is said to be a close pal of the Lt. Col Gbevlo Lartey.

The drug dealer who is believed to an NDC financier was arrested together with two Nigerians and Colombian in May for his role in the drug trafficking syndicate which had been operational in the West Africa sub-region, according to an official statement released on June 3.

“Sources said political godfathers including Gbevlo Lartey facilitated the selection of Sohin Security for its services at the airports. Hitherto, the company had no practical experience in handling security issues before it was granted the contract at the airports”, a Daily Guide report revealed.

However, Mr. Pee Yalley rubbished the report on Radio Gold’s “Alhaji Alhaji” on Saturday, warning the newspaper and any drug baron whose interest is to place a “dirty tag of drugs” on the neck of the National Security coordinator to refrain from their diabolic ways.

To him, Col. Gbevlo Lartey’s efforts and achievements cannot be underrated, stating firmly that “if Larry has done so much for this country, this is not how we treat people like that. I am pleading that for the sake of the unity of this country, we should keep certain national institutions out of our politics. We should leave this National Security business out of our politics.”
 
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

ENTERPRISE Rebrands!!!

Enterprise Insurance Company Ltd, the oldest insurance company in Ghana, has streamlined its operations to render enhanced services to its clients and Ghanaians.

The company, which was established in 1924 and first to be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) since 1991, has over the years remained topnotch providing insurance and better pension management services to the citizenry.

Enterprise Group Ltd, an umbrella of the company and its other subsidiaries, is repositioning its business as a diversified financial services group and in support of its objective, has unified its diverse range of business under a single brand identity.

The company seeks to improve the livelihoods of the Ghanaian populace and provide them with a desired advantage to ensure better living conditions.

The group which was adjudged CIMG Life Insurance Company of the year and ranked first in the Financial Services Sector has now branched out into real estate and pensions management, and plans to expand into financial services.

As part of the company’s initiatives, it has rebranded itself and implored its clients to note the changes in its various operating subsidiaries.

The subsidiaries, it stated, will be known as Enterprise Insurance (General business insurers), Enterprise Life (Life insurers), Enterprise Trustees (Pensions management), Enterprise Properties (Real estate investments) and Enterprise Funeral Services (Funeral; burial and related services).

Enterprise Insurance is currently rated 11th on Ghana Club 100, making it the highest rated General Insurance Company in the country and ranked A+ for its Claims Paying Ability by Global Credit Rating of South Africa.

Touting some achievements chalked by the company in a press statement released on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, the company stressed that “for the purposes of sustained growth and the ability to take advantage of profitable business opportunities in sectors of the economy apart from insurance as well as continually returning increased value to shareholders, clients and employees, new subsidiaries have been established which include Trustees and Properties. Incorporated in 2010, Enterprise Trustees is a pensions administration company while Enterprise Properties is a real estate investments wing of the Group”, the release read.

Also assuring Ghanaians of a distinct service delivery, it seeks to deliver on its “values of Friendliness, Trust, Reliability, Excellence and Professionalism and it is a firm assurance that no matter which of our subsidiaries you deal with at anytime, you can trust us to give you an unparalleled advantage.”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com

Security Personnel Should Step Up With Their Investigations On Market Fires - Allotey Jacobs

The Central Regional Communication Director of the National Democratic Congress, Bernard Allotey Jacobs has called on security agencies to step up their game in tracing the perpetrators of the Makola fire and other fire outbreaks across the country.

He urged the security services to step ahead of the arsonists in order to avert further occurrences of fires in various markets.

Assessing the spate of fire outbreaks under the Mahama administration, he suspected that the act might have been masterminded by detractors of the ruling party and therefore prayed the “security services to move one step ahead of these arsonists if there is. That there’s the need for us to protect the rest of our market. It is like our economic vibrancy is being destroyed.”

Speaking to Radio Gold on Wednesday, Allotey Jacobs averred that the perpetrators may be guided by some motives to derail the incumbent government and so, issued a word of caution to them to refrain from such actions.

He also admonished Ghanaians to be on their guard to prevent the perpetrators.

“We as citizens, we need to be part and parcel of our security network…Because at the end of the day, we are the losers and therefore there’s the need for us always to be on our guard.”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Wereko-Brobbey Should Refrain From Commenting On His Party In Public

A member of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Communication team, Samuel Amoako has pleaded with Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey to seize fire on commenting on his party in the public domain.

Contributing in a panel discussion programme on Peace FM, the PPP Communicator expressed worry over the dissenting views overcrowding the New Patriotic Party since it hopped onto the legal platform with the Electoral Commission and President John Mahama whose legitimacy is being challenged at the Supreme Court by the party leaders.

He therefore added his voice to numerous calls on Dr. Wereko-Brobbey to channel his concerns to the party hierarchy and refrain from challenging the decisions of party in the media.

To him, it is not in the right fashion for him (Wereko-Brobbey) to address issues concerning the NPP in the public domain when there are procedures to follow to get his views heard by the leadership.

He thus pleaded with him that “next time or when you are in a party and if the majority agrees on something; if you can’t tolerate it, then disband yourself from the party. If you can, then join it. If you can’t and you have some suggestion, there are other means, laid down procedure that you can follow when you have dissenting views.”

He also condemned the comments by Dr. Arthur Kennedy, a former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the NPP has turned into a party of “violence and intimidation” and advised him equally to use the appropriate channel to address his concerns about the party.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

June 4th Celebration Should Be Banned - Atik Mohammed

A Policy Analyst of the People's Progressive Party (PPP), Atik Mohammed has called for a ban of the June 4th celebration, wondering why in this democratic era, the country will have any cause to mark the day.

Labelling Ex-President Rawlings as a man who has “outlived his relevance”, Atik Mohammed speaking on Oman FM rubbished the essence of the June 4, 1979 ‘revolution’.

Former President Jerry Rawlings, addressing a forum to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the June 4 upheaval on Monday, slammed both his successors; former Presidents J.A Kufour and the late J.E.A Mills for reversing the gains of the revolution.

”…Ghana appears to have been moving towards an irreversible situation down a tunnel, thanks to Presidents Mills and Kufuor”, he said, adding: “President Mahama has the responsibility to pull this country out of that tunnel. How well, how far and how soon John IV can achieve that is hard to say."

He also cautioned the ruling NDC to be wary of some characters within the party or may risk losing the 2016 elections.

“If we do not clean up our party, helping the Executive will be truly difficult and retaining power in 2016 will be very difficult”, he warned.

Nonetheless, the PPP stalwart questioned the innocence of the Ex-President Rawlings and moral justification of him to vent his spleen on his successors.

He sought to find out why he (Rawlings) indemnified himself against prosecution by introducing some clauses in the country’s constitution if he so deems himself different.

“Why did you put transitional clauses in the constitution? Clauses that are protecting you against prosecution. If you know what you did is something to be celebrated, why did you introduce those clauses; indemnity clauses? Then, let’s remove it and see whether your coup d’etats are worth celebrating in this country,” he asked.

He admonished Ghanaians to wake up from the “dirty past” inflicted upon them by former President Rawlings.

According to him, there should be a legislation to ban the celebration since it leaves a bad precedent for the country, stressing that “June 4th is no longer relevant…It’s for history. It’s for us to go and read in books.”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

NPP MP: Wereko-Brobbey Should Form His Own Political Party If...

NPP Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Hon. Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko has dared Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey to form his own party if he cannot comply with the constitutional provisions of the party.

According to him, it would be better for him to establish his party than publicly defy its tenets.

Speaking on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo, the NPP Stalwart wondered why Dr. Wereko-Brobbey would seemingly betray the party by his comments after they rallied support for him when he nursed interest to take up a position in the party some years ago.

He as a result called on him to hold his peace and use the appropriate channel within the party to address his concerns.

He explained that majority of the party leadership agreed on pursuing the petitioners’ claims of electoral malpractices in the law court and so, it is not apropos for anyone to dissent to the party’s position.

“90% said they will give it to this man. If you disagree, if you can’t accommodate; the better thing to do is to go and form your own...Once, the majority has decided to go that line, that becomes the official position.”

To him, Dr. Wereko Brobbey portrays himself as “the only person who knows. He is the only person with insight. He is the only person with foresight”, but “if he feels we are not his class,” then he should leave the party alone.

He therefore issued a strong-worded note to him, saying “we may even be wrong…But it is better for all of us to get together in these difficult times. I think it is arrogance. I think it is uncalled-for to pretend as if you alone know everything, you alone understand; you alone are a repository of wisdom. It is not done. It breaks the spirit of a group.”

Also, disclosing his once widely held disagreement for the choice of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as Running mate to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 2012 Presidential candidate of the party, Mr. Agyarko however expressed gratitude to him for making a better decision for the party.

Even though he “disagreed. My whole body disagreed…Today, I always thank God that he got such a mindset”, he blurted out.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Dr. Wereko-Brobbey: NPP Has Become Autocratic; Some Members Are Using It For Their Private Gains

Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey says the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in the hands of some members who are only using the party for their private gains, has turned into an autocratic party.

The NPP he knew some years ago which was founded on the principles of the Danquah/Bussia seems to abandon its tenets and trying to repress him. According to him, the NPP has doled out some money to serial callers to vilify him because they cannot tolerate his outspoken character.

Dr. Wereko-Brobbey has since the filing of a petition by the NPP, under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, come hard on the party rubbishing the move by the leaders to go to the Supreme Court to seek redress on the Presidential elections last year.

He has dissented to some positions and decisions taken by the party.

His recent comments ignited passions within the party with the General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, doubting his true membership with the party.

Over the weekend, news broke out that he had been suspended by the leadership but speaking to Peace FM on Monday, he denied knowledge of any sanction by the party and expressed that he cannot be gagged from sharing his views on the conduct of the party.

Defining the NPP as “party of Rule of law and the party of free expression”, he wondered why the members cannot stomach his comments and have sought to attack his personality.

“When you switch on radio, you switch on television; everybody is expressing his mind. Why does it astonish people when Wereko-Brobbey alone speaks his mind? Everyday, everybody is expressing himself or herself…Everyday, NPP members are speaking their mind; NDC also speaking theirs. So, why can’t I also express myself?”

He therefore held strongly that he will continue to “speak his mind”, “if you think I have spoken my mind and you don’t agree with me, and want to send me somewhere; the law is there.”

To him, the party members are tickling themselves and so quoted a biblical verse as caution to his critics.

He admonished them to “cast ye first the log”from their eyes, “so you can see clearly. Then you can remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”

Though admitting the elections were rigged, he however was of the view that the NPP “did not watch the gate and they came to steal them.”

“I believe that private interests are being put ahead of the collective interests of the NPP. I have a right to believe that. So, nobody can say they hold the body and the wisdom of the NPP…Democracy must be founded on vigorous debate.

“This is nonsense. This is not the Danquah/Busia party. This is not the party of intolerance. It is a disgrace for anybody to get into this…Our party has become an intolerant autocratic party that does not follow its own rules. That cannot be good for the NPP,” he concluded.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Communications Directorate Of NPP Reinforces Party's Directive To Suspend Tarzan

The Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Perry Okudzeto has reinforced his party’s directives to suspend Dr. Wereko-Brobbey, a stalwart in the party following his seemingly disparaging remarks about the conduct of the party.

Last Friday, the National Executive Committee of the party held a meeting and reached a decision to suspend him in accordance with Article 3(d)(f) of the party’s constitution.

Though Dr. Wereko-Brobbey has denied notice of the sanction, the Deputy Communications Director in an interview with Kwami Sefa-Kayi on Peace FM says he will possibly face his sanction in the course of the week.

He was of the view that Dr. Wereko-Brobbey’s public utterances about the party violate the provisions in the party’s constitution and so, cannot be overlooked.

He explained the duties of the members of the party, saying a member is obliged to be “protecting and promoting the good name of the party. Protecting the unity of the party. Be loyal and truthful to the party. Abide by and publicly uphold the decisions of the party.”

This, he stated, has not been upheld by him (Wereko-Brobbey) and therefore believed the party’s decision is in the right order.

“His dissenting views to upholding party decisions that have been taken at the highest level of the party violate this section of our party’s constitution. When you go to Article 4, Section 7; it talks about misconduct and it also violations. It says that people who violate the duties as a party members should be sanctioned. It also talks about the breach of duty to uphold publicly party policies.” he said.

He also volunteered an advice for him, saying “he (Wereko-Brobbey) should think about the things that he has written. The things that he has said about our party in the public domain and advised us, youth, who are working for this party whether it is right to be doing these things and be putting out these things in the public domain as a party member. If he calls himself a member of the New Patriotic Party.”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

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Sonnie Badu leads 45,000 Redeemers at the just ended Festival of Life.

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Video of police assault of suspected land guards in Cantonments, Accra

                                                       

Some fully armed police personnel were caught on camera inflicting wounds and pains on some suspected land guards at Cantoments, Accra last Friday.

The Police who arrived in their vans and an armour car fired gunshots in the air and begun assaulting the land guards.

One of the land guards who was taken through brutal rounds of bashing, had his head split with blood oozing out of it.

Others were dragged on the floor with the Police, hitting and whipping them with guns and wood.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana with Footage From Metro TV

Akua Donkor: I Will Kick Foreigners Out of Mining Sector If...

Presidential candidate for the Ghana Freedom Party, Akua Donkor has reiterated her ambition to make Ghana a haven for its indwellers.

Noting down the benefits accrued to the nation from gold extraction, Madam Akua Donkor assured the nation that its gold will no longer be in the hands of foreigners.

She told Radio Gold that when voted into power, she will kick the foreigners out of the mining sector and therefore “use the gold to boost the economy. I won’t allow the whites to extract gold anymore. Today, I’ve stood firm that i won’t let the whites extract it, Ghanaians will take their land.”

According to her, “the bribery, corruption and all bad things should get out of this country for us to have our peace. That’s why I have set up a party…The culture where if you don’t have money, you don’t go to court will pass away; a poor person is guilty in court will pass away immediately.”

She also pledged to eliminate corruption in the country and give equal rights to citizens, whether poor or not, to gain justice from the law courts.

Touching on the ongoing election petition, Madam Akua Donkor reinforced her position that the petitioners’ case is void and believed the founder and 2012 Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings has teamed up with Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, leader of the People’s Progressive Party to add their votes to Nana Addo’s should the nation go for a run-off.

“They know he did not get it but just helping them so that there will be run-off for Paa Kwesi Nduom will his (votes) to his (Nana Addo)”, she said but stressing that there was no rigging in the 2012 elections.

“I will never say that there was rigging. I won’t say it because I didn’t see it. I’ve always advised them but they did not listen…If they don’t stop it, I will blow their cover.”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

Nana Addo's Head Is a "Repository of Wickedness"

Founder and Presidential aspirant of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor, without mincing words has described Nana Akufo-Addo’s head as a “repository of wickedness”, a reason why he couched the NPP’s “All die be die” mantra.

Speaking to Radio Gold a couple of days ago, Madam Akua Donkor was of a strong view that Nana Addo’s inability to become a President is due to his cruel motives and as a result is seemingly being punished by God.

To her, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 2012 Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party and one of the petitioners challenging the legitimacy of President John Mahama, is no new person from his father’s (Edward Akufo-Addo) character.

She accused the father of complicity in the death of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and so, stressed that “it is in their bloodline.”

She also disclosed that the panel of Judges sitting on the election petition before the Supreme Court seems to pamper him.

And according to her, the Supreme Court Registrar is behind the pampering and urged Nana Addo to file the petition, contesting the results of the 2012 Presidential elections.

“The Registrar talked on the phone with Akufo-Addo before he filed the petition. Why do you talk on the phone with him? If he says he is coming to file his petition, give him way; leave him…So, if you speak with Akufo-Addo on the phone, then you are behind and helping him. And if you help him, it won’t help the country.”

Nana Addo, she stated categorically, cannot become the President of the nation due to his “wicked ways.”

“It is in their bloodline. So, he is fond of fighting and his “All die be die” mantra is a result of his wicked mind. God knows that he doesn’t have the right mind, so He won’t give it to him.”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana