Action now! CHRAJ or TRC

The Accra Mail says the need for some forum for truth and reconciliation keeps beckoning with the government of President Kufuor being looked upon to midwife a new era of healing which will hopefully help the nation put behind it the pains of June 4 and December 31.

It said many people were wilfully damaged by the system, some with flimsy excuses that they had children with other people's spouses, one of such, being a mild mannered civil servant called Mr Bentum-Eshun.

"His crime was that he had fathered children out of wedlock and allegedly not taking care of his wife," the paper said.

Mr Bentum-Eshun was vilified and hounded by the powers that be, with the connivance of the editor of the Ghanaian Times at the time, who wrote scathing editorials against the man and commissioned articles from a mysterious "correspondent of the 31st December Women's Movement (DWM)" to do him damage.

After the terror by 'The Ghanaian Times' and DWM, Bentum- Eshun eventually lost his job and suffered terrible humiliation and penury until his death in 1999.

"His final home call was with the humiliation he suffered from the Rawlings 'revolution,' it said. The lady, guilty of having a child with Bentum-Eshun, was also hounded and vilified by DWM until she also lost her job as a sports administrator until today, she has been reduced to frying yam.