The leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC), has committed to preserve the peace in the country after the Supreme Court 39;s ruling on the 2020 Election Petition.
Pampering Insurgency: Ghana’s Path to State-Failure or Building Africa’s Newest Conflict?
By Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey - 25 February 2021
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey examines Ghana’s insurgency development, state response and likely implication of a failure of early counter-insurgency.
Weak States are more vulnerable to civil wars and conflicts and as a continent, Africa has demonstrated a significant level of state fragility. As at the early 2000s, about thirty countries or 65% of all states in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced some form of an armed conflict since independence. Goran Hyden declared that “in 1999, a fifth of all Africans lived in countries battered by war.” As frightening as it may seem, Ghana has carved a relatively peaceful democratic development but this trend is on the verge of being disturbed because rebel movements and insurgencies – a major denominator of African civil conflicts – are building up and the government is pampering them. Although plans of
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Dennis Seyram Benson, who posed as lawyer for some alleged secessionists in some courts has been remanded into Police custody by the Kaneshie District Court.
Benson is facing six counts of defrauding by false pretenses and deceit of court by impersonation.
He is said to have acted as lawyer before some judges and magistrates within the Accra metropolis.
The judges included Mrs. Rosemary Baah Torsu and Mr. Emmanuel M Essandoh both at the Circuit Court and Ms. Ama Adomako Kwakye of the District Court.
He pleaded not guilty before the court presided over by Ms. Rosemond Doodua Agyiri.
The court said that due to the seriousness of the offence, it will remand the accused into police custody to reappear on January 4, next year.
Dennis Seyram Benson, who allegedly posed as lawyer for some alleged secessionists in some courts has been remanded into Police custody by the Kaneshie District Court.
Benson is facing six counts of defrauding by false pretenses and deceit of court by impersonation.
He is said to have acted as lawyer before some judges and magistrates within the Accra metropolis.
The judges included Mrs. Rosemary Baah Torsu and Mr. Emmanuel M Essandoh both at the Circuit Court and Ms. Ama Adomako Kwakye of the District Court.
He pleaded not guilty before the court presided over by Ms. Rosemond Doodua Agyiri.
The court said that due to the seriousness of the offence, it will remand the accused into police custody to reappear on January 4, next year.
Fake Secessionists lawyer remanded
DEC 22, 2020
Dennis Seyram Benson, who posed as lawyer for some alleged secessionists in some courts has been remanded into Police custody by the Kaneshie District Court.
Benson is facing six counts of defrauding by false pretenses and deceit of court by impersonation.
He is said to have acted as lawyer before some judges and magistrates within the Accra metropolis.
The judges included Mrs. Rosemary Baah Torsu and Mr. Emmanuel M Essandoh both at the Circuit Court and Ms. Ama Adomako Kwakye of the District Court.
He pleaded not guilty before the court presided over by Ms. Rosemond Doodua Agyiri.