Exams fraud…181 banned for three years
Armed pupil storms school…As teachers, others ‘scatter’
Nana Konadu is first choice
Vincent Asiseh justifies coup against 3rd Republic
Six million cedis is asking price for girl-child?
Exams fraud…181 banned for three years
One hundred and eighty-one candidates who committed examination malpractices in the 1998 General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary and Advanced Levels nation-wide, have been banned from writing any examination conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in any of its member countries for three years, reports the Graphic in its front page lead story.
The paper says the names and pictures of those affected have also been circulated to all tertiary institutions, the headquarters of all member countries and the Council’s branch in London to notify them accordingly. According to the Graphic 40 of the culprits have been tried at Koforidua, Kibi and Nsawam, all in the Eastern Region, where they sat for the examination, and each fined ranging between 100,000 cedis and 200,000 cedis.
The Rev. J.A. Adotey, Head of the Test, Administration Division of the WAEC, who disclosed this in an interview with the Graphic in Accra yesterday, said 176 of those who were impersonated were Ordinary Level candidates while the remaining five were candidates for the Advanced Level. According to Rev. Adotey, 24 of those arrested are females. He said only three of the females sat for the Advanced Level, while the remaining 21 were Ordinary Level candidates.
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Armed pupil storms school…As teachers, others ‘scatter’
In its banner headline story, the Ghanaian Times says for nearly four hours on Monday, pupils and teachers of St. Augustine’s Anglican Junior Secondary School at Akwatia Line in Kumasi, ran helter-skelter for dear life. The paper says for the period, everything stood still at the school, including academic work.
According to the paper, the reason was that four boys, two of them armed with locally manufactured pistols and the others wielding cutlasses, stormed the school at about 9 a.m. threatening to deal ruthlessly with the teachers.
The Times says the attackers, led by Habib Yahaya, a 17-year-old former Form Two pupil of the school, were said to be displeased with the decision of the school authorities to transfer him to the nearby Asem Boys’ Junior Secondary School. According to the paper, it took the bravado of only one pupil, 17-year-old Osman Suleman, to stop the invaders.
The paper says hefty-looking Suleman, a Form Two pupil, sent the attackers fleeing after disarming one of them. He later handed over the pistol to the school authorities.
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Nana Konadu is first choice
The Guide says recent criticisms and attacks on the celebration of June Four by a section of Ghanaian and even some former members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), have increased the resolve of the inner-core managers of the NDC and die-hard defenders of June Four and 31st December Revolution, to insist on Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings being selected as the running mate to Vice-President John Atta Mills, the NDC Presidential candidate in 2000 general elections.
The paper says it is obvious that the NDC will continue to publicly deny its intentions to invite Nana Konadu to take up the vice-presidential slot until the last minute, when it springs the ‘coup de grace’ surprise on the opposition and the whole country.
According to the Guide, the recent meeting and the on-going discussions after the June Four celebrations, indicate that there is the need for a Mills-Konadu presidency, and there is the likelihood of this happening.
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Vincent Asiseh justifies coup against 3rd Republic
Acccording to the Crusading Guide, to Mr Vincent Asiseh, Press Secretary of the NDC, the December 31, 1981 coup d’etat that unseated the constitutionally-elected government of President Hilla Limann, was justifiable.
In a front page story, the paper says Mr Asiseh, answering a question in a GTV programme – "Public Concern", a day before the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the June Four Uprising, unreservedly lambasted the late President Limann for heading a government that to him, was wrought with ineptitude, ingratitude and flippancy.
"The AFRC handed power to President Limann. President Limann won an election but then that regime didn’t last too long. Come 31st December 1981. PNDC came on the scene and with President Rawlings as Chairman. Would you say that it was significant for Rawlings to have come back?", that was a question posed to Mr Asiseh by the host of the programme, Mr Cyril Acolatse.
In reply, the NDC scribe is quoted as saying, "I think it was. We actually had got to the end of the tether. And that is a fact. "I think there was some kind of ingratitude on the part of President Hilla Limann. There was also ineptitude on the part of his government; and there was some flippancy".
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Six million cedis is asking price for girl-child?
The P & P in an inside page story, says a Kibi trader who thought she could sell her two-year-old girl-child for six million cedis to defray a debt of 900,000 cedis she had been running away from, has found herself in the firm grips of the law, while on her was to conclude the deal.
The paper says Yaa Asantewaa, 33, had almost succeeded in conveying her innocent child to Tema for sale when she was arrested by the Tesano Police upon a tip-off. It says although Asantewaa has denied the allegation, she is, however, being investigated for slave dealing, contrary to Section 314 (Act 29/60) of the Criminal Amendment Code. Asantewaa is reported as saying she was sent to Accra on May 4, this year, with an amount of 900.000 cedis by her colleague to purchase goods for the two of them.
She said after reaching Accra Central, towards Tudu, she had wanted to buy chewing stick, but when she opened her bag, the money was missing.
According to her, she was stranded in town so she decided to work as a porter. While working, she said she met one Baba, a labourer at Santana Hotel at Tesano in Accra, who promised to look for work for her at a chop-bar. Asantewaa, according to the P & P, said the chop-bar owner would not employ her because she was carrying a child. She said on June 1, this year, while she was at Santana Market, Baba came in a taxi under the pretext of taking her to Tema to see his sister, but instead, he sent her to the Tesano Police Station where she was detained.
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