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A newly born baby girl is reported to have been stolen by an unidentified elderly woman from Barnor Hospital, a privately owned hospital in Accra. Witnesses say an elderly woman carrying a basket, who posed as a visitor picked up the baby yesterday afternoon. The mother of the stolen baby girl was reportedly asleep when the incident occurred. A source close to the missing baby but who wants to remain anonymous blamed the incident on poor security in the hospital. He told Myjoyonline.com he suspects everyone who was present in the hospital when the incident occurred of complicity. Another source at the hospital told Joy News the woman who pretended to be visiting, entered the hospital and without notice entered the ward of the woman who had delivered and made away with the baby. The case has been reported to the Dansoman Police Station where personnel say they are investigating but cannot give further details.

DOMINIC BUAH, alias Kabee, a taxi driver based at Aiyinasi in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region, allegedly went berserk last week Tuesday and completely cut off the left hand of his nephew with a sharp cutlass. The victim, Ebenezer Bolo, a 17-year-old self-employed, is currently on admission at St. Martin de Porres Hospital at Eikwe. Though a complaint was lodged with the police at Aiyinasi after the incident, Kabee was alleged to have been walking about arrogantly in town for two days, boasting that he even killed a person in Nigeria without anything done to him. Speaking to DAILY GUIDE on his hospital bed, Bolo, who is Kabee’s elder brother’s son, said on 12th April 2011, he asked his father, Anthony Buah alias Bolo, for money to buy food that evening, but his father said he did not have any and left the house. He (Bolo) started grumbling that his father wanted to starve him. Kabee, who was then around, accused Bolo of being insolent. Without any provocation, Kabee slappe...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) taskforce known as the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) went on rampage on Tuesday when they allegedly ripped off a trader’s ear with a pair of boots at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle area. The trader, 35-year-old Ebenezer Obeng, had a bitter encounter with a number of the taskforce members on the evening of Tuesday, which virtually left his right ear torn off. Ebenezer, who happens to be a shoe seller, narrated his ordeal to Peace FM and said about 9pm on Tuesday, he was hawking in front of the Allied Filling station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle when a group of AMA staff accosted him with his products. He claimed they accused him of flouting the AMA by-law that prohibits selling on the streets and pavements in the city. Ebenezer said they tried to seize his goods which he had by then exhibited in front of a locked shop and for that matter was not ready to release it to them since he was not selling on either the street or the pavement. This, according to him, l...