The 17- year old boy accused of shooting Lily was convicted and handed a three year jail term for manslaughter.

An Accra High Court on Monday however quashed the sentence and freed him.

According to the court presided over Justice Kofi Dogu, the trial judge at the juvenile court erred in demanding a social enquiry report only after sentencing the accused, although it is required by law to do so before sentencing.

Lily’s family is however not pleased with the court’s judgement.

A relative of the deceased, Peggy Ama Donkor, said the state must revisit the case.

“The state should revisit the case. The truth is that we are not happy even with the three years sentence given but we could not do anything about it. This case should serve as a deterrent to other parents and their wards who think that with money or connections they can be left off the hook when they commit a crime. People have committed less crimes, some have stolen just banana; they are juveniles and they are in there. He did not even go to the normal prison, he went to a correctional home and they are saying what? Those of us who lost our daughter are still calling for justice for Lily,” she said.

The ruling followed an appeal by the lawyers of the boy, who argued that the sentence handed to him was too harsh.

They also claimed that the trial judge lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter.

The High Court held that there had been a miscarriage of justice because the Juvenile Court delivered a verdict without a social enquiry report.

He was found guilty of manslaughter by the Accra Juvenile court in September 2017, during proceedings that were heard in-camera.

Being 16-years-old at the time of the incident on January 4, 2017, he was tried by a Juvenile Court.

The boy, who resides at Community Eight in Tema, is said to have gone for his father’s gun, which was under a bed with the intention of firing shots into the air.

He however ended up killing his friend, Lily Donkor, a third-year student of the same school.

The boy told police that his intent was to fire the gun into the air, a claim corroborated by the police, adding however that the weight of the gun changed the course of the bullet, which hit the deceased.

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The school’s head teacher, Kipo Harrison, confirmed this on Damongo-based Pad FM.

[contextly_sidebar id=”pLTlMiR6YW463y8HBuWjfnyE98w1C81F”]According to him, it is a recurring phenomenon especially during the harmattan season.

He however dismissed attempts to link the other 12 students on admission at the Damongo district hospital to the same disease.

Kipo Harrison said a medical team from the Tamale Teaching Hospital took the deceased’s blood sample for further laboratory test.

The said student died on Tuesday December 12, 2017, whilst 12 others were admitted at the district hospital.

Citi News sources at the Damongo District Hospital confirmed the incident, but the school authorities were initially tight-lipped on the matter.

The situation has reportedly caused fear and panic among continuing students.

This latest health scare comes on the back of the death of four students of Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region.

The pandemic strain of influenza type A, H1N1 2009, also known as Swine Flu, was later detected in some samples from the school.

Aside from the four deaths, several students were also been hospitalized.

Respiratory samples sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research also indicated that there was an outbreak of an acute respiratory infection which the Health Ministry has since attributed as the cause of some of the deaths.

The whole student population had to be administered with antibiotics as part of a prophylaxis after which the school was fumigated

However, no definite cause of the deaths has been declared.

Another school that has had to deal with a health situation in recent days is the Koforidua Technical School, where a second-year science student who passed away over the weekend, was confirmed to have died from Meningitis.

However, health officials in both the Ashanti Region and the Eastern Regions, have insisted that they have contained the situation, and have assured the public of their commitment to ensuring the safety of the students.

The Eastern Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Charity Sarpong, told Citi News: “I must say that currently, everything is calm in the school because we have given them the necessary support, they know what to look out for, they also have our contact numbers so that when there is something we will be immediately contacted for the necessary support.”

Swine flu outbreak at KUMACA contained – Health officials

Addressing the incident at KUMACA, the Ashanti Regional Health Director, Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang, said: “So far so good. Since Monday, there has not been any new case and so far we have 11 students on admission. Three are on admission at the KNUST hospital. Komfo Anokye has one on admission. At Kumasi South hospital, there are five on admission, and then at Manhyia hospital, we have two on admission. There has not been any reported new case.”

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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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Citi News’ Lauretta Timah reported that ” friends and sympathizers of the deceased, Adwoa Agyarkwa Anyimadu-Antwi, paid their last respect at Patrensa today [Saturday].”

According to her, “party faithfuls of the NPP thronged the funeral grounds to sympathize with the Member of Parliament.”

Lauretta however stated that, no funeral  ceremony accompanied the burial.

The first year chemical engineering student was found lifeless with a rope tied around her neck, as she hanged unto the ceiling of her room.

The cause of her death is yet to be known, but according to a journalist with KNUST’s Focus FM, Edward Oppong Marfo, some of her friends recounted the deceased had lamented  few weeks before the incident that she was not performing well academically as expected by her parents.

A note reportedly left behind by the deceased read, “am sorry to disappoint you mummy and daddy”.

The Police have commenced investigations to establish the cause of the incident.

My daughter’s suicide came to me like ‘thunder’ – MP breaks silence 

The father of deceased Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, who spoke on the tragic death of his daughter, said his daughter’s demise been the most difficult moment in his life after he finally found out that his eldest daughter who was reading chemistry at KNUST had indeed committed suicide as alleged by the school’s authorities.

“As of now I have tried hard to find answers to the puzzle as to why my daughter could die in such a tragic manner because we provided everything for her and made sure she was always happy. She was my best friend,” the father said.

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Confirming the incident to Citi News, the Effiduase District Police Commander, ASP Dan Yaaro, said “Yes, I can confirm the accident at Koforidua Ghana Senior High School, which occurred last[Saturday] night. We are currently in the school conducting investigations into the incident, and we will address the media at the appropriate time.”

Citi News’ Eastern Regional correspondent, Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku, reported that “a first year general arts student of Frempong Mposu house in the school, was hit to the ground by the fallen tree and didn’t survive.”

He further stated that, the “six other injured students were sent to the St. Joseph’s Roman Hospital for treatment.”

A student, who witnessed how the incident occurred said : “The tree just fell and about six people got injured. There were a lot of people there, but most of them managed to run away so they were not affected.”

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He broke his silence on the contentious issue at his private Fuo residence in Tamale, where he received Hassan Ayariga’s All Peoples Congress’ (APC) Northern Regional executives, and party members who have declared their unflinching support for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo.

[contextly_sidebar id=”U1zPWZZyBq6mIiAVuxCwR3c0bhub3vXX”]He stated that, “I don’t need bribe. If I need bribe; I would have pocketed the money they gave me and the cars and the promise of other money which is supposed to come, I would have done it.”

He claimed that he was already wealthy when President Mahama was a student.

“When I started buying cars; Mahama was a student at Ghana College (Ghanasco). He himself told me that I was having some cars and other things, and today you are presenting five hundred thousand to me and a car. As for me I don’t need anybody to give me money.”

“If John Mahama wanted to give me money; he would have given me money when he became the vice President. Is today that he knows that I need money? Today that you are failing; you are calling me to come, I won’t come,” Bugri Naabu charged.

Daniel Bugri Naabu chastised the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) 2016 Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams, for calling him (Bugri Naabu) a liar.

He renewed his confidence in Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo’s capacity to salvage the nation.

“I know that Nana Addo is the only one who can build Ghana peacefully and for that matter I will never ever collect bribe to damage him.”

Spokesperson of the NPP Presidential nominee, Mustapha Hamid, on Tuesday at a news conference in Accra, accused President Mahama and his brother Ibrahim Mahama of attempting to bribe the party’s Northern Regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu to campaign against Nana Akufo Addo.

Whereas the NDC’s National Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams, has rubbished the allegation, some concerned political analysts have challenged Daniel Bugri Naabu to substantiate the allegation.

APC Northern Regional Executives endorse Nana Addo
 
Meanwhile, the APC Northern Regional Treasurer, Ibrahim Mashoud, on behalf of the regional executives; disassociated themselves from the APC leader, Hassan Ayariga’s endorsement of President John Dramani Mahama for the December 7 polls.

“We in the Northern Region were not consulted by anybody especially Ayariga; when he decided to throw his weight behind a certain party in Ghana. We were not consulted in the Northern Region and so we disassociate ourselves completely from throwing his weight behind the NDC.”

“We in the APC and for that matter the regional, constituency and Parliamentary candidates of the Northern Region; wish to state here and now to the good people of Ghana that, we sincerely endorse the candidature of Nana Akufo, the NPP Flagbearer for 2016.”

Ibrahim Mashoud explained their decision, saying, “The endorsement came after series of meetings considering the corruption, mismanagement, wastage of the economy, high rate of unemployment, highest rate of incompetence, killer taxes, collapse of the private sector, high utility bills, tribal politics just to mention a few.”

He exposed Hassan Ayariga’s ignorance on the composition of the APC Northern Regional chapter.

“Hassan Ayariga does not know all his regional executives not to talk of constituency members who were behind him, he does not know anybody.”

“We went round to form the constituency executives. He has never been to Tamale to see any constituency executives not to talk of the regional. So I want to say emphatically that Hassan Ayariga does not know anybody in the Northern Region so far as the APC is concerned.”

He insisted that, Nana Akufo remained their obvious choice for the December 7 Presidential poll.

“Our support and votes are for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo of the NPP, and we are declaring that all our members should vote for him on December 7. Our support for Nana Akufo Addo is solid and unshakable.”
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