News Around: Traffic-blocking alligator gets a police escort back to lake

A Florida sheriff's office shared photos of an alligator receiving a police escort after blocking traffic in an intersection.

The Collier County Sheriff's Office said Cpl. Diaz responded about 3:30 a.m. Sunday to the intersection of Pine Ridge and Goodlette-Frank roads, where a 4-5 foot alligator was reported blocking traffic in the road.

The sheriff's office posted photos to Facebook showing Diaz escorting the alligator back to a nearby lake.

 

The sheriff's office said the gator had reportedly been hit by a vehicle, but appeared to be uninjured.

A Kumasi court has subpoenaed two witnesses to appear before it in a case in which four teenagers gang-raped a minor, captured on video and circulated on social media late last year.

The two, the Unit Committee Chairman for Bantama Kwabena Boateng, and Yaw Amankwaa, the tenant in whose house the dastardly act was committed had all declined to willingly appear to testify.

Even the victim, according to Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor has also refused to cooperate with the prosecutors.

She spent three hours at the State Attorney’s office but will not tell the lawyers anything about how it happened or what they actually did to her, Donkor reported.

These the prosecutors find unnerving and could hamper efforts to punish the suspects.
Despite the obvious challenge, the prosecutors are willing to go ahead with the case and have the suspects prosecuted.

One of the two witnesses, the unit committee member was arrested and hauled before the court,
 Wednesday to give an account of what happened.



Sitting was in camera, Donkor reported. The witness was cross-examined by lawyers for the defence.

The hearing continues tomorrow.

Lord Kenya is ungrateful - Okraku Mantey

Lord Kenya

Chief Executive Officer of Slip Entertainment, Mark Okraku Mantey has described rapper turned Pastor, Lord Kenya, as one of the most ungrateful persons he has managed in the past.

The producer, who managed Lord Kenya for about 3 years, has said the amount of investment and effort injected into his success were not duly appreciated.

According to him, the musician exhibited signs of disrespect, in and invariably hopped unto a new record label without his consent.

Mr Okraku Mantey who is also the Director of the Creative Arts Council told Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz “I don’t remember Lord Kenya thanking me.”

Mark Okraku Mantey

“Sometimes I could send someone to call Lord Kenya, for me because I am making a booking for an event, he would send someone to me that, he is with his manager so when he is through he will come,” he recounted.

He also denied rumours the ‘Born Again’ hitmaker has made in the past suggesting that he was cheated of his earnings by Mr Okraku Mantey.

According to Mr Okraku Mantey artises normally use claims of cheating on the part of their handlers as an excuse “to run out of contracts…because now he or she has some form of equity, so they can ride on their equity.”

He explained that, even at the time when Lord Kenya was at his prime performing at an average of two shows per week, his share as a manager was never from what he earned from the performances.
The business agreement between the two was getting a percentage of the sales of the musician’s album, he said.

This arrangement according to the producer, did not constitute cheating.
The producer who has is no longer in production and artiste management mentioned the likes of late highlife musician Daasebre Dwamena, and Gospel artiste Nana Yaw Asare amongst others, as those who have made his work outstanding.

“We create stars, they become monsters, they come back to chew us up,” Mr Okraku Mantey lamented.

Breaking News: Tension mounts in NPP Nhyiaso Constituency over the suspension of chairman

Tension is mounting between Dr Amoako Tuffour and the Member of Parliament for Nhyiaso Constituency, Kennedy Kankam over the suspension Constituency Chairman.

Constituency Chairman, George Kofi Adjei was suspended on Wednesday by the Regional Disciplinary Committee signed by the Chairman, Dr Amoako Tuffour.

It followed a petition filed against the chairman by the Nhyiaso sub-metro coordinator and Assembly man in the constituency, Nana Prempeh for several allegations including assaulting of his second vice chairperson and financial malfeasance.

The Member of Parliament for the area, Kennedy Kankam is questioning the authority of the petitioner .

He is also questioning the validity of the suspension by Dr Amoako Tuffour describing it as inappropriate.

Kennedy Kanakam who was speaking with Nhyira Fm's Kofi Asante Ennin on Kroyi Mu Nsem says the action an attempt to disrupt and tanish the image of the constituency chairman.

Meanwhile, the Regional NADMO Coordinator, Kwabena Senkyire accused the Dr. Amoako Tuffour for what he describes as a mafia work to cause confusion in the party in the region.

Below is the suspension letter

   

  

CONDOM SELLERS COMPLAIN OF BAD SALES OVER NUMEROUS CHURCH PROGRAMS

Condom sellers in many parts of the country have complained bitterly of poor sales on Valentine's Day.

Some pharmacies and chemical shops who spoke to kofi-asante.blogspot.com said, sales of the commodity is very lucrative venture especially on the Val's day.

But 2018 has proven beyond reasonable doubt to be worse so far in the record of the business due to numerous church activities.

They complained of several events organized by churches for the youths in the hours of the Valentine Day.

Celebration of Valentine over the years has been characterized by the activities of sexual promiscuity defeating its purpose of show love and compassion.

Amidu is ‘fired up for the job’ but ... – Bentil

Vice President of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Kofi Bentil, says although Mr Martin Amidu re-affirmed his firm anti-graft disposition during Tuesday’s vetting, his job as Special Prosecutor will not be a walk in the park.

Although Mr Amidu is yet to be officially sworn-in as Special Prosecutor, Myjoyonline.com has gathered that legislators on the Appointments Committee have overwhelmingly endorsed during a closed-door meeting after the lengthy vetting.

The sources say all the Committee members unanimously backed the former Attorney-General's approval as the first Special Prosecutor.
Deputy Majority Whip, Mathew Nyindam, has told Joy News that it will be inconceivable for anyone to oppose Mr Amidu’s nomination.

The lawmaker said Mr Amidu, whose anti-corruption crusade earned him the nickname ‘Citizen Vigilante’ left an indelible impression in the minds of Ghanaians with his answers during the vetting.

Mr Bentil, himself an experienced legal practitioner, believes that Martin Amidu’s no-nonsense posture when he appeared before Parliament’s Appointment Committee to justify his nomination sends the strong message he will not a pushover.
However, decades of failed attempts to tackle corruption head-on will make his job akin to “taming of the dragon,” Mr Betil avers.

“He leaves nobody in doubt that he is fired up for the job but I don’t think that baring his teeth the way he did [Tuesday] is any indication of whether he is going to be successful or not,” he said on Multi TV's nightly programme, PM Express.

But Mr Bentil says he trusts Mr Amidu to deliver on his mandate when settles into his office, adding that President Nana Akufo-Addo selected the best person for Special Prosecutor.

Commenting on the 9-hour vetting of Mr Amidu on MultiTV’s nightly current affairs programme, Tuesday, Mr Bentil also said the next big step in the fight against deep-seated corruption in Ghana will be the impending test of Mr Amidu’s resolve when he formally starts his work.

“He will be tested and it will be sooner than later. If he gets the office he will be tested and part of the testing will not be just people who have done things and he has to go after them. It will have to be with what he picks to go after,” he said.

He suggests that for Mr Amidu to make a lasting impact, he must succeed where other anti-corruption institutions with similar powers like the Special Prosecutors office have been unsuccessful.

“He is the Special Prosecutor, we are hoping that he will do special cases...we are hoping that the things that others have not been able to do he will do it. It’s belling the cat. It’s like who is going to tame the dragon.

“The things that we have not been able to do with existing institutions we are hoping he will deal with [them]. So how he handles it will really show what he is made of,” Mr Bentil said.

Ebony’s Death: Charge Highways Director, others for manslaughter-NPP -man

A Communications team member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Raphael Sarfo Patrick wants charges of manslaughter to  be pressed against the Ashanti Regional Director of Highways, Ing. Christian Nti and other staff.

According to the aspiring Regional Youth Organizer, the negligence of the Highways Director is the cause of many roads accidents in the region including the recent one which saw the death of songstress Ebony Reigns.

“The negligence of the Regional Director and other subordinates is causing many accidents.. The director must be charged for manslaughter”, the NPP Communicator suggested.

“If they have done their work well Ebony could not have died”, Raphael Sarfo Patrick spoke on Kumasi-based Nhyira FM’s morning show.

“I am urging the family of Ebony to take the matter up”, he told host Aduanaba Kofi Asante Ennin during panel on “Kroyimunsem” show.

Meanwhile, the NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Nhyieso in the Ashanti Region, Hon. Kennedy Kankam has bemoaned the deteriorating state of the road network in the country appealing for funds from international agencies to fix them.

He is of the view that this led to the death of the fast-rising dancehall artiste which sad event occurred on Thursday night on the Sunyani-Kumasi highway.

Ebony’s black Jeep vehicle with registration number AS 497-16 collided head-on with a KIA Grand Bird VIP bus with registration number GT3232-17 from the opposite direction.

The remains of Ebony and two other occupants established to be her bodyguard and a close pal who were in the vehicle with her have since been deposited at a local hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region.

Credit: mynewsgh.com