Kufuor's 'secret children', new youth policy dominate Ghana media - In 2005, an American woman, Gizelle Yazji, became a househ old name in Ghana. The reason? - Gizelle, who had worked at the Ghana Ministry o f Finance, grabbed the headlines when she claimed that former President John Agye k um Kufuor was the father of her set of twins -- John and Philip.
She also claimed that Kufuor was the real owner of a hotel in Accra and not his son as he claimed. She even threatened to come to Ghana to prove her allegations but claimed an airline on which she was booked cancelled her reservations.
Kufuor remained silent but his aides vehemently denied Gizelle's claims and with time, the allegations were pushed to the back burner.
Now, the matter has come up again, but this time it is Kufuor himself who has ra ised it, denying the allegations.
The private newspaper, Chronicle, had the headline 'I have no twins รข' Kufuor', saying the former President had at long last broken his silence over the allega t ion that he fathered a set of twins out of wedlock. Kufuor said there was no iot a of truth about the allegation.
'If indeed I have twins in the US, I would have begged for permission from my wi fe to go and bring them home, because they are my blood,' he said at a forum to c ommemorate the ninth anniversary of the repel of the criminal libel law by his go vernment.
The former president said that those were part of the propaganda machinery of hi s opponents to run him down, but they failed because they could not even present evidence to buttress their claims.
Kufuor also denied dipping his hands into state coffers to renovate his private residence while he was in office and did not own the African Regent Hotel.
But Gizelle immediately fired back, calling him promiscuous. She was quoted as i nsisting that Kufuor fathered her set of twins during his term and that she nego t iated for the purchase of the hotel for the President on his instructions.
The week also saw the launch of a national youth policy by vice president John D ramani Mahama.
While the Graphic's headline read: 'Youth, our true wealth ' Veep affirms as he launches policy', the state-owned Ghanaian Times headlined its story 'Nation a l Youth Policy launched'.
The story said after going through reviews by successive governments, the Nation al Youth Policy has been finally launched by the vice president with a pledge to provide the political will and resources necessary for its smooth implementation .
The newspapers also highlighted the Accra Fast Track High Court freeing two form er government officials, former Chief of Staff Kwadwo Mpiani and former Chief Ex e cutive Officer of the Ghana@50 Secretariat, Charles Wereko-Brobby on four counts of wilfully causing financial loss to the state.
'Ghana@50 trial; Mpiani, Brobby discharged', was the headline of the state-owned Graphic which said, according to the court, the findings of a commission of inq u iry set up under the Constitution constituted a judgement of the court, for which it had no jurisdiction to entertain and disturb.
The pro-opposition Daily Guide had the headline 'Betty must go' in which it quoted loyalists of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) as calling for the head of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, over the issue.
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