Police knows serial killers!
''Won't these people steal?"
MP calls for vigilance
EC admits errors in results
Returning officer held for voting twice
‘NDC not linked with serial killings’
NDC abandons rallies – for lack of funds
Kufuor will win by 53%
No fresh thumbprint ID cards – NPP
Police knows serial killers!
Madam Hawa Yakubu, Member of Parliament (MP) elect for Bawku Central, has stated with conviction that the perpetrators of the Accra serial killings are known to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and his men, reports the Crusading Guide.
She said knowing the level of intelligence of the IGP, Mr Peter Nanfuri, she did not believe that he was unaware of those behind the serial killings that have rocked Accra for the past three years.
"The IGP, I know is a very intelligent man. He taught in my village; he is a graduate, Lawyer, highly intelligent and he cannot tell me he doesn't know what is happening", Madam Hawa Yakubu said.
The MP elect indicated that she believed the Security Services knew something about the murders but were either handicapped or intimidated and thus prevented from taking action.
She wondered why the police had been able to find out that their two colleagues murdered at Ablekuma were buried under a foundation but had failed in unravelling the mystery surrounding the Accra killings.
She assured the IGP that an NPP Government will provide him with all the help and protection needed in exposing and prosecuting the murderers.
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''Won't these people steal?"
The Accra Mail says in circumstances similar to Nixon's Watergate Scandal, a secret voice claiming insider knowledge of the Electoral Commission and the intelligence agencies has told the paper that some unnamed officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) have been drafted by the NDC to help in massive rigging.
This is especially in the Volta Region, rural Greater Accra and parts of the Northern and Upper Regions.
The caller, identified by the paper as 'Deep Throat', indicated that Mr Kufuor and his strategists would have to be extremely vigilant and not accept results at face value as a result of the major rigging plans.
"Tell Mr Kufuor and his people not to accept any results with ridiculous figures for Mills because even the intelligence agencies agree that the figures are as close to reality as possible. In fact, they were doctored to cheat him. You said it and you are right, the NDC cannot win elections without cheating one way or the other," the caller said.
The rigging according to 'Deep Throat' was to come from ghost and Togolese voters to be used in the Volta Region as well as the doctoring of polling stations results on their way to District, Regional and National headquarters.
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MP calls for vigilance
A Member of Parliament for Asante Akim, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, has called on Ghanaians to be vigilant and be protective of the nation's wealth in the countdown to the presidential run-off elections and the transition period.
The MP in a statement in Accra said since the attention of the general public is on who becomes the next president of Ghana, there is the possibility that unpatriotic elements might use the period to loot the national resources.
The statement urged the populace to focused simultaneously on the economy and social issues like the serial murder of women.
Hon. Baah-Wiredu said the award of contracts for goods, services and works should either be above board or suspended during the transitional period between December 8, 2000 and January 8, 2001.
He also asked for the national treasury to be protected through a strict monitoring of the daily inflows and outflows from the Consolidated Fund while foreign exchange inflows and outflows should be published daily and copies given to the Presidential candidates (NPP and NDC) and the Speaker of Parliament.
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EC admits errors in results
The Ghanaian Times reports the Electoral Commission as announcing in Accra that the percentage of valid votes cast for the two Presidential candidates now going into the run-off elections on December 28 has suffered slight drops after rechecking of results.
Mr J.A. Kufuor of the NPP, whose share was 48.35 after initial announcement, dropped to 48.17 while Prof. Jon Evans Atta Mills of the NDC went down from 44.85 to 44.54.
Announcing this in Accra on Wednesday, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), said Dr Edward Mahama of the People’s National Convention went up from 2.5 to 2.9 per cent.
The briefing was in reaction to the news conference held by Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, National Campaign Manager of the NPP in which he alleged that there were some discrepancies and errors in the results published by the EC on December 11.
He said the global picture that had emerged had “in no way whatsoever altered the initial picture of the need for a run-off election” between the two candidates.
Dr Afari-Gyan noted that in compiling the results of an election of the scale that they had, which involved 200 constituencies and seven candidates, errors can easily occur even under the best of circumstances which could be corrected only with checking and rechecking of the figures until one is finally sure that they are not only correct but are also in the correct places.
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Returning officer held for voting twice
Akuamoah Boateng, the returning officer for the Asutifi South Constituency in the just-ended general elections has been picked by the police to assist in investigations relating to allegations that he voted twice in the December 7 elections.
The allegation levelled against him by Osam Mohammed, the NDC polling agent at the Nkaseim Methodist Church polling station.
Security sources told the Times on Wednesday that Boateng voted on December 5 at the Hwidiem Community Centre Polling Station during the special voting exercise for election officials, security personnel and other eligible voters and voted again on December 7 at the Methodist centre, against protests by Osman.
Osman reported Boateng’s conduct to the police after verification at the Electoral Commission’s office confirmed double voting.
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‘NDC not linked with serial killings’
The NDC is reported by the Daily Graphic as having criticised the Chairman of the NPP, Mr Samuel Odoi-Sykes for alleging that the inability of the Police to deal with the serial killings was because some powerful people in society were involved in the crime.
It also wondered how Mr Odoi-Sykes could state that the killings would stop as soon as the NPP wins political power.
“First of all, are they privy to some information which they are refusing to disclose to the Police? And if so why would they want to wait until they come to power before they help the police apprehend the killers?” Professor Kofi Awoonor, National Vice chairman of the NDC quizzed at a news conference in Accra on Wednesday.
He criticised some opinion leaders for politicising the issue as part of their agenda to win political power in this year’s elections.
He said the NDC in its efforts to ensure gender equality and development are being seriously hampered by the mysterious killings of women in some parts of Accra.
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An Accra Regional Tribunal on Wednesday granted bail in the sum of 10 million cedis with one surety to Samuel Cudjoe, the mate of the Nissan Urvan bus which allegedly caused the accident involving the presidential convoy on the Accra-Tema Motorway in October this year.
The bail, according to a front-page report of the Graphic, followed an application filed by counsel for Cudjoe, Mr John Klu.
Granting him bail, the tribunal, chaired by Mr Isaac Douse, said it considered the provisions of the 1992 Constitution which deals with fundamental human rights and had no doubt that the applicant was entitled to bail.
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NDC abandons rallies – for lack of funds
The Evening News says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would not engage in mass rallies and frequent advertisements as the NPP is currently engaged in.
Dr E.G. Don-Arthur, a member of the National Campaign Team, said in Accra on Thursday that the party has no money now to carry out intensive campaigns.
He said although the party planned for the expenditure of an eventual run-off, it is very careful in dealing with its finances to prevent Ghanaians from accusing it of using States funds in their campaigns.
He said the NDC is in a peculiar situation different from that of the NPP stating that “they have nothing to worry about because nobody knows where they get their funds from.”
He said either Ghanaians would point accusing fingers at the NDC for dipping their hands in state coffers if they organise more rallies and ran adverts or they might read meanings into the source of their funds for their activities.
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Kufuor will win by 53%
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Dean of the faculty of Arts of the University of Ghana, has predicted a 53 per cent victory for Mr J.A. Kufuor of the NPP in the December 28 presidential run-off.
"I will really be surprised if the NPP does not get more than 52 per cent. I predict at least about 53 per cent f