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WORLD
BUSINESS
Ramaphosa believes
South
Africa's President
Zuma rape
accuser
PG.04
Nine banks raise
GH¢510m syndicated
loan for
MTN
PG.10
POLITICS
SPORTS
Let’s fight
corruption by
actions –
Emile Short
PG.11
NSA Deputy General
calls for
sponsorship for
taekwondo
PG.15
Yam sellers to stage
naked demo
BY PHILIP ANTOH
Philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE YAM
SELLERS
Association
of Okaishie
Market in
the Greater
Accra Region
is appealing to the President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo to immediately call the
Metro Director of the Accra
Metropolitan Assembly (AMA),
Mr Laryea Lamptey to order or
face a naked demonstration.
According to some members
of the association who claimed to
be New Patriotic Party (NPP)
supporters, Mr Lamptey and his
men have chased them out of
where they used to sell their
products, a development that has
made them lost millions of
Ghana Cedis.
Mrs Dorcas Ofori, the leader
of the association told the
DAILY HERITAGE on Friday
that, two weeks ago, Mr
Lamptey and his men stormed
the market and forcibly ejected
them, because the government
wanted to develop the place.
She added that, two days after
• Some of the yam sellers
their eviction, the AMA ordered
the fencing of the place which
had forced them to do their business
on the shoulders of the road
putting their lives at the mercy of
moving vehicles.
Mrs Ofori said the women secured
the area 16 years ago when
the place was used as a refuse
dump adding that “We organised
ourselves and contributed money
to hire garbage collectors and
ever since then we have been selling
here until our unfortunate
eviction.”
She revealed that their
yams were rotten because
there was no space to sell
them and that prospective
buyers were afraid to stand
on the edge of the road to
buy.
“We have taken loans
from banks to buy these
yams thinking that we will
make some good sales during
the Christmas season to
settle our loans at the
• Yam sellers
banks. But per what is happening
now, some of us will end up in
court,” she stated.
The leader added that after the
incident, a delegation went to the
Mayor’s office where they met Mr
Lamptey but he vowed not to release
the place to the women to
seller their yams.
She said the Mayor then promised
to visit the site last week to
see things for himself but “As I
speak to you, he has not come.”
Mrs Ofori said the women
have resolved that if the Mayor
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Tension looms
at hospitals
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THERE IS simmering
tension within
the Ghana Registered
Nurses and
Midwives Association
(GRNMA) over what the
Coalition of Concerned Nurses
and Midwives described as illegal
increment of their dues and building
levy without recourse to them.
According to them, the leadership
at their 16th Biennial Delegates
Conference in Cape Coast
required two-thirds of their 109
delegates to form a quorum to
take such a decision but the decision
was taken without quorum.
The national president of the
Coalition of Concerned Nurses
and Midwives Justice Badam Parmaak
told the DAILY HER-
ITAGE in an interview that they
were unhappy with the decision of
the leadership and therefore made
frantic effort for them to reverse
the decision but to no avail.
According to him, beginning
January 2018 their dues will be increased
from 1.5% of their basic
salary to 2.0% while their building
levy also moves from GH¢10.00
to GH¢20.00.
He said, the members would
• Registered nurses & midwives angry
over levy, threaten court action
• Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Health Minister
either today or tomorrow petition
the National Labour Commission,
the Labour Ministry and the
GRNMA and if their petition is
not addressed, the coalition would
proceed to court to place an injunction
on its implementation
before January.
Few members pay
According to Mr Parmaak, the
leadership of the association has
failed to ensure that all registered
members pay their dues and that
has left only a few people being
over-burdened.
He added that the nurse’s fund
has also been increased from
GH¢50.00 a development they are
unhappy about.
Confusion
At the GRNMA conference
the nurses were told that they
should renew their Professional
Identification Numbers (PIN) and
that the Assisted Identification
Numbers (AIN) had expired automatically
and “whether it actually
expired or not, it demands that
every nurse renews their PIN or
AIN before the beginning of next
year, because the Nurses and Midwives
Council is introducing a
new policy from January next
year.
According to them, even members
who had not renewed their
PIN or AIN for years should pay
the usual GH¢50.00 to renew.
However, their dues and building
levy had been reviewed to 2%
from 1.5% and GH¢20.00 from
GH¢10.00
More shock
For some of the regional representatives
who were not part of
those that took the decision they
are yet “to come out of the shock!
If you were at that conference,
you would clearly appreciate the
fact that there was no voting there
to decide anything!”
According to them, “the figures
being circulated out there
were figures cooked from Accra
and brought to Cape Coast. The
conference was characterised by
threats, intimidation and suffocations.”
“Indeed, it was the worst form
of autocracy ever witnessed anywhere
in the world. The ordinary
nurse/midwife had no voice in
this conference,” the source told
the paper.
Efforts to get the president of
the GRNMA for his reaction
failed as calls directed to his telephone
lines went unanswered.
“Indeed, it
was the
worst form of
autocracy
ever witnessed
anywhere
in the
world...”
Yam sellers to stage naked demo
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fails to intervene, they
would be left with no other
option than to demonstrate
with their naked bodies
against the government to
register their protest.
One of the market
women, Mrs Evelyn Asare
said the women were suffering
because they are perceived
at the assembly as
supporters of the ruling
government.
She said that with all the
campaign the women did
for the NPP during 2016
election, “our reward is to
lose our trade to the AMA
at a time when there is no
‘aabaiyei’(AMA task
force)?”
All attempts by the
DAILY HER-
ITAGE to speak
to the AMA
Metro Director,
Mr Lamptey
proved futile.
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• The Tomioka Hachimangu shrine is famous for
a summer festival in August
'Samurai sword' attack leaves three dead at Tokyo shrine
AN ATTACK believed to have
been sparked by a succession
feud has left three people dead
at a well-known Shinto shrine
in Tokyo.
The chief priestess was
stabbed to death, reportedly by
her brother. A bloodied Samurai
sword was found at the
scene, along with other knives.
The attacker's wife also took
part in the ambush on Thursday
evening, police say, injuring
the priestess's driver.
The male attacker then
stabbed his wife to death before
killing himself.
The attack began when the
58-year-old priestess, Nagako
Tomioka, got out of her car at
the shrine and was confronted
by her brother, Shigenaga
Tomioka, 56, and his wife, said
to be in her 30s.
The wife reportedly attacked
the priestess's driver, stabbing
him with a sword. The driver
fled the scene, pursued by the
woman. Police said there was a
trail of blood down the road
but the driver's wounds were
not life-threatening. BBC
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World news in 5 stories
Ramaphosa believes South
Africa's President Zuma
rape accuser
ALEADING CON-
TENDER to replace
President Jacob
Zuma as head of
South Africa's governing
ANC has said
he believes the woman who accused
Mr Zuma of rape over a decade ago
was telling the truth.
Mr Zuma's deputy, Cyril
Ramaphosa, told a local radio station:
"Yes, I would believe her."
In 2006 Mr Zuma was found not
guilty of raping Fezekile Kuzwayo -
the daughter of an old family friend.
He said she had agreed to have
sex.
Mr Ramaphosa is competing
against Mr Zuma's ex-wife,
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to become
the leader of the ANC in a
contest starting next Saturday.
The winner of the party race will
be well placed to become the country's
new president in 2019.
There has been mixed reaction to
Mr Ramaphosa's comments about
Ms Kuzwayo's rape allegation.
Some have praised him for being
more unequivocal in his response
than rival candidate for ANC presidency
Lindiwe Sisulu.
When she was asked the same
question she responded: "I believe
• Jacob Zuma became South Africa's president three
years after he was acquitted of rape
she believes she was raped".
But many on social media have
asked why Mr Ramaphosa did not
publicly support Ms Kuzwayo when
she was alive.
There has been renewed public
interest in the rape trial, following
the release of a book detailing Ms
Kuzwayo's account of events.
In particular there has been public
anger over her alleged treatment
by members of the ruling ANC at
the time. BBC
Italian man 'poisoned family
members after joining cult’
ITALIAN POLICE have arrested
a man who allegedly
used a rat poison ingredient
to kill members of his family
because they were "impure".
Mattia Del Zotto, 27, is
accused of sprinkling the
toxic chemical thallium in the
food of his paternal grandparents
and aunt, who died.
Five other relatives are in
hospital receiving treatment.
Mr Del Zotto was detained
in the Monza, near
Milan, after police reportedly
found receipts on his computer.
After his arrest he confessed
that he had wanted to
"punish impure people", according
to prosecutors.
His mother told investigators
he had recently joined a
cult, according to local
media.
Thallium, a soft metal,
dissolves in water and is
odourless and tasteless. BBC
Brexit: 'Breakthrough' deal
paves way for future trade talks
PM THERESA May has struck
a last-minute deal with the EU
in a bid to move Brexit talks on
to the next phase.
There will be no "hard border"
with Ireland; and EU citizens
in the UK, and UK citizens
in the EU, will see their rights
protected.
The so-called "divorce bill"
will amount to between £35bn
and £39bn, Downing Street
says.
The European Commission
president said it was a "breakthrough"
and he was confident
EU leaders will approve it.
They are due to meet next
Thursday for a European Council
summit and need to give their
backing to the deal if post-
Brexit trade talks are to begin.
The UK will then have about
a year to hammer out an agreement
on future relations, which
will have to be ratified by the
EU nations and the UK Parliament,
before the UK leaves in
March 2019.
Northern Ireland's Democratic
Unionist Party, whose opposition
on Monday led to talks
breaking down, said there was
still "more work to be done" on
the border issue and how it
votes on the final deal "will depend
on its contents". Mrs May
depends on the party's support
to win key votes in Westminster.
The pound was trading at a
six-month high against the euro
as news broke of the draft
agreement. BBC
Liberia election: Court gives go ahead for run-off poll
LIBERIA'S SUPREME
Court has ruled that evidence
of fraud during October's
first round of presidential
elections was insufficient to
merit a re-run.
This means the final round
of voting between the two
leading candidates - ex-footballer
George Weah and Vice-
President Joseph Boakai - can
go ahead.
The electoral commission
will now set a date for the delayed
vote.
Liberty Party's representative
Charles Brumskine, who
came third in the first round,
had challenged the result.
The second round of voting
to succeed President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf had initially
been set for 7 November.
Liberia, which was
founded by freed US slaves in
the 19th Century, has not had
a smooth transfer of power in
73 years.
Ms Sirleaf took office in
2006, after her predecessor,
Charles Taylor, was forced out
of office by rebels in 2003,
ending a long civil war.
Taylor is currently serving
a 50-year prison sentence in
the UK for war crimes related
to the conflict in neighbouring
Sierra Leone. BBC
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Pay attention to these traders!
ON THURSDAY December 7, some
displaced traders of New Juaben in
the Eastern Region stormed the
streets and protested vehemently
against the Municipal Chef Executive
(MCE) of New Juaben. The reason
for the protest was that based on her
orders, the traders who had been selling
on the streets were being stopped.
According to the traders, the action
of the MCE had the propensity of
forcing them into engaging in commercial
sex trade (prostitution) if the
government did not give them a fitting
market place.
The traders who claimed to be predominantly
supporters of the ruling
New Patriotic Party (NPP) stormed
the streets to demonstrate against the
MCE; Mrs Comfort Asante whom
they claimed had been preventing
them from selling on the streets.
While hoisting plaque cards with
different inscriptions on them the
women were seen in red and black
dresses, with red headgear and armbands
expressing their frustration and
sentiments.
A day after, on Friday December 8,
the members of the Yam Sellers Association
of Okaishie Market in the
Greater Accra Region also raised the
red flag calling on President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to immediately
call the Metro Director of the
Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA),
Mr Laryea Lamptey to order or face a
“naked demonstration.”
The traders who identified themselves
as pro-NPP supporters said the
Metro Director and his men are harassing
them from selling at a place
that for the past 16 years had been
their market place.
Mrs Dorcas Ofori, the leader of the
association venting her spleen told the
DAILY HERITAGE that “We
have taken loans from banks to buy
these yams thinking that we will make
some good sales during the Christmas
to settle our loans at the banks. But per
what is happening now, some of us
will end up in court.”
It is interesting looking at the sequence
of events. Many would have
expected the traders from the opposition
parties to accuse the ruling government
but it is rather the opposite.
The point is that, traders desires descent
places to sell and if that does not
happen, there is always a concern. But
what is worrying again is that these
women in Accra are threatening naked
demonstration. Those in the Eastern
Region also said government is forcing
them into prostitution.
Either way the threats are not right
and they should be a source of grave
concern for the nation. Much as we at
the DAILY HERITAGE would
support good policies for traders, we
believe that such threats are uncalled
for.
It is about time we shifted from
these negative ways of demanding
from government.
Shai Osudoku MP launches
Cooperative Union
NEWS DESK REPORT
THE MEMBER of Parliament
(MP) for Shai
Osudoku, Ms Linda
Ocloo has officially
opened the Shai Osudoku
Cooperative Union in Dodowa
within the precincts of the Dodowa
Central Market in the Greater Accra
Region.
According to her, the main reason
for instituting the Cooperative Union is
to assist businessmen and women in
the constituency financially to grow
their businesses.
Ms Ocloo explained that the loan
facility has been categorised into three
folds namely, silver, diamond and gold.
She said the silver attracts a loan of
GH¢500.00, diamond GH¢1000.00 and
gold for GH¢2000.00 with 10% interest
per year.
“Each member of the group is entitled
to take the loan four times the
amount per each category,” Mrs Ocloo
added. So far, 48 groups have been
formed in the constituency as the Shai
Osudoku Cooperative Union swings
into action.
On her part, MP for the Ada Constituency,
Mrs Comfort Doryo Cudjoe
Ghansah urged beneficiaries to pay back
the loan on time.
The MP for Jirapa, Mr Francis
• A cross section of the women
Dakora commended Ms Ocloo for
coming up with such a nice initiative
to support her constituents.
The Shai Osudoku Cooperative
Union is a newly constituted non-partisan
people’s cooperative with over one
thousand registered citizens of Shai Osudoku
who are desirous of pooling
• Ms Linda Ocloo, Mp
Shai Osudoku
their
resources together to support themselves
in developing their small-scale
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GFA now wants to hire
paid officials to do the job
BY NANA BRAM OKAE
The Ghana Football
Association (GFA),
after its congress in
Cape Coast a few
weeks ago was reported
to have said
that it would soon employ fulltime
experts to do football administration
in this country.
Matches in the morning
The Association was also reported
to have said that it might
be prudent in the foreseeable future
to play league matches in the
mornings when the World Cup
Tournament gets underway in
Russia. This is to make sure
Ghanaians are given the opportunity
to watch the local league
matches and watch the World Cup
matches as well.
The GFA also came out with a
plan indicating that the 2017/2018
league will start somewhere in January
2018 and end God-knowswhen
later in 2018. How awkward!
There was a fourth issue after
the congress. The President of the
Association descended heavily on
sports writers and commentators
and accused them of running
football aground in this country.
Laughable
This is laughable, though. It’s
very similar to what we say in our
local parlance: if you cannot carry
the load, don’t blame the pad on
your head because the pad has
done nothing. I can’t see how reporting
on football issues, however
negative it may be, can have
effect on good refereeing in the
country; on provision of good
pitches at league centres; on playing
games strictly according to the
time schedules; on paying coaches
promptly; on making football attractive
to the fans, among many
other things.
Albatross
Frankly speaking, the GFA,
under its current dispensation, is a
huge albatross on the neck of
most Ghanaians and the earlier
they leave the scene the better it
will be for themselves and Ghana
soccer as a whole.
Interest in Ghanaian football
has so gone down the drain that
most Ghanaians cannot mention
the names of the players of Accra
Hearts of Oak; nor of Kotoko;
nor of Ashgold and several other
teams that recently came onto the
scene.
Instead, mention Chelsea and a
six year old Ghanaian boy can tell
you the names of all the players
and even the wives of those of
them who are married. They can
do the same for Manchester
United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Bayern
Munich, Real Madrid, Barcelona
and all the European teams in the
various leagues.
Vote with feet
Why is this so? The answer is
obvious. Ghanaians have voted
with their feet when it comes to
football in this country. At least,
that is the position now; it
may change in the near future
but for now this is what
we have on our hands.
Ghanaians no longer go
to our national football stadia
to watch our local players
in action but elect to go to
pay to watch European
teams playing and place a bet
too on them. What can be
more appetizing than this to
them?
And this is because our
league is not well planned
and implemented. Unlike
other leagues which go the
full haul till end of May or
thereabouts, our league
doesn’t start and end according
to the scheduled programme.
Our league suffers from
intermittent suspensions, intermittent
truncations, unnecessary
litigations and
what have you. So, before
the league comes to an end
real interest in the Ghanaian
game has died off.
• Kwesi Nyantakyi, GFA Boss
Ghanaians no
longer go to our
national football
stadia to watch our
local players in action
but elect to go
to pay to watch European
teams playing
and place a bet
too on them. What
can be more appetizing
than this to
them?
League
The 2016/2017 league in
Ghana came to a close in October
2017 when others had completed
their long before in May and have
started the 2017/2018 league in
earnest. But, in our case, the
2017/2018 league will start in January
2018. Obviously, we are
sleeping on the job. And you don’t
want anybody to say something
about this? How?
You can’t execute football administration
this way and expect
good results. Yet, there are examples
throughout the world to follow.
Why are we not following the
good things in the world concerning
football?
Experts
By agreeing to employ experts
to run Ghana football, the GFA is
tacitly admitting that it has come
to the end of the road and they
need help from those who can run
the show better.
I have my doubts however,
about this proposition. The President
says they may hire 3 experts
to do the administration for them
and pay them.
Pay
Well, how much are they
going to pay them for this job?
We have experiences of coaches
and other football officials not
getting paid for months and one
wonders where the GFA is going
to get money this time around to
pay these experts when engaged.
These experts have to be provided
with official vehicles; they
have to be given accommodation;
their SSNIT contribution
has to be honoured and I expect
that the positions envisaged will
attract not less than Ghc16, 000
a month.
Is the GFA in a position to
get this a month for these future
possible employees?
GFA members
This current crop of GFA
members should have left the
scene long ago and one doesn’t
know what is keeping them there
all this while with nothing to
show since the Black Stars qualified
for the World Cup in Germany
in 2006.
If you look at the tenures of
past presidents, you will notice
something very bizarre currently
going on. Mr Nyaho Nyaho-
Tamakloe exited when his time
was due. Then came the late Ben
Kwofie, who was very much into
youth development as far as football
was concerned because he
said we should have started from
there.
He exited when his time was
due without any qualms.
However, when the current
crop of GFA officials were to exit
in 2008 they advanced a phoney
argument that the World Cup in
South Africa was at hand in 2010
so they should be allowed to remain
in office to oversee the exploits
of the Black Stars who had
qualified again to be in the tournament.
Constitution
For this reason, while we were
looking elsewhere they changed
the GFA constitution to allow
them to stay longer than the previous
constitution stipulated and
this has been our albatross ever
since.
The GFA is talking of playing
matches in the mornings when the
World Cup kicks off in Russia. I
read some of the comments made
on the net about this idea and they
were not pleasant at all.
Who is going to play morning
matches and who is going to
watch morning matches? Is it Saturday
morning or Sunday morning?
It’s obvious that deep thought
didn’t go into this proposition and
it’s clear that it’s an empty proposition.
Empty stands
Already the stands are empty at
afternoon matches and it’s likely
they will be emptier at morning
matches. Who will abandon everything
he is doing to go and watch
a football match in the morning?
This idea won’t wash for a second.
They should cancel it failing which
they will meet their waterloo at
morning matches.
There is a lot that the current
GFA can do to put the smiles back
on the faces of Ghanaian football
fans because things are not gelling
for now. It’s obvious though that
they have run out of steam and
they are hanging on to power at
their own detriment. It’s better to
quit while the ovation is loudest.
No need following the footsteps
of Sepp Blatter and Issah Hayatou.

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Tits bits of healthy lifestyle
• Wake up early– wake up early in
the morning so that you can start your
day early and earn as much as you can
from it. Relax for a moment and plan
your day ahead and accordingly.
• Regular bowel habits– having
your bowel movements regular helps
our body to eliminate all the toxins.
• Diet- “Eat breakfast like a king,
lunch like a prince and dinner like a
pauper. It means that you should start
your day by eating heavier and healthy
breakfast and as the day progresses,
eat lighter so that the body carries out
its metabolism smoothly.
• Workplace– whether a housewife
or a working women, enjoy your
work- be it anything. It helps to release
good hormones like serotonin,
dopamine, serotonin and
phenylethamine which help to elevate
the mood and feel happy.
• Find time for yourself- Besides
work, pursue some hobbies and also
find time for yourself. Do activities
which you like and be absolute yourself
in this time.
• Exercises- A good amount of
work out is essential or the body to
have a good metabolism.
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98-yr old surgeon urges
doctors to be patriotic
BY WILLIAM SARPONG
STILL EXHIBITING intelligence
like a young
medical student, 98-yearold
medical Surgeon, Dr
Emmanuel Evans-
Anfom, has tasked medical
professionals both home and
abroad to be patriotic and serve
Ghana to the best of their ability.
Dr Evans-Anfom made this appeal
when students and management
of Family Health University
College Medical School, led by Professor
Yao Kwawukume and Dr
Susu Bridget Kwawukume, paid him
a visit at his residence in Accra.
Dr Evans-Anfom disclosed that
he happened to have attended
school with one of the brilliant uncles
of Prof. Kwawukume, so when
he got to know that Prof.
Kwawukume had established a medical
school, he said to himself “Students
in this school are indeed
blessed”.
Sharing his experience with the
medical students, Dr Evans-Anfom
indicated that, doctors are good
managers, and therefore should not
think that apart from their profession,
they cannot do well in any
other sectors.
He recounted going to study
abroad as a doctor, and later ended
up in becoming an administrator at
KUNST, where he performed creditably.
He reminded the students who
are aiming to become medical professionals
that in the medical profession,
a lot of care is needed.
He thus asked them to be prepared
to learn from their seniors
whom they would likely meet outside
after completing school.
“Be humble to learn and not to
try knowing everything, he said”.
Dr Evans-Anfom further entreated
the medical students to first
aim at achieving credibility and integrity,
and not to think about their
pocket, adding that, with faith in
God they can always do the right
thing to move the nation forward.
Dr Evans-Anfom said the students
cannot achieve much if they
don’t pay serious attention to whatever
training that is imparted in
them by their lecturers and professors
at Family Health University
College Medical School.
He thus urged all medical professionals
who were privileged to be
sponsored with tax payers’ money to
be patriotic and help develop the
country.
The Founder/President of Family
Health University College, Prof.
Yao Kwawukume thanked Dr
Evans-Anfom for providing useful
counsel to the young medical students.
He assured that, with the kind of
rich managerial skills, wisdom and
experience gathered from Dr
Evans-Anfom, he would equally
apply to always ensure harmony between
management of the school
and the Students Representatives
Council.
At the end of the fruitful interactions,
Dr Susu Bridget Kwawukume
made a presentation of food and
other items to Dr Evans-Anfom and
wife, as a sign of appreciation for
the honour done them, and asked
God to grant them good health and
long life.
Early life and education
Dr. Evans-Anfom, a Ga-Dangme,
was born on October 7, 1919
at the Evans family house, High
Street, Accra.
His father, William Quarshie
Anfom, was of Shai and Nzema origin.
His mother, Mary Evans, was
the daughter of William Timothy
Evans, a teacher cum catechist of
the Basel Mission Middle School,
now the Salem School at Osu.
The Evans family was a wellknown
Euro-African Ga family in
the Gold Coast. In 1925, he enrolled
at the Government Boys School in
Jamestown.
He attended the Presbyterian
middle boarding school, the Salem
School at Osu, where the principal
at the time, Carl Henry Clerk, encouraged
him to apply for a Cadbury
Scholarship to study at
Achimota School, instead of going
to the normal teacher-training route
at the Basel Mission-founded Presbyterian
teacher training seminary at
Akropong, now known as the Presbyterian
College of Education,
Akropong.
In January 1939, he enrolled in
the Inter-preliminary Medical
Course of Science at Achimota. In
that course, he received advanced
training in physics, chemistry, botany
and zoology.
At Achimota, he won a Gold
Coast medical scholarship in 1941 to
study medicine at the University of
Edinburgh, graduating in 1947.
He also studied for a postgraduate
diploma course in tropical medicine,
completing in 1950.
•Dr Emmanuel Evans-Anfom sitting 4th from right in the front roll
Medical career and
professorship
Evans-Anfom worked in various
hospitals in the government health
system, namely Korle-Bu Teaching
Hospital, Dunkwa-On-Offin Government
Hospital, Tarkwa Government
Hospital, the Kumasi Central
Hospital, Tamale Government Hospital
and Effia Nkwanta Hospital in
Sekondi.
During his long medical career,
he worked with other medical trailblazers
such as Susan Ofori-Atta
and Matilda J. Clerk, the first and
second Ghanaian women physicians
respectively.
A pioneering medical educator
himself, he was approached by the
first Ghanaian surgeon, Charles
Odamtten Easmon in 1963, for a
teaching professorship position at
the then newly established University
of Ghana Medical School, an
offer he eventually accepted.
He also did medical outreach in
the Congo in the 1960s. In 1996, he
was adjudged the “Alumnus of the
Year” by his alma mater, the University
of Edinburgh for “his major
contribution to the development of
medicine in the Congo and to medical
education in Ghana.”
Term as Vice Chancellor
Dr Evans-Anfom served as the
Vice-Chancellor of KNUST from
1967 to 1973.
At KNUST, Dr Evans-Anfom
first introduced the ceremony commonly
known as “Matriculation”
into the university entry ceremonies.
He has chaired a myriad of committees,
boards and missions, both locally
and on the international scene
in Africa, Europe and North America.
Commissioner of
Education
Dr Evans-Anfom served as the
Commissioner of Education under
the military governments of Fred
Akuffo of the Supreme Military
Council, and later, the Jerry John
Rawlings led Provisional National
Defence Council in the late 1970s
and early 1980s. He was a member
of the Council of State in the Hilla
Limann government from 1979 to
1981.
Personal life
Dr. Evans-Anfom has four children
with his first wife Leonora
Evans, a West Indian American who
died in 1980. In 1984, he married
Elise Henkel.
Selected works
To the Thirsty Land: Autobiography
of a Patriot, Africa Christian
Press, 2003
Intestinal Perforation – Some
Observations on Aetiology and
Management
The Evidence for Transformation
of Lymphocytes into Liver

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Free SHS has brought
accommodation
challenges — Headmaster
BY KOJO ANSAH, K’DUA
THE HEADMASTER of Koforidua
Secondary Technical School
(SECTEC), Mr Samuel Prince Foli has
appealed to the government to help
complete a dormitory building which
is 90% complete.
According to the school
management, the project if completed
will help ease the numerous
accommodation challenges currently
militating against the implementation
of the Free SHS policy adding that the
stalled project has brought untold
hardship on the school.
“The implementation of the Free
SHS has brought about serious
accommodation challenges on the
boarding house so if completed the
building will ease congestion at the
dormitories,” Mr Foli stated.
The headmaster made this known
during the climax of the 50th
anniversary, speech and prize giving
day of the school in Koforidua on the
theme ‘Redefining Education for
Service to Meet Current and Future
Economic Demands in Ghana.”
The school currently has a student
population of 2,448 including 69 girls.
Mr Foli said currently the school
lacks assembly hall hence the dinning
hall is being used as both assembly
and entertainment hall with frequent
movement of furniture causing
frequent breakdowns.
The Chief Executive Officer of
the National Health Insurance
Authority, Dr Samuel Yaw Annor,
called for a renewed debate on senior
high school duration for better
analysis on whether or not it should
be extended with a primary focus to
adequately equip students for the job
market.
According to him, the current
education system of Ghana needs a
paradigm shift to ensure that SHS
students get practical skills to help
resolve the issue of unemployment.
According to the
school
management, the
project if completed
will help ease the
numerous
accommodation
challenges currently
militating against
the implementation
of the Free SHS
policy adding that
the stalled project
has brought untold
hardship on the
school.
• Mr Samuel Prince Foli, the Headmaster of Koforidua SECTEC
YoHRA hosts 1st human rights conference today
THE YOUTH for Human Right
Africa (YoHRA) will today,
December 11, 2017 hold the first
ever human rights conference in
Ghana, in commemoration of this
year’s United Nations Human Rights
Day.
The event on the theme
‘Promoting Fundamental Human
Rights: A catalyst for accelerated
socioeconomic development in a free
and just society,’ will be held at the
African Regent Hotel in Accra
The conference will be attended
by about 270 confirmed human
rights activists, advocates, promoters
and ambassadors from Ghana and
other African countries as well as
some international partners to
advance the issues critical to Human
Rights on the African continent and
Ghana.
The confirmed African countries
to participate include but not limited
MTN Foundation to give
scholarship to 300 students
BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI
rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
THREE HUNDRED
university students will be
privileged to enjoy free
scholarship packages
under the sponsorship of
the MTN Foundation
Ghana, which will take effect in the 2018
academic year.
Briefing some members of the
Journalists for Business Advocacy (JBA)
in MTN House, Accra, Mrs Georgina
Asare Fiagbenu, Senior Manager of
Sustainability and Social Impact said the
scholarship will support 100 students for
three years to study free at any of the
government universities.
She hinted that the Foundation
initially wanted to support students at the
Senior High Schools but had to halt
because the government had taken that
initiative hence the option for the tertiary
schools.
Mrs Fiagbenu explained that the
criteria for the selection of the students
will be made known to the public at the
launch of the scheme in 2018.
She explained that selected students
will enjoy the package of free
accommodations, tuition and textbooks
for the course.
to Kenya, Gambia, Togo, Nigeria,
Zambia and Ethiopia.
In a release copied to the DAILY
HERITAGE, the president of
YoHRA, Mr Francis-Xavier Sosu said
the conference will enlighten
participants about human rights
education and promotion and create
a platform for networking among
human rights promoters.
The conference also seeks to
equip human rights ambassadors and
promoters in Ghana and other
countries to become more effective
national and continental human
rights ambassadors.
Mr Sosu said the conference will
create a common platform to share
experiences in human rights
promotion in Africa and also train
participants in how to develop
human rights projects among many
other benefits.
“The conference will be in two
The Foundation since its inception has
also provided scholarships through the
Teacher Improvement Award Programme
for 20 public teachers in the country to
upgrade their educational knowledge to
first degree and masters in order to help
deliver quality teaching in the educational
sector.
“It is important for us to pay greater
attention to the training and support of
our teachers so that they will constantly
update their knowledge and adopt best
practices to conform to the needs of
modern students,” Mrs Fiagbenu stated.
She explained that in the third edition
of the awards, six female and 14 male
teachers were given scholarships to
enhance their skills, which will translate
into effective teaching and learning in the
public institutions.
She urged female teachers to take
advantage of these opportunities as their
male counterparts.
“Since the inception, female
• Mr Francis-Xavier Sosu, president of YoHRA
• Flashback: The selected teachers displaying the dummy cheque for GH¢125,000.00 with some MTN
Corporate team members and the judges
participation has been low. We want to
see more women participating in capacity
building initiatives such as this,” she said.
Awards
The Senior Manager commenting on
the foundation’s award said “Every
initiative undertaken, every innovative
stride made, every award won… it’s all
geared towards making our customers’
lives a whole lot brighter, as we lead the
delivery of a bold, new digital world…”
sessions and the plenary session
would be chaired by the former
Director of Anticorruption and
Chief Investigator at CHRAJ and
Criminologist, Prof Ken Attafua, the
keynote address will be delivered by
Dr Raymond Atuguba, a Senior
Lecturer at the School of Law,
University of Ghana and the special
guest of honour is Ms Otiko Djaba,
the Minister of Gender, Children and
Social Protection,” Mr Sosu said.
He added that the leadership of
Parliament would be represented by
both the majority and minority
leaders; also in attendance are
selected personnel from the Ghana
Police Service, Ghana Prison Service,
the Ghana Armed Forces,
representative from Commission on
Human Rights and Administrative
Justice and the Commissioner of
National Commission on Civic
Education.
Some of the awards were Corporate
Philanthropist of the year Award 2017;
awarded by National Philanthropy
Excellence Awards; Safety and Well Being
Award from GHACEA; CSR 2017 :
awarded by Ghana CSR Excellence
Awards; CSR Practitioner of the year
Award: awarded by Ghana CSR
Excellence Awards; Relationship Award
for Yello Care 2017 : Awarded by MTN
Group.
The Foundation also won GITTA
CSR Company of the year -2016, by
Ghana Information Technology and
Telecoms Awards; Best CSR Company of
the Year 2016 – by Ghana CSR
Excellence Awards; National Blood
Service Highest Corporate Donor Award
2015 : by National Blood Bank; MTN
HOC as CSR Programme of the year
2015, Presidential Excellence Awards;
Otumfuo Osei Tutu Charity Special
Award for Enormous Contribution to
Teaching & Learning : by Otumfuo
Foundation; Best CSR Award for
Sustainability, Environmental and Social
Impact Award 2015 by Ghana CSR
Excellence Awards.
Others are Yello Care Integrity Award
-2015; by MTN Group; Yello Care
Innovation Award -2014; by MTN
Group; Yello Care Overall Winners
2010/2011; by MTN Group and Yello
Care WECA Regional Champions 2008;
During the presentation session,
regional ambassadors of human
rights from YoHRA as well as
chapter representatives from
University of Ghana, Mount Crest
University, Ghana Institute of
Journalism and Ghana Christian
University would briefly address
participants on various human rights
projects they are undertaking to
promote human rights in their
respective communities.
There will be brief training
sessions to be address by Dr Peter
Atupare, a Senior Lecturer at School
of Law, University of Ghana and
Deputy Director, Research and Legal
of YoHRA, Dr Angela Lamptey,
Prof. Vuckor Quarshie and many
others.
Mr Sosu said human rights
projects like Child Rights
International, Time Masters,
WILDAF, Ghana Disability Forum,
GES consoles
parents
of KUMACA
THE MANAGEMENT of
Ghana Education Service has
expressed its condolences to the
parents and families of the
students of Kumasi Academy,
popularly called KUMACA, who
have lost their lives under bizarre
circumstances in the school
recently.
In a release copied to the
DAILY HERITAGE and
signed by the Director of Public
Relations on behalf of the
Director-General, Rev. Jonathan
Bettey said the service is shocked
and saddened at the report from
Tabitha Ghana, Treasure of Life
Foundation, iDEA Africa and Street
Children Empowerment Foundation
would be present to share how they
have promoted rights through those
existing projects over the year.
YoHRA is a non-governmental
organisation registered in Ghana to
serve as a medium to promote the
observance of fundamental human
rights in Africa by the use of
national, regional, African and the
United Nations Human Rights
Instruments.
The organisation’s vision is ‘to
lead human rights promotion and
advocacy across the continent of
Africa and its mission is ‘to serve as a
medium to promote and advocate the
observance of fundamental human
rights by the use of national,
regional, African and United Nations
Human Rights Instruments.
the school.
It stated that over eleven
students had lost their lives with
over forty others hospitalised and
made to seek medical attention.
“We are, by this statement,
registering our grief over the
development and assuring all
parents and members of the
general public of our resolve to
work with other relevant agencies
and stakeholders, including
Ghana Health Service, in order to
find a lasting solution to this
unfortunate occurrence.”
“We are, by this statement, registering
our grief over the development and
assuring all parents and members of the
general public of our resolve to work with
other relevant agencies and stakeholders,
including Ghana Health Service, in order to
find a lasting solution to this unfortunate
occurrence.”

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Nine banks raise
GH¢510m syndicated
loan for MTN
BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI
Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
ECOBANK GHANA and
eight local banks have partnered
MTN Telecommunication
to sign GH¢510
million syndicated loan to
finance the latter’s infrastructure
expansion in the country.
Mr Dan Sackey, Managing Director
of Ecobank Ghana at the ceremony in
MTN House said the ceremony is a
confirmation of the willingness of the
banks to support the business of
MTN on the back of its strong operational
and financial performance.
He added that it is also to emphasise
the strong collaboration between
the banks and the telcos in driving the
digital agenda for the country.
“Financial inclusion which involves
making financial services available to
everyone is the way to go in the pursuit
of accelerated economic growth
and digitisation is one of the effective
and efficient ways by which this financial
inclusion can be achieved,” he
opined.
According to Mr Sackey, the nine
have pooled resources together to ensure
that the transaction is successfully
completed.
He said “looking forward, as our
economy grows; we expect big ticket
transactions especially in oil and gas,
and other key sectors of the economy.
The completion of this transaction
confirms the ability of our local banks
•Officials of MTN Ghana and the eight other banks signing the contract
to work together to support the
growth of Ghanaian business which
will inure to the benefit of our customers
and the economic growth
agenda of the nation as a whole.”
Mr Modupe Kadiri, Acting Chief
Executive Officer of MTN said the
huge interest in MTN’s business is a
clear demonstration of how successful
the company’s business has been in
Ghana and the excellent financial
health they enjoy.
“We are demonstrating our resolve
to deepen and strengthen the local
banking system by declining offers
from foreign banks. We at MTN have
absolute confidence in the Ghanaian
economy and the people of Ghana,”
he said.
He added that the result of the
deal is a continuous investment and
will further boost their capital expenditure
and that enable significant investments
into key strategic areas to ensure
a robust network in the delivery of a
bold new digital world.
He said “that is why we consider
this syndicated loan agreement crucial.
The funds we are receiving would impact
many people. The mobile industry
employs about 4,000 people directly
and over one million indirectly. MTN
alone provides employment for about
700 primary employees and 500,000
more people through our trade channels
and other third parties.”
Mr Moyo Kangaing, Managing Director
of Ecobank Capital said a total
of 10 banks were invited and all committed
to the transaction which comprised
two facilities.
He said in the first facility GH¢345
million term loans for a tenor of five
years with 24 months moratorium for
general corporate purposes and to finance
capital expenditure while the
second facility is GH¢165 million revolving
credit facilities for a tenor of
five years for working capital.
Importance of
syndicated loan
Mr Kangaing explained that following
the initial debt raising transaction
of 2012 and its successful
repayment, MTN has continued to
spur growth and established itself as a
market leader in Ghana.
“Its unrivalled track record and
strong leadership position paved the
way for this utterly successfully debt
capital market transaction,” he said.
He added that the transaction generated
tremendous interest as it was
over-subscribed by over 2.09x despite
the macro-economic conditions of the
first half of 2017 as a result of continued
tightening of monetary policy to
curb inflation levels.
The banks
The transaction is led by Ecobank
Ghana, the rest are Barclays Bank, Societe
Generale, Stanbic Bank, Fidelity
Bank, GCB Bank, Zenith Bank, Standard
Chartered Bank and GT Bank
The legal advisors are Bentsi-Enchill,
Letsa & Ankomah and AB
&David.
•Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisa
Djaba (left) and USAID/Ghana Mission Director, Sharon L. Cromer (right)
and Mabel-Ann Akoto-Kwudzo (center), who was awarded the first runner
up, National Best Farmer for 2017 at a ‘Women in Agribusiness’ Summit
USAID celebrates
contributions of women
in agribusiness
THE UNITED States Agency for
International Development
(USAID) and MEL Consulting
Limited have hosted a “Women in
Agribusiness” summit to highlight
the contributions of women in
Ghana’s agricultural sector.
The event brought together
women-led agribusinesses, farmers,
processors, business service
providers, financial institutions, the
Government of Ghana and development
partners.
In attendance were the Minister
of Gender, Children and Social
Protection, Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba;
USAID/Ghana Mission Director
Sharon L. Cromer; and Nestlé West
and Central Africa’s Head of Agricultural
Services, Fatih Ermis.
The Summit promoted investment
opportunities and linked
women-led agribusinesses to business
advisory service providers and
financial institutions.
The agenda featured panel discussions
on finance and business
support for women-led agribusinesses,
as well as business-to-business
sessions.
The event culminated with an
awards ceremony honouring
women-led agribusinesses and
smallholder actors for their contribution
to Ghana’s agriculture sector.
Madam Sharon Cromer,
USAID/Ghana’s Mission Director
said “at USAID, we believe agriculture
is paramount in driving
Ghana’s sustainable economic
growth.”
“Our Feed the Future Initiative
works to equip individuals and
communities by investing in gender-smart
solutions. We are linking
business service providers to
women-led agribusinesses to increase
their productivity and access
to markets. Fostering broad-based
inclusive economic growth means
unlocking everyone’s potential, including
women, to fully utilize their
talents,” she added.
This event was organized
through Feed the Future and its
partners, with support from
USAID.
Feed the Future works is to increase
access to finance for
agribusinesses and smallholder
farmers and improve agricultural
productivity.
To date, Feed the Future has
unlocked $140 million in private
capital for more than 2,400
agribusinesses in the maize, rice
and soy value chains.
These efforts have benefitted
more than 150,000 smallholder
farmers in Northern Ghana, 42%
of whom are women.

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Politics
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter, and those who
matter don't mind” ― Bernard M. Baruch
Let’s fight corruption by
actions – Emile Short
BY KENT MENSAH
•Justice Emile Short, former CHRAJ boss
AFORMER Commissioner
of the
Commission on
Human Rights and
Administrative Justice
(CHRAJ), Justice
Emile Short has bemoaned
the slow pace at which corruption
is being tackled in the Ghanaian
society.
He is therefore rallying all
hands to be on deck in the fight
against corruption.
“Our advocacy is to demonstrate
to the general public, the
significant impact of corruption
on national development and I am
glad that this is what this event is
demonstrating. This is what is
going to generate the kind of support
and commitment we need
from everybody, including the
general public in the fight against
corruption,” Justice Short stated
at the maiden Corruption Watch
Pop-Up Event.
He added, “This is the objective
of Corruption Watch; to draw
attention persistently, to the various
acts of corruption that we
continuously talk about in the
media, and yet, nothing is done.”
“There is too much talk and
very little action so we really need
to make sure that those who have
the responsibility of investigating
and prosecuting acts of corruption
sit up and save the nation
from the millions of dollars of
cedis that we are losing.
“So I cannot overemphasize
the importance of Corruption
Watch and this particular event
which is dramatizing the impact
that a few people can make on the
lives of Ghanaians by stealing
funds which are needed for social
and economic services.”
As part of activities marking
the 2017 Anti-Corruption Week,
Corruption Watch Ghana organized
its maiden anti-corruption
pop-up event at the car park of
Wisconsin International University
College, North Legon.
Among other things, the event
sought to create public awareness
on the negative impact of corruption,
educate people on the role of
citizens in the anti-corruption
fight, awaken the consciousness of
Ghanaians to take a stand against
corruption and also to trigger a
national debate on corruption.
It also formed part of the project’s
mobilization strategies to reduce
the high levels of public
corruption with the support of
the public.
As part of activities to communicate
the project’s objectives to
passersby and the general public,
student volunteers from Wisconsin
University and the Ghana Institute
of Journalism stood by the
roadside holding placards with inscriptions
communicating the negative
effects of corruption and the
need for Ghanaians to get involved.
There was also a display of
GH¢ 350 million stuffed in over
200 jute bags. This was to represent
the GH¢ 350 million which
was lost when some 12 persons allegedly
set fire to the Central
Medical Stores to cover up a $3
million procurement fraud.
Some of the Corruption Watch
Ambassadors include Justice
Emile Short, Professor Audrey
Gadzekpo, Shamima Ishmael and
Nana Awere Damoah.
On her part, Professor
Gadzekpo said “It is not enough
to have words and promises that
something will be done. It is not
enough to give speeches that corruption
is unacceptable. It is important
to demonstrate why it is
unacceptable.
“This is a very good intervention
to let people understand what
corruption actually translates into
and its impact on individual lives,
on development, on what we
could have achieved with the kind
of monies which have dissipated
because of corruption.”
Napo: Lone ranger in Free SHS fight
DR MATHEW Opoku Prempeh,
the Minister of Education,
has been left alone by the government
and the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) communicators, to
talk about the government's
flagship programme, Free Senior
High School (SHS) policy.
The programme which has
generated lots of interests
within and outside Ghana is
currently doing well, although,
it has some challenges.
Interestingly, both the government
and party have not
been able to dwell on the better
side of the programme and that
has led the Minister to inadvertently
step on certain toes.
The current situation is making
things look as if the need to
tell the good story of the programme
is the sole responsibility
of the Education Minister;
but it is instructive to know the
success or otherwise of the
Nana Akufo-Addo administration
would be measured by how
the Free SHS becomes successful.
It is becoming obvious that
certain characters within government
and the NPP are not
so much enthused with placing
of Dr Prempeh in charge of
the government flagship program
as some heavyweights of
the party have openly spoken
about the challenges associated
with the Free SHS.
Be as it may, collective responsibility
must come to play
because the Free SHS is not a
product of the Education Minister,
but rather a product that
was designed by the NPP and
sold to Ghanaians that contributed
in no small way to the
victory of the party in the 2016
elections.
Any attempt to sabotage the
Education Minister from within
the government and party is
same as sabotaging the President
and his government.
Government and party communicators
should reorient
themselves and market Free
SHS because when the programme
fails the whole party
and government fail.
It is therefore important for
the government and party communicators
to take up the fight
and make Free SHS a successful
story. By Concern NPP Activist
•Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Education

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HERITAGE MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2017
Prez of Germany
visits Ghana today
THE PRESIDENT
of the Federal Republic
of Germany,
Mr Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, is expected
to pay a state
visit to Ghana from Monday, December
11, 2017 to Wednesday
December 13, 2017.
President Steinmeier is to be
accompanied by the Federal Minister
of Economy and Energy,
Mrs Brigitte Zypries, the Deputy
Minister for Economic Cooperation
and Development, Friedrich
Kitschelt, the State Minister at the
German Foreign Office, Maria
Böhmer as well as a substantial
business delegation and guests
from civil society.
He is also expected to be accompanied
by 17 representatives
of German companies that are
working to realise Germany’s
commitment under the G20
Compact with Africa to bring
more investment to Ghana.
A statement copied to GNA
from the Cultural, Economic and
Press Affairs Unit of the German
Embassy said the state visit would
be the first trip to an African
country by President Steinmeier,
since he took office in February,
2017.
•Mr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Federal
Republic of Germany
“This underlines the close
partnership between Ghana and
Germany, 60 years after establishing
diplomatic relations,” it noted.
The statement said President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
would receive President Steinmeier
on December 12th.
The visit would focus on discussions
on the youth in Ghana,
scientific and academic cooperation
and migration, vocational
training, investment and business
promotion.
During the visit, Mr Ken
Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance
and Germany’s Deputy
Minister for Economic Cooperation
and Development, Mr
Friedrich Kitschelt, would sign
the bilateral ‘Investment and Reform
Partnership’ agreement.
The agreement would bring up
to 100 million Euros of the German
Government’s support to
promote private investment into
renewable energy in Ghana as
well as vocational training.
The private investment is Germany’s
commitment under the
G20 Compact with Africa, which
was signed in Berlin in June, 2017.
A cooperation agreement for
the opening of a Merian International
Centre for Advanced Studies
at the University of Ghana
would be signed under the auspices
of President Steinmeier, and
the Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Ghana, Professor
Ebenezer Oduro Owusu.
The Pro Vice-Chancellor for
Research, Innovation and Development,
Professor Francis
Dodoo, and the Director of the
Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute of
the University of Freiburg, Germany,
Professor Andreas Mehler,
would also append signatures.
The Centre, the first of its
kind in Africa, has a thematic
focus on sustainable governance
and would be supported by the
German Ministry for Education
and Research.
While in the country, President
Steinmeier would hold a discussion
at the University of Ghana,
Legon, with academics and students
as well as visit the West-
African Transport Academy in
Tema, which is a Public Private
Partnership between the German
investors Scania, Bosch, and ZF
on one side, and German Development
Cooperation on the
other. The Academy offers state
of the art training facilities for
young Ghanaians.
Under the support for Start-up
companies in Ghana, President
Steinmeier would also meet with
young Ghanaian entrepreneurs
who are currently being supported
by Germany to help them
develop their businesses and link
them with international ones.
The German President would
also attend the sod-cutting ceremony
at the new Ghanaian-German
Centre for Jobs, Migration
and Reintegration in Accra.
The Centre offers advice on
Technical and Vocational Education
and Training (TVET) opportunities
in Ghana, supports
returnees from Europe in their
reintegration, provides information
on the risks of irregular migration
and the possibilities for
legal migration to Europe.
It will make use of the extensive
network of German cooperation
in Ghana, especially in the
areas of TVET and agriculture.
President Steinmeier would
have encounters with experts and
staff of the Kofi Annan International
Peacekeeping Training Centre
(KAIPTC) and get first-hand
information on the security situation
in West Africa.
Germany is one of the main
supporters of KAIPTC.
Ex-Prez Kufuor celebrates 79th birthday with Jospong Group
FORMER PRESIDENT John
Agyekum Kufuor who turned
79 on Friday marked the day
with staff and management of
the Jospong Group of Companies.
The day also coincided with
the annual thanksgiving service
of the Jospong Group to appreciate
the goodness of the
Lord towards the entities under
the group in 2017.
The event at the Jospong's
head office in Accra also
brought together representatives
of several other companies
outside the Jospong
Group, including state officials.
The Group Chair, Joseph
Siaw Agyapong presented a citation
to Mr Kufuor for dedicating
his life to the service of
Ghana.
•Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, (2ND R) receiving his citation from Mr and Mrs Siaw Agyapong at the
Jospong Group annual Thanksgiving Service in Accra.

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BY ABIGAIL ASARE
Nero X, KK Fosu appointed
Road Safety icons
THE NATIONAL Road Safety
Commission, Ghana (NRSC), has
appointed Ghanaian highlife musicians
Nero X and K K Fosu as
Icons.
The unveiling ceremony of the
two artistes was held last Wednesday
at the Ghana National Road
Safety Commission office in Accra.
• Nero X (L) and K.K Fosu
IMANI N.A.D, an
emerging talent in the
Ghanaian music
arena, has said that he
wants his name to be
associated with authentic
afro beats
music in the country
and across the world.
He told the
DAILY HER-
ITAGE in Accra last
Friday that he wants
to merge afro beats
music with any other
genre.
The young artiste
cum song writer is inspired
by Osibisa,
Prior to the unveiling the Fanti
singer Nero X had released a
song ‘Okwan So Bebre’ which featured
his colleague National Safety
Icon KK Fosu.
Nero X and K.K Fosu speaking
at the launch of the campaign single
asked Ghanaians to help promote
the song to reduce road
Imani N.A.D
releases ‘Olivia’
BY ERICA ARTHUR
Fela Kuti and Frank
Sinatra and largely aspires
to represent
Ghana as the biggest
music mogul from
Ghana.
Imani has four singles
to his credit as an
artiste. The singles are
‘el fuego’, ‘Wole’,
‘With You’ and his
new mix tape ‘Olivia’
which was produced
by Liquid Beats.
According to him,
the mix tape is dedicated
to his late Aunt
Olivia.
“The song is about
social life and anything
the street can
relate to,” he said.
accidents in the country.
The two musicians were contracted
by Road Safety ambassador,
Gabby Adu Gyamfi for the song.
Nero X is currently out with a
hit jam ‘Yawa dey’ which is already
enjoying airplay on some radio stations
across the country.
The NRSC was established by an
Act of Parliament
(NRSC Act
567 of 1999).
The Act mandates
the NRSC
to play the lead
role in championing,
promoting
and coordinating
road safety activities
in Ghana.
The main objective
of the commission
is to
plan, develop
and promote
road safety and
to coordinate
policies related
to road safety in
Ghana.
• Imani N.A.D,
artiste
Pappy
Kojo
drops
‘Abena’
BY ERICA ARTHUR
JASON GAISIE, popularly
known in showbiz
as Pappy Kojo,
release his latest single
titled ‘Abena’
on Instagram on Friday
morning. The Ghanaian hip
hop and hiplife recording
artiste who hails from Takoradi
in the Western Region,
featured fellow award winning
artistes Mr Eazi and Bisa Kdei
on his new single ‘Abena.’
After releasing his first single
this year; ‘M’akoma’,
which won him two awards at
the 4syte TV Music Video
•Pappy
Kojo
Awards, he continued with
another track titled ‘No Way’
in September that enjoyed
massive airplay across the
country.
‘Abena’ is Pappy Kojo’s
third single off his upcoming
EP.
The song ‘Abena’ is from
the Guilty Beatz production
and takes inspiration from the
classic Marvin Gaye hit ‘Sexual
Healing’.
‘Abena’ is an ode to all the
beautiful women in the world.
Pappy Kojo’s quest towards
global recognition may
be well on its way with this
collaboration with two seasoned
international acts.

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DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2017
Scott Disick fears Reign isn’t his
SCOTT DISICK was the perfect
image of a doting dad.
Over the long Thanksgiving
weekend, he spent some seriously
adorable father-son time
with his eldest child, Mason,
7.
He took him to New York
City to visit the Intrepid Sea,
Air & Space Museum before
hopping a private jet bound
for Miami, where they took a
helicopter ride and hit the
beach. Scott’s also often been
on daddy-daughter dates with
Penelope, 5.
But he is rarely seen out
with his youngest child, son
Reign.
“This sounds horrible to
say, but Scott is closest to
Mason and then Penelope,”
an insider exclusively tells In
Touch, adding that though
Scott, 34, has a bond with
Reign, who turns three on
December 14, “it’s not the
same as the one he had with
Mason when he was that
young.”
Now a source has some
bombshell insight into why
that might be.
“Reign was conceived
when Kourtney and Scott
were going through a rough
patch. At the time, Scott
didn’t question whether he
was the father, but that soon
changed. It did not take long
for Scott to start having
doubts as to whether Reign is
actually his child,” explained
the source.
Scott’s fears were stoked
any time people commented
on his kids’ looks.
“What really got under
Scott’s skin is when family
members said that Reign did
not look like him. Penelope
and Mason are dead ringers
for Scott, but Reign looks
more like Kourtney,” said the
insider.
And her volatile relationship
with Scott is legendary.
“There were countless
times when they had split up
and not seen each other for
weeks and whenever they had
a huge argument. Kourtney,
38, went out of her way to
seek revenge. She had often
partied with her pals and close
guy friends,” said the source.
Scott — who is in a relationship
with Sofia Richie, the
19-year-old sister of Kardashian
family friend Nicole
Richie — eventually questioned
Kourtney about Reign’s
parentage.
“She outright denied [that
Reign could be someone
else’s]. During the heated
bust-up, Scott brought up
doing a DNA test. Kourtney
said no, which has only
heightened his suspicions,”
the source added.
Another insider also said
that Kourtney, who is currently
dating 24-year-old
model Younes Bendjima, is
not interested in debating
with Scott as Kourtney did
not want to hear it when Scott
asked if he is really the father.
•Scott and Kourtney
Kardashian with children
•Stonebwoy
Stonebwoy
to release
new album
GHANAIAN DANCE-
HALL artiste Stonebwoy
is set to release his new
album dubbed ‘Epistles
of Mama’ (EOM).
The album will be released on Tuesday,
December 12, 2017 and also
launched at the Accra International
Conference Centre on December 22.
It is said to be dedicated to the
memory of his mother, Catherine
Satekla who died in 2015. Stonebwoy
held an album listening session
for his new project in
London last Thursday.
It was held at the RedBull
Studio, and was attended by
personalities in the arts industry
and music fans.
Joselyn Dumas unveiled as
brand ambassador for OAfrica
OAFRICA, A non-governmental
organisation has announced celebrated
actress and producer, Joselyn
Dumas as its Worldwide
Ambassador.
As a proud mother, Joselyn
Dumas’ love for children according
to the founder of the organisation,
Lisa Lovatt-Smith, was the
core reason she was chosen to be
the face of OAfrica.
She noted that Dumas’ role is
to help strengthen families and
reintegrate separated children
whose rights have been compromised
due to poverty, violence,
trafficking, disease and discrimination
into safe, stable and loving
households.
OAfrica for the past 15 years
has supported children and young
adults in Ghana. Being a co-creator
with the Government of
Ghana and UNICEF of the
CARE REFORM INITIATIVE,
OAfrica has been tracing and reuniting
children from orphanages
by strengthening their extended
families and giving the children
scholarships.
OAfrica helps families of children
at risk of abandonment and
gives them secure futures within
their communities.
OAfrica is committed to care
reform and ensuring that children
grow up in safe, permanent family
settings with appropriate care
and protection and with equal
rights and opportunity.
• As a proud mother, Joselyn Dumas (M) has love for children

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Sports
I am ready to promote
boxing in the Volta
Region — Hounlessodji
BY DAVIS NII ATTUQUAYE
CLOTTEY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE Officer of
Infinity Stars Hotel, John Kwakuvi
Hounlessodji has expressed his desire
to promote any talented boxer
in the Volta Region to attract title
bouts.
The CEO aka the Infinity man,
who is promoting boxer Saviour
Gad, also known as ‘Volta Tyson’,
to a non-title lightweight bout
against Daniel Timothy, has developed
the interest in bringing talented
boxers in the region to the
lime light.
John Hounlessodji said that, he
has always been ambitious of promoting
talents in the region but lack
of humanitarian supports retards
the dream.
“Actually, Saviour is not going to
be the only person I will promote,
as people know who I am, I have
• John Kwakuvi Hounlessodji,
CEO of Infinity
promoted a lot of people. Things
are not going on too well, sometimes
you start well but probably
maybe due to lack of support, you
end up not accomplishing your
dreams. But this time, I won’t promote
him alone, if we should have
any other talented boxers, definitely,
we will promote them as well.”
The impending great fight night
is scheduled to come off on Tuesday,
December 26, 2017 at the Infinity
Stars Hotel in Penyi, in the
Ketu North District.
The bout is expected to attract
many fans across the length and
breadth of Ghana, as it is going to
be fun packed, with Bukom Banku,
in attendance.
There are also prominent people
from outside the country who
have shown interest in the bout.
There are three undercards also
to the bout, with Trudy and Young
Girl, inclusive.
Hounlessodji, who was once
the Chairman of Infinity FC (Division
Two club) said that he expects
6000 people to troop to
the venue to have excitement
they have never experienced.
“We have had calls from
outside the country. We have
people calling from Benin,
Nigeria and even Singapore.
This is going to be live and I
know a lot of people haven’t
watched it like this before in
the region,” Hounlessodji said.
Tickets for the bout go for
GH¢20.00 and GH¢50.00 and
are on sales at Infinity Stars
Hotel and radio stations in the
Volta region.
DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2017
Serena 'has entered'
Australian Open
SERENA WILLIAMS
has entered the Australian
Open and has
started practasing
ahead of her title defence,
according to tournament
director, Craig Tiley.
Williams won her seventh Australian
Open title back in January,
and 23rd Grand Slam overall, and
it was later revealed she did so
while pregnant.
The 36-year-old gave birth to
her daughter Alexis in September
and, while it was always likely she
would target a return to action in
the season-opening Slam, the latest
news out of Melbourne is the
most concrete sign yet that she
will defend her title.
“She's got her visa, she's entered
and she’s practising. There's
•Serena
Williams
no question she'll be ready in our
view.
“Williams is just one Grand
Slam title away from matching the
record of 24 set by Margaret
Court. She wants to break a
record that is Margaret Court’s. It
would be a pretty significant accomplishment
for her to be able
to do that,” Tiley told the Herald
Sun.
NSA Deputy General calls for
sponsorship for taekwondo
BY ROLAND BROWN
TAMAKLOE
THE DEPUTY General of
the National Sports Authority
(NSA) Mr Saka Acquaye has
wooed corporate bodies in
the country to support and
sponsor taekwondo as the
sport is gaining popularity
within the second cycle
schools.
Speaking at the opening
ceremony of the two-day,
40th Korean Cup Taekwondo
Championship at the Accra
Sports Stadium, Mr Acquaye
said taekwondo is among the
sports that fared well over
year and their effort paid off
at the last All Africa Games
where they won a medal.
He used the opportunity
to thank the Korean Embassy
for their immense support
for taekwondo by
ensuring that the federation
gets all that they need.
Mr Acquaye told the
DAILY HERITAGE that
taekwondo is an important
sporting discipline so competitions
and tournaments are
organised for the athletes to
display their prowess and also
be a breeding ground for the
national team.
The deputy general, Mr
Acquaye, however appealed
to the Ghana Police Service,
the Ghana Armed Forces, the
Ghana Prison Service, Ghana
Fire Service and the Ghana
Immigration Service to recruit
a number of sports men
into their ranks so as to give
them more opportunities in
competitions.
Kudra Awudu, a participant
in the Ladies Para Division
told the DAILY
HERITAGE that she
hadn’t had a good year therefore
the two-day competition
had given her the opportunity
as a preparatory ground for
2018.
Ms Awudu said that, “It
was difficult in the beginning
when I began fighting taekwondo.
But with time I am
enjoying it.”
• The participants of the two days
competition lined up for inspection