We read with some disquiet comments made by Hon. Fuseini regarding our front page story in yesterday�s edition of our paper that the NPP is responsible for the murder of Mr. Roko Frimpong, the murdered Deputy Director of the Ghana Commercial Bank.
Hon. Fuseini questioned the basis for our publication suggesting that no paper has the right to jump to conclusion before matters of criminality are determined by proper jurisdictions.
Legally, Hon Fuseini may be right because only a court can declare a person guilty or innocent in respect of a crime that has been committed. However, when events such as the one that surrounded the murder of Roko Frimpong is analyzed, one does not need a court to generally determine those who are behind the crime. After all, when a bird crows at night and a child dies in the morning, everyone knows who is responsible.
We have a question for the Honourable Member of Parliament for Tamale Central. In 2007, soon after Roko Frimpong was murdered, the police arrested four people and told the whole world that the four had admitted Killing Mr. Frimpong. Today, we are being told that four soldiers have been arrested for committing that crime. This simply means that the initial arrest was an attempt to cover-up for the real killers. Why would anyone want to cover up a murder?
Secondly, we wish to draw Hon. Fuseini to the fact that newspapers have their style of publishing a story to expose the truth. They may not put all their facts into one publication so they could expose corrupt politicians and criminals. We uncovered the hotel de waa waa scandal by publishing par to the full facts and in their attempt to deny our story, Kufuor and his henchmen ended up exposing themselves.
Hon. Fuseini would therefore do himself and the party he serves a whole lot of good by not rushing to rubbish the stories of newspapers, particularly ours, unless he has the full fact of the story.
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