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‘Dangote’, other jailed for robbery
Two persons have been jailed 15 years each in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court for robbery.
The convicts, Mohammed Abdulai also known as Dangote, a headporter, and Abass Issah,21, a vulcaniser robbed two people of their pen drive and two Techno mobile phones all valued GH¢250.00 and GH¢200.00 cash at knife point at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Accra, last year.
They were convicted and jailed on the offences of conspiracy and robbery.
Inspector Samuel Ahiabor (prosecutor) told the court that the complainants were watching movies at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle at about 10:00pm on August 23,2019.
He said that the convicts suddenly entered the cinema hall with knives and threatened to stab the complainants if they did not handover their mobile phones and money to them.
The prosecutor said that they(convicts) succeeded in collecting the aforementioned items from the victims and went to a different spot to do their own thing.
According to Inspector Ahiabor, the victims later reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of Mohammed Abdulai and in the course of investigation, the complainants again led the police to arrest Abass Issah from his hideout at Kofikrom near Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
He said that a separate search on them led to the recovery of the two mobile phones, a face mask, a jackknife and an amount of GH¢165.00. They all admitted the crime in their respective investigation caution statement.
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The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh Dompreh, has expressed concern over delays in the release of the District Assemblies Common Fund, warning that the situation is stalling development across the country.
On his facebook page, he described as a matter of urgent national importance, the Minority Chief Whip pointed to what he sees as a growing crisis of unpaid contractors, abandoned projects, and halted infrastructure works in many districts.
He noted that several communities are grappling with half completed schools, unfinished health facilities, abandoned markets, deteriorating roads, and stalled sanitation projects.
According to him, many contractors who have executed projects for district assemblies have not been paid, forcing some construction firms to demobilise from sites while workers lose their jobs.
He stressed that the District Assemblies Common Fund is not a discretionary allocation but a constitutional requirement under Article 252 of the 1992 Constitution, intended to support development at the local level.
In his view, years of delayed releases and accumulated arrears have weakened district development financing and disrupted projects meant to improve living conditions in communities.
He further argued that some payments made in recent years were largely the settlement of old debts rather than funding for new or ongoing projects, a situation he believes has affected contractor confidence and local economic activity.
He described the issue as more than a budgetary challenge, characterising it as a development emergency and a governance concern.
He therefore urged the appropriate authorities to pay outstanding DACF arrears, settle contractors who have completed their work, and ensure that transfers to districts are automatic and predictable.
He maintained that decentralisation can only succeed when district assemblies receive adequate and timely funding to carry out development projects.
He emphasised that stalled projects directly affect ordinary citizens, since they rely on such infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, sanitation, and economic activities.
He called for renewed attention to grassroots development, insisting that national progress should not be concentrated only in major cities but extended to all communities.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Richard Appiah, the footballer who killed two children and stored part of their bodies in a fridge at Abesim in the Bono Region in 2021 has been handed a lifetime sentence.
This was after a five member panel of judges at the Accra High Court returned a verdict of guilty against the convict.
Appiah, 32, also a draughtsman would spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of murder.
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BY MALIK SULLEMANA
