The Ghanaian Times is impressed but also surprised by the swiftness of the Ghana Police Service in arresting a trotro driver and his mate for assaulting a policeman, Constable Julius Mawuli Ekpe on the Mallam-Kasoa Highway in Accra. The paper, puts on record the numerous cases about the police that have been dealt with decisively but the opposite when it’s against police personnel. It mentions assaults meted out on a Multimedia Group worker Latif Idris, Two Ghanaian Times reporters Malik Sulemana and Raissa Sambou who was even a nursing mother and another journalist who also suffered assaults from the police with absolutely nothing being done. The Times therefore calls on the police to come clean and act fairly if everybody desire a safe, secure and peaceful nation. The paper reminds the police that the law is no respecter of persons and that requires that all citizens are treated fairly and equally.
The Daily Graphic is worried about the renewed conflict between the Chokosis and Konkombas in the Chreponi District. Even more disturbing to the paper is the fact that about 1,800 people including women and children making some victims sleep in the open because they have no shelter or anyone to turn to. The paper therefore appeals to all stakeholders to call the factions to order while they await government’s action. It also urges the youth not to allow the few beneficiaries of the conflict to hold the people to ransom by their continuous sponsorship of the hostilities. The paper asks the youth who are often at the center of such conflicts to redirect their energies to help the region become a haven of peace and progress.
