Vendetta against Sam Jonah?Peprah?s neck on the line

The Independent says unless there is some change of heart and other weigty consideration, the Minister of Finance, Mr Kwame Peprah, will be out of his post very soon.

The paper says Mr Peprah has come into the ??firing line of the Castle vendetta" against Mr Sam Jonah, Chief Executive of the Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC) Limited. According to the Independent, the Castle sees Minister Peprah as too much of a friend and ally of Sam Jonah, who cannot be trusted in the battle against the AGC boss.

The paper says the Castle and President Jerry Rawling seem to have been drawn into a ?ding-dong? battle with various protagonists, including the ?Blue House?, the seat of the Ministry of National Security, headed by Mr Kofi Totobi Quakyi, and the Anyidoho Committee set up by the government to investigate the recent strike action by workers of AGC at Obuasi in Ashanti. AGC and the Castle, the Independent says, are already involved n a press battle which might end with the head of the Minister of Finance ?rolling down the Gulf of Guinea?.

The Independent recalls that the paper and another bi-weekly, the Crusading Guide,on August 12,this year, published a report of a meeting between President Rawlings and the Council of State during which the President, quoting from the yet to be published report of the Anyidoho Committee, called Mr Sam Jonah ?a criminal? and accused him of many big and small crimes at AGC.