“Arrest at Ghana-Togo border”, is the banner headline of the lead story in the Voice which says hundreds of Ghanaians and other foreign nationals who entered Lome, Togo last Tursday without passports, were arrested by a combined team of Togolese Police and Gendermes. The story says no reason for the unprecedented exercise was given adding that those arrested were put on waiting trucks and driven to an unknown destination. The Voice says they included women traders from Aflao and its environs. According to the paper, one man who escaped arrest and returned to Ghana was heard as saying that Ghana is a civilized and safe country. By its count the Voice says this is the second time the Togolese authorities have mounted such an exercise. GRI
In another front page story the Voice says the Electoral Commission is expected to supervise the vote in a motion of no confidence passed on the New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, Mr E. Adu Boateng at Koforidua today. The Voice says the vote has been necessitated by the withdrawal of six assemblymen who originally supported the “no confidence” motion passed by the municipal assembly on August 29, this year. Assigning their reasons for the withdrawal, the six members stated that after a careful study of events which led them to support the resolution, they have realised their mistakes and would want to withdraw. According to the Voice the six said they were also made to sign a blank sheet of paper before the resolution was drafted, adding that they were made to understand that the move was to threaten the Municipal Chief Executive but not to remove him from office. GRI
“Robbers kill security man”, is the headline of a story in the inside pages of the Voice which says the police in Ashanti have mounted an intensive search for armed robbers who allegedly killed a security man of the Limex Bau Construction Company at Obuasi and bolted with 373 bags of cement, a poker vibration machine, 64 louvre blades and a gun. The Voice says a source close to the police told newsmen that Thomas Sankara, the deceased, reported for duty around 6 p.m. on Sunday, September 14, this year. The source said Sankara was attacked in the night by the armed robbers who seized his gun, beat him up mercilessly and tied his hands and legs. The robbers, the source said, subsequently threw the helpless body into a nearby bush, looted the items and absconded. Sankara was discovered by some of the workers the following day, dead. GRI
