KMA taskforce, guards clash

*Over unpaid salaries STORY: JAMES APPIAKORANG JNR., KUMASI Today can report that there was near bloodbath at the Subin sub-metro office of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly last Tuesday when two KMA task force groups clashed over payment of their accumulated salary. The two taskforce groups- ‘Black-black’ and the other group, whose members wear ‘Green- green,’ [...]

Presby Church locked out Members demand accountability

Members of the Ejisu District Branch of the Presbyterian Church in the Ashanti Region who cheerfully thronged the church premises for Sunday morning worship service became disappointed when they realised all the doors to the church auditorium was under lock and key. A group within the church calling themselves Concerned Members of Ejisu Presby claimed [...]

DCE RUN RIOT*Employs macho men to harass assembly members

The decision by some Assembly members in the Atwima Nwabiagya District to pass a vote of no confidence in their District Chief Executive (DCE), Nana Asare Bediako, has infuriated the DCE.

‘Yes, we’ll beat them’ – NDC man reaffirms

The Bantama constituency organiser who incited TEIN members of the Komfo Anokye Nurses and Midwifery College (KANMC) to perpetuate violence against NPP members, insists that some of the NPP members ‘will surely be beaten.’

‘BEAT THEM’ NDC incites party youth against NPP

A constituency youth organiser of the governing National Democratic Congress in Bantama in the Ashanti Region has incited members of his party, especially the youth, to ‘beat’ members of the opposition New Patriotic Party who challenge them on any issue.

POLICE SWOOP ON CRIMINALS

…25 arrested in Kumasi
STORY: FROM JAMES APPIAKORANG JR, KUMASI, A/R

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested 25 hardened criminals at three notorious criminal hideouts, popularly known as Obonsam Gyamu at Amakom, a suburb of Kumasi.

FONKAR warns Mills

Friends of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings (FONKAR) have cautioned President John Evans Atta Mills to rise above what they described as ‘pettiness’ and rather call persons around him to order. FONKAR gave the caution in a statement released yesterday and signed by its Ashanti Regional Communications Director, Brogya Genfi, after one of its members, Joseph [...]

Abusive cop hauled to Accra

The embattled policeman in Kumasi who slighted Northerners in Ashanti Region during a recent demonstration by traders at Kumasi Race Course has reportedly been called to the national headquarters of the Ghana Police Service in Accra.