Ghanaian Times/Daily Graphic

Both the Ghanaian Times and the Daily Graphic give an update on the robbery at a forex bureau in Kumasi on their front pages. While the Times headline reads: " Student pleads guilty?One more person arrested, the Graphic says: "Another person arrested.

The Times reports that Frederick Kwadwo Oteng, the surviving partner in the robbery of a Kumasi forex bureau, who yesterday pleaded guilty to the offence before a Kumasi Circuit Tribunal, has been remanded in custody for a week.

The Graphic account on the other hand, says one more person believed to be involved in the armed robbery at a forex bureau in Kumasi at the weekend, has been arrested. Latest reports, according to the Times, say that one more person believed to be the taxi driver who drove the two students from Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region to Kumasi for the operation, has been arrested b y the police in connection with the robbery.

The paper says the Railways Police handling the case would not name the suspect. Both papers quote the Railways Police in Kumasi as saying the suspect was arrested at Nkawkaw on Saturday and sent to Kumasi.

The Times says, Oteng, 18 and Amoako, both students of the St Peter?s Secondary School at Nkwatia-Kwahu, on Friday, robbed the Madusek Forex Bureau in Kumasi at gun point but were subsequently arrested by a mob. While Amoako was lynched, Oteng survived the beatings and was handed over to the police.

The Graphic says meanwhile one of the suspects from St Peter?s Secondary School at Nkwatia, who attempted to rob the forex bureau at Adum, Kumasi, has been remanded in police custody by a Kumasi Circuit Tribunal chaired by Mr Joseph Abanga.

The paper says the student, Master Frederick Kwadwo Oteng, 18, who survived severe beatings by a mob, will re-appear before the tribunal on June 14.





In another front page story,. The Graphic reports that about 79 people are feared drowned in the Volta Lake following a boat disaster last Friday. The paper says the boat, which was carrying about 90 passengers from Kete-Krachi to Tapa-Abotoase in the Volta Region, sank about two nautical miles from Tapa Abotoase.

The boat was said to be carrying 150,000 tubers of yam, 300 bags of groundnut, 27 bags of gari, 10 bags of beans, five cows and 16 big baskets of smoked fish.

The Graphic quotes Nana Ogrohwe Anyenam Boateng II, Paramount Chief of the Tapa Traditional Area as disclosing this at Ho yesterday.

According to him, 25 passengers managed to swim to safety while two women were rescued later, bringing the number of survivors to 27.

He said that all the rest are feared dead or missing. Nana Boateng, a retired Naval Lieutenant, said the owner of the boat whose name was given only as Quarcoo, reported the incident to the Assembly Member for the area, Mr A.K. Nyame and the police at Tapa-Abotoase, at about 5.30 p.m. on June 4. Nana Boateng called on the Ministry of Roads and Transport to institute measures to check private boat operators on the Volta Lake.

The Graphic recalls that in April 1995, 100 passengers drowned in the Volta Lake when the boat on which they travelling from Kpando-Torkor in the Volta Region to Amankwa Tono in the Eastern Region,capsized. It says in August 1994, another 60 passengers died in a similar incident on the Lake.