Mayhen at Aplaku

The Daily Graphic with a front-page banner; "Mayhem at Aplaku" reports that Apaklu a village near Bortianor in the Ga district was thrown into shock and mourning following the murders of three persons.

The three died of gunshot wounds when they were attacked by assailants believed to be land guards operating in the area.

The Graphic states that the cause of the shooting incident was not immediately known, but residents claimed that a chieftiancy dispute has been raging between two factions in the village; the Sempe people of Accra and the Ada settlers.

The attackers, whom according to the residents, were from Ada faction, arrived at 11 am in two vehicles, fired warning shot indiscriminately and burnt down two houses.

Three persons died from gunshot wounds while three others who got hurt were rushed to the Korle Bu Teaching hospital in Accra, reports the Graphic.

Two of the dead are brothers, Oko and Tawiah Ofori and according to the Graphic when it?s reporters arrived in the village at about 3 pm, residents both young and old were wailing. It says it was particularly pathetic to watch the 65-year old mother of the two brothers who sat in between the two corpses wailing and calling out to them to wake up.

In a second front-page story, the Daily Graphic reports that the vice-president, Prof. John Atta Mills has announced that 780 new investments, valued at $1.3 billion, have so far been registered by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre.

According to the paper the investments, which were registered since the introduction of the new investment code in 1994 is made up of 81.35 percent of equity loans, while the remainder is from indigenous holdings.

Professor Mills said this at the commissioning of an expansion project at the Crocodile Matchets (Ghana) Limited at Tema; the cost of which was put at an estimated 5 billion cedis raised from the companies own resources.

According to the Graphic report, the vice-president as saying, as far as international sources of new investments in the country are concerned, British Firms have consistently led the field with the establishment of 80 new projects since September 1994.