International Diplomatic Consultant, Farouk Al-Wahab

Experienced International Diplomatic Consultant, Farouk Al-Wahab has insisted that the disunification of the African race in the United States of America (USA) is a cause of the numerous problems they face.

He made this statement on the back of the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died during a police arrest in Minneapolis. Protests over police treatment of Floyd and other African Americans quickly spread across the United States and internationally.

To him, if African Americans and African immigrants were united in the USA, they would have been a priority group in the country and incidents like George Floyd’s would not be recorded.

“The Spanish are united and have become more respected in the USA than the blacks. Why because they are united and accepting of anyone who speaks Spanish no matter the country they come from.”

He made this statement in an interview with Happy 98.9 FM’s Afrifa-Mensah, host of ‘Epa Hoa Daben’. “African Americans to an extent are the cause of their own woes,” he said.

Citing various instances to support his assertion, he mentioned that the African-American does not respect and embrace their fellow blacks. He indicated that it was not uncommon to see an African-American police officer treat a fellow African roughly and worse than a white police officer would.

Farouk Al-Wahab, citing his own situation talked about how an African-American license instructor failed him when he was applying for a driver’s license in the USA only for a white instructor to pass him for the license. “The white instructor told me he saw in my details that I had been at their facility in the morning and was failed. But he was not surprised at my failure when he saw the name of my previous instructor, Clarke who was an African-American. “Clarke will fail every African-American. That’s what the white instructor told me.”

He opined that even the court system in America refuses for an African-American Judge to preside over a case involving an African-American suspect. “The black judge will jail a black man severely and excessively than a white judge.”

The diplomat reasoned that the African-American will never refer to an African from the continent as “my brother” but ask you whether you’re an African and treat one badly if you are. “Because they can’t embrace the African and embrace each other, they will always suffer.”

The only way for African-Americans to progress in the USA is for them to love themselves and be united rather than being hypocrites and suffering from delusions.

Source: happyghana.com

Derek Michael Chauvin George Floyd’s Murderer

A $500,000 bail has reportedly been set for Derek Michael Chauvin, the white police officer who killed George Floyd, a Blackman who was unarmed when he was arrested.

Chauvin was charged on Friday, May 29, 2020, with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Floyd was accused of using a fake $20 note to buy cigarette in Minneapolis.

After his arrest, Chauvin was seen in videos that have since gone viral, kneeling on his neck for more than eight minutes, leading to his death.

“I can’t breathe, man,” Floyd can be heard saying in the new video. “Please, let me stand. Please, man,” Floyd, 46 was heard saying in the video.

However, Minneapolis police said Floyd “physically resisted” the officers.

Autopsy

Surprisingly, a preliminary autopsy revealed that the combined effects of Floyd being restrained, potential intoxicants in his system and underlying health issues, including heart disease, contributed to his death, pointing to a natural cause of death.

The autopsy report says there was no physical findings to support strangulation as the cause of death.

However, Floyd’s family, according to their lawyer, Benjamin Crump, is upset that Chauvin wasn’t charged with a more serious offense.

“We expected a first-degree murder charge. We want a first-degree murder charge. And we want to see the other officers arrested,” the family noted in a statement.

If convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, Chauvin faces 25 years in prison on the first charge and up to 10 years on the second, reports say.

Mass Arrests, Protests

There have been mass protests across at least 30 cities in the US over the death.

Over 100 people were reportedly arrested in Chicago on Friday night in relation to the protests, with 200 others including a CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez arrested in New York.

There have been reports of casualties including a 19-year teen believed to have been killed.

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The Asesewa District Police Command in the Eastern Region have arrested two (2) out of six (6) fishermen for allegedly drowning a suspected fishing net thief in the Volta Lake.

The suspects arrested are Teye Joseph, 43, and Kwaku Narh, 38. Other accomplices now on the run are Gatorgbor, Kennedy, Shortee and Kwasi Pepe.

The incident occurred at Kwabea Teye a fishing community near Asesewa which is notorious for these acts of injustice.

Information gathered by Starr News’ Eastern Regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah indicates that the fishermen captured the victim, Yidekpo Nyanvor, 22, a resident from Asikoko also a fishing community in the enclave for allegedly stealing their fishing net.

They immediately tied him with a rope and marched him to Asikoko community to one Edzo’s House which he reportedly claimed the net was kept but turned out to be false.

Sensing danger for the victim’s life, an opinion leader who is also a Chief Fisherman in Asikoko Community requested the mob to hand over the victim to him until his parents who were not at home return for the matter to be settled amicably.

However, the fishermen refused and rather ferried the suspect on a local boat to the deep side of the Volta lake.

An eyewitness told the local Police that, he saw the fishermen subject the victim to inhumane treatment, tied him with a cement block and cast him into the lake.

Upon return of the victims’ parents, they went to Kwabea Community to ask of the whereabouts of the victim but he could not be found. They reported the case to the Assesewa Police and upon investigations, the two suspects were arrested but four other accomplices managed to escape before the arrival of the Police.

The suspects told Police in their caution statements that the victim escaped and dived into the lake, however, hours of search by police with the assistance of local divers did not yield results.

The two suspects – Teye Joseph and Kwaku Narh provisionally charged with conspiracy to commit a crime to wit kidnapping and kidnapping were put before Koforidua District Court ‘A’ on Thursday, May 28, 2020.

The Prosecutor, Sergeant George Defia prayed the Court to remand the suspects to enable Police to conduct further investigations.

The Magistrate, therefore, remanded the suspects into Prison Custody and adjourned the case to June 11, 2020.

The court also issued a bench warrant on the four accomplices at large

Source: Starr FM

Kojo Sakyi

The suspect, Kojo Sakyi, was arrested on May 25 for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting and desperate Ghanaians of various sums of money under the pretext of getting them recruited into the GIS.

According to the Regional Public Affairs Officer of the GIS, Assistant Inspector Moses Manford Akakpo, the team of officers from the intelligence and the enforcement units carried out the operation.

He said they had to trail the suspect for three days before finally arresting him at AGIP, near theTakoradi Jubilee Park.

He said the suspect had lured one of the victims to the said location, with the intention of taking a sum of GH¢5,000 from him to seal the deal.

“This was after the victim had forwarded his certificates and other relevant documents to the suspect’s WhatsApp number – 0540520459”. He added that the officers had put the suspect under close surveillance which enabled them to arrest him when he had just received the money and was about to bolt.

He revealed that the suspect admitted the offence in his caution statement indicating that he had defrauded a number of unsuspecting youth.

“Further investigations revealed that the suspect had standard fees or charges for each category of prospective officers. He charged GH¢5000 for cadet officers and GH¢3,500 for recruit officers,” he said.

He disclosed that the suspect had since been referred to the National Headquarters of the GIS for further investigations.

He cautioned the general public to be on the lookout for such criminal elements and seek useful information that could lead to their apprehension.

A release signed by Asst. Ins. Akakpo stressed that the GIS was currently not recruiting and that all such social media platforms or publications should be disregarded and treated with the contempt they deserved.

“The service has the newspapers and the GIS website as its traditional mediums through which advertisement for recruitments are communicated to the general public,” the release added.

“The command is by this release re-echoing for the information of the general public that GIS does not have assigned agents, social media platforms or mobile money accounts through which such recruitments are made,” it said.

The statement also appealed to the public to continually be on the lookout for such criminal elements within the society and report their conducts to the appropriate quarters for their immediate arrest and prosecution.

Residents of Penyi and its environs were left in shock as heavy rains which lasted for over an hour took over the town Sunday, amidst lighting and thunderstorms after a long period of absence.

The rain comes just three days after two young spiritualists were busted and beaten by residents of the town for using voodoo deities to prevent rainfall in the town and its environs in the Ketu North Municipality.

Many residents believe that the rains could not have fallen if the two spiritualists were not busted and shamed for the evil act.

The rains which poured on Sunday, May 23, 2020, is a great relief for farmers whose large acres of crops were dying on the fields due to no rainfall.

BACKGROUND

On May 21, 2020, GhanaWeb broke the story of two young spiritualists who have been using voodoo deities to prevent rain from falling in Penyi

The worrying situation however, forced traditional leaders in the town to do an open consultation of the gods and as a result the name of the two spiritualists were revealed by the chief priest.

Angry residents upon hearing the name of these spiritualists launched a manhunt for them and finally apprehended them in their respective hideouts, beat them, humiliated them and handed them over to the police.

They have however been since released from police custody as the case cannot be dealt with by the Police due to its spiritual nature.

Ellen Amoah

A 17-year- old General Arts student in Form Two at Kumasi Girls’ Senior High School, Ellen Amoah, has had her lower lip bitten off by a ‘violent’ Form Two student of Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital.

The suspect, Itikan Hussein, also 17, has since been arrested by the police at Suame.

Narrating the sad incident to DAILY GUIDE, the victim, who could hardly speak, said she had lived in the same vicinity with the suspect at Bohyen, a suburb of Kumasi for the past two years.

The suspect, she alleged, had tried to fight her ever since her family relocated to Bohyen about two years ago, claiming “I do not really know the crime I have committed against her.”

On Wednesday, May, 13, this year, Itikan allegedly rained insults on the victim and her younger sister all day and vowed to beat the two sisters wherever she met them.

At about 9:30 pm the same day, the suspect started a quarrel with the younger sister of the victim called Akua and when the victim who was attending to the call of nature at a public toilet got to the scene, the suspect turned to her (victim) and began to insult her too.

“I collected 50 pesewas from my mum to attend to the call of nature and when I got out, I saw Itikan insulting my sister so I told her to escort me to the toilet. As soon as I said this, Itikan called me ‘sickler, you are the one I am looking for,” she recounted.

She claimed before she could utter a word, Itikan and her other sister rushed on them and started beating them while their mother was allegedly standing nearby watching them fight.

The victim said the mother of the suspect allegedly held her hands at the back while her daughter punched her repeatedly.

“I felt a sharp pain on my lower lips and when I said ‘Itikan has bitten off my lips, the suspect’s mother told me she wished her daughter had chewed off my mouth’,” the victim alleged.

The victim was later rescued by her brother, Richard Amoah, who rushed to the scene and took her sister home.

She was rushed to the County Hospital at Abrepo for treatment after which her brother lodged a formal complaint at the Suame Police Station where the statements of both the victim and the suspect had been taken.

Meanwhile, a source at the police station that confirmed the incident said the suspect would be given a police enquiry bail before she would be arraigned.

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One person died on Tuesday after a trotro ran into a truck parked on the shoulders of the road at Kenyasi in the Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti region, mynewsgh.com reports.

The driver of the trotro van reportedly lost control of his vehicle in his attempt to outrun a police patrol pickup which was chasing him for his failure to wear a nose mask as a measure of stopping the spread of the coronavirus.

Eyewitnesses say all persons on board the vehicle wore nose masks but the driver; police in the Ashanti region have in the last few days begun the enforcement of the Nn nose mask, No entry in the Greater Kumasi metropolitan area.

The deceased, 65-year-old Addai Fremah was in the company of her daughter and son-in-law at the time of the accident. She died on the spot while five other passengers who sustained various degrees of injury remain in critical condition.

Son of the deceased, Addai Francis said who confirmed the incident to Kumasi-based pure fm said his mother and two others were going to visit his brother’s wife at Atonsu in the Asokwa Municipality of the Ashanti region when she met her untimely death.

As part of measures to prevent further spread of the coronavirus in the country, the President and health authorities have urged the mandatory wearing of nose masks in public places; Regional Coordinating Councils (RCCs), Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) nationwide, have began the enforcement of mandatory wearing of nose masks.

Based on Section 169 of the Public Health Act, 2012 (Act 851), the Minister responsible for Health by Executive Instrument (E. I.65) declared COVID-19 a public health emergency and under Section 170(1) of the Act ordered a mandatory wearing of face and nose masks in public places as one of the preventive measures against COVID-19.

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has said it would make a statement on the issue soon.

Hayford Osei

An officer with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service at Donkro Nkwanta in the Nkoranza South Municipality has allegedly brutalized a student of University of Education, Winneba, for allegedly flirting with his wife.

The victim, Hayford Osei, who suffered multiple cuts on his nose and mouth, is currently nursing his wounds.

The offending officer has been identified as Ebenezer Antwi, but the authorities at the Donkro Nkwanta Police Station refused to comment on the issue.

The only response they gave when DAILY GUIDE contacted them was that investigation was ongoing and they could not comment further.

According to information, Hayford’s elder brother used to date the lady at the centre of the issue but broke up with her before the lady dated the police officer with whom she now has a baby.

However, sources say anytime she sees Hayford, she demands money from him because she used to be his elder brother’s girlfriend.

On May 7, 2020, at about 11:00 pm, Hayford, who was doing online examination on his phone due to the closure of schools as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, said he received persistent calls from Serwaa demanding GH¢5 to buy pampers for her baby.

However, the persistent calls from Serwaa was disrupting his work on the phone, so he asked her to stop calling him and promised to give the money to her later in her house.

“So, I went to her house at about 11:00 pm and she gave me a chair to sit on. But all of a sudden, somebody gave me a hefty slap on my face from behind. I fell down and the person continued to give me hefty blows till blood streamed on my face while the lady stood aloof for his husband to brutalize me. I lost my phone in the process. I had to run into the nearby bush to escape death,” he narrated.

He said he lodged the case with the same police station where the suspect is stationed, adding “I was afraid he might not receive justice so I reported the issue to the media as well.”