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Methodist Men’s Fellowship celebrate the aged at Effiakuma
• Mrs. Mina Tweneboa-Kodua (right) receiving a gift from Mr. Abraham A. Aikins
The Association of Methodist Men’s Fellowships of Dunwell Branch at Effiakuma has celebrated the aged in the church by hosting them to a dinner to mark the end of 2022 under the theme “Celebration of God’s Grace and Mercy.”
The Dunwell Branch Men’s Fellowship Chairman, Brother Gilbert Armstrong-Mensah said: “The aged who have paid their dues in the church have been neglected for far too long”.
He said these old men and women worked hard to sustain the church but had been forgotten with little or no attention shown to them.
He, therefore, pleaded with all Methodist Men’s Fellowship country wide to consider the aged people who contributed immensely to the growth of the church and must not be forgotten so soon especially those who had little care for themselves.
Mr. Armstrong-Mensah was addressing a dinner held recently at the Dunwell Methodist Church where the aged had gathered to eat, socialise and show their dancing skills which they once practised.
He said as the newly elected chairman of the fellowships he would make sure a data base was created for all the aged to enable the association occasionally visit them to know their major challenges and how best the church could assist them.
He suggested that a form of appreciation be started for all the aged just as the church normally did to the pastors as a thank you for their contribution to the church.
He said the indiscipline in the country was as a result of government taking over all the mission schools not applying any disciplinary actions in the institutions.
He said that many demonstrations in society, strikes in institutions and other unwanted behaviours were as a result of broken down discipline in all the learning institutions right from Basic Level to tertiary adding “government must return all mission schools to the various churches because government had opened enough schools to manage now and this would bring the needed peace in Ghana”.
The Sekondi Diocesan Chairman, Brother Paul Appiah also said some spouses had lost their partners and since the children were grown and not staying with the parents, life became difficult and boring to some of the aged.
“The teachings in the Sunday school have made our children to grow up well disciplined but other churches easily snatched them away from us”, he said.
He appealed to the fellowship to continue committing the aged into prayer, frequent visitation and some tokens would encourage them to be lively and know that they had not been forgotten.
The Effiakuma Circuit Superintendent Minister, Very Rev. Lewis Smart Asare said what was taking place was a sign hatched by God and executed by men since all here were ambassadors of Jesus.
He said all men needed to get closer to Christ in order to shine for others to see just like the moon which got its light by leaning on the sun in order to shine for others.
Thirty members of the church who were aged attended the dinner and all were given an undisclosed amount of money as a New Year gift.
From Peter Gbambila, Effiakuma
The Ghana Police Service has launched a manhunt for Prince Krah, a 30-year-old military officer, in connection with the brutal murder of a couple at Saki, near Tema Golf City.
A GH₵100,000 reward has been offered for any credible information leading to his arrest.The victims, identified as Ebenezer Kwabena Obiri, 45, and Mary Anim, 22, were discovered dead in their chamber-and-hall apartment on May 1, 2026.
According to police reports, both bodies bore multiple machete wounds. Investigators established that the suspect had been cohabiting with the couple prior to the incident.
Police records indicate that Mr. Obiri was last seen alive in the company of Krah on the night of April 30.
Following preliminary investigations, the Kpone Magistrate Court issued a warrant for the suspect’s arrest on May 4.Krah is described as being approximately 5.7 feet tall, dark in complexion, and of stout build.
He was last seen wearing a Lacoste shirt and jeans.Security intelligence suggests that Krah has gone into hiding and may be seeking refuge within the Kakusunanka area or the Kamina Barracks in Tamale.
They have urged the public to exercise caution and report any sightings of the suspect to the nearest police station or via the emergency toll-free lines 191 or 112.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The minority leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has called for the immediate release of former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Food Buffed Stock Company, NAFCO over what he describe as extra judicial harassment.
In a statement by the minority leader, he noted that “I have become aware of the unwarranted arrest and incarceration of the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company, Abdul-Wahab Hanan Aludiba and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni, by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) yesterday, 5th May, 2026.”
Mr.Afenyo-Markins described the incident as a needless and face-saving arrest adding that “followed one year of arraignment of the two accused persons with 3 others in court on charges whose weakness and frivolity were exposed by defence counsel through objections raised and upheld by the court at the Case Management Conference held in the course of the trial.”
According to him the Attorney-General, in response to the objections raised and in a bid to boost the weak prosecution he had initiated, attempted to introduce fresh witness statements without leave of the court, contrary to the rules governing the conduct of criminal proceedings in the Republic.
He added that when an objection was raised again by defence counsel led by Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame and same was upheld by the court, the Attorney-General’s next move was to withdraw all the charges against the accused persons.
According to him “One would have thought that EOCO would step back, conduct more thorough investigations and understand the matter before deciding whether to charge the accused persons again or not.”
“However, in an impulsive and knee-jerk reaction, EOCO re-arrested Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab and his wife for offences unknown to even his legal team and whisked them off to the EOCO office. Strangely, they have been refused bail and have been kept in custody since yesterday, even though they were on bail granted by the court just before the charges were withdrawn,” he added.
He further noted that Hanan’s lawyers, who were at the offices of EOCO from about 11 am until 8 pm last night, were denied access to him.
This according to the Afenyo-Markin the conduct of EOCO, the Attorney-General and the Government as a whole, in harassing and torturing these innocent citizens of the land in the manner described above, very shameful, reprehensible and most unworthy of a healthy democracy that Ghana has struggled to build the past 33 years.
He therefore added that the law enforcement processes should be deployed to deal with actual wrongdoing in accordance with due process and not utilised as a propagandist machinery for the Government by arresting and detaining leading members of the opposition as a way of purporting to give meaning to the Government’s failed ORAL promise.
“I take note that the Attorney-General held a massive press conference last year, cited the Buffer Stock case as a major example of the ORAL drive, and vilified these same accused persons as having stolen money from the State when he had not even filed any charges against them,” he added.
“EOCO’s move in rearresting the accused persons after charges had been withdrawn (after a whole year of subjecting the accused persons to unnecessary assassination of their character) is clearly a desperate attempt to save the face of the Attorney-General and sustain a false impression of a continuation of the Government’s failed ORAL promise,” he noted.
“The EOCO boss, Raymond Archer, must learn to operate in accordance with due process like his predecessors used to do. That important institution of State must not be turned into a rogue outfit for harassing and torturing innocent citizens extra judicially when the Government becomes frustrated by a failure to prove offences levelled against them in a court of law, as we have seen in the Buffer Stock,” he said.
“I call on EOCO and the Attorney-General to release Hanan Abdul-Wahab and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni immediately.This impunity must stop,” he concluded.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
