Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Nana Agradaa arrested, two TV stations shutdown by state security


State security has shut down two TV stations, ‘Thunder TV’ and ‘Ice 1 TV’, which belongs to popular spiritualist Patricia Asiedu, popularly known as Nana Agradaa.

Nana Agradaa’s stations were closed and equipment seized for operating without the necessary authorization.

Nana Agradaa has swindled an uncountable number of her gullible audience under the pretext of doubling cash for them through her openly advertised ‘Sika Gari’ ritual concept.

The said stations used as a tool for advertisements have had many unsuspecting Ghanaians fall prey to Nana Agradaa’s scam.

The move comes on the back of the State’s effort at tackling swindlers, money doublers and other criminals masquerading as spiritualists.

Nana Agradaa’s Thunder TV had its authorisation revoked on March 24, 2020, according to the National Communications Authority (NCA).

On the other hand, ice 1 TV, another member of the ‘Agradaa conglomerate’, also operated illegally even after a written directive to cease operations was served.

Records available to theghanareport.com indicate that the authorization of Ice 1 TV expired on February 26, 2020.

The company was then directed to cease operations in a letter dated  June 17, 2020.
Both stations are based in Kasoa in the Central Region.

Nana Agradaa has been using her platform to exchange insults against Rev Obofour, a self-styled pastor who is the founder and leader of Anointed Palace Chapel (APC).

The two have been engaged in public verbal exchanges using unprintable words since the recent Kasoa ritual murder story.


 
Reverend Kwaku Agyei Antwi releases videos in the mornings with Nana Agradaa’s responses appearing on social media by the close of day.

Who is Nana Agradaa?

The self-styled Accra-based fetish priestess has been a reference point on numerous fraudulent activities in the name of spiritualism.

On many occasions, her operations have been reported by some bold folk who have fallen prey. Many others have stayed mute after their encounter yielded no effect.

However, it was alleged that Nana Agradaa had some law enforcement agencies such as the police on her payroll, hence her unabated impunity on open advertorials in money doubling rituals.

Money ritual crime

The sudden thirst for fast money by some young people in the country has resulted in the commitment of a diverse crime.

This includes the latest gruesome murder of an innocent 10-year-old, Ishmael Abdallah.

He was killed in broad daylight by two teenagers at the request of a female spiritualist.

This generated a public fury on the constant societal pressures by supposed spiritualists using open and unregulated channels to communicate their ‘simple powers’ of doubling cash or making one earn money effortlessly.

The suspects have been arraigned and remanded pending trial.

SOURCE: theghanareport.com


 

Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Tonto Dikeh joins #FreeAkuapemPoloo campaign; asks Nigerians to show love and support


- Nigerian actress Tonto Dikeh has joined the campaign to free Akuapem Poloo - Dikeh asked Nigerians on Facebook to show love and support to Poloo - 
On Friday, April 16, 2021, Poloo was sentenced to a 90-day jail term after she pleaded guilty to charges of publishing obscene material with two counts of domestic violence over posting a nude photo of her son in 2020. 

The likes of Sarkodie, Efya, Bridget Otoo, Jessica Opare-Sarforo, and Vanessa Gyan had previously pleaded with the court to have mercy on her prior to the sentence. The campaign to free actress Akuapem Poloo is gaining more support with over 30,000 people signing for her to gain her freedom. The likes of rapper Joey B are amongst the public figures who have signed the petition. In other news about Poloo, Maverick Ghanaian politician, Kennedy Agyapong, has shown no mercy to Akuapem Poloo. The Assin Central MP has kicked against claims that Akuapem Poloo's three months sentence was too harsh. The controversial lawmaker said the actress should have even gotten a year of jail time.


 

Child Rights International set to focus on street children after getting Akuapem Poloo jailed


Following its efforts in getting actress Rosemond Alade Brown, aka Akuapem Poloo, incarcerated for child abuse, Child Rights International says it will now turn its attention on the parents of street children will allow their children to roam and beg for alms on the street.

According to the non-governmental organisation, the court ruling had encouraged it to pursue more child abuse cases in order to uphold and protect their rights.

Satisfaction

The Executive Director of CRI, Mr Bright Appiah, who said this in an interview with the Daily Graphic yesterday, said the court ruling was not a matter of being satisfied but the fact that the court system was able to see to the completion of the case.

“Once you find a child on the street, it is an abuse and there are processes stated by law in taking action in respect of that. The first one is people who use children to beg for alms and, for that matter, they must be prosecuted for engaging children on the street.


 
“Then again, there are others who are also very vulnerable and, for that matter, find themselves on the street. The law also provides a certain antidote that the state must provide and so that is one aspect that we are going to pursue,” he said.


 

 
Mr Appiah said three years ago the organisation conducted research and then reported that it was going to take action and that its lawyers were studying the research report and at the appropriate time would come out with a demand on the state to make sure that all children were protected.

“So we will play our part and we will continue to do that. In 2019, we took action and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection came out and said that it was developing a roadmap for withdrawing children from the streets and we kept quiet but now we are going full length.


 
For him, he said, the system had really responded properly to the Akuapem Poloo issue which was expected to serve as a deterrent to others, adding that what he was not enthused about was the fact that there was no pronouncement on the state of the child.


 
Mr Appiah congratulated the police on taking the matter up and referring it to the court, and believed that the message had been sent out there that people must begin to respect the privacy and dignity of children and accord them the needed support.

He said the organisation would not renege on its efforts to push for child abuse issues to be put before court.



 

Chad President dies after clash with rebels


Chad’s President Idriss Déby has died suddenly in clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said on state TV.

On Monday, provisional results from the election on 11 April projected he would win a sixth term in office, with 80% of the vote.

The government and parliament have been dissolved. A military council will govern for the next 18 months.

Mr Déby, 68, was one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.

He first came to power in an armed uprising in 1990.

Mr Déby “breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield”, an army general said in a statement read out on state TV.

He had gone to the front line at the weekend to visit troops battling rebels based across the border in Libya.

The military council will be led by the late president’s son, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, 37, a four-star general.

The rebels, from a group calling itself Fact (the Front for Change and Concord in Chad), attacked a border post on election day. They were advancing on the capital, N’Djamena, several hundred kilometres to the south.

The clashes with the army began on Saturday. An army general told Reuters news agency that 300 insurgents were killed and 150 captured. Five government soldiers were killed and 36 were injured, he said. The figures could not immediately be verified.

Mr Déby was a long-time ally of France and other Western powers in the battle against jihadist groups in the Sahel region of Africa. However, there has been growing unhappiness over his government’s management of Chad’s oil resources.

During the election he campaigned on a platform of bringing peace and security to the region.

Source: BBC