Tony Aidoo blasts NDC colleagues
Ghana seeks African support for Annan
Sch block collapses on pupils
11 appointed to Council of State
Cocaine-record haul busted at KIA
Storm at another finance house
Sad story of a retired Judge
You insult me, I will insult you
Kofi Annan’s view on HIPC
Armed robbers attack Agyin Asare’s term
Tony Aidoo blasts NDC colleagues
“Most of the stories that were written and are being written about people like Tony Aidoo and E.T. Mensah are stories leaked by NDC personalities to the press,” he emphasized.
Dr Aidoo who appeared on JOY FM’s Breakfast show with Komla Dumor described the issue as a sad state of affairs adding that there had been a great deal of individualism within the NDC party.
He said what was happening was that people were ingratiating themselves with the press so that there is a positive presentation of them relative to the negative presentation of their own colleagues.
“We do know of people who have bribed journalists so that they will be seen in a positive light.”
Dr. Aidoo explained further that by so doing some of them hoped to gain favour with the press and be positively presented to the public all as part of their politicking.
He said it was unfortunate that he found himself bearing the brunt of the public backlash against the NDC party saying someone had to present the other side of the stories against the NDC and he found himself doing that.
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Ghana seeks African support for Annan
This will enable him to complete the restructuring and transformation programmes he has set in motion at the World body.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Hackman Owusu Agyemang, made the appeal in Accra on Tuesday when he met with the African Diplomatic Corps.
The meeting was to enable the Minister to interact formally with the Ambassadors and heads of the African missions to Ghana and to discuss issues, particularly in the interest of the African continent and problems facing individual states.
Mr Owusu-Agyeman explained that Mr. Kofi Annan’s good works for the past four years had been praised by France, the United States of America and Britain adding that those good deeds could only be completed if he was given anoher mandate as the UN head.
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Sch block collapses on pupils
Sixteen pupils of the Nkwantanang Primary School, Madina in Accra, on Tuesday suffered various degrees of injury when their wooden classroom structure, covered with asbestos sheets, collapsed on their heads.
The old structure was being replaced with concrete blocks by two masons and two labourers when it collapsed.
An eye-witness told the ‘Times’ that the construction work was going on while the children were having classes.
But the headmistress, Mrs Florence Asem, said that the workers were only marking the site for work to begin.
After collapse of the structure, she rushed all the 16 children to a private clinic – Dala Clinic – within the REDCO Flats opposite the school, for medical attention.
When the ‘Times’ visited the clinic, 13 of the children had been treated. The other three had been sent to the 37 Military Hospital for further observation.
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11 appointed to Council of State
The President, Mr. J.A. Kufuor has appointed 11 distinguished and respected citizens as members of the Council of State.
According to The Daily Graphic, state-owned daily, the members, who have varied backgrounds, would be in office to counsel the President in the performance of his functions.
They are Professor Alex Kwapong, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana and former Rector, UN University in Tokyo; Alhaji Alhassan Bin-Salih, a retired Principal Secretary; Mr C.K. Tedam, a former Minister andeducationist and Mr A.K. Deku, former Police Commissioner.
Others are Madam Ama Busia, former Principal Domestic Bursar, University of Ghana and sister of former Prime Minister, Dr K.A. Busia; Madam Adisa Munkaila, former Deputy Minister in the PNP Government; Mrs Emma Mitchell, former Minister in the NDC Government and an advocate on gender issues; and Mr Kwesi Armah, former High Commissioner to the UK and Barrister at Law.
The rest are Nana Otuo Siriboe, a paramount chief and former Lecturer, KNUST, who is also an engineer; Professor Albert Adu Boahen, Researcher, Professor of History and a renowned academic; and Professor Adjei Bekoe, a renowned scientist and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana.
In addition, 10 other personalities elected from the regions, the President of the National House of Chiefs as well as three persons who have previously held the respective positions of Chief Justice, Chief of Defence Staff and Inspector General of Police shall be appointed by the President in consultation with Parliament to constitute the Council of State.
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Cocaine-record haul busted at KIA
An attempt by a Ghanaian woman to smuggle a large quantity of a white substance suspected to be cocaine to London last Sunday was foiled when she was caught by security personnel of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) at the last check-point at the Departure Hall of the Kotoka International Airport.
The woman, Ms Doris Mensah Asare, had stuffed the drug in a specially designed panties to enable her to outwit security personnel, but Madam Jane Diafo and Issaka Bamba of the GCAA security team, were too smart to be outwitted.
Doris’ gait aroused their suspicion and after a bodily search by Madam Diafo, they invited her for questioning.
The quantity of the stuff is the largest so far to have been intercepted from an individual in the country.
Doris has since been handed over to personnel of the Bureau of National Investigations for further investigation.
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Storm at another finance house
The Ghanaian Chronicle, an independent paper, says it can reveal that Mr. Samson Nuamah, a close ally of the disgraced Insurance Commissioner, Samuel Appiah Ampofo, is in the middle of a storm over a past that has caught up with him.
Currently, workers of Ghana Re-Insurance Company of which he is the Managing Director are up in arms, calling on the minister of Finance, Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, to conduct thorough investigations into the multiple malpractices that have cost the company huge sums of money.
Chronicle learnt that sensing imminent troubles, Mr Nuamah smartly mobilised a section of the workers to recommend him to the Minister of Finance as someone with impeccable pro-NPP credentials.
Chronicle confirmed the aggrieved workers’ complaint that every year over the last ten years, Ghana Re-Insurance Company spent 40 million cedis of the tax-payer’s money to print diaries of former President Rawlings.
When contacted by Chronicle reporters, Mr Nuamah confirmed this allegation, but explained that the project had the approval of the Board of Directors and that Ghana Re-Insurance was not the only company that contributed to it.
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Sad story of a Retired Judge
The Daily Guide, a private daily, says a retired Justice of the Superior Court, Justice Moses Abakah is an unhappy man and a victim of the justice system that he served after 41 years more than 7 of which he had spent as a justice of the Superior Court.
Justice Abakah who says he retired from the judicial service on August 28, 1993 was given a raw deal by the then Chief Justice when he was denied allowances and other facilities due him on retirement as a justice of the Superior court.
Referring to the claim by Nana Ato Dadzie, the ex chief of staff that justices of the superior courts are entitled to their cars on retirement as stated in article 155(1) (b) of the 1992 constitution, Justice Abakah said he was denied all those facilities and virtually thrown out of his bungalow by the then Chief Justice.
He said on going on retirement, he learnt that the Chief Justice had ordered the police to go to Wa to disposes a colleague who had also retired, of his official car.
‘I came home one afternoon to learn that the Chief Justice had sent the judicial service Transport officer in the company of the Police after me’, he said
Justice Abakah noted that ‘I quickly advised myself and in order to avert the misfortune that had be fallen my Wa colleague, took out a writ claiming a determination of my rights’.
But the Sekondi High Court Judge who granted the interim application incurred the wrath of the Chief Justice who consequently ordered the transfer of the Judge to the Ho High Court Justice, Abakah said.
‘Disgorged in this way and in fear of future victimization from the Chief Justice, which might adversely affect his future prospects on the bench, the poor judge felt he had no alternative but to take the unjudicial action of reversing his order of interim injunction in the quiet of his chambers when there was no application whatsoever before him for a reversal of his earlier order’ he said.
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You insult me, I will insult you
Dr Tony Aidoo, the former Deputy Minister for Defence has said that even though he is perceived as being condescending and arrogant, he is never on the attack. However, he would counter-attack anyone who dares to attack him.
He was speaking to Joy FM’s Komla Dumor on Tuesday.
He said, “where you think, I have insulted somebody, that person insulted me first”. Tony Aidoo noted that he can’t resist shooting back because the arena is not a lecture theatre, it is not an academic exercise, but since 1992 it has been a politics of attrition.
Tony Aidoo added that the country has seen a ‘politics of attrition’ since 1992 where insults were the order of the day. He however said that he cannot be blamed alone, for that situation because persons like J.H. Mensah who is older than him should set the example of good behaviour by not using words such as ‘woabodam’
When reminded that former President Rawlings had also used divisive words like ‘djimakpla and gbemelao’ he admitted he did not rebuke his former boss because he felt the press had already done that.
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Kofi Annan’s view on HIPC
United Nations Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan has noted that the International Community’s current debt relief programmes were not likely to end the debt overhangs of the world’s poorest countries and has called for a bolder approach to debt relief, The Free Press, a private-owned paper, reports.
This was contained in a report released by the UN Secretary General in September 2000 on the impact of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative on the poor countries.
The report published in the latest issue of “Africa Recovery” stated that the HIPC initiative is a cumbersome and costly process and noted that recent changes in the initiative designed to ensure that savings realised from debt relief are directed towards poverty reduction has made the HIPC process even more complex than before.
Even more damning of the HIPC initiative is the observation by Kofi Annan that even if all sub-Saharan countries “were brought under the HIPC framework and granted full and immediate relief on their official debt, the amount thus realised would be less than half of the external financing required for achieving the rate of growth needed.
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Armed robbers attack Agyin Asare’s term
The Dispatch, an independent paper reports that some pastors and technical crew of the Word Miracle Church International, were a week ago attacked at gunpoint by armed robbers at the Palm Club Hotel in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
The victims were members of a team led by Bishop Charles Agyin Asare, who was in Abidjan for a four-day Gospel Miracle Crusade, at the invitation of the Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo.
According to the pastors, three armed robbers followed them to the hotel, where they attacked them at gunpoint and demanded the offering collected at the crusade grounds that night.
When the robbers were told that the money had been taken home by one of the Ivorian pastors, they got angry. They then seized personal belongings including wrist watches, mobile phones and money. They also took some television sets belonging to the hotel away.
According to a church cameraman, this happened after one of the robbers had tried, unsuccessfully, to snatch a Betacam camera. No one was injured in the incident.
Meanwhile, reports reaching us indicate that there were incredible manifestations of God’s miraculous power as thousands accepted Jesus as their personal saviour. Many sick people were also healed through the ministration of Bishop Agyin Asare.
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