A GHANAIAN panel probing Africa’s worst sports disaster recommended a number of policemen be prosecuted for their role in the death of 126 soccer fans at Accra’s stadium in May, a panel member said on Saturday. The 70-officer contingent responsible for security during the May 9 match between Hearts of Oak and arch-rivals Asante Kotoko were widely blamed by those at the stadium for setting off a stampede by lobbing teargas into a rowdy crowd. ”Some of the policemen who were at the stadium should face prosecution both for what they did that night and because we suspect that they lied to the commission,” said Agyeman Akosa, a member of the five-strong panel. He did not specify how many policemen the panel thought should face legal action and said they had not been named in a final report presented to President John Kufuor on Friday. – Reuters