Two NPP Constituency Executives Arrested For Allegedly Stealing 45 Electricity Poles

• Two New Patriotic Party executives in the Sekyere Afram Plains have been arrested for allegedly stealing electrical poles
• The two have been identified as Justice Amo, the constituency secretary and Samson Boamah, the first vice constituency chairman
• They will spend the next three weeks in Ghana Police Sevice custody ahead of their next court hearing

Two constituency executives of the New Patriotic Party in the Sekyere Afram Plains have been arrested for allegedly stealing 45 electrical poles.

The Effiduase Circuit court remanded the two suspects.

TV3 News reported that the poles were meant to supply electricity to parts of Drobonso, including an E-Block school.

The two have been identified as Justice Amo, the constituency secretary and Samson Boamah, the first vice constituency chairman.

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Two others, a driver, Musah Seidu, and an electrician, Enoch Takyi, were also remanded in the same case.

They will spend the next three weeks in police cells before their next court hearing.

Recent legal troubles in the NPP

The New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary candidate for Wassa Amenfi East was arrested for making comments about illegal mining.

The candidate, Ernest Frimpong, allegedly incited violence against security personnel in illegal mining communities.

Frimpong later said his remarks, which went viral and courted controversy, were taken out of context.

Illegal small-scale mining activities in his constituency have claimed lives in the past, like when two persons died in a mining pit at Ataase in the municipality of the Western Region.

Two market women arrested for trying to sell rotten fish

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YEN.com.gh reported that two women have been arrested for allegedly trying to sell rotten fish from a dumping site at Nsawam

The women were arrested by National Security personnel on July 2 after taking some of the discarded fish

UTV reported that although the women were arrested at their homes, authorities believe they planned to sell the rotten produce.

"The two women took it to Nsawam market for sale, smoking and frying some fish. However, after their arrest, they claimed it was for personal consumption," the report said.

The two have been granted bail as police investigate the incident.

Proofread by Berlinda Entsie, journalist and copyeditor at YEN.com.gh

Source: YEN.com.gh