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02 CONTENT DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017 DAILY QUOTE Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself - Lolly Daska ANNIVERSARIES 25 Jun, Eid al-Fitr 1 Jul, Republic Day 1 Sept, Eid ul-Adha WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH Email: info@dailyheritage.com.gh Facebook: facebook.com/dailyheritagegh z WORLD South Africa court allows secret Zuma no-confidence vote My 14yr-old son doesn’t know Denkyira-Obuasi •Says father of Major Mahama’s murder suspect BUSINESS POLITICS SPORTS CITY Updates Perseus Mining donates to fight TB in Ghana P.04 P.10 Making the NDC more attractive P.15 PERSUES MINING Ghana Limited, on Wednesday, donated GH¢215,000.00 to the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) to help organise the 20th Union Africa Conference on Tuberculosis (TB). ‘Don’t rush into marriage’ Kenya trade expo in Ghana to boost intra- African trade P.11 ‘King Kong’ promises a fun pack boxing night TV PERSONALITY, Peace Hyde, has advised Ghanaians against the rush to get married to the wrong people. BY ANTHONY KOFFIE & SARAH NEEQUAYE MR YAW Mensah, father of the 14-year-old boy who was alleged to be part of the lynching of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, has explained that his son was not part of the mob that killed the soldier and that he was wrongly arrested. According to him, his son had never been to Denkyira-Obuasi before and had no knowledge of the said act. In an interview with the DAILY HER- ITAGE, Mr Mensah, who travelled to Accra to witness the trial of the suspects, said his son was living in Dunkwa-Bibianiha, a nearby village, where he was schooling. He told the paper that his son was arrested together with an elder of a Pentecost church, where some of the suspects were alleged to have been taking refuge. “My son doesn’t live in Denkyira-Obuasi and doesn’t even know the place. He is living at Dunkwa- Bibianiha with one of our church elders and his wife. I sent him there for him to have a better education because the children in Denkyira-Adaboi, where we lived, were not serious with education. “The soldiers entered into his (the elder’s) house at 4:30 a.m. and arrested the man and my son who was even asleep. The soldiers really beat them before taking them away,” he said. Published by: EIB Network / Heritage Communications Ltd. Managing Editor: William Asiedu: 0208156974 Editor: Kofi Enchill: 0265653335 ISSN: 0855-5230 7 VOL 7 Location: Kasapa FM building, Adabraka. Box AD 676, Adabraka, Accra, Ghana. Telephone: +233-0302- 236051, 020-8156974 026-5653335 Adverts/Mktg: Paul Ampong-Mensah 024-4360782 Fax: +233-0302-237156 Email: Dailyheritagegh@ gmail.com www.dailyheritage.com.gh FRIDAY RealFeel® 34° Precipitation 40% SATURDAY RealFeel® 34° Precipitation 41% SUNDAY RealFeel® 32° Precipitation 46% He continued that, “when I went to the police station to plead for my son, the police told me they can’t do anything about it because they were arrested by the soldiers. ‘‘My son was in school on Monday, the day the incident happened and his teachers can attest to that.’’ He further told the paper that his family is going through a lot of pain due to the arrest of his son, saying, “my wife is sick and has been admitted to the hospital because of this incident and she is waiting for me to come home and tell her something good.” Mr Mensah, who was getting emotional, expressed his pain upon seeing his son shedding tears in the police vehicle. He pleaded with the government and the general public to help him get his son, claiming that “my son is innocent; he is a good boy and can’t even kill a fly.” The son, together with the other suspects, is expected to reappear before the court on Thursday, July 6, 2017. 17-year-old for Borstal Home One other suspect, a 17-year-old boy, Ebenezer Asamoah, was ordered by the court to be sent to the Borstal Home for remand as he was presumed to be under-age. The presiding judge, His Honour, Ebenezer Kwaku Ansah, said the boy should be sent to the Borstal Home during the remand period until the police are able to establish that he is 18. RealFeel® 26° Precipitation 57% RealFeel® 25° Precipitation 65% RealFeel® 25° Precipitation 50% ACCRA www.accuweather.com
WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas A. Edison Abraham Attah accepts free SHS ambassadorial role BY DORINDA NAA KOSHIE LAMPTEY HOLLYWOOD CHILD actor, Abraham Attah has yet again climbed another milestone with a free signage as an ambassador for government’s Free Senior High School (Free SHS) programme. Contrary to the usual culture of brand ambassadors taking huge sums of money in exchange for their endorsement, the young actor has instead given gifts to the education ministry in addition to accepting the ambassadorial role without charging any fee. The Ministry of Education, led by the sector minister, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh yesterday unveiled the young Ghanaian actor as an ambassador for the Free SHS •Without charging a penny •Dr Matthew Opoku- Prempeh, Minister of Education, with Abraham Attah, Hollywood child actor programme at a short but impressive ceremony at the Ministry. He becomes the first celebrity to be signed onto the Free-SHS deal, which according to the ministry, is slated to kick start in September 2017/2018 academic calendar. “Abraham is doing this for free, he came down with some shoes to support the needy and handed the shoes over to the ministry because he believes they can figure out the needy in various schools since it has to do with education,” Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of E-On 3, Mr Richard Ofori Attah stated in an interview with the DAILY HERITAGE. Despite the fact that the Hollywood star is in the boarding school in the United States of America at the junior high level, the education ministry aims to use his brand to persuade the youth to take the free- SHS programme serious and aspire to reach greater heights like the child star had done at his tender age. “Though our President Nana Akufo-Addo was the one who came up with this free-SHS education, we shouldn’t just sit back and watch him, all Ghanaians must support. “That led to appointing Attah because he is the only Ghanaian who has been to the Oscars as young as he is.” The CEO of E- On-3 stated. According to him, due to the fact that Attah wants to make an impact, his management will ensure that the shoes get to the right people. He said they will make sure that the shoes get to the needy so that they can make good use of them. He also assured that his outfit will monitor the distribution of the shoes to make sure they get to the right hands. Mahama’s Gitmo 2 declared illegal ‘citizens’ BY WILBERFORCE ASARE/ DAAKYEHENE OFOSU AGYEMAN ASEVEN-MEM- BER Supreme Court panel presided over by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has by six to one majority decision upheld as unconstitutional the decision by then President John Dramani Mahama to admit two Guantanamo Bay detainees to the country through an agreement between the Mahama administration and United States of America (USA) without a prior approval by Parliament. The plaintiffs, Margaret Bamful and Henry Nana Boakye, last year sued the Attorney-General id and Minister of Justice, as well as the Minister of Interior and accused the government of illegally bringing in the two former Gitmo detainees, without recourse to the •By Supreme Court • The plaintiffs, Mrs Margaret Bamful, Nana Boakye and their lawyer Nana Agyei Barfour Awuah laws of the land. The two plaintiffs were therefore seeking a true and proper interpretation of Article 75 of the •Muhammed Bin Atef and Muhammed Al-Dhuby were kept in detention for 14 years 1992 Constitution of Ghana. The applicants claimed that the President of the Republic of Ghana acted unconstitutionally by agreeing to the transfer of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al- Dhuby to Ghana. Atef and Al-Dhuby were arrested by the United States of America and kept in detention for 14 years after being linked with the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the agreement reached by the the Government of Ghana and the USA was one that fell directly under the purview of the provisions of Article 75 of the 1992 Constitution and the then government ought to have sought parliamentary approval before the two detainees were admitted to the country. The inference of the ruling is that the government should within three months subject the agreement to parliamentary consideration and approval; in default of which the government would have no other choice than to return the two Gitmo detainees to the handlers who brought them into the country. The majority decision comprised the votes of the Chief Justice, Ms Justice Sophia Abena Boadua Akuffo, Justice Sophia Adinyira, Justice Jones Dotse, Justice Anim Yeboah, Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie and Justice Sulley Gbadegbe. Justice William Atuguba however dissented.
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