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It may sound shocking but it really happened. The speech read by Vice President John Dramani Mahama at this year’s May Day Parade was sold to journalists at the Independence Square yesterday. Daily Graphic’s Timothy Gobah, who reports from the Presidency, is the journalist who kept copies of the Vice President’s speech, claiming he personally made photocopies of the speech from a nearby hotel at the cost of GH¢30 and would therefore charge journalists GH¢5 for a copy. As if joking, Mr. Gobah denied all reporters at the parade grounds copies of the Vice President’s speech apart from two female reporters from TV 3 and Informer newspaper to whom he sold the speech at GH¢5 and GH¢1 respectively. He then left the grounds with the rest of the copies of the speech. By William Yaw Owusu source: Daily Guide

US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, has been killed on Sunday in a US operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 150km north of Islamabad. "Tonight, I can report to the people of the United States and the world, the United States had carried an operation that has killed Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist responsible for killing thousands of innocent people," Obama said in a statement. "Today, at my direction, the United States carried out that operation... they killed Osama Bin Laden and took custody of his body. "The death of Bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date against Al Qaeda. "We must also reaffirm that United states is not and will never be at war against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, in fact, he slaughtered many Muslims," Obama said. US celebrations As the news of bin Laden's death spread, crowds gathered outside the White House in Washington to celebrate. Former

HUNDREDS OF placard-carrying workers in the Western Region took part in a workers’ rally at the Takoradi Jubilee Park to mark May Day, with messages calling on government and captains of industries to improve on their working conditions. As early as 8am on Sunday, bus loads of workers from all over the region arrived at the Jubilee Park and took their positions, with workers clad in T-shirts marching with their organizations’ colours. Not even the early morning heat could dampen the enthusiasm of the workers as some of them danced to brass band music. The brigade band of the Freeman Methodist Church in Kwesimintsim near Takoradi was on hand to provide music for the march past. The high point of the day was the march past, in which the workers’ groups, which included the Public Services Workers Union, Public Utility Workers Union, Communications Workers Union, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, Civil Servants Association, among others, filed past the dais with the Regional Ministe