This was when the suspects appeared before the court presided over by Her Worship Emelia K. Abruquah on Friday.

The suspects have been remanded into Ankaful Prisons and to reappear before court on 22nd October 2024.

The six are; Ebenezer Aidoo Frimpong, 42-year-old photographer, Comfort Frimpomaa, 18-year-old student, Abigail Yaa Kyeiwaa, 32 and trader, Esther Efa 39 and seamstress, Naomi Owusu, 38-year-old baker and Akrama Abraham aged 30 also a baker.

They have been charged with assault on a public officer, murder of a public officer and aiding and abetting of a murder.

State Prosecutor, Inspector Maxwell Kwakye had requested for a remand into Police custody as investigation continues while but the counsel for the accused also prayed for a bail.

However, the Court refused the bail plea and remanding them into Prisons custody while investigations ongoing.

The deceased, stationed at the Nsawam Prison was killed over the weekend after being accused of stealing without evidence.

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The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service Supt. Adamu Latif Abdul disclosed this in an interview with Accra-based Citi News.

Mr Abdul said there is ongoing collaboration with the Police to bring the perpetrators to book.

“We heard on October 1 that one of our officers was unfortunately lynched at Kasoa. That is the information we have gathered so far. The police have commenced investigations into the whole issue.

“We have gathered that he went to visit his mother, and he went out to attend to some issues and the incident happened. Days later when he didn’t return the mother reported to the police,” he said.

The officer, stationed at Nsawam Maximum Prison, Gideon Adu Boakye, was stabbed to death by unknown persons over the weekend.

The deceased according to his brother, Eric Akoto was visiting his parents when the tragic incident happened.

The body of the deceased was discovered in a gutter, near Hope of Restoration School, near Red Ball.

Mr Abdul noted the Service is waiting on the Police to find out what actually happened.

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The unfortunate incident occurred over the weekend when he went to spend the weekend with his mother.

In an interview with Adom News, Eric Akoto, a brother of the deceased said Gideon was attacked about 100 metres from the roadside.

He indicated that, his brother was stabbed, with the lifeless body dumped in a gutter nearby.

According to him, some residents close by who heard Gideon’s confrontation with the assailants disclosed that all pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears.

Eric added that, Gideon is in his early 30s with no wife or child with the body deposited at the Police Hospital Mortuary.

The family is appealing to state security agencies to swiftly investigate the matter and bring the perpetrators to book.

Meanwhile, neighbours, who have been left in shock over the gruesome murder have described him as a calm gentleman with a soft heart.

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The Awutu Ofaakor Circuit Court in the Central Region has remanded into police custody for two weeks, 25 suspected internet fraudsters.

This was when they made their first appearance before the court on Friday, November 12, 2021.

The suspects, mainly Nigerians, including two females, were arrested at their hideouts at Kasoa Iron City by the Central East Regional Police Command.

This was during an intelligence-based operation on Wednesday, November 10, 2021.

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The police retrieved 31 laptops, 26 assorted mobile phones, three machetes, and dried leaves suspected to be cannabis and toffees.

The case has, however, been adjourned to November 26, 2021.

The teenager, identified as Emmanuel Otabil, has admitted he picked up the ring which was on a table while they played a video game at Kasoa Iron City on Friday.

According to him, the ring owner is a very good friend who lives adjacent to his house, hence they play together.

“I saw the ring when we went to play the game and after I took it, my friend’s sibling told me it was for him but my reply was since he is my friend, I can wear it and return it anytime he needs it,” he disclosed on Accra-based radio station.

However, master Otabil, explained his nightmare started after he took the ring to sleep since he did not know that was detestable.

“I woke up on Saturday morning feeling pains and I attempted to remove it but to no avail. So my friend came and used a hacksaw blade and a plier but they were only able to cut a part of it and the rest started entering my flesh,” he narrated.

He noted that he could still not understand what made him pick the ring as he got attracted to the ring immediately he spotted it.

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Meanwhile, his mother, Sabina Otabil, who also spoke in the same interview, narrated she was not really bothered at the initial stages.

According to her, on Saturday, she saw her son rubbing soap on his hand and still didn’t know what was wrong or bothered to find out.

“It was around midday, I saw that people had gathered around him and someone came to inform me about the incident and my reply was that he should send the ring to wherever he picked it from but it later became serious,” she said.

Speaking on how they managed to get the ring off his finger after efforts from welders among others proved futile, she said a spiritualist came to their rescue.

“After the ring came off, I cleaned it and took it to the owner’s house but he was not there so I left it with the mother.

“But I was home when the mother came that her son has rejected the ring and demands a new one and I also told her I can’t keep it so she should take it back,” she added.

Though she said her son is steadily responding to treatment, she noted there had been an attempt on their lives as a group of unknown men forcibly stormed their house.

Some residents of Kasoa Iron City in the Awutu Senya East Constituency in the Central region have threatened to burn equipment to be used by the Electoral Commission (EC) in its registration exercise which commences on Tuesday in the Ga South Municipality.

According to the residents who are mainly youth, their decision to do so is due to the creation of two new polling stations in the constituency by returning officers of the EC for Ga South Municipal.

The EC officials of Ga South have created two new polling stations in Awutu Senya East constituency namely Mountain Top and Red Bulb and these two places are all in Kasoa and not Ga South Municipal, the angry residents said.

For the past 20 years, we haven’t seen any developmental projects carried out in the area, and so we will not allow them to create the new two polling stations and prevent any form of registration exercise that might take place tomorrow morning, if the EC tries to carry out the registration exercise, we will vandalise their equipment and burn them, they further posited in an interview with Adom News’ Kofi Adjei.

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The EC, starting tomorrow, June 30, 2020, will commence its much-opposed registration exercise for the compilation of a new voters’ register for use in the 2020 December polls.

The registration exercise will be conducted in five phases with each registration team working for a period of six days in each phase within a cluster of 6,600 registration centres to take place at all the 33,367 polling stations across the country.