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Ghana, Nigeria and the Netherlands Rawlings Confirms He Will Step Down As President in 2000 (And Appoints His Successor) LATEST NEWS FROM GHANA, NIGERIA AND THE NETHERLANDS RAWLINGS CONFIRMS HE WILL STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT IN 2000 (AND APPOINTS HIS SUCCESSOR) KUFOUR FACES THE SACK (while J.H. Mensah is ready to take over) Bijlmer disaster re-investigated f 3,95 No 22, 8 June 1998 Ghanaian News ContentsGhanaian Newsrunner For many of us it is hard The Ghanaian Newsrunner serves the general public (you!) by bringing news from Ghana, to believe but J.J. has Nigeria and the Netherlands bi-weekly. finally announced this We are independent from any (political) organisation or movement in these countries. was his last term as President. Could we have that in writing, please? Fast, Reliable & Informative More details on page 4. Poederooienstraat 66 1106 CK Amsterdam Netherlands Tel. 020-697.7764 If you don't like politics you perhaps Fax. 020-697.1978 GHANA shouldn't buy this issue because 4 Editor-in-Chief most other news-items are political Robert Bellaart ones. Sorry we can't help it that the Editor: Ghana & Nigeria political career of the flag-bearer of Franz van der Puye the NPP - mr. John Kufour - is at risk. Contributors: Ghana Possibly he will be replaced by the Samuel Sarpong Nana Bannerman current minority leader in Eric Ofori Parliament in the Presidential Editor: The Netherlands elections of 2000. Ger Verhoeve Contributors: Poor Rosemond Ofosuhen couldn't Elvis Iruh GOSSIP stand the mental abuse and cheating Pauline Boogaard 13 Franceska Paulin by her boyfriend any longer and put Lucia Jessurun his house on fire. Unfortunately she Anuschka Smeekes perished in the flames as well. Photography: The Netherlands Bert Verhoeff According to some people Nigerians are very Kuntu Jackson Amankwaa NIGERIA lucky to have Abacha as their leader at this Photography: Ghana 16 point in their countries political history. We ©B.I.S. however doubt whether former Deputy Head of State Lt.-Gen. Oladipo Diya - who has been Design and DTP B.I.S. sentenced to death - shares this view. Distribution DUTCH Amongst others you can read a very Nana Awuku (020-6.000.142) informative article which gives you insight 20 Subscriptions about the Oranjes. Yes, this is the family Ellen Owusu (020-6.977.764) who is responsible for those funny orange colours "polluting" the streets Advertising during these World Cup days. Robert Bellaart (020-6.977.764) Nana Awuku (020-6.000142) SPORTS The friendly between Holland and © Copyright Bellaart Information Services Nigeria on the 5th of June turned (Chamber of Commerce 240.926 Amsterdam) 25 out to be disappointing for lovers of No part of this publication may be reproduced in African football. Yet there are some any form without written permission of the above mentioned publisher. signs for optimism. 2 No 22, 8 June 1998 Ghanaian Newsrunner Ghanaian News LETTER-BOMB RIPS THROUGH NPP ........ Kufour faces the sack, Gen. - Secretary also on defensive grounds THE EQUIVALENT of a letter bomb Professor Sai Disciplinary Committee must be has ripped through the executive body of convoked at once to go into the matter of our Ghana’s main opposition party, the New finances in 1996 thoroughly and recommend Patriotic Party (NPP) shaking the party’s appropriate sanctions.” epicentre and threatening to bring down most of the party’s main players. The party chairman to whom the letter was directed was asked to act as “failure to act For the first time in the on-going troubles may well result in the collapse of the party on within the party, fresh multiple allegations of your watch as chairman.” financial malfeasance and misconduct have put the future of Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, Meanwhile, Mr. Ala Adjetey has already NPP’s most visible and by far the most popular constituted a committee of national executive leader in real danger. members chaired by Mr. R.R. Amponsah to probe the allegations. The danger is traced to a powerful sub- mission made by Mr. Colin Essamuah, a loyal The call for the head of Kufuor and member of the party, calling for Kufuor’s Agyenim- Boateng is not an idle one. interdiction and suspension. In the words of The NPP’s 1992 Constitution is clear on Essamuah, the protagonist, it is dangerous in Mr. John Agyekum Kufour, facing the sack what should be done to party officials who having our 1996 Presidential candidate parade misbehave. as a leading member of this party.” According to Article 3, chapter 2 (ii): “A Also on the chopping block pending the Tommy Amematekpor okayed the Concordia member of the party shall cease to be a decision of the party’s disciplinary committee Ventures sales agreement, Kufuor has to be member by being expelled from the party on is Mr. Joseph Agyenim-Boateng, General- held liable for the debts. the grounds of misconduct; misconduct Secretary of the NPP who is accused of giving includes any act by a member which is out the party’s stamp to three members of the Essamuah and those who think like him dishonest, fraudulent or disloyal to the party party, described as Kufuor’s campaign team, in the party are asking whether the party stamp or is likely to produce discord in the party or to authenticate the purchase of the 55 Yamaha which was alleged to have been used and of bring it into disrepute”. motor- bicycles for the 1996 electioneering which the party General Secretary is said to campaign. be the legal custodian was not used to Other intriguing import of the letter were authenticate questionable deals behind the unfolding. On the face of it, the letter appears Both Kufuor and Agyenim-Boateng back of the party’s National Chairman, Mr. to be an innocuous, even well-meaning letter though deny any wrong-doing. Peter Ala Adjetey. from a concerned party activist, but the long In separate follow-up interviews, both The 19-paragraph letter is loaded with hand of an agent provocateur and a vicious Kufuor and Boateng described Essamuah’s more allegations, some of them Essamuah machiavellian is being seen by other informed allegations as a vicious propaganda to damage describes as “rumors in town”. commentators. them. They both said they welcomed any Colin (Panyin) Essamuah is the twin probe into what they described as unfounded, Among them was that Kufuor allegedly brother of Mr. Ernest (Kakra) Essamuah who and baseless allegations. withheld various sums of money paid by party loyalists overseas into his personal accounts is angling for the job of Joseph Agyenim- Essamuah’s charges flow from the instead of party chest. Boateng. He has made his intentions public. Concordia Ventures affairs in which the NPP Significantly, Kakra who is a lawyer in is defending an action initiated by Kudjawu Though there is no clear cut direct the respected law chambers of da Rocha, and Co., counsel for Concordia Ventures evidence of complicity on the part of Kufuor immediate past chairman of the NPP, is not a Limited to recover over 42billion in debts and Agyenim- Boateng, Essamuah’s letter co-author of this particular letter. arising out of the motorbikes provided for the which has so far reached no more than a December 1996 elections. handful of people within the party calls for the heads of Kufuor and Agyenim-Boateng. An Accra High Court will determine ..."Allegations against me are among other issues whether the NPP as a party In part, he said of Agyenim-Boateng: “As is liable, or whether Kufuor and his campaign a first step, Agyenim-Boateng must be politically motivated" team must be accountable as the NPP interdicted at once and an inquiry set up into contends. the overall administration of the party’s affairs in the interim.” The party maintains that since Kufuor’s Mr. J. A. Kufour, presidential candidate hand-picked campaign team of Alhaji Inusah, Continuing, he wrote: “The signatories of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 1996 to the agreement were and continue to be his general elections, has described allegations of (Kufuor) people and it is fair to assume that financial they acted under his instructions. The Continued on page 9 No 22, 8 June 1998 3 Ghanaian News Ghanaian Newsrunner of affected children, about 20 of them at Atuns and Otikrom could not be treated because their GHANA DISAPPOINTED parents could not afford the ¢500. The MP urged the District Assembly to ABOUT NIGERIAN make budgetary allocation to pay for the ALLEGATION TO treatment of poor yaws patients. The MP said a river of Bima which was damned during the construction of the DESTABILISE ABACHA Konongo-Agogo road has become a source of bilharzia in the area. He appealed to the Ghana expressed shock and two countries have had over a long period Ghana Highway Authority to open the dam disappointment at a Nigerian allegation that and the frequent consultations which have for the river to flow to save the people from the it was involved in a plot to destabilise the been taking place between high officials of the debilitating water-borne disease. government of General Sani Abacha. two countries." A Foreign Ministry statement said the The statement said government is taking allegation is without any substance or merit immediate steps to investigate the serious RAWLINGS SAYS and Ghana denies it unequivocally. It was allegation but had hoped that Nigeria would learnt that Alhaji Wadana, Special Adviser to have raised the matter through the normal HE WILL STEP General Sani Abacha at a press conference in high level consultations between the two DOWN IN 2000 Abuja, Nigeria, told the news conference that countries. It said within the framework of these Nigerian security had uncovered a plan consultations, the government of Ghana The international newsagency where some Americans had met with Nigerian would have expected that any concerns that Reuters reported that Rawlings said on dissidents in Ghana to plan to destabilise the Nigeria may have on issues which are likely Thursday June 4th he planned to step Abacha government.
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