WORLDWIDE TAXI FOCUS from Ghana


TWO GHANAIAN CABBIES ARRESTED FOR BEING IN POSSESSION OF HUMAN HEAD


Police in the Ghanaian capital Accra, have two cabbies in custody after a human head was discov- ered in a taxi they were driving. The incident happened on Sunday, July 10, at around 8pm. The two suspects have been identified as Samuel Amemasi, 32, and Joseph Kwesi Mawuwone, 23. They had been running from police when asked to stop at a checkpoint and were grabbed after their vehicle fell into a big pothole and veered into a bush. According to a report by Daily Guide, the human head was concealed in a bag on the vehicle’s back seat. However, when the car plunged into the bushes, the severed head and its contents became exposed. Residents of Hobor who approached the crashed vehicle, saw a stream of blood leading to the severed head and immediately informed the police. One of the suspects tried to escape but was later caught and arrested. One of the arrested drivers confessed to local residents that they cut off the head of the victim, also a taxi driver, for a money ritual. They lured the now-deceased taxi driver to a construction site. But while driving to the site, one used a rope to tie his neck from the back seat while the other held his hands and legs. They later carried the man to a sand winning site and cut off his head.


to have been organised by taxi drivers and that it had dispersed the same day. Bus drivers have also paralysed traffic in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, after diesel prices jumped and thousands of people were reported to have joined protests against repeated rises in fuel prices across Mozambique. The strikes halted public transport and barricades prevented travel on major roads until police restored order. Fuel price rises have also led to countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and South Africa reporting steep rises in food prices. Rising interest rates in richer countries have exacerbated the problem by causing currencies in several African countries, including Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya, to depreciate – pushing up the price of importing fuel. All have dropped to record lows against the dollar and look likely to continue to depreciate. Record inflation in Ghana – caused primarily by soaring fuel prices – has forced the government to seek an IMF bailout. Consumer inflation in Ghana rose to 29.8% annually in June from 27.6% in May, according to official figures.


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SHEEP FOUND BUNDLED INTO MINIBUS TAXI IN NORTH WEST SOUTH AFRICA


from Africa


RISING FUEL COSTS TRIGGER PROTESTS, BUT MORE PAIN TO COME


Truckers and taxi drivers have blocked roads across Africa in protest over rising fuel prices. CIPS reports that protests erupted in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces of south Africa after petrol and diesel price rises. Mpumalanga Police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala was quoted in newspapers as saying the protest appeared


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A 43-year-old man was arrested after he was found in possession of 21 suspected stolen sheep which were bundled into a minibus taxi in the NW South Africa. According to IOL, the minibus taxi had reportedly run out of petrol when the police found it in the early hours of Saturday 9 July. Police said the Vryburg K9 Unit members were conducting a patrol at about 1am when they spotted a suspicious and stationary minibus along the road. “Upon approaching the vehicle for enquiries, the police saw two individuals fleeing from the scene leaving the 43-year- old man behind. A subsequent search led to the discovery of 21 sheep which were loaded into the minibus. The suspect was arrested after failing to account for the possession and the vehicle was impounded,” said spokesperson Lieutenant- Colonel Amanda Funani. “Preliminary investigation showed that the minibus ran out of petrol while the suspects travelled from Kuruman in Northern Cape where the sheep were allegedly stolen at Tsineng village. The lawful owner of the sheep was traced through tattoo marks on the sheep,” Funani said.


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