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Take action on 5 containers of impounded rosewood at Tema Port – Apaak

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak, has asked the government, through the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, to expedite action in probing the circumstances behind the impoundment of some five containers of rosewoods at the Tema port weeks ago. He indicated in …

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Police Commander hot over seized rosewood; faces legal suit

  by:Brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Kwesi Ampofo Duku faces legal action over the seizure of a truck of rosewood and the illegal detention of the driver of the truck belonging to Empasteele Company Limited. He together with the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney …

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Chinese ‘Rosewood Queen’ deported

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The Chinese woman who is standing trial for allegedly transporting a large quantity of Rosewood to Tema for export to China illegally has been deported. Officials of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), who made this known in Accra on Tuesday, said Huang Yanfeng, aka Helena …

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Kufuor warns journos against using media freedom to upset governance process

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has charged journalists not to misconstrue the prevailing favourable media environment as unfettered freedom to upset the governance process. He said despite being considered the ‘Fourth Estate of the Realm’, media practitioners should wield their powers responsibly. The former …

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We still can’t find Chinese fugitive Rosewood smuggler – Police

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The Northern Regional Police Command says it is yet to locate the whereabouts of the fugitive Chinese Rosewood smuggler, Helen Huang more than two weeks after she jumped bail. Unconfirmed reports say the 43 years old Chinese national is in Togo. The person who stood …

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Chinese ‘Rosewood Queen’ Helena Huang now hiding in Togo (Video)

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   Hellen Huang during her arrest It has emerged that the Chinese woman, Helena Huang, who was arrested for illegally logging rosewood and later went missing, is hiding in Lome, the capital of Togo. Leader of Rosewood Taskforce, Ayamgabawa Fatau disclosed this on Adom FM’s Fabewoso segment on the …

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Rosewood Chinese suspect missing

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The Chinese woman, Helena Huang, who was arrested in Tamale for transporting trucks of rosewood lumbers and charged with possessing banned forestry products has been declared missing more than 48 hours after she was granted police Inquiry bail. The Northern Regional Police Crime Officer, Supt. …

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Another Chinese woman arrested with 4 containers of Rosewood

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     Helena Huang was caught with four truckloads of Rosewood. A Chinese national has been arrested by police in the Northern region with four containers of Rosewood timber. Helena Huang, 41, was accompanying the truckloads of the timer when police at the Vitting Barrier apprehended …

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Funsi: One dead, 3 picked up after bloody clash over rosewood

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong Three persons have been picked up by police in Wa East after a bloody clash between two logging groups on Saturday.     Police remain tight-lipped about the identities of the persons picked up over the clash at Funsi in the Wa East District of the Upper …

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