Midday News

Greater Accra Regional Minister, Titus Glover, issues a stern warning to settlers at ECOMOG at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Accra, against rebuilding their structures demolished by fire.

Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame faces off with lawyers for Dr Cassiel Ato Forson and Richard Jakpa who are standing trial for causing financial loss to the state.

Political Parties in a standoff with the electoral commission over it decision to bar political party representatives from monitoring the transfer of votes process.

Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has filed an opposition to Dr. Ato Forson’s application for the High Court to order a probe into his (Attorney-General’s) conduct in the ongoing trial of two persons accused of wilfully causing financial loss to the State.

The third accused in the ongoing ambulance trial, Richard Jakpa has filed a court application seeking to have the charges against him dismissed or, alternatively, have the proceedings against him stayed. In the application, Mr Jakpa argues that the charges and proceedings initiated by Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame constitute an abuse of court processes and violate the obligations set in the 1992 Constitution.

Isaac Bampoe Addo, the Executive Secretary of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) and Chairman of The Forum has disclosed that Organised Labour has exerted pressure on the Board of the Social Security and National Trust (SSNIT) to halt any plans to divest 60% shares in four hotels.

Minority in parliament kick start processes to have Attorney General Godfred Dame from office following the publication of an audio of him tempering with a witness in the ongoing ambulance case Richard Jakpa.

South Dayi Member of Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has urged the Judicial Secretary to address the alleged involvement of Justice Yonny Kulendi in the controversial tape that captures the Attorney-General and the third accused person in the ambulance procurement trial.