A team from the Ashanti Regional police command have broken into the Daily Guide newspaper office to enable workers have access to the place and begin their daily activities.
The Daily Guide newspaper office in Kumasi in the Ashanti region was on Wednesday morning reportedly locked up by some youth group believed to be members of the Kumasi Youth Association.
The youth group, according to reports, attacked the media house over its various reportage on the recent banking case in the UK which mentioned the Royal Occupant of the Golden Stool, His Royal Highness Otumfuo Osei Tutu II; a report they believe has tarnished the image of the King.
Speaking to Peacefmonline.com, Ernest Kofi Adu, a reporter for the paper in Kumasi explained that the group locked up the office and warned them to retract their reportage about the monarch before they will be given access to the place.
“We came to the office this morning to see that our office has been locked by the guys who call themselves Kumasi Youth Association.
"They are saying that until we retract our story and go to Manhyia to apologise to the King, they will permanently shut down the office”, he added.
"But we reported to the police this morning who assisted in breaking those padlocks to enable us have access to the office", he explained in a telephone interview.
The Asantehene was reported in a British newspaper to have given £200,000 as well as $200,000 with consecutive serial numbers to a banker, Mr Arthur, to be deposited on his behalf at the Ghana International Bank Plc.
The story claimed that Mr Arthur had said he could not conduct the necessary due diligence before depositing the money because he was a subject of the Asantehene and could not question him over the money or any other issue.
He has since been sacked by the bank and the matter has become a subject of litigation before an employment tribunal in the UK.
Mr Arthur is reported to have been sacked by the bank after the bank he allegedly transferred the money to in Jersey, one of the British Isles,
Source: Isaac Kwame Owusu/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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WAIT TILL IT IS TOGBE AFEDE OR ANY OTHER AND YOU'LL SEE HOUNDS OF ATTACKS AND NAME-CALLING. HMM!! THIS IS GHANA FOR YOU. WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE SCANDAL BCOS ANOTHER GHANAIAN IS IN THE WOODS FIGHTING HIS SURVIVAL.
Hahahahaha, eminent disgrace, perpetual ***barred word*** and absolute ignoranimus.The conveyor has descently increased the mockery against us. How can "IT" put out these words? English? I have forgotten my subject verb aggreement koraa Gosh!! My eyes dieeeee...... Hahahaahah
Does the Ashanti king provides food, water and jobs to it People
So a whole KuYA couldn't get anyone with good grammar and spelling skills to do a better work? I'm surprised
WHETHER ROYAL HIGHNESS OR LOW HIGHNESS WE WILL ALL DIE DAY ONE, SO PLEASE GIVE US A BREAK. HE IS NOT THE ONLY KING IN GHANA, HE HAS HIS LIMIT. YABR3MO!!!
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Its only in Kumasi or Ashanti Region where people are threatened for speaking about their chief not even against him o, just about him keke. Civilized world no longer tolerate this kind of behavior. Daily Guide is the daily Gospel of Ashanti Region. They use it to insult JDM well well. Your chief (King)is a respectable and a noble man but not more than The President of Ghana ok what is good for JDM is also good for Asantehene.
Kudos guys. They report anything in the negative taste. They think they are champion. Reporting falsehood always, against a chosen political party and our honourable KING
Your anger is misplaced cos daily guide was only reporting on what has been reported in the Daily telegraph in UK. The youth should go and lock up Daily telegrapgh office in UK instead