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GREL inaugurates KVIP at Komonfokrom

The KVIP

The Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL), producers of raw rubber have handed over a 10 seater Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit (KVIP) costing GHC 284,000.00 to the Komanfokrom in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region.

The Corporate Affairs Manager of GREL, Mr. Perry Acheampong said proper disposal of refuse, sanitary pads and human excreta contributed greatly to the hygienic conditions of any community.

He said GREL was concerned with the health of the community members they operated with because a healthy people would be very productive not only to GREL but the community and the nation as a whole.

He said that was the reason why GREL as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility provided potable water, public places of convenience, health facilities among others to ensure that the communities were well catered for in terms of good health.

Mr. Acheampong appealed to the people to use the facility and stop the open defaecation “free range method” because human excreta would go and pollute the water bodies which could cause water borne diseases like cholera, diarrhoea and others.

He thanked the people of Komanfokrom for the peaceful co-existence between GREL and the community and promised to come with more development projects base on the needs of the community

The chief of Komanfokrom, Nana Gyentsi Amoako X who received the keys on behalf of the community expressed his gratitude adding “GREL has redeemed its promised made about four months ago”.

He said the community would no longer visit the nearest bush to go to toilet because it was even dangerous visiting the bush.

He promised that a committee would be constituted as a management team to take the maintenance of the facility serious in order to qualify for more projects.

The chairman of ACLANGO (Association of Chiefs on whose Lands GREL Operates) who is also the Paramount Chief of Lower Dixcove, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX remarked that GREL was doing so well and often responded swiftly to the request of the communities it operated.

He commended the people of Komanfokrom for their cooperation during the construction of the facility.

From Peter Gbambila, Komanfokrom

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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