Free Press

In a front page lead story, the Free Press says the commercial town of Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region, was thrown into turmoil and pandemonium when on May 21, this year, contingents of police and soldiers in armoured vehicles from Sunyani, Techiman and Wenchi descended on the town during a session of the district assembly to vote on the ?controversial? nomination of Mr Stephen Kunsu, as the District Chief Executive.

The paper says the contingent, led by the Regional Minister, Mr Donald Adabre and his deputy, Alhaji Kwadwo Maama Adam, took positions at the district assembly building and other strategic points in the town under the guise of maintaining law and order while in reality, there had been no reports of disturbances or inter-sectoral clashes in the town. According to the Free Press, observers therefore saw the presence of the security forces as a calculated

Ploy to intimidate the assembly members to confirm the appointment of Mr Kunsu, whose nomination had met with opposition from a cross-section of the people in the district.