The court, presided over by her Ladyship Mercy Addae-Kotei, granted them bail in the sum of GHc 100.000 each.

[contextly_sidebar id=”28rWWFv4tp5h63gv84cuT7AYcvsMWie9″]The suspects: Alex Owusu and Wadoski, were arrested by the police on Monday for breaking into the home of the NPP Secretary.

They are alleged to have stolen GHc4,000, mobile phones and an envelope containing albums and documents intended for the constituency elections.

Reports indicate that they were contracted by Obeng Manu, the New Juaben South NPP organizer and one Justice Afful. Two of the robbery suspects are at large.

The lawyer for the accused persons, Francis Poley, argued that his clients were not a threat to police investigations and, thus, qualified for bail.

The suspects, who were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime to wit robbery and robbery, will appear before the court on March 21, 2018.

Background

Obeng Manu and Justice Afful reportedly drove the suspected robbers to the residence of the Constituency Secretary at Koforidua.

According to the police, the suspects forced their way into the house, but the Constituency Secretary was not available.

The Constituency Secretary’s aide, Pious Tevi, was however attacked, tied and blindfolded by the robbers. The house was also ransacked.

Robbers charged GHc1,000

The Police Commander said the suspects confessed that they charged GHc1,000 from Obeng Manu and Justice Afful, but the amount was reduced to GHc800 after negotiations.

They also confessed to receiving GHc400 on Sunday, February 18, 2018, with an assurance of getting the remaining amount after the work was done.

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By: Nii Amartey Kanarku/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Madame Comfort Asante made this statement whiles interacting with teachers, school heads, and pupils when she visited some schools in the Municipality to welcome and encourage new entrants to kindergarten as part of government’s My First Day in school programme.

“I am assuring you that government will support your work to make teaching and learning very easy for you and the kids, we will provide you with all the logistics and teaching and learning materials for you to impact new and modern things for our children to catch up with the changing trends in education and technology.”

She also reiterated government’s dedication to ensuring free and quality education for all.

“Giving free and quality education to all is one way of ensuring equity for all. Now parents are happy all over the country because of this free senior high school program. Those who could not afford to pay fees of the wards are now rejoicing to the free senior high school program because now their kids who are equally brilliant but needy can also go to school and realize their dreams.”

Madame Comfort Asante advised the kids to be of good behavior at all times at home and in school.

The Municipal Chief Executive, together with the Municipal Director of Education, and some officials from the education service, presented some new school uniforms, pens, eraser, biscuits, fruit drinks and other learning materials to the new entrants.

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By: Neil Amartey Kanarku/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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