The Committee also pledged to support efforts to adequately resource GIPA to enable it to discharge its expanded mandate under the Ghana Investment Promotion Authority Act, 2023 (Act 1173).

The commitments were disclosed at a press conference following a working engagement between the Committee and GIPA in Accra.

The engagement focused on GIPA’s operations, the implementation of the new investment law, challenges facing the Authority and measures to strengthen Ghana’s position as an investment destination.

At the meeting, GIPA’s Chief Executive Officer, Simon Madjie, outlined reforms introduced under Act 1173, including the removal of the blanket minimum capital requirements previously applicable to foreign investors.

Under the new regime, the US$200,000 minimum capital requirement for foreign joint ventures and the US$500,000 threshold for wholly foreign-owned enterprises have been removed, except in the trading sector.

Mr Madjie, however, stressed that the reform did not mean foreign investors could enter Ghana without adequate capital.

“The absence of a blanket minimum capital requirement does not mean investors can enter with no capital. It simply means we will assess capital adequacy by sector,” he said.

He explained that the new framework relied on local-content requirements, sector-specific financial regulations and activities reserved for Ghanaians to protect local businesses and promote Ghanaian participation.

Sectors such as mining, petroleum, power, insurance and fintech, he said, were subject to specific regulatory and local-content requirements that would provide stronger safeguards than a generic capital threshold.

According to Mr Madjie, the reforms were also consistent with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Protocol on Investment and were intended to enhance Ghana’s competitiveness in attracting investment.

$62bn Investment Portfolio

The GIPA CEO disclosed that the Authority had, since 1994, registered more than 7,160 investment projects with cumulative foreign direct investment (FDI) exceeding US$62 billion.

He said GIPA was also intensifying its regional investment promotion efforts through investment roadshows, investment-opportunity mapping and documentaries highlighting opportunities across the country.

The Authority, he added, was expanding and refurbishing its regional offices to bring investment facilitation services closer to investors and project locations.

Mr Madjie further appealed for support to operationalise the citizenship-by-investment provisions under Act 1173, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior.

He said the initiative was expected to attract high-net-worth investors through structured residency and eventual citizenship programmes.

The Authority also wants regulations on technology transfer to be developed and enforced to ensure that investment projects deliver meaningful skills and knowledge transfer to Ghanaian businesses and partners.

Mr Madjie further called for stronger enforcement of economic activities reserved for Ghanaians, particularly informal retail trading, taxi services and small-scale pharmaceutical retailing.

Committee Pledges Support

Responding to the concerns, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Trade, Industry and Tourism, Alexander Hottordze Roosevelt, acknowledged GIPA’s strategic role in Ghana’s economic transformation.

He stressed the importance of adequately resourcing the Authority to enable it to effectively perform its expanded promotional and regulatory responsibilities.

The Committee, he said, would support constructive engagement to help GIPA overcome challenges and implement the reforms under Act 1173.

Members of the Committee also commended GIPA for promoting Ghanaian investment opportunities locally and internationally and expressed support for initiatives aimed at strengthening investor confidence and attracting quality investments into the country.

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The engagement followed an incident in which a video showing a Muslim cleric slapping a handcuffed Christian pastor at Police Headquarters circulated publicly, prompting condemnation from the Christian Council of Ghana and calls from some clergy, including Prophet Nigel Gaisie, for the authorities to investigate.

Yohunu urged Christian and Islamic leaders to appear together at public events, share meals and engage communities jointly, saying such visible cooperation would send an important signal to young people about religious diversity.

“Let the public see Christians and Islamic leaders standing together, sharing meals, issuing joint statements and walking through our communities hand in hand,” he said.

He added that this kind of visible solidarity would help counter the perception of religion as a source of division. “Show the youth that diversity of faith is strength, not a fault line,” the IGP said.

The appeal formed the second of three commitments the IGP asked religious leaders to make at the engagement, following an earlier call for dedicated peace-themed sermons and preceding a third appeal for greater public trust in Ghana’s statutory justice system.

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Yohunu asked leaders to dedicate their Friday and Sunday services to messages on interfaith harmony, self-control and the dangers of religious conflict; to warn congregations explicitly against violence; and to frame Ghana’s stability as a matter affecting the next generation.

“Dedicate your Friday sermons in Islam, and Sunday sermons strictly to messages of interfaith harmony, self-control and the danger of religious conflict,” he said, according to the statement.

He also urged leaders to link the country’s peace directly to their congregants’ children: “Remind your congregations that an attack on the peace of Ghana is an attack on the future of their own children.”

The IGP argued that religious leaders were positioned to shape the attitudes and behaviour of young people in particular, and he encouraged them to promote lawful dispute resolution over violence as a matter of routine religious instruction, rather than a response confined to moments of crisis.

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The President made the commitment during an inspection of the project on Thursday, August 13, 2026, as part of his #ResettingGhana Tour of the Upper East Region.

According to the Jubilee House, President Mahama said public projects on which taxpayers’ money had already been spent could not be allowed to remain abandoned.

The UTAS laboratory project was commenced in 2016 but subsequently stalled. It is now expected to be completed and handed over in 2027.

When completed, the facility will provide modern infrastructure for teaching, research, innovation and practical training at the university.

President Mahama’s intervention forms part of his administration’s stated commitment to completing abandoned and stalled public projects rather than allowing public investments to deteriorate.

During the inspection, the President also directed the Ministry of Roads and Highways to include UTAS’s request for about five kilometres of internal roads in its project inventory.

He described the request as achievable, according to the Jubilee House.

The proposed internal roads are expected to improve access and movement within the university and support the development of its facilities.

President Mahama also reaffirmed his government’s commitment to strengthening Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.

He further expressed support for UTAS’s plans to establish a medical school, saying the initiative would help expand Ghana’s capacity to train doctors.

The proposed medical school would add to the country’s existing institutions for medical training at a time when increasing the capacity to produce health professionals remains an important national objective.

The President’s visit to UTAS was part of his tour of the Upper East Region, during which he has been inspecting development projects and engaging stakeholders on the government’s development agenda.

The Jubilee House did not, in the material announcing the President’s inspection, provide details of the funding arrangement or the specific contractor and completion cost for the laboratory project.

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Dr. Adiiboka said the virus, which is transmitted primarily through contact with infected blood and certain body fluids, could be spread through practices involving shared or inadequately sterilised blades, needles and other instruments.

He specifically mentioned barbering, tattooing and circumcision among activities where people could unknowingly be exposed to infected blood. “You can get one person who would use one blade to circumcise or give tribal marks or probably carry out a procedure on different people,” Dr. Adiiboka said.

He explained that tattooing could also pose a risk, particularly where the procedure causes bleeding and the equipment is merely cleaned rather than properly sterilised before being used on another person.

“There are some tattoos where you bleed. If you are bleeding from the accident, you just clean the machine. You don’t sterilise it. And they are going to use it for another person,” he cautioned.

The same concern, he said, applied to barbering shops, where customers could suffer minor cuts during shaving and grooming. According to Dr. Adiiboka, if equipment used on a bleeding customer is not adequately sterilised before being used on another person, infected blood could provide a route for transmission.

He, therefore, advised people to take precautions when patronising barbering services, including ensuring that equipment is properly sterilised or using personal equipment where possible.

“I always advise people you have to modify your own barbering machine or you go to a place where the barber is [properly sterilising the equipment],” he said, disclosing that he personally owns his barbering equipment.

Dr. Adiiboka’s warning comes amid what he described as a significant hidden Hepatitis B burden in Ghana, with an estimated three million people believed to be infected. He said the country had, however, diagnosed only about one percent of the estimated infected population, leaving a vast majority unaware of their status.

Explaining how the estimated number was derived, he said prevalence studies were used alongside Ghana’s population data to arrive at an estimated national burden.

He said Ghana’s Hepatitis B prevalence was estimated at between eight and nine percent, meaning that in a population of 100 people, roughly eight or nine could be infected in a population reflecting that prevalence.

Dr. Adiiboka said the low diagnosis rate posed a major obstacle to Ghana’s efforts to control and eventually eliminate viral hepatitis. “If you say three million Ghanaians are infected, and then you want to equate it to percentagewise, the prevalence in Ghana is between eight to nine percent,” he explained.

He identified lack of awareness and stigma as some of the major barriers preventing people from seeking testing. “There are a lot of people who are walking about, they don’t know. They get it. So they are not aware,” he said.

According to him, some people also associate Hepatitis B with sexually transmitted infections and consequently avoid testing because of the stigma attached to such diseases. He, however, clarified that sexual transmission was not the main mode of transmission of Hepatitis B in Ghana.

Rather, he said, mother-to-child transmission was the dominant route, accounting for about 95% of infections in Ghana. Dr. Adiiboka explained that babies exposed to the virus during childbirth were particularly vulnerable because their immature immune systems were less capable of clearing the infection.

“When a baby is born and is exposed to the virus during childbirth, the child has 95% chance of getting the virus,” he said. Adults, he explained, were more likely to clear the virus following exposure because of their stronger immune systems.

However, blood-to-blood exposure, sexual contact and the sharing of contaminated needles or instruments remain possible routes of infection. He also sought to dispel misconceptions about ordinary social interaction with people living with Hepatitis B.

According to him, hugging, sharing food or utensils and ordinary kissing do not constitute common routes of transmission. He said the concern with kissing would arise where there was blood-to-blood contact, while saliva itself contained only a minimal amount of the virus. Beyond transmission, Dr. Adiiboka raised concerns about the financial burden confronting people who test positive for Hepatitis B.

He said while screening tests could be covered under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), several advanced investigations required after a positive diagnosis were not covered. Patients may require liver and kidney function tests, viral-load testing, imaging and other investigations before treatment can begin.

He estimated that the initial process from testing positive through the investigations required to start medication could cost between GH¢800 and GH¢1,500, depending on the tests required. The financial burden could continue because some people with chronic Hepatitis B require long-term antiviral medication.

Dr. Adiiboka said some medicines could cost between GH¢150 and GH¢300 a month, with certain brands reaching about GH¢400. He said efforts were underway with non-governmental organisations and other partners to make the medication more affordable, with an option costing about GH¢70 per month currently being worked on.

Unlike Hepatitis C, which can be cured, chronic Hepatitis B is generally managed with long-term medication for patients who require treatment. “If you put [the patient] on the medication, you don’t stop. As long as you are on the medication, you are fine. But once you stop the medication, it means that the virus is likely to come back,” he said.

Dr. Adiiboka warned that failure to diagnose and properly manage chronic Hepatitis B could result in serious complications, including liver cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer.

He said liver cancer was a major cause of cancer deaths in Ghana and ranked among the leading cancers affecting men. More worrying, he said, was that serious complications often emerged when people were still in their productive years.

“The average is about 42 years,” he said, referring to the age at which complications such as liver failure, liver cancer and cirrhosis could develop. He warned that when a breadwinner or economically productive person develops severe complications, the consequences extend beyond the individual to families, communities and the national economy. “The negative burden is quite heavy,” he stressed.

Dr. Adiiboka said Ghana would need to dramatically expand testing and treatment to move closer to the World Health Organisation’s 2030 viral hepatitis elimination target.

He said the global target requires countries to diagnose at least 90% of people living with chronic viral hepatitis and ensure that at least 80% of those diagnosed receive appropriate treatment.

Ghana, he acknowledged, remains far from the target, with diagnosis estimated at only about one percent. He said expanding population-wide screening, improving access to affordable medicines and strengthening prevention would therefore be critical.

Dr. Adiiboka also highlighted Ghana’s efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission through vaccination, including the introduction of Hepatitis B vaccination into the routine childhood immunisation programme and efforts to provide a birth dose within 24 hours of delivery.

For the public, however, his warning extends beyond hospitals and vaccination centres: instruments that cut, pierce or come into contact with blood must be properly sterilised.

A barber’s blade may appear to be just another tool of grooming, but if contaminated with infected blood, Dr. Adiiboka’s warning suggests, it could become a vehicle for a virus that a person may carry for life.

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The Abuakwa South constituency legislator has thus denied allegations of “any wrongdoing” during his tenure as the Registrar, under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration.

A statement signed by his lawyers, Sarkodie Baffour Awuah and Partners, dated Thursday, 13th August, 2026 responded to recent public commentary by Madam Sabah Zita Benson, High Commissioner of Ghana to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

According to the lawyers, the recent commentary by the High Commissioner is “aimed at renewing public ridicule against our client.”

PROBE

The lawyers in the statement highlighted the need for the High Commissioner to cease further public commentary on the matter.

The release recalled that the High Commissioner herself had acknowledged investigations have already been initiated into the allegations of corruption surrounding the awards of scholarship during the tenure of the previous administration.

Therefore, the lawyers opined that “the High Commissioner’s resort to the media to publicly berate our client rather than allowing the appropriate security and investigative bodies to discharge their mandate is regrettable and unwarranted.”

COOPERATION

According to the statement, the recent comments by Madam Zita Benson were not the first time the High Commissioner was making “such wild allegations”, notwithstanding the pendency of the investigations by state investigative agencies.

However, the lawyers note that their client, Kingsley Agyemang, has availed himself and fully cooperated with the investigators.

The lawyers say their client is cooperating with the investigation with a view to ensuring that the allegations are thoroughly probed, his name is completely cleared and the matter is brought to a definitive conclusion.

“Our client is a law-abiding citizen who remains focused on faithfully discharging the

mandate entrusted to him by the good people of Abuakwa South and is firmly committed

to the rule of law and due process. He remains confident that in the fullness of time, the truth will prevail and he will be vindicated,” the release added.

ALLEGATION

Following the change in government last year, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK, Sabah Zita Benson, made public what she described as “recklessness” in the awards of scholarships by the former Registrar of the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat, Dr Kingsley Agyemang.

Mrs Benson accused the former Registrar’s administration of leaving behind about £35 million in scholarship debt.

She said the arrears comprised dates back from 2021, 2022–2023, 2023–2024 and for 2024–2025.

She alleged that scholarships were awarded without adequate funding, including the further allegation that some students paid as much as US$10,000 in bribes to obtain scholarship award letters.

RESPONSE

Dr Agyemang, however, rejected the accusations, arguing that scholarship arrears predated his tenure. He said the Akufo-Addo administration inherited about GH¢230 million, or US$57 million, in scholarship debt in 2017 and cleared it to prevent students from being sent home.

He described the outstanding obligations during his tenure as institutional liabilities rather than personal financial recklessness, insisting that he did his work diligently while in office.

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From Akuapem to Kwahu in the Eastern Region, and from Bantama to Offinso in the Ashanti Region, the mood on the ground appears to be telling a story even before the final numbers are counted.

The Chronicle sources familiar with the campaigns say Chairman Cudjoe is cruising in the Eastern Region, while Chairman Coka is enjoying a similarly strong position in Ashanti, two of the New Patriotic Party’s most influential regional blocs.

The indications, according to the sources, are based on engagements with delegates and constituency executives across the two regions, where both chairmen are said to have secured significant early support.

Neither campaign is a product of the last six months. Both aspirants have built their political careers from the polling-station and constituency levels, a history that delegates have repeatedly cited in explaining their preference.

In the Eastern Region, Cudjoe’s campaign is reported to have benefited from his longstanding grassroots connections, with delegates across constituencies pointing to his familiarity with the party’s structures and local organisers.

The situation is said to be similar in Ashanti, where Coka’s organisational strength and relationship with constituency executives have reportedly given him an advantage over competing camps.

EASTERN AND ASHANTI ALIGN

The apparent alignment of the two regions is significant because the Eastern and Ashanti Regions have traditionally played different roles in determining the NPP’s internal political dynamics.

While the Eastern Region has often been associated with strategic positioning and candidate selection, Ashanti has historically been regarded as a region where organisational strength and grassroots mobilisation carry considerable weight.

According to Chronicle sources, however, delegates in both regions appear to be sending a similar message this time: a preference for chairmen who have deep roots within the party structures and understand the concerns of delegates at the grassroots.

The feedback from Ashanti, in particular, points to strong participation in constituency-level engagements, early commitments from executives and limited movement towards rival camps.

Sources say the same pattern is emerging in the Eastern Region, where Cudjoe is said to have maintained a commanding position as the election approaches.

The apparent support for the two chairmen could have implications beyond the regional contests.

The Eastern and Ashanti Regions control two of the NPP’s most important blocs of grassroots and delegate structures. Their choices could therefore influence the broader direction of the party’s internal politics and the organisation of future national campaigns.

For now, however, the message emerging from both regions, according to Chronicle sources, appears clear: Cudjoe has the Eastern Region, while Coka is firmly in command in Ashanti. The final verdict will come from the delegates on Saturday.

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According to an eyewitness account by Ofankor South Assemblyman, Dennis Daniel Quarshie, the incident started when an articulated truck allegedly knocked down an “Aboboyaa” rider and drove away without stopping.

A police officer who arrived at the scene reportedly stopped to direct traffic. However, motorists approaching from behind were apparently unaware of the danger ahead. A tipper truck crashed into the scene, followed by a passenger vehicle and other cars, creating a deadly chain collision.

About 15 passengers were reportedly trapped inside one of the vehicles, with most of the fatalities occurring there. The Ghana National Fire Service confirmed the deaths and injuries, including a girl under 15 years, whose two legs were reportedly severed.

The tragedy has once again exposed serious weaknesses in road safety, enforcement, visibility and the regulation of vulnerable vehicles on major highways.

There are some road accidents that should make a nation stop and ask difficult questions. The Ofankor Barrier tragedy is one of them. Eleven people are dead. Several others are injured. Families that began Thursday morning expecting to see their loved ones later in the day, are instead preparing for funerals.

It is deeply unfortunate. But beyond the immediate grief, anger and condolences, Ghana must confront the uncomfortable question: How many more people must die before we begin treating road safety as a national emergency?

The details surrounding this particular crash are heartbreaking. But they also expose a dangerous combination that has become too familiar on our roads: poor visibility, weak enforcement, reckless driving and vehicles operating where they should not.

Let us begin with the “Aboboyaa”. These tricycles have become an important part of Ghana’s informal economy, particularly for transporting goods and refuse. But their economic usefulness cannot make them immune to road-safety rules.

Authorities have previously restricted tricycles from using major highways and principal roads in Greater Accra because of safety concerns and road indiscipline. So why are they still finding their way onto major highways? That is the question the authorities must answer.

The Ofankor-Achimota stretch of the N6 is not an ordinary community road. The NRSA itself identifies the section between Achimota Overhead and Ofankor Barrier as a crash black spot.

Yet we continue to see vulnerable road users mixing with heavy-duty trucks, buses and fast-moving vehicles on such roads. This is not simply a matter of telling “Aboboyaa” riders to be careful. It is a matter of enforcement.

If the law says certain vehicles should not use particular highways, then the law must be enforced consistently. There must be designated alternative routes and proper arrangements for the people whose livelihoods depend on these vehicles. But government must also look beyond the tricycles.

Where are the streetlights? A highway carrying heavy traffic through the night should not become a tunnel of darkness. The Ghana Highway Authority itself identifies the provision of streetlights, traffic signs, road markings and other safety measures as part of its road-safety responsibilities.

If a driver cannot clearly see an obstruction, a stopped truck, a pedestrian, a broken-down vehicle or an accident ahead at 4:00 a.m., we are effectively creating the conditions for another disaster. And then there is reckless driving.

Speeding, dangerous overtaking, driving without adequate attention and failure to maintain safe following distances can turn one mistake into a mass casualty event. The Transport Ministry has acknowledged that human behaviour remains a major contributor to road crashes and has been reviewing road traffic regulations to address the problem.

The Ofankor tragedy should therefore not end with condolences. We need enforcement. We need lighting. We need proper warning signs and road markings. We need strict control of unauthorised vehicles on highways. We need responsible driving. And we need authorities to identify and fix dangerous sections before, rather than after, people die.

The dead cannot answer these questions. But the living can. And if the answer to this tragedy is simply another round of condolences, then we have learnt nothing.

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That matters especially as Ghana prepares for an AI Diagnosis Summit in Accra next week. Health care shows why a policy promise is not the same as a reliable workflow. An AI system may flag an image, summarize symptoms, rank a case, or suggest a diagnosis. The crucial question is what happens after the suggestion appears. Who checks it? What information does that person examine? What would make the reviewer reject the recommendation? And who owns the final decision?

Ghana can answer those questions with a lightweight human decision ledger. For high-stakes uses of AI, the organization would record a few practical facts: what task the system assisted with, what information or assumptions materially shaped the output, who reviewed it, whether the reviewer corrected or overrode anything, and what happened afterward. This is not a demand to document every spell-check or routine draft. It is a way to create a visible trail when AI affects health, employment, credit, education, public benefits, safety, legal rights, or another decision that can materially change someone’s life.

The ledger would help because the hardest AI failures are often not dramatic technical breakdowns. They are ordinary moments when a plausible answer receives too little scrutiny. People tend to give confident systems more authority than those systems deserve, particularly when work is rushed or responsibilities are unclear. Naming the human reviewer changes the psychology of the task. It turns oversight from a vague aspiration into an assigned job.

The same record can improve the technology rather than merely police it. Suppose a hospital sees that clinicians repeatedly correct the same kind of AI-generated summary. That pattern becomes a training signal. If a bank finds that staff frequently override automated recommendations for a particular customer circumstance, managers can examine whether the underlying process is missing context. If a government agency notices that workers spend more time correcting a supposedly efficient tool than the tool saves, it has evidence to redesign or retire the workflow.

This approach would also give Ghana a more useful way to talk about AI success. Adoption rates and pilot announcements tell leaders where tools are being tried. They do not show whether the tools are helping people make better decisions. A decision ledger makes improvement measurable through correction patterns, escalation frequency, review time, and outcomes. It can reveal where automation is ready to scale and where human judgment still carries most of the value.

The idea should remain proportionate. A neighborhood business using AI to draft a social post does not need the same controls as a hospital using it to support diagnosis. The requirement should follow the stakes. For low-risk tasks, ordinary supervision is enough. For consequential decisions, the record should be compact, consistent, and easy to audit. The goal is not bureaucracy. It is institutional memory.

That distinction matters for public trust. People are more likely to accept AI-assisted decisions when they can see that a person remains accountable and that there is a path to challenge mistakes. Ghana’s strategy can therefore become more human-centered not by slowing useful technology, but by making clear where human judgment begins, where it can overrule the machine, and how organizations learn from those moments.

The Chronicle’s call for practicality is timely because Ghana is moving from broad AI ambition toward sector-by-sector use. The country has an opportunity to build responsibility into those workflows before habits harden. A simple human decision ledger would give hospitals, employers, financial institutions, schools, and public agencies a shared discipline: use AI where it helps, but keep a visible record of the human judgment that makes consequential decisions trustworthy.

Ghana does not need another slogan about responsible AI. It needs a repeatable practice that shows who checked the machine, what they changed, and what the organization learned. That is how promise becomes practicality.

By Gleb Tsipursky

About the Author

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, a behavioral scientist, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, and author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results (Georgetown University Press, 2026).

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One of the suspects, Masud Abdullah, 35, an Imam, was arrested over remarks he allegedly made during a sermon at a mosque in Ntensere in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti Region.

According to police sources, Abdullah is alleged to have made statements in a video urging violence against individuals who speak ill of Prophet Mohammed.

In a related development, the Police Cyber Vetting and Enforcement Team arrested Daniel Junior Yaw Adjei, popularly known as “Apostle Daniel Adjei,” following his appearance in a separate video containing derogatory and offensive comments about Prophet Mohammed.

A police statement said investigations into the two cases were ongoing and that the suspects would be processed in accordance with the due process of the law.

The police service used the occasion to remind the public, particularly religious leaders, preachers, community leaders and social media commentators, that the constitutional rights to freedom of religion and freedom of expression must not be used as a pretext to incite violence or encourage harm against others.

The statement emphasised that comments capable of inciting violence, hatred, or public disorder constituted offences under the law and warned that perpetrators would be arrested and prosecuted.

The Ghana Police Service urged members of the public to exercise restraint and responsibility in public discourse, especially on religious matters, to promote peaceful coexistence and national unity.

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