Takes immediate steps to deal with the growing spate of armed robbery attacks, the rampant cases of murder. NDC to government Johnson Asiedu Nketia
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Takes immediate steps to deal with the growing spate of armed robbery attacks, the rampant cases of murder. NDC to government

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has pointed that the alleged killing of Sheikh Ali Ahmed Maikano AbulFaili Jallo, son of the late Ghanaian Tijaniyya Cleric, Ahmed Maikano Jallo of Prang, is open evidence of the general state of insecurity across the country. The respected Shaykh, the son of a renowned late cleric, Shaikh Abdulai Maikano of Jallo fame in Prang, died this Wednesday after he was allegedly shot by unidentified people. According to the statement signed by NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the late Shiekh Ali Ahmed Maikano AbulFaili Jallo was described as a renowned and devoted Muslim cleric who carried himself with dignity and commanded great respect among the Islamic community. “The NDC considers the news report that the Shiekh met his untimely demise in an armed robbery attack as most painful, suspicious and worrying, as it further goes to deepen the general state of insecurity in the country. “We use to this opportunity to urge the President to direct the Ministry of Interior to launch a full-scale investigation into the sad event that led to the death of the Sheikh, apprehend the perpetrators of the dastardly act, and offer true justice to his memory and the bereaved family. “We demand, as a matter of urgency, that the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration takes immediate steps to deal with the growing spate of armed robbery attacks, the rampant cases of murder, and the general state of insecurity in the country. There can neither be progress or development in Ghana without peace. “The NDC wishes to express its deepest condolences and sincere sympathies to the Jalo family, the Tijaniyya fraternity, and the entire Muslim community for their loss.” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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Mahama didn’t lose the election, he should have come to court prepared– A-Plus Kwame A-Plus
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Mahama didn’t lose the election, he should have come to court prepared– A-Plus

According to A-PLUS, in an interview monitored by Apexnewsgh.com, the 2020 elections should have gone for a run-off as he believes none of the candidates reached the threshold mark of 50 + 1%. “He (John Mahama) didn’t lose the elections. In an election, there can be two winners and the election will go to a run-off so I think the election should have gone to a run-off,” he said. “When you take a case to court, you don’t tell your truth and expect the judges to listen to your truth and make a judgment based on your truth. The judges were not at the polling station so if you tell the judge that you are not satisfied, you have to come prepared,” he stressed “What is anybody going to do differently. The only reason I would have been happy had John Mahama won was that Ghanaians would have shown the government that we’ve got to a stage where they can kick you out after one term if you are not fighting corruption,”. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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NDC Council of Elders meet Minority Leadership
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NDC Council of Elders meet Minority Leadership

The Council of Elders of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) met with the Leadership of the NDC and it’s caucus in Parliament at the instance of the Council today 16th March, 2021, following an earlier meeting of the council with Party Leadership on Tuesday 9th March, to discuss issues relating to the recent developments in Parliament arising from the approval of some Ministers designate. The Council and the Caucus leadership collectively agreed that the incident of 3rd March, 2021 was regrettable and unfortunate, and runs contrary to the principles and values of the party. The Caucus Leadership have since pledged to uphold the principles and values of the party in our collective bid to develop our country. The Council urged National leadership of the party to resolve issues relating to the Caucus leadership in Parliament and called on the rank and file of the party to remain calm, and provide the needed support to our Caucus in order to hold the Akufo Addo government strictly to the principles of probity and accountability. The Council remains confident that the party will emerge from this challenges more united and focused to take on the government, as the NDC strives in pursuit of an inclusive Ghana. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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When did ‘small boy’ Sammy Gyamfi join NDC? – Koku Anyidoho Koku Anyidoho
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When did ‘small boy’ Sammy Gyamfi join NDC? – Koku Anyidoho

Former Deputy General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Koku Anyidoho has lambasted the National Communication Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi for attacking the party’s leadership in Parliament including the Speaker of Parliament. Describing Sammy Gyamfi as an upstart who recently joined the NDC, Koku Anyidoho wondered why and how he could muster the courage to attack the Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Bagbin, the Minority Leader, Hon Haruna Iddrisu and the Minority Chief Whip, Hon Muntaka Mubarak for their role in approving some ministers-designate of President Akufo-Addo. “It was about two weeks ago that we heard that a certain small boy in the NDC who feels the NDC is his bonafide property; the boy who recently joined the party has attacked the Speaker of Parliament and the leadership of the NDC in Parliament,” he chastised. “This boy who joined the party recently wants to be carried in a palanquin; he has no respect for anyone and he says whatever he wants and now he has clashed with the Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Bagbin,” he chided. The Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills however applauded the courage of the Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Bagbin for responding to Sammy Gyamfi and also for making it clear that he will not sit down and allow his office to be abused. Mr Koku Anyidoho stressed the need to build a healthy institution and a healthy governance process as it is the agenda of the Atta Mills Institute to promote a good governance system in the country. “As for the politics we will do it but we should not allow the culture of insult to take over the governance process. We thank Rt. Hon Speaker Alban Bagbin for saying that he is not a Speaker of a political party but a Speaker for Ghana’s Parliament,” he applauded. He reminded Sammy Gyamfi and his likes who are attacking and calling the Speaker of Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu and Muntaka as betrayals to think of how Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin assumed that position when both the NDC and NPP have an equal number of seats in Parliament. He, however, could not fathom the cause of the insults the like of Sammy Gyamfi in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) rained on the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban Bagbin when he was not the Chairman of the Appointment Committee in parliament. PeaceFM Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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NDC in turmoil: ‘Atta Mills boys’ fight Ofosu-Ampofo; Muntaka, Bagbin take on Sammy Gyamfi
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NDC in turmoil: ‘Atta Mills boys’ fight Ofosu-Ampofo; Muntaka, Bagbin take on Sammy Gyamfi

Somewhere in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency, the constituency chairman of the National Democratic Congress and ten other branch executives are in a tussle with other constituency executives over their future in the party. The situation, according to a report by Nkilgi FM has created deep cracks within the party in the constituency and if a quick-fix is not done, it could cost the party in the 2024 elections with some key members threatening to break away. On a normal day, this would have caught the attention of the National Executive Committee of the party and a team would have been dispatched to resolve the situation. But things are hardly normal in the NDC now. The cracks in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency are also being felt at the national level. The party is on the cusp of a breakaway with a plethora of issues confronting it now. The party is currently dealing with the tantrums from the perceived ‘Mills Boys’ who, despite being suspended from the party, continue to spit venom from over the wall. Allotey Jacobs, the former Central Regional Chairman of the party and Koku Anyidoho, the former Deputy General Secretary of the party who were both close allies of the late Professor John Evans Atta Mills have been ostracized from the party in what they both consider to be a persecution of the Mills boys, a claim flatly rejected by Baba Jamal, the Director of Legal Affairs for the party. On Monday, March 15, Allotey and Anyidoho took their frustrations on the National Chairman of the party, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo. Koku Anyidoho fired first, labelling Ofosu-Ampofo as a coward: “I am saying that Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, stop sitting down there and talking about Koku Anyidoho and Allotey Jacobs. You are a coward, Ofosu-Ampofo is a coward. If he is a man he should get up and condemn this nonsense and let’s move on,” he fumed. Allotey who claims to have retired from the party also joined with a barrage of insults and allegations, “Ofosu Ampofo behaves like a toddler, he thinks we don’t know that he is nurturing an ambition to become the flagbearer of the party”. Ofosu-Ampofo will not let it pass so he also fires back, “As we speak, they have all been suspended from the party. If you wish that we take further actions against them following their action we will listen. We will go and look at exactly what has to be done to ensure sanity. “Only last week, a newspaper published with the headline ‘John Mahama you are no longer leader of the NDC, hand over to Ofosu Ampofo to come and redeem the party’ which was attributed to Koku Anyidoho. “It is not Koku Anyidoho who will teach us what the NDC’s constitution says. We have a constitution and we know what the constitution says.” While this is ongoing, Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the party is being flayed by Alban Bagbin and Muntaka Mohammed for comments he made about them. Bagbin retorted first with a message to Sammy Gyamfi that “because I say I belong or came from a party, does he [Sammy Gyamfi] think I’m at the beck and call of the party?” he asked. “Now, I don’t belong to any party. I’m Speaker of Ghana. I’m not a Speaker of NPP. I’m not a Speaker of NDC. I’m Speaker of Ghana. And I must hold the balance. So, decision-taking; no. My duty is to ensure that there’s an even playing field and the decision is taken and I announce it. That is all,” he explained his role. Muntaka, the Minority Chief Whip in a separate interview said, “Every member of parliament swore an oath to uphold the constitution. The mandate of every member of parliament overruns his party. The mandate of every member of parliament is above the interest of the party because after the election you don’t only represent the party but everyone in your constituency. Your party is just one leg so anything from your party is just an advice. You should remember that the buck stops with you the MP.” Ghanaweb Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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Approving Akufo-Addo’s ministers ‘regrettable and unfortunate’ – NDC caucus to Council of Elders
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Approving Akufo-Addo’s ministers ‘regrettable and unfortunate’ – NDC caucus to Council of Elders

The leadership of the Minority in Parliament has expressed regret over the mass approval of all the ministers nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and vetted last month. At a meeting with the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Tuesday, March 16, the two parties agreed that the incident of Wednesday, March 3 “was regrettable and unfortunate and runs contrary to the principles and values of the party”. The meeting comes exactly after the Council met the leadership of the party over the approval of some of the ministerial nominees, who were rejected by the NDC members on the Appointments Committee. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Mavis Hawa Koomson and Dr Osei Afriyie Akoto were the three ministers rejected in the report by the Minority members on the Appointments Committee. But at plenary, the three received overwhelming votes to be approved as substantive ministers. This came as a surprise to some staunch members of the largest opposition party, among them the National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi. Mr Gyamfi took to his official Facebook page the following day to express disappointment in the leadership of the party in Parliament, casting insinuations at the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, and even the Right Honorable Speaker, Alban Bagbin, who until 2021 was an NDC MP. “Comrades, the betrayal we have suffered in the hands of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, the leadership of our Parliamentary group, particularly Hon. Haruna Iddrissu and Hon. Muntaka Mubarak, and dozens of our own MPs, is what strengthens me to work hard for the great NDC to regain power,” he wrote on Thursday, March 4. “They brazenly defied the leadership of the party and betrayed the collective good for their selfish interest. And we, must not let them succeed in their parochial quest to destroy the NDC, the party that has done so much for them and all of us. The shame they have brought on the party will forever hang like an albatross around their necks.” But the meeting between the Council and leadership of the Minority in Parliament sought to resolve the fracas. “The Caucus Leadership have since pledged to uphold the principles and values of the party in our collective bid to develop our country,” Chairman of the Council Alhai Mahama Iddrisu said in a press release issued after the meeting. “The Council urged National leadership of the party to resolve issues relating to the Caucus leadership in Parliament and called on the rank and file of the party to remain calm, and provide the needed support to our Caucus in order to hold the Akufo Addo government strictly to the principles of probity and accountability.” It promised that the party will emerge from the setback “more united and focused” and will take on the government squarely. 3news Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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We don’t represent NDC, we represent our constituents – Muntaka fires back at Sammy Gyamfi
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We don’t represent NDC, we represent our constituents – Muntaka fires back at Sammy Gyamfi

Muntaka Mubarak, the Chief Whip for the Minority in Parliament has reminded Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress that national interest must always take precedence over that of the party’s. “I don’t want to go into the merit or demerit of the party interest. If we don’t take care party politics will overrun our own values and constitution and our national interest,” Muntaka told Adom FM. This is after Sammy Gyamfi accused him and the leadership of the minority of advancing their parochial interest at the expense of the party’s. “Some have sold their conscience but ours is intact. And we can work together to rebuild the party from the ashes of 3 March 2021, which I call ‘Black Wednesday’ – our day of self-inflicted shame,” Mr Gyamfi said in the post, adding: “This is the time for us to insist on the right changes in the leadership of the NDC group in parliament or forget about them completely.” “The current leadership have lost their moral authority to lead and are not fit to sit on the front bench of the NDC side of the house. More importantly,” he noted, “it’s about time we understood that we don’t have any NDC Speaker of Parliament”. “No, we don’t!” he stressed, in reference to Mr Bagbin, complaining: “We have a Speaker who rode on the back of the NDC into office to pursue his own parochial agenda and nothing more. You trust them at your own peril,” he warned members and supporters of the NDC. But Muntaka says the priority of parliamentarians is to do the bidding of their constituents which encompasses members of all the political parties and not just the NDC. He says that in the institution of parliament, the demands of a particular party are treated as a piece of advice and when it clashes with the national interest, it is imperative that MPs place the country over their party. He reminds Sammy Gyamfi again that when he took the oath of office, it was a pledge to uphold the constitution of the country and not the constitution of the NDC. “Every member of parliament swore an oath to uphold the constitution. The mandate of every member of parliament overruns his party. The mandate of every member of parliament is above the interest of the party because after the election you don’t only represent the party but everyone in your constituency. Your party is just one leg so anything from your party is just an advice. You should remember that the buck stops with you the MP.” “You swore an oath to your own conscience and values. As a Whip, one of my duties is to get everyone to appreciate the position of the party and to be able to factor it but the final decision lies with every member,” he said. Muntaka becomes the second NDC member in parliament to respond to Sammy Gyamfi after Speaker Alban Bagbin. Babgin in an Accra FM interview told the NDC Communications Officer that he represents the entire Ghanaian populace and not just the NDC in his current role. “Now, I don’t belong to any party. I’m Speaker of Ghana. I’m not a Speaker of NPP. I’m not a Speaker of NDC. I’m Speaker of Ghana. And I must hold the balance. So, decision-taking; no. My duty is to ensure that there’s an even playing field and the decision is taken and I announce it. That is all,” he explained his role. “And, so, if you sit down and look at me and think that maybe you were my girlfriend before [and, therefore] I should give you an advantage over another whom I’ve never met, please, then don’t come to me; you won’t get it. Let’s finish; after work, we can do that business together. Not when I’m working. That’s my nature; that’s how I’ve been up to this time and, so, it’s unfortunate that these things are happening,” he said. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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Jean Mensa is an armed robber – Hannah Bissiw
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Jean Mensa is an armed robber – Hannah Bissiw

The National Women Organizer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Hannah Bissiw has described the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission a hardened armed robber. According to her, Jean Mensa robbed the NDC at gunpoint and stole their votes for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during the 2020 elections. “So if you rob me at gun point and take my vote away or take the will of the people. The only power we have as a people that’s through the thumb and you turn our will from where we wanted it to go to another place and it’s accepted, it is the legalization of armed robbery.” The NDC Women Organizer indicated that Jean Mensa is not a neutral individual but rather working for the NPP. She cannot say that she worked with her own conviction. She herself cannot believe in what she did. Ask me why? The why was the reason why she run faster than Usain Bolt when she was asked to take the witness box” Mynewsgh Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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“NDC Regional Communication Officers bounced on Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, asked him to mind his own Business
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“NDC Regional Communication Officers bounced on Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, asked him to mind his own Business

Regional Communication Officers of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) across the 16 regions of Ghana have sent a strong warning to the Majority leader Osei kyei Mensah Bonsu to mind his own business and exclude himself from Sammy Gyamfi and NDC issue. Sammy Gyamfi in a post on his wall after Members of the minority Appointment Committee voted for all the President Akufo-Addo ministerial nominees posted, “Comrades, the betrayal we have suffered in the hands of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, the leadership of our Parliamentary group, particularly Hon. Haruna Iddrissu and Hon. Muntaka Mubarak, and dozens of our own MPs, is what strengthens me to work hard for the great NDC to regain power.” “It’s about time we understood, that we don’t have any NDC Speaker of Parliament. No we don’t! We have a Speaker who rode on the back of the NDC into Office to pursue his own parochial agenda and nothing more. You trust them, at your own peril,” However, The Regional Communication Officers of the Party say, they appreciate the difficult moment that the Party has been confronted with in the past few days. Adding, that they believe the “horns are never heavier than the cow that is to carry them”. We have outmost confidence in our leaders at the Functional Executive Committee, The Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament and our Caucus Leaders in Parliament to work under the supreme counsel of our Highly Respected Council of Elders, to find an amicable resolution to the difficulties that have come our way. Below is the full press release 12/03/2021 REGIONAL COMMUNICATION OFFICERS’ CAUCUS OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS.  PRESS RELEASE RE: SAMMY GYAMFI CROSSED THE LINE, LEADERSHIP WILL MEET AND DECIDE WHAT TO DO – OSEI KYEI MENSAH We the sixteen Regional Communication Officers of the National Democratic Congress have taken note of the impotent threat issued by Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu to our erudite and peerless leader – Lawyer Sammy Gyamfi (National Communications Officer of the NDC.) The said threat, in which he gives indication that, the leadership of parliament will meet to decide on what to do with Lawyer Sammy Gyamfi , is published on Ghana Web (Thursday, 11/03/2021) and is  purported to have been issued on Kumasi based Hello FM. While we deem the Suame Legislator’s outburst to be malicious, vicious and to some extend ludicrous, it sounds quite ridiculous that Hon Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu lurks around hoping to prey on the disagreement within the NDC to settle personal scores with the young brilliant lawyer. As lead voices of the legion of communicators in all the sixteen Regions, we wish to humbly notify our Revered Parliamentary Caucus, particularly the leadership of the NDC front to be wary of ‘Ahithophels ’ like the Hon. MP for Suame who in their treachery, will wish to fun into flames sparkles of fire in the NDC for their own whims and caprices. We are of the firm conviction that, the majority group leader’s disposition of crying more than the bereaved in this matter is a calculated ploy aimed at exacerbating discontent within the rank and file of the NDC. It is not out of place for one to wonder why Hon Kyei Mensah Bonsu is so much interested in resurrecting a matter that is being carefully managed by the NDC’s most respected Council of Elders and all concerned parties. The climax of our bewilderment at the Majority group leader’s outburst is in his hypocritical turn of pretending to show respect and camaraderie for the much-respected Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament. It is trite knowledge that, the night of 6th January, 2021 and early hours of 7th January, 2021 saw Hon. Kyei Mensah betray his long-standing friendship with the Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament, by fighting feverishly to ensure that, Rt. Hon. ASK Bagbin never ascended the throne as Speaker. Though he wielded much experience in parliamentary affairs and exuded more competence than his sole contender, Hon Kyei Mensah preferred imposing President Akufo Addo’s poodle over parliament in lieu of the Venerable Rt. Hon.  ASK Bagbin. We deem his position in this matter as a face-saving charade aimed at repairing his fractured ego in the face of his party, which he couldn’t lead to win the speakership slot and also, before his age long friend whom he shamelessly back stabbed in the name of party loyalty. We wonder where he had left his voice of moral consciousness when Hon Kennedy Ohene Agyapong described him and all NPP faithful including President Akufo Addo as “FOOLISH PEOPLE”. It is thus our collective caution to him to mind his own business and learn to, remove the plank from his own eye to enable him see clearly, so that he could remove the saw dust from another man’s eye. We appreciate the difficult moment that the Party has been confronted with in the past few days. We however believe the “horns are never heavier than the cow that is to carry them”. We have outmost confidence in our leaders at the Functional Executive Committee, The Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament and our Caucus Leaders in Parliament to work under the supreme counsel of our Highly Respected Council of Elders, to find an amicable resolution to the difficulties that have come our way. On this note, we humbly appeal to our rank and file and particularly, the masses of our support base to rally our unflinching support for our parliamentary Caucus as they lead the charge to hold the feet of the Akufo Addo’s regime to the fire of accountability. Thank you. Long live the NDC, Long live Ghana! …Signed… Ɔwɛnfoba Kwesi Dawood RCO- Central Reg 0246388002 Darlas Ampomah Williams RCO- Eastern Reg 0545295731 Alhaji Saeed Ahmed Tijani RCO- Upper East Reg 0244176429 Sam Jerome Kweku RCO- Western North Reg 0244043482 Puo-Ire Prosper RCO- Upper West Reg 0204852735 Alhaji Abdul- Moomin Alhassan RCO- Northern Reg 0504068549 Hon. Jerry Johnson RCO- Greater Accra Reg 0244670391 Nana Abass Nurudeen

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The extortion is too much! – Allotey Jacobs reports Cape Coast police to IGP NDC ALLOTEY JACOB
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The extortion is too much! – Allotey Jacobs reports Cape Coast police to IGP

Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has reported policemen stationed at the Mempeasem barrier in Cape Coast, to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh. In a post on Facebook, he described as “too much” the rate at which the officers extort monies from drivers who ply that stretch. “Mr IGP the Extortion @ the Cape Coast Mempeasem barrier is too much,” he wrote. Persistent armed robbery attacks within the Cape Coast Municipality is what compelled the Police Administration to mount the barriers and checkpoints to clamp down on criminal activities in the city. But Allotey Jacobs indicated there has been a reduction of the robbery incidents following the introduction of the tricycle (aboboyaa/pragia) business. He, however, posited that it makes no sense for the police to mount a barrier at that very spot when there are existing ones at Jukwa, Oguaa Kuma, Abeadze Dominase amongst others. “Mr IGP the boys driving Aboboyah pragia and motor have reduced robbery in Cape Coast Municipality “The Mempeasem barrier is of no use when you have a barrier at Jukwa, Atabadzi, Tstse Oguaa Kuma Beriwa and Abeadze Dominase you don’t need a barrier at Oguaa Mempeasem The extortion is too much,” said Allotey Jacobs. He added that the development is bringing the name of the Service into disrepute and therefore called out on the IGP to swiftly intervene. Ghana Guardian Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

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