The Ghanaian Chronicle

Police in cover-up

In a front page lead headline story, the Ghanaian Chronicle says its investigations have revealed a cover-up by the Greater Accra Regional Police Command to prevent the arrest and prosecution of seven soldiers hired by some chiefs of Gbawe in Accra, for a ?hatchet job? in their chieftaincy dispute with Oblogo, also in Accra, on April 9, this year.

The paper quotes the Odorkor Police source as saying that though the soldiers disappeared before the arrival of the police, the Regional Police Commander, Mr Cephas Agbeli, ordered that a woman arrested for her involvement in the dispute, should be released.

The Chronicle says its efforts to get the Regional Police boss to speak on the matter, proved futile. According to the paper, some of the soldiers who were involved in the operation, later apologised to some elders of Oblogo after realising that they had been given wrong information to "settle someone?s personal score".