Rumor Mill of Friday, 23 July 2004

Source: GHANA PALAVER INTELLIGENCE

Is it true that ...

*President Gnassingbe Eyadema?s soothsayers have pronounced Wednesdays as ?Days of Doom? for President John Agyekum Kufuor, and is that the reason why most of the major calamities that have befallen the President have occurred on Wednesdays, starting with the May 9th 2002 Accra Sports Stadium disaster in which 126 people died, which was a Wednesday, and the March 27th 2002 Massacre at the Gbewaa Palace and the murder of the Ya Na by elements suspected to be very close to the Presidency, which was also a Wednesday, and the various accidents involving the President?s bodyguards and despatch riders which have almost all happened on Wednesdays, to the extent that the occultists of Eyadema have labelled the day ?Black Wednesday? as far as President Kufuor is concerned, and have warned him that since the counting of the ballot papers and the announcement of the bulk results of the December elections will be on Wednesday 8th December 2004, his Presidential fate really hangs in the balance?

*One Yaw Abbas, writing from KM 28 Abeokuta Motor Road, Sanga Otta, Ogun State, Nigeria, has written to the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) explaining that he used to be a worker at the then GIHOC Steelworks under Dr. William Sam (General Manager), Dr. de-Heer Johnson (Admin. Manager), Capt. De Graft Yeboah (Head of Personnel) and Addison (Divisional Accountant), that Tema Steel was under GIHOC located at Labone, Accra, that the Managing Director of GIHOC was Dugan, the Board Chairman was Brig. Nunoo-Mensah, and Director of Personnel was the late Major Acquah, that Major Acquah was the in-law pf Brig. Nunoo-Mensah, that it was in this era that GIHOC Workers Branch of ICU of TUC organised a demonstration during the PNP rule and that the National Chairman of the Union was Joachim Amartey Kwei and that the Union leaders were arrested over alleged excesses during the demonstration at Parliament, sent to court and that all the three High Court judges who were abducted and murdered in 1982 dealt with aspects of the GIHOC case following which the Union leaders were sanctioned by Major Acquah the GIHOC personnel Director who was the fourth person abducted and murdered in 1982, that GIHOC workers who were peeved by the arrest of their leaders felt Amartey Kwei should eliminate them, that the common thread that ran through the four abductions and murders was GIHOC and that it was wrong to try and drag members of the then PNDC Government apart from Amartey Kwei into the affair as the NRC tried to do, and if indeed this letter exists, why have its contents not been made public so that the people of Ghana would be better able to judge for themselves why what took place on 30th June 1982 took place?