Daily Heritage November 10

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THE KWAHU Cattle Ranching
Control Committee has so far
registered 24,377 cattle owned by 225
difrerent owners operating in the
Kwahu Affram Plains Area.
The committee was set up by the
Kwahu Traditional Council to
spearhead a ranching programme to
help find lasting solution to the
perennial deadly clashes between
Fulani nomads and farmers in the
area.
The committee has identified four
fodder banks on a total land area of
2,269 acres at Wawase, Folie Folie,
Amankwaa and Memfankye, where the
cattle will be moved. The committee
also wants the government to support
the creation of six additional fodder
banks in the area.
Addressing the Eastern Regional
Security Council (REGSEC) at the
Abene Chief Palace, Project Manager
of the Committee, Zeinu Baba, said
the cattle population is envisaged to
increase as many are yet to register
while those who registered underdeclared
for fear of being taxed but
with awareness of the motive, most
cattle owners are willing to register.
The Kwahumanhene, Daasebre
Akuamoah Agyapong II, called on
the government to provide funding
support to the Traditional Council to
create more fodder banks to relocate
all cattle in the area to the fodder
banks to end the over a decade-old
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Fulani herdsmen menace…
Kwahu T/Council
registers 24,377 cattle
BY KOJO ANSAH
deadly clashes between Fulani nomads
and farmers.
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr
Eric Kwakye Darfuor, said the
government had commissioned
National Ranching Project Committee
membership drawn from stakeholder
groups, including the Ministries of
Food and Agriculture, Interior,
Foreign Affairs and Regional
Integration, and Inner City and Zongo
Development; National Security;
professionals in the cattle industry;
and the Ghana National Association
of Cattle Farmers, to come up with a
national policy that will remedy the
menace.
REGSEC has meanwhile asked
inhabitants of the affected
communities to remain calm as
security is intensified in their
communities and called on all who
have deserted their homes to return.
At a stakeholders meeting held at
the Kwahu East District Assembly, the
farmers blamed the police in the area
for failure to arrest nomads who
destroy their acres of farm, which
emboldens the herdsmen to engage in
more atrocities.
The renewed clashes in the area led
to the death of 10 people. At least
four have suffered gunshot wounds
and 163 displaced in 12 communities.
Schools and health facilities have also
been closed down.
No arrest has been made so far,
but 85 police personnel have since
been dispatched to the affected
communities to restore law and order.
THE AKYEM Maase
Methodist Junior High
School (JHS) in the East
Akyem Municipality of
the Eastern Region has
been closed down
temporarily following an attack on one
of the teachers.
The teacher, Patrick Brako, was
attacked in the staff common room by
his assailant identified as Kwasi John,
who broke into the staff common
room to inflict machete wounds on the
forehead of the teacher.
The situation would have been
deadly but for the swift rescue by
colleague teachers.
The cause of the attack has not
been established yet, but sources
believe it may have a link to
disagreement over electricity bill.
The victim lodged a complaint at
the police station, where a medical
form was issued. The victim was
subsequently treated and discharged.
A teacher in the school, in an
interview, said some residents in the
community are notorious for attacks on
teachers.
He said just this year a man stormed
Maase Presbyterian School to whip a
female teacher with cane because the
teacher had punished his child.
He said the case was reported to the
police and the accused was fined.
The teachers say they feel unsafe to
be in school following the latest
incident, hence the closure.
Police sources confirming the
incident said, “As I speak with you
now, all the teachers are with me here
(police station); some are going to
provide evidence to the police, so we
cannot keep the pupils in the school. I
know that a similar incident has also
happened in this same community.”
Meanwhile, the Circuit Supervisor,
Mr K. Akoto has visited the school to
commiserate with the teachers to
ensure that justice is served.
Meanwhile the accused, Kwasi John,
was yesterday remanded in prison
custody at Koforidua by the Akyem
Tafo District Magisrate’s Court, where
he had pleaded not guilty to the charge
of causing harm.
John will reappear in court on
November 23, 2017.
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Akyem Maase Methodist JHS
shut down
BY KOJO ANSAH
• After attack on teacher
•Patrick Brako, the teacher who was attacked
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GIPS launches
code of ethics
and conduct
THE GHANA Institute of
Procurement and Supply
(GIPS) has launched a Code of
Ethics and Conduct document
for procurement professionals
and practitioners to keep
members in check.
Speaking at the launch, the
president of GIPS, Mr Collins
Agyemang Sarpong, disclosed
that the code was necessitated
to ensure that malpractices in
relation to procurement issues
were eliminated.
This, he said, would help
ensure accountability and
credibility during procurement,
particularly in the government
sector where the State had
recorded many losses due to
procurement lapses.
Many people, according to
him, take advantage of the
system when they are in charge
of procurement.
“Mother Ghana lost over
GH¢ 100 million through
various Metropolitan, Municipal
and District Assemblies’
unethical procurement practices
in 2015,” he said.
According to him, the code
would serve as a self-regulatory
framework which members
would strictly adhere to, to help
achieve strategic growth of
corporate organisations and the
country’s economy.
He said the document was
anchored on four main pillars
to, among other things, create
the right environment to ensure
competitiveness and value for
money.
It would also ensure fair and
transparent outcomes for all
procurement processes,
adherence to the effective
operation and application of
organisations, as well as client’s
procurement policies and
operating procedures, while
preventing financial loss to the
State and businesses.
Mr Sarpong said the
document was developed to
help all procurement and supply
professionals and practitioners
in both public and private
entities to live and maintain a
high standard of integrity and
probity to the benefit of their
organisations and the nation at
large.
GIPS, he said, expects all
members and practitioners to
act responsibly and within
authority to use the whistle
blowing mechanism, comply
with laws and regulations, reject
bribery, corruption and financial
loss to the state, and treat
suppliers, contractors and
consultants fairly.
Men of God converge in K’dua for 2017 Ephpatha convention
•Daasebre Akuamoah Agyapong II, the Kwahumanhene
BY KOJO ANSAH
SOME MEN of God in Ghana and others from
abroad have started trooping in to Koforidua, the
Eastern regional capital, for the 2017 Ephpatha, an
annual interdenominational programme hosted by
Prophet Albert Asihene Arjarquah, founder of
PAAM Ministry.
This year's programme started on Monday
November 6, 2017 and will end on November 26.
The men of God include Prophet Samuel
Addison, Bishop Ampiah Kwofie, Rev Dr Kwadwo
Bempah, Bishop Samuel Osei Tutu and Apostle
John Ojelede from Germany.
The annual programme, graced by prophets and
teachers of the gospel, provides sacred grounds for
believers to have supernatural encounter with God
for miracles.
Past events recorded thousands of participants,
including politicians, musicians, and actors and
He said success
could not be
achieved without
God; therefore as
everyone strived to
be successful in life,
there was the need
to be God-fearing for
“the fear of God is
the beginning of
wisdom and seeking
the kingdom of God
is the beginning of
success.”
ended with testimonies of financial
breakthrough, healings and spiritual
impartation.
As part of activities ahead of the main
event, Prophet Arjarquah led PAAM Ministry
to embark on several programmes, including
street evangelism and health walk.
Prophet Arjarquah called on Christians to
be prayerful, seek the favour and wisdom of
God and work hard to survive the fluctuating
economic conditions of the world.
He said success could not be achieved
without God; therefore as everyone strived to
be successful in life, there was the need to be
God-fearing for “the fear of God is the
beginning of wisdom and seeking the kingdom
of God is the beginning of success.”
Prophet Arjarquah called on all to
participate in the ongoing Ephpatha
programme.
• Prophet Albert Asihene Arjarquah, founder of PAAM Ministry