General News of Tuesday, 20 January 2026Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe 2024 New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Klottey Korle Constituency, Valentino Nortey, has reportedly been arrested in the United States over a stabbing incident. According to a report by abc27.com, the former parliamentary candidate is accused of stabbing a woman during a domestic incident along Mayfair Drive in Lower Paxton Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, January 17, 2026. The report indicated that public records at the Dauphin County Prison show that Nortey was denied bail after he was arraigned before the court. He became the parliamentary candidate of the NPP after beating Philip Kojo Addo Addison and Samuel Nii Adjei Tawiah in the party’s primaries. Online court records show Nortey is in Dauphin County Prison after he was arraigned in front of Magisterial District Judge David Judy, who denied bail.

Source: GhanaWeb January 20, 2026 12:59 UTC