According to the New Abirem Municipal Fire Station, a distress call was received at 2:30 p.m., prompting the dispatch of a seven-member rescue team led by LFM Tenkorang Ofori Prince.

Preliminary reports indicate that the ambulance, registered GV-567-20, suffered brake failure and somersaulted several times before landing on its side.

All four occupants were rescued and rushed to the New Abirem Government Hospital for treatment.

Firefighters also cleared the road of blood stains and recovered key medical equipment, including a ventilator, cardiac monitor, fire extinguisher, chest compression device, stethoscope, and telephone.

The Ghana Police Service was on-site to assist with traffic management as investigations continue into the cause of the crash.

Source: Adomonline.com

Describing the situation as alarming, Commander Mante urged drivers to exercise extreme caution, especially at night.

“The Accra–Nkawkaw road has long been notorious for accidents. Poor road conditions, excessive speeding, driver fatigue, and poorly maintained vehicles all contribute to the danger,” he said.

He added, “Excessive speeding on roads with poor visibility can lead to loss of control. Driving long hours without rest impairs judgment, and poorly maintained vehicles — especially those with faulty brakes or worn-out tyres — can be deadly.”

Commander Mante also advised drivers to ensure their vehicles are roadworthy, adopt defensive driving techniques, and strictly follow road safety regulations. He called for upgrades to road infrastructure, including better street lighting and improved surfaces, to reduce accidents.

Narrating one of the recent incidents in Nkawkaw, he explained how a collision occurred due to a combination of speeding and poor visibility, emphasizing the urgent need for both driver discipline and infrastructure improvements.

“Safety on this road requires collective responsibility. Drivers must act responsibly, and authorities must ensure that roads are maintained and adequately lit,” he urged.

This incident follows a similar emergency landing involving the same helicopter at Ajumako Kokoben on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

The aircraft was en route to Prestea in the Western Region when the pilot was forced to divert and land at the Ajumako Kokoben Community School park around 10:30 a.m. due to bad weather.

Last Wednesday’s incident reportedly occurred about an hour before the tragic military helicopter crash in the Adansi Akrofuom District of the Ashanti Region, which claimed eight lives, including two ministers.

Following the latest event, Adom News’ Akwasi Dwamena reported that the aircraft belongs to Volta River Aviation.

The helicopter, which was traveling from Accra to Kumasi, was forced to land due to harsh weather conditions that severely reduced visibility.

An eyewitness, Bakira Tahiru, headmaster of New Generation School, told Adom News that the aircraft passed by the school and returned in less than three minutes, attempting to land there.

However, to ensure the safety of the students, the helicopter moved a short distance away behind the school before landing.

Mr. Tahiru disclosed that there were four people onboard, including two white men, and all escaped unhurt.

Authorities have yet to issue an official statement on the emergency landing.

Source: Adomonline.com

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The first victim, identified as Baba Salau, believed to be in his thirties, was allegedly stabbed to death by a pub attendant during a fight over a cigarette.

In a tragic turn of events, a local meat seller, renowned for his chinchinga business and who lost his son to stabbing two years ago, reportedly collapsed and died upon hearing the news of this latest incident.

Residents have called for the demolition of Bobo Shanti, citing its frequent violent incidents and loss of lives. Some angry individuals have already vandalized parts of the pub in protest.

Baba Salau’s body has been taken to the Nkawkaw Holy Family Mortuary, while police continue their search for the suspect, who remains at large.

Source: Akwasi Dwamena

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According to the Regional Police Commander, DCOP Isaac Kwadwo Asante, the arrest was made on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, after months of surveillance.

The suspects have been identified as 40-year-old Hawa Ibrahim, the landlady, and 30-year-old Latifa Adams.

In an interview with Adom News, DCOP Asante explained that the Police stormed the house based on intelligence. Upon a thorough search, 24 maxi bags filled with Indian hemp were retrieved.

The two are currently in custody, assisting with investigations, and will be processed for court in due course.

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According to his intelligence, the presence of the soldiers is unnecessary and should be addressed by the Inspector General of Police (IGP).

Speaking to Adom News correspondent Akwasi Dwamena during the special voting at the Nkawkaw Central Police Station, Obeng Somuah remarked that Nkawkaw is currently peaceful and does not require military presence during the elections.

He called on the IGP to intervene and ensure that the soldiers are removed from the area.

However, the assistant secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Nkawkaw, Nana Amoah Frimpong, has denied the allegations.

He clarified that the soldiers had been deployed to a mining company in the area and, upon arrival, reported themselves to the police command.

Frimpong dismissed the NDC’s claims as false, urging the public to ignore the accusations.

The suspect, identified as Daniel, had come to the camp for spiritual healing but was caught stealing mobile phones, gas cylinders, clothes, and plantains belonging to the church members.

Security personnel at the prayer camp, Samuel Doku in an interview on Adom News said the suspect was caught in the act.

He said they handed him to Police personnel at the Nkawkaw Police Command to assist with investigations.

Doku also urged leaders of prayer camps to be vigilant and cautious of those seeking refuge at their camps.

Abdul Wadudu hacked his biological father to death in the wee hours of Tuesday, February 14.

Information Adom News’ Akwasi Dwamena gathered indicates that his father, 75-year-old Mohammed Umar prevented him from marrying his cousin, which goes against culture.

However, Abdul was adamant on his decision, and constantly issued threats to kill his father to have access to his lover.

His threats were taken lightly until his father’s battered body was discovered.

The brother to the deceased, Baba Iddrisu, also explained to Adom News that suspect Abdul had also accused his father of being behind his financial setbacks in life.

Meanwhile, Abdul has been arrested by the district police and he’s assisting with investigations.

The family of the deceased has admonished the police to let justice prevail.

Information received indicates that the suspects had stolen 10 goats and seven sheep, which they were hiding in the boot.

While heading to Accra on the Nkawkaw-Anyinam road, their Toyota Corolla with registration number GX 9245-13 crashed in front of a police station, causing some officers to surround the scene.

However, the suspects abandoned their car and took to their heels, thereby leaving their stolen items in the car as evidence.

The Anyinam Police Commander, DSP Raymond Mahama Iddrisu, told Adom News’ Akwasi Dwamena that an investigation has been launched to locate the suspect.

Also, he said the car has been confiscated in the Atiwa East District of the Eastern Region.

The police are, therefore, calling on the general public, especially those with missing car and farm animals to visit the Anyinam police station for identification and to assist with further investigations.

The inferno, which destroyed vehicles parked at the shop and other property running into thousands of cedis, occurred on Thursday dawn.

A nearby house was also affected.

Though the cause is yet to be established, victims who could not control their tears in an interview with Adom News‘ Akwasi Dwamena blamed the Nkawkaw Fire Service for the extent of damage.

According to the shop owners, the firefighters could not report on time because their fire tender was not functioning.

They revealed one was dispatched from Mpraeso but it was too late as the damage had been caused already.

They accused the Municipal Chief Executive, Yaw Owusu Addo, their MP; Joseph Frempong and the Reginal Fire Commander of failing to ensure the tender gets the urgent repairs it needs.

The aggrieved residents said only one fire tender serves the whole of Kwawu except for Afram Plains which has a different one.

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The victims, a yam seller and a Mobile Money vendor, were operating along the road when the Hyundai Elantra saloon car with registration number ER 796-21 crashed them.

According to eyewitnesses, the car was heading on it’s lane when the driver suddenly lost control and veered off the road.

An eyewitness, who narrowly escaped, told Adom News’ Akwasi Dwamena that he saw the car approaching but he could not alert the victims on time as he feared for his own safety.

Other residents who saw the car approaching, including the owner of the hairdressing shop, took cover in the gutters and nearby shops.

However, the car knocked down the Mobile Money vendor with full force, and rammed the yam seller into a nearby kiosk before screeching to a halt.

It took onlookers great efforts to free the victim who was stuck in between the kiosk and car.

The Mobile Money vendor was unresponsive while the yam seller sustained serious injuries in her legs.

The victims have been rushed to the Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital where they are said to be in critical condition.

According to an eyewitness, the accident occurred around 4:30am when the driver failed at an attempt to climb a hill.

The fully loaded tanker entered into a muddy ditch, causing it to spark fire which later engulfed the entire vehicle.

Municipal fire commander for Kwawu West, D03 Kofi Agbortsu, said preliminary investigations indicate the fire was as a result of contact of electricity with the fuel.

Per his deduction, the tanker had connections with some electrical wires which reacted negatively and caused the explosion.

Efforts were made to quench the blaze.

He revealed that the situation was out of hand when they arrived as residents failed to call for emergency precautions, rather, they were scrambling for the car number to stake as lotto.

D03 Kofi cautioned residents to be wary as there was a likelihood the tanker could explode due to the heat.

This was during a three-day exercise from Tuesday to Thursday as part of their usual quarterly exercise to clamp down on vehicles without insurance.

The Police team was led by the Eastern Regional MTTD Commander, Chief Superintendent Stephen Ahiatafu.

Among other offences, some drivers of the impounded vehicles were without driver’s licences, others had expired licences or insurance. The operation saw 66, 30, and 7 vehicles impounded on the first, second and third day respectively.

Indiscipline
Chief Superintendent Ahiatafu lamented the level of indiscipline of drivers at Nkawkaw and other parts of the region, who according to him, know what to do but have refused to do them, posing dangers to their own lives and those of passengers.

“Most of the drivers here and other parts of the region are very indisciplined; we have been embarking on the awareness campaigns for very long and they know what to do but they are only being reluctant.

The Nkawkaw township has a lot of alternative routes so when they see the police, they dodge and use other routes because they know they are not doing the right thing. This endangers their lives and those of passengers and motorists,” he said.

He said ahead of the Kwahu Easter celebration, the police would continue to enforce the traffic regulations and deal with drivers who ply the roads without “insurance, fake insurance, expired insurance, unregistered vehicles and without drivers’ licence”.

Chief Superintendent Ahiatafu urged drivers to be very proactive and careful as the Easter festivities draw near in order to avert accidents that characterised some of these festive seasons. He appealed to long-distance drivers to take time to rest at a safe place when they are tired on the way to avoid sleeping behind the wheels which lead to accidents.

Enforcement
The Eastern Regional Manager of the National Insurance Commission (NIC), Esther Konadu Asiedu said the exercise ahead of the Kwahu Easter celebration was to enforce the vehicle insurance policies to prevent and protect victims of accidents.

“The motor insurance policies help the NIC to make sure compensation is paid to accident victims by the insurance companies the vehicles subscribed to. This helps prevent and protect accident victims. With the Kwahu Easter nearing, it is important that we make sure vehicles are insured and we take out vehicles without insurance off the roads to prevent and protect passengers and drivers themselves,” she said.

She urged passengers to take advantage of the motor insurance database which allows them to check validity of a vehicle’s insurance before they jump into them using the short code *929*57# and dialing the vehicle’s registration number.

As part of the exercise, Ms Konadu Asiedu said the insurance companies within Nkawkaw were invited to instantly insure the impounded vehicles.

She urged drivers and vehicle owners who have been subjected to unfair treatment after reporting their accident claims by their insurance companies to petition the NIC to take them up and get what is due them.

The deceased has been identified as 35-year-old Afua Ataa who was allegedly beaten to death by her brother’s son.

The nephew, whose name has been given as Kofi Kreman, allegedly lynched his aunt on Saturday, December 11, 2021, at Kwawu Atuobikrom in the Eastern Region.

He was remanded with an autopsy ordered to ascertain the cause of death when he subsequently appeared in court.

Following the court order, it emerged the body was nowhere to be found in the mortuary.

But speaking in an interview with Adom News’ Akwasi Dwamena, Municipal Health Director Celestina Asante, disclosed the body was part of a mass burial exercise held.

According to her, the police brought in the body after the incident and the relatives didn’t show up at the facility, hence their decision.

The Municipal Environmental Health Director, Joseph Krampah, also confirmed the mass burial, adding the hospital authorities brought it.

He indicated 30 bodies including nine adults and 21 babies were involved and they were buried at the Nkawkaw Trado public cemetery.

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Meanwhile, the Head of the mortuary noted the facility was faulty and public announcements were made for relatives to come for members who were there but Afua Ataa’s family did not show up.

However, the family is still not convinced by the explanations and are demanding for the corpse.

Further checks have revealed the suspected killer is still in police custody waiting for the autopsy report.

Speaking on Adom TV‘s ‘Badwam, Afisem’, correspondent Akwasi Dwamena, said six boreholes have been constructed for the people of Nkawkaw to help solve the water shortage crisis faced by the people in the region.

According to him, the District Manager at Nkawkaw has stated that there has been an increase in the supply of water for the people of Kwahu and its environs.

The increase in the construction of boreholes has helped curb the water shortage crisis in the region, he stated.

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He further stated that the construction of the borehole has helped increase the supply of water for the people at Kwahu and in the region as a whole.

He said that water shortage has become a major problem faced by the people in the Eastern Region, especially during the harmattan season as it affects students and people of Kwahu.

Previously, only seven boreholes were used to serve the people of Nkawkaw.

There was drama at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region after a suspect thief, identified as Isaac Owusu, was busted for stealing wele (cow skin).

The suspect, said to be a 28-year-old, clandestinely entered the Agbogbloshie market in the Kwahu West Municipality to commit the act.

However, luck eluded him and he was caught in the act by some traders and residents with a bowl full of the stolen wele.

He, therefore, decided to run into hiding but that did not deter the irate residents from chasing him to deal with him.

Clad in a white singlet and shorts, he was apprehended and paraded through the market streets, carrying the stolen item.

One Cecilia Nkansah, who is the owner of the wele, told Adom News‘ Kwasi Siaw that that was not the first time she had been robbed.

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“I realised my wele had been stolen again while preparing to go to the market but I ignored as I always do only for me to later receive a call that the thief has been apprehended,” she narrated.

She said but for the timely intervention of the residents who decided to hand the suspect over to the police, she would have beaten him to pulp.

The suspect was, thus, taken to the Nkawkaw Police Station for interrogation.

Randolph Obeng inflicted a deep cut on the left shoulder and both thumbs of Elizabeth Owusua during a misunderstanding that ensued between them at about 4:00 pm last Friday.

The victim, Miss Owusua, managed to escape and rushed to Central Police station at Nkawkaw while bleeding profusely to report.

She told police that “at about 4:00 pm, some misunderstanding ensued between her and the boyfriend and in the process, the boyfriend inflicted cutlass wounds on her.”

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Police Medical report form was immediately issued to her to get treatment from any hospital and report back to assist investigations.

The suspect was yet to be arrested.

Reports indicate the incident occurred at about 6:00 pm on Monday over a Bluetooth player.

The suspect has been identified as Shafiw and his victim Lawali Umar.

The two live in the same neighbourhood. The deceased was a Senior High School graduate who completed in 2020 but the suspect is unemployed.

The suspect is said to have earlier reported the issue to young Umar’s parents to retrieve the speaker from their son.

But his father pleaded with him to exercise some restraint as he would resolve the issue the next day.

An excuse that did not sit well with Shafiw who reportedly caused him to threaten to use all means possible to get his speaker back.

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He left the house but returned later to stab his friend in the neck and stomach with a pair of scissors, killing him on the spot.

Lucky eluded him in an attempt to flee and he was apprehended and handed over to the police.

The body has since been deposited at the Holy Family Hospital for autopsy with the Nkawkaw Police investigating the matter.

Reports indicate the inicident occurred on Sunday, June 27, 2021.

This was when Baba Kankani, as he is popularly known, was travelling from Yayaso to Abirem after a match between Okwawu City and Okwahu United.

The driver of the taxi they were travelling in is said to have lost control, causing the car to somersault.

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Baba Kankani, according to reports, died on the spot with the three others including the driver and a journalist with Delight FM and another in critical condition.

Meanwhile, social media has been inundated with tributes in honour of the late sports journalist amid prayers of speedy recovery for the trio.

Miss Amoako, who is a nursing mother, according to the police, was arrested upon a tip-off while buying goods from the Nkawkaw Central and Agogroshie markets.

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The Nkawkaw Central Station Officer, Chief Inspector Seth Awure, speaking in an interview on Agoo FM, said they were yet to ascertain the facts, but hope to arrest all those behind the circulation of such fake monies as investigations have begun.

Meanwhile, the suspect has denied knowledge of the possession of the fake currencies.