UGM will break new grounds if… - Wereko Brobby
Fake BNI officials in town
NDC vice-chairman on murder charge
Egle replaces Owuraku Amofa
Afari-Djan to face Parliament
Rawlings to swear on fetish
Osu castles as 'Detention Den' - GBA condemns practice!
DPP to drag Kufuor to court
UGM will break new grounds if… - Wereko Brobby
The Daily Graphic reports the presidential candidate of the United Ghana Movement (UGM), Dr Wereko Brobby, as stating that the party has a pioneer mentality intended to break new grounds towards revamping the social and economic foundation of the country if it forms the next government.
"The UGM as a party is poised to take up the challenges and tasks that confront the various sectors of the country if it assumes the political responsibility of the country", the Graphic quotes him as saying at a press conference in Accra on Monday.
Dr. Brobby also said, "The UGM is strongly convinced that the present social and economic circumstances do not befit a country that achieved political independence in 1957 and had one of the highest per capita income on the continent."
He said the party is of the view that the key to a prosperous Ghana lies in developing a well educated, highly skilled and motivated people, who are encouraged by an enabling environment of support for individual enterprise and achievement.
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Fake BNI officials in town
The Ghanaian Times reports the Accra Regional Police Service as warning the public to be wary of some persons going round and posing as officials of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service. According to the paper, these people apart from arbitrary arresting innocent people, have also been extorting money from shop owners especially women.
Inspector Jordan Quaye, the regional Police Commander, in an interview with the paper said such people were normally well dressed, looked smart and posed as officials from the BNI or the Police CID and told their victims that they were being sought for interrogation.
These people demands dollars as bribes from their victims, who showed resistance after they have faked charges. The police advised the public not to heed to such arrests and report such matters to the nearest police station to check their identity.
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NDC vice-chairman on murder charge
The Statesman reports that Prestea-Huni Valley Constituency Vice-Chairman of the NDC, Solomon Ntrakwa, is on police bail, following his arrest on suspicion of involvement in a murder case.
According to police sources three others, Yaw Badu, Ampofo and "Aluta", together with Ntrakwa are helping the police in their investigation.
The Statesman says it learnt at the Regional CID that policemen from Sekondi arrested the suspects at Bogoso on Thursday October 5. Ntrakwa pleaded to be allowed to attend to nature's call in the bush where he escaped.
He reported four days later to the police, in the company of Nana Gyapong Ababio, President of the Western Region House of Chiefs.
The statesman recalls that two months ago the mining town of Bogoso was thrown into shock when the headless body of a man was found lying at Cocoa Ase, a suburb of the Town, with a big whole on the left side of the chest, through which his heart had been removed.
The body has since been identified as that of Adjei Manu, a 56-year-old trader at Bogoso. The heart and the head has since not been retrieved.
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Egle replaces Owuraku Amofa
The Evening News reports that national executives of the Egle Party after several hours of intensive campaign and lobbying, on Thursday, settled on Mr. Jacob Letsyor, a businessman to the post of acting party chairman.
Mr. Letsyor, until now the first vice-chairman of the party was preferred by most of the executives to Sam Pee Yalley, general secretary of the party.
A source told the paper that there was no reason for a substantive chairman, which the meeting was meant for, since Owuaku Amofa has so far not tendered his resignation to the party.
Some party executives the paper says questioned the constitutionality of a substantive chairman and called the meeting a "bogus" one geared to disgrace the party.
In an interview with the paper, Mr. Letsyor was hopeful that Mr. Amofa will come and although he bemoaned his inability to communicate with the party.
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Afari-Djan to face Parliament
The Independent reports that Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Djan, the Electoral Commissioner, is to be dragged to parliament to answer questions on his outfit's readiness to conduct a free and fare elections on December 7.
The Speaker of Parliament, Justice Daniel F. Annan, making the call urged the Commissioner to brief the House on measures being taken by the Commission to deal with increasing tension in the country as a result of concerns raised by the MPs, political parties and individuals on the electoral process.
According to the speaker the electoral commissioner will also brief parliament on what the Commission is doing about the electoral register, which is bloated by 1.5 million bogus voters, demarcation of constituencies and the fixing of future election dates.
This invitation the paper concludes has come about as a result of complaints made by Mr. Kosi Kedem MP for Hohoe South relating to the recent exercise by the commission to provide photo identity cards to the electorates in the constituency.
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Rawlings to swear on fetish
The Guide’s banner headline story says the President of Ghana, a mainly Christian and Moslem country, has pledged to swear on any fetish object if those who disbelieve him throw a challenge.
He said to make sure he is speaking the truth and nothing else but the truth, the doubting Thomases can place the Bible, a Koran and fetish god on it before he even speaks, he told an NDC rally in the Brong Ahafo regional capital Sunyani last Saturday.
According to the paper, Rawlings' avowed religion is Catholic and has on several occasions, worshipped at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Accra.
Talking on what the future may hold for him, the President disclosed that several people, including businessmen, bankers and even heads of states have posed the question of why he is leaving the political scene after he has stablised the political scene and is responsible fore development to this 'enviable' level.
President Rawlings is said to have told his friends that the constitution of Ghana obliges him to step down after two terms in office, for which reason he cannot remain the leader if even he wanted to..
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Osu castles as 'Detention Den' - GBA condemns practice!
The Crusading Guide banner headline story says the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has condemned the military for violating the rights of civilians, who they (military) send to "detention den" in Osu Castle, the seat of government.
The GBA also condemned the establishment of secret illegal police station at Burma Camp in Accra operated by 64 Infantry Regiment. In addition, the GBA has called for repeal of five punitive laws that prohibit freedom of the press, according to the paper.
The concerns were raised in the GBA's resolution adopted at its 1999-2000 annual General Conference in the Northern Region on October 2-4 under the Theme "Justice For All In Ghana: Problems And Prospects."
Mr. Ebo Quashie, President of the GBA said the Association demands that the government and the military authorities take measures to ensure that soldiers have nothing to do with maintaining law and order in the civilian population.
The GBA also stated that, the "use of the seat of government, the Castle, as a detention den and the use of the Castle security personnel, to carry out policing functions and even adjudicating functions, be condemned as a violation of the Constitution, and an usurpation of the Construction of the functions of the judiciary."
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DPP to drag Kufuor to court
The Ghanaian Democrat reports that the Chairman of the Democratic People's Party, (DPP), Mr. Dan Markin has made it clear that the party still stand by its pledge to prosecute in the law court Mr. J. A. Kufuor, NPP flagbearer if he does not withdraw his unfounded accusation that the NDC-led Progressive Alliance had used state funds to procure vehicles for this year's elections.
Mr. Markin said Mr. Kufuor should swallow his pride and come out openly to admit that his allegations are not true otherwise the DPP will force him to admit his guilt at the law. Mr. Markin emphasised that in pursuance of this objective, the DPP has sent a petition to the NPP and a copy to the National Media Commission (NMC) calling on the NPP to let their candidate do the honourable thing by retracting his statement" and to date he has not done that.
Mr. Markin added that Mr. Kufuor's main aim was to incite the masses or the people of Ghana against the NDC, as well as indict the NDC and the government for no just cause.
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