Akufo-Addo Petitioned To Withdraw Major Oduro’s Nomination

The Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Brogya Genfi has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to withdraw the nomination of Major Derek Oduro (rtd) as Deputy Minister-Designate for Defence for justifying an assault on a journalist. Major Derek Oduro (rtd) in an interview on Starr FM justified the brutality meted … Read more

Akufo-Addo Petitioned To Withdraw Nominee

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been petitioned by Brogya Genfi, Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to withdraw the nomination of Major Derek Oduro (rtd) as Deputy Minister-Designate for Defence for justifying an assault on a journalist. The petition, dated 27 March 2017, addressed to the president and copied to … Read more

Major Rtd Oduro Tells ‘loud-Mouth’ Journalists

Chairman of the Defence Committee of Parliament and President Akufo-Addo’s nominee for the position of deputy minister of Defence, Major (rtd) Derek Oduro has warned journalists in Ghana against retorting to military officers or risk being beaten. Speaking on the back of an alleged attack by some military officers on a freelance journalist on March … Read more

Major Derick Oduro ‘justifies’ Soldiers’ Attack On Journalist

The Chairman of the Defence Committee of Parliament and deputy Defence minister-nominee Major Derick Oduro has seemingly justified the alleged brutalities meted out to a freelance journalist by some soldiers during the Independence Day parade. According to Kendrick Offei Ansah, four soldiers commanded him to follow them to the Osu castle barracks after he attempted … Read more

Soldiers Allegedly Assault Journalist

A freelance journalist Kendrick Offei Ansah was alleged to have been assaulted by some military officers for taking coverage of the officers assaulting a civilian on the independence day. Narrating his ordeal to Akwasi Boateng on Hot Fm’s morning show Maakye, Offei 34, said on the 6th of March 2017, he went to the Black … Read more