The late Prof Yaw Benneh was murdered in cold blood at his residence

A domestic worker employed by the late Professor Yaw Benneh of the University of Ghana has confessed to the crime of the lecturer’s murder which took place on September 12, 2020.

The Director-General of the CID, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, revealed that the motive of the suspect, according to his own confession, was to rob his boss.

He has confessed to masterminding the attack and gained access to the room of his late boss with the aid of a duplicate key which he kept without the knowledge of his boss.

According to COP Yeboah, the suspect, after having mentioned the name of his accomplice this morning changed his narrative and mentioned a new person as his accomplice.

On how they ended up killing his boss in the process, the suspect said after demanding money from his boss, the late professor denied them and in the process tried raising an alarm.

According to the police, the suspect confessed that in the ensuing struggle to keep the professor silent they hit him with an iron rod and gagged him, causing the late professor to die.

The two are then said to have made away with two mobile phones belonging to the professor and an amount of GH¢450 which was kept in the professor’s wallet.

The suspect has also confessed that for fear of being recorded in the act, he took the late professors central processing unit(CPU) and dumped it in a septic tank in the house.

He also confessed to sharing the two phones between himself and his accomplice after which the phones were sold off.

According to the Director-General of the CID, C.O.P Isaac Ken Yeboah, the police will this morning visit the crime scene with the suspect to retrieve evidence including the iron rod which according to the suspect was thrown away around the crime scene.

Reuben Abusah also known as Last Burial was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour

The Ho Circuit Court presided over by His Honour, Felix Datsomor has sentenced local musician Reuben Abusah, popularly known as Last Burial, to two years imprisonment with hard labour for engaging in lotto fraud.

The 23-year-old musician was sentenced on his plea of being guilty to the charge of defrauding by false pretence on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020.

The court also fined the convict 200 penalty units for the offense of impersonation or in default, 12-months imprisonment in hard labour.

Reuben Abusah is a resident of Akatsi and one of three persons standing trial for various acts of impersonation and defrauding by false pretence in relation to the operations of the National Lottery Authority (NLA).

The other accused persons; Godwin Agbenyefia (Demon) and Kelvin Kwame Abouze (Kartel) were denied bail and remanded into prison custody after pleading not guilty to sane charged.

A bail application made by counsel for the two have been denied by the court with the dou expected to reappear in court on Thursday, 8th October, 2020.

According to the Volta Regional Police Command, activities lotto fraudsters have heightened in recent times, a situation that has robbed many unsuspecting individuals of their monies.

The police administration has, however, assured the public that it is taking pragmatic steps at apprehending persons involved in such criminal activities.

The police further urged the public to be wary of such miscreants who parade themselves as staff or agents of the NLA.

The driver was reportedly sleeping – File Photo

Four students returning from the National Science and Maths Quiz Competition have been involved in an accident.

The accident occurred at Osubetor Community on Koforidua to Mamfe road Wednesday afternoon.

The students made up of three males and a female were onboard a Nissan Versa with registration number GE 6248-19 heading to Koforidua but the Car veered off the road and crashed into trees at the roadside.

The driver was reportedly sleeping.

One of the male students suffered a deep cut on the forehead while others were seen with minor injuries. The driver escaped unhurt.

They were rescued and rushed to the hospital by a police car heading to Koforidua.

The Eastern Regional Police MTTD is to establish the exact school the students attend.

Kosi Kedem

In the wake of some group of people in the Volta Region demanding independence for a Western Togoland state, Kosi Kedem, a former Member of Parliament for Hohoe South has argued that Ghana does not legally exist.

“There’s no union document on the so-called union between Ghana (Gold Coast) and Togoland. De facto, they are one [unit], but legally, Ghana does not exist,” Kosi Kedem said on Joy News’ PM Express on Tuesday.

He explained that Ghana as a country is made up of the Gold Coast and the UN Trust Territory of British Togoland, adding that, for a union to be constitutionally legal, a union document needs to be legalized.

Kedem said, “Resolution 1044 which recognizes the recommended union, the same UN Resolution 1044 invited the British Government which was the administering authority to take such steps as necessary to bring about the union.”

He continued: “So, if a Trust Territory, being ruled by the UN and a colony being ruled by Britain are to come into union, what do you do? You have to sit the two of them down for them to determine what type of government they want to have, what will be their responsibilities, obligations and benefits. No such thing was done.”

Kosi Kedem further stated that the main cause of the fight for independence by the secessionist groups is that there is the absence of the union document that details the factors of the union.

He indicated that the plebiscite that resulted in the independence of the Gold Coast was facilitated by the United Nations mission visiting French Togoland and British Togoland.

He explained further that the plebiscite was to determine the political fate of both colonies which also gave two options, that is, a union with the Gold Coast or an integration of both colonies.

Kosi Kedem revealed: “The problem is that there was a plebiscite as a result of the UN Visiting Mission which came to the two Togos; French Togo and British Togo in 1955, and they recommended that there should be a plebiscite in British Togoland to determine their political fate. Majority of Togoland said that they wanted a union with an independent Gold Coast…the UN General Assembly rejected the offer of the union and forcibly integrated Togoland with Gold Coast.”

He said a union would have maintained the sovereignty of Togoland which would have given them the sovereign equality with independent Gold Coast under the same government but under the integration, Togoland lost its identity which was completely consumed by the Gold Coast. The union was thus forced on Togoland.

Kedem stated that no meeting was held to determine the kind of government to be instituted, its responsibility, obligations as well as the benefits to be derived from the union.

“Instead, on the eve of independence, around 4th March, the British Government with the help of the CPP government just sent troops to Togoland and occupied the place on the pretence that they were quelling a rebellion,” he noted.

Kosi Kedem stated that the British government refused to implement the terms and conditions highlighted in Resolution 1044, which was to ratify the union.

He consequently called for a dialogue between the government and the secessionist group and further called for the “rectification of the constitutional blunder” which can end the debate of secession and unite the country.

“Violence, confrontation, repression are very powerful, but dialogue negotiation and engagement are far more powerful than violence because violence does not solve any problem, dialogue does. It gives you a long-lasting solution to the problem,” the former MP added.

Late Victoria Agbotui

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has described her relationship with Victoria Agbotui, her late mother-in-law, who passed away over the weekend aged 101, as a ‘cat and mouse’ situation.

She explained that they sometimes had sweet moments and at other times it was bitter but to her, all these were sweet moments for her.

“It was a cat and mouse relationship. Sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter but for my side, always sweet,” Nana Konadu said on Asaase radio’s Sunday Night when she was asked what her relationship with her late mother-in-law was like.

Nana Konadu indicated that the demise of her late mother-in-law has not been easy for her family, especially her husband, Jerry John Rawlings.

“He is coping. Of course, it won’t be easy because his older brother passed before the mother and it was difficult for him; for your mother to go, that’s a difficult situation…”

She explained that when she first met Madam Victoria Agbotui in 1976, during a formal introduction as the wife-to-be to JJ Rawlings, Madam Agbotui was very upset.

According to the former first lady of the Republic of Ghana, her mother-in-law felt that someone else should have married JJ Rawlings. She added that she didn’t have to work hard to pass that resistance from her in-laws.

Nana Konadu recounted that Rawlings knew his family and knew what he wanted, so he didn’t let the resistance stand in the way of the love story.

She added that Rawlings had to persuade his aunties to speak to his mother on his behalf.

“He [Rawlings] had to tell them who I am and the family I come from and if anybody was going to complain then it shouldn’t be them but from her [Konadu] family…and so one of the aunties took us to one other ‘mama gas’ and she agreed to go and do the engagement because he [Rawlings] insisted,” Nana Konadu narrated.

Nana Konadu indicated that at the time, she thought that the resistance would not be a problem but eventually it did.

When asked whether there were class expectations from her family as to the person she should get married to Mrs Rawlings indicated in the affirmative, and also added that ethnicity played a part, because of the Asante and Ewe stereotype.

“It was my uncles and aunties who were creating the whirlwind and Opoku Ware at the time said the Ashantis had always had their aliens as Anlos so what’s the big deal, but eventually they were resolved,” she told Nana Yaa Mensah, who sat in for the regular host Kwaku Sakyi-Addo.

Source:ghanaweb.com