Babies for sale
2.4 billion gold robbery
Jack Bebli in torture cells
Inflation down to 10.2 %
3 Ghana Highways Authority staff interdicted
Two women murdered in Accra again
Babies for sale
The Independent in a lead story says investigations have revealed that babies are changing between needy couples and those who have had enough. "Babies are indeed, for sale in Ghana", adds the paper. The paper report a health worker at
Teshie-Nungua in Accra as saying that the practice has come about because many "childless and desperate women" are prepared to do anything to get children to call their own. According to the Independent, after nine months of pregnancy, most mothers would wish to keep their babies but Adwoa Manu, a mother of three with different fathers, admitted to have given out her last child to a "lady from Europe", who was prepared to pay all her expenses during delivery. Asked if she did not miss her child, Adwoa is reported as saying "feeding two mouths was already a burden but with what I got from the kind lady, I am now a trader and can feed the first two".
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2.4 billion gold robbery
In a front page banner headline story, the Crusading Guide says further investigations by the paper into the daylight robbery of eight gold bars (valued at 2.4 billion cedis) on February 16, this year, have established that although Regimental Sergeant-Major (RSM) Jack Bebli was not physically involved in the act, he guided the gang how to go about the Operation. The paper reported in its April 29-May 5, edition that RSM Jack Bebli, former head of the Police Commando Unit, masterminded the ‘heinous crime’ during a series of meetings at his New Achimota residence before the "D-day". The Crusading Guide quotes a police source as hinting that two reconnaissance surveys were conducted on the instructions of RSM Jack Bebli at Amansie Mining area in Ashanti (where the gold bars were being conveyed from). According to the source, upon a proposal by Isaac Frempong, one of the suspects and a former employee of West Coast Allied Service, the security organisation which was carting the gold bars, the robbers agreed on all the two surveys that the robbery should take place at the by-pass route near Yamoransa Junction in the Central Region (the said usual route of the Bullion crew).
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The Guide
Jack Bebli in torture cells
The paper says as its press time yesterday, a disturbing report reached it that the former head of the ‘notorious’ Police Panther Unit, had been placed in one of the most difficult cells (Cell One) at the Bureau of National Inveastigations (BNI). The paper says this indicates that Jack Bebli has been in B NI Grips for more than one week against his constitutional rights. According to the Guide, Cell One is One of the hardest cells at the BNI headquarters in Accra. The paper describes it at small, dark and airless and says it is the death row at the BNI. The paper quotes family sources that Jack Bebli suffers from paralysis of the leg and the family members are worried for his health as he was arrested without his medication and has been denied doctor’s supervision.
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Inflation down to 10.2 %
The Graphic report on its front page that the high rate of inflation, which was the bane of Ghana’s economy, has now gone down from 13.7 per cent to 10.2 per cent, according to a Ghana Statistical Service publication. The paper says indications are that the current 10.2 per cent, is the lowest rate since 1985, when inflation stood at 10.38 per cent. It quotes the latest newsletter of the Statistical Services released in Accra as attributing the improvement to the low increase of 2.4 per cent in the food and beverage sub-sector which has an enormous weight. The Graphic says the sub-sector alone has a weight of 61.90 per cent and any improvement has an enormous impact on the consumer price index. The paper quotes the newsletter as saying that food inflation fell from 12.4 per cent in March to 5.2 per cent, which is The biggest drop in recent years. The paper says financial analysts have rejected any suggestion that last year was a drought year and should have impacted adversely on the economy. According to the analysts, the rainfall patterns in the various regions such as the Western, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and part of Eastern, were generally good and contributed immensely to the improved food supply situation. The Graphic says reports indicate that warehouses are now stocked with sugar, rice and other cereals.
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3 Ghana Highways Authority staff interdicted
In a front page story, the Ghanaian Times reports that the management of the Ghana Highways Authority
(GHA) has ordered the interdiction of three employees at its Mechanical Workshop Division in Kumasi, in connection with the theft of a track-link, a bulldozer accessory worth about 20 million cedis, property of the Authority. They were named as Thomas Otoo, 52, Emmanuel Tetteh, 47, both security officers and Hilarus Kwabena Otchere, 40, driver-mechanic. The paper says the three, said to be involved in the theft of the accessory last April 18, have been served with interdiction letters dated May 4, 1999. The times quotes sources close to the Authority as saying that the decision to interdict the three employees was taken pending the outcome of police investigations into the theft and possible prosecution.
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Two women murdered in Accra again
The paper says residents of Dansoman and Abossey Okai in Accra, were over the weekend plunged into a state of shock, disbelief and sorrow, following the discovery of bodies of two young female allegedly raped And murdered in these two suburbs. The P & P says the mournful incidents occurred barely two weeks after a similar case in Mataheko, also in Accra, where about a dozen deaths were reported a few months ago. The paer says in the Dansoman incident on May 14, the half-naked body of a young lady of about 22, was discovered in the early hours of the day, around Papaye Street at Exhibition. It says when the police arrived and conducted an initial examination, some blistering finger marks were noticed on the neck, giving suspicion that she might have been strangled. Close to her body were a black pair of sandals, a brown handbag containing a bottle and lipstick, as well as a torn black panties with human excreta near her head.
The P & P says the other body was found about a hundred metres from the New International Central Gospel Church at Abossey Okai on Sunday morning, May 18. It says the victim, just like the body discovered at Dansoman, was also half naked with blood and saliva flowing from the mouth and nostrils.
The paper says her panties, a half pair of earrings and some condoms, were on the ground while her black skirt and blouse had been folded to the waist and breast respectively. According to the paper, there was a blue Physical Education (P.E) pants with the number ‘14’, covering her private parts. Meanwhile the two bodies, have been conveyed to the Korle-Bu Teaching mortuary for autopsy.
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