GRi's Paul Osei-Tutu in Accra, reviews the Ghanaian press. The stories have not been verified and therefore we cannot vouch for their accuracy.
Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times (same story)
The Crusading Guide (+ the Guide)
Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times
Both the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Times report on the visit to the Osu Castle by the Vice-President of Liberia, Mr. Enock Dogolea, who delivered a message from the Liberian Head of State, Mr. Charles Toylar and President Rawlings=92 challenge to Liberia to provide evidence of her innocence on allegations that she is supporting rebels in the carnage in Sierra Leone.
Ghana dare Liberia. To prove innocence is the lead story of the Daily Graphic. The paper says President J. J. Rawlings has warn countries in the sub-region and beyond who are supporting rebels in Sierra Leone that they risk facing the full might of the sub-region.
The President is reported as saying that it is unfortunate that a country like Liberia that has benefited from the peace keeping efforts of ECOWAS should support rebels in Sierra Leone to humiliate ECOMOG soldiers.
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The Ghanaian Times headline on the same story reads: Traitors among ECOWAS=85President lashes at those arming S=92Leone rebels=94</bold>, quoted the President as saying =93We see this as a stab in the back. We are not going to let this matter lie, we will take the appropriate action.
The two Guides - The Crusading Guide and the Guide report on the NDC Reform Movement in their front-page leads.
Under a banner headline: NDC Reform Movement wins support! the Crusading Guide says it is reliably informed that majority of the (P)NDC cadres at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region are poised to support the Reform Movement (RM) on its agitation for reforms in the party.
It said some of the cadres who spoke to the paper on condition of anonymity for fear of victimisation, said they are committed to the proposal that there must be reforms in the NDC. They however fall short of stating if they will throw their weight behind the RM should if it is turned into a political party.
The other Guide says, <Reform Movement is broke.<According to the paper, latest investigations conducted by the Guide indicate that the much-talked-about out-dooring of a new political party by Goozie Tanoh=92s Reform Movement cannot take place as planned. It said the Movement lacked logistics and funds to run a good administrative machinery needed for a party to compete in Ghana=92s democratic dispensation.
The RM had scheduled the end of this month for their grand conference bash where members are to deliberate and approve its charter and formally pronounce a succession from its parent political party, NDC, and come up with a name, motto, colours and symbol, the paper said. It however said at the time of going to press, snipers of information have it that all is not well with the RM.
Kiki's case is more serious, says the lead story of the Graphic Showbiz. According to the story, Keyboard genius Kiki Gyan, his body and brains now ravaged by heroin, says after seeing himself through the Graphic Showhiz last week, he has now developed the willpower to quit hard drugs.
However a specialist at the Psychiatric Hospital in Accra, where Kiki spent some six continuos months last year, said what Kiki needs is not willpower, but serious medical attention, the paper said.
The paper said Kiki volunteered this interview after a friend had shown him a copy of last week=92s edition of the paper which chronicled the deplorable depths he has fallen into from his once enviable heights of riches and fame.
I am very disappointed in myself and my sister is very sad with the exposure so I have resolved as my new year=92s vow never to engage in drugs again=94, the paper quoted Kiki, who by his own diligent counts has quit the habit on more than 10 occasion, as saying.
By his own account to the paper he spent an average of 70,000 cedis a day on drugs.
Ex-wife disrupts wedding= is a story on page three of the P&P. According to the story, a wedding ceremony at the Presbyterian Church of Resurrection, Makola in Accra, was disrupted when an ex-wife of the groom stormed the church premises with her cohort.
The paper says the woman and her cohort entered the church premises when her ex-husband, Ebenezer Vernon Osabutey and his bride, Christaina Agbenyor was about to exchange marriage vows.
The report said the atmosphere at the church was charged, amidst wielding of sticks by a mob and for the timely intervention of the police, lives would have been lost. A relative of the groom interviewed by the paper but wants to remain anonymous, alleged that the ex-wife deserted her husband and their two children some years ago when the man lost his job. Since her departure, it is Christiana who has been catering for the needs of Osabutey and the children.