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Covid-19: Tobinco donates food items to 2,000 poor households

Chairman of the Tobinco Group of Companies, Elder Samuel Nana Amo Tobbin I, on Sunday visited some poor communities in Accra to distribute 2000 boxes of packaged food items to the needy and the vulnerable.

The donation was aimed at supporting slum dwellers who had been deprived of their daily bread following the three-week lockdown imposed by the government to contain the rapid spread of the coranavirus.

Another reason for the house-to-house food distribution according to Nana Amo Tobbin I, was social distancing.

He explained that the overcrowding that characterised the distribution of food by some organisations was not the best as it poses health risk to the beneficiaries hence the need to use a safer method to distribute food to the needy.

According to him, the excitement and joy on the faces of some of the needy residents, was an indication that people genuinely needed help in these difficult times but they did not know where the help might come from.

Some of the beneficiaries who expressed their appreciation for the kind gesture said they starved on certain days. The arrival of the Tobinco trucks and vans was for them an answered prayer.

Nana Amo Tobbin I, commended individuals and corporate organisations for complementing government’s efforts to feed the needy in these difficult times and further called for more of such support as the nation combats the pandemic.

He suggested the use of mobile money as one of the methods to help the needy.

He urged all Ghanaians, particularly the vulnerable to observe all the personal hygiene protocols outlined by the government and health institutions to combat the pandemic in the country.

Tobinco first partnered the Church of Pentecost to donate medical supplies to nursing and midwife trainees followed by the donation of medical supplies worth over GH¢250,000 to the Ministry of Health to combat the pandemic in the country .

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Committee probing petitions against Chief Justice to begin hearings tomorrow

The Committee set up by President John Dramani Mahama to inquire into three petitions filec against the Chief Justice, Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, will commence hearings tomorrow, Thursday May 15, 2025.

The five-member Committee chaired by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang of the Supreme Court, was set up by the President in accordance with Article 146(6) of the 1992 constitution and in consultation with the Council of State, following a determination of a prima facie case against the Chief Justice.

The committee will sit three times a week and present their recommendations to the President upon completion of their work.

It would be recalled that President John Dramani Mahama recently suspended Chief Justice following the establishment of a prima facie case in response to three separate petitions seeking her removal from office.

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38-year-old man gets life imprisonment for killing Assemblies of God pastor in 2018

After close to seven years of trial, a seven-member jury on Wednesday, May 14, returned a guilty verdict in the murder case involving the killing of the Senior Pastor of the Central Assemblies of God church at Tema in 2018.

The convict, Francis Nabegmado, a relative of the deceased, inflicted a fatal knife wound on Rev. Dr. David Nabegmado on December 30, 2018, after alleging that the senior pastor was a false preacher who engaged in idol worship and human sacrifices.

After an hour of summing up by the judge, Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh, the jury retired briefly and returned with a unanimous guilty verdict.

Based on the unanimous verdict of the jurors who had previously studied the statements of the five witnesses called by the prosecution, and listened to the summing up process, the judge sentenced the 38-year-old to life imprisonment.

When he was offered an opportunity to comment on the verdict, the convict told the judge that he wanted to go home to meet his family.

“My Lady, I want to see my family, and I want to be taken to Yendi”.

When the judge told him she couldn’t make such an order for him to go and see his family in Yendi, the convict forcefully said, “I insist”.

Francis, who will now spend the rest of his life at the Nsawam medium security prison, had told the court throughout the trial that the decision to attack his uncle, Rev. Nebegmado, was driven by insanity, but that did not save him from receiving a life sentence.

Speaking briefly after the sentencing, Senior Pastor of the Assemblies of God church at Tema Community 4, Rev. Emmanuel Kwesi Ofori, said the church has been waiting for this closure for the past seven years and will soon issue an official statement.

Source: Myjoyonline.com