Africa needs peace, security - President

The Ghanaian Times in its lead story says President Jerry John Rawlings, on Thursday asked African intellectuals and their counterparts in the diaspora to forge partnership that will enable them to steer the continent towards peace, security and development.

President Rawlings, speaking at the opening ceremony of the 3rd Emancipation Day Celebration in Accra, is reported to have observed that the 21st century had been earmarked as the African century during which there would be an African Renaissance.

He is quoted as stating however that "unless we look ahead and find more practical and concrete ways of working together politically and economically, true African Renaissance would remain a dream.

President Rawlings, according to the Times, recounted the events that took away Africans and the injustice they went through, but warned against too much, efforts being wasted on them.

"Rather than dwelling on the injustice of the past, we must instead, from today, critically examine our own shortcomings, mistakes and inadequacies, which, if not corrected now will prevent us from achieving up to our potential in future," he was quoted by the paper.

2 cops supplied guns for highway robbery

The Times in another front-page says two policemen have been remanded in custody by an Accra Circuit Court, for their involvement in the robbery of two Niger nationals at Anyinam in the Eastern Region.

The cops, Corporals Imoru Ibrahim, 42, and Kingsley Amankwa, 32, are said to have supplied the weapons for an operation in which armed men waylaid a vehicle at Anyinam and robbed the two Nigerians of 476.5 million cedis.

Also in the dock with them was Mumuni Daud, 39, who was arrested at Weija, near Accra with 78 million cedis being his share of the booty.

The three are reported to have pleaded not guilty and were remanded in custody until August. The Tribunal chairman, Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson Yebuah is reported to have ordered the arrest of three other accomplices in the robbery.