The top story of the Daily Graphic says a special unit to help combat the menace of hard drugs in Ghana will become operational at the US Embassy in Accra next month. Details of the Unit’s operations as well as levels of its collaboration with other narcotic control agencies in the country were discussed yesterday at a closed door meeting in Accra between members of the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the Interior Minister, Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor.
Sooner than later what has become known as floating drivers or vehicle will be no more. According to a story in the Graphic a new legislative instrument will soon be passed to compel commercial drivers who do not belong to any transport organization to do so. The Commander of the MTTU, Daniel Avorga who dropped the hint at a forum in Accra attributed the indiscipline on the roads partly to those drivers who are not controlled by any transport union.
The top story of the Network Herald quotes a learned member of the Convention People’s Party, CPP, Bright Akwetey as saying the Attorney-General’s Department will soon re-open the serious fraud report against the presidential candidate of the CPP, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom. According to the story, Mr. Akwetey who has been accused as one of the people within the party masterminding the internal campaign against Dr. Nduom alleges that the CPP presidential candidate collaborated with past Attorney-Generals to sweep the matter under the carpet.
EDITORIALS
The Daily Graphic calls on African leaders to begin looking beyond emergency aid and focus on sustainable development support. The paper believes the continent has no excuse for being at its present level of development where it has to receive emergency aid in order to provide for the very basic things such as shelter, food and clothing. The Graphic thinks the battle is not lost for Africa but, the way forward lies in the ability to harness resources, share the outcome equitably and respect rules and regulations.
The Public Agenda finds its shocking reports that the top hierarchy of the Ghana Police Service has been accusing the Attorney-General’s Department of shelving as many as 248 robbery cases. The inaction on the cases, according to the police has resulted in the delay in prosecuting such criminals. The paper says time and again that, inadequate staffing has been blamed for laxity at the Attorney General’s Department but question how long a rotten-system will continue to be blamed on staffing problems.
To the paper, unless the state institutions charged with administering Justice work in tandem with each other, efforts to punish crime and reduce it to the barest minimum will be meaningless.
