“NPP ready for NDC ” Kufuor, says the Statesman in a lead headline story. The Statesman says the NPP has declared its readiness to battle and defeat whoever is elected by the NDC as its Presidential candidate for the 2000 elections. The paper reports Mr. J.A. Kufuor, the NPP Presidential candidate as declaring at a political rally at Sefwi Dwinase in the Western Region that the NPP is determined to unleash its full potentials, human and material, to overcome all obstacles placed by the ruling NDC and win the next elections to improve the lot of Ghanaians. GRi
In another story on the back page of the Statesman, the paper reports that one of the vehicles of the late Mr. Albert Busomtwi-Sam, former deputy Interior Minister, which was seized from his widow by his mother the very week he died, has been involved in an accident. The paper says a younger brother of the deceased was driving the green Nissan Stanza Saloon Car when the accident occurred. It says one person, Faustina Awotwe, a secretary at one of the timber firms in Takoradi died on the spot while four other persons on the vehicle sustained serious injuries. They are reported to be responding to treatment at the Effia-Nkwanta Hospital in the Western Region. GRi
