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BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Accra, Ghana- A LEGAL practitioner and a Human Right Watcher, Mr. Martin L. Kpebu has proposed that if the government of Ghana is committed in abolishing the death penalty it will not take more than four month to do so. According to him, even though the Constitution specifies that to amend the death penalty requires a referendum, portions such as Article 29 session 46 of the 1992 Constitution which deals with murder, accounting for 95% of cases in relation to death penalty can go through Parliamentary amendment. Speaking to journalist in Accra, when representative of Amnesty International Ghana called on him to seek his opinion on death penalty, he said the government through the Constitutional Review Commission suggested that death penalty be...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- More than $ 27 million splashed on Sunday at an auction where dozens of luxury cars were seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s President in a thorough and careful investigation in Swiss money – laundry. The 25 lots sold by auction house Bonham’s included a white and cream 2014 Lamborghini Veneno car with no roof and two seats that cost the buyer $8.4 million comprising 15% taxes to be added. The super car – one of only nine such versions produced had been driven only 201 miles and has an official top speed of 223 mph Bonham’s noted. Total money received from the sale beats the $8.7 million that authorities had hoped to fetch for a charity to benefit the people of oil – rich Equatorial Guinea. The auction...