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Daily Graphic

Tue, 9 Mar 1999 Source: --

The lead story in the 'Graphic' has the banner headline: 'Police descend on Dormaa.

The story says that a crack team of Police Detectives from the Accra and Sunyani have been dispatched to Dormaa Ahenkro to unravel who was behind the multiple wounds inflicted on the Dormaa queenmother, Nana Akosua Ansuah Ababio.

The police investigation team was constituted after appeals from the traditional council and other bodies to the Inspector General of Police to conduct investigations into the death of the queen mother because they did not believe it was as a result of suicide.

The Krontihene of Dormaa and acting President of the Traditional Council, Barima Ansu-Adjei, said the council doubts the claims in certain quarters that the queenmother inflicted cutlass wounds on herself in an attempt to commit suicide.

"We believe there was a murderer in the house and that person should be smoked out," he said.

Another front page story reads: "Workers salaries ready this month." According to the story, the chairman of the management board (CMB) of the public sector salary restructuring committee, Mr A. K. Yankey, has assured public sector workers that the board would complete the rationalisation of public sector salaries by the end of the month.

He said, however, that the Controller and Accountant General's Department will have to adjust its facilities to enable it to conform to the new salary structure before the implementation of the government salaries and wages policy.

Mr Yankey was speaking at a press briefing in Accra yesterday to throw light on efforts so far made by the CMB towards the implementation of the new salaries and wages policy popularly called the price waterhouse report which has generated a lot of anxiety among public sector workers.

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