The last group stages of the UEFA Champions League will see Porto hosting Atletico Madrid in Group B on Tuesday night in a clash that will determine the fate of both teams. Porto sit second in the group table with just five points so far. A win on Tuesday would guarantee them a spot in the knockout stages.
Atletico Madrid have not fared much better than their hosts. After drawing 0-0 against Porto in their first game and beating AC Milan 2-1 in their second, the visitors have gone on a three-game losing streak.
The La Liga club sit rock-bottom in the group with four points from five games. They will put themselves in a strong position to qualify should they beat Porto.
There have been seven meetings between Porto and Atletico Madrid in the past. Both teams have won two games apiece while the other three games have all ended in draws. Atletico Madrid are in danger of exiting the Champions League in the group stage for the first time since the 2017-18 season.
Real Madrid host Inter Milan at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday for the final round of the group stages.
Real Madrid beat Inter Milan 1-0 in their first Champions League game before a shock 2-1 home loss to new boys Sheriff Tiraspol. The Spanish giants, however, bounced back from the defeat superbly, going on to win their next three games.
Real Madrid sit top of the group with 12 points after five games. They can secure top spot in the group with a draw on Tuesday. Inter Milan sit one place and two points behind their midweek hosts in the group table. Although they have qualified for the next round, the Italian outfit need a win to finish the group as leaders. Real Madrid have never lost to Inter Milan in all six of their meetings. The hosts have won five of those games and have drawn the other.
Both teams have secured a place in the knockout stages of the tournament. All that is left to fight for is the top spot in the group.
Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 11 games across all competitions and have won their last eight on the bounce. Tuesday’s game should see the hosts pick up a slender victory.
President Akufo-Addo addressing a press conference. at the Jubilee house. With him is Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa.
President Akufo-Addo (2nd from left, addressing President Cyril Ramaphosa (2nd right), during bilateral talks between the two Countries. With them is Mrs Akosua Frema Osei Opare (left), Chief of Staff
The presidents of the republics of Ghana and South Africa have descended heavily on the Western world for over what they have described as unfair treatment being meted out to Africa over the detection of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron.
According to the two leaders, the least the wealthy nations could do for Africa was to hail her smartness and competence in detecting the variant and informing the world. South Africa, whose scientists discovered the Omicron, is among other African countries banned from traveling to the US, UK, and EU.
Affected Countries
The countries affected are South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Egypt, Mozambique, Malawi, and Nigeria.
Joint Press Briefing
Addressing a joint media briefing at Jubilee House on Saturday, December 4, 2021, the two presidents condemned the decision, whilst taking it as a lesson to be self-reliant.
President Akufo-Addo
In his brief, President Akufo-Addo said that Ghana joins the other African countries in repeating their firm opposition to all attempts to single out the continent for the imposition of travel bans as instruments of immigration control.
He said the position to oppose the ban stemmed from the fact that the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which was recently sequenced and reported by South African scientists, was discovered much earlier in the Netherlands.
President Akufo-Addo indicated that he exchanged views and information with President Ramaphosa about the common fight against COVID-19.
Vaccines for all
It was the belief of President Akufo-Addo that vaccine politics should cease to ensure that all over the world, there was enough to vaccinate everybody.
In Ghana, while, he said, the government was working to manufacture its own vaccines, and that about six million of the population had been inoculated, a number, he said, was way too low, and urged all to get vaccinated.
Support for South Africa
He reiterated Ghana’s unflinching support for South Africa and, indeed, for all the African Countries in their common search for an end to the pandemic.
The President told the media that the purpose of the visit by the South African President is to re-affirm the ties of cooperation and the bonds of friendship between the two countries, with the two leaders discussing at length how to boost further political and economic relations, cultural and people-to-people exchanges, as well as co-operation at the continental and multilateral levels.
Their deliberations also centered on driving investment opportunities, domestic and foreign, into both countries; the realisation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and the need for enhanced cooperation and partnership in the areas of education, trade and industry, agriculture, defence co-operation, immigration, environment, science and technology, petroleum and hydrocarbon activities, and tourism.
President Akufo-Addo reiterated that “Ghana will make sure that Africa’s voice is heard loud and clear in the deliberations of the UN Security Council and will consult broadly to define Africa’s interests.”
“With the continent confronted by multiple threats to the territorial integrity of some of its states and many of its civilian populations being put under serious threat, President Ramaphosa and I both agreed that now is not the time for the Security Council to reduce its peacekeeping mandates on the continent,” he added.
President Akufo-Addo applauded President Ramaphosa for the efforts he was making to consolidate peace in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with the ongoing SADC mission to crush the violent insurgency in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, in which South African troops were playing a leading role.
President Ramaphosa
Concluding his address to the media, President Ramaphosa, who appeared unhappy with the travel ban, thanked President Akufo-Addo for the “show of solidarity,” and for granting the state visit.
President Ramaphosa described the ban as a “slap in the face” of not just South Africa, but African excellence in scientific endeavours.
He said: “It was an African scientist who detected this variant and who alerted the world.” Instead of the world applauding the scientific excellence of an African country, they have decided that they should punish the country where this excellence emanated from.”
He observed that the arbitrary travel ban was already causing substantial damage to the national economies of the countries affected.
In particular, he said countries that were most reliant on tourism were facing enormous devastation.
He agreed with the United Nations’ Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who had said the ban was “a travel apartheid” imposed on Africa.
Agreements Signed
As part of the visit, there was an inaugural session of a bi-national commission for Ghana-South.
The commission would oversee bilateral relations between the two countries, including governance, trade, and industry.
As part of the visit, some agreements in the areas of agriculture, gender, transport, and manufacturing were signed.
Visit to Kumasi.
President Ramaphosa was pleased and impressed by the cultural heritage of the Ghanaian people after visiting the Ashanti Region for the 50th celebration of Nana Otuo Sriboe II Jubenhene.
He said he was deeply moved and impressed to see how Ghana had continued to keep true to the traditions of the old, traditions that span generations and generations.
President Ramaphosa indicated that “I will go back to South Africa with vivid memories of people who are together in a very peaceful spirit celebrating, and I was truly honoured and humbled that you took me to see the wonders of Ghanaian culture and tradition.”
Front view of the mansion allegedly owned by the MP
Back view of the house
A Member of Parliament (MP) who has always been preaching against profligate expenditure, especially by public officials, has himself been caught in the same web.
Not only has he put up what sources describe as a flamboyant mansion in his constituency in the Volta Region, but has also completed another mega-mansion, this time, at Adjiriganor, a plush residential enclave in Accra.
He has a similar property at Airport Hills, another prime residential area in the capital city, Accra, where he currently resides, and commutes to Parliament each day to debate issues of national importance.
Multiple sources, who spoke to The Chronicle, alleged that the MP, whose name is being withheld for now, until he became a politician, was not known for doing any business, or employment, that would have fetched him the vast wealth to put up those mansions in his hometown and Accra.
Though he was popular during his days at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he had some clashes with the authorities, he never displayed any sign of an ostentatious lifestyle, until he was appointed a Deputy Minister.
The garrulous MP then became the master of all that he surveyed in government, much to the consternation of some of his peers and seniors in government.
Though he was noted for carrying money in excess of his income in the booth of his car, he never showed any sign that he had become a wealthy man, until he finally contested for and entered Parliament.
Today he is the proud owner of the two mansions, which a source sarcastically described as ‘Arabian King Mansions.’
The Chronicle investigations have so far not established any concrete evidence of corruption against him, however, how he has managed to acquire the properties, after venturing into politics a few years ago whilst driving his ‘Alatsa’ saloon car, is the Gordian knot the intelligence community is trying to unravel.
President Akufo-Addo addressing the Ghana-South Africa Business Forum
President Akufo-Addo proposing a atoast to President Cyril Ramaphosa (left), of South Africa at a dinner at the Jubilee House.
The President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for being adjudged the “African of the Year” by Forbes Magazine.
The President of South Africa could not hide his joy when he was giving remarks at a state dinner held in his honour last Saturday, as part of his visit to Ghana.
The South African President was full of praise for his Ghanaian counterpart for recognition as the African of the Year by the renowned media entity.
Justifying why the Ghanaian President deserved the award, President Ramaphosa extolled the virtues of President Akufo-Addo, which led to Forbes awarding him.
“We are proud of this recognition, Your Excellency, because it speaks of your commitment; it speaks of your creativity, your innovation, and your clear strategic vision of what should happen in your own country, as well as on our beloved African Continent,” he said.
Recognition of vision
President Ramaphosa also stressed that the recognition of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo by Forbes was about his vision for Ghana in particular, and the African Continent as a whole.
“The recognition by the magazine is about your vision, not only for Ghana, but for the people of our continent as well,” the South African President stated.
Not only was President Ramaphosa pleased with President Akufo-Addo’s recognition as the African of the Year, but also impressed by the cultural heritage of the Ghanaian people.
Ghana-South Africa Business Forum
The President of the Republic of South Africa urged politicians and, by extension, governments in Africa to allow businesses to thrive in their various countries.
Instead of sticking their noses in projects, he believes the government should create an enabling business environment and leave projects execution to those involved in the business.
President Ramaphosa was speaking yesterday at the Ghana-South Africa Business Forum, held in Accra.
The South African President and his counterpart, President Akufo-Addo, graced the forum as part of the two-day state visit to Ghana by Mr. Ramaphosa.
In his address, President Ramaphosa highlighted what the forum sought to achieve, some of which he underscored were discussed by the two presidents a day before the forum.
“The last and most important point which I want to truly appreciate is how you have said that you want to depoliticise projects. This I support,” he said.
He continued: “Africa must now move away from too much political involvement, also by politicians. I want to stress this point, where politicians put their fingers in project awards, project executions, and, may I say, their dirty fingers in all those projects. We must move away from that.”
Successful Continent
He believed that if African was going to be a successful continent, it needed to depoliticise project awards and executions.
He stressed that it should rely on professionals, finance those projects, and standardise the methods of executing the projects.
Further, he said, there should not be arbitrariness where a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company, who has not complied with a regulation is arrested and put into prison for such infractions.
We need to standardise the way we work, and I must say that this is one of the issues that the President and I discussed so that we can find a way of evolving a good value system at the business level as well, which can be adhered to throughout our continent, he opined.
President Ramaphosa stated that investors from his country continue to have faith in Ghana’s business-friendly environment.
He described the Ghana-South Africa business forum as one of opportunity and promises, and urged his people to invest hugely in Ghana.
President Akufo-Addo
Basing on data, he said that 16% of Africa’s combined GDP derives from intra-African trade. 72 percent of Europe’s combined GDP derives from intra-European trade.
He maintained that these two statistics told everything about the relative economic development of Africa and Europe.
So, the need for us to focus on what we can do to dramatically increase intra-African trade is laid bare by these statistics. Truly, you want to generate prosperity on our continent. The success of the AfCFTA is absolutely critical to our capacity to do that, “he remarked.
President Akufo-Addo believed it was not for nothing that the secretariat of the AfCFTA is located in Ghana and the first Secretary General was a South African. He owed it to God.
As God would have it, At this critical moment in our history,
According to President Akufo-Addo, governments on the continent cannot develop the AfCFTA, only the private sector can.
“The South African chairman of the business advisory council said that one of the things that has attracted him about doing business in Ghana is that there is a government in place that sets policy and then gets out of the way of doing business. I want to reiterate that I’m very happy to hear that the South African investor is saying that.
“Because it goes to support the statement that the South African president has made that governments should get out of the business of business and let the business people get on with doing business, “he added.
In his address, President Akufo-Addo reassured the South African business community, which had appreciated the business-friendly environment in Ghana, that such would continue to be the position of Ghana under his leadership.
He said that even in the making of policy, the government would be very interested in having an import from the business communities of the two countries so that they could be guided by facts on the ground.
Trades Minister
The Trades Ministers for both Ghana and South Africa, the General Secretary of the AfCFTA, and the CEO of the Ghana Investment Promotions Centre all took turns addressing the forum.
A press conference organised in Kumasi recently by Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Volta River Authority (VRA), and Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has exonerated Ghana Gas from any wrongdoing in the ongoing power crisis in the Ashanti Region.
Workers of Ghana Gas had expressed concerns over the allegation made by the sector Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, that they were the source of the problem.
But, addressing the press in the Ashanti Regional capital where the Overlord of the Ashanti Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, had earlier raised concerns over the power fluctuations, GRIDCo, VRA and ECG accepted the blame, and told customers living in the enclave that they were collaborating to help rectify the anomaly.
Kwame Agyeman Budu, Managing Director of ECG, addressing journalists in Kumasi last week Friday, stated that the problem has been traced to damaged towers along the transmission lines and would be erected soon.
On behalf of the four major players, he apologised to the people of Asanteman saying that the recent intermittent power cuts were not intentional. Giving detailed accounts of the power challenge, Ing Vincent Boachie, GRIDCo Director for Northern Network Services, said power supply was stable in the Ashanti Region until the tower collapsed.
“On November 9, 2021, a communication tower collapsed and fell on the 330kv Aboadze-Kumasi transmission line at Bogoso. Three transmission towers collapsed in the process and were extensively damaged, requiring either repair or complete replacement.
“As a result, most of the electricity supply to Kumasi has since been coming from the Akosombo Generating Station and the power generation enclave in Tema. During peak periods, the available transmission network cannot carry enough power to the country’s middle and northern parts, including Kumasi.”
Kumasi and its environs, Ing Vincent Boachie indicated, normally consume 340 megawatts at peak times, adding “there is the need to manage power supply to Kumasi and its environs to avoid a total transmission system failure.”
He also assured that a team of experts have since been dispatched to the accident scene and were working assiduously to erect the damaged towers and restore service to normalise the power situation in Kumasi by December 20, 2021.
The press conference exonerates Ghana Gas Company, whose workers had expressed concern over the blame push on them by the sector Minster, Dr. Mattew Opoku Prempeh.
In other details of our investigation indicates that Ghana Gas has been back to full Operations for almost 3 weeks after their planned Shutdown Maintenance and had to work on a leak. Ghana Gas has by then repaired the leak and the company back in operations contrary to the Energy Minister’s claim on Ekosesen & Peace FM Kokrokoo that Ghana Gas was not back to Operations and was reason behind power outages in Ashanti.
Covid-19 has, no doubt, affected every facet of human lives. It has also imposed economic burdens on the human race, especially those of us living in the third world countries. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), countries in the world have so far pumped a whopping US$11 trillion into the various economies to keep them afloat.
But the bringing of the world economy to its knees is not the only problem Covid-19 has brought onto mankind. Millions of people have now lost their lives, and the figure is still counting. Here, in Ghana, over 1,209 people, as at November 17, 2021, are noted to have lost their lives to the deadly disease. It is one disease that does not have respect for the young, elderly, wealthy, or poverty-ridden people – it attacks and kills all manner of people.
Therefore, to help stem the tide and bring relief to the world, countries are working hard to detect the causes of the disease, and how to stop it from further spreading. This is what has led to the discovery of the various variants of Covid-19.
Fortunately for Africa, South Africa appears to be leading the research, and also seems to be detecting most of the new variants before they get to the attention of the Western countries.
Unfortunately, instead of patting her on the back for the good work she is doing to save mankind from total annihilation, South Africa and countries she shares borders with are rather being punished for detecting the new variant called Omicron. It is the contention of South Africa that the new variant was already wreaking havoc in the western world, but because they have modern laboratory equipment, they were the first to detect it.
But the western nations would not listen to that and have started barring airlines flying from South Africa to their respective countries. Some countries in Europe initiated the move, and now the almighty America has also joined in. The Chronicle is extremely worried over this development, because the western countries seem to be telling the world that nothing good comes from Africa. If this new variant had been detected in laboratories in Europe and America, they would have been proud in announcing to the world that they were first to detect it, but the opposite is the case with Africa.
The Chronicle, therefore, fully supports the public condemnation of the behaviour of the western world by both President Akufo-Addo and the visiting South African President, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa. Despite always holding cups begging for alms, Africa still plays a key role in the world economy.
In our estimation, over 70% of the world’s natural resources come from Africa, and we should no more allow ourselves to be seen as a nonentity by these western countries, some of which plundered our resources for centuries in the name of colonisation.
It is time for us to say enough is enough. The punishment being meted out to South Africa and the whole of Africa, we insist, is unreasonable and must be stopped now!
The Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic will go down as the wobbliest in the entire history of this God Bless Homeland called Ghana.
For the first time in our history the Speaker was not a member of the ruling party, and most interestingly, the two main parties shared an equal number of seats, with a single independent seat belonging to a rebel from the New Patriotic Party (NPP). His decision to go independent at the time he represented his constituency on the NPP ticket in the Seventh Parliament, had the party administrators bundling him up and throwing him out of the party.
He won re-election and became that valuable rejected cornerstone needed to give NPP a slight edge over the National Democratic Congress in the House. And NPP went begging for his fullest co-operation. He decided to go back home.
The House of Parliament under the administration of Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Bagbin started showing habits that had never been heard of or seen in this Fourth Republic.
A Member of Parliament was wanted by the Ghana Police to assist in resolving a crime, and the Speaker swore to protect members of the House. This MP went on to evade invitation to court until a bench warrant served over him.
The Speaker also came out to dare the President of the Republic, saying he had the power to remove him from office, something which the President could not do to him.
Into the latter stage of the second year of the Eighth Parliament, the finance minister read the budget of the president and all hell broke loose. He had among some uncomfortable the scraping of toll-booths across the country and additional transaction fees for money transfers, typically the MoMo.
On the floor of the House, the opposition made strong speeches to convince all Ghanaians, why the 2022 Budget should be thrown out.
At the end of the day, the House had to take a decision on the budget by voting. It looked like the results of the vote will favour the opposition. Article 104 of the Constitution states that in this case, not less than one-half should be present to vote to determine a decision and the majority of votes of the members present will determine the Question proposed.
The NPP or the Majority Group was three members short due to oversea travels making it 135 members present. Smart as they are, the group walked out before the vote was called, leaving the opposition with full complement of its 137 members, present. But this was one short of the constitutional requirement.
Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin did the unthinkable and unconstitutionally allowed the vote to take place. It was an “aye” or a “nay” matter. At the end of the voice vote, he had the clerk to count all those who voted and the results, were Nil for “aye” and 137 for “nay” and no abstention. Seriously no speaker who should be well vested with this article in the Constitution would have dismissed the vote.
His predecessor, Rt. Hon Doe Adjaho, on December 22, 2015 ruled on Article 104 (1) and Standing Order 109 (1) to dismiss a vote that took place under his watch in the House. He stated on the floor of the House that, “if we go by the results of the headcount, by adding 67 to 66, we would get 133. Therefore, there is a serious constitutional issue there. So, at the time that the votes were taken, this House lacked the legal, in fact, the constitutional capacity to take a decision…” The minimum number of members required then as now, for any such voting should be 138. Why Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin decided to ignore this mandatory law on voting in Parliament can only explain the wobbly nature of Parliament, today.
Assuming that they got it right, the NDC went around making speeches to indicate to Ghana how law abiding that party is and championing the needs of the ordinary Ghanaian.
Four days later, the speaker was out of town and the NPP called for a vote to counter the earlier one by the NDC. And this is the most interesting one. The total number of the Majority Group was 138 and that included the two deputy speakers.
(3) A Deputy Speaker or any other member presiding shall not retain his original vote while presiding.
Muhammed Ayoma (in white smock) hands over the baton to 2021 Metro Best farmer
Fifty-nine-year-old Andrew Kwame Amanda, last Friday, emerged the 2021 Kumasi Metro Best Farmer at the Farmers’ Day Forum at Sokobon, near Kumasi.
The theme was: “Planting for Food and Jobs – Consolidating Food Systems in Ghana.”
Mr. Amankwah’s feat comes almost 45 years after he ventured into farming.
Sokoban Akwamuhene, Sam Pyne and Nhyiaeso MP jointly presents certificate to Mr. Amankwah
He is a native of Asante Akropong and situated his farming activities at Atafuo in the Bantama Sub-Metro area.
He has a piggery, 6,000 layers, five acres of orange, two acres of avocado, and four acres each of maize and cocoyam, also having encouraged 50 people to go into farming.
For his prize, Mr. Amanda took home two knapsack sprayers, five Wellington boots, a foam mattress, wax prints, boxes of Key Soap, and a certificate, besides the ultimate prize of a tricycle.
He has, since, received a wooden sword, the symbol of office from Mohammed Ayoma, last year’s Kumasi Metro Best Farmer.
Other award winners included Opana Farms (Best Poultry Farmer), Kweku Forum (Rice), Ivanboat Enterprise (Best Agro Input Dealer), and Plantain Sellers Association of Kumasi Central Market as Best Marketing Group.
A native of Navrongo, Ibrahim Eliasu, physically challenged, was presented with a mattress, five cutlasses, Wellington boots, a box of Key Soap, and a certificate.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Nhyiaeso, Dr. Stephen Amoah, also presented the blind farmer, who is also into rearing 40 goats and 100 fowls, with GH¢2,000 as an incentive.
Sokoban Akwamuhene, Sam Pyne, and the Nhyiaeso MP jointly presents certificate to Mr Amankwah
The Mayor of Kumasi, Sam Pyne, disclosed that a total of 1,869 farmers in the Metropolis had benefited from various training programmes under the Planting for Food and Jobs and Fertiliser Subsidiary programmes, with the view of giving support to farmers to expand their scale of production.
The Mayor also mentioned other interventions by the government in the agricultural sector as “One District, One Warehouse”, “One Village, One Dam (1V1D)”, “One District, One Factory (1D1F)”, and Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD).
The Metro Director of Agriculture, Mr. Amos Korang, encouraged the residents to engage in container farming in their homes as a substitute for backyard gardening, since most of the arable lands in the Metropolis had been taken over by physical development and human activities.
Nana Yaw Boateng, Akwamuhene of Sokoban, representing the Chief of Sokoban, Nana Kofi Brentuo II, presided over the forum.
From Mamponteng in the Kwabre East Municipality, reports; Mr. Daniel Asamoah, a 46-year-old Pastor, was adjudged as the Overall Best Farmer in the Kwabre East Municipality.
He has 15 acres of maize, 15 acres of okro, two acres of cocoyam, two acres of green pepper, 120 boxes of mushrooms, 5 acres of tomatoes, 10 acres of cocoa, 1acre of groundnuts, and other vegetable.
Kwabre East MCE presents a certificate to Pastor Daniel Asamoah
He was awarded a tricycle, wax print, three knapsack sprayers, four Wellington boots, six cutlasses, six weedicides, a radio, and a tin of Milo.
The First Runner Up, Nana Kwadwo Mensah, went home with a double-decker fridge, one bicycle, two knapsack sprayers, three Wellington boots, wax print, a radio, five cutlasses, weedicide, and one tin of Milo.
Addressing the gathering, Nana Opoku Agyemang Bonsu, Chief Executive of Kwabre East Municipal Assembly, challenged the youth, especially the unemployed, to venture into agriculture, irrespective of their level of education.
According to him, the economic gains in agriculture were enough to make an impact in their lives.
The MCE noted that agriculture had become very lucrative through the government’s policies and programmes like Planting for Food and Jobs, subsidised fertilisers for farmers, planting for export, and provision of improved seeds to ensure that the sector absorbs many of the unemployed youth.
Mr. Ransford Nyarko, Municipal Director of Agriculture, explained that the Planting for Food and Jobs programme helped the citizenry during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, through the government’s efforts to support farmers with subsised fertilisers and absorbing that of about 900 farmers who benefitted.
The MCE further announced that as a result of scarcity of arable land, the Assembly intended partnering Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to value their lands for fish farming and encourage rice farming in the Municipality.
The police in Lagos have announced that they have commenced an investigation into the death of Sylvester Oromoni jr, a 12-year-old student of Dowen college in the Lekki area Of Lagos.
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos told Channels Television on Sunday the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCID), Panti, has been directed to take over the case from the Maroko division.
Odumosu added that the command is teaming up with the Delta State Police Command in the investigation to unravel the mystery behind the death of the minor.
When asked if the police will base its findings on a prior medical report done by the family, the Lagos police boss said ”comprehensive medical test will be carried out and analysis will be done to establish facts in our investigation.”
The 11-year-old student died on Tuesday last week after sustaining multiple internal injuries after he was allegedly tortured and bullied by some senior students in the school.
In a viral video, Oromoni jr was seen writhing in pain. His teeth were stained dark red with blood. His legs were swollen, and his belly was bloated.
With the series of video evidence in circulation, the Management of Dowen College has released a statement saying they will cooperate with authorities to dig deep into the matter.
The Lagos State government through its Ministry of Education who had paid an earlier inquiry visit to the college on Friday has announced that the school be shut down indefinitely.
