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Ambulance Case: Attorney General Will Not Press Charges Against Alleged Defamation – Spokesperson

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Godfred Dame, Attorney-General The Office of the Attorney General has announced that it will not pursue defamation charges against individuals allegedly spreading falsehoods about Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame in connection with the ongoing ambulance procurement case. In a statement issued on Thursday, May 23, and signed by Deputy Attorney General Alfred Tuah Yeboah, the AG's office addressed the allegations made by Richard Jakpa, the third accused in the case.Jakpa claimed that the Attorney General sought his cooperation to secure a conviction against the first accused, Cassiel Ato Forson, a prominent figure in the National Democratic Congress (NDC).“It is rather the third accused who, by various letters dated 27 April 2023, 16 May 2023, 30 May 2023 and 12 June 2023, has proposed to

World Court Orders Israel To Immediately Halt Rafah Offensive

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The International Court of Justice at The Hague ordered Israel to halt its military operation in Rafah on Friday, saying it was "not convinced" that Israel was doing enough to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are sheltering. The ICJ, colloquially known as the World Court, issued several directives to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government: reopen the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to allow large-scale humanitarian aid, grant access to Gaza for investigators and fact-finding missions, and provide a progress report to the court within a month on implementing these measures. Rulings from the court are considered binding, but there is no mechanism of enforcing them. A Palestinian man and his children sit in a destroyed

Ambulance Trial: A-G Has Engaged Me At Odd Hours To Implicate Ato Forson – Richard Jakpa

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Attorney-General Godfred Dame By Laud Adu-Asare The third accused in the ambulance purchase trial, Richard Jakpa has accused the Attorney-General (A-G), Godfred Yeboah Dame of approaching him to help him implicate Minority Leader and former Deputy Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson. The businessman who was under cross-examination by counsel for the Minority Leader, had earlier been warned by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe to be direct in his responses rather than going around it and wasting the Court’s time. Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame reacting to the judge’s caution accused Richard Jakpa of defending the Minority Leader. This triggered the third accused who retorted that the Attorney-General appeared pained because he had engaged him to help the state make a case against Dr Cassiel Ato Forson. “The

NewsClick Founder Prabir Purkayastha To Be Released On Bail After Arrest Ruled Illegal

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Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times “hit piece” published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the US as well May 15, 2024 by Peoples Dispatch Prabir Purkayastha outside his home in February 2021 after the first raid by the Enforcement Directorate. Photo: ICF The Indian Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of author and journalist Prabir Purkayastha on Wednesday, May 15 terming his arrest by the Delhi Police in October last year, illegal. The Court questioned the haste with which police executed the NewsClick founder’s arrest, noting that they did not even follow the basic procedures. The court noted that, in complete violation of the principles of

Politicization Of Justice: Chief Justice Has The Right To Change The Composition Of Any SC Panel                                       

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Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkonoo The unfortunate politicization of our justice just took a giant step forward. Without explanation, at the 11th hour, the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkonoo, replaced 3 of the justices she had empanelled to hear the appeal in "The Republic vs Dr. Stephen Opuni & 2 others". While the CJ, like a monarch, didn't offer any explanation, the AG, who is, on behalf the government, an interested party, has leapt to her defense, accusing those raising questions of peddling falsehoods. According to the AG, standing on article 157(3), the CJ has the right to change the composition of any SC panel, as long as the case has not been heard. Now, just in case you are wondering, I know

Global Infoanalytics A Credible Research Organisation – Kwesi Pratt Jnr. Asserts

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Managing editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has waded into the survey conducted by Global InfoAnalytics for the upcoming December 7 general elections and the outright rejection of the survey by the ruling New Patriotic Party. According to the veteran journalist, who is also the General Secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, the rejection of the outcome of the polls by the NPP beggars belief because Global InfoAnalytics has a doubtless reputation for conducting credible polls with an almost exact predicted outcome playing out in recent elections. "Between the Bawumia campaign and Global InfoAnalytics, who should we trust?" he quizzed. Pratt further went ahead to list a litany of predictions made by the research organization in past elections, including the

West Africa Conjuncture: Senegal, 2024

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Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko greets his supporters as he attends the protest to demand the release of alleged political prisoners ahead of his court appearance on Thursday on libel charges, in Dakar, Senegal March 14, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ABSTRACT Three West African countries namely, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Ghana, would engage in democratic bourgeois elections in 2024. In Ghana and Guinea-Bissau, key presidential elections are scheduled to be held in December 2024 while Senegal’s presidential elections scheduled for February 2024 is on hold owing to the executive’s interference in the process[1]. There is no doubt as these three countries prepare to go to the polls, they have differing political and economic challenges. Some of the political challenges include police crackdown on protests and

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