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Rumor Mill of Friday, 8 October 2004

Source: PALAVER INTELLIGENCE

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The novel political party has not only established a Party Police within the Police Service, has not only through Alpha Bravo recruited and is training foreign mercenaries who used to fight for rebel armies in countries in the sub-region where Alpha Bravo used to be a military strategist, has not only established the Peace Seekers International as the terror and para-military wing of the novel political party, and has not only clandestinely imported weapons, arms and ammunition whose clearance from Kotoka and Tema have been so amateurishly done, but has actually secreted and is keeping these caches of arms not in military or police ammunition depots, but within the civilian population, and that five of these unauthorised and illegal arms and ammunition depots have been traced to secret locations at (1) North Haatso, (2) North Legon (3) Directly in front of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation across the Ring Road and sharing the fence wall with the new offices of the National Media Commission, (4) Tema Community 18 and 20, and (5) At the Old Passport Office along the Beach Road?

*The novel political party has established an intelligence base at Winneba in the Efutu constituency of the Efutu-Awutu-Senya district of the Central Region where multi-sectoral intelligence and security operations are undertaken outside the regular Ghana Armed Forces, the Police and the formal National Security Council framework, that the activities include the training of the "Party Police" as well as the unofficial militia of the Party to be used to orchestrate pre-election violence or to foment post-election civil unrest in case of the novel political party appearing to be losing the elections; the keeping of caches of sophisticated weaponry, arms and ammunition in secret locations; as well as an electronic base manned by Israeli Mossad agents whose responsibility is to bug or tap the telephones of leading opposition party members, particularly NDC members, and that the sophisticated equipment at their disposal has the capability to bug or tap both land lines and mobile phones either by call intercepts or by blocking telephone calls, and that these intercepts are being used to devastating effect in plotting counter-intelligence moves to all the intelligence moves of the NDC?

*In order to maintain the artificial stability of the cedi, and that explains why the cedi has remained stable in spite of all the economic indicators to the contrary, the NPP has ordered the spineless and effeminate Governor of the Bank of Ghana to put the US$800 million syndication loan recently raised on the international capital market by the Ghana Cocoa Board for the purchase of the 2004/2005 cocoa crop into the system, which the Governor has done, with a view to mopping up the money after the December election, uncaring of the consequences for the cedi in post-election Ghana when, whether the cedi stabilises or free-falls, the NPP would hopefully have won another 4-year mandate and would not really care even if the cedi depreciates to even ?20,000 to the dollar?

*The NPP is refusing to increase the prices of petroleum prices now despite all the economic indicators showing that the prices should be increased, especially that the price of a barrel of crude oil has moved from the budget's assumed average price of US$32 per barrel to today's US$50 per barrel, because the Party is afraid of precisely what it accused the NDC of on assuming power in 2001, that the NDC lacked the political will to increase petroleum prices in 2000 because it was afraid of losing the elections; the only difference being that in the case of the NPP, it has secured the criminal acquiescence of the IMF and the World Bank to postpone the "evil day" of petroleum price increases till February 2005, thus giving the NPP a double advantage - not having to increase petroleum prices in the period preceding the elections; and saddling the incoming NDC administration with a huge petroleum arrears debt should the NPP lose the elections, and is it true that at the present rate, those debts are accumulating at the rate of ?250 billion per month?