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The Ghana Police Service says it will trigger its internal disciplinary process to address a misunderstanding over police duties which resulted in heated verbal exchanges between a junior Police officer and his superior in public.
The incident allegedly occurred on the Atwima-Foase road in the Ashanti Region.
A video of the argument between Corporal Boakye, an officer with the Formed Police Unit, and Supt. Albert Quansah, the Atwima-Foase District Commander, has subsequently gone viral on social media.
JoyNews checks reveal the misunderstanding started on the morning of Wednesday, July 20 at a spot between Yabi and Dida on the Atwima Foase road when Corporal Boakye and some members of the FPU were conducting traffic checks.
JoyNews sources say the District Commander, who was driving on the stretch in his private vehicle, stopped and advised the men to move from that area of the road to avoid accidents, but he was ignored.
Our sources revealed the Commander drove off and returned minutes later in the official vehicle of the District Headquarters, together with the Station Officer and two other officers.
In an ensuing verbal exchange captured on video, the District Commander, Supt. Quansah is seen asking Corporal Boakye to get into the Police vehicle, an order the junior officer declined.
The Commander later asked for his identity and other credentials, but Corporal Boakye is seen mentioning his name and asking the commander to “meet him” at FPU.
District Commander: “I say, get onboard!!”
Corporal Boakye: “Don’t worry”.
District Commander: “Give me your number”.
Corporal Boakye: “My number don’t you..ah, this is my name? I’m from FPU”
District Commander: “Your service number?”
Corporal Boakye: “Meet me at FPU.”
District Commander: “I should meet you at FPU?”
Corporal Boakye: “Meet me there. You are not the one who brought me here.”
Our checks revealed the FPU personnel generated this service message to the commander of the FPU, Supt. Kingsley K. Kawudie:
“The senior officer got to their checkpoints and ordered all the cars to move and go because they are not police officers, they’re armed robbers. After that, the officer went and brought his men that they should disarm the corporal who was engaged with him, and his men failed to do so, so he himself attacked the junior officer and tore his uniforms,” they wrote.
The next day, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander initiated investigations into this complaint against the District Commander.
Personnel from the Regional CID and the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau have been on the case at Foase, visiting the various scenes with the District Commander and other parties.
There are unconfirmed reports that on the day of the incident at about 10:40am, one Chief Inspector Ohene Karikari and eleven armed men from the FPU base in Kumasi stormed the Foase District Police Headquarters and threatened to “shoot the District Commander if he dares harass any of his men again.”
Source: www.myjoyonline.com
President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned four career diplomats as ambassador-designates to represent Ghana in four countries.
The commissioning ceremony took place on Friday, October 16, 2026.
The new envoys are Her Excellency Nana Antwiwaa Dodoo, Ambassador-Designate to Angola; His Excellency Louis Kwame Obeng, Ambassador-Designate to Qatar; Her Excellency Evelyn Korantemaa Ofosu-Amable, Ambassador-Designate to Israel; and His Excellency Jedidiah Reuben Adogla, Permanent Representative-Designate to Switzerland.
President Mahama charged them to advance Ghana’s national interests through strategic partnerships, economic diplomacy, investment mobilization, and expanded access to international markets.
He said Ghana’s diplomatic engagements must deliver tangible economic benefits, create jobs, and strengthen the country’s standing on the international stage.
The four envoys are career diplomats with over 27 years of experience.
On behalf of her colleagues, Her Excellency Nana Antwiwaa Dodoo thanked the President for the confidence reposed in them and pledged their commitment to emulate his leadership and deliver on the mandate given to them.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The professor who spends his days exploring the intricacies of African languages found himself at the centre of a different kind of lesson on Friday, October 2, 2026. 
This time, there were no lecture notes, academic arguments or university classrooms. Instead, there was the weight of tradition, the rhythm of a community celebration and the solemnity of an oath at a royal palace.
Professor Ọbádélé Kambon, a full Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Ghana, was enstooled as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene of Akuapem Mampong in the Eastern Region in a ceremony that brought academia and traditional authority together.
For the professor, the occasion was more than a new title. It was a moment that connected his academic interests in African languages and indigenous knowledge with the living traditions of an Akan community.
The day’s events unfolded through a series of customary observances. Kambon was first taken to the compounds of the Ɔkyeamehene and Gyasehene, where the preparations for his installation continued.
Then came the application of hyire, the white kaolin powder associated with traditional rites.
With the customary proceedings underway, the new chief was lifted onto the shoulders of celebrants and carried along the main thoroughfare of Akuapem Mampong.
The procession transformed the streets into a public stage for a ceremony rooted in the community’s traditional institutions.
There was something striking about the image, a university professor, accustomed to the measured language of academic discourse, being carried through the town in a display of traditional recognition.
Yet the celebration was not complete with the procession.
A ram was sacrificed at the Mamponghene’s compound before Kambon was taken to the palace, to swear the oath associated with his new offices.
The ceremony brought him formally into his roles as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene.
Beyond the colourful proceedings, the titles themselves carry layers of historical meaning.
Kambon in his research explores the historical connections between Apagya and Akan political and military organisation.
Accounts cited in his work linked Apagya to an asafo, or military company, while historical writing traces an Apagya stool in Asante to the reign of Opoku Ware I in the eighteenth century.
These historical associations offer a glimpse into the institutions that have shaped Akan society over generations, although they do not automatically define the precise responsibilities of the office in Akuapem Mampong.
Kambon’s own professional life reflects a similar interest in preserving and examining African knowledge.
His work encompasses Akan language structure, naming practices across the Black world, proverbs and indigenous intellectual traditions.
Through Abibitumi, the platform he founded, he also promotes language learning, scholarship and cultural engagement.
But tradition was only one part of the story that day.
When the formal ceremony gave way to a reception, the occasion expanded into a celebration of three milestones: Kambon’s enstoolment, his promotion to full professor and his daughter Ama’s admission to the University of Ghana.
The gathering therefore carried a personal significance that went beyond the honours bestowed on one man. 
It celebrated professional advancement, the continuation of family aspirations and a connection to cultural heritage.
For a father, seeing a daughter gain admission to the same university where he holds a distinguished academic position offered another reason to celebrate.
For the professor, the moment placed family achievement alongside his own professional and traditional milestones.
Kambon had already established a place in the traditional life of Akuapem Mampɔn through an earlier installation as Banmuhene Kyidɔmhene, recorded in 2017.
His latest enstoolment adds another chapter to that relationship.
In Akuapem Mampɔn, the day brought together the university, the palace and the family table in one celebration. And for Kambon, the journey from the lecture room to the traditional procession showed how scholarship, cultural responsibility and family achievement could converge in a single memorable occasion.
By Enoch Ntiamoah Siaw
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