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CITY Updates 

Scientists develop new TB drug 

Cameroun forces 

'kill 97 

Nigerian fishermen' 

in Bakassi 

P.04 

Ghana to suffer 

major food crisis by 

end of year – GAWU 

P.10 

Prez Akufo-Addo 

launches 

entrepreneurship 

and innovations 

plan 

P.11 

Armwrestling to 

hit Volta Region 

P.15 

SCIENTISTS HAVE developed a new drug for tuberculosis (TB) which would reduce 

the length of treatment from the current period of 24 months to nine. 

Residence of France hosts Bola Ray, 

others to special gastronomic event 

THE RESIDENCE of France in Ghana yesterday hosted a special gastronomic 

event of a few select guests. 

Where are the 350 

bags of cement? 

• Teachers ask Presbytarian headmistress 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

THERE IS tension at the Presbyterian 

Senior High School located at 

Tema Community 11 following an 

allegation of corruption against 

the headmistress of the school, 

Mrs Patience Tawiah Adjetey Nii 

Okpe. 

The headmistress is alleged to have diverted 

some 350 bags of cement given to the school 

by GHACEM but have disappeared from the 

storeroom. 

But Mrs Okpe has vehemently rubbished 

the allegation of misappropriation of the 350 

bags of cement. 

She told the DAILY HERITAGE that 

the 350 bags of CEMENT have been used by 

the school. 

Sources in the school, who agreed to speak 

to the paper on condition of anonymity, confirmed 

that some 200 bags of cement were 

given to the school in the first term of the 

2016/17 academic year, as well as a second 

consignment of 150 bags to improve the structures 

in the school. 

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“This term GHACEM again gave us 150 

bags of cement and again not even one was 

stored in the school. When she was asked of 

the whereabouts of the bags of cement, the 

headmistress said they were stored in the contractor’s 

house and when coming to work, he 

brings them. How on earth can this be?” the 

source retorted. 

A source added that the Tema Municipal 

Assembly had given the school five street lights 

to be installed in the school for security and 

lighting, but she kept only three at the storeroom 

and claimed that the one who lobbied for 

the light asked for two. 

Compulsory underskirt 

The students, the source further said, were 

“made to buy an underskirt by force in form 

one because she had sown a dress with a very 

light and see-through material so that it would 

look like she was justified in selling the underskirt. 

“The students’ canteen, when it rained, was 

destroyed by a storm in October last year, and 

when mentioned by the teachers, she said she 

was looking for sponsorship and cement to reconstruct 

it. Meanwhile she could have used 

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Where are the 350 bags of cement? 

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part of the 200 and 150 cement bags given to 

us by GHACEM. 

“The school doesn't have enough classrooms 

for study and as I speak now the form 

one students are learning under trees in the 

school without even a black board or white 

board to write on for two good terms. Meanwhile 

the headmistress had converted the few 

classrooms we have into an air-conditioned 

headmistress office, storerooms, and a laboratory 

but without the necessary equipment.” 

Death trap 

The source further alleged that no form 

one class in the school is a good classroom; 

“those that are not under trees are in uncompleted 

blocks started by GETFund, which is a 

death trap for both teachers and students. 

• Teachers ask Presbytarian headmistress 

“Every old student who comes to the 

school to do clearance for his or her results is 

turned back if that old student doesn't pay 

GH¢ 100.00.” 

Reaction 

Reacting to the allegations, Mrs Nii Opke 

told the DAILY HERITAGE that, “we 

have used” the first consignment of the 200 

bags of cement to improve the structures of 

the school. 

She also said the bags of cement were given 

to the contractor working in the school because, 

“we don’t have a storeroom so we kept 

them with the contractor and he has been 

bringing them and we have been monitoring 

them. 

“We used them to convert classrooms into 

offices. The whole thing was a classroom; my 

office was the one my assistants are using now. 

I used it to convert this (her office) and then 

the general office you are seeing now. 

“They (GHACEM) brought us 200 upon 

our request and later 150. We got the second 

consignment of 150 (but only 120 were 

brought) and then we removed the plywood 

and converted it so we can keep our files,” she 

stated. 

The headmistress, who took over in 2013, 

added that some of the bags of cement were 

also used in plastering some of the converted 

offices and classrooms. 

Where are the street lights? 

On the issue of the streetlight, she confirmed 

that though the school received five, 

two had been given to the one who lobbied for 

them with the remaining three currently sitting 

in the newly converted storeroom for the 

school yet to be installed. 

On the sale of underskirt, she said, “I realised 

that the girls, when they put on their uniform, 

it is very transparent and when parents 

come here and you tell them to buy the underskirt, 

then they go and buy under-knickers. 

“There is a difference between the knickers 

and the skirt. So that is why I got a consignment 

and discussed it with the senior 

housemistress and they all agreed that we 

should keep it in the store so that when they 

come they buy it here, then they will know 

what it is, so when it got finished the lady was 

asking if she could bring more but I said no. 

“I don’t make uniform, it is supplied by the 

government and they consider the prices given 

to them and based on that they also come out 

with the uniform,” Mrs Nii Opke said. 

GIS intercepts 150 girls 

BY BENJAMIN TANDOH 

THE GHANA Immigration 

Service (GIS) has 

stepped up efforts to 

fight persons who use 

the eastern corridor of 

the country to traffic 

humans outside the country. 

In view of this, GIS, together with 

other relevant security agencies, has 

intensified security at all borders of 

the country to curb the menace. 

Speaking to the media during a 

meeting with officials from the Customs 

Excise and Preventive Service 

(CEPS), Mr Kwame Asuah Takyi, 

Comptroller-General, GIS, disclosed 

that his outfit had intercepted 150 

girls who were being trafficked out of 

the country in the last three weeks. 

According to Mr Takyi, the girls, 

who were between the ages of 18 and 

28, were being smuggled outside the 

country to the gulf regions. 

“Our officers and men are on the 

ground and taking risks to protect our 

borders and making sure people are 

not smuggled out. 

“For the past three weeks, we’ve 

been able to intercept, through intelligence 

information, ladies who were 

being trafficked to the Gulf regions,” 

he said. 

•Who were being trafficked to Gulf Regions 

•Mr Kwame Asuah Takyi (middle, first row), Comptroller-General, GIS, and Isaac Crentsil, 

Commissioner, CEPS with some officials of the two services after the meeting 

He added that “because we have 

been able to more or less defeat them 

in the use of Kotoka International 

Airport, they have decided to use the 

eastern corridors and some of the 

borders. We are on top of the job relating 

to human trafficking.” 

He further charged the media to 

educate the public about the dangers 

of engaging in illegal migration. 

Also speaking at the meeting, 

Isaac Crentsil, Commissioner, CEPS, 

said it was necessary for the two services 

to join forces in protecting the 

country. 

This, he explained, was the best 

way of ensuring that the country was 

protected from illegal immigrants and 

trades. 

“It has now become necessary that 

we put notes together because of the 

directives that His Excellency the 

Vice President has issued about the 

removal of all internal barriers along 

the transit routes,” he told the press. 

Fighting border crimes 

The Commissioner indicated that 

the two services are mapping up 

strategies to fight crimes at the various 

borders of the country, hence the 

meeting. 

“There are lots of trans-border 

crimes across the world and these 

people take advantage of porous borders. 

“It is important that the two institutions 

(CEPS and GIS) collaborate 

in the national interest to ensure that 

our borders are protected from these 

bad people,” he stated. 

Commissioner Crentsil, on the 

other hand, reiterated the need for 

the security agencies to collaborate to 

fight border crimes. 

He said “we are going to extend 

the same gesture to the police service 

and other security agencies to help us 

manage our border areas.” 

CEPS warns debtors 

The Commissioner of CEPS disclosed 

that his outfit has been able to 

collect an amount of GH¢ 6 billion 

out of the expected GH¢ 6.7 billion 

by the end of June this year. 

According to him, the service is 

on an upward trend in terms of collecting 

revenue and warned the trading 

public to settle all outstanding 

debt owed the service before they go 

hard on them. 

“The debt collection team is going 

very hard on our debtors, but I want 

to appeal to our trading partners who 

owe us to make arrangements to pay 

their debts so that they will not be put 

in an embarrassing situation,” he said. 

ELECTRICAL 

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HANDLING 

FLAMMABLE GASES 

Acetylene bottles will be stored 

in the upright position and secured. 

• When in transport or not in 

use, acetylene bottles will have 

caps in place. 

• Oxygen cylinders must be 

stored at least 20 feet from 

acetylene cylinders 

HANDLING FLAMMABLE AND 

COMBUSTIBLE LIQUIDS 

During refuelling operations, 

all engines and motors will be 

turned off and allowed to cool. 

• Open flames or other ignition 

sources must be kept at 

least 50 feet away from flammable 

or combustible liquids 

• No smoking will be permitted 

during the fuelling process. 

ground. 

hand. 

• To be continued

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•The ruling means grandparents and other relatives 

of people in the US can now visit 

Grandparents 'allowed into US' despite Trump travel ban 

GRANDPARENTS AND 

other relatives of people living 

in the US cannot be barred 

from entering under President 

Trump's travel ban, a judge has 

ruled. 

The order, by District Judge 

Derrick Watson in Hawaii, is a 

fresh legal blow to Mr Trump's 

immigration crackdown. 

The judge said the ban had 

interpreted a Supreme Court 

ruling too narrowly. 

That decision, made last 

month, partly reinstated the ban 

on refugees and travellers from 

six Muslim-majority countries 

namely Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, 

Sudan and Yemen. 

It said only those with "bona 

fide" family ties would be let 

into the US. 

But the Trump administration 

decided that did not include 

grandparents, 

grandchildren, brothers-in-law, 

sisters-in-law, uncles, aunts, 

nephews, nieces and cousins. 

Judge Watson, however, disagreed 

- and ordered that those 

restrictions should not be enforced. 

For more read: Trump travel 

ban: Judge expands definition of 

'close relative.’ BBC 

DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2017 


World news in 4 stories 

Trump joins Macron for Paris Bastille Day parade 

PRESIDENT DONALD 

Trump is attending the 

Bastille Day parade in Paris, 

where US and French troops 

are marching together down 

the Champs-Élysées. 

The parade - marking 100 

years since the Americans entered 

World War One - also 

features horses, planes and 

helicopters. 

French President Emmanuel 

Macron, standing in a 

military jeep, inspected the 

troops lined up on the avenue. 

Earlier Mr Trump said 

"the fight for freedom" 

united the US and France. 

Mr Macron travels to Nice 

later to join commemorations 

there of last year's Bastille 

Day terrorist attack, in which 

a Tunisian-born man drove a 

huge lorry into a celebrating 

crowd on the beachfront, 

killing 86 people. 

On Thursday, Mr Trump 

suggested he could review his 

position on climate change, 

after Mr Macron argued in 

defence of the 2015 Paris accord. 

"Something could happen 

with respect to the Paris accord," 

Mr Trump said. "We'll 

see what happens." 

Last month he had said the 

US would withdraw from the 

Paris accord, citing moves to 

negotiate a new "fair" deal 

that would not disadvantage 

US businesses. BBC 

•President Donald Trump had generous praise for his French hosts 

Cameroun forces 'kill 97 

Nigerian fishermen' in Bakassi 

NIGERIA'S PAR- 

LIAMENT is investigating 

reports 

that 97 fishermen 

have been killed in 

the Bakassi peninsula, 

which the country ceded to 

Cameroun. 

Reports say that the killings happened 

last week when a Camerounian 

paramilitary unit was enforcing a 

$300 (£230) fishing levy. 

Nigerian Interior Minister Abdulrahman 

Dambazau accused Cameroun 

of breaching an agreement to 

protect its citizens. 

The Camerounian government is 

yet to comment. 

Cameroun took control of oilrich 

Bakassi in 2008 after an International 

Court of Justice ruling, ending 

years of border skirmishes. 

Survivors of the attack have been 

arriving back in Nigeria with injuries, 

reports the BBC's Naziru Mikailu in 

the capital, Abuja. 

Nigeria's lower house of parliament 

resolved that it will investigate 

the reports in view of the 2005 

Green Tea agreement between the 

two countries, to protect the citizens 

of the ceded areas from harm. 

A five-year UN-backed transition 

period was put in place exempting 

the area's residents, many of them 

Nigerian fishermen, from paying tax. 

Nigeria earlier this week summoned 

the Camerounian ambassador 

to lodge a formal protest note. 

BBC 

•X-ray analysis has revealed the remains of the monk (right) 

inside the Buddha statue 

China villagers launch 

Dutch court bid to 

retrieve mummy 

• Nigeria ceded 

Bakassi to 

Cameroon in 

2008 

CHINESE VILLAGERS are 

taking their fight to retrieve an 

allegedly stolen 1,000-year-old 

mummified monk to a Dutch 

court on Friday. 

The monk's remains, which 

are inside a Buddha statue, were 

taken from a temple in the small 

Chinese village of Yangchun in 

Fujian province in 1995. 

The villagers say a Dutch 

collector, whom they are suing, 

bought the statue in Hong 

Kong in 1996. 

The statue was not seen until 

turning up at a show in Budapest 

in 2015. 

In recent years, Beijing has 

vigorously tried to retrieve artefacts 

it says were stolen. 

But so far there have been 

few successes via courts of law. 

The latest case is complicated 

by the fact that the collector, 

Oscar van Overeem, is 

believed to have swapped the 

statue with another dealer, 

whose identity has been hidden, 

in exchange for several Buddhist 

artefacts in late 2015. 

The statue's current whereabouts 

are not clear. 

Looted statues returned to 

China in Pinault donation 

The odd objects looted from 

Washington DC in 1814 

In this case, the Buddha 

statue, known as the Zhanggong 

Patriarch, had been in the villagers' 

temple for centuries, and 

was also worshipped by residents 

of the neighbouring 

Dongpu village. BBC



Contraceptive pills can be dangerous if… 

SEX AMONG teenagers has regrettably 

become inevitable, particularly in 

second cycle and tertiary institutions, 

due to several factors, not excluding 

peer pressure. 

While religion is playing a key role 

to complement advocacy to ensure abstinence, 

social pressure is pushing our 

teenagers into very dangerous life 

habits. 

These days, it is common to find 

students and pupils gleefully resorting 

to the use of aphrodisiacs to show 

their sexual prowess. Man Woman, 

Chinese Spray and all kinds of concoctions 

are being used as sexual enhancers 

without recourse to the potential 

side effects. 

Some moralists had to succumb to 

the call on the youth to resort to the 

use of condoms to prevent diseases 

and avoid unwanted pregnancies because 

things were getting out of hand. 

The advent of contraceptives was 

also meant to assist women take decisions 

whether and when to conceive. 

Experts posit that contraceptives even 

go beyond a woman’s decision to conceive 

or not. They argue that the use 

of contraceptives makes parents happier 

and marriages last longer. 

Naturally, hormone-based birth 

control has some minor side effects 

such as headache, dizziness, breast tenderness, 

nausea, decreased libido and 

mood swings among others. However, 

doctors have given the assurance that 

contraceptives are safe if taken according 

to prescriptions. 

Sadly, that is not what is happening. 

Some sexually active adolescents are 

abusing all kinds of drugs in the name 

of preventing pregnancy. 

The famous Postinor 2 is now daily 

pills for some teenagers in Senior High 

Schools (SHS). Due to rampant sex, 

these teens have resorted to taking the 

pill on an almost daily basis after each 

bout of sex. 

But experts have warned that the 

misuse of the pills could create liver 

problems and have suggested that 

emergency contraceptive pills should 

be used only twice in a year or 10 times 

in one’s lifetime. 

The DAILY HERITAGE wants 

to stress that abuse of everything is 

dangerous, most especially pills that 

have direct contact with vital organs in 

a woman’s system. We, thus, urge our 

teenagers to be cautious about the use 

of contraceptives, lest they develop 

complications in future when they are 

ready to conceive. 

Veep commissions ‘one 

constituency $1m’ C’ttees 

BY WILBERFORCE ASARE 

VICE PRESI- 

DENT Dr Mahamudu 

Bawumia has inaugurated 

10- 

member 

committees for each of the 10 

regions of the country with the 

mandate to assess all 275 constituencies 

and identify major 

project needs of each constituency, 

for implementation 

of the government’s ‘one constituency, 

one million dollars’ 

initiative. 

Delivering the keynote address 

at the inauguration and 

orientation of the 10-member 

teams for the Infrastructure 

for Poverty Eradication Programme 

(IPEP), a Government 

of Ghana programme 

under the Ministry of Special 

Development Initiatives, the 

Vice President said the 10- 

member teams have the responsibility 

to go round the 

constituencies in their 

regions, and to present 

all the information 

to the sector Ministry 

for proper 

planning and execution 

of the 

projects under 

the initiative. 

National 

Development 

Authorities 

The Vice President 

observed 

that the IPEP programme 

is preceding 

the introduction of the 

three Development Authorities. 

He announced that Executive 

approval has been secured 

for the Development Authorities 

Bills to be laid in Parliament 

come this Wednesday. 

According to him, once the 

•Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, 

Ghana’s Vice President 

Development Authorities 

come into being, the findings 

and recommendations of the 

committees would be the 

source of information for the 

Development Authorities to 

carry out their work. 

Gender 

sensitive 

The Vice President 

admonished 

the various committees 

to be 

gender-sensitive 

as they go about 

their fact-finding 

assessments. 

He specifically 

advised that 

queens should be 

given particular attention, 

indicating that 

they have a wealth of information 

that can greatly 

enhance their work. 

Successful 

Implementation of 

IPEP 

The Vice President added 

that the successful implementation 

of the IPEP programme 

would mean that all the major 

challenges that various constituencies 

are facing such as 

lack of toilets, schools, and 

boreholes will be eradicated to 

pave the way for bigger projects 

to be carried out in all 275 

constituencies in the country. 

He announced 

that Executive approval 

has been 

secured for the 

Development Authorities 

Bills to be 

laid in Parliament 

come this Wednesday.


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Can Ghana be ‘rescued’ 

under Akufo-Addo? 

BY NANA BRAM OKAE II 

IHAVE lived it all—from 

Kwame Nkrumah, through 

General Ankrah and General 

Afrifa, through Busia, 

through Acheampong and 

Akufo, through Rawlings, 

through Liman, through Rawlings 

again and then through Kufuor, 

Atta Mills, John Dramani and I 

can confidently ask this question: 

Can Ghana be rescued this time 

around? 

Military rule 

Rawlings set out to rescue the 

nation but he couldn’t succeed in 

spite of marching top people to 

the gallows for corruption. His 

draconian military rule worked to 

some extent but it was only temporary; 

it didn’t last. Corruption 

has rather grown strong roots the 

likes of which cannot be compared 

to the roots of the mighty 

oak tree. 

The sleaze in government, the 

corruption, the dishonesty, the 

bribery, the triple inflation of cost 

of projects, the greed to have 

what doesn’t belong to you, etc., 

etc, started not the day before yesterday 

but a long time ago. 

There were pockets of malfeasance 

during the colonial days 

when some indigenous workers 

tried to cheat the system but they 

were swiftly dealt with when 

caught. This gave rise to the notorious 

mindset and saying: Aban 

edwuma, ‘white man’s government 

work. 

Mindset 

The mindset was that white 

man’s government work should 

not be done with commitment, 

honesty and dedication but if 

there was a way of benefitting 

personally from it, it should be exploited. 

At independence, this mindset 

was carried over and Ghana was 

the great loser. Ministers and 

other government appointees 

under Nkrumah went about their 

work with one sole aim-to make 

as much money as possible and 

this became an embarrassment for 

President Nkrumah. 

President Nkrumah was so 

worried about the corruption 

going on in his government that 

he appealed to the conscience of 

his appointees through a dawn 

broadcast, in line with our cultural 

values. 

You see, in the olden days 

counsel was given to family members 

at dawn when everybody’s 

mind was fertile to receive advice. 

This Nkrumah followed and he 

brought out a blue-print for his 

ministers:- one man-one car; one 

man-one house, one man-one 

farm, etc., etc. That was at a time 

many of his appointees had several 

cars and several houses and of 

course, several wives. So, corruption 

was rife in his days. 

Ministers 

One of his ministers 

went to 

London for an 

exhibition and 

seeing a gold 

bed on display, 

immediately 

bought it 

and 

brought it 

to Ghana. 

Nkrumah 

was so furious 

about it 

that he confiscated 

the gold 

bed to the state as 

well as the plush 

house in the Roman 

Ridge area where it was 

taken to. 

Down the line, through the 

regimes that I have enumerated 

above, things have not been any 

better and corruption in government 

has been steadily climbing 

up the ladder and people with 

conscience who have lived 

through all these periods are extremely 

worried for this country. 

They are worried the more because 

corruption in government 

has assumed an inexplicable gargantuan 

proportion over the last 

few years and the country is losing 

millions of cedis that otherwise 

could have been used in developing 

the country. Appointees are 

living far beyond their means and 

it’s clear they are doing so with 

money stolen from the government 

purse. 

Multiple degrees 

Unfortunately, people with 

multiple degrees are the worst offenders, 

people who should know 

better. 

Take for instance the case of 

the former Chief Executve Officer 

(CEO) of the Ghana Standards 

Authority. He is a highly 

educated chap with a PhD degree 

but notwithstanding that he didn’t 

see anything wrong dipping his 

fingers deep into the finances of 

the Authority and taking away 

more than $1.2m for his personal 

use. 

This was at a time when a contractor 

had been fully paid to 

build a hostel and an office complex 

for workers of that outfit. 

For this 

• Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo 

reason 

the building project at the Standards 

Authority has come to a 

standstill because the funds have 

run out. 

In addition to the alleged siphoning 

of $1.2m from the contract 

money the former CEO was 

also said to have had a house built 

for him by the contractor from 

the same budget. 

¢30,000 cash 

The CEO has also been accused 

of drawing Ghc30,000.00 

cash from the coffers of the Authority 

every month through dubious 

means and it’s a pity the Audit 

Unit of GSA could not detect this 

until the harm had been done. 

The wife of the retired CEO 

was also alleged to be using a vehicle 

belonging to Standards Authority 

although she didn’t work 

there and drawing fuel free of 

charge from the fuel depot of the 

Authority without any auditor 

raising a finger until the whistleblower 

blew the lid. 

Bombshell 

There was also a bombshell 

that appointees of 

the erstwhile National 

Democratic 

Congress 

(NDC) government 

at 

the National 

Communications 

Author- 

ity- 

NCAand 

the 

National 

Security 

Service 

numbering 

four have 

stolen $4m 

dollars belonging 

to the people 

of Ghana in a very 

smart way. 

The 4, together with others, 

were supposed to import a 

spying and listening device for the 

NCA but the bulk of the money 

went into their private pockets 

and the supplier in Israel was also 

short-changed. According to the 

minister of information, a fifth 

person who did the facilitation 

work for them took a cool $2m 

and went his way. 

BOST 

A few weeks ago word came 

from the grapevine that the former 

Managing Director of BOST 

caused GHc3.5m to be transferred 

to the office of the President 

fortnightly between 2015 and 

2016 for reasons that can only be 

detailed by the former Chief of 

The CEO has also been accused of drawing 

Ghc30,000.00 cash from the coffers of the 

Authority every month through dubious means 

and it’s a pity the Audit Unit of GSA could not 

detect this until the harm had been done. 

Staff, Julius Debra and his immediate 

boss, ex-President John Mahama. 

The Auditor-General has been 

chronicling the thievery that has 

been going on in the ministries, 

departments and agencies and 

erring officials have never been 

hauled before the courts. 

With all these financial aberrations 

by people who should know 

better coupled with the huge sums 

of money that cannot be properly 

accounted for at SADA; GY- 

EEDA; Isofoton and all dubious 

judgment debts paid to people like 

Woyome and several chiefs in several 

parts of the country one 

should necessarily be skeptical 

about whether our new President, 

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo 

can deliver or not. 

Those who ‘chopped’ our 

money in the last few years are as 

Ghanaian as the new crop of 

ministers we now have around. So 

what is different? 

The difference 

The difference may lie in the 

new leader. The new leader, Nana 

Addo, says he is incorruptible and 

will tackle corruption if it rears its 

ugly head in his government. We 

accept his challenge and we are 

looking up to him; we don’t want 

any excuses. 

He says he is setting up the office 

of the Special Prosecutor to 

deal with corruption and we are 

eagerly awaiting that. 

But we will still ask the question: 

Can Ghana be rescued under 

Akufo Addo from the clutches of 

thievery and high corruption? 

The gun couldn’t but can the 

special prosecution succeed? We 

live to see. 

PS: Bernard Mornah has developed 

diarrhea over the appointment 

of Dr Edward Mahama as 

Ambassador at Large and I fail to 

see his worry. Dr Mahama has 

said in the past that he would not 

accept appointments from Rawlings, 

Kufuor or Mills. 

In 2017, he has changed his 

mind and accepted a position offered 

him by the President of the 

land. 

What is Mornah’s problem 

over this? Hasn’t he Bernard been 

collaborating with the NDC over 

the years? He should give us a 

break. 

I don’t see how a person will 

get his appointment and another 

person will develop illness over it. 

It doesn’t make sense to me.


How to 

deal with 

snoring 

• Change your sleep position 

Lying on your back makes the base of 

your tongue and soft palate collapse to 

the back wall of your throat, causing a 

vibrating sound during sleep. Sleeping 

on your side may help prevent this. 

• Lose weight 

Weight loss helps some people but 

not everyone. ‘Thin people snore, too,’ 

if you've gained weight and started 

snoring and did not snore before you 

gained weight, weight loss may help. 

• Avoid alcohol 

Alcohol and sedatives reduce the 

resting tone of the muscles in the back 

of your throat, making it more likely 

you'll snore. Drinking alcohol four to 

five hours before sleeping makes snoring 

worse. 

• Practice good sleep hygiene 

Poor sleep habits (also known as 

poor sleep ‘hygiene’) can have an effect 

similar to that of drinking alcohol. 

Working long hours without enough 

sleep, for example, means when you finally 

hit the sack you're overtired. You 

sleep hard and deep, and the muscles 

become floppier, which creates snoring. 

• Open nasal passages 

If snoring starts in your nose, keeping 

nasal passages open may help. It allows 

air to move through slower. 

Imagine a narrow garden hose with 

water running through. The narrower 

the hose, the faster the water rushes 

through. 


DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2017 

&Env. 

Scientists develop 

new TB drug 

• To reduce length of treatment 

BY CHRISTABEL ADDO 

SCIENTISTS HAVE 

developed a new 

drug for tuberculosis 

(TB) which would reduce 

the length of 

treatment from the 

current period of 24 months to 

nine. 

Dr Paula I. Fujiwara, the Scientific 

Director of the International 

Union against TB and 

Lung Disease, at a media briefing 

in Accra, said the new treatment 

regimen was more 

effective than previous ones. 

She said further researches 

were going on, to produce other 

new TB drugs that would further 

reduce the treatment period 

to one month. 

The briefing was part of the 

activities of the on-going 20th 

Africa Union Conference on 

Lung Health, being hosted by 

the Ministry of Health and the 

Ghana Society for the Prevention 

of Tuberculosis and Lung 

diseases in Accra. 

She said considering the 

trend of multi-drug resistant 

TB, there was the need for scientists, 

researchers and pharmaceutical 

institutions to build 

stronger partnerships, for the 

development of new diagnostics, 

drugs and innovative technologies 

to combat the 

epidemic. 

Africa, she said, had taken 

the lead to battle drug-resistant 

TB through strengthened research 

activities, and called on 

governments to support with 

sustained budgetary allocations 

for research and other purposes. 

Dr Fujiwara said Africa’s 

challenge was, however, not the 

number of drugs developed, 

but rather awareness and 

knowledge of the disease as 

• Dr Paula I. Fujiwara, the Scientific Director of the 

International Union against TB and Lung Disease 

highly contagious, and the need 

to support each other to prevent 

its further spread by encouraging 

those affected to 

report early for diagnosis and 

treatment, rather than stigmatising 

them. 

She said there was currently 

a huge missing gap with regard 

to the number of unreported 

TB cases in Africa, attributable 

partly to the issue of stigma, 

and there was an urgent need to 

find these missing cases in order 

to achieve the needed impact of 

ending the epidemic on the 

continent by 2035. 

She appealed for an extensive 

media support in public 

campaigns and education on the 

free access to care and treatment 

of TB and other information 

on the disease, in order to 

end the epidemic by 2035. 

She also spoke about the 3P- 

Project that involves a cocktail 

of drugs for the treatment of 

TB and therefore 

the need to 

“Push, Pull and 

Pool” together 

efforts, expertise 

and resources 

from all 

angles, to address 

the problems 

with 

regards to the 

development of 

sustainable regimen 

for curative 

purposes. 

She said 

under the 3Pproject, 

it was 

expected that 

some incentives 

be given to 

pharmaceutical 

companies to 

cover cost, to 

ensure lower 

prices of TB 

drugs. 

Dr Muyabala Munachitombwe-Muna, 

the President of 

the Union Africa Region, 

stressed the need to intensify efforts 

to eliminate stigmatisation, 

which was the main cause for 

the present gap in the missing 

TB cases in Africa. 

He said one of the major 

ways to address stigma was to 

change the language used to describe 

and discuss TB, giving 

examples as “TB Control, Suspected 

TB Patients and Deadly 

disease”, which incriminated affected 

persons and presented 

them as some sort of criminals 

or outcasts, who must be made 

to face some kind of trials. 

He said more public education 

must be carried out, to expand 

knowledge on available 

treatment, early diagnosis and 

care. 

NGOs launch charter to support 

Ghana’s healthcare delivery 

NON-STATE ACTORS (NSAs) in 

Health have launched a charter that 

marks the coming together of all health 

non-governmental organisations operating 

in Ghana, to unite under one umbrella 

and help provide health services 

to Ghanaians. 

The launch of the Charter also allows 

NSAs to well position themselves 

to assist the government in pursuing 

health development agenda as ascribed 

by the World Health Organisation 

(WHO), through advocacy and proper 

monitoring of health services. 

At a media launch of the Charter in 

Accra, Mr Louis Agbe, a consultant, 

said the formation of the NSA platform 

fell in line with WHO’s new 

framework that sought to strengthen its 

engagement with NSAs due to the role 

they had been playing in providing critical 

health services to the people and reducing 

the disease burden. 

Working with 

development partners 

Mr Agbe said under the country coordinating 

mechanism of the global 

health fund, there were programmes 

that allow NSAs together with state actors 

to work with development partners 

in improving the health sector. 

The three partners would work together 

to demand accountability of duty 

bearers. 

Mr Agbe said in particular, priority 

issues to be tackled under the partnership 

would include universal health coverage, 

primary health care, heath 

financing, procurement in the health 

sector, quality and standards and governance. 

He said the issues of malaria, Persons 

Living with HIV and AIDs 

(PLWA), and TB, among others, would 

also be looked at. 

He explained that the Charter 

would, therefore, enable the NSAs to 

generate the evidence necessary to work 

with in achieving a resilience and sustainable 

health system that delivered 

quality health care for all. 

•Some patience going through health screening 

Unity platform 

Mrs Cecilia Senoo, Executive Director 

of Hope for Future Generation, 

said her organisation and the Society for 

Women in AIDS in Africa Clikgold and 

the West Africa AIDS Foundation decided 

to lead the unity platform so they 

could have a louder voice to champion 

the cause of the underprivileged and 

the vulnerable in society. 

She said the Charter would empower 

NGOS in Health to carry out 

their advocacy work and partner the 

government in providing for the needs 

of society. 

She said with the Charter now in 

place, the NSAs would be gathering 

data on existing situation and issues, including 

the alleged issue of PLWAs 

being given expired Anti-retroviral 

drugs at the Tema General Hospital, 

and the Government’s failure in providing 

counterpart funding as part of its 

mandate and commitment to health 

care. 

Revisit Central 

Medical Store case 

She said the issue of the fire outbreak 

that occurred at the Central Medical 

Store at Tema and burnt all 

medicines and medical equipment 

would also be revisited to allow the 

NSAs to know what the government 

was doing about the situation to restock 

the Centre with the required medicines. 

The of Chief of Party of John 

Snow International Inc., Dr Henry 

Nagai, said the role of NSAs was very 

important since they work hard through 

advocacy to complement the government’s 

development agenda. 

He asked the NSAs to continue to 

work to ensure that the public systems 

worked efficiently to ensure the safety 

of the citizenry. GNA

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News 



JB killer’s case: 

Prosecutors buy more time 



STATE PROSECUTORS in the trial 

of suspected killers of Joseph Boakye 

Danquah-Adu, then New Patriotic 

Party (NPP) Member of Parliament 

(MP) for Abuakwa North in the 

Eastern Region, have asked for more 

time to complete their investigations. 

At the last adjourned date, 

prosecution told the court that, the 

police have stumbled upon fresh 

information and would need time to 

investigate it, which was granted. 

Though the prosecution did not 

disclose the nature of the lead to the 

court, the prosecutor, Detective 

Inspector Simon Apiorsornu, said the 

police were working on them. 

He said further that investigation 

into the case was also going on after 

which a duplicate docket would be sent 

to the Attorney General for advice. 

The trial Magistrate, Arit Nsemoh, 

granted the prosecution’s request and 

adjourned hearing until July 27. 

The two accused persons, Daniel 

Asiedu, 19, aka Sexy Don Don – a 

phone dealer – and Vincent Bosso, aka 

Junior Agogo – a phone repairer – 

were hauled before the Accra Central 

RESIDENTS OF Kofi Asare 

village are appealing to the 

Member of Parliament and 

Upper-West Akyim District 

Assembly to, as a matter of 

urgency, repair the collapsed 

bridge connecting the villege to 

other places to prevent further 

suffering. 

Nana Amankwah, the 

Djantuahene of Adeiso 

Traditional Area, said the 

absence of the bridge, which 

connects commuters to 

Asamankese, Adeiso through to 

Suhum, was affecting the 

movement of both persons and 

vehicles. 

He said it was frustrating 

when residents, who are mostly 

farmers, could not transport 

their produce to marketing 

District Court two days after the Accra 

High Court had discharged them over 

the murder of the law maker. 

It would be recalled that the 

Attorney General and Minister for 

Justice recently entered Nolle 

Prosequi to drop previous charges 

against the accused persons in respect 

of the case, which was at the stage of 

empanelling a seven-member jury for 

the trial. 

Senior State Attorney, Sefakor Batse, 

had told the court, presided over by 

Justice Lawrence L. Mensah that per 

Section 54 of the Criminal and Other 

Offences Act, the Attorney General 

had entered Nolle Prosequi in respect 

of the case. 

Daniel Asiedu and Bosso were 

subsequently rearrested minutes after 

their discharge and fresh charges 

preferred against them. 

Charge 

Asiedu has been slapped with the 

charge of murder while Bosso faces 

abetment of murder. In the case of 

Bosso, the prosecutor, DSP George 

Amegah, held that at about 1:00 a.m. 

on February 9, 2016 at Shiashie, East 

Legon, in Accra, he abetted aaAsiedu 

to commit murder. 

The pleas of the two have not been 

taken. 

Kofi Asare village bridge 

needs urgent repair 

BY BENJAMIN HALLO, GNA 

centres due to the collapsed 

bridge. 

He mentioned that 

commuters now had to take a 

detour in order to avoid the 

collapsed bridge, lengthening 

the time and increasing the cost 

of travel. 

The situation has persisted 

for a month now. 

He said the residents are 

predominantly farmers and 

engaged in production of 

maize, cassava, cocoa and other 

cash crops. 

He said the opinion leaders 

in the affected communities had 

informed the Member of 

Parliament about the worrying 

situation. 

He said the community was 

ready to organise communal 

labour to support contractors 

whenever they came to 

reconstruct the bridge for them. 

Odartey Lamptey’s 

ex-wife files for appeal 



INFORMATION GATHERED by 

the DAILY HERITAGE from the 

corridors of the Civil Division of the 

Court of Appeal has it that the exwife 

of former Ghanaian 

international footballer, Nii Odartey 

Lamptey, Gloria Appiah, has filed for 

an appeal over recent court decision 

against her. 

Madam Appiah, exactly a month 

after she failed in an attempt to gain 

50% share of the ex-footballer’s 

assets after the Accra High Court 

ruled that having three children out 

of wedlock was an “adulterous” life, 

has decided to go for appeal. 

The paper’s source said the 

aggrieved ex-wife wants to take 

possession of the East Legon seven 

bedroom mansion, and also wants to 

lodge in the house she was told to 

vacate in 30 days, hence the appeal. 

It would be recalled that on June 

14, 2017 Justice Cecilia Don-Chebe 

• The collapsed bridge 

Agbevey of the High Court put 

finality to the divorce battle between 

the estranged lovers, which had 

lingered on since 2013. 

She asked the court to award her 

half of each of the ex-footballer’s 

property but it was turned down by 

the court. She was rather allocated 

Mr Lamptey’s three bedroom house 

situated at Dome as he had 

proposed. 

Her Lordship, Justice Cecilia Don- 

Chebe Agbevey recounted that 

Madam Appiah helped Mr Lamptey 

in one way or another during that 21- 

year period and therefore awarded 

40% of a GH¢ 500, 000.00 cash as 

alimony to the ex-wife, a cost Mr 

Lamptey intends to appeal. 

The former midfielder, who 

represented Ghana at the 1992, 1994 

and 1996 African Nations Cup 

tournaments, secretly took samples 

from the three children and did a 

DNA test, which reportedly revealed 

that none of the three girls were 

fathered by him. 

BY KWAME LEH 

THE VICE Chancellor of Accra 

Technical University (ATU), formerly 

Accra Polytechnic, Prof Sylvester 

Achio, has expressed worry about 

how people's attitude towards 

vocational training has hindered 

efforts of institutions in achieving 

their aims. 

He added that inadequate, 

equipment, including tools for 

practical training, as well as 

challenges of developing technical 

vocational education and training 

(TVET), had impeded progress of 

the country. 

Prof Achio made this known when 

he was speaking at the opening 

ceremony of a three-day exhibition 

programme held by the ATU under 

the auspices of COTVET. 

According to him, people’s 

attitude to vocational training, poor 

funding of TVET institutions and 

centres, outdated curriculums, 

challenges of developing TVET 

instructors, how to keep pace with 

technological advancement and other 

issues were limiting the capacity of 

TVET institutions to realise their 

potential in the country. 

“In order to address this 

challenges, TVET systems should be 

demand-driven” and "it will be a 

necessity to create a system that is 

flexible and have a high rate of 

participation of all concerned." 

• Gloria Appiah, ex-wife of Nii Odartey 

Lamptey 

ATU Vice Chancellor calls for attitudinal 

change toward vocational training 

•Prof Sylvester Achio, Vice Chancellor, ATU opening the exhibition 

Best approach 

Prof Achio also explained that to 

produce quality and competitive 

manpower for the country's industrial 

growth, TVET institutions would 

have to intensify attachment, 

internship and training programmes, 

institute demand-driven programme 

and regular review of curricula to 

Her Lordship, 

Justice Cecilia Don- 

Chebe Agbevey 

recounted that 

Madam Appiah 

helped Mr Lamptey 

in one way or 

another during that 

21-year period and 

therefore awarded 

40% of a GH¢ 500, 

000.00 cash as 

alimony to the exwife, 

a cost Mr 

Lamptey intends to 

appeal. 

meet the dynamics of time, 

and promote the establishment 

of adequate and needed 

infrastructure and human 

resources base. 

He said they also had to 

lobby the government to 

increase subventions for TVET 

programmes, promote the CBT 

concept of delivery and 

certification and promote niche 

carving. 

Some of the products 

displayed were early flooddetection 

system, mobile 

phone radiation detector, and 

potable UV sterilisation 

chamber furniture made out of 

pine packaging box, alternator 

testing device and others. 

The three-day exhibition 

programme, which started last 

Thursday and ended on Saturday, 

was aimed at marking United 

Nation's World Youth Skills Day last 

Thursday. 

Amasaman 

police grab 4 

robbery 

suspects 

BY KWAME LEH 

THE POLICE at Amasaman 

within the Ga West Municipality 

of the Greater Accra Region 

have arrested four persons 

suspected to be behind a 

number of recent robbery 

activities in the Nyabeman 

township, near Amasaman. 

The suspects are Joshua 

Segbawu, aka Betoti, a labourer; 

Charles Agbahoade, aka Charlie, 

unemployed; Jacob Arhin, 

unemployed; and Christopher 

Amewugah, unemployed. 

According to the Amasaman 

Divisional Police Command, the 

four suspects hatched a plan on 

July 6, 2017, at about 4:30 a.m., 

to carry out their robbery 

activities and laid an ambush in 

a nearby bush. 

The police explained that at 

around that same time, one 

Juliana Sika, the complainant in 

the case who was walking along 

the Nyabeman trunk road 

towards the main Accra road 

was attacked by the suspects. 

Charles, according to the 

complainant, pulled a knife and 

pushed her to the ground and 

overpowered her together with 

the other three suspects despite 

an effort to defend herself. In 

the process, the robbers 

succeeded in robbing her of her 

Itel mobile phone valued at 

GH¢ 60.00 and cash of GH¢ 

160.00. 

The complainant, according 

to the police, screamed for help 

but the robbers took to their 

heels and left their slippers 

behind. The complainant took 

the slippers to the township 

where Daniel Anyigbanya, a 

witness in the case, identified 

one of the slippers as belonging 

to Joshua. 

The complainant then made 

a formal complaint to the police. 

When Joshua had information 

that he was being sought by the 

police, he allegedly went to cut 

his bushy hair to avoid 

identification. 

He was later arrested and 

during interrogations, he 

mentioned Charles, Jacob and 

Christopher as his accomplices. 

The youth of the town 

arrested them and whilst 

escorting them to the police 

station, Charles removed the 

knife which they used to commit 

the crime and threw it into the 

bush, but Theophilus Nartey, 

another witness in the case, who 

also witnessed the act, retrieved 

the knife from the bush. 

At the police station, the 

complainant identified the small 

knife as the one which was used 

to rob her. In their caution 

statements, they denied the 

offence, but Charles claimed 

ownership of the small knife. 

After investigations, they were 

charged. 

The four have been 

remanded in police custody by 

the Amasaman Circuit Court to 

reappear on a later date. 

Charles, 

according to the 

complainant, 

pulled a knife and 

pushed her to the 

ground and 

overpowered her 

together with the 

other three 

suspects despite 

an effort to defend 

herself. In the 

process, the 

robbers succeeded 

in robbing her of 

her Itel mobile 

phone valued at 

GH¢ 60.00 and 

cash of GH¢ 

160.00.


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JULY 2017 

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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2017 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Ghana to suffer major food 

crisis by end of year – GAWU 

GHANA 

SHOULD expect 

an acute 

shortage of food 

by the end of the 

year, says the 

General Agricultural Workers 

Union (GAWU). The Union 

claims that the ongoing fall army 

worm invasion is not being tackled 

well by the government. 

So far, the Ministry of Food 

and Agriculture has reported that 

although about 20,000 hectares of 

farm yields have been affected by 

fall armyworm invasion, the infestation 

is under control but the 

General Secretary of GAWU, Edward 

Kariweh, has argued that the 

number of hectares of farm yields 

go beyond what the government 

is reporting on. 

According to him, checks by 

the Union showed that close to 

100,000 hectares of farmlands 

across the country have been 

badly affected by the invasion. 

“There is no doubt in our 

minds that at the rate at which 

these worms are spreading, the 

rural zone of Ghana would be 

faced with a severe food crisis by 

the end of the year,” he told Joy 

Business. 

GAWU is therefore calling on 

the government to “declare a state 

of emergency” because of the invasion 

so as to bolster practical 

steps of tackling the development 

in the next three weeks. 

In April 2017, about 1,400 

hectares were attacked by the fall 

army worms. 

The Agriculture Minister, Dr 

Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has said 

that, “it is under control, we’ve 

seen them spraying and by the end 

of the week, all the farms affected 

would have been sprayed and that 

will be the end of it.” 

Banks, financial institutions most 

vulnerable to cyber attacks – Report 

A 2017 report on cyber security 

released by 3T Solutions Consulting 

has revealed that banks and financial 

institutions in Ghana are 

most vulnerable to cyber attacks 

with the researchers calling for 

stronger ties between public and 

private sectors and international 

organizations to combat the threat. 

The banking and financial institutions 

in other countries in the 

West African sub-region such as 

The Gambia, Liberia and Nigeria 

are also at risk from cyber attacks, 

according to the report. 

The report titled ‘2017 West 

Africa Cyber-Security Indexing & 

Readiness Assessment’ looked at 

the scope, level of readiness and 

preparedness of four countries in 

West Africa, namely Ghana, Nigeria, 

The Gambia and Liberia, and 

their effort to combat cyber 

threats and intrusion into their 

economic, social and political 

structures. 

The report is an aggregated 

index combining several indicators 

with a view to creating a standard 

comparison of the countries involved 

in the report. 

Findings of the report also indicate 

that the common feature 

which cyber criminals use on their 

unsuspecting victims is to hack 

into their emails and get hold of 

the correspondences and instruct 

the banks to transact businesses on 

their behalf. 

Another common feature associated 

with the cyber criminals is 

the use of ATM cards where they 

are cloned to defraud their victims. 

“From the information that we 

have from the Central Bank, potential 

money loss, if all the fraudulent 

transactions had gone 

through, will have been about 

GH¢70million,” the report quoted 

Mr Philip Owiredu, Chief Executive 

Director of Cal Bank, as saying 

this in an interview with the 

researchers. 

Brussels-based SWIFT, a cooperative 

owned by more than 11,000 

global financial institutions with 

connections in over 200 countries, 

warned in early 2016 that financial 

institutions should take additional 

internal and external measures to 

close gaps in their security. 

According to the report, unknown 

hackers breached the computer 

systems in a Bangladesh 

Bank and in early February attempted 

to steal $951million from 

its account at the Federal Reserve 

Bank of New York, which it uses 

for international settlements. Some 

attempted transfers, according to 

the report, were blocked but 

$81million was transferred to accounts 

in the Philippines in one of 

the largest cyber heists in history. 

Nigeria, according to the study, 

loses N127billion annually to cyber 

crime. 

More than `60% of those surveyed 

within the Banking and financial 

institutions have been 

victims or had known victims of 

cyber crime in the last 12 months.



DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2017 11 

Politics 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget 

that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, 

but to live by them — John F. Kennedy 

Prez Akufo-Addo launches 

entrepreneurship and 

innovations plan 

•President Nana Akufo-Addo delivering his speech at the 

launch of NEIP 

THE PRESIDENT 

of the Republic, 

Nana Addo Dankwa 

Akufo-Addo has 

launched the National 

Entrepreneurship 

and Innovations Plan 

(NEIP), his government’s flagship 

initiative, which will be the primary 

vehicle for providing an integrated, 

national support for 

start-ups and small businesses. 

The Plan, according to the 

President, will enable new businesses 

to emerge and give them 

the space to grow, to receive financing 

and business development 

services, to secure markets during 

the critical formative years, and to 

tap into a wide supply chain and 

network during their growth years, 

helping to create jobs at a widely 

distributed, national level. 

Despite the severe constraints 

of the country’s public finances, 

resulting from years of mismanagement 

and corruption, President 

Akufo-Addo’s government has 

contributed US$10 million as seed 

money for the Plan. 

“It is the intention that this 

seed money should be leveraged 

to raise money from private 

sources and public organisations 

to the tune of US$100 million to 

fund its programmes,” President 

Akufo-Addo added. 

The overall objective of this 

Plan, the President added, is to 

stimulate private sector growth at 

the early-stages of businesses, to 

accelerate job creation and to provide 

entrepreneurial Ghanaian 

youth with a critical alternative to 

salaried employment. 

He was confident that NEIP 

will help start-up businesses to 

grow and compete domestically 

and internationally. 

In addition to providing tax incentives 

for start-ups owned by 

young entrepreneurs, NEIP will 

incentivise and partner private sector 

investors to set up business Incubator 

Hubs and Industrial Parks 

for youth-owned businesses nationally. 

The Plan will also establish a 

Youth Enterprise Fund which will 

be leveraged to attract private capital 

to fund start-ups, and also provide 

a ready market for the 

products and services of start-ups 

through the reservation of a percentage 

of the proposed 70% of 

local content public procurement 

contracts. 

President Akufo-Addo indicated 

further that NEIP will implement 

a Buy-Local policy for Information 

and Communications 

Technology services from youthowned 

businesses, as well as set up 

an Industrial Sub-Contracting 

Exchange to link large industries 

with small businesses and startups 

as a supply chain for goods 

and services. 

“I am confident that this Plan 

will be made to work to provide 

young people with what it promises. 

Young people, who take the 

risk of entrepreneurship, will find 

that they have support through the 

difficult, early stages,” he said. 

“I am passionate about the 

Plan working. I am investing a lot 

in it, and I have confidence in the 

Minister for Business Development, 

Ibrahim Awal Mohammed, 

who has devised the Plan, and will 

be in charge of seeing it to 

fruition.” 

Rural Dev. high on govt’s agenda-Veep to oxford business group 

GHANA’S BID to ensure that the 

benefits of future growth reach 

more of its population is one of 

several issues explored by Dr Mahamudu 

Bawumia, the country’s 

vice president, in a wide-ranging 

interview he gave to Oxford Business 

Group (BOGY). 

Dr Bawumia, who is also chairman 

of Ghana’s Economic Management 

Team, told the global 

research and consultancy firm, that 

galvanising industrial activity outside 

of the country’s urban centres 

was high on the new administration’s 

agenda. 

“Rural development is a major 

focus for the government and we 

have put together development authorities 

to try to accelerate this 

process,” he said. 

“There is a development authority 

for the north, for the middle 

belt and for the coastal region, 

with each one tasked to look at the 

specific needs of its coverage area 

and assign the necessary resources 

to improve its infrastructure.” 

The full interview with Dr 

Bawumia will appear in The Report: 

Ghana 2018, OBG’s forthcoming 

publication on the 

country’s economy. 

Dr Bawumia highlighted the 

key role that the government expects 

its ‘One District, One Factory’ 

initiative to play in driving 

growth across Ghana’s districts. 

Announced in 2016, the project’s 

aims include stemming migration 

from rural areas to urban 

hubs by reducing the disparities 

between them and creating new 

jobs. A total of 51 districts have 

been identified for the launch of 

the programme, which will be implemented 

in a phased roll-out, beginning 

in June. 

“We believe that in every district 

of the country there are resources 

and inputs available to do 

this,” the Vice President told 

OBG. 

In the interview, the vice president 

also discusses the issue of international 

aid, reaffirming the administration’s 

commitment to 

reducing Ghana’s reliance on donations. 

This, he said, would be 

done “…by encouraging increased 

trade and greater private sector 

participation.” 

Other topics explored included 

the new administration’s plans for 

•Dr Mahamudu Bawumia (m), Ghana’s Vice President and Oxford 

Business Group representatives 

boosting FDI levels and fiscal consolidation, 

as it looks to meet targets 

for 2017 of 6.3% GDP 

growth, an overall fiscal deficit of 

6.5% of GDP and a year-end inflation 

rate of 11.2%. 

The report, ‘Ghana 

2018’ will contain a detailed, 

sector-by-sector 

guide for investors, 

alongside contributions 

from leading personalities, 

including Nana 

Akufo-Addo, President; 

Ken Ofori-Atta, 

Minister of Finance; 

Ernest Adison, Governor 

of the Bank of 

Ghana; Yofi Grant, 

CEO of GIPC or Kais 

Marzouki, CEO of 

Nestle Central and 

West Africa. The report 

will be available in print 

and online.


12 

DAILY 

Politics 

HERITAGE FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2017 


Mahama can’t be 

President again 

MR DENNIS 

Amfo-Sefa, a 

leading member 

of the New 

Patriotic Party 

(NPP), says any 

attempt by former President John 

Mahama to return to the Presidency 

in 2020 would mark his 

political demise. 

“We know that the former 

President and his team have 

begun meeting people, especially 

National Democratic Congress 

(NDC) constituency executives, 

to woo them and get their loyalty.” 

According to Mr Amfo-Sefa 

also called Chairman Nana 

Boakye, “They will secretly call 

you for a meeting and when you 

meet him, he will apologise to 

you for leading the NDC into defeat 

in the 2016 elections and 

then inform you that he wants to 

go (for President) again (in 2020). 

He said the impossible hill for 

former Mahama starts with the 

good works of President Nana 

Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo 

whose campaign promise to build 

factories, dams and start free Senior 

High School (SHS) education 

is on course and “Ghanaians are 

seeing real competence and are 

never going to allow Mahama 

back in the Flagstaff House.” 

“The billions that the NPP 

government is getting from 

China will come whether they like 

it or not, and before this year 

ends, and the prudent management 

of the economy, President 

Akufo-Addo will be restoring 

Ghana’s lost glory. Who would 

want to truncate such progress to 

bring back Mahama? Again who 

wants to cut short the prospect 

of free SHS when the government 

has already started rolling 

out the programme?” he asked. 

According to him, President 

Akufo-Addo, in less than six 

months in office, had put into 

motion “programmes and policies 

to deliver on his campaign 

promises which the opposition 

NDC claims he could not 

achieve.” 

“Consequent to President 

Akufo-Addo’s faithfulness to his 

word, free SHS is starting in September. 

Some 275 million dollars 

per constituency has been rolled 

out, the one district, one factory, 

and one village one dam policies 

among others are also on 

course.” 

“Recently, Vice President Dr 

Mahamudu Bawumia returned 

from China with news that China 

is prepared to make an arrangement 

with Ghana for an unprecedented 

$20 billion in exchange 

for a fraction of the country’s 

$460 billion worth of bauxite. 

The government has announced 

the huge amount will go into 

funding the government’s policies. 

“The simple question you ask 

yourself is: do you think Ghanaians 

are naive to return the Mahama 

administration to power, 

which could not provide jobs for 

the youth of this country when 

the alternative is that President 

Akufo-Addo is in the process of 

achieving all these?” He asked. 

He said Ghanaians had not 

forgotten the numerous corruption 

scandals that rocked the Mahama’s 

administration and drove 

it into an electoral defeat. 

“This President (Akufo-Addo) 

is not a coward, Mahama must 

know that. All the perceived and 

reported corrupt acts during his 

stewardship will be investigated 

and the guilty 

punished accordingly. 

The NDC 

itself will be 

shooting itself in 

the foot if it 

brings back Mahama,” 

he said. 

According 

him, Tema people 

would reject 

former President 

Mahama because 

“when John Mahama 

was President, 

not even a 

single person 

from Tema was 

made a Minister, but now look. 

From Tema alone, President 

Akufo-Addo has appointed several 

people as Ministers.” 

He cited Deputy Minister for 

Trade and Industry, Carlos 

Ahenkorah, who is Member of 

Parliament (MP) for Tema West, 

Deputy Minister for Transport, 

Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, who is 

MP for Tema East, and the Administrator 

for the District Assemblies’ 

Common Fund, former 

Tema West MP, Irene Naa Torshie 

Addo. 

•Dennis Amfo-Sefa 

He urged the NDC to get 

used to the idea of remaining in 

opposition because the people of 

Ghana would not want the NPP 

to leave now because they prayed 

and cried for a development orientated 

government led by a 

President who can never be corrupt. 

According to him, the NPP is 

going to surprise Ghanaians with 

serious development that will 

make them keep the ruling party 

in power for at least 16 years. 

Mahama’s job reward for killing NDC dream – Apaak 

BY MOHAMMED AWAL 

•Dr Edward Mahama (L) after being sworn in by President Nana Akufo-Addo 

THE APPOINTMENT of the 

flag bearer of the People’s National 

Convention (PNC) in the 

2016 elections as an Ambassador-At-Large 

by President Nana 

Akufo-Addo is a recognition of 

his relentless campaign against 

the National Democratic Congress 

(NDC) in the 2016 elections, 

a former presidential 

staffer, Dr Clement Apaak has 

stated. 

President Akufo-Addo on 

Monday July 10, 2017 announced 

Dr Edward Mahama 

as Ghana’s Ambassador-At- 

Large. 

An Ambassador-At-Large 

is an ambassador with special 

duties not appointed to a particular 

country. 

Commenting on the development 

on Morning Starr on 

Friday July 14, 2017, Dr Apaak, 

who is also the Member of Parliament 

for Builsa South said 

the veteran politician’s appointment 

is in acknowledgement of 

his relentless effort in thwarting 

the second term bid of former 

President John Mahama. 

“I think he has been rewarded 

for a job well done,” he 

told Morning Starr sit-in host 

Nana Aba Anamoah. 

The PNC’s national chairman, 

Mr Bernard Mornah said 

Dr Mahama’s acceptance of the 

appointment without consulting 

the party was unfortunate and 

heart-wrenching and a betrayal 

of his long held principle of 

not accepting appointments 

from previous governments. 

“I’m not really myself,” he 

stated on Morning 

Starr lastTuesday and “It weakens 

the ability to say that it is 

the [Dr] Edward Mahama I 

know because the PNC as I said 

has not been consulted.”

13 

WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2017 

BY ABIGAIL ASARE 

• The event was attended by 

some friends of the Residence 

including EIB Network CEO 

Nathan Anokye Adisi 

Residence of 

France hosts 

Bola Ray, 

others to special 

gastronomic event 

THE RESIDENCE of 

France in Ghana yesterday 

hosted a special 

gastronomic event of 

a few select guests. 

The event was a 

‘cooking demonstration and tasting’ 

session with international culinary 

advisor Chef Clément Nadeau of 

the recognised French brand ‘Elle et 

Vire’, specialist of dairy products. 

Nadeau shared his know-how 

through four dessert and pastry 

recipes which delighted the invited 

guests. 

‘Elle et Vire’ originates from 

Normandy, a region north of Paris; 

known for its dynamism and at the 

same time its attachment to the 

French tradition, in particular for the 

use of quality dairy products, la 

crème de la crème! 

The event was attended by some 

friends of the Residence, including 

EIB Network Chief Executive Officer 

Nathan Kwabena Anokye Adisi 

(aka Bola Ray) and wife Dorcas 

Anokye Adisi. 

Beyonce releases 

Sir Carter and Rumi 

picture for first time 

BEYONCE HAS for the 

first time released the picture 

of Sir Carter and 

Rumi, her newly-born 

twins. 

The US singer also confirmed 

they are called Sir 

Carter and Rumi - which 

had been rumoured after 

she and husband Jay-Z 

filed a trademark for the 

names. 

The picture showed the 

35-year-old mother-ofthree 

and the twins draped 

in a purple floral sheet, 

while she wore a blue veil. 

It clocked up more than 

two million likes on Instagram 

in an hour. 

Beyonce wrote: ‘“Sir 

Carter and Rumi 1 month 

today,” with a string of 

emojis of prayer hands and 

a woman, man, little girl 

and two babies. 

As well as the twins, Beyonce 

and rapper Jay-Z are 

also parents to five-year-old 

daughter, Blue Ivy. BBC 

Vic Mensa’s debut album features top acts 

AFTER ANNOUNCING 

the release date for his 

debut album, The Autobiography, 

on Tuesday, Vic 

Mensa turned back around 

and spoiled his loyalists 

with the track list and features 

for the forthcoming 

project. 

Mensa’s upcoming debut 

will certainly be loaded 

with some familiar faces. 

For his first go-round, the 

Chicago MC nabbed appearances 

from Pharrell, 

Pusha T, The-Dream, Ty 

Dolla $ign, Chief Keef, 

Weezer and more. Earlier 

this month, he tantalized 

fans with the visuals for his 

blistering track “OMG” 

featuring Pusha T. 

For Mensa, he is certain 

that The Autobiography 

will serve as his best work 

to date. On Instagram, he 

raved about the album’s potential. 

“It’s such an honour to 

be giving you my entire 

debut album, The Autobiography,” 

Mensa began. 

“This is my blood, sweat 

& tears, I’m so infinitely 

grateful to everyone that’s 

been here with me for the 

ride. A lot of you were 

down with me when I was 

going through some of the 

hardest parts of my life, 

and I wrote an album about 

them, my debut album. I 

got so much love for the 

people that support me and 

I really did this album for 

y’all. Based on a true story.” 

To keep the frenzy for 

his new album going, 

Mensa issued a challenge to 

his core fans: “I hid the 

tracklist for #TheAutobiography 

in some of my 

favourite books at @bucketoblood 

in Chicago,” he 

wrote on Instagram. 

“If u can put the puzzle 

together I just might play u 

the album — p.s. the album 

cover is hidden in there 

too.” billboard.com



I’ve never been to Obinim’s 

Church–Vivian Jill Lawrence 

VERSATILE 

GHANAIAN actress 

Vivian Jill 

Lawrence has denied 

reports that 

the founder of International 

God’s Way Church, 

Bishop Daniel Obinim, assured 

her of a child when she was 

struggling to have her second 

baby. 

The actress, born September 

11, 1983, who gave birth to her 

second son, Alfie Nana Amponsah 

Okobeng, on February 23, 

2017 in USA, years after the first 

one born in her teens, told Zionfelix.net 

last Friday morning that: 

“I’ve never been to Obinim’s 

church and I never contacted 

him for a child.” 

The worried actress continued 

that she spoke to the man of 

God after an unfortunate incident 

happened three years ago 

but not when she was facing 

problems with pregnancy. 

Explaining further, Vivian disclosed 

that she had the chance to 

talk to Bishop Obinim after 

Ananse, a filmmaker who used 

to work at OBTV passed away. 

According to her, the family 

of the late filmmaker needed her 

advice and that of Bishop 

Obinim and that brought them 

into contact. 

The mother of two continued 

that the man of God encouraged 

her to believe in God in times of 

trouble but never talked about 

her pregnancy issues because she 

was not expecting a baby then. 

She added that there was no 

instance where the two had a 

conversation about her miscarriage 

so she could not fathom 

why she would wake up to read 

reports that Bishop Obinim 

prophesied to her that she would 

deliver despite her troubles. 

“I never contacted Obinim 

for a child and I’ve never been to 

his church. He told me something 

years ago and that is what I 

said that people have misquoted 

me as saying Obinim gave me a 

child. 

“What we talked about was 

•Vivian Jill Lawrence and 

first son Clinton holding 

his brother Alfie Nana 

Amponsah Okobeng 

never about my pregnancy. I 

wasn’t even pregnant at the time. 

This issue I’m talking about happened 

like three years ago. I’ve 

seen Obinim just twice in my entire 

life,” she said.. 

Vivian Jill was reported to 

have said that “I gave birth because 

of Bishop Obinim’s advice”. 

zionfelix.net 

2017 ‘Phreak Out Live’ on August 11 

BEAT PHREAKS are back 

with their annual Indie Music 

festival ‘Phreak Out Live’, with 

this year’s edition coming off 

on Friday August 11, 2017. 

‘Phreak Out Live’ is essentially 

a common ground for 

open-minded music fans to discover 

new artistes or genres of 

music. 

The event is providing a 

platform for artistes who are 

changing perceptions and revolutionizing 

the scene with their 

art. 

Past editions have curated 

amazing Indie acts such as 

Wanlov, a brilliant artiste and 

performer, and Azizaa, an energetic 

female dubstep musician, 

Budapest-based Ghanaian 

artiste Sena Dagadu and her 

fellow Irie Maffia band member, 

DJ/Producer Marton Elo, 

alongside some of the most 

brilliant young artistes in the 

local scene, Worlasi, Poetra, 

Quayba, King Promise, and 

Akan. 

True to their mission, Beat 

Phreaks are upping the stakes 

this year with another incredible 

line-up of some of the most 

promising acts on the scene. 

The festival is in two parts: 

Main concert 

This will be hosted at Alliance 

Francaise from 8p.m. to 

10:30 p.m. and showcases 

amazing live performers such 

as Ria Boss, a sultry Neo Soul 

artist with a powerful voice and 

an honest message, A.I, Kwesi 

Arthur, Villy, Big Ben, Eli, and 

Yung Pabi, who are setting the 

standard with their socially relevant 

music as well as producers 

such as Kuvie, who are 

challenging the status quo with 

their work. 

•Flashback: Artistes 

performing at the 

event 

Electronic Rave 

This will be hosted at Serallio 

and will feature acts like 

Jowaa, who will be bringing 

a dose of the new sound of 

African Electronic rave music 

alongside some of the best 

Electronic DJs on the scene 

such as KEYZUZ, Radical The 

Kid, DeeJ Mitchy and DJ Eff. 

Prepare for a heavy dose of 

bass across a range of genres 

from Future Bass, Dubstep, 

Drum n Bass to House Music 

from 11p.m. till late. The rave 

will also give festival-goers the 

opportunity to meet with and 

interact with artists from the 

concert. 

‘Phreak Out Live’ has definitely 

built a reputation as the 

go-to platform for talent to look 

out for and has provided a critical 

platform to shine the spotlight 

on new acts, celebrate 

existing talent and build an exciting 

and eclectic atmosphere 

for appreciation of good alternative 

music. Leave your inhibitions 

at home and come 

ready to experience exceptional 

music!

DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Sports 

DAILY HERITAGE 

MONDAY, JULY 17, 2017 

Armwrestling to 

hit Volta Region 

BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH 

AFTER A 

wonderful 

achievement 

at the African 

Championship 

in 

Nigeria last month, the president 

of Ghana Armwrestling 

Federation, Mr Charles Osei 

Asibey, intends to officially 

introduce the sport to the 

people of the Volta Region. 

Mr Asibey told the media 

in Accra that the region has 

expressed interest and are 

promoting the game there. 

The federation, which 

began operation in Ghana 

early 2016, has become one 

of the popular sports with 

many enthused about their 

programmes. 

Their annual championship, 

which came off in 

April, was fantastic, as it 

served the purpose of selecting 

athletes for the African 

championship in Nigeria. 

Consequently, they produced 

five senior referees in 

May’s referees and coaches’ 

course, facilitated by the 

Africa Armwrestling technical 

director and head referee; 

something which has never 

happened in the history of 

the sport in Africa. 

“We thank you so much 

for promoting Armwestling 

in the Volta region. Very 

soon we will come and hold 

a major championship there. 

I know there are solid guys in 

the Volta Region that would 

do Armwrestling and very 

soon we will come to the 

Volta Region to introduce 

Armwrestling,” the president 

said. 

The Golden Arms came 

second at the championship 

in Nigeria with 22 medals, 

behind the hosts, a feat that 

made them win the bid to 

host the 2018 African championship. 

•Charles Osei Asibey, 

President of Ghana 

Armwrestling Federation 

I will return a much stronger person -Pollack 

INJURED ASANTE 

Kotoko Coach Steve Pollack 

has said that he will 

come out of his sickbed 

a much stronger person. 

Pollack has spoken 

for the first time since 

the Porcupine Warriors 

had a fatal accident last 

Wednesday night after 

returning from their 

match week 22 fixture 

against Inter Allies in 

Accra. 

Speaking from his 

sickbed at the Komfo 

Anokye Teaching, the 

56-year-old, who 

thanked the medical 

staff for their good treatment, 

has assured the 

public and fans of the 

club that he would return 

to the sidelines very 

soon. 

“I am a strong character 

and I have had this 

kind of injury before so 

I know how to get over it 

very quickly. 

“I am getting good 

treatment from the medical 

staff here and they 

have been great and terrific 

and they are making 

me feel as comfortable 

as they can so I will be 

back soon,” he told Starr 

Sports. 

Kenya given green light to host CHAN 2018 

CONFEDERATION OF African Football 

(CAF) has given Kenya the green 

light to stage the CHAN 2018 finals 

tournament although the continental 

football governing body admits that the 

East African country is behind schedule 

in terms of preparations. 

CAF president Ahmad Ahmad told 

Super Sport on his first visit to South 

•Injured Steven 

Pollack, head coach of 

Asante Kotoko 

Africa this week that they had sent a 

powerful inspection team to Kenya. 

He said: ''They say the way we don’t 

want politics to interfere with football, 

we don’t want football to interfere with 

politics. Our delegation is talking to the 

government as there will be presidential 

elections in August. They asked us to 

give them until the end of August when 

they will give us their action plan.” 

Kasarani, Kinoru, Nyayo and Kipchoge 

Keino stadiums have been selected 

to host the matches. The CHAN 

tournament, which is reserved for players 

who feature in their respective domestic 

leagues across Africa, will be 

staged from January 11 to February 2, 

2018. Ghana soccernet 

NFG postpones 

refresher 

course for 

P.E. teachers 

BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH 

THE NETBALL Federation of Ghana 

(NFG) Umpires and Coaches’ refresher 

course scheduled for the Awudome Senior 

High School (SHS) in the central part of 

the Volta Region has been rescheduled to a 

new date. 

Reverend Emmanuel Dzanie Nikoi, who 

is the president of NFG, said the programme 

had been pushed to next academic 

year at the same venue. 

The programme, which was supposed to 

be held from Monday, July 10, and end on 

Sunday, July 16, could not come off due to 

the involvement of the teachers in the second 

cycle institutions’ end-of-terms examinations. 

According to him, “The schools are having 

their terminal exams and most of the 

teachers are invigilating, so it has been 

rescheduled for next academic year, first 

term.” 

Reverend Nikoi in June this year at 

Adidome SHS campus in the Volta Region 

held a course for the Upper and Mid-South 

zones to refresh Physical Education (P.E.) 

teachers ahead of their up-coming Interzonal 

Sports festival.

Daily Heritage July 17

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