June 30 murder - chief executioner maintains contact with 'The Rawlingses' for cash!
All set for today's Presidential run-off
We'll hunt for killers - President assures nation
Who wins the race?
Muslims mark Eid-ul-Fitr
The men of the year
June 30 murder - chief executioner maintains contact with 'The Rawlingses' for cash!
The Crusading Guide says its ongoing investigations have established that the Chief Executioner in the infamous June 30, 1982 murder of the three High Court Judges and a retired Army Major, Lance Corporal Samuel Kwaku Amedeka, has consistently maintained contact with Mr and Mrs Rawlings ever since he escaped from lawful custody in Ghana in June 1983.
Sources close to the Presidential Household intimated on conditions of strict confidentiality, that L. Cpl. Amedeka who is a 'wanted man', has over the years written a couple of letters to Mr and Mrs Rawlings, requesting for financial assistance which the Rawlingses allegedly obliged.
Amedeka who crossed the Ghanaian border into Lome, Togo in 1983 following the jail break at the Nsawam Prison in the wake of a June 19 abortive coup against the erstwhile PNDC, with the assistance of a Colonel (identity withheld) who was highly-placed in the Border Guards, has been receiving huge sums of money from the Rawlingses via this same Colonel who is still serving in the Ghana Armed Forces.
The Colonel, according to the story, served as the 'transmission belt' between the Rawlingses and Amedeka when he temporarily stayed in Lome.
Amedeka, according to the source, also occasionally uses his sister who is an officer in the Ghana Prisons and a member of the pro-NDC 31st December Women’s Movement.
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All set for today's Presidential run-off
The Daily Graphic writes that Ghanaian electorates go to the polls on Thursday for the second time in 21 days to elect the next President of the country.
They would choose between the presidential candidate of the NPP, Mr J.A. Kufuor, who led the Presidential election in the December 7 polls but failed to obtain the constitutionally required 50 per cent plus one of the total valid votes cast, and the flagbearer of the NDC (NDC), Prof. J.E.A. Mills, to manage the affairs of the country for the next elections.
The NPP which will be the majority party in Parliament, having won 99 of the 200 constituencies, will be striving to wrest the presidency from the incumbent NDC which has also re-energised its operations during the past few weeks and is poised to retain political power.
The Electoral Commission said it had dispatched balloting materials to its district offices while it had requested for adequate security from the security agencies.
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We'll hunt for killers - President assures nation
President Jerry John Rawlings in a radio and TV broadcast on Wednesday said the government of Ghana is working closely with a team of international homicide experts to solve the murder of women in the country.
He said this part of systematic efforts by the government to hunt down the killers who, in the latest hit in Accra, have killed 30 women in the past three years.
President Rawlings indicated that he and members of his government would be prepared to submit to the investigation and expect that those who have made promises that the murders would end if they come to power to do the same.
He promised that the government would strengthen measures at preventing further murders and at the same time double efforts at bringing the culprits to book.
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Who wins the race?
The Ghanaian Times writes that about 10 million eligible Ghanaians are expected to turn out at 20,113 polling stations today to elect a President to serve the country for the next four years.
The re-run, the second in Ghana's political history between Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the NDC and Mr J.A. Kufuor of the NPP became necessary when neither of the seven candidates who contested the December 7 polls was able to obtain 50 per cent plus one valid votes to become the President. Prof. Mills and Mr Kufuor however, emerged the two main contestants out of the group.
The first ever re-run in the country took place on July 9, 1979 between Dr Hilla Limann of the People's National Convention (PNP) and Mr Victor Owusu of the Popular Front Party (PFP) following an inconclusive first round on June 18.
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Muslims mark Eid-ul-Fitr
The Times in another front-page coverage says Muslims throughout the country on Wednesday celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr, the end of the month long Ramadan fast, with prayers and thanksgiving to Allah.
Addressing the Muslims in Accra, the Vice-President, Professor John Atta Mills, urged Ghanaians to be guided by the prevailing spirit of goodwill to conduct themselves in a manner that would ensure a peaceful voting in the Presidential election run-off on Thursday.
He intimated that the peaceful conduct of the December 7 election had brought a lot of respect to Ghana in the eyes of Africa and the world as a stable and democratic nation, adding that this should be a signal of the spirit of love and brotherliness, which should unite all Ghanaians.
He urged the worshippers to go to the polls and vote for a candidate who is in the best interest of the nation.
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The men of the year
The Accra Mail says it is endorsing Mr J.A. Kufuor, the Presidential candidate of the NPP, in Thursday's presidential run-off as their man for the presidency for a number of reasons.
It stated that over the past two decades, Ghana has not had good political leadership but has turned out a divided nation.
"Now we have to heal wounds. We need a new voice - a soothing voice," it said.
The Mail states that it cannot endorse Professor Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) because he carries with him the 20-year package of dividing the nation and has made it quite clear that he would maintain the divisive tactics of the person most responsible for disuniting the country, Flt. Lt. J.J. Rawlings.
The paper states that Ghana belongs to all Ghanaians and the nation therefore deserves a president and government that will put citizens before party.
"No government can develop a country without the full participation of the citizenry. It is the collective creative abilities of citizens that create wealth, well being and development," the Mail said.
The paper writes that the NPP's Kufuor goes into the second part of Election 2000 as the man who eventually burst the NDC bubble that had assumed airs of invincibility.
It said the over three million people who voted for change on December 7, 2000 are the actual men and women of the year and anyone who votes in the run-off to confirm that truly earns the tag.
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