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DAILY HERITAGE 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 

DAILY QUOTE 

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and that's the strangest secret 

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ISSUE 

Enough of oil - how about 

resource on the streets? 

Cameroun bans 

pro-independence 

rallies in 

Anglophone area 

PG.04 

Jomoro approves 

2018 composite 

budget 

PG.10 

Don’t allow Appiah 

Stadium 

to cross-carpet 

– Odike to NPP 

PG.11 

Footvolley 

Association 

of Ghana to be 

launched 

PG.15 

ENOUGH OF the gushing and blushing over the Ghanaian victory in the maritime 

boundary dispute between Ghana and La Côte d’Ivoire. I have heard some 

talk of taking active steps to negotiate and delimit our boundaries with Togo and 

so on. Pg6 

WVA, WMA call for 

eradication of rabies by 2030 

TOTAL ELIMINATION of dog-transmitted human rabies by 2030 has been 

called for in a joint statement by the World Veterinary Association (WVA) and 

World Medical Association (WMA). Pg7 

Woyome back 

in court today 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

THE SUPREME Court will 

resume sitting today after 

three months legal vacation 

to continue the hearing 

on the oral 

examination of businessman 

Alfred Agbesi Woyome on how the 

judgement debtor intends to refund the 

GH¢ 51.2 Million he received from the 

State. 

On July 24, 2017, Mr Woyome appeared 

before the apex court for the first 

time and was grilled for many hours despite 

being sick and at a point required a 

break to take some medications. 

In court today, the oral examination 

to be conducted by the Deputy Attorney 

General, Godfred Dame, is expected to 

centre on the owners of the Abelemkpe 

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house which Mr Woyome said belongs 

to the junior brother. 

Lands Commission invited 

The Registrar of the Lands Commission 

is also expected to appear before 

the court presided over by Justice Benin 

to testify and to assist the court to know 

who owns the Abelemkpe house. 

The court, prior to adjourning the 

case to October 2, 2017, after the legal 

vacation, asked Woyome to apprise himself 

with all the documents regarding all 

the companies listed to fast- track the 

proceedings. 

The companies affected by the charge 

included Anator Holding Company Limited, 

AAW Management Consulting 

Services, Anator Construction Company 

Limited, Green Township Security Services 

Company Limited, Woyome Broth- 

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It is better to fail in originality 

than to succeed in imitation. 

— Herman Melville 

Woyome back in court today 

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ers International Limited, Stewise 

Anator Company Limited 

and Stewise Shipping Company 

Limited. 

Family house 

When it was suggested to 

him that he owned the 

Abelemkpe and Kokomlemle 

houses, he said “that is not correct,” 

saying “I own the 

Kokomlemle one with my family. 

You cannot say that for the 

Abelemkpe one.” 

•Alfred Agbesi Woyome 

Asked to tell the court under 

what circumstance he occupies 

the Abelemkpe house, he said, 

“It’s a family house? It's a family 

house owned by my junior 

brother. The house has been 

made available for use by the 

family for years now.” 

When counsel suggested to 

him that his testimony that the 

brother owns that house was 

false, he said “that's incorrect.” 

This resulted in the Deputy 

Attorney General saying to the 

court, “I will apply for court to 

ask him to provide the document 

for that. This is a debtor 

who, since 2014, has paid a paltry 

sum. It's crucial we know 

this.” 

The order was granted despite 

objections from Mr Ken 

Anku, counsel for Woyome. 

No business since 2011 

At his first day in court, the 

judgement debtor told the 

court that he had not been able 

to engage in any business since 

2011 when his legal ordeals 

with the State started. 

He said he lost all his businesses 

after his arrest in 2011 

and spent all his time in court 

to the detriment of his businesses 

for the past seven years. 

When asked about the AAW 

Management Consulting Services, 

which, according to the 

Attorney General, was incorporated 

in 2016, Woyome said he 

was the director and though it 

was registered in 2016, he was 

still not able to do business. 

Contrary to the Attorney 

General’s claim that he wholly 

owned Anator Holdings Company 

Limited, Woyome said 

that was incorrect and that he 

is only a director and board 

chairman. 

Woyome also told the court 

that though counsel was showing 

a document from the Registrar 

General claiming that it 

was registered in 2014, there 

was a re-registration. 

5,000 journalists, 

others to lose jobs 

BY BENJAMIN TANDOH 

MINORITY 

MEMBERS in 

Parliament are up 

in arms over the 

recent National 

Communications 

Authority (NCA) “deep regulatory 

sanctions” against 131 radio stations 

in the country. 

The NCA, in accordance with 

Sections 13 of the Electronic Communications 

Act 2009, has sanctioned 

131 radio stations over 

various infractions. 

Some of the radio stations 

found wanting have been handed 

hefty fines ranging from GH¢ 

50,000.00 to GH ¢61,000,000.00 

depending on the nature of offence 

and duration. 

Reacting to the stern action 

taken by the NCA, the Minority in 

a statement signed by 

Alhaji A. B.A. Fuseini, Ranking 

Member, Communications Committee 

said the sanctions would lead 

to close to 5,000 workers in the 

• Over NCA action, says NDC 

inky fraternity losing their jobs. 

“It is our understanding that 

about 131 radio stations have either 

had their authorization revoked, 

which means they have been taken 

off air, or have been slapped with 

very draconian fines running into 

tens of millions of Ghana Cedis in 

some instances. Other kinds of 

sanctions have been applied in a variety 

of cases. 

“We are deeply troubled by this 

development which has grave implications 

for press freedom and 

media pluralism. These actions by 

the NCA threaten to roll back the 

gains made so far in entrenching a 

vibrant media culture. 

“The NCA does not appear to 

have considered the deleterious impact 

this will have on jobs in the 

sector. We estimate that close to 

5,000 people working in the affected 

stations will be rendered jobless 

should the current action 

persist,” Mr Fuseini stated. 

The Minority said it recognises 

•Alhaji A. B.A. Fuseini, 

Minority Ranking Member, 

Communications Committee 

the NCA’s right to regulate the 

communications sector in a manner 

that ensures compliance with appropriate 

regulations, but said “we 

are alarmed by the sweeping and 

heavy-handed approach under the 

current exercise. 

“The situation where alleged 

breaches of regulations dating back 

several years are suddenly cited as 

basis for the near-summary closure 

of radio stations and humongous 

fines poses a mortal danger to the 

expansion of the frontiers of free 

expression. 

“Radio has become a foremost 

means of expression by large sections 

of our citizenry since the liberalization 

of the airwaves at the 

beginning of the current democratic 

dispensation. Entities operating 

within that space therefore 

ought to be acknowledged for their 

invaluable contributions to the 

growth of our democracy,” Alhaji 

Fuseini said. 

He suggested that the regulatory 

enforcement ought to be undertaken 

in “a manner that factors in 

the fragilities inherent in the operations 

of many radio stations. 

“The current revocation and 

sanctions regime appears to be 

monetizing the right to free expression 

and could be construed as an 

effort to exact retribution, particularly 

against stations that have traditionally 

been ideologically opposed 

to the current New Patriotic Party 

administration. 

“We are at a loss as to how millions 

of Ghana Cedis can be imposed 

as fines on radio stations, 

failing which their authorisation will 

be revoked only to have them sold 

to other entities for GH¢ 30,000. 

“This will only serve to worsen 

the precarious unemployment situation 

and add to the hardships 

Ghanaians are going through. In 

the light of the foregoing, we urge 

the NCA to, as a matter of urgency, 

suspend the on-going exercise and 

use dialogue and more flexible 

means to ensure compliance with 

relevant regulations. This, we believe, 

will avert a situation where 

monetary value is placed on the 

right to free expression with its attendant 

difficulties,” Alhaji Fuseini 

said.

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•U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers 

remarks at a security council meeting at U.N 

U.S. envoy to U.N. demands Myanmar prosecutions, weapons curbs, over Rohingya 

U.S. Ambassador to the 

United Nations Nikki Haley 

on Thursday called on countries 

to suspend providing 

weapons to Myanmar over 

violence against Rohingya 

Muslims until the military 

puts sufficient accountability 

measures in place. 

It was the first time the 

United States called for punishment 

of military leaders 

behind the repression, but 

stopped short of threatening 

to reimpose U.S. sanctions 

which were suspended under 

the Obama administration. 

“We cannot be afraid to 

call the actions of the 

Burmese authorities what 

they appear to be - a brutal, 

sustained campaign to 

cleanse the country of an 

ethnic minority,” Haley told 

the U.N. Security Council, 

the first time Washington 

has echoed the U.N.’s accusation 

that the displacement 

of hundreds of thousands 

of people in Rakhine State 

was ethnic cleansing. 

Reuters 



World news in 4 stories 

At least 22 dead and 35 injured in stampede at Mumbai train station 

AT LEAST 22 people have been 

killed and 35 injured in a stampede 

at a train station during morning 

rush hour in the Indian financial hub 

of Mumbai, according to Deepak 

Deoraj, spokesman for the Mumbai 

police department. 

The deadly stampede happened 

around 10:30 a.m. local time Friday 

on a footbridge at Prabhadevi train 

station, formerly known as Elphinstone 

station, Anil Saxena, 

spokesman for India's Ministry of 

Railways told local media. 

Saxena said the crowd on the 

footbridge grew larger as people 

took cover during an unexpected 

rain shower. Once the rain stopped 

the crowd started moving and someone 

"must have slipped" leading to 

the initial blockage. 

Television and social media 

footage from the scene shows heaving 

crowds of trapped commuters 

desperately trying to climb over railings 

and stairways to escape the 

crush, as lifeless bodies are pulled 

free. 

Indian rescue teams inspect the 

bridge where the deadly stampede in 

•Relatives of victims injured in the stampede react as 

they wait at a nearby hospital 

Prabhadevi train station took place. 

In a message posted to his official 

social media account, Indian 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed 

his "deepest condolences to 

all those who have lost their lives 

due to the stampede in Mumbai.” 

India's railways Minister Piyush 

Goyal is currently in Mumbai for a 

scheduled event. Writing on Twitter, 

he offered condolences to the families 

of those who had died in the 

stampede and promised a high level 

inquiry. CNN 

Cameroun bans proindependence 

rallies in 

Anglophone area 

CAMEROUN HAS 

banned public meetings 

and travel in a mainly 

English-speaking region 

ahead of a protest to 

demand independence 

for the area. 

The South-West region's border with 

Nigeria has also been shut to block "infiltration" 

by people threatening Cameroun's 

unity, officials said. 

Pro-independence marches have 

been planned for Sunday, the 56th anniversary 

of Cameroun's unification. 

English speakers accuse the Francophone 

majority of discrimination. 

They say they are often excluded 

from top civil service jobs, and that the 

French language and legal system have 

been imposed on them. 

The government denies the allegations 

and insists that it treats all citizens 

equally. 

Cameroun was colonised by Germany 

and then split into British and 

French areas after World War One. 

Following a referendum, British-run 

Southern Camerouns joined the Frenchspeaking 

Republic of Cameroun in 

1961. 

• Activists accuse the government of using excessive force to end protests 

It is now divided into the South-West 

and North-West regions. 

Demands for independence have 

grown in the two regions in recent years 

and tension has been escalating ahead of 

Sunday's planned protests, reports the 

BBC's Randy Joe Sa'ah from the capital, 

Yaoundé. 

At least six protesters were killed and 

dozens arrested during protests earlier 

this year. Access to the internet in the 

Anglophone regions was also blocked 

from January to April. BBC 

• A boy in a class 

More than half of schools 

in Nigeria's Borno state 

remain closed 

MOST SCHOOLS in Nigeria's 

Borno state remain 

shut due to the Boko 

Haram conflict the UN children's 

agency Unicef said. 

Unicef blames the Islamist 

militants for deliberately 

targeting schools. 

The new academic year 

started this month but 

there's a shortage of teachers 

in the area. 

School buildings have 

also been destroyed in the 

ongoing violence. 

Justin Forsyth, Unicef's 

deputy executive director, 

speaking from Maiduguri, 

Borno's capital, told the 

BBC's Newsday programme 

that at least 57 percent of 

schools there have been destroyed. 

He said that more than 

2,295 teachers have been 

killed and 19,000 displaced 

with nearly 1,400 schools 

destroyed in the eight years 

of fighting. 

Mr Forsyth said, 

"There's a need to rebuild 

the schools and recruit 

teachers and encourage 

them to go to these more 

dangerous areas". 

He also said that three 

million children were in 

need of emergency education. 

BBC



IT IS that time of the year again when 

there is a threat of cholera outbreak in 

the country, particularly in the capital 

Accra. 

The last time there was cholera outbreak 

in Ghana it was a sorry sight to behold. 

In 2015, for instance, the World 

Health Organisation Situational Report 

on cholera outbreak in Ghana indicated 

that the country had recorded as high as 

591 confirmed cholera cases with five 

deaths between January and May. 

As expected, the Greater Accra Region 

which has the tag of being the epicentre 

of cholera in the country led the 

recorded cases with 264 cases and four 

The rains and cholera 

deaths by the close of week 21 of the 

year. Cholera is always prevalent in Accra 

because many food and sachet water 

vendors are dirty and careless in the way 

they handle what they sell to the public. 

Suffice it to state that cholera can only 

be contracted through eating of faecal 

matter. And innocent people do so 

through the consumption of food sold 

in corners that are very untidy. Poor hygiene 

has been our bane because some 

people are just daft and do not care 

about what they sell to people to eat. 

This year, the threat still lingers. Already, 

the Ghana Public Health Association 

(GPHA) is warning of a possible 

outbreak of the disease this rainy season. 

GPHA in a release copied to the 

DAILY HERITAGE recently said 

“with the current heavy rains and flooding 

in many parts of the country, coupled 

with poor sanitation in the country, 

we wish to call on the Ghana Health 

Service to intensify public education and 

to roll out preparedness and response 

plans countrywide to avert any disaster. 

“We also call on various public entities, 

including but not limited to the 

Ministries of Water and Sanitation, 

Zongo Affairs, Environment and Technology, 

Information, and agencies such 

as the Environmental Protection 

Agency, the National News Agency, together 

with Metropolitan, Municipal 

and District Assemblies to as a matter 

of urgency accelerate plans to address 

the worsening sanitation situation in the 

country to avert a major cholera outbreak.” 

The paper wishes to add to the call 

for vigilance by urging the unsuspecting 

consumer, who is usually at the receiving 

end, to always opt for hot dishes 

from food vendors to stay safe. 

We should all be extremely vigilant 

even in our homes to stay safe because 

cholera can be very deadly, especially to 

children. 

Academia cause of 

graduate unemployment 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

Philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh 

THE EXECU- 

TIVE Director 

of China Europe 

International 

Business School 

(CEIBS), Prof. 

Matthew Tsamenyi, has said 

Ghana is currently suffering 

from graduate unemployment 

because academia has over the 

years failed to think outside the 

box to develop strategies to 

mitigate the problem. 

According to him, there is a 

vast gap between academia and 

multinational companies, 

which has affected the development 

of the required skills 

set needed by these industry 

players to move the business 

world. 

Prof. Tsamenyi said anytime 

he chatted with Chief Executive 

Officers (CEOs), business 

owners and other key players 

of multinational companies, 

they always complained of the 

kind of products from the various 

universities. 

Speaking to the DAILY 

HERITAGE in an interview 

last Friday on the sidelines of 

Small and Medium Enterprises 

(SME’s) Vodafone Masterclass 

launch, he said for Ghana to 

solve graduate unemployment 

in the country, there was the 

need to partner with the private 

sector and multinational 

companies to develop more 

practical skills and produce 

graduates who are more entrepreneurial 

oriented. 

“There should be a total 

overhaul to design a new educational 

curriculum from the 

current textbook approach to a 

new skills-developed and practical 

base education where 

graduates will not be completing 

school and waiting on the 

government to give them 

jobs,” Prof. Tsamenyi stated. 

He said until the curriculum 

•Prof. Matthew Tsamenyi, Executive Director, China Europe 

International Business School 

was changed and a strong partnership 

between tertiary institutions 

and multinational 

companies bridged to build 

skills of graduates, the problem 

would continue to exist. 

Prof. Tsamenyi added that 

for SMEs to develop, they 

must have a link with multinational 

companies and that 

could only be done when they 

enjoy support from the socalled 

big companies to scale 

up their client base. 

He advised international 

companies to support academia 

to develop so that they 

could do more research and 

understand the need of their 

customers to move the economy 

forward. 

Prof. Tsamenyi said CEIBS 

was established to ensure that 

they would develop and shape 

the entrepreneurial skills of 

SMEs, CEOs and the business 

world to match international 

standards.


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Enough of oil - how about 

resource on the streets? 

BY SAMUEL ALESU-DORDZ 

ENOUGH OF the 

gushing and blushing 

over the Ghanaian 

victory in the maritime 

boundary dispute 

between Ghana 

and La Côte d’Ivoire. I have heard 

some talk of taking active steps to 

negotiate and delimit our boundaries 

with Togo and so on. 

That is all well and good. But 

while we are at it, we need to remind 

ourselves that we still have a 

lot of resource battles to fight. 

And the most important of 

these battles has to do with the 

boys and girls who for one reason 

or the other have found themselves 

on the street. 

Take a moment, drive late at 

night in Accra at about 11pm 

over 12 pm and guess who you 

are likely to find on the streetboys 

and girls. These young ones 

can be found doing a variety of 

things. 

They are either begging; or offering 

to clean your windscreen or 

selling gum or sweets. It is not 

only at night. Look around traffic 

in the mornings. You find children 

of school age being held 

hostage in broad day light by their 

blind and disabled relatives. And 

we are all looking on. 

The invasion of the street by 

these children at such late hours 

should be a cause for concern. 

Remember, human beings are 

the most important resource on 

the face of the earth. And that is 

the reason we should stop gushing 

about oil and all the prospects 

it provides; and redirect our energies 

towards getting as many children 

as possible out of the roads. 

These children, like all other 

children, deserve a good life. And 

we must find a way of making 

that happen with or without 

•The invasion of the street by the youth should be a cause for concern 

parental support and presence. 

There are lots of countries 

without an ounce of our resource 

wealth; and yet they are doing 

well. They are leading in terms of 

intellectual property and innovation. 

Mindsets and education alone 

have transformed landlocked 

countries and arid landscapes into 

financial hubs and food baskets. 

Someone has to speak for 

these kids. And I think it should 

be fair to say we have not done 

enough. I would not be the first 

person to talk about child 

streetism in Ghana. And hopefully 

I would not be the last. 

In writing this piece, I did 

some google searches. A lot of 

writing and commenting has been 

done on this. I am just wondering 

if it is worth writing more. What 

we need is some form of action. 

The future of this nation cannot 

and should not be allowed to 

be on the street. This is not right 

and fair. 

The state has an obligation towards 

its children. The constitution 

places the obligation to 

ensure the well being of children 

on their parents, the legislature 

and the executive 

The presence of the children 

They are either begging; or offering to clean your windscreen 

or selling gum or sweets. It is not only at night. Look around 

traffic in the mornings. You find children of school age being 

held hostage in broad day light by their blind and disabled relatives. 

And we are all looking on. 

clearly indicates a failure of the 

social system. 

The Constitution places the responsibility 

on the Parliament of 

Ghana to pass laws to ensure that 

children and young persons receive 

special protection against 

exposure to physical and moral 

hazards. 

The Constitution also requires 

the protection and advancement 

of the family as the unit of society 

all in the bid of promoting the 

interest of children. 

As if it is not enough, the 

Constitution provides that every 

child has the right to be protected 

from engaging in work that constitutes 

a threat to his health, education 

or development. 

Children are not supposed to 

be subjected to torture or cruel, 

inhuman or degrading treatment 

or punishment. 

The Children’s Act further 

provides that no person shall deprive 

a child access to education, 

immunization, adequate diet, 

clothing, shelter, medical attention 

or any other thing required 

for his development. 

I need not say much to prove 

how helpless our authorities and 

the state have been in the face of 

these flagrant and evil treatments 

being meted out to the young 

ones. 

Yes, it is true that parental responsibility 

has failed. But so also 

has the state. If we had a solid 

state and social welfare system, as 

we are supposed to, these children 

will at the very least have an opportunity 

to decent life, but no. 

They are definitely not our priority. 

And we are wasting their 

sweet and precious lives away. 

It cannot be business as usual. 

There is no moral, social or intellectual 

justification for the presence 

of these young ones on the 

road. Heaven knows the risks and 

dangers that they have to live up 

with on a daily basis. 

And if we wouldn’t want that 

for ourselves and our children, 

why should we for a moment 

stand by and watch that happen 

to others. 

We can do better than we are 

doing right now. The future of 

this country is literally wasting 

away on the streets. How long can 

we look on? 

Yes, it is true that 

parental responsibility 

has failed. 

But so also has 

the state. If we 

had a solid state 

and social welfare 

system, as 

we are supposed 

to, these children 

will at the very 

least have an opportunity 

to decent 

life, but no.


Key facts 

about 

rabies 

• Around 60,000 people a year, 

almost all in Asia or Africa, die from 

rabies contracted after being bitten 

by an animal. 

• The vast majority of those 

deaths result from dog bites. 

• In the USA, there are now only 

one or two cases of rabies in humans 

annually, most often transmitted by 

bites from bats. 

• Pasteur’s vaccine was made 

from rabid rabbits. 

• In 1897, the UK passed a General 

Rabies Order that dogs be muzzled 

in public to prevent rabies. 

• The UK was declared rabiesfree 

in 1902, but broke out again in 

1918 after First World War servicemen 

smuggled rabid dogs into the 

country. 

• The introduction of compulsory 

quarantine for dogs led to its 

elimination again by 1922. 

• Hydrophobia (fear of water) is 

a symptom of rabies and also an old 

name for the disease. 

• Building the Channel Tunnel in 

the 1990s led to fears of rabid foxes 

coming to the UK from France. Defences 

at both ends of the tunnel 

stopped this. 

• 10. Serbia is an anagram of rabies 

as is braise. No other country is 

an anagram of a fatal disease. 



&Env. 

WVA, WMA call for 

eradication of rabies by 2030 

TOTAL ELIMINA- 

TION of dog-transmitted 

human rabies 

by 2030 has been 

called for in a joint 

statement by the 

World Veterinary Association 

(WVA) and World Medical Association 

(WMA). 

The two organisations joined 

forces to mark this year’s World Rabies 

Day on the theme ‘Rabies: 

Zero by 30’ as initiated by Global 

Alliance for Rabies Control 

(GARC), 

A release copied to the DAILY 

HERITAG says rabies claims the 

lives of an estimated 60,000 people 

each year and often affects poor 

people and children aged five to 15. 

The statement added that about 

97% of these deaths can be attributed 

to bites from dogs. But notifications 

and reporting of animal 

bites are generally not required in 

the countries in which these bites 

occur most 

commonly, 

leading to 

unreliable data on 

animal bites. 

The WVA and WMA say the 

global and endemic nature of rabies 

can also be attributed to a general 

lack of awareness of preventive 

measures, such as wound washing 

after bites occur, poor knowledge of 

• Dogs and cats spread 

human rabies 

proper post-exposure prophylaxis 

(PEP) through vaccination, 

lack of administration of 

immunoglobulin and an 

irregular supply of antirabies 

vaccine. 

The 

other problem is 

lack of affordability of vaccines and 

immunoglobulin. 

The statement stated further that 

international and national vaccine 

manufacturers produce enough vaccine 

annually to deliver approximately 

28 million rabies human 

PEP treatments in dog rabies-enzootic 

countries of Africa, Asia 

and the Eastern Mediterranean 

region, preventing 

nearly 98% of human rabies 

deaths. 

“Unfortunately, easier 

access to rabies vaccine, 

particularly in urban 

centres of Africa and 

Asia, has been accompanied 

by an increasing 

proportion of PEP (up to 

70%) being administered 

to people who are not at 

high risk of developing rabies. 

The WVA President, Dr Johnson 

Chiang, said rabies control is a 

multi-disciplinary and multidimensional 

activity, adding that participation 

and effective inter-sectoral cooperation 

among medical and 

veterinary professionals from the 

government and academic institutions, 

civic and local bodies, national 

and international 

non-governmental organisations, 

and animal welfare organisations is 

essential. 

The WMA President, Dr Ketan 

Desai, added that if dog-transmitted 

rabies is to be eliminated, strengthening 

legislation concerning pet 

ownership, reducing the population 

of stray and un-owned free-roaming 

dogs, broadly implementing dog 

vaccination programmes and provision 

of early rabies diagnostic facilities 

and adequate post-exposure 

health care are prerequisites. 

Dog-transmitted rabies elimination 

is an ideal opportunity to move 

the ‘One Health’ concept forward’. 

Stay away from illicit drugs • Students told 

• A cross-session of the first year students of Koforidua Technical Senior High 

School at the meeting 

THE PHARMACEUTICAL Society 

of Ghana has advised students, 

especially the first years under the 

Free Senior High School programme, 

not to be influenced by illicit 

drug use. 

The society says the increase in 

the number of admissions to various 

senior high schools as a result 

of the Free SHS programme compelled 

them to extend a hand to 

some students who may fall victim 

to peer pressure. 

In an interview during the celebration 

of this year’s World Pharmacists’ 

Day, by the regional branch 

of the Association at Koforidua 

Technical Senior High School 

(Kotech), the President of the Association, 

Mr Silas Agyekum, advised 

first year students on the need 

to stay away from marijuana in particular. 

“As part of our celebrations, we 

took it upon ourselves to move into 

the community, especially among 

the youth, to educate them on irrational 

use of drugs and abuse of 

medicines in general. Here, we are 

talking about those who take medicines 

without prescription, those 

who take overdose of prescribed 

drugs and those who give out medicines 

to friends to take when they 

complain about any form of distress,” 

Mr Agyekum said. 

He said 

there are a 

number of 

dangers associated 

with abuse 

and irrational 

use 

of drugs 

and because of the dangers, “we 

want to educate the kids on it for 

them to grow to be responsible 

adults for the benefit of their families 

and the entire nation.” 

“We are also happy to associate 

ourselves with this wonderful innovative 

government policy of free 

SHS for all. The number we have 

seen here is huge, and we know 

they are the future leaders and they 

are also vulnerable so it was a prudent 

decision we took to celebrate 

our day with them. 

“We cannot talk about the programme 

without talking about the 

health status of the kids, their accommodation, 

their feeding and 

upkeep, good food and stable environment 

to learn and also the need 

to be protected against the illicit use 

of drugs. 

“For all you know, some 

of the seniors are already 

smoking weed and abusing 

drugs to the extent that they 

may want to introduce these 

young ones to it so we have 

to ensure constant monitoring 

and counselling for these first 

year students, and I believe 

our interactions with them 

today will go a long way to 

help them make the right decisions 

for their future,” he 

stated.

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News 



Gays in Tarkwa 

seek members 

from churches 

BY KWADWO ANIM 

A GROUP of homosexuals in the 

Tarkwa Kwabedu Electoral Area in 

the Western Region shocked 

residents when they brazenly 

handed over letters to churches in 

the area asking for their help to 

raise more members. 

The gay group, said to be made 

up of junior high school pupils 

aged 14-17 with their leader being a 

25-year-old young man, wrote to 

the various churches, including the 

Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 

asking the pastor to announce the 

formation of their association 

during their church service to 

ensure that more people join the 

group. 

Assembly member for the area, 

Mr Paa Kwesi Ephraim, who 

disclosed that he was personally 

served a copy of the letter, said he 

was nearly assaulted by the 

homosexuals after he scolded one 

of them. 

“The group wrote to me 

personally asking for my help to 

give them publicity so they can 

increase their number. I read the 

letter which had a list of the 

members with their house addresses 

by each name. While looking 

through the list, I spotted the name 

of one young orphan whom I 

regularly support. I invited him and 

advised him just like a father will do 

to a son. He thanked me and left. 

“Unknowingly, he went and 

informed the other members and 

they stormed my house with 

cudgels to attack me, claiming I was 

working against their interest. 

Luckily for me I’d gone for a 

church meeting and so my life was 

spared. They vandalised my house 

and left. They later went to my 

wife’s store and vandalised it as 

well,” he told ‘Kasapa News’. 

The incident has since been 

reported to the police in the area 

who have picked up some of the 

gay members, while investigations 

continue into the issue. 

Mr Ephraim vowed to stop the 

practice which has got most of 

members of the gay group 

distracted from their school work. 

The gay group, said to be 

made up of Junior High 

School pupils between the 

ages of 14-17 with their 

leader being a 25-year-old 

young man, wrote to the 

various churches including 

the Seventh-Day Adventist 

church asking the pastor to 

announce the formation of 

their association during their 

church service to ensure 

that more people join the 

group. 

Tilapia farmers appeal 

for feed factory 

BY KOJO ANSAH 

TILAPIA FARMERS in 

the Asuogyaman District 

of the Eastern Region 

want the government to 

establish a tilapia feed 

factory and a fish 

processing plant as the district’s share 

of the One -District-One Factory 

policy. 

The tilapia farmers say they believe 

the tilapia feed factory will boost 

aquaculture business, which is the main 

economic venture in the district due to 

the presence of the Volta Lake. 

It is estimated that the Asuogyaman 

District produces about 60% of tilapia 

consumed in the country but the 

current exorbitant price of tilapia feed 

is crippling the already capital-intensive 

business. 

The youth in the area say they 

believe if tilapia feeds are produced 

locally in the community, the price of 

the fish would be affordable. 

They said the provision of a cold 

BY ALBERT FUTUKPOR 

THE NATIONAL Agricultural 

College Students’ Union (ACSU) 

has called on the government to 

increase its support to agricultural 

schools to operate school farms 

amongst others to practically 

prepare their students for the job 

market. 

Mr Chimbur Samson Sanika, 

President of ACSU, who made the 

call, said the government needed to 

support graduates of agricultural 

schools to establish their own farms 

as part of efforts to create jobs. 

He was speaking at a forum for 

agricultural students as part of the 

Food and Agric Show 2017 

(FAGRO) in Tamale to discuss the 

challenges agricultural students face 

•Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister of Food and Agriculture 

as well as build and develop 

their leadership skills. 

FAGRO 2017, which opened 

in Tamale last Tuesday, seeks to, 

among other things, connect 

players in the agribusiness sector 

in a bid to expand their projects 

for increased food production and 

job creation. 

The week-long event, which 

ended on Saturday, also featured 

exhibition of agro inputs, 

implements and services, as well 

as business-to-business meetings, 

institutional seminars, business 

plan training camp for 

agribusinesses, leadership seminar 

for women in agriculture, farmer 

stakeholder engagements and 

mentorship programme. 

The event, organised by the 

FAGRO Secretariat, was on the 

theme: ‘Creating Jobs in 

store would help remedy the storage 

challenges currently facing the 

business in the district so that they 

would store their stock for sale over 

a long period. 

Ghana is the biggest producer of 

tilapia in sub-Saharan Africa; 

however, there is still deficit in the 

supply chain considering the high 

demand in the country. 

Fisheries Alliance estimates that 

the country consumes over 950,000 

metric tons of fish annually and that 

it imported $135 million worth of 

fish in 2016 to meet the demand. 

The aquaculture sector, it is 

estimated, provides over 50,000.00 

jobs for the youth in Ghana. 

However, despite the availability 

of the Volta Lake for aquaculture 

activities, the youth in the 

Asuogyaman District are still 

struggling to get jobs due to the lack 

of funding to tap the opportunities 

in aquaculture to earn a living. 

The minimum capital for a 

commercial tilapia farm is GH¢ 

10,000.00, which most of the youth 

Govt asked to support agric schools 

The week-long event, 

which ended on 

Saturday, also featured 

exhibition of agro inputs, 

implements and 

services, as well as 

business-to-business 

meetings, institutional 

seminars, business plan 

training camp for 

agribusinesses, 

leadership seminar for 

women in agriculture, 

farmer stakeholder 

engagements and 

mentorship programme. 

Agriculture: Northern Region in 

Focus.’ 

Master Sanika, who is a student 

of Damongo Agricultural College, 

said ACSU had identified that 

“there is a gap between industrial 

demands and training giving to 

agricultural students” making it 

difficult for graduates to secure 

jobs because they were not 

practically oriented in the areas of 

industrial demands.” 

He said the situation made 

agricultural students feel neglected, 

adding that the government 

policies did not properly cater for 

agricultural schools, hence the 

need to support agricultural 

schools and graduates to establish 

their own farms to help in 

practical exercises and job 

creation. 

Mr Senyo Kpelly, Chief 

cannot afford. 

Assembly member for Senchi 

Electoral Area, Mr Issah Lawah, told 

the DAILY HERITAGE that due 

to financial challenges, the youth are 

not able to venture into the business. 

He said the National Youth Authority 

(NYA) is providing little support to some 

of the youth in aquaculture. He, however, 

appealed for more government support. 

Meanwhile, officials of the NYA in the 

Asuogyaman District say they are hopeful 

the implementation of the ‘Youth in 

Aquaculture’ project, which provides 

training on tilapia farms, technical, financial 

and business management support to the 

youth, would help reduce unemployment. 

The Asuogyaman District Youth Leader 

of NYA, Mr Luyusa Akili Mohammed, 

told the paper that about 25 youth had 

benefitted from the programme. 

Meanwhile, some students from 

Columbia, as part of an exchange 

programme with NYA, visited the tilapia 

farm at Senchi during a tour of the region 

to understudy the cultural dynamics in 

the region. 

Executive Officer of Savannah and 

Sahel Commodities Limited, who was 

part of the panel to mentor 

agricultural students during the 

forum, advised that training offered 

by schools must be market-driven to 

address the requirements of 

consumers. 

Mr Kpelly suggested that the 

syllabi of training schools be aligned 

towards industrial requirements such 

that training schools would be at the 

forefront in creating solutions but 

not the current situation where 

industry tried to create its own 

solutions. 

He called for a long-term national 

agenda to come out with pragmatic 

solutions by ensuring good training 

for students to adequately respond 

to the needs of industry. GNA 

•Atta Akyea, Minister of Works and Housing 

GWCL begins 

electronic 

billing system 

THE MANAGEMENT of 

Ghana Water Company Limited 

(GWCL) has announced that 

the transition from paper to 

electronic billing, which started 

in June 2016, has been 

replicated in the Greater Accra; 

Central; Western and Ashanti 

Regions to ensure that all 

customers in the 

aforementioned regions are 

properly registered unto the 

electronic billing system and 

receive e-bills. 

According to the GWCL, 

customers who have not 

received their paper or 

electronic bills (SMS and/or 

Email) in the last six months or 

more or whose cell phone 

numbers/emails and 

geographical locations have not 

been captured by GWCL 

officers since the data 

collection exercise began are 

kindly being requested by 

management to, as a matter of 

urgency, visit the nearest 

GWCL office to report or call 

GWCL Call Centre to report. 

“Customers can as well send 

their complaint via WhatsApp, 

including Google locations of 

their homes or properties, to 

the Call Centre numbers to 

enable easy identification of 

their properties. 

“In June 2016, the Ghana 

Water Company Limited 

informed customers that it was 

changing from paper bills to 

electronic ones where 

customers would receive their 

bills on their cell phones via 

text messages and/or emails. 

The process is ongoing and 

very soon, a full transition with 

a cut-off date for abolishing 

paper bill would be announced. 

“Management of GWCL is 

grateful for the support it has 

enjoyed over the period since it 

announced the transition in 

June 2016. GWCL is always at 

your service to provide you 

with the best of service. Help 

GWCL to service you better,” 

Mr Stanley Martey, Head, 

Public Relations/ 

Communications, GWCL noted 

in a release copied to the 

DAILY HERITAGE.


29TH 

SEPTEMBER 

2017 

FRIDAY 

CURRENCY PARIS CODE BUYING SELLING 

US Dollar USDGHS 4.3922 4.3966 

RATES Pound Sterling GBPGHS 

5.8926 

5.8998 

Euro 

GBPGHS 

5.1922 

5.1958 

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Jomoro approves 2018 composite budget 

FROM J.J. KAKU, HALF ASSINI 

• From left: Mr Abotar - Budget Officer, Mr Frimpong Naayo - D. C. D, Mr John Nyankey 

– PM during the meeting 

THE JOMORO District 

Assembly has 

unanimously approved 

the composite 

budget for the 

2018 fiscal year, 

which was prepared from the draft 

medium-term national development 

policy framework 2018 to 

2021. 

The approval was done during 

the first ordinary meeting of 2017 

held at the District Assembly hall 

at Half Assini last Wednesday. 

In an address, the District Coordinating 

Director, Mr Joseph 

Frimpong Naayo, said a recent executive 

meeting held on Thursday, 

September 14, 2017, at the conference 

hall focused on the 2018 feefixing 

resolution and composite 

budget, training of 10 area council 

members, renovation of the district 

assembly bungalows, improving 

the assembly guest house for 

patronage and revenue, acquisition 

of motorbikes for the assembly 

members and the state of the assembly 

farms at Nuba. 

After the 

presentation of 

the composite 

budget for 

2018 fiscal 

year, Mr Peter 

Blay Ackah 

Quayson, the 

District Director 

of Education, 

briefed 

the house on 

the status of 

the Free Senior 

High School 

policy in the 

two public senior 

high schools in the district, 

namely Half Assini Senior High 

School (HASCO) and Annor Adjaye 

Senior High School (ANASS) 

at Half Assini and Ezinlibo respectively. 

Mr Ackah Quayson said 

HASCO declared 600 vacancies 

while ANASS had 550. 

Concerning the challenges of 

both senior high schools, he said 

the girls’ dormitory at HASCO is 

now a death trap and needs to be 

replaced urgently while that of 

ANASS needs rehabilitation. 

Mr Ackah said the Basic Education 

Certificate Examination results 

of 57 candidates from four 

junior high schools in the area 

were withheld. 

Jomoro is the only district in 

the Western Region without a District 

Chief Executive and that has 

been a source of worry in the area 

in terms of development. 

Airtel Flex wins ‘Best Outdoor Advert’ at CIMG Awards 

AIRTEL’S ‘FLEX’ commercial has 

been adjudged the ‘Best Outdoor 

Advert of the Year 2016’ at the 

Chartered Institute of Marketing 

Ghana (CIMG) Awards held at the 

State Banquet Hall. 

The Chartered Institute of 

Marketing Ghana (CIMG) recognises 

and celebrates organisations 

that have distinguished themselves 

in various marketing endeavours. 

The awards, which have become 

the industry standard and 

highly coveted, are also designed to 

create awareness of the marketing 

concept in business sustainability 

and to stimulate high professional 

standards and excellence among 

marketing professionals. 

The Airtel ‘Flex’ outdoor advert 

award was in recognition of the 

company’s ability to develop a concept 

that was unrivalled in creativity 

and uniqueness. 

The award also recognises Airtel’s 

distinctive skill for accurately 

determining the needs of its customers 

and developing a product 

that clearly reverberates with them. 

A release to the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE says part of the citation 

read, “Coupled with an ambition 

to lead and own the Data space in 

Ghana, you brought in this new 

product (FLEX), which is meant 

to provide a bouquet of services 

and has made data usage enjoyable. 

Your ability to use powerful visuals 

and graphics to gain the attention 

of your target audience is heartwarming 

and has won over your 

assessors.” 

Flex offers customers free access 

to social media platforms such 

as Whatsapp, Facebook, Hangout, 

Google Plus, Google Play, and 

YouTube. Customers also enjoy 

free access to Gmail and guaranteed 

10% cash back for every cedi 

they spend on Flex bundles. Customers 

have the flexibility to 

choose between daily, weekly or 

monthly bundles by simply dialing 

*125# and choosing ‘Flex’ from 

the menu to enjoy these amazing 

offers. 

• From (L): Mrs Thelma Quaye, Networks Director, Mr Cornelius Kakraba, Head of Brands and Communication, Mr 

Kofi Keteku, Head of Revenue Planning and BI, Mr Joel Aristide, Brands and Creative Development Manager, Mrs 

Rosy Fynn, Marketing Director and Mrs Ellen Gyamfi, Legal & Corporate Affairs Coordinator of Airtel Ghana 

Speaking about this latest 

award, Mrs Rosy Fynn, Marketing 

Director, said Airtel continues to 

lead in data and digital innovation, 

providing unmatched products and 

services to delight their customers. 

“We are honoured to have received 

this award. Our dominance 

in the data business over the years 

validates our focus and commitment 

to excellence as a telecommunication 

company,” she stated. 

Mrs Fynn added that indeed 

there was nothing as rewarding as 

‘Flex out there’ and there’s no better 

time to become an Airtel customer 

than now. 

“We dedicate this award to all 

our customers who embraced our 

product.”




11 

Politics 

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have 

chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its 

foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are 

neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality 

— Desmond Tutu 

Don’t allow Appiah Stadium 

to cross carpet 

• Odike to NPP 

BY JONATHAN ADJEI 

FOUNDER AND 

leader of the United 

Progressive Party 

(UPP), Mr Akwasi 

Addai, popularly 

known as Odike, has 

warned the governing New Patriotic 

Party(NPP) to be wary 

of “hungry” Frank Kwaku Appiah, 

popularly called Appiah Stadium, 

a serial caller affiliated to 

opposition National Democratic 

Congress(NDC). 

According to Odike, Appiah 

Stadium is only scheming to sneak 

into NPP because he’s trapped in 

bread and butter issues, and doesn’t 

want to bear the brunt after his 

party-NDC went into opposition. 

“It’s about time he [Appiah 

Stadium] finds a job and stops his 

diabolic strategies in politics. I believe 

he’s not ready to be in opposition 

with the NDC again and 

hence he wants to devise ways and 

• Akwasi Addai, founder and leader of UPP 

means to get into NPP. 

“He’s stoking fire and when he 

lands himself into trouble then, 

he can say that NDC has neglected 

him when he’d issues with 

the NPP and by so doing he will 

enter into NPP again,” Odike told 

Kasapa 102.5 FM on Friday.” 

His comment comes after the 

acerbic-tongued ex-President John 

Mahama loyalist, Appiah Stadium 

described President Nana Akufo- 

Addo as a ‘monkey’ and a 

‘wee'(marijuana) addict, which 

subsequently led to his arrest by 

the police. 

President Akufo-Addo, according 

to a statement signed by the 

Information Minister, Mr 

Mustapha Hamid indicated he will 

not take up claims made against 

him by the accused [Appiah Stadium] 

that he smokes marijuana, 

which led to his release from Police 

custody. 

Commenting on the fallout 

from Appiah Stadium’s case, 

Odike said NPP must not entertain 

Appiah Stadium lest he’ll outsmart 

them, and maneuver to 

cross carpet to NPP like he did in 

the past. 

“If you’ll remember he was once 

with the ruling NPP. Nana Akufo- 

Addo gave him money to rent a 

place at the time. It was even 

Akufo-Addo who arranged for him 

to visit abroad for the first time in 

his lifetime. If you’ll recall just after 

NPP went into opposition, then he 

insulted some leaders and got himself 

into trouble. But, he quickly 

crossed carpet to NDC, insisting 

that NPP mistreated him and abandoned 

him in court. 

“Now NDC is in opposition, 

and he wants to use the same 

strategy to find a stable life because 

he’s desperate now. So I will 

throw a word of caution to the 

NPP to be very careful with Appiah 

Stadium. What he’s to do is 

to fight so that the NDC returns 

to power. NPP leaders must not 

entertain him at all; I know why 

I’m saying that.” 

ECOWAS must intervene in Togo crisis — Rawlings 

FORMER PRESIDENT Jerry 

John Rawlings has expressed concern 

about the protracted nature 

of the political standoff in Togo 

calling on the Economic Community 

of West African States 

(ECOWAS) Heads of State to intervene 

and bring diplomatic 

pressure to bear on the key political 

actors to uphold the timeless 

values of freedom and justice. 

He made the call when he received 

a delegation of Togolese 

nationals resident in Togo and 

the Diaspora at his office in 

Accra. 

Lily Massan Gnininvi, an activist 

based in the United States 

who led the delegation narrated 

the unfolding political events 

back home in her country and expressed 

the unrelenting resolve of 

majority of Togolese citizens towards 

the establishment of a 

truly democratic political regime. 

According to her, majority of 

Togolese citizens are fighting for 

the establishment of a truly democratic 

political regime and reiterated 

the need for a sustained 

non-violent approach to achieve 

the objectives and aspirations of 

the people of Togo. 

Togo has in the past few 

weeks experienced a wave of 

protests demanding an end to the 

50-year-old Gnassingbe family 

reign. 

The demonstrators have been 

demanding the country’s return 

to its 1992 constitution, which allowed 

multi-party democracy 

with a limited presidential term 

of office 

The demonstrators 

have been 

demanding the 

country’s return 

to its 1992 constitution, 

which 

allowed multiparty 

democracy 

with a limited 

presidential term 

of office. 

• Former President Jerry John Rawlings


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DAILY 

Politics 


HERITAGE MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 

Here come the women who won 

BY JAMES KOFI ANNAN 

IT APPEARS as though the 

only news in Ghana, these 

days, are those of corruption 

scandals; GH¢ 51 million 

here, $72 million there, 

even the Judiciary, where 

we should be taking these corrupt 

officials to, are themselves 

appear not to be up to the task. 

I remember the jubilation that 

greeted the announcement of 

Ghana’s oil discovery. It felt to 

me, as though, all the problems 

that confronted our nation were 

over; after all we already had 

cocoa, we had gold too, and at 

that time we had not completed 

destroying our water bodies with 

galamsey, so we were fairly okay. 

In all of these I was never lost 

on what has happened to Nigeria, 

oil discovery becoming a 

curse rather than a blessing. The 

violence in the Niger Delta is 

clearly underwritten by oil and its 

associates. So I was not surprised 

when our neighbouring brothers, 

Cote d’Ivoire, jumped in, to 

claim portions of the sea where 

our oil was discovered. Hopefully 

the resultant sea dispute, which 

has now been settled by the 

Chamber of the International 

Tribunal of the Law of the Sea 

(ITLOS), will remain the only 

dispute that would have confronted 

us in our journey into oil 

exploitation. 

Already, we have begun to soil 

ourselves with the revenues from 

the oil heritage. Last week, the 

Public Interest and Accountability 

Committee repeated their call 

on the government to, as a matter 

of urgency, conduct a forensic 

audit into projects funded 

with the oil money. This was 

after it was discovered that several 

projects funded from oil revenues 

were non-existent although 

monies had been disbursed for 

them. 

We, in recent years, gave over 

GH¢ 317 million of the oil 

money to be spent on capacitybuilding, 

to prepare our youth 

for employment in the oil industry. 

While we were stealing the oil 

• Former Attorney General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong with the current one, 

Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo 

monies, we left the ITLOS battle 

in the hands of two women, Marietta 

Brew Appiah-Oppong (former 

Attorney-General), and later 

Gloria Akuffo (current Attorney- 

General). They have given us victory, 

and we are told Ghana has 

saved over $49 billion; what an 

opportunity to celebrate our 

women! 

The ITLOS victory has happened 

at the time Ghana is 60 

years old, and it is just right that, 

at this time in our history, we celebrate 

the women who made us 

proud; the likes of Yaa Asantewaa, 

Ester Ocloo, Efua Sutherland, 

Ama Ata Aidoo, and all 

those who have achieved great 

feats in governance, and in business. 

Last year, a female medical 

student of Kwame Nkrumah 

University of Science and Technology, 

Fathia Karim, swept 13 

out of the 15 academic awards 

on offer; no such victory could 

have happened a few decades 

ago, a testimony that we have 

come far. 

I will like to repeat myself, 

here, that, in all of these, I have 

never overcome the trauma of 

learning, that, there was in this 

country a nursing mother, who 

was also a High Court Judge, Cecelia 

Koranteng-Addow and was 

murdered in the most difficult 

circumstances. I might have been 

too young to know what happened, 

but I have always avoided 

being able to read this history, in 

whatever the form it comes, 

whenever I have encountered it 

Georgina Wood, a woman who was supposed to have been the fourth 

most powerful person in the country, rather became the lowest commodity 

on the lips of people whose only claim to fame was political patronage; 

they had nothing, but for the irresponsible application of power. 

in any literature; that we, as a nation, 

Ghana, superintended over 

the killing of a nursing mother, 

that we took her away while she 

was nursing her baby, and slaughtered 

her, slitting her throat as 

her cold blood poured. 

How did this happen? That 

we snatched away a breast-feeding 

mother, from the love of her 

baby; the baby cried while the 

mother was going through the 

red hot bread knife; we all 

watched, stroke up, stroke down, 

stroke up, stroke down, as the 

knife paced through the 

stretched throat, and as she 

shook under the oppressors’ 

fists, trying to escape from the 

clutches of the men who held 

her down, and when we were 

done cutting into her, we celebrated 

as the blood spilled. 

Anyway, we finally had a 

woman Chief Justice, Justice 

Georgina Wood, but we all lined 

up to insult her, with some sharp 

teeth threatening her with rape. 

The Montie 3 shame still lives 

with us, Salifu Maase, Ako Gunn, 

Alistair Nelson, and (add Oti 

Bless) are still reigning as kings 

in this country. 

Georgina Wood, a woman 

who was supposed to have 

been the fourth most powerful 

person in the country, rather 

became the lowest commodity 

on the lips of people whose 

only claim to fame was political 

patronage; they had nothing, 

but for the irresponsible 

application of power. 

We did not learn any lesson 

from what happened to Justice 

Koranteng-Addow. That incident 

did not inspire us to give higher 

punishment to those rotten 

minds. Rather we freed the lunatics 

to humiliate the only female 

Chief Justice we had, and 

we put them on our campaign 

platforms, to campaign for us, to 

get us more votes; the deserving 

result is what we got, a defeat 

that looked as though even the 

gods voted. 

The President, Nana Akufo- 

Addo, recently predicted that a 

woman will, one day, become the 

President of Ghana. Of course 

this is an easy prediction to 

make, that before the world 

comes to an end, a woman shall 

become President. The question 

is, how soon? Do you think a 

woman can soon become the 

President of Ghana, when we 

have militarised our elections? 

Who are the winners of the 

big contracts in this country? 

Who are the front-liners of corruption 

in this country? Who are 

those in possession of guns, and 

money? Who are those in control 

of the unemployed illiterate idle 

youth in this country? 

I will like to see Nana Oye 

Lither becoming the President of 

the Republic. I will like to see Ursula 

Owusu-Ekuful becoming 

the President of Ghana, and I 

have said this many times, that I 

have no doubt that Ezenator 

Rawlings will become the President 

of Ghana. 

But first we will have to remove 

the bottlenecks. It is not 

enough to implement a free Senior 

High School programme, and 

expect that all is well with 

women equality. Yes, it creates 

equal access, and equal opportunities, 

but it does not remove the 

bribes that women are forced to 

pay at the Registrar General’s Department, 

it does not remove the 

bribes that women would not be 

able to afford to pay to public officials, 

for which reason they 

would not secure that contract. 

I will not ask government to 

distribute free money, to empower 

women, no! But I believe 

if we solve the problem of public 

corruption, women would feel 

comfortable doing business, and 

earning their own income. If we 

abolish the Azorka and the Invisible 

thugs from our politics, 

women will believe in the security 

system, and would put themselves 

forward for elections. 

We say congratulations to the 

two gallant women who stood 

for the nation, and won this 

ITLOS victory, and saved us this 

good money. The one way to secure 

the integrity of the opportunities 

we are all given, and to 

ensure that women stood the 

chance to become President of 

Ghana, probably in honor of 

Gloria and Marietta, is to insulate 

this $49 billion money from the 

greedy eyes of your men, and to 

secure a leveling playing field for 

all the participating stakeholders, 

regardless of gender and political 

affiliations.

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WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 

BY ABIGAIL ASARE 

My absence has 

caused the influx of 

'Kumkum Bhagya' and 

others — Agya Koo 

KUMAWOOD 

ACTOR, Kofi 

Adu popularly 

known in the 

movie industry 

as Agya Koo 

has indicated that the influx of 

foreign telenovelas in the country 

is a result of his absence 

from acting allowing the foreign 

material to gain prominence 

and popularity among 

Ghanaians. 

Speaking in an interview on 

Accra-based Adom TV, the 

actor stated that it was wrong 

for his fellow actors and actresses 

to blame the dwindling 

fortunes of the Ghana movie 

industry on the influx of the 

translated telenovelas. 

He explained that telenovelas 

existed during the days he 

was into active acting yet he 

was able to keep movie lovers 

spellbound with his impeccable 

acting prowess. 

He added that every movie 

he featured in was good and 

many people loved his acting 

because of the comedy he was 

noted to express. 

He, therefore, blamed the 

sudden attention Ghanaians 

were giving to foreign telenovelas 

on the fact that he was no 

more into active movie-acting. 

Many industry players including 

Yvonne Nelson and 

popular faces from Kumawood 

like Nana Ama McBrown and 

Vivian Jill Lawrence have all 

put in their displeasure with 

the failing fortunes of the 

movie industry. 

Actress Yvonne Nelson has 

over the last month even embarked 

on a campaign to garner 

signatures to prove a point 

that the movie industry needed 

•Agya Koo, 

actor 

to be ‘revived’. 

Many television stations 

have taken it upon themselves 

to air foreign telenovelas which 

have been translated into the 

local twi dialect and some of 

the actors and actresses in 

Ghana are protesting against 

them. 

The most popular among 

the lot is an Indian telenovela 

aired on Adom TV titled 

Kumkum Bhagya. 

GH¢2m Fund… 

We spent 

GH¢1.6m on 

research, music 

festival — Obour 

THE PRESIDENT of the 

Musicians Union of Ghana 

(MUSIGA) Bice Osei Kuffuor 

popularly known as Obour has 

revealed that a whopping 

GHC800, 000.00 was spent to 

conduct a comprehensive 

study on Ghana’s music industry. 

He also revealed that another 

GHc800, 000.00 was also 

spent on the first edition of 

the Ghana music festival. 

“We received one million 

first and [with] this one million, 

part [of it] commissioned 

the study into the music sector. 

Out of the entire 2 million 

about 800, 000.00 was spent on 

the study. The study was 

done by KPMG…a 

comprehensive 

study of the 

music sector,” 

Obour told 

‘Morning 

Starr’ host 

Francis 

Abban 

Thursday. 

He continued 

that 

“about another 

GHC800, 000.00 

was spent on the 

first Ghana music 

week festival…which we accounted 

for and it was out 

there in the public.” 

Obour also dismissed 

claims that he has misapplied 

monies meant for the welfare 

of other musicians. 

The award-winning musician 

has been described as 

greedy and a failure on several 

occasions. 

But the ‘Konkontibaa’ hitmaker 

said allegations of 

greed are baseless and a deliberate 

attempt by his opponents 

to malign him. 

He stated that the music industry 

has seen enormous 

transformation during his 

tenure. 

•Bice Osei Kuffuor, 

president of 

MUSIGA 

Tourism Ministry outdoors Ambassadors 

THE MINISTRY of Tourism, 

Arts and Culture has outdoored 

its Tourism Ambassadors. 

The event which took place at 

Tamale in the Northern region 

on Wednesday, September 27 

marked World tourism Day. 

A total of 50 personalities 

were selected including Okyeame 

Kwame, Reggie & Bolie, Daddy 

Lumba, Sarkodie, Fuse ODG, 

Dada KD, Nana Kwame Ampadu. 

Sector minister, Catherine 

Afeku and her deputy, Dr Ziblim 

Barri Iddi gave the ambassadors 

a smock each. 

The significance is to show 

the world that these ambassadors 

Wear Ghana everywhere 

they are and is a gesture to also 

remind them of their responsibility 

to continuously make 

Ghana proud. 

The unveiling of these personalities 

follows the launch of 

the “See Ghana, Eat Ghana, 

Wear Ghana and Feel Ghana” 

campaign a few months ago, to 

promote tourism, arts and culture 

for national development.



PRESIDENT NANA Addo 

Dankwa Akufo-Addo has 

paid tribute to one of the 

legends of the ages at an 

event held in celebration of 

the academic life and 

achievements of Emeritus Professor 

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia. 

According to President Akufo- 

Addo, “one runs out of adjectives trying 

to describe this noble Ghanaian. A 

few come readily to mind, though – 

composer, ethnomusicologist, writer, 

scholar, instrumentalist, and, above all, 

Ghanaian patriot.” 

He noted that Emeritus Prof. J.H. 

Nketiah’s work in the field of music 

has been globally acknowledged. 

“Indeed, such has been his impact 

that, today, his concept and interpretation 

of time and rhythmic patterns in 

Ghanaian, and other African, folk 

music have become the standard for 

music scholars around the world, 

complementing that of another 

Ghanaian musical legend, Ephraim 

Amu, who, coincidentally, was his 

mentor. Such is the quality of the man 

we are celebrating today,” he added. 

President Akufo-Addo made this 

known on Wednesday, 27th September, 

2017, when he participated in a 

festival celebrating the academic life 

and achievements of Emeritus Prof. 

J.H. Nketia, at the Banquet Hall of the 

State House. 

Touting the achievements of Prof. 

H.H. Nketia, the President noted that 

they are worth celebrating “because 

they give us formidable cultural capital 

to fortify our unique African identity, 

forge a great Ghanaian nation, and 

pursue our historic pan-African vocation. 

His life’s work is a great message 

for the youth, that the sky is the limit 

• Legends were 

honoured at the 

event 

Legend of 

Ages celebrated 

for anyone who wants to work hard.” 

The President continued, “This 

celebration also affords us the opportunity 

to apply Emeritus Professor 

Nketia’s ideas to nation building. He 

has given us the gilded marbles, retrieved 

from the past, and it is our 

duty to incorporate them in the architecture 

of our culture and national 

identity, going forward.” 

Prof. J.H. Nketia’s life’s experiences, 

he added, point to the crucial 

significance of education. 

“Education, as we all know, is the 

equaliser of opportunity. At this juncture 

in our nation’s history, broad access 

to education is vital if we are to 

transform our economy from one dependent 

on the production and export 

of raw materials to a value-added, industrialised 

one. 

That is the rationale of the free 

Senior High School policy. It is meant 

to ensure that the doors of education, 

at least up to the end of senior high 

school, are open to all, irrespective of 

the circumstances of birth. An educated 

workforce is our surest bet of 

ensuring the progress and prosperity 

of our nation,” he said. 

Touching on inclusive education, 

which has been stressed through the 

years by Professor J.H Nketia, the 

President noted that “this is the reasoning 

behind the learning of Ghanaian 

and African history, our cultures, 

oral traditions, festivals, languages, 

folklore, dance and music, amongst 

others.” 

Education that seeks to apply local 

knowledge to foreign ones, as advocated 

by Emeritus Professor Nketia, 

according to the President, is what 

Ghana needs at this point of globalisation, 

where holistic cultures and 

identities play key roles in how to navigate 

the challenges posed by globalisation. 

“Education, which combines performing 

arts, such as music, and the 

humanities, is what will define our 

identity and cohesiveness as Ghanaians,” 

he said. 

President Akufo-Addo was confident 

that if the nation applies the 

works of Professor Emeritus Nketia 

in helping to reclaim the past, in order 

to nourish the present and to seize the 

future, “we shall be further emboldened 

to construct a modern, democratic 

nation based on equity, respect, 

and inclusion. We will then build a 

new Ghanaian civilization, a Ghana 

beyond aid, a new flowering of 

Ghanaian art and culture.” 

Antoine Mensah named in Top 30 Under 30 Future of Ghana 

HOST OF Route 919 

and Programme Manager 

of Live 91.9FM, 

Antoine Mensah has 

been named in the 2017 

list of Top 30 Under 30 

Future of Ghana. 

•Antoine Mensah, 

Programme Manager 

of Live FM 

Friday,September 22, 2017 saw 

the long-awaited release of the 

2017 Future of Ghana publication. 

The no.1 online publication 

for young Ghanaian professionals 

is back with its third edition 

packed full with some of the 

most relevant contents for our 

generation. 

Take a look inside and meet 

the precocious Fencing talent that 

is UK-based Yasmine Fosu fighting 

for Ghana a level playing field. 

You will also find intimate exclusive 

interviews from contemporary 

self-taught artist Sarah 

Owusu and the founder 

of Vitae London, 

William Adoasi. 

Following 

the release 

Top 30 U30 

list back in 

March, revealed 

a diverse 

range 

of talent, 

pioneers 

and 

changemakers 

from 

Ghana and 

the diaspora. 

There was 

strong representation 

from countries in 

the diaspora such as the 

UK, Canada, and the USA. This 

year’s Top 30 list also saw an even 

split between genders for the first 

time ever. 

Among the pioneers included 

were Koby ‘Posty’ Hagan founder 

of UK Urban Entertainment platform 

GRM 

Daily , Ghana 

based digital entrepreneur and 

founder of the Circumspect platform 

Jemila Abdulai and of 

course rising fencing star Yasmine 

Fosu to name but a few, whom 

you can all read about in this publication. 

The Third edition of the publication 

will transcend stereotypes, 

highlighting the unsung contributions 

of future leaders to Ghana’s 

development driving the conversation 

around Ghana’s future development 

in this diamond jubilee 

year of Independence. 

‘Me Firi Ghan’a annually produce 

the Future of Ghana publication 

which celebrates 

excellence by recognising the Top 

30 under 30 talent of Ghanaian 

descent, pioneering in industries 

around the world. The publication 

also features forward thinking articles 

highlighting key industries, 

innovators and organizations visions 

for Ghana and Africa. 

The Publication is the beginning 

and one that we hope will act 

as a catalyst to encourage greater 

youth participation with the development 

of Ghana whilst also 

act as a visual source of inspiration 

for the emerging generation 

and a talent resource for investors 

and organizations. 

Tourism Ministry 

outdoors 

Ambassadors 

THE MINISTRY of Tourism, Arts 

and Culture has outdoored its Tourism 

Ambassadors. 

The event which took place at Tamale 

in the Northern region on Wednesday, 

September 27 marked World tourism 

Day. 

A total of 50 personalities were selected 

including Okyeame Kwame, Reggie 

& Bolie, Daddy Lumba, Sarkodie, 

Fuse ODG, Dada KD, Nana Kwame 

Ampadu. 

Sector minister, Catherine Afeku and 

her deputy, Dr Ziblim Barri Iddi gave the 

ambassadors a smock each. 

The significance is to show the world 

that these ambassadors Wear Ghana 

everywhere they are and is a gesture to 

also remind them of their responsibility 

to continuously make Ghana proud. 

The unveiling of these personalities 

follows the launch of the “See Ghana, 

Eat Ghana, Wear Ghana and Feel 

Ghana” campaign a few months ago, to 

promote tourism, arts and culture for national 

development.

DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Sports 


Ghana to participate 

in 2017 FIBA 

3X3 Africa Cup 

•Romario of Brazil 

Footvolley Association 

of Ghana to be launched 

BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH 

THE PUBLIC Relations 

Officer of 

Footvolley Association 

of Ghana 

(GFVA), Aglago 

Wonder Sitsofe, 

has said that on Saturday, October 

21, 2017, the sport would 

be launched at the Accra Sports 

Stadium Media Centre. 

Mr Sitsofe told the DAILY 

HERITAGE in Accra last 

Thursday that the launch would 

be done by Mr Luis Gomez 

from the United States of 

America, who is an executive 

member of the Federation International 

of Footvolley 

(FIFV). 

He said the sport, which is 

new in Ghana and Africa as a 

whole, was introduced in the 

country in August 2015. 

According to him, the association 

has used the two-year 

period to do some strategic 

planning on how to develop 

the sport to attract young and 

able Ghanaians as the country 

is now a member of FIFV. 

Mr Sitsofe said footvolley is 

currently being played at the 

University of Education, Winneba 

in the Central Region on 

an artificial court and some 

parts of Greater Accra on the 

beaches. 

“Footvolley is played on the 

beach and where there are no 

beaches, we create an artificial 

court so everybody can also 

participate. It is not only limited 

to only those from the 

coastal belt,” he said. 

He continued that the association 

would adopt beach soccer 

arena at Laboma or Borla 

Beach behind the Black Stars 

Square for their matches in 

Accra. 

The PRO said the sport is 

less expensive but it would take 

an individual some agility, 

•From (L-R) Officials of GFVA, Agyeman-Mireku Emmanuel, deputy organiser, Aglago 

Wonder Sitsofe, PRO, Samira Mensah, assistant secretary and 

Abdul Karim Salis, Organiser. PHOTO: Maxwell Osei 

stamina and endurance to succeed 

in it as it requires a lot of 

training. 

According to him, they 

would use the sport as their 

contribution to help clear the 

filth on the beaches of Ghana 

and replant coconut trees 

there. 

“We are collaborating with 

a non-governmental organisation 

Clean Beach Ghana, and 

the elders and people along the 

beaches to make sure that our 

beaches are rid of plastic waste 

and human excreta,” he said. 

The authorities in charge of 

the sports, who are mostly university 

students, said they 

formed the association and 

brought the sports to Ghana 

because of the passion and 

love they had for it. 

“We did not form this sport 

association because of money 

and travelling opportunities 

but rather to help contribute 

our quota to the development 

of Ghana sports,” he stated. 

Footvolley would become 

the 45th sporting discipline in 

Ghana should their application 

to be recognised as an association 

or federation is accepted 

by the National Sports Authority 

and the Ghana Olympic 

Committee. 

What is footvolley? 

Footvolley is a sport practised 

by two teams of two players 

each in a block of sand in 

either sides of the field with a 

net as the dividing line. The ball 

can be hit with any part of the 

body, except the hand, the arm 

and the forearm. A team is entitled 

to hitting the ball three 

times to send it off to the opposing 

field. A player is not allowed 

to hit the ball twice 

consecutively. 

The inventor 

It was invented by Octavio 

de Moraes in 1965 in Rio de 

Janeiro’s Copacabana, Brazil. 

The sport combines field rules 

that are based on those of 

beach volleyball with ball-touch 

rules taken from association 

soccer. 

Famous players 

in footvolley 

In recent years, professional 

football players have 

taken up footvolley in both 

promotional events and 

celebrity matches. Some notable 

Brazilian footballers 

who have played (or still play) 

footvolley are Romario, Edmundo, 

Ronaldo, Ronaldinho 

Gaucho, Junior and Edinho. 

First international 

footvolley tournament 

The first International 

Footvolley event to occur outside 

of Brazil was in 2003 by 

the United States Footvolley 

Association on Miami Beach 

at the 2003 Fitness Festival. 

This event led to international 

players and teams in pursuit of 

federation statuses. 

International rules 

Points are awarded if the 

ball hits the ground in the opponents’ 

court, if the opponents 

commit a fault, or if they 

fail to return the ball over the 

net. Scoring is done using the 

rally point system. Match scoring 

is usually up to the event organizer's 

discretion. Generally 

speaking matches are one set to 

18 points; or best of three sets 

to 15 points (with third set to 

11 points). The court is 29.5 

feet x 59 ft (old beach volleyball). 

The height of the net 

varies based on the competition. 

The Official International 

Rule for the net height set is 2.2 

meters or 7 feet 2 inches for the 

men's competition. For the 

women's competition, the 

height of the net should be set 

at 2 meters or 6 feet 6 inches. 

BY ANNETTE S. 

YEBOAH 

•The selected ballers 

for the trip to Togo 

GHANA BASKET- 

BALL senior team has 

been invited to participate 

in this year’s 

Fédération Internationale 

de Basketball 

(FIBA) 3X3 Africa 

Cup to be staged in 

Togo in November 

2017. 

The invitation was 

Ghana’s second time of 

participating in the 

event due to itsimpressive 

performance at 

last year’s edition in 

Nigeria where the male 

team placed third and 

the women fourth. 

The FIBA 3X3 coordinator 

of Ghana, 

Mr James Kwame 

Ocloo, told the 

DAILY HER- 

ITAGE in Accra on 

Friday that 10 African 

countries had the opportunity 

to be selected 

for the 

competition which 

would start from Friday, 

November 3, 

2017, to Sunday, November 

5, 2017 in 

Togo. 

He said the participating 

teams are host 

nation Togo, Ghana, 

Nigeria, Kenya, 

Uganda, Madagascar, 

La Cote d’ Ivoire, Angola, 

Egypt and 

Tunisia. 

Mr Ocloo said some 

ballers from the various 

basketball clubs in 

Accra had been selected 

for camping and 

training at Kawukudi 

in Accra with the 

Ghana Basketball Association 

vice president, 

Mr Ayambire 

Iddrisu Gamelmis, as 

the facilitator. 

The eight selected 

ballers, made up of 

four males and females, 

moved to camp on 

Monday, September 25, 

2017, and have since 

been preparing intensively 

to keep them in 

tune for the three-day 

competition in Togo. 

The coordinator 

said the entire team 

would depart Ghana 

on Saturday, November 

2, 2017, and added 

that their aim was to 

return to the country 

with the trophy. 

He said they were 

not scared of the stiff 

competition they 

would meet from 

Nigeria and Angola 

who are Africa’s best 

when it comes to basketball 

on the continent. 

According to him, 

each player will be allowed 

75 seconds and 

three attempts per 

round to complete a 

dunk with the first successful 

dunk being 

considered as the valid 

one. 

He said dunks 

would be graded 0 or 5 

to 10 by each member 

of a jury composing of 

five people.

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