Sex scandal rocks Cape Coast Poly
Two battles for Ayawaso West Wuogon seat
True cause of hike in fuel price
1979 executions regrettable but unavoidable – Boakye-Djan
Khebab seller’s ordeal with the BNI
Nana Akwasi Agyeman still under fire
Sex scandal rocks Cape Coast Poly
Both the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Times give front page treatment to a sex scandal that has Rocked the Cape Coast Polytechnic.
The Graphic reports that the Cape Coast Polytechnic has been rocked by an alleged sex scandal involving some senior lecturers which has adversely affected discipline and academic work. The Ghanaian Times on the other hand reports simply that the Cape Coast Polytechnic has been rocked by sex scandal and maladministration.
The Times goes on to say that this has created tension on the campus between some lecturer protesters and the students on one hand, and the offending lecturers and the school authorities on the other.
The Graphic in its account says some of the lecturers are alleged to have shown exotic pornographic films on computers to unsuspecting students, particularly females and thereby succeeding in having sex with them. The paper says these alleged indecent affairs are said to have happened during lecture periods in the offices of the lecturers.
The Graphic reports Mr Tommy Madichie, Head of the Civil Engineering Department as making the allegation at a press conference at Cape Coast at which he called for a probe into the scandal to forestall a possible revolt by the students.
The Times says the lecturers and staff involved in the scandal are said to have installed programmes on pornographic materials in some of the institution’s computers in their offices and invited unsuspecting students to view. After showing the films to the students, the lecturers sexually harass them.
The paper says one of the lecturer protesters of the Polytechnic, Mr Tommy Madichie, Head of the Building and Civil Engineering Department, who was abhorred by what was happening, exposed the activities at a press conference at Cape Coast yesterday.
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Two battles for Ayawaso West Wuogon seat
The Ghana Palaver, in a back page story says the NPP leadership’s hope of capturing power in the year 2000 Elections suffered another set-back as its two prospective parliamentary candidates struggling to Contest the Ayawaso West Wuogon seat have resorted to back-biting and manipulation of the constituency executive. According to the Palaver, the two men, Mr George Isaac Amoo and Alhaji Issaka Inusah, are lobbying to win the approval of the executive.
The paper says the tactics of the better-resourced Alhaji Inusah is said to have infuriated his opponent and his supporters with Mr Amoo considering the option of standing as an independent candidate or to look elsewhere. The Palaver says Alhaji Inusah has managed to win the executive to his side.
According to the paper, with the tacit support of some leading members a letter was secretly sent to the constituency executive to open nominations for the NPP parliamentary primaries in the constituency.
The Palaver alleges that the executive, ‘nicodemously’ kept silence over the letter which is believed to be the brain-work of Alhaji Inusah.
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True cause of hike in fuel price
In its lead story, the Free Press says its investigations have revealed that the real cause of the recently announced 15% hike in the price of petroleum products, is due to the financial indiscipline in the operations of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).
According to the paper, the company’s accounts are in the red and consequently, has not been able to meet its financial obligations to creditors abroad. The accumulated debt of the company for imported crude oil is said to be as high as $200 billion (over 800 billion cedis) and TOR has resorted to banker’s draft for its imports, the paper adds. The Free Press says in spite of its mounting debt, the company allegedly pays proceeds from its products into an unknown account not controlled by the management.
The company, the paper says, uses its financial weakness as an excuse to deny workers of salary adjustment and other fringe benefits.
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1979 executions regrettable but unavoidable – Boakye-Djan
The Dispatch in its major story, reports Major Boakye-Djan, former Spokesman and Deputy Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) as saying in a fax message the paper received recently that he has read with dismay the reported remarks by Flt-Lt Jerry Rawlings, the then Chairman of the AFRC that he (Rawlings) has no regrets for the executions that took place during the June 4 1979 armed uprising in Ghana.
Major Boakye-Djan is quoted as saying that for the past 20 years, he had on numerous occasions, talked and written about AFRC affairs and in particular, about those executions. "On behalf of the AFRC members, functionaries and particularly those voiceless participants who are still serving in the Ghana Armed Forces, I have consistently reported that those executions were regrettable but unavoidable, given the circumstances in which we had to operate and both the moral and legal procedures for the executions that we had to use", he is quoted as saying.
The fax message, which the paper says was dated June 4, 1999, said "for the avoidance of any doubt, those officers were executed for their ultimate responsibilities for illegal acts (high treason) of removing from office, constitutionally elected civilian governments in 1966 of Kwame Nkrumah and in 1972 of Kofi Busia; sustaining successor military regimes in office which were unaccountable to Ghanaians in their corrupt conduct of national affairs".
The message concluded that the executed officers personally profited from those regimes or allowed their agents and cronies to do so.
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Khebab seller’s ordeal with the BNI
The Ghanaian Chronicle reports that on May 4, this year two men in plain clothes approached John Abelma, a 24-year-old khebab seller at the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra and asked him to accompany them to the headquarters of the Ghana Police Service.
The Chronicle says Abelma, a native of the Upper East Region, obliged but as they headed for the Police Headquarters in a taxi, the two unknown men ordered the driver to take them instead to the offices of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) near the 37 Military Hospital.
The paper says at that point Abelma enquired about their mission, but the answer he received was that he was under arrest. The Chronicle says Ablema, who was narrating this story to the paper last week told of his ordeal with the BNI. According to him the BNI officers insisted that he declare his political affiliation, and when he asked them what his arrest had to do with politic, they ordered him to take them to his house for a search. He said he complied with their request and during the search, they found his NPP membership card which they took away. After the search, he was sent to the BNI offices near the 37 Military Hospital and detained from morning until late evening when they accompanied him to find someone to stand bail for him. The Chronicle says sad-looking Abelma told the paper that it was when he was about to be granted bail that he was asked to write a sort of statement that he had been accused of possessing a ten thousand-cedi note, which was not even in circulation in Ghana.
Abelma, according to the paper, said his decision to report the case stemmed from the fact that the BNI
wanted to frame him.
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Nana Akwasi Agyeman still under fire
The independent says the entire membership of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) have resolved
to remove Nana Akwasi Agyeman, the Metropolitan Chief Executive, from office. They have therefore reiterated their uncompromising stance on the issue, which was first presented in the form of a petition to President Jerry Rawlings on May 7, this year.
The paper says the decision to get the Metropolitan Boss removed through constitutional means, as contained in their earlier petition, was also addressed to the Ashanti Regional Minister, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the Chief of Staff at the President’s Office, last Tuesday in Kumasi by 46 out of the 60 elected assembly members of the KMA.
The Independent says the assembly members intimated that they cannot work with Nana Akwasi Agyeman again.
They also denied allegations levelled against them in a section of the media by Mr Kwame Boateng, an aide of Metropolitan Chief Executive and a government appointee, claiming that all the 46 elected members signed the resolution requesting Nana Akwasi Agyeman’s removal under duress and coercion as baseless.
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