GHANA SHOCK NEWS
The 25-year-old auto-electrician held in connection with the murder
of Rosemond Nyampong at her residence has confessed to committing the
horrific crime alone.
Abraham Oyotey Baah admitted to the crime yesterday at the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) Magistrate Court presided over by Mr. Isaac Adjei.
According to information gathered by Daily Guide, Abraham explained during the trial which was held in camera that he entered the victim's home and pushed Rosemond, 32, who knew him as a neighbour, to the ground, which led to a struggle.
He narrated that he managed to overpower Rosemond and gagged her with a piece of cloth to prevent her from screaming to attract other neighbours.
Abraham earlier claimed he was contracted by a woman, who gave him Rosemond's photograph, to kill her, but had since failed to disclose the identity of the said woman.
Chief Inspector Sylvia Okain, who held brief for Chief Inspector Cecelia Mensah, the prosecutor handling the case, prayed tne court to remand Abraham so the Attorney General's Department would have ample time to give its advice on the docket.
The presiding judge, without wasting much time, ordered that the suspect be remanded in prison instead of police custody, until February ,2014.
Sampson Nyampong, a relative of Rosemond, told Daily Guide in an interview that he was not pleased with the security arrangement concerning the suspect, Abraham, saying, "His accomplice could come and kill him to end the trial if proper security is not given."
He disbelieved Abraham's recent claim tnat he acted alone.
"He has noticed he is going down so he wants to go down alone to save his accomplices. The autopsy report revealed that Rosemond was strangled to death," he asserted.
According to him, Abraham could not have strangled his relation alone because she was a strong girl.
"Due to the nature of the killing, coupled with her structure and strength, I know my daughter who had been going to the gym to exercise, I don't think this guy can strangle her to death alone," he said.
It would be recalled that pretty Rosemond was found dead on November 21, 2013, in the kitchen at her residence at Baatsona.
Obviously dressed for work before the fatal attack, she was found gagged with a piece of cloth, with signs of a struggle having ensued before she was killed. Her lifeless body was discovered in a decomposed state.
Police investigations led to the arrest of Abraham at Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region where he had sent the victim's Toyota Yaris saloon car with registration number GT 5133-10 to a washing bay.
Some properties such as a home theatre system, plasma television, and mobile phones belonging to Rosemond were also found in the room of Abraham.
He later led police on a wild goose chase to his so-called accomplices.
Rosemond was buried on December 14, 2013 beside her father, who had died some six months earlier, at the Osu Cemetery in Accra.
Executive Director of Global Peace
Advocacy and Associates (GLOPA), Charles Dodzi Gidisu has called on the
office of President John Mahama to direct NADMO to as a matter of
concern establish a workable and advanced Waste Segregation and
Recycling System nationwide to curb the constant fatalities propelled by
floods anytime it rains.
Speaking through a press release he indicates that as long as past and present governments refuse to pay attention to instituting proper waste management system in the country, death toll of persons killed by floods in our major cities will continue unabated. He says the floods are self-engineered death traps.
In reaction to the extensive destructions caused by the recent rainfalls accumulating into heavy floods, Mr. Gidisu analysed it is due time government instituted modern, efficient and sustainable waste management system to regulate the haphazard nature with which trash and waste substance are controlled by government as he believes is the major cause of floods in the cities and towns. He admits poor or lack of proper waste recycling system by appropriate authorities has contributed negatively to the current almost inevitable death traps in the country. He also cautioned the office of the Town and Country Planning Department to help the situation by ensuring persons who's houses stands in the way of major gutters and drainages are dealt with and removed where necessary.
As civil society group, Global Peace Advocacy and Associates (GLOPA) concerns itself with issues of this kind that bothers on peace to society and empowers members of society to take up roles which leads to national development.
According to Mr. Gidisu, population growth, rapid urbanization, consumption patterns, economic growth and development processes are leading factors that has accounted for the increased waste creation in the country but he maintains the mode of regulating these waste is poor and unsustainable hence encouraging huge sanitation challenges which eventually results in choked gutters rendering most drainages useless. He believes the case of the capital city, Accra, is so alarming such that it qualifies to be described as a menace if not a crisis.
In this vain he pleaded with authorities to ensure proper collection of refuse from whichever sources bearing in mind to do an extensive segregation of the types of refuse, categorizing them by their nature to aid in easy disposal options and methods, not forgetting their treatment (recycling) and structures.
On behalf of GLOPA, Mr. Gidisu suggested a couple of what he called proactive interventions to curtail the recurrence of the current "crisis" caused by unsuccessful waste management system by the government. He requests that in order to help the situation, economic value must be placed on all properly segregated wastes which will serve as incentive for proper segregation at source by households, traders, and the entire populace. Again he believes waste management organizations (both private and public) should buy segregated waste from households to be recycled for reuse. In that way he says it shall compel the public to self manage their garbages properly for easy collection and create jobs for people, as well as generate revenue for government instead of spending more taxes to resolving the situation.
Finally, Mr. Gidisu explained that in other to avert the next flood disaster government itself must act as regulator and institute appropriate legal regimes and institutional frameworks for efficient operation of the sector and ensuring strict adherence and enforcement of the law.
Abraham Oyotey Baah admitted to the crime yesterday at the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) Magistrate Court presided over by Mr. Isaac Adjei.
According to information gathered by Daily Guide, Abraham explained during the trial which was held in camera that he entered the victim's home and pushed Rosemond, 32, who knew him as a neighbour, to the ground, which led to a struggle.
He narrated that he managed to overpower Rosemond and gagged her with a piece of cloth to prevent her from screaming to attract other neighbours.
Abraham earlier claimed he was contracted by a woman, who gave him Rosemond's photograph, to kill her, but had since failed to disclose the identity of the said woman.
Chief Inspector Sylvia Okain, who held brief for Chief Inspector Cecelia Mensah, the prosecutor handling the case, prayed tne court to remand Abraham so the Attorney General's Department would have ample time to give its advice on the docket.
The presiding judge, without wasting much time, ordered that the suspect be remanded in prison instead of police custody, until February ,2014.
Sampson Nyampong, a relative of Rosemond, told Daily Guide in an interview that he was not pleased with the security arrangement concerning the suspect, Abraham, saying, "His accomplice could come and kill him to end the trial if proper security is not given."
He disbelieved Abraham's recent claim tnat he acted alone.
"He has noticed he is going down so he wants to go down alone to save his accomplices. The autopsy report revealed that Rosemond was strangled to death," he asserted.
According to him, Abraham could not have strangled his relation alone because she was a strong girl.
"Due to the nature of the killing, coupled with her structure and strength, I know my daughter who had been going to the gym to exercise, I don't think this guy can strangle her to death alone," he said.
It would be recalled that pretty Rosemond was found dead on November 21, 2013, in the kitchen at her residence at Baatsona.
Obviously dressed for work before the fatal attack, she was found gagged with a piece of cloth, with signs of a struggle having ensued before she was killed. Her lifeless body was discovered in a decomposed state.
Police investigations led to the arrest of Abraham at Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region where he had sent the victim's Toyota Yaris saloon car with registration number GT 5133-10 to a washing bay.
Some properties such as a home theatre system, plasma television, and mobile phones belonging to Rosemond were also found in the room of Abraham.
He later led police on a wild goose chase to his so-called accomplices.
Rosemond was buried on December 14, 2013 beside her father, who had died some six months earlier, at the Osu Cemetery in Accra.
OUR FLOODS ARE SELF-ENGINEERED DEATH TRAPS - 'GLOPA'
Speaking through a press release he indicates that as long as past and present governments refuse to pay attention to instituting proper waste management system in the country, death toll of persons killed by floods in our major cities will continue unabated. He says the floods are self-engineered death traps.
In reaction to the extensive destructions caused by the recent rainfalls accumulating into heavy floods, Mr. Gidisu analysed it is due time government instituted modern, efficient and sustainable waste management system to regulate the haphazard nature with which trash and waste substance are controlled by government as he believes is the major cause of floods in the cities and towns. He admits poor or lack of proper waste recycling system by appropriate authorities has contributed negatively to the current almost inevitable death traps in the country. He also cautioned the office of the Town and Country Planning Department to help the situation by ensuring persons who's houses stands in the way of major gutters and drainages are dealt with and removed where necessary.
As civil society group, Global Peace Advocacy and Associates (GLOPA) concerns itself with issues of this kind that bothers on peace to society and empowers members of society to take up roles which leads to national development.
According to Mr. Gidisu, population growth, rapid urbanization, consumption patterns, economic growth and development processes are leading factors that has accounted for the increased waste creation in the country but he maintains the mode of regulating these waste is poor and unsustainable hence encouraging huge sanitation challenges which eventually results in choked gutters rendering most drainages useless. He believes the case of the capital city, Accra, is so alarming such that it qualifies to be described as a menace if not a crisis.
In this vain he pleaded with authorities to ensure proper collection of refuse from whichever sources bearing in mind to do an extensive segregation of the types of refuse, categorizing them by their nature to aid in easy disposal options and methods, not forgetting their treatment (recycling) and structures.
On behalf of GLOPA, Mr. Gidisu suggested a couple of what he called proactive interventions to curtail the recurrence of the current "crisis" caused by unsuccessful waste management system by the government. He requests that in order to help the situation, economic value must be placed on all properly segregated wastes which will serve as incentive for proper segregation at source by households, traders, and the entire populace. Again he believes waste management organizations (both private and public) should buy segregated waste from households to be recycled for reuse. In that way he says it shall compel the public to self manage their garbages properly for easy collection and create jobs for people, as well as generate revenue for government instead of spending more taxes to resolving the situation.
Finally, Mr. Gidisu explained that in other to avert the next flood disaster government itself must act as regulator and institute appropriate legal regimes and institutional frameworks for efficient operation of the sector and ensuring strict adherence and enforcement of the law.
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