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DAILY QUOTE
“It’s Not Whether You
Get Knocked Down, It’s
Whether You Get Up.”
– By Vince Lombardi
CONTENT
ANNIVERSARIES
Eid al-Fitr - Wednesday, 5th June*
Founders' Day - Sunday, 4th August
DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, MAY 20, 2019
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Police Commander clears air
• Over GH¢10,000 allegation
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE COMMANDER at the Accra
Railway Police Station, DSP Emmanuel
Ofori Asante, has denied an
allegation levelled against him by
petty traders in the CMB area that
he has taken GH₡10,000.00 from a shop owner
to sack them from operating in the area.
According to DSP Asante, there has not been
any such transaction, explaining that where the
women sell their wares is unsuitable because of
the risk to their lives from vehicular movements.
“Also, the congestion in the area makes emergency
services very difficult to perform. When
there is a fire outbreak the fire service finds it difficult
getting access to the place. The police also
find it difficult to operate in the wake of criminal
acts,” he said.
He also denied the allegation that he collected
GH¢30.00 each from traders he had detained before
releasing them, but maintained that he detained
some traders for selling at unauthorised
place, which is criminal under section 287 of the
Criminal Act of 1960 (Act 29).
He said any time he detained the traders, he
cautioned them and released them, “so I don’t
know where this GH¢30.00 thing is coming
from. I want to say it here that I didn’t take any
money from anybody but our actions were to ensure
sanity in the area.”
DSP Asante, who visited the offices of the
DAILY HERITAGE last Friday in the company
of two of his officers, said “trading activities
in National Investment Bank area prevent
free flow of vehicles, causing human and vehicular
traffic during the prime time of the day, hence
the need to do something about the situation.”
The police commander said the attempt to
evict the traders was a decision taken by the Municipal
security committee, basing the decision on
the havoc created with regard to the risk to lives,
the congestion and the “unimaginable” filth the
traders generated in the area.
DSP Asante said the menace in the Railways
and CMB area is a national social problem but
because some people benefit from it, anyone who
attempts to tackle it becomes an enemy.
He said the traders themselves, buyers, traders
and drivers unions, even politicians who make
political capital out of it against their opponents
and a host of other stakeholders are the beneficiaries,
but was quick to add that “the same stakeholders
must be the ones to help solve the problem”.
He appealed to the DAILY HERITAGE
and other media outlets to use their space to educate
traders in general to respect the rules of not
selling at unauthorised places like pavements.
It would be recalled that on Thursday, April
25, 2019, the DAILY HERITAGE published
a front page story titled ‘CMB traders call for
Railway Police Commander’s head, Accuse him
of constant harassment’. The story contained
traders’ allegations against the commander, to the
extent that DSP Asante had been paid by a shop
owner to evict the traders and that he had also
been using harassment as a weapon to extort
money from them.
NDC adopts son of murdered teacher
FROM KOJO ANSAH, K’DUA
THE EASTERN Regional
Women's Wing of the opposition
National Democratic Congress
(NDC) has commiserated with the
bereaved family of the murdered
teacher of Asiakwa Salvation
Army Basic School.
The NDC entourage to the
house of the bereaved was led by
the Regional Women’s Organizer,
Shirley Naana Ampem, accompanied
by the Regional Vice Chairman,
George Mensah Akpalu,
Regional Organizer, Hackman Kabore,
and some constituency
women organizers.
They donated soft drinks, packs
of bottled water, toiletries, washing
powder, detergents, baby products
and cash to the bereaved family on
Friday.
The party also promised to
support the family to provide a fitting
burial for their late relative.
Shirley Naana Ampem, on behalf
of the party, announced adoption
of and educational
sponsorship for four-year old
Kwadwo Abrokwa Somuah, the
second child of the deceased, from
• Eastern Regional NDC Executive members with the widow and son
basic school to the university.
She told the bereaved family
that the gesture was not to score
political point but to support and
encourage their fellow woman who
had suddenly become a widow due
to a bizarre circumstance that had
ended life of her husband.
She, however, joined calls for
justice to be served while urging
the government to step up efforts
to curb the growing state of insecurity
in the country.
The Head of the bereaved
family, Opanyin Agyare, recounted
the callous circumstance
in which the teacher was killed by
the six former students of the
school, reiterating justice was only
what the family was craving for.
Opanyin Agyare said the family
had slated July 26, 2019 for the
burial of their relative.
George Somuah Bosompem
was the Steward of the Methodist
Church Church and a Religious
and Moral Education and Twi
teacher at the Salvation Army
Basic School.
He was brutalized to death
by six young men for protesting
against the invasion of the school
farms by wee smokers who steal
snails and defaecate in the school.
All six accused persons --
Richard Amaning, 18, Mireku Emmanuel,
19, Philip Kodie, 19, Offei
Frimpong, 19, Ezekiel Boadu, 20,
and Evans Aboagye, 19, have been
remanded in prison custody by the
Kibi District Magistrate Court to
reappear on June 25, 2019.
The accused are facing charges
of conspiracy to commit crime, to
wit, murder and murder .
The late 57-year-old Somuah
Bosompem, described by many as
affable and hardworking, was married
to Adwoa Asieduwaa and
had three children, Charlotte Aduako
Somuah, 18,currently writing
the WASSCE, Kwadwo Somuah
Bosompem, 4, and four-month-old
Abrokwa Somuah.