Danger! Water crisis to hit Ghana...DANIDA threatens to withdraw support
CP women to demonstrate against party leadership!
"Shelly Ayittey in hospital
Man sacks wife for wearing sexy pant
The Weekend ChronicleArmed robbers strip victim naked
Graphic ShowbizMiss Ghana ’99 contest takes off in style
Daily GraphicSurrender all Arms...Tamale Police order residents
Ghanaian TimesCouple sell their child for 80,000 cedis
Danger! Water crisis to hit Ghana...DANIDA threatens to withdraw support
The Guide warns of danger ahead due to water crisis expected to hit Ghana. In a lead headline story: "Danger!
...Water crisis to hit Ghana", the paper says the country is to face serious water problem in coming years because of the ‘nonchalant’ attitude towards the protection of water sources. According to the Guide, the government’s lack of commitment to the management of water resources is also hastening the destruction of such endowment and creating drought, which is fast spreading throughout the country. The paper quotes‘impeccable’ sources as saying even though the Water Resources Management was formed in 1996, to manage raw water sources and protect them, the government has shown no commitment to this all important body. It says the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), which is supporting the Water Resources Management, is threatening to withdraw. The Guide says so far, DANIDA has spent about 500 million cedis in providing offices, air-conditioners, computers, vehicles for the staff, but surprisingly, the government has failed to provide the about 100 million cedis counterpart funding yearly to take care of the staff. "The offices and facilities lie idle without anybody manning them", the paper quotes a source as saying.
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CP women to demonstrate against party leadership!
"Convention Party women to demonstrate against leadership!" says the Crusading Guide in a front page story.According to the paper, the seemingly disagreement between the top echelon of the Convention Party (CP) and the party’s youth, is gathering a lot of heat. The paper says last Friday, a group of women who called theselves the ‘Concerned Women’ of the Convention Party, stormed its newsroom to add their voices to an earlier call by the ‘Concerned Youth’ and some university students for a reshuffle in the leadership of the party. The women, the Crusading Guide says, have threatened to go a demonstration if no changes are effected in the leadership of the CP.
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"Shelly Ayittey in hospital
In another story on the front page, the Crusading Guide reports the hospitalisation of Ms sherry Ayittey, Managing Director of the Ghana Industrial Holding Company (GIHOC) and a leading member of the 31st December Women’s Movement. According to the paper it received information last Tuesday that Ms Ayittey was on admission at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, after collapsing and she has since been diagnosed as
suffering from cancer of the liver. The Crusading Guide quotes sources close to the First Lady’s office indicating that there are plans to fly out Ms Ayittey for better medical attention if she does not respond favourably to treatment in Ghana.
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Man sacks wife for wearing sexy pant
An inside story of the P & P tells of a man beating and sacking his wife for wearing sexy pants. The paper says a motley crowd of football fans who had gathered at Chorkor Alomo Junction in Accra to lament Spain’s defeat of the Ghana’s Under-20 football team, the Black Satellites on April 18, were taken aback by the alarming shouts of a 26-year-old mother of two, from a nearby house.
According to the P & P, the crowd was bemused further when the young woman ran outside to the street followed by a popular and enterprising fisherman, Nii Amon Kotey, who was all out ‘to beat the daylight out of his wife’. Family members and friends are said to have hastened to the rescue of the young woman and managed to restrain the husband from his wild intentions.
The paper says when quizzed as to the reason for the impasse, the young woman, Sister Aku, told her rescuers that her husband was beating her for wearing sexy underpants instead of the traditional cloth tampon with ‘Aggrey Beads’.
"I was dressing in the chamber after bathing when Ataa Nii came into the room to see me putting on my underpants. It’s a nice sexy one I bought at the market today, so thought he was going to admire it well before we retire to bed, but instead, he turned on me, asking why I was not wearing a cloth tampon", Sister Aku is reported as telling the crowd.
The P& P quotes Nii Amon as explaining that his wife’s behaviour had changed of late, and wearing attractive sexy pants proves that she is having an affair behind him asked if he would take another woman, Nii Amon is reported as saying "only if she wears big beads around her waist. You know there are many beautiful woman at Chorkor, I’ll get one easily".
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Return to topArmed robbers strip victim naked
In its ‘’Correspondents’ Notebook’’ column, the Weekend Chronicle reports that the Kumasi Police have mounted a search for two armed robbers who stripped a building contractor after robbing him of his ‘’Nissan’’pick-up and an amount of 1.8 million cedis together with some personal belongings.
The paper quotes a police source as saying that on April 19, this year, at about 10 p.m., just as the contractor, Nana Bendan, had returned home from work and was collecting some personal effects and a briefcase containing the money from the car, the armed men pounced on him and took possession of the vehicle.
They forced him to enter the vehicle and drove him to a spot on the Kumasi-Sawua motorway where they robbed him of the money and the clothing he was wearing, rendering him naked. They then fired warning shots from pistols they were carrying and sped off with the Nissan pick-up, leaving their victim stranded.
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Return to topMiss Ghana ’99 contest takes off in style
The paper reports that this year’s "Miss Ghana" pageant, the final contest which will determine the beauty queen who takes Ghana into the next millennium, got to flying start at Ho, the Volta Regional capital, last Sunday.
According to the Graphic Showbiz, it was quite a spectacle as 12 beauties mounted the stage in style and elegance, giving an indication of how keenly-contested the competition would be, nation-wide. The paper says the Volta Region contest, which attracted a large audience, saw the "Woezor Hotel" was overflowing with elegant women, spotting expensive and custom-made attire.
It says at the end of it all, Miss Faith Sedziafa, emerged "Miss Volta Region", with 60 points, from a field of 12 contestants. Miss Nelly Akroku, a 21-year-old student, was the first runner-up with 57 points while Novisi Adzo Aidam, had 55 points to become the second runner-up. For their prizes, Faith took home 450,000 cedis, while Nelly and Novisi got 400,000 cedis and 300,000 cedis respectively.
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Return to topSurrender all Arms...Tamale Police order residents
The Graphic in its lead story, reports that the Tamale Police in the Northern Region, have directed all persons in possession of arms, to surrender them to the police for safe-keeping. The Police Command quoted as warning that anybody, irrespective of his or her social status, in possession of arms of any kind, who fails to comply with the directive, will be dealt with according to the law.
The paper says the directive comes in the wake of a shooting incident at Vittin, a Tamale suburb, in which two children lost their lives. It was reported that 16-year-old Kofi Owuo Adom, shot and killed Nana Kwasi Gyabaah, six, with his father’s gun, last Friday and on realising what he had done, he shot himself in the head.
The Graphic says the directive reminded residents in the region that the ban on the possession of arms of any kind is still in force, quoting the Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent Isaac Offei. Under an Executive Instrument passed in accordance with the Police Order Act, o person is allowed to manufacture, possess or carry arms and ammunition in the Northern Region. The legislation was passed when conflict broke out in parts of the region in 1994.
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Return to topCouple sell their child for 80,000 cedis
The Ghanaian Times reports that a couple, Ahmed Ganaa Lartey, 35, and Comfort Oworae, both from La in Accra, conspired ad sold their daughter for 80,000 cedis to defray a debt. In a front page story the paper says Comfort, who is three-months pregnant, was reported to have yielded to pressure from her husband who had convinced her that they would soon have another baby to replace the one they were to sell.
But the couple’s, plan, the Times says, did not go as expected and they have landed in prison. According to the paper Ahmed and his wife were arrested at Sampa in the Brong Ahafo Region, by disguised policemen hiding at the Sampa Rural Bank, when the couple went to cash a cheque for 80,.000 cedis given to them by a policewoman, Corporal A. Tekpor, who posed as a businesswoman interested in buying the child. The couple were subsequently prosecuted and jailed 10 years in hard labour each.
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