THE GHANAIAN VOICE

"NDC source of funds exposed", reports the Voice in its lead story. According to the Voice the intermittent post-election squabbling among some top notches of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has inadvertently led to the disclosure that party officials drew monies from the coffers of the district and municipal assemblies to pay allowances to party functionaries. The Voice says and with these assemblies depending mostly on the common fund set aside specifically for rural development, it goes without saying that NDC functionaries dipped their hands into the welfare fund for party activities. For example, the paper says, it is recorded in the minutes of the NDC New Juaben constituency executive meeting held at Koforidua that the municipal chief executive, Mr E.A. Boateng, who is also the NDC constituency chairman, scribbled instructions at the back of his complimentary card and asked an executive to use it to collect money from the municpal finance officer to be shared among the executive for work done for the party. It is on record that the New Juaben North constituency alone, for instance, spent as much as 9.4 million cedis on the Eastern Regional rally held at Koforidua on October 26, last year, the Voice said. GRI

In an inside page story, the Voice says traders who used to do brisk business at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, particularly around Leyland, have threatened to hold a massive demonstration on the streets to obstruct traffic if the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) does not compensate them for destroying their property in the course of the decongestion exercise. The Voice says it is estimated that property worth about 50 million cedis are believed to have been lost when AMA carried out its operations at dawn, last Monday. GRI