Daily Graphic

The Daily Graphic has as its banner headline "14 BEFORE TRIBUNAL". According to the paper fourteen people including two police officers yesterday appeared before an Accra Circuit Tribunal for allegedly stealing eight boxes of unrefined gold valued at ?2.4 billion belonging to Amansie Mining Resources. According to the story, they all pleaded not guilty to two counts of conspiracy to steal and stealing eight boxes of gold bars valued at ?2.4 billion, they were remanded in prison custody by the tribunal and to reappear on April of this year. The paper disclosed that on February 16 this year a convoy of three vehicles belonging to West Coast Allied Services, a private security agency in Accra, were conveying eight boxes of refined gold bars valued at ?2.4 billion from the Amansie Mining Resources in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region to Accra, when on reaching Gomoa Abotsia, 10 men in military uniform attacked the convoy and made away with the Gold bars. The paper concluded that Police investigations have revealed that the attack on the convoy was a plan to steal the gold bars, thus the arrest the 14 people.

The paper has "GJA appeals to Journalists to Value traditions" as one of its inside page stories. According to the paper, the Ghana Journalists Association has appealed to Journalists to respect time-honoured institutions and practices which do not offend human conscience and are meant to promote social order. According to the story a statement issued by the (GJA) and signed by the Vice President, Mr. Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, said recent media reports about the Asantehene have created embarrassment since they have tended to ignore valued traditions and accordingly appealed to journalists to excise extreme caution. The paper continued that the GJA has expressed regrets about any inconveniences that might have been caused the Asanteman Council as a result of the lack of respect for traditional values of Asanteman in the handling of matter about the Golden Stool. GRi