DAILY GRAPHIC

Two murder stories adorn the front page of the Graphic. In the lead story, headlined: "Murder at Busa...Police quiz parents of deceased, 13", the Graphic says a couple who allegedly caused the death of their 13-year-old daughter for refusing to marry an elderly man at Busa in the Upper West Region, has been arrested by the Wa Police. The couple, Yakubu Salifu, 70 and Wariyala Yakubu, 50, are said to have hired some youngmen at Guripie, near Wa, to send the deceased, Ajar Yakubu, to her betrothed husband at Busa, a distance of nine kilometres. The Graphic says when the young girl refused to go, she was allegedly beaten to death and was buried on the way without reporting the matter to the police. The couple, according to the paper, are on a two million-cedi bail with a surety each to be justified. They are also to report to the Wa District CID periodically. GRI

In the second murder story, the Graphic reports that a special investigation team has been set up to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of two senior public officers. The officers are, Dr. Clement Addokwei Akwei, a veterinary doctor and Dr. Abu Ahmed, a retired managing director of the Bank for Housing and Construction (BHC), who were murdered over the past six weeks. The committee is made up of personnel from the Homicide Unit of the Ghana Police Service. The Graphic says Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) A. Awuni, Director of the Police Public Relations Directorate, who announced this, would however give no details about the team or its work. According DSP Awuni, the team is seriously at work and is determined to unravel who are behind the murders and for what reasons. He appealed to the public to provide information to the police which will serve as clues and assured Ghanaians that the confidentiality of all informants will be protected. GRI

The Graphic reports on its centre spread that the Council for Scientific and Industrial Resarch (CSIR) has set up a Science and Technology Information Clearing House (STICH) to provide a one-stop appropriate information for entrepreneurs. According to the paper, STICH seeks to guide entrepreneurs of micro, small and medium enterprises on sound business practices and to provide scientific know-how in either starting their business or how to run it. The Graphic says STICH was established as part of the CSIR commercialisation project funded by the UNDP under which science and technology information will be collected, processed and disseminated to micro, small and medium enterprises. GRI