Faction goes into hiding
Echoes of Brutal poverty… Man kills Friend for Eating His Fish
151 million Traders case. Fake Papers at P.V’s Sister’s Fraud Trail … Cop Admits Falsification.
We Shall Bring Killers To Book!
Teachers Strike Action Is Illegal - GNAT
Daily Graphic
The paper carries on its front page, a story titled "Faction goes into hiding". The report,
states that the Ada faction in the Aplaku land dispute who attacked and killed three members of the rival Sempe faction on Tuesday have all gone into hiding.
According to the paper, when the Sempe faction staged a counter attack on the Ada faction yesterday they found out that the village was deserted of men as they vent
their anger on the women who have been left behind and subjected them to severe beating.
The paper stated that some of the Women who sustained various degrees of injury have been sent to the Korle-Bu teaching hospital. Meanwhile, all the police sources which were contacted could not confirm the incident.
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The Weekend Chronicle carries the shocking headline "Echoes of Brutal poverty… Man kills Friend for Eating His Fish". The story starts "a sure sign of the inhuman poverty and penury in which Ghanaians have been forced to live for the past several years was enacted in a small Eastern region town on last May Day, when a farmer hacked his elderly friend to death for eating his fish.
According to the report, farmer Mumu Gudeh was so angered by the fact that his 72-year old friend had eaten his fish that he virtually smoked him out of a locked room and killed him. The report says the two were long time friends and neighbours.
An eyewitness to the incident which happened at Amanfrom near Asokore in the Eastern region, says on that day the deceased Kwasi Badu 72, took the fried fish from his friends room prepared some soup and ate it with fufu that he had pounced.
The meal, the Chronicle states, was his last for as soon as Gudeh 46, who has a speech defect discovered what his friend had done, he went after him with a cutlass and not even a barricaded door could save Kwasi Badu.
Gudeh is said to have made a pile of dried palm fronds, plantain leaves and hot pepper in front of the barricaded door and set them on fire. Before long, Kwasi who had had enough of the smoke came running out of, his room straight into Yaw Mumu’s cutlass.
Police in New Juaben who arrested Gudeh who confessed to the crime, however say they have a different version of the sequence of events and are still investigating the incident.
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"151 million Traders case. Fake Papers at P.V’s Sister’s Fraud Trail … Cop Admits Falsification".
The story has it that counsel for Miss Agatha Obeng, a younger sister of Mr. P.V. Obeng, former presidential adviser on governmental affairs, Mr. Kojo Ackah last Tuesday proved to an Accra Circuit tribunal that the police had issued a false statement, instead of the original one.
The court presided over by Mrs Elizabeth Anderson-Yeboah, heard that the original statement would exonerate his client in an alleged 151 million cedi fraud case.
The facts of the case the Independent says, are that Miss Agatha Obeng, a trader at Agbobloshie Market who was earlier arrested in March 1997 but released on bail, was arrested again last week by the anti-robbery squad of the Ghana Police service for allegedly conspiring with another person, Miss Esther Anum to defraud an Accra-based business man and his wife of 151 million cedis.
According to the report, at a sitting last Tuesday, the first accused, said in her submission that the second accused Miss Obeng was innocent and that the said money was with one Nana Boakye.
Mr. Kojo Ackah the counsel argued that for failing to send the statement to the crime laboratory, the police have violated the orders of the court. He also contended that no efforts have been made by the police to send the statement to the laboratory although it is about a month now since the statement was written.
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The Alliance for Change (AFC) says it will bring to book all those involved in killing four innocent civilians during the May 11, 1995 "Kume Preko" demonstration.
In a story carried on the front page of the ‘Crusading Guide,’ the AFC was quoted as saying that while it continues to console with families whose members were
killed during the demonstration, that it will adopt all legitimate means under the fourth Republican Constitution to bring perpetrators to book and ensure that justice is done.
"Our apprehension about the killings of May 11, 1995 has been heightened by the fact that four good years have elapsed without the government of the NDC, headed, by Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings – the self-acclaimed apostle of integrity, transparency, social justice, probity and accountability - making public the police enquiry report into killings" the AFC said.
It said the group was saddened by the fact that "an attempt by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to get the Commission on Human Right and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to cause the Ministry of the Interior to explain the presence of ACDR’s during the demonstration has been shelved by the Supreme Court through the intervention of the Attorney-General."
The AFC, said the blood of the heroes of May 11, 1995 will never be in vain.
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Ghanaian Times
The banner story of the Ghanaian Times reports that the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has not authorized any strike action by its members to back the Price Waterhouse salary implementation.
"It was therefore wrong for teachers to desert the classroom using the report as an excuse," GNAT is quoted as saying.
Mr. Kwame Amo-Darko, GNAT national president, was quoted by the Times as saying teachers must re-consider their rigid stand on the matter, now that government, has decided to implement the new salary policy in June to benefit all workers.
Mr. Amo-Darko, said when presenting 50 new dual desks and three cupboards to the Assin Adubiase primary and Junior Secondary School, that choosing the path of unrest at the least opportunity did not help to promote the needed peaceful climate for the country’s progress.
The GNAT president, the paper said hoped that the government will fully abide by its pledge to implement to the letter the policy to encourage help bring industrial peace and harmony.
In another front-page, story the Times reports that ‘Kpando Technical sacks seven bullies.’
The story says seven bullies of the Kpando Technical Institute have been dismissed from the boarding house for persistently molesting junior students.
Mr. F.K. Dogble, Prinicipal of the school told the Parent Teacher Association that he took the action to check bullying which had been a constant complain of parents as well as ensure that human dignity and rights were respected.
The paper said junior students of the school were persistently molested by their senior counterparts by putting them in chains during lights off.
In addition 21 students who went to town without permission would be made to sign a bond in the presence of their parents to be of good behaviour to help check indiscipline in the school, the paper said.
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