The press in Ghana on Friday highlights government’s resolve to devote an agency to fight crimes perpetrated by crime groups, syndicates and other trouble makers.
The Ghanaian Times says, “Govt sets up special agency… to combat crime groups, syndicates, trouble makers,” adding that President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured the leadership of the Ghana Council of Independent Churches at a meeting at the Jubilee House, seat of government.
He observed that the main challenge the country faced was the absence of an agency, whose main responsibility is to gather intelligence on the identity, location and activities of criminals and potential troublemakers.
“If we have an organisation that can penetrate those crime groups, it strengthens the hand of state in dealing with them,” he said, adding that the state security agencies have not been very sharp in dealing with the various crimes as expected.
The Daily Graphic, for her path, said Ghana’s Office of the Special Prosecutor has interrogated two persons suspected to have been involved in illegal mining activities.
They are Mr. Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue, Presidential Staffer, and Mr. Andy Owusu, whose names were mentioned in a documentary aired by ace investigator, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
Mr. Bissue, who is the secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee, was seen in the video taking money to allegedly help an unlicenced company to circumvent laid down procedures to obtain clearance for its operations.
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