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Adisadel College controversy should have been handled out of court – Osei Owusu

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Adisadel College controversy should have been handled out of court - Osei Owusu

Joesph Osei-Owusu, the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, has expressed reservations about prosecuting the perpetrator of the Adisadel College attack.

The Deputy Speaker, addressing Fettehman Senior High School’s 10-year anniversary celebration, believes that the problem may have been handled by the school’s administration rather than the offender being tried in a general court.

“We should look at how we bring up children in this country since it is becoming a challenge. This kind of upbringing is important. There is no need for him to be that violent towards another student. If we discuss this in isolation, we would miss it. What happened in the school is a reflection of what is happening in the country. We think we are not supposed to punish students and this is how we pay for it as a country.

“There is nothing wrong with students being at each other, but when it gets beyond regular bullying, it is bad. I regret that it has been taken to the court since this matter could have been addressed in the school, but the Attorney General thinks otherwise,” Joseph Osei-Owusu said.

Despite criticising the student’s heinous behaviour, Hon. Osei Owusu says the offender should have been counselled so that he might concentrate on his education for the sake of his future.

In the footage, a 17-year-old final-year student is shown squeezing his colleague’s neck and then pounding his head on a metal bed, injuring the victim.

Mr Osei Owusu has also voiced concern over deteriorating discipline standards, questioned the moral upbringing of Ghanaian youngsters, and urged for more intentional attempts to establish discipline in children.

“Whatever has happened should be left in the past and look forward to reforming the students involved in the video. We are copying blindly, and we must go back to our roots as Ghanaians,” the First Deputy Speaker noted.

Meanwhile, on the topic of Fettehman Senior High School’s lack of suitable facilities, the First Deputy Speaker advised the Member of Parliament to voice concerns on the floor of Parliament for further action, while encouraging pupils to preserve strong moral values and integrity.

The school has an infrastructure deficit since the facilities on campus are insufficient for the approximately 1500 pupils. Students had no choice but to eat under the trees.

Aside from these issues, the school has started a project to build a cottage for the headmistress of the school, but it needs help from the government and well-meaning Ghanaians to finish it.

The school’s board chairman, Joseph Annan, stated that the institution requires assistance to accommodate over a thousand pupils.

“We have a lot of infrastructure deficit as a school, ranging from the lack of accommodation on campus for teachers to the lack of a dining hall among others. This has made it difficult for the school to function” the Board chairman of the school, Joseph Annan said.

“With a little effort we have begun constructing the bungalow for the headmistress, but we will need support from corporate Ghana and the government to finish this project” the board chairman noted.

The Regional Director of Education for the Central Region agrees that infrastructural issues on campuses of most senior high schools are substantial, but the directorate is working hard to overcome these challenges.

“The challenges of infrastructure on the campuses of some schools in the region cannot be left out, but we are working hard to ensure that support comes from government and well-meaning Ghanaians” Regional Director of Education Emmanuel Essuman said.

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Menzgold: NAM1 enters a not guilty plea to allegations of money laundering, fraud, and other offences

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In 2019, the Attorney General launched an inquiry on NAM 1, accusing him of scamming hundreds of clients out of millions of Ghana cedis through his gold dealership enterprise. The case was adjourned numerous times until new charges were brought on August 30, 2023. Mr Appiah Mensah stated plans to unfreeze locked up cash of Menzgold clients in exchange for 650 for verification. Following that, he altered his intention to force former clients to obtain a verification access card in order to authenticate transactions and confirm claims, despite substantial public and consumer outcry.

Nana Appiah Mensah, the former CEO of Menzgold, also known as NAM 1, has pleaded not guilty to all 39 charges of wrongdoing.

Nana Appiah Mensah, widely known as NAM 1, was charged with 39 counts of crimes, including money laundering abetment, deceiving by false pretences, carrying out deposit-taking without the required licence, unlawful deposit-taking, and money laundering.

This is a decrease from the 61 counts originally filed against him.

In 2019, the Attorney General launched an inquiry on NAM 1, accusing him of scamming hundreds of clients out of millions of Ghana cedis through his gold dealership enterprise.

The case was adjourned numerous times until new charges were brought on August 30, 2023.

Mr Appiah Mensah stated plans to unfreeze locked up cash of Menzgold clients in exchange for 650 for verification.

Following that, he altered his intention to force former clients to obtain a verification access card in order to authenticate transactions and confirm claims, despite substantial public and consumer outcry.

Source: myjoyonline.com

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Limited Voter Registration: Two people detained for attempting to register twice

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Meanwhile, some party operatives are pleased with the outcome thus far.

Two people were detained in Asokore Mampong Municipality for allegedly attempting to double register in the current Limited Voters’ Registration Exercise.

According to Municipal EC official Angela Afriyie Osei, the two suspects were apprehended after being validated as people existing in the Electoral Commission’s database.

As a challenge to the procedure, Madam Angela Afriyie mentions duplicate registration and efforts to register minors.

“The challenge we have been facing is about the double registration. At times when applicants come and we interrogate them, they insist he or she hasn’t registered before but when they go to the biometric column then it will come out that the person has registered.

“At the moment, we’ve handed two to the police. On male and a female. Another issue is also with the registration of minors,” she indicated.

Meanwhile, some party operatives are pleased with the outcome thus far.

“So far, we are satisfied with the entire process except some few challenges but that aside, we are very much comfortable with the process. All in all, everything is great,” an agent told JoyNews.

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Black Sherif prophesy: Prophet Nigel Gaisie makes u-turn

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"We see in bits and pieces, and what I saw in the spiritual realm is Sherif Black, but any logical person can make projections and deductions from it." If I hear a prophecy about Ako and my name is Akosua, I will definitely act on it," he said in parables. Regardless, the man of God exhorted those who were convinced of the prophecy to fast and pray in order to avoid death. Prophet Gaisie, who dismissed charges that his doom prophecies concerning celebrities are only for fame, stated that he will quit making them public in order to prevent insults and derision.

Nigel Gaisie, the founder and head of the Prophetic Hill Chapel, has stunned Ghanaians by backtracking on his prophecy regarding artist Black Sherif.

Prophet Gaisie had a vision in which he witnessed the mother of musical sensation Black Sherif sobbing excessively in a post on his official Facebook page.

As a result, he pushed the musician to seek safety before December, implying his impending death.

However, in a recent interview, Prophet Gaisie clarified that the prophecy is for a particular Sherif Black and not the Konongo-based performer.

“We see in bits and pieces, and what I saw in the spiritual realm is Sherif Black, but any logical person can make projections and deductions from it.” If I hear a prophecy about Ako and my name is Akosua, I will definitely act on it,” he said in parables.

Regardless, the man of God exhorted those who were convinced of the prophecy to fast and pray in order to avoid death.

Prophet Gaisie, who dismissed charges that his doom prophecies concerning celebrities are only for fame, stated that he will quit making them public in order to prevent insults and derision.

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