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Live peacefully with Aplaku indigenes – settlers told
The development of every community depends largely on unity between the indigenes and settlers.
In this light, Nii Otiboh Aplaku Head of the Nii Narteh Aplaku Family, has admonished settlers of Aplaku to continue living peacefully in the community to ensure speedy development of the town.
He said the peaceful co-existent of foreigners and natives had always ensured that the crime rate of youthful violence is reduced to the barest minimum.
Nii Otiboh Aplaku, gave the admonishing last Sunday, when the new Zongo Zabrama Chief (Sari) for Aplaku near Bortianor in the Ga South Municipality, Adama Amani, was formally introduced to him at his house.
He said the new Zabrama chief, would play a major role in the mobilization of his community youth as his predecessors did decades ago to give the youth employable skills.
Nii Otiboh Aplaku also admonished him to remain focused and avoid the temptations of being embroiled in chieftaincy and land disputes that was raging in the area.
He said by doing that Adama Amani would remain pure with his reputation intact among his subject as a Zongo Sabrama chief that would not be forgotten quickly.
Adama Amani, later presented customary drinks and a ram and an undisclosed amount of money to Nii Otiboh Aplaku as customs demands.
The Aplaku Zongo Zambra chief, Adama Amani in an interview said he was born in Ghana in 1968.
He said his great grand fathers migrated from Sokodaloga, Zambrama Colte District in Niger, near Libya border, to Kumasi about two centuries ago.
He said his forebears later migrated to Aplaku over eight decades ago, and had always been law abiding citizens who contributed to the growth and success of Ghana and assured that he would mobilize his people for the development of Aplaku.
By Francis Xah
Management and staff of Owass FM have announced the passing of media personality, comedian and politician Seth Kwame Dzokoto following a medical emergency during a live morning show discussion at the station earlier today.
According to the station, Dzokoto was participating in a panel discussion on its morning show “Oman Nkoso” when he suddenly took ill and collapsed.
A statement from the station said its team immediately rushed him to the hospital for medical attention, but he was pronounced dead by the attending medical doctor upon arrival.
“We are deeply saddened by this unfortunate incident, which occurred in the course of our regular programming. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, loved ones, colleagues, and all those who have been affected by his passing,” the statement said.
Management acknowledged that information about the incident is already circulating in the public domain, but appealed to the public and colleague media houses to respect the privacy of the bereaved family and refrain from circulating unverified information or speculation regarding the circumstances of his death.
Owass FM extended its heartfelt condolences to the family of Seth Kwame Dzokoto.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The State through the Attorney General (AG) has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the suspension of the trial in the case of The Republic v Hanan Aludiba and Faiza Seidu.
On Monday, the Court of Appeal suspended the trial in the case. But the prosecution says it has filed an appeal against the suspension order.
According to the update, the law does not allow a criminal trial to be suspended simply because an accused person has complained about some of the charges on the charge sheet, particularly when those complaints were dismissed as meritless.
It argues that if the Court of Appeal’s decision is allowed to stand, no prosecution will ever be possible, since all it would take for a trial to be suspended is an accused person complaining about anything on the charge sheet.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
