The Ghanaian Times finds it disturbing and unacceptable that, over 50,000 bags of subsidised fertilisers were smuggled out of the country last year. The paper is particularly worried because the rainy season has begun and farmers are going to plant crops and would need the fertilisers for the season. The Times is sad that with all the efforts that government is making to boost agriculture, few individuals are sabotaging the programme by smuggling a vital input like fertiliser out of the country. It therefore urges government as well as the law enforcement agencies to clamp down on the smugglers so as to stop their activities.
The Daily Graphic finds reports of the alleged murder and cooking of the flesh of a pregnant woman by a supposedly insane person and the subsequent lynching of the offender by residents at Muramura as unpleasant. The paper is worried, especially when the alleged offender is said to be insane. It wonders, the probability that as a mentally ill person, he might not have met the body and rather decided to do what he liked with it? Did his killers accept that he could be wrong in his judgement which made him own up to the crime? The Graphic therefore hopes the Mental Health Law will be operationalised to its fullest to make access to mental health care easy. The paper’s stance is premised on the fact that mental illness is no respector of persons saying it can happen to anyone at any time.
