GHANAIAN TIMES

"Rescue bid for ex-DCE...Security beefed up at K'dua Prisons, is the headline of the lead story in the Times. The paper says security at the Koforidua Prisons was beefed up last Wednesday following an anonymous call received by the prison authorities that Edward Anim Densu, former East Akim District Chief Executive now on remand there for alleged murder, ''was going to be rescued''. Densu is being tried for murdering Kofi Kukyenu and Kwadwo Asante with an AK 47 assault rifle, last April at a funeral at Adasawase, near Anyinam in the Eastern Region. The Times says officials of the Prisons were tight-lipped on the issue when it contacted them about the unusual heavy presence of police and prison officers there. Mr C.W.K. Agbale, head of the Koforidua prisons told the Times that there was nothing strange about the increased security at the place, claiming that it was a normal routine exercise carried out by the two security agencies. But the paper says the situation has generated a lot of rumours in the Koforidua municipality. The Times says there are indications that the accused person may have been whisked away by the prison authorities to a more secured location. GRI