The University of Ghana Staff, who are living in these bungalows, have been experiencing frequent break-ins which led to them setting up a CCTV camera to monitor activities in the area.

That decision has been justified as Haruna Abass, suspected to be behind a number of the recent burglaries has now been caught.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kofi Anokye, the Legon District Commander, confirmed this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA).

Abass was found carrying two flat-screen TV sets and a GTP wax print by the University’s security night patrol team, who, suspecting that he stole the items, arrested and handed him over to the police.

CCTV footage played at the police station later, showed him breaking into the bungalows on separate occasions and making off with stolen items.

Confronted with the evidence, he reportedly confessed to the crime and would be facing charges of unlawful entry and stealing.

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Mr Derrick Adu-Gyamfi who represented George Osei Mensah, the accused, argued that there had been an unreasonable delay in the trial of his client.

[contextly_sidebar id=”1maUnKDcXdVG5GRGRPdKbEEva9nGtyUX”]He pointed out to the court presided over by Mr Richard D. Anku that the full report from the pathologist was not ready and the Police are still waiting for the said report to facilitate their investigations as well as build a duplicate docket to the Office of the Attorney General for advice.

“This is a clear case of unreasonable delay and my client’s liberty is being curtailed. My client is innocent until he has been proven guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction,” defence counsel said.

According to the counsel, he was not seeking bail because the district court did not have the jurisdiction to grant bail.

He therefore appealed to the Court to impress upon the Police to expedite action on the matter.

Prosecuting Inspector Joyce Ninson told the court that the Police are still waiting for the full autopsy report from the pathologist.

Prosecution said the Police would need the report to enable them to build a duplicate docket to be sent to the Attorney General’s Department for advice.

The court, therefore ordered the prosecution to expedite action in securing the autopsy report for the trial to commence.

“I advise that the prosecution should liaise with the Pathologist and the Attorney General so that trial would continue,” the Magistrate said.

The matter has been adjourned to April 5.

Mensah was put before the court for allegedly stabbing Martin Tweneboah aka Vandal Tipsy, aged 32 with a broken bottle at the Commonwealth Hall on December 9, 2017.

The accused, who is facing a provisional charge of murder have had his plea reserved by the court.

The case of prosecution was that Mensah and Tweneboah attended a funeral of a former student of the University of Ghana, who was a vandal at Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region.

Prosecution said while the two were in the Commonwealth Hall van on their way back to Accra, they engaged in a heated argument over who was a vandal and who was not.

According to prosecution, Tweneboah allegedly ordered Mensah to get out of the van since it was for vandals.

When the two arrived at the University‘s campus, the argument heated up and Mensah allegedly grabbed an empty bottle, broke it and stabbed Tweneboah multiple times in the neck.

A report was made to the Police after Tweneboah had been rushed to the Legon Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

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There is a current stand-off  between the University of Ghana and the Ministry of Health over who has the mandate to manage the $217 million health facility.

Whereas the University is of the view that it has the sole right to manage the facility, the Ministry of Health thinks otherwise.

[contextly_sidebar id=”0DoNE80QtuVavbfPiXLjjJMSKmn5YG3W”]These and many other reasons including the Ministry of Health’s claim that an amount of $6 million is needed to make the facility operational, have contributed in making the hospital dormant, despite it having ultra-modern facilities installed in it.

Prof. Aryeetey encouraged the University not to stand up and rightfully claim ownership of the hospital.

“The University needs to stand up and fight for what is rightfully its property,” he added in a Citi News interview.

Health Ministry can’t claim ownership of Medical Centre

Prof. Ernest Aryeetey in the interview further challenged the Ministry of Health to provide evidence, indicating that they must take ownership of the University’s Medical Center.

Prof. Aryeetey insisted that, the hospital was never built for the Ministry, and charged the University to rise up and fight for its property.

“It was never built for the Ministry of Health, and I’m challenging the Ministry of Health or anybody with any information that the hospital was built for the Ministry of Health to come out and give us the evidence. The hospital is at Legon because Legon asked for it.”

Health Ministry peddling ‘lies’ about UG Medical Centre

The former Vice Chancellor also took on the Deputy Minister of Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, who had alleged that Prof. Aryeetey and two other persons – former Deputy Health Minister Rojo Mettle Nunoo, and Prof. Aaron Nii Lante Lawson, have registered the University of Ghana Medical Center in their names, saying Mr. Gyedu was throwing dust into the eyes of the public.

“Lying to the people of Ghana that the company was registered in my name is unacceptable, it’s completely unacceptable.  It is a lie and he knows it. His Minister made an earlier lie and the fact that they continue with this lie is what annoys me. So you have a deputy minister and a minister of health lying about a public facility, lying about an individual or individuals and yet they perpetuate it. They go all with it hoping to create a bad name for me,” he noted.

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This will be the third appearance of University of Ghana, and the only University from Ghana to participate in that context.

The first was in Malaysia 2015, where the school ranked 269. Subsequently at The Hague in the Netherlands in 2017, the school ranked 214.

The World Universities Debating Championship also called ‘Worlds’ or WUDC, is an annual competition among debate societies of all universities in the world.

[contextly_sidebar id=”o876HKT220e7Y8dTrxKreiigMj3XPWgR”]It is designed to determine the best of the best in international English language debating. The WUDC has been held annually since 1981.

Every year, the WUDC takes place in a different country, and is hosted by a different university and by different debate societies.

The tournament gathers students from prestigious universities around the globe, featuring over 400 teams from around 90 countries.

Format

The tournament lasts for a week, and it is filled with the best level of debate rounds in the world. The debates employ the British Parliamentary (BP) format in which four teams compete against each other on two opposite positions on a given motion, which is announced fifteen minutes before every debate.

The competition is run in nine rounds under a Swiss-system where teams of a similar level face off against each other, until the best forty-eight break to the direct elimination rounds.

The best English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teams enter their own elimination rounds.

Preparation

Under the tutelage of veteran Coach and arguably one of the finest Debaters to grace University Debate on the African Continent, Mr. Antonio Edem Asinyo, is putting the Team in the best of shapes.  The Team started training about a month and a half ago, and looks poised to improve UG’s ranking of 214 at The Hague.

Mr. Asinyo opined that, their work is cut out for them, and the onus lies on them to continue the impressive work done in the previous two editions.

“It is important to note that, our performance at the world’s stage has been progressive, and as the Coach, it is my primary responsibility to improve the standard of UG with respect to Debate, and that I am committed to.”

He expressed his appreciation to the University through the Sports Directorate for their immense support.

Team Optimistic of making Partial Octofinals

Miss Paye Sandra Adoma, a level 300 Philosophy and Information Studies student, and Jeremiah Kobby Sekyi, also in level 200 reading Pharmacy, representing the University, shared the feeling of competing at this level, and the optimism of a better performance.

“Participation in the WUDC is the height of experience and challenge for a Debater. Knowing this, we have been training quite vigorously for the tournament. We believe strongly that our preparations will earn us a place in the Partial Octofinals, which would be the highest any team in Ghana has reached.”

The team will be led by Michael Owusu Ansah, a Principal Accountant at the Finance Directorate of the University.

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At the first court hearing on Tuesday, the Madina District Magistrate Court presided over by His Lordship, Richard Delali Anku, adjourned the case to give the police ample time to conclude their investigations.

[contextly_sidebar id=”hg6eDnli6dOydV5U6CFFl7zEEeA562DD”]The suspect, George Osei Mensah, is standing trial for allegedly killing Martin Tweneboah Kodua [Chief Tipsy], an Old Vandal, at Commonwealth Hall on Saturday, December 9. 2017.

A pathologist at the 37 Military Hospital is expected to conduct an autopsy on the deceased, and submit the report to the Police.

What happens next?

The Attorney General’s department will be furnished with the suspect’s statement, autopsy report and docket for advice.

The trial is expected to commence after the AG’s advice on the matter.

The suspect’s plea may be taken at the next hearing if the police concludes its investigations, and the autopsy report is ready with the AG’s advice sought on the matter.

The suspect faces a likely charge of manslaughter or murder.

Background

The suspect is reported to have stabbed an Old Vandal, whose name was given as Nathaniel Tweneboah Koduah, alias Chief Tipsy multiple times on Saturday night, at the charging grounds of Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana.

The incident occurred after a heated argument between the two while they traveled back to campus from a funeral of an Old Vandal.

According to the Old Vandals Association, the two were separated on several occasions during their heated arguments on the bus.

“The argument became heated and the two had to be separated on several occasions by others. It went on and on. So, when we got to Atomic Junction, the driver was advised to stop and the two were thrown out of the bus. Others joined them.”

“When they got to the Hall, they had not stopped. It was at this time that the killer allegedly grabbed the knife of the khebab seller and cut the victim several times with it. The victim bled profusely and was rushed to the Legon Hospital by the killer and some Vandals… the doctors could not save his life. He was pronounced dead around 1900 hours GMT,” the Old Vandals’ statement said.

Meanwhile, the management of the University of Ghana has called for calm among parents and the general public following the incident, noting that “no threat has been identified which could cause any danger to our students in this respect.”

It further said the Careers and Counseling Centre of the school is on standby to counsel any student who may have been traumatized by the incident.

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He has since advised the general public not to associate the incident with current students of the school.

[contextly_sidebar id=”H7pbFvgvorJtRde0fubBmRSRdB0exUSJ”]Speaking an interview with Citi News’ Caleb Kudah on Monday, Prof. Oduro Owusu expressed his condolence to the family of the late Martin Tweneboah Kodua, who was stabbed to death at Commonwealth Hall on Saturday evening.

“It is unfortunate. We extend our condolences to the bereaved family. We are assisting the police to investigate the matter. We’ve also assured the community that lives of the students and lives of the people on campus are not in danger or in any way affected by the incident,” he said.

Challenging claims that the incident occurred due to lax security on campus, the Vice-Chancellor said: “this has absolutely nothing to do with security on campus…we have ensured that there is maximum security.”

He added that “This has nothing to do with students, they are not students. The hall management is trying to look at it. They are meeting and they are also doing their own investigations but no one should try and drag our students into this.”

Status of suspect

Many have claimed that the suspect is an old student of the University of Ghana and affiliated to Commonwealth Hall, thus the Old Vandals, hence his presence and active participation in almost all events of the Hall.

However, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana says information available to him indicates that the suspect was never a student of the University.

When Citi News’ Caleb Kudah pointed out that suspicions were that the suspect was never a student of the school, the Vice-Chancellor said, “That is the information we have and it is absolutely true.”

Background

The suspect is reported to have stabbed an Old Vandal, Martin Tweneboah Koduah, alias Chief Tipsy multiple times on Saturday night, at the charging grounds of Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana.

The incident occurred after a heated argument between the two while they traveled back to campus from a funeral of an Old Vandal.

According to the Old Vandals Association, the two were separated on several occasions during their heated arguments on the bus.

“The argument became heated and the two had to be separated on several occasions by others. It went on and on. So, when we got to Atomic Junction, the driver was advised to stop and the two were thrown out of the bus. Others joined them.”

“When they got to the Hall, they had not stopped. It was at this time that the killer allegedly grabbed the knife of the khebab seller and cut the victim several times with it. The victim bled profusely and was rushed to the Legon Hospital by the killer and some Vandals… the doctors could not save his life. He was pronounced dead around 1900 hours GMT,” the Old Vandals’ statement said.

Meanwhile, the management of the University of Ghana has called for calm among parents and the general public following the incident, noting that “no threat has been identified which could cause any danger to our students in this respect.”

It further said the Careers and Counseling Centre of the school is on standby to counsel any student who may have been traumatized by the incident.

The Police have said they will immediately process the suspect for court when investigations are concluded.

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Pedestrians told Citi News’ Caleb Kudah that the water started flowing since Tuesday night.

Caleb traced it to a huge industrial pipe burst at the construction yard of Sonitra not far from the Legon branch of the Ghana Water Company Limited.

The water which has flooded portions of the road from the entrance of the university through to Okponglo, which is about 700 meters, caused a lot of vehicular traffic in the area.

A pedestrian who could not hide his anger said “this is really a mess. I don’t who is responsible for this and where it is flowing from but…it is not a good sight at all because it is making crossing the road at this section very difficult.”

Another pedestrian also lambasted the Ghana Water Company for not doing anything to prevent further gushing out of the water.

Meanwhile the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Water Company limited, Stanley Martey while responding to the development on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday, said efforts are being made to fix the burst pipe.

“We are ware, it happened close to midnight and so we had to isolate the line because we can’t work on the line when water is flowing through. But that is a big line so it will take time for the back water to flow out of the line before we start working on it. Our people are getting ready to go there to access the situation and fix it.”

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Each year, the university’s increases fees based on prevailing inflation rate plus 2%.

But some of the students who have been speaking to Citi News say the current fees are expensive, and are appealing for a reduction.

[contextly_sidebar id=”kKEh2QIuYKVzDAwhtA0udBoXDbjvYSIx”]One of them noted that, students offering distance education courses will go through unbearable hardship following the increases.

“Even in distance education, last semester they paid GH2,499; the new academic calendar their fees is GHc2800. That is a GHc300 difference…we cannot pay it.”

Another student also said taking the current inflation rate in consideration, the fees should have decreased instead.

“Maybe when you increased it last year, we might say it makes sense because in 2015/2016, we saw a rising inflation, but then from 2016/2017, we are looking at the inflation figure falling so what’s the basis for the increase.? Even if you want to increase the fees it should be something marginal, something which could be so insignificant, but here is the case that the increase is getting to close to GHc200. With the hall fees, that one has also seen an increase…it just doesn’t make sense,” he added.

The President of the Students Representative Council, Daniel Oteng, has also described the increase as an unacceptable.

According to him, it breaches an earlier agreement reached between management and the SRC.

“There was an agreement when we went to finance and general support meeting, the agreement was that the fees were going to be increased by 13.2 percent because there was no council to approve or disprove it.  But to our surprise some other colleges came out and we realized that the increase was beyond the 13.2 percent. And for us we think that is very unfair to the student body…so we’ve been communicating with the school administration to have the anomaly rectified.

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Ms. Effah beat over 120 other students to pick up the top prize with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.63.

[contextly_sidebar id=”EmOcJnvRY1Q2IQM5WupqS4r9uNNTpO61″]CWG Ghana presented a gift to the student in furtherance of the company’s bid to promote the value of attaining academic excellence.

Speaking after the presentation ceremony, the Country Manager of CWG Ghana, Mrs. Harriet Yartey, pointed out that the annual award presentation event highlighted CWG’s emphasis on hard work and qualitative education.

“Excellence is an integral part of the CWG corporate culture and that has defined CWG’s business approach and service delivery over the years. Our business scope covers a range of sectors from banking to telecoms and recently SMEs, and it is all about the quality of our workforce” She said.

“We boast an array of professionals whose expertise has formed the core of service providers across Africa. Our premium on quality workforce explains our emphasis on quality education,” she further noted.

Mrs. Yartey assured that, CWG Ghana will continue to support students at the university and will soon extend it to other tertiary institutions.

The winner, Ms. Effah, thanked CWG for the honour.

“I am humbled and I give all the glory to God. I didn’t imagine myself in the field of computer science, but due to circumstances beyond my control I found myself here, fell in love with it and now I am the proud winner of this very special award.”

“I was also inspired by the teaching assistants who helped lecturers. They were good at what they did and I told myself that I can do it too. Computer science, in today’s world of technology, can be applied anywhere including medicine and pharmacy,” she noted.

About CWG Ghana

CWG Ghana Limited, a member of the pan-African Information Communication Technology Company, Computer Warehouse Group Plc., is a full service IT company providing products and services that cut across the ICT value chain of hardware, software and communications.

CWG Ghana therefore has a diversified customer base and is represented in various sectors of the Ghanaian economy, such as telecoms, banking & financial services, oil & gas, and services.
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The deceased, crashed her head when she fell on the dawn of Wednesday, March 10, 2017.

The school in a statement copied to citifmonline.com, said it is yet to receive a full report on details surrounding the death of the student from the police, and therefore cannot draw conclusions about the development.

“The University is aware of the many speculations currently going on, assigning reasons for the death; and calls on members of the University community and the general public to refrain from making any speculations on the incident and allow investigations to be completed,” the statement signed by the school’s Director for Public Affairs, Mrs. Stella Amoah said.

It added that, the school is distraught by the incident and has initiated processes to have close friends and family of the deceased undergo counseling to help them deal with the associated stress and trauma.

“The University is distraught by the incident, and University officials led by the Vice-Chancellor, have had initial interaction with the parents of the deceased. The University’s Counseling Centre is currently offering counseling services to the deceased’s roommates, immediate family members as well as fellows and employees at Akuafo Hall, Annex A.”

Read details of the statement below

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