Daily Heritage December 15

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CONTENT 

DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 

DAILY QUOTE 

"I have not failed. I've just 

found 10,000 ways that won't 

work." --Thomas A. Edison 

ANNIVERSARIES 

25 Dec, Christmas Day 

26 Dec, Boxing Day 

01 Jan 2018 New Year 

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WORLD 

BUSINESS 

Mandela family 

angry over funeral 

money 

misuse 

PG.04 

Omnibank partners 

Intercity STC to 

boost operations 

POLITICS 

SPORTS 

Oye Lithur to contest 

NDC Women’s 

Organiser post 

PG.11 

We are aiming for 

medals – Bombers 

PG.10 

PG.15 

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BY KOJO ANSAH, NEW JUABEN 

A YOUNG man identified 

as Kwasi Anthony, 

a trader, has 

been stabbed to death 

by a-20-year- old man, 

Kwame Kwakye, during 

a fight that ensued 

between the two in 

the New Juaben Municipality 

of the Eastern 

Region. 

It was alleged that 

Anthony accused 

Kwakye of insulting 

his(Anthony’s) 

mother, an accusation 

that, according to eyewitnesses, 

resulted in 

a fight, leading to Anthony 

being stabbed 

to death. 

• CONTINUE ON PAGE 3 

•The Suspect 

Man hacks 

kinsman to death 

• Over alleged insult 

against mother 

The Station Officer 

at New Juaben 

Municipal Police 

Command, Chief Inspector 

Ebenezer 

Sakyi, while confirming 

the incident to the 

DAILY HER- 

ITAGE, said investigation 

was continuing 

while the suspect was 

being processed for 

court. 

According to the 

police, Anthony, who 

lived at Koforidua- 

Betom visited his parents 

at Srodae in the 

same municipality and 

upon reaching there, 

he was informed by 

Night watchman 

faces jail 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

A33-YEAR- 

OLD night 

watchman at 

the Animal Production 

Directorate 

of the Ministry of Food 

and Agriculture, Mustapha 

Yakubu, has found himself at 

the wrong side of the law after 

he caused damages to four airconditioners 

at the ministry. 

His reason was that he has 

not been paid his salary for the 

past seven months. 

Yakubu has been arraigned 

and charged with unlawful damage 

but pleaded not guilty to the 

charge. After closing his defence 

the court set December 

22 to deliver judgment in the 

case. 

In court yesterday prior to 

ending his defence, Yakubu told 

the court presided over by Her 

Worship Ms Arit Nsemor that 

he was influenced by the fact 

that he had not been paid his 

salary for seven months. 

But the prosecution said he 

was not paid because he had refused 

to subject himself to the 

head count exercise ordered by 

the Controller and Accountant 

General’s Department which is 

part of the process for all government 

workers to go for the 

biometric registration exercise. 

He told the court that despite 

destroying the air-conditioners 

valued at GH¢12, 000 he 

committed the act with a machete 

which has been admitted 

to evidence. He told the court 

that his money had still not 

been paid to him. 

Testimonies 

Four witnesses were produced 

by the prosecution led by 

Sergeant Joyce Ofori to give evidence 

in court. And Mr Frank 

Yeboah, the second prosecution 

witness in the case, who works 

at the Animal Production Directorate, 

said he had known 

Yakubu for the past six years. 

He told the court that on 

November 23, at about 

• After destroying Agric 

Ministry’s air-conditioners 

• Says he has not been paid 

7 months’ salary 

8:30a.m., when he arrived at the 

office a cleaner by name Veronica 

Tetteh reported to him that 

Yakubu had vandalized four of 

the office air-conditions. 

According to him, after the 

inspection, he called the watchman 

and he confessed that he 

was the one that vandalised the 

properties and the electrical appliances 

that accompanied 

them. 

When asked to tell the court 

how much the air-conditioners 

cost, he said the mechanic who 

services them said each of them 

• Mustapha Yakubu, the watchman 

cost GH¢3, 000, meaning the 

four would amount to GH¢12, 

000. 

He said he reported the matter 

to the chief director of the 

Animal Production Directorate, 

Mr Kwamena Ampofo, and he 

instructed that the matter be reported 

to the police. 

Cleaner, investigator 

give evidence 

Ms Tetteh, the cleaner of 

the directorate, told the court 

that upon arriving at work and 

she realised from their changing 

room that one of the air-conditioners 

had been damaged. She 

said she went round and realised 

that three additional airconditioners 

had been damaged 

and upon interrogating Yakubu, 

he said he was the one that 

spoiled them. She subsequently 

reported the matter to her 

bosses. 

Detective Lance Corporal 

Lawrence Darko Peasah, the investigator 

in the case, in his evidence, 

told the court that after 

the report was made at the Ministries 

Police Station, he invited 

the suspect and after investigation, 

he was was charged. 

He said upon arriving at the 

scene, he found that four airconditioners 

had been destroyed 

and a machete the 

accused person used in destroying 

the air-conditioners and destroyed 

padlocks were retrieved.

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IMANI takes on BOST 

NEWS DESK REPORT 

THE CHIEF Executive Officer 

(CEO) of IMANI Ghana, Mr 

Franklin Cudjoe, has commended 

the Bulk Oil Storage 

and Transportation Company 

(BOST) for making profit of GH¢35 million in 

10 months. 

The IMANI boss described the move as a 

plus linking it to a similar success choked by the 

State Transport Company (STC) in declaring 

profits in less than a year under their respective 

leaderships. 

But Mr Cudjoe said even though “I have no 

cause to doubt the claims of the current leadership 

of BOST in posting a GH¢35m profit in 

10 months, I need a little clarification on exactly 

what financial strategies were adopted to 

clear the legacy and current debts of BOST before 

declaring profit in 2017.” 

He said “This is commendable indeed, except, 

I haven’t seen the dummy cheque from 

BOST, indicating the total dividends it will be 

paying to government,” Mr Cudjoe stated. 

He said “I had witnessed the presentation 

of a $700,000 cheque by the CEO of STC to 

the Finance Minister at an event that bemoaned 

the economic inefficiency of stateowned 

enterprises in spite of their great 

potential. 

“Never mind if STC’s successes were in 

part due to the efforts of the immediate past 

CEO under the previous government- what 

matters is the rather open, transparent and efficient 

manner the challenges of STC were dealt 

with then and now.” 

In a release copied to the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE, he demanded ways that led to the 

recollection of BOST debts, especially the partially 

unpaid debts of $100m in 2008 incurred 

due to the sale of Ghana’s strategic oil reserves 

at below market prices, unpaid debts of $235m 

in 2014 due to the sale of Ghana’s strategic oil 

reserves yet again at below market prices and 

an additional but increasing $100m of trade 

• Over GH35m profit in 10 months 

• Mr Franklin Cudjoe, 

IMANI boss 

losses being incurred in 2017 solely due to selling 

Ghana’s strategic oil reserves at heavily subsidised 

prices. 

Mr Cudjoe referred Ghanaians to the history 

of similar claims by previous managers of 

BOST only for strange outcomes after a few 

months. For instance, on August 11, 2015, the 

immediate past BOST CEO under the National 

Democratic Congress government told 

Ghanaians BOST made a $21m profit under 

his able leadership. 

He added that a couple of months later, on 

December 20, 2016, “we were told BOST had 

posted GH¢32m loss. Here we are a year on in 

December 2017and a 

new management tells us 

BOST has made a GH¢ 

35m profit as a result of 

great leadership without 

any details of how almost 

$335m debt incurred by 

the previous and current 

regimes have been paid.” 

“Can BOST walk us 

through how they made 

a GH¢35m profit in 10 

months against all the 

above?” Mr Cudoje 

quizzed. 

The IMANI boss 

said, “Folks, let us face it, 

it is difficult to believe 

BOST can ever make 

profit, when its truncated 

mandate has been 

selling oil products 

meant to be strategically 

held in trust for the state 

to the public at artificially 

low prices in its 

quest to compete with 

private companies that 

have been licensed to 

sell same products at competitive rates. 

“These significant losses in the sale of oil 

products are politically induced to benefit state 

assigns. In the end, you and I have to cough up 

the levies to bail out a wasting state company 

that should not be trading oil reserves it is 

mandated to hold for at least six weeks with 

options to dispose of. 

“And replenish stocks without artificially 

upsetting the market with suppressed prices 

and changes in the physical properties of oil 

products.” 

According to him, the State Enterprises 

Commission and the Finance Ministry must 

“These significant 

losses in the sale of 

oil products are politically 

induced to benefit 

state assigns. In 

the end, you and I 

have to cough up the 

levies to bail out a 

wasting state company 

that should not 

be trading oil reserves 

it is mandated 

to hold for at least 

six weeks with options 

to dispose of. 

take one critical look at BOST and “I will not 

be surprised if they came to the conclusion 

that the best way to strategically hold oil products 

in trust for us would be to let private oil 

companies do so with some financial assurance, 

because BOST, by its structure and operations, 

easily lends itself to rent seeking and economic 

atrophy.” 

Man hacks 

kinsman to death 

• READ FROM PAGE 2 

some occupants of the house that 

Kwakye, a family member, had been 

insulting his (Anthony’s) mother 

using vulgar words against the 

woman. 

• Over alleged insult against mother 

This, according to the police, infuriated 

Anthony and so he confronted 

Kwakye in his room, which 

resulted in a fight during which 

Kwakye pulled a machete and 

hacked Anthony’s left thigh. 

Anthony bled profusely and was 

rushed to Koforidua Regional Hospital 

but pronounced dead on arrival. 

Anthony’s body has been deposited 

at the morgue while 

Kwakye has been arrested by the 

New Juaben Municipal Police 

Command. 

•The deceased’s hacked thigh

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• The attack could be an indication that Boko Haram 

is feeling the pressure, report says 

Boko Haram 'attempt takeover of army base’ 

FOURTEEN BOKO Haram 

fighters have been killed during 

a shoot-out with Nigerian 

soldiers as they attempted to 

overrun a military base in 

north-eastern Borno state, 

AFP news agency has reported. 

The militant group 

stormed the army base in 

eight pick-up trucks on 

Wednesday, but the troops 

were able to repel the attack 

with the help of reinforcements, 

the report adds. 

Eyewitness Laminu Isa 

told AFP that the gunmen 

came from the direction of 

Buni Yadi in Yobe State and 

hundreds of motorists caught 

up in the shooting had to detour 

to the nearby village of 

Jakana until the shooting 

stopped. 

Buni Yadi is linked to Sambisa 

forest - believed to be the 

hideout of Boko Haram 

leader Abubakar Shekau. 



World news in 4 stories 

Muslim leaders call for recognition of East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital 

LEADERS FROM the 57-member 

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation 

(OIC) recognized East 

Jerusalem as the occupied capital 

of a Palestinian state and called 

on the international community 

to do the same, according to the 

final communique from the 

group's emergency summit on 

Wednesday. 

The group of mostly Muslim 

leaders had called an extraordinary 

meeting in Istanbul to discuss 

US President Donald 

Trump's controversial recognition 

of Jerusalem as Israel's capital last 

week. Trump also announced that 

the US Embassy would be relocated 

from Tel Aviv to the holy 

city. 

On Wednesday the OIC rejected 

Trump's move as "null and 

void" and said the President's 

"dangerous declaration" marked 

the US withdrawal from the Israeli-Palestinian 

peace process. 

Turkish President Recep 

Tayyip Erdogan declared that a 

"new alliance" had been formed 

in opposition to Trump's 

Jerusalem declaration, which he 

described as "not valid in our understanding, 

in our mentality and 

in our conscience." 

Erdogan said the US "can no 

longer act impartially" as a mediator 

between the Israelis and Palestinians, 

and that other countries 

needed to be identified to replace 

the US in that role. 

"We are determined to protect 

and preserve the historical status 

and sanctity of Jerusalem," Erdogan 

said in a speech to close the 

meeting. CNN 

Somalia suicide bomber 

kills police at 

Mogadishu academy 

•Wu Yongning posted videos of his climbs on Chinese social platform 

• Muslim Leaders 

ASUICIDE 

bomber has killed 

at least 18 police 

officers during a 

parade at a training 

centre in the 

Somali capital, Mogadishu. 

At least 15 other people were 

wounded, officials said. 

The bomber, disguised as a policeman, 

blew himself up at the 

General Kaahiye Police Academy. 

•Al-Shabab is fighting an insurgency against Somalia's UN-backed government 

The militant Islamist group al- 

Shabab has said it carried out the attack. 

The group regularly carries out 

bombings in Mogadishu and other 

towns. 

Witnesses said the officers were 

crowded into an open square for 

their early morning parade when the 

bomber detonated his explosives. 

"Some of the police were already 

in lines, and others were gathering, 

when the man in police uniform entered 

and blew himself up," said 

Hussein Ali. 

One police officer, Ibrahim Mohamed, 

said the toll would have 

been higher if the attacker had 

managed to get into the centre of 

the crowd. 

Police spokesman Maj Mohamed 

Hussein said officers had been rehearsing 

for national Police Day celebrations 

later this month. 

•Mandela's funeral is alleged to have been misspent 

Mandela family angry over 

funeral money misuse 

THE FAMILY of Nelson 

Mandela has expressed "indignation 

and dismay" that 

officials misspent about 

$22m (£16m) allocated to 

memorial events after the 

death of the anti-apartheid 

icon four years ago. 

His grandson Mandla 

spoke out for the first time 

since South Africa' santi-corruption 

watchdog said it had 

evidence of the disappearance 

of money during preparations 

for his funeral. 

Officials have been accused 

of inflating costs and 

awarding tenders fraudulently. 

Mandla Mandela said that 

anyone found guilty should 

face the full wrath of the law. 

It was difficult to believe 

that while the world was 

mourning the anti-apartheid 

icon "some people were allegedly 

conniving to profit financially 

by shamelessly 

siphoning off funds" or they 

were "allegedly not observing 

good governance", he said, 

adding: in terms of following 

due protocol‚ observing delegations 

or mandates.



Probe Gold Fields Ghana ‘Contract Mining’ exercise 

ON WEDNESDAY, December 13, the 

Ghana Mineworkers Union of the Ghana 

Trade Union Congress held a National 

Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, 

which is the highest decision making body 

apart from its National Delegates Conference, 

which occurs after every four-year 

term. 

At the highly attended meeting, so 

many sensitive issues came up and they arrived 

at petitioning the leadership of Parliament 

over a lay-off exercise since the 

matter has a national connotation. 

The concern of these mineworkers are 

that the management of Gold Fields 

Ghana is currently pursuing a radical business 

option dubbed “Contract Mining”, 

which, according to them, has the propensity 

of threatening the jobs of over 1700 

workers. 

Among their concerns were also that 

the GFG’s choice of this aggressive option 

is attributed to two cardinal reasons, 

namely the short life span of the Mine and 

secondly the aging fleet of the machines. 

These two reasons they said were false 

and without any basis. Therefore among 

the measures they adopted was for them 

to take a legal descision. 

Now, yesterday, a day after that NEC 

meeting, they have presented a petition to 

Parliament, drawing its attention to the development 

and are asking the leadership 

of the house to probe the matter. 

In their petition to Parliament yesterday, 

they stated that GFG’s own official 

website stated that Tarkwa Gold Mine is a 

“world-class, low-cost surface mine with a 

6.1Moz Mineral Reserve and 15-year life 

(nine years mining, followed by processing 

of the surface stockpile and South Heap 

Leach material) that remains strongly 

geared to the gold price – strong potential 

for leveraging resource ounce conversion 

and driving larger pits with high gold 

prices.” 

This, according to them, is an unethical 

behaviour, especially by GFG, and deceptive 

and ought to be thoroughly investigated 

and offenders dealt with accordingly. 

“We therefore wish to officially petition 

Parliament through your good offices to, 

as a matter of urgency, call Gold Fields 

Ghana Limited to order, institute a Committee 

to probe into the skewed business 

model of Gold Fields Ghana as well as the 

factual misrepresentation of Company information 

by the same Company, considering 

its implications on workers, 

communities and the nation as a whole,” 

the petition signed by the General Secretary 

Mr Prince William Ankrah read in 

part. 

We at the DAILY HERITAGE 

would like to urge on all the parties involved 

to have a round table discussion 

and resolve this issue once and for all. We 

believe that the workers have shown maturity 

that they are law-abiding by first taking 

the matter to court and secondly, 

petitioning Parliament. 

We call on the leadership of parliament 

to probe the matter as with immediacy and 

to the management GFG if indeed the exercise 

is not to enrich their pockets as was 

being alleged by the workers, we call on 

them to come out with the through state 

of the mines. 

What we want to tell the mineworkers 

is that retrenchment has a positive side and 

if possible they should consider its positivity 

who knows maybe it could be a 

blessing in disguise. 

Ghana Armed Forces get 

1.2m Euro office complex 

BY RAMSON ACQUAH-HAYFORD 

THE MINISTER of Defence, 

Mr Dominic Nitiwul, yesterday 

commissioned the Defence Intelligence 

Office Complex of 

the Ghana Armed Forces 

(GAF) at Burma Camp, Accra estimated at 

1.2million Euros 

According to the minister, the edifice, together 

with other projects, was sponsored by 

the German Government as part of honouring 

a-four-year Memorandum of Understanding 

between Ghana and German governments. 

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Nitiwul 

noted that, “This edifice before us is the outcome 

of interaction between the Department 

of Defence Intelligence and GAFTAG. It ensured 

the completion of a stalled structure, 

which started in 2003 and was intended to be 

used as an intelligence training centre and office 

complex.” 

The minister indicated that the project, on 

the theme ‘Enhancing Military Intelligence’, 

and a collaboration between GAFTAG and 

the GAF, saw all contractual agreements for 

the continuation of the project in May this 

year. 

He thanked the German Ambassador to 

Ghana, His Excellency Christoph Retzlaff, and 

his government for showing such immense 

•Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul (2nd l), cutting the sod with help from 

the German Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Christoph Retzlaff (2nd R) 

support to the GAF. 

The ambassador, in his remarks, stated that, 

“The recent visit of the German President, 

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to Ghana shows that 

the two nations are together in a strong bond 

of friendship. Together, we strive for peace, security 

and prosperity and stability not only in 

our countries but in Europe and in Africa. 

“The importance of the Ghana cannot be 

overestimated; this country is a shining example 

of a leading nation in Africa with regard to 

political, economic and military aspects.” 

He said Ghana’s commitment to peacekeeping 

missions is unparalleled and highly appreciated 

all over the world. 

The structure is a two-storey 

which has in it a 60-seater auditorium 

for central lectures, two 20- 

seater syndicate rooms, a research 

library and a cyber office where 

real time information will be analyzed. 

The building also contains offices 

for Strategic and Operational 

cells as well as the line 

Directors, Deputy Director General 

and the Director General. 

• The Ghana Armed Forces office Complex


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KIDDIES Corner 

Short stories for kids 

You can’t 

please everyone 

Time with Auntie 

Akuorkor in the kitchen 

How to prepare ice cream 

cake Christmas tree 

Note: to be supervised by parents in the kitchen. 

All hands should be washed well. 

Ingredients: 

• Plain yellow cake. 

• Icing sugar. 

• Vanilla/Lemon flavouring. 

• Various food colourings. 

• Ready-to-pipe confectioners' frosting. 

• Chocolate-filled candies. 

• Vanilla ice cream. 

• Kitchen knife. 

ONE DAY, a 

man was 

going to market 

with his 

son and his 

ass. They met 

a couple on the way. 

"Why walk when you have an 

ass to ride?" called out the husband, 

"seat the boy on the ass." 

"I would like that," said the 

boy, "help me up father." 

And the father did that willingly. 

Soon they met another couple. 

"How shameful of you!" 

cried the woman, "let your father 

ride, won't he be tired?" 

So, the boy got down and the 

father rode the ass. Again they 

marched on. 

"Poor boy", said the next 

person they met, "why should 

the lazy father ride while his son 

is walking?" 

So, the boy got onto the ass 

too. As they went on, they met 

some travellers. 

"How cruel of them!" They 

are up to kill the poor ass." cried 

one of the travellers. 

Hearing this, the father and 

the son got down. Now they decided 

to carry the ass on their 

shoulders. As they did so, the 

travellers broke into laughter. 

The laughter frightened the 

ass. It broke free and galloped 

away. 

Moral lesson: You cannot 

please everyone at the same 

time. 

Method: 

1) Use the kitchen knife, then cut a tall triangular shape from the yellow 

cake. 

2) Make confectioners' frosting in three colours. Spread in broad 

stripes across the tree for decoration. 

3) Create scallops by piping thin lines of frosting. 

4) Decorate with candies as demonstrated in the picture. 

5) Cut a rectangular piece out of the chilled ice cream and lay it at the 

base of the tree. 

6) Assemble pieces on a 

plate quickly to prevent 

melting and 

keep in the 

freezer 

until 

needed. 

Why is it important to have a healthy self-esteem child? 

WHEN YOUR child or children 

dren. 

have healthy self-esteem, How can a child imdren. 

they understand that they are prove what he or she feel How to help children to 

valuable and likeable. Having about him or herself ? improve their self-esteem? 

self-esteem is not being a One useful strategy a parents 

Encouraging our friends 

spoilt child or feeling better 

or guardian can use to and classmates, and celebrat- 

than others, but is the ability improve his or her child selfesteem 

ing their successes will add to 

to accept and appreciate their 

is to use affirmation. their self-esteem and help 

capabilities. 

Often, children with low selfesteem 

them to feel valued and ap- 

Self-esteem helps the child 

have negative preciated. 

to deal with everyday mistakes thoughts running through When you help a child to 

and problems, and also they their heads, and may literally feel good about him or herself, 

learn from them. 

‘talk themselves’ into believing 

it helps to build a sup- 

When a child’s self-esteem 

that these things are true. portive and positive 

is healthy, he or she will have Instead of negative environment within the family 

the courage to try new things thoughts, use positive phrases 

and in the classroom. 

and the •This confidence carriage in to a make train station to remind Ghana them depicts that how they the arecarriages are not well maintained in the country 

his or her own decision. valuable and worthwhile chil-


Key facts about global sanitation 

• 663 million people, one 

in 10, lack access to safe 

water. 

• 2.4 billion people, one 

in three, lack access to a toilet. 

• Twice the population of 

the United States lives without 

access to safe water. 

• A third of the global 

population lives without access 

to a toilet. 

• More people have a mobile 

phone than a toilet. 

• The water crisis is the 

number one global risk based 

on impact to society (as a 

measure of devastation), as 

announced by the World 

Economic Forum in January 

2015. 



&Env. 

New Juaben Health Directorate, heads 

of SHSs meet over health challenges 

BY KOJO ANSAH, NEW JUABEN 

THE NEW Juaben 

Municipal Directorate 

of the 

Ghana Health 

Service last 

Wednesday held a 

meeting with heads of second 

cycle institutions in the Municipality 

to streamline collaboration 

between the health directorate 

and the schools for preventive 

and swift healthcare delivery. 

The meeting was held at the 

back of recurring heath-related 

problems recorded in some 

SHSs in the municipality notoriously, 

the meningitis case at Koforidua 

Secondary Technical 

(SECTEC) which claimed a life , 

and GHANASS food poison 

case being examples. 

The New Juaben Municipal 

Health Director, Dr Ekow 

Kaitoo, said the death of the 

16-year-old student at 

SECTEC was avoidable if he 

had been sent to the hospital 

early. 

He said many recommendations 

had been made to the 

schools, key among them 

being the establishment of 

fully operational sick bays in 

the schools; ensuring hygienic 

environment, particularly 

kitchens and dormitories; certifying 

food vendors on campus; 

ensuring effective 

communication with heath directorate; 

and promptly refering 

suspicious cases to 

hospitals. 

• Dr Ekow Kaitoo, New Juaben Municipal 

Health Director 

Also, Mr Kaitoo 

recommended for the 

need to find ways to 

decongest dormitories 

since congestion creates 

serious health issues. 

He called on the 

heads to collaborate 

with the Municipal 

Environmental Department 

for periodic 

fumigation exercises in 

the schools. 

Meanwhile, the 

New Juaben Municipal 

Director of Education, 

Mr Kwame Ofori, has 

said through the 

DAILY HER- 

ITAGE that schools 

must made it compulsory 

that as part of the admission 

requirements every student 

should have an active NHIA 

card to enable them to get free 

access to health care but for the 

meantime, the heads must ensure 

that NHIA officials visit 

the schools to register all students 

for parents to pay. 

Mr Ofori said most schools 

spent huge sums out of their 

limited funds to pay for medical 

bills of students whose parents 

are reluctant to reimburse the 

schools, hence the delay in sending 

students to hospitals. 

Meanwhile, the Health Directorate 

has also renewed ties with 

the media to ensure that accurate 

information is put out to 

the public not to create fear and 

panic. 

Second-hand fridges dangerous – Energy Commission 

AN ASSOCIATE Programmes 

Officer and Media Relations Director 

for the Energy Commission, 

Mr Samuel Frimpong, has 

said Ghanaians must reduce their 

insatiable taste for second-hand 

fridges because they pose the 

health hazards. 

According to him, some of 

these second-hand fridges are 

used for laboratory purposes in 

the countries where they are 

manufactured. 

Speaking on Accra FM, yesterday, 

he said the Energy Commission 

has blocked all the loopholes 

at the entry points to ensure that 

these fridges are no longer 

brought into the country. 

Mr Frimpong noted that laboratory 

tools and other gadgets are 

stored in these fridges, hence 

storing food in them will result in 

many health complications. 

“This raises health concerns 

and it is one of the reasons why 

•Mr Frimpong says second-hand fridges had been used in 

laboratories in other countries 

the Commission is advocating the 

use of brand new fridges with 

yellow labels on them,” Mr Frimpong 

stated. 

“You can trust that these 

brand new 

fridges with 

the Commission’s 

label 

are safe for 

Ghanaians. Some people 

talk about the cost 

of purchasing brand 

new fridges, they claim 

it is expensive as compared 

to the secondhand 

ones. 

“But when you compare, you 

will realise the difference is just 

small and, so, let us try as much 

as possible to procure the brand 

new fridges that will ensure energy 

efficiency and also protect 

your health.”

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Bloody clash imminent 

at Akyem Asiakwa 

• Over ‘imposition’ of a Regent Chief 

ASIAKWA IS sitting on a time bomb as 

tension escalates over an alleged moves 

to ‘impose’ a regent on the people by 

the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional 

Council. 

The tension is arising from attempts 

to appoint a member of a faction in a 

chieftaincy dispute, Nana Opoku 

Agyemang, as regent of the community 

despite court injunction. 

The opposition Akwamu gate has 

vowed to resist attempts to 

appoint Nana Opoku Agyemang as 

regent. 

Asiakwa has been without a chief 

since the death of Daasebre Nana 

Agyemang five years ago because of 

protracted dispute involving the three 

gates, namely Anyinasin ,Barekese and 

Akwamu gates. 

The situation has created insecurity 

in the town as the opposing factions 

often clash. 

After the demise of Daasebre 

Agyemang on March 22,2012, the 

Abusuapanyin directed all royal gates to 

present candidates interested in the 

stool. 

On August 20,2012 ,the Queen 

mother, Nana Ofosua Boatemaa, held a 

meeting attended by kingmakers, namely 

the Chief of Akyease, Chief of Bunso 

,Dwenasehene, Nsutamhene, 

Daamanhene ,the Abusuapanyin and the 

Amankrado of Asiakwa. 

The rest are Gyaasehene, Okyeame 

Atta, Ahenema and Ahenenananom ,the 

Queenmother of Asiakw ,and the 

station officer of Asiakwa, Chief 

Inspector Osei Manu. 

According to the Abusuapanyin, it 

was directed that all candidates must go 

home with their Abusuapanyin for 

further consultation. Later in the night, 

about 11:30p.m., the Okyeame and the 

police invited Nana George Asomanin. 

Meanwhile, the Queen mother had 

also presented Nana Opoku Agyemang 

but was rejected by the Kingmakers 

because he comes from the same family 

as the Abusuapanyin and the Queen 

mother. 

The Abusuapanyin, Kwaku Asante, 

subsequently announced Asomaning as 

Chief-elect for Asiakwa and proposed 

that he pay GH¢ 40,000 plus four 

bottles of schnapps as thanksgiving 

token for the Panel but was reduced to 

GH¢10,000 upon a plea for reduction 

which he paid and customary rites 

performed . 

But a few days to his installation, the 

Queen mother objected to his 

enstoolment as chief for Asiakwa and 

attempted to enstool Opoku Agyemang 

as chief instead, for which a perpetual 

injunction was secured by the opposing 

faction to restrain the Queen mother 

from carrying out any enstoolment. 

However, the same Opoku 

Agyemang, who was allegedly rejected 

by the Kingmakers, has been appointed 

as Regent despite the court restraining 

order. 

When contacted, the Queen mother 

refuted claims of the opposing faction, 

saying her opponents were only creating 

fear and panic. 

She said the decision to appoint 

Opoku Agyemang as regent was duly 

taken by the Akyem Abuakwa 

Traditional Council with the approval of 

the Kingmakers . 

•Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, Okyenhene 

Krowor MP launches Women 

Empowerment programme tomorrow 



THE MEMBER of 

Parliament (MP) for 

Krowor Constituency, 

who doubles as the 

Minister of Fisheries and 

Aquaculture 

Development, Mrs Elizabeth Afoley 

Quaye, would tomorrow launch her 

women empowerment project aimed at 

encouraging women to fend for 

themselves. 

The project, dubbed “Krowor 

Women Empowerment Programme 

(KWEP),” is an initiative of the MP 

which is geared towards empowering 

women in the constituency with 

startup capitals, education and training 

to alleviate poverty in the area. 

The Guest of Honour for the 

launch tomorrow would be the First 

Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, and 

she will be joined by a host of others 

MP and dignitaries. 

Ahead of the launch, last Saturday, 

organisers of the event embarked on a 

float through the principal streets of 

the constituency to raise public 

awareness of it. 

Richmond Kotei Djani, the Project 

Director, told the DAILY 

HERITAGE that there are several 

modules under the programme, 

including one for girls aged 6 to 14, 

the youth in their teens and adult 

women. 

The New Patriotic Party’s 

Constituency Secretary, Mr Sebastian 

Ampah, explained that the initiative is 

in fulfilment of the MP’s campaign 

promise to the constituent. 

“Prior to the 2016 elections the 

then candidate Elizabeth Afoley Quaye 

made some campaign promises and 

one of the things was to give interestfree 

loans to women to improve their 

businesses and those who do not have 

jobs she would give them start-up 

money 

to 

improve 

upon their 

businesses and also 

give money to those who 

capital,” Mr 

Ampah noted 

“It is to 

equip those who 

are already doing 

business by 

giving them 

have identified certain businesses but 

don’t have the funds to start so we are 

given them money to start work to 

bring money into their pockets,” he 

added. 

The event, which started in March 

with distribution of items and monies 

to women during the 

International Women’s 

Day [celebration] 

to support 

women 

financially 

to create jobs, 

and support them 

to learn trade to be 

able to fend for themselves. 

Free SHS policy to keep NPP in power for a long time - Minister 

A DEPUTY Minister of Finance, 

Abena Osei-Asare, has said funding 

for the Free Senior High School 

education policy has been secured for 

the first four years. 

According to her, though there 

seems to be no sustainable source of 

funding for the programme presently, 

the government is committed to 

ensuring that the policy does not fail 

as she believes the programme would 

keep the New Patriotic Party 

government in power for a long time. 

She explained that funds from the 

oil resources and GETFund would be 

committed to running the programme 

during this period to benefit all 

Ghanaians. 

Madam Osei-Asare said this when 

she was responding to questions from 

participants during the launch of the 

2018 Citizens' Budget, an abridged 

version of the 2018 Budget Statement 

translated into various local 

dialects at Anyinam in the Eastern 

Region. 

Some participants asked the 

Minister about the sustainability of 

• Some participants at the float 

•Deputy Finance Minister Abena Osei Asare (Right) flanked by others 

the policy premising their arguments 

on the fact that there is no reliable 

source of funding and an entrenched 

law to commit successive 

• Mrs Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Krowor MP 

governments to the 

programme, hence 

their fear it may be a 

fiasco one day. 

"The President is 

dedicated, and for the 

next four years of his 

tenure, funding for 

Free SHS is secured, 

because by the grace 

of God we have oil 

so the President has 

committed portions 

of the oil resources 

to fund the Free SHS 

Policy, apart from 

this GETFUND, 

which has the 

mandate to set up 

support funds for 

Education and will 

from 2018 also support the 

programme,” Mad. Osei -Asare said 

She added that the government 

was still accepting proposals to collate 

views on sustainable way of funding 

the programme but requested 

Ghanaians to keep the NPP in power 

forever to secure the policy since Free 

SHS is a brain child policy of the 

party. 

"We wouldn't want to run it for 

just four years, so if you want free 

SHS to stay, then you know the party 

that is committed to the program; 

keep the NPP in power forever to 

sustain the Free SHS Policy ". 

The Eastern Regional Minister, 

Eric Kwakye Darfuor, justified 

infrastructural challenges in second 

cycle institutions with the fact that 

though the schools had existed for 

several decades no infrastructural 

audit had been done to address the 

challenges. 

Woyome fights 

single judge 

• 3 Supreme Court judges 

to rule on case Jan 17 



A THREE-MEMBER panel of 

Supreme Court justices chaired 

by Justice William Atuguba will 

on January 17, 2018 rule on an 

application by Mr Alfred Agbesi 

Woyome, who is asking the 

court to reverse orders made by 

Single judge Justice Ampah 

Benin. 

Justice Benin, who is solely 

presiding over the oral 

examination of the judgement 

debtor, has ordered for the sale 

of his properties and also 

invited the Registrar of the 

Lands Commission to come and 

account for Mr Woyome's 

immovable properties. 

But his lawyers say that move 

violates the Order 46 (1) which, 

according to them, does not 

allow the single judge to make 

such orders. 

Lawyer Osafo Buabeng told 

the court that under a ganishee 

order as per Order 46, it is only 

Woyome who is to testify in 

court so inviting the Land 

Commission means the judge is 

turning the exercise into a full 

trial. 

Deputy Attorney General 

and Minister for Justice, 

Godfred Yeboah Dame, 

opposed the application and 

said Order 46 is not only limited 

• Alfred Abesi Woyome 

to counsel's submission. 

He said the judge was right 

to make such orders and so the 

application should be dismissed 

because it is unmeritorious. 

The panel, including Justice 

Sophia Adenyira and Justice 

Jones Dotse, will determine the 

matter on January 17, 2018. 

Mr Woyome was not in 

court. 

Justice Benin who 

is solely presiding 

on the oral 

examination of the 

judgement debtor 

has ordered for 

the sale of his 

properties and 

also invited the 

Registrar of the 

Lands 

Commission to 

come and account 

for Mr Woyome's 

immovable 

properties.


14TH 

DECEMBER 

2017 

THURSDAY 

CURRENCY PARIS CODE BUYING SELLING 

US Dollar USDGHS 4.3608 4.3650 

RATES Pound Sterling GBPGHS 

5.6621 

5.6680 

Euro 

GBPGHS 

4.9737 

4.9763 

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Omnibank partners Intercity STC to boost operations 

OMNIBANK 

HAS signed a 

partnership 

agreement to 

provide total 

banking solutions 

to Intercity State Transport 

Corporation (ISTC). 

The partnership is expected to 

boost the transport company’s business 

to regain its dominance in the 

long-distance travel industry. 

One of the key elements of the 

agreement is the establishment of 

onsite cash collection centres at designated 

ISTC terminals. 

Signing the agreement on behalf 

of ISTC, the Managing Director, 

Nana Akomea, commended Omni- 

Bank for the initiative and noted that 

“the mandate was given to Omni- 

Bank with the assurance that cash 

generated in the terminals will be 

safe and also help the corporation 

concentrate on other operations.” 

•Mr Philip Oti-Mensah (4-L) handing over the document to Nana Akomea, (2-R) Managing 

Director of ISTC while others look on 

According to him, Omni- 

Bank was considered for this 

role because “they have 

shown us a certain diligence 

and interest in STC’s operations 

which we haven’t found 

in many banks”. 

Expressing appreciation to 

management of STC for giving 

the Bank the opportunity 

to roll out this service, the 

Managing Director of Omni- 

Bank, Mr Philip Oti-Mensah, 

stated that “the bank will live 

up to its mantra of exceptional 

service and deliver to 

make sure both parties succeed”. 

An onsite cash collection is 

one of the services provided 

by the bank to run cashiering 

services for its corporate 

clients on their premises for 

convenience and safety. 

All Nations University adjudged Oil & Gas Institution of the Year 

BY KOJO ANSAH 

ALL NATIONS University has been 

adjudged Oil and Gas Institution of 

the Year at the just-ended 2017 edition 

of Ghana Oil & Gas Awards and Exhibition 

(GOGA). 

The ceremony was organised by 

GOGA on December 8, 2017 in 

Accra to recognise outstanding 

achievements and contributions from 

both local and international companies 

and institutions that are directly or indirectly 

involved in Ghana’s oil and 

gas sector. 

The event focused on the human 

developments, technologies, financial 

packages, insurance products, best 

practices and related issues, while the 

university was honoured the ‘Oil & 

Gas Institution of the Year’ 2017 for 

human development and best practices. 

Dr Theophilus Oware, Senior Assistant 

Registrar, Advancement and 

Technology, and Nana (Dr) Baah 

Boakye, Dean of School of Engineering, 

received the award on behalf of 

the university. 

The president and founder 

of All Nations University, Dr 

Samuel Donkor, expressed his 

profound gratitude to the entire 

faculty for their immense contributions 

to the development 

of the various departments, especially 

the oil and gas. 

Dr Donkor stressed that the 

university spent over 

US$300,000 to revamp the oil 

and gas engineering labs as well 

as other engineering disciplines. 

“Notable amount of financial 

investment went into training 

and hiring of qualified 

senior faculty members at the 

department,” he revealed. 

He challenged other departments 

within the university to 

put their act together to crave 

for the optimum. 

According to the university 

president, the university has 

maintained academic excellence 

since its establishment and has perpetually 

pioneered academic innovations 

and novelty with fundamentally high 

moral and educational standard with 

the sole aim of raising leaders with 

rectitude to serve society. 

•Dr Theophilus Oware, Senior Assistant Registrar, Advancement and 

Technology and Nana (Dr) Baah Boakye, Dean of School of Engineering, receiving the 

award on behalf of the University. 

He said, "At All Nations University, 

we always choose to be leaders, to 

attest to this we were the first private 

university in Ghana to be accredited to 

offer Bachelor Degree in Oil and Gas 

Engineering, Biomedical Engineering 

and Electronics and Communications 

Engineering. 

Currently, All Nations University is 

the only university in Ghana to run an 

Oil & Gas Engineering programme." 

Dr Donkor said the aim of the 

programme is to train both local and 

international engineers to participate 

in the development of 

the oil and gas industry. 

"All Nations University 

is the only university 

in Ghana and 

sub-Sahara Africa to 

successfully design, 

build and deploy satellite 

cubeSat, 

GHANASAT 1, into 

orbit by our trained engineers.” 

“The next mission 

of the university is to 

collaborate with the 

government, and corporate 

bodies to design 

and build GhanaSat 2 

to address issues such 

as oil spillage, illegal 

mining, land and water 

pollution and other issues 

facing the Ghanaian 

society," he said. 

He added the university 

would keep aligning its curricula 

and practices to international 

standard to help the students in their 

career wherever they may choose to 

further their education or work.



DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 11 

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 

Oye Lithur to contest NDC 

Women’s Organiser post 

BY DANIEL KAKU 

POSTERS OF Mrs 

Nana Oye Lithur depicting 

her as contesting 

the position of the 

National Women’s Organiser 

of the opposition 

National Democratic 

Congress (NDC) have gone viral 

on social media. 

The posters came with the inscription, 

'Endorse Nana Oye as 

National Women Organiser; Advocate 

for Women Empowerment'. 

Although the NDC has not 

opened nominations yet, some 

bigwigs and others members of 

the party have shown their interest 

in taking the National Women’s 

Organiser position to lead the 

women in the party into the 2020 

general election. 

The current National Women’s 

Organiser of the party is Mrs Haijia 

Zinabu Mahama and she is yet 

to declare her intention as to 

whether she will seek re-election 

or not. 

However, it cannot be confirmed 

if the former Minister for 

Gender, Children and Social Protection 

is aware of the posters and 

whether she will want to take up 

the National Women’s Organiser 

position but till now Mrs Lithur is 

silent on the circulation. 

Mrs Lithur is currently receiving 

overwhelming endorsement on 

social media and this can influence 

her decision to contest the position. 

Meanwhile the NDC is said to 

have scheduled its 2018 national 

congress to take place in the Volta 

Region. 

Background 

Mrs Lithur is a Ghanaian barrister 

and politician and a former 

Minister for Gender, Children and 

Social Protection under the Mahama 

government. 

Behind the tough personality is 

her husband, Mr Tony Lithur, a 

lawyer in private practice by whom 

she has four children. 

She was born to Mr Michael 

Bampoe Addo, a former Deputy 

Controller and Accountant General 

of the Accountant General’s 

Department and Madam Victoria 

Duamroh, a former Senior Nursing 

Officer at the Korle Bu Teaching 

Hospital, both of blessed 

memory. Oye Lithur’s family background 

tells that her life definitely 

began on a smooth note. 

Education 

Mrs Lithur attended Ridge 

Church School in Accra, where 

she was imbibed with analytical 

skills that she continues to put to 

good use today. 

At Wesley Girls High School, 

Cape Coast, where she studied and 

obtained her General Certificate 

of Examination Ordinary and Advanced 

levels, the spirit of helping 

others was inculcated in Mrs 

Lithur. Nana Oye Lithur has a 

Bachelor of Law from the School 

of Law, Accra (1992) and obtained 

a Masters in Law, Human Rights 

and Democratisation in Africa 

from the University of Pretoria, 

South Africa, in 2001. 

She is currently the Chief Executive 

Director of the Human 

Rights Advocacy Centre. For years 

she worked as the Regional Coordinator, 

Africa for the Commonwealth 

Human Rights Initiative. 

•Nana Oye Lithur 

Leave and save yourself from impeachment 

•From (L-R): Mr Amadu Sulley, Director of Operations, Mrs Charlotte Osei, EC boss, and 

Mrs Georgina Opoku Amankwa, Director of Corporate Services 

THE PEOPLE’S National Convention 

(PNC) has charged the 

Commissioners of the Electoral 

Commission (EC) to immediately 

abdicate their positions to avoid 

the embarrassment of being impeached. 

According to the party, the embattled 

commissioners cannot be 

trusted to conduct credible elections 

in 2020 following their public 

spat. 

“The conduct, posture and relationship 

amongst the EC Commissioners 

and towards political 

parties prior to and after the 2016 

elections could be likened to that 

of an Iraq-Iran war or better still 

the recent tension between America 

and North Korea,”the party 

said in a statement. 

“The public acrimony, fights, 

accusations and insults against 

each other by the EC Commissioners 

just after the 2016 polls 

should be enough for an impeachment! 

Indeed, if impeachment is 

too strong in our ears, then we 

kindly, humbly and respectfully 

ask the EC Chair and her deputies 

to step aside to avert an impeachment!” 

it added. 

• PNC to EC bosses 

The EC 

boss, Mrs Charlotte 

Osei, and 

two of her 

deputies, Mr 

Amadu Sulley 

(in charge of 

Operations), 

and Mrs 

Georgina 

Opoku 

Amankwa (in 

charge of Corporate 

Services) 

on Monday appeared 

before 

the Chief Justice 

over allegations 

of 

mismanagement 

and incompetence at the 

Commission. 

The two deputies have accused 

their boss of financial mismanagement 

and poor leadership, an accusation 

she has rejected. 

Both parties have been given 

three weeks by the Chief Justice to 

file their statement of response to 

the committee after which the 

hearing will continue. 

Background 

Some individuals believed to 

be staff members of the Commission 

in July 2017 petitioned the 

President to remove Mrs Osei 

over alleged abuse of office, causing 

financial loss to the state and 

breaches of Ghana’s procurement 

laws. 

The petition was 

subsequently forwarded to the 

Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, as 

required by law, to establish a 

prima facie case based on which 

impeachment proceedings would 

commence against the EC chair.


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DAILY 

Politics 


HERITAGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 

We won’t allow Liberia to slide 

back into instability, conflict – Prez 

NEWS DESK REPORT 

PRESIDENT Nana 

Addo Dankwa Akufo- 

Addo says West Africa 

is not prepared to contemplate 

the scenario 

of Liberia sliding back into instability 

and conflict. 

According to President Akufo- 

Addo, the Economic Community 

of West African States 

(ECOWAS), over the years, has 

made a huge investment in promoting 

peace in Liberia, and “we 

will do all we can to ensure that 

democracy is entrenched in 

Liberia, and we will not accept any 

other outcome.” 

The President said the December 

7, 2017 ruling made by 

Liberia’s Supreme Court on their 

presidential election must ensure 

that Liberia will have its first 

peaceful handover of power from 

one democratically elected leader 

to another in 73 years. 

“The work undertaken by that 

truly historic figure, the first 

elected female leader of an African 

nation, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson 

Sirleaf, in stabilising the country, 

after a bitter and protracted 

civil war, has been very solid and 

commendable,” he said. 

The President continued, “I am 

anticipating that at the end of the 

day, Liberia’s institutions, particularly 

the Supreme Court and the 

Electoral Commission, will be up 

to the task, and shepherd the 

country through a successful 

transition.” 

President Akufo-Addo made 

this known on Wednesday, December 

13, 2017, when he delivered 

the Commencement 

Address at the 98th Commencement 

Exercises of the 

University of Liberia, in Monrovia. 

Transform structure 

of African economies 

With over 2,500 students 

graduating from the University, 

the President noted that it is 

not enough to hold successful 

elections every four years or to 

be able to criticize the government 

and to have a choice of 

100 radio stations. 

Democracy, he explained, 

must ensure that we are able to 

provide our people with a good 

quality of life. 

“The structure of 

economies, bequeathed to us by 

colonialism, was dependent on 

the production and export of 

raw materials. Even though Liberia 

was not colonised, the structure of 

her economy remains very much 

the same as the others on the continent. 

Such economies cannot create 

opportunities, prosperity and 

wealth for our people,” he said. 

“Too many of our 

peoples are still 

kept down by extreme 

poverty. The 

promise of prosperity 

that was to 

accompany freedom 

has not materialised 

for the 

mass of the 

African peoples, 

and has rather 

been replaced with 

widespread despondency 

across 

the continent. This 

is not what our 

forebears promised, 

•President Akufo-Addo delivers address at the 98th Commencement Exercises of the University of Liberia 

President Akufo-Addo stressed 

that the time is long overdue for 

Africa to transform the structure 

of African economies to serve better 

the needs of the African peoples. 

Promise of prosperity 

“Too many of our peoples are 

still kept down by extreme 

poverty. The promise of prosperity 

that was to accompany freedom 

has not materialised for the 

mass of the African peoples, and 

has rather been replaced with 

widespread despondency across 

the continent. This is not what 

our forebears promised,” he said. 

President Akufo-Addo, therefore, 

urged “the current generation” 

of African youths to meet 

the challenges of today, and help 

banish the disgraceful spectre of 

young Africans, taking harrowing 

risks in trekking the Sahara desert 

or drowning in the Mediterranean, 

seeking greener pastures in Europe. 

“Your generation has to ensure 

the fulfilment of the statement, 

made almost 70 years ago in 1949 

to the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly 

by Joseph Boakye Danquah, 

the father of modern 

Ghanaian nationalism, that ‘the 

two things go together, economic 

freedom and political freedom. 

And we must have the two together 

in this very age, and in the 

shortest possible time’,” President 

Akufo-Addo added. 

Democratic 

accountability 

To this end, President Akufo- 

Addo stressed that a new paradigm 

of leadership on the continent is 

called for, that is, “leaders who are 

committed to governing their peoples 

according to the rule of law, 

respect for individual liberties, 

human rights, the principles of 

democratic accountability and social 

justice; leaders who are looking 

past commodities to position their 

countries in the global marketplace”. 

The President also called for 

“leaders who are determined to 

free their peoples from a mindset 

of dependence, aid, charity and 

hand-outs; leaders who are bent on 

mobilizing Africa’s own immeasurable 

resources to resolve Africa’s 

problems; leaders who recognise 

the connectedness of their peoples 

and economies to those of their 

neighbours.” 

This new generation of African 

leaders, the President added, 

“should help bring dignity and 

prosperity to our continent and its 

long-suffering peoples.” 

“Your generation 

has to ensure the 

fulfilment of the 

statement, made 

almost 70 years 

ago in 1949 to the 

Gold Coast Legislative 

Assembly by 

Joseph Boakye 

Danquah, the father 

of modern 

Ghanaian nationalism, 

that ‘the two 

things go together, 

economic freedom 

and political freedom.



13 

BY ABIGAIL ASARE 

Painting in Ghana is 

discouraging —Del 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

PROMISING GHANA- 

IAN artist, Daniel Nana 

Ekow Brew Forson, 

known as Del, has expressed 

his disappointment 

in Ghanaians for not 

acknowledging the creativity of artists 

in the country. 

According to him, Ghanaians are 

discouraging young artists who want to 

have a profession in painting. 

LATE ASEMPA FM presenter, 

Kwadwo Asare Baffour 

Acheampong, popularly known 

as KABA, will be laid to rest 

this weekend. 

The funeral poster which is 

circulating on social media and 

sighted by the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE indicates that his 

body would be laid at the forecourt 

of the State House in 

Accra on Saturday, December 

16, for public viewing followed 

by the burial service. He will be 

buried at the Osu Cemetery. 

On Sunday, December 17, 

the thanksgiving service will be 

held at the Gethsemane 

In an interview with the DAILY 

HERITAGE, Del said, “As an artist 

in Ghana, he faces struggles which are 

comparatively worse than those of the 

artists based in more thriving countries 

with regard to the appreciation of art 

and patronage of it. 

He, however, says there is the hope 

that people would begin to catch the 

essence of art in Ghana and the fact 

that it is a representation of our roots 

and culture.” 

Del is an artist, fashion designer and 

into Cinematography, and says he 

• Del, artist 

KABA goes home tomorrow 

Methodist Church at Mamprobi, 

Accra. 

The Multimedia journalist 

passed away on Saturday, November 

18, at the Korle-Bu 

Teaching Hospital in Accra. 

Prior to his death, KABA 

was the host of political show 

dubbed ‘Eko Sii Sen’ on 

Asempa FM. 

His death was a shock to 

Ghanaians and the media industry, 

as many associates have 

described the tragic demise as 

sudden. 

KABA left behind a wife, 

Valentina Acheampong, and a 

seven-month-old daughter. 

started painting at an early age but professionally 

for a year now. His art works 

are identified with flowers. He paints 

depending on the mood he finds himself 

in. 

“My arts are channelled from all 

undiluted parts of me. They’re drawn 

from within myself and so represent 

me fully, in terms of what matter most 

to me and the things that catch my attention,” 

he said. 

He takes his inspiration from nature 

and inspired by the works of many 

artists and the passion with which they 

breathe life into their pieces. He said 

he also takes his inspiration from the 

coconut seller by the roadside and the 

businessman battling with rush time 

traffic to start a business day. 

“The young woman who thinks she 

is not beautiful does not appreciate herself 

as much as she should because she 

does not get as many likes as her peers, 

only because she does not put herself 

on display,” he said. 

Del, who wants to help the painting 

industry in Ghana, says he will contribute 

by collaborating with other 

artists to organize events, workshops 

and the like to change the perception of 

Ghanaians about art and also help raise 

funds for the needy. 

He advised young artists to draw 

from within regardless of the precarious 

situation in which they find themselves 

in the country, adding that “the 

art does not pay well in our part of the 

world.” 

• KABA died on Saturday, 

November 18, 2017 

I have no school 

certificate 

• McBrown reveals 

SCREEN GODDESS, Felicity 

Ama Agyemang, 

known as Nana Ama 

McBrown, has revealed 

that she has no school certificate 

and dropped out of 

Junior High School while 

in form 2. 

The ‘Kumasi Yonko’ actress 

also said she never got 

the opportunity to sit for 

the Basic Education Certificate 

Examination 

(BECE) while a student at 

Kwadaso L.A. J.S.S. 

According to her, the 

large family size at the 

time, coupled with its hard 

economic situation, did not 

favour her to complete 

school and had to bow out 

of school early in pursuit 

of other interests, especially 

professional football. 

“I dropped out of J.S.S 

because my parents were 

unable to finance my education. 

I don’t have a certificate 

even though I wish 

• Nana Ama 

McBrown, 

actress 

I had,” she disclosed to students 

at the Kwame 

Nkrumah University of 

Science and Technology 

(KNUST) during this year’s 

edition of ‘Tek Talk’. 

Though she observed 

that it has remained one of 

the major challenges in her 

life, it does not suggest the 

end of life as she appears 

to be doing well in other 

areas. She, however, hinted 

of plans to further her education 

in the near future. 

“Me, I don’t have the 

degree or the educational 

certificates but I will do 

them some day. I want to 

use this opportunity to 

urge you not to allow challenges 

like this to weigh 

you down. 

She advised the students 

to be themselves and not to 

strive to be like her, Nana 

Ama McBrown, because 

they will only remain in her 

shadow. Mynewsgh.com



Prez Akufo-Addo, Patrick 

Awuah, others among Mag’s 

100 Most Influential Africans 

GHANA’S PRESI- 

DENT, Nana 

Addo Dankwa 

Akufo-Addo, has 

been named among 

2017 New African Mag’s 100 Most 

Influential Africans. 

Chief Brand Officer for Uber, 

Bozoma Saint John, makes the list 

alongside other Ghanaians, including 

Founder of Ashesi University 

and winner of 2017 Qatar’s WISE 

Prize for Education,Patrick 

Awuah; Fred Swaniker of African 

Leadership Academy; and Edward 

Kobina Enninful, the first black 

and male Editor of British Vogue. 

Also making the list are feminist 

and top model of the moment 

– Adwoa Aboah and actor Idris 

Elba. 

The New African magazine 

published its 100 Most Influential 

Africans of 2017. The list gives a 

fine blend of Africans who are 

making an impact on the continent 

and people of African descent 

who are also excelling in their respective 

fields. 

The end-of-year compilation 

which the magazine started five 

years ago pools together persons 

who made news headlines in a particular 

year. 

Personalities across thirty-one 

African countries made the list. 

Nineteen from Anglophone Africa 

and the remaining from the Francophone 

side. The 2017 list also 

bridged the usually wide gender 

gap with 42 women (the 

highest since 2013) as 

against 58 men. 

Full List (Nationality 

/Descent in Brackets) 

Politics and Public Service 

Amina J Mohammed – UN Deputy Secretary 

General. (Nigeria) 

George Weah – Football legend and aspiring President 

(Liberia) 

Yemi Osinbajo – Vice President (Nigeria) 

Alpha Condé – President (Guinea) 

Mohammed VI – King (Morocco) 

Justice David Maraga – Supreme Court Judge 

(Kenya) 

Nana Akufo-Addo – President (Ghana) 

Sophia Abdi Noor – Politician (Kenya) 

Akinwumi Adesina – President Africa Development 

Bank; Winner – World Food Prize 2017 

(Nigeria) 

Vanessa Moungar – Director of Gender AfDB 

(Chad) 

Vera Songwe – New head – UN Economic Commission 

for Africa (Cameroon) 

Moussa Faki Mahamat – African Union Commission 

Chairperson (Chad) 

Paul Kagame – President (Rwanda) 

Pravin Gordhan – Political stalwart, former Finance 

Minister (South Africa) 

Sibeth Ndiaye – Advisor to French President 

Macron (Senegal) 

Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus – new and first African 

WHO Director General (Ethiopia) 

Bola Tinubu – Former Lagos State governor 

(Nigeria) 

Prof. Ruth Oniang’o – Nutritionist, Africa Food 

Prize Winner (Kenya) 

Business and Finance 

Aliko Dangote – Successful business 

mogul Africa’s richest man (Nigeria) 

Issad Rebrab – Founder and CEO, Cevital (Algeria) 

Isabel dos Santos – Billionaire businesswoman former 

Chairperson Sonangol (Angola) 

Mohamed Al Kettani – CEO Attijariwafa Bank 

(Morocco) 

Lionel Zinsou – creator of the Africa-France club 

(Benin) 

Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu – Minister of State 

for Petroleum Resources (Nigeria) 

Makhtar Diop – World Bank Vice-President for 

Africa (Senegal) 

Abdoulaye Coulibaly – Founder of the Bamako 

Forum (Mali) 

Abebe Selassie – Head of IMF African Department. 

(Ethiopia) 

James Mworia – MD and CEO of Centum Investments 

(Kenya) 

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais – Founder and 

CEO, Quantum Global (Angola) 

Mohammed Dewji – CEO MeTL Group (Tanzania) 

Strive Masiyiwa – Founder and Chairman of 

Econet Wireless (Zimbabwe) 

Alioune Gueye – Entrepreneur (Senegal) 

Moulay Hafid – Minister of Trade and Industry 

(Morocco) 

Dr Sahar Nasr – Minister of Investment and International 

Cooperation (Egypt) 

Olga Johnson – Secretary General of the Foundation 

for Energy (Benin) 

Elon Musk – Founder: PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and 

OpenAI (South Africa) 

Civil Society and Activism 

Haben Girma – Deafblind Harvard Law law graduate 

and disability rights activist 

(Eritrea/Ethiopia/US) 

Patrick ‘PLO’ Lumumba – Defence lawyer and 

anti-corruption champ (Kenya) 

Dr Fatima Akilu – Psychologists and founder 

Neem Tree Foundation Rehabilitating Boko 

Haram victims (Nigeria) 

Biram Dah Abeid – Awardin-winning anti-modern 

slavery hero (Mauritania) 

Ikponwosa Ero – UN’s Human Rights Council Independent 

Expert on the Enjoyment of Human 

Rights by Persons with Albinism. (Nigeria) 

Kumi Naidoo – Co-founder, Africans Rising 

(South Africa) 

Archbishop Stanley Ntagali – takes controversial 

stand on same-sex marriage (Uganda) 

Jaha Dukureh – Founder Safe Hands – Anti FGM 

and Child Marriage (Gambia) 

Science, Tech & Innovation 

Nunu Ntshingila – Head, Facebook Africa (South 

Africa) 

Dr Tebello Nyokong – Award-winning Chemist 

(South Africa) 

Adamu Waziri – Founder – Bino and Fino African 

children’s TV and YouTube animations 

Anne-Marie Imafidon – child progidy, co-founder 

of Stemettes for young women in science and tech 

(Nigeria/UK) 

Iyinoluwa ‘E’ Aboyeji – Founder, Flutterwave 

(Nigeria) 

Sara Menker – Gro Intelligence (Ethiopia) 

Jelani Aliyu – Design of GM’s electric Chevrolet 

Volt car, now new Director General of Nigeria’s 

National Automotive Design and Development 

Council (Nigerian) 

Dr Helena Ndume – one the world’s most prolific 

ophthalmologists has restored sights for over 

30000 people for free working with See International 

(Namibia) 

Yvonne Mburu – co-founder of Med in Africa 

(Kenya) 

Rebecca Enonchong – Founder AppsTech 

(Cameroon) 

Professor Yaye Kène-Gassama Dia – A scientist of 

many firsts (Senegal) 

Bozoma Saint John – Chief Brand Officer – Uber 

(Ghana) 

B 

-H 

• TO BE CONTINUED 

•Chidinma Ekile, 

Nigeria singer 

I was born blind – Chidinma 

NIGERIAN SINGER and MTN 

Project Fame winner, Chidinma 

Ekile, aka Ms Kedike, has revealed 

she was born blind. 

The star singer, in an interview 

with Guardian, said, according to 

her parents, she just could not see 

for some months. 

Chidinma said she would love 

to be seen more as someone who 

does a lot for visually-impaired 

kids and young people as she can 

relate with their situation. 

She said, “I was born blind. I 

just couldn’t see for some months. 

Since I sang about it, I felt the 

“For some years 

now, I think like 

two years or thereabout. 

I’ve been 

using my foundation 

to do quite a 

lot of things. 

need to help kids that find 

themselves in such situations or 

even worse. So every time I 

travel to these places, I try to extend 

a hand of love to these 

children. 

“For some years now, I think 

like two years or thereabout. I’ve 

been using my foundation to do 

quite a lot of things. I’ve been 

able to take it to some places in 

Africa. The last time, I think I 

was in Togo and I was able to 

do a few things with the SOS 

village, I hope to do more of 

that.”

DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Sports 


•Fatau Dauda 

Enyimba FC 

We are aiming for 

medals – Bombers 

BY ROLAND B. TAMAKLOE 

I wish I could 

play for Nigeria 

— Dauda 

DESPITE PLAYING for the Black Stars 

of Ghana at the AFCON and also at the 

2016 World Cup in Brazil, Ghana goalkeeper 

Fatau Dauda cannot hide his admiration 

for rival country Nigeria. 

The Enyimba FC shot-stopper will 

swiftly grasp any opportunity to play for 

the Super Eagles in the event that FIFA 

rules would allow him to do so. 

Dauda, who has been in top form for 

‘The People’s Elephants’, guiding them to 

qualify for the 2018 CAF Confederation 

Cup, has been ignored by Coach Kwesi Appiah 

since assuming his post in May this 

year. 

Asked whether he would love to represent 

the Super Eagles following the continuous 

snub by Ghana, Dauda laughed and 

said, “Why not? 

“If FIFA changes their law today and I 

have thechance to play for Nigeria I will 

gladly do that. I won’t think twice before 

accepting the offer. There are a lot of talented 

players in the Super Eagles and it will 

be great to be part of a great team. 

“Nigerians are passionate about football. 

They love football like we Ghanaians [do] 

and you know that rivalry will be there forever,” 

he told completesportsnigeriacom. 

Dauda is, however, not worried by the 

continuous snub by Coach Appiah, saying 

he will respond anytime Ghana needs him. 

“For me, the most important thing now 

is to continue to do well for my club. It is 

when you do well for your club that you 

will possibly be recognised by your country. 

The media and the federation in Ghana are 

monitoring my performance here and if 

the coaches deem it fit they will invite me,” 

Dauda said. completesportsnigeriacom. 

THE HEAD coach of 

the Black Bombers, 

Ofori Asare, says his 

team have started 

preparations for the 

upcoming Commonwealth games, 

which would be held next year in 

Gold Coast, Australia and would 

begin on April 4, 2018. 

Speaking to the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE, Coach Asare said the team 

are having a nonresidential training to 

build volume and stamina. He said 

this nonresidential training is used to 

educate the boxers more before they 

start residential training. 

Coach Asare confirmed that they have a 

total of 26 boxers in camp at the moment but 

the squad would be trimmed to 13 for the 

competition and that he hopes to be able to 

send a full team to the Commonwealth games 

• Rafatu Inusah, Ghana 

Rugby Board • Member and 

GIR Development Officer, 

says she has seen a massive 

improvement in most of the 

players from all schools 

next year. 

He continued that they have three months 

to get ready for the competition and are doing 

their best to get the boxers ready. 

The head coach said he was more concerned 

about the number of participants that 

could represent Ghana at the competition. 

He said some athletes had to be working 

alongside training for the competition and 

that they would be disappointed if they could 

not make it to the competition because they 

have been waiting for this opportunity for 

• The Black Bombers 

training at the Accra 

Sports Stadium 

THE YEAR ended on a high note 

in Accra when Ghana Rugby held a 

‘Get Into Rugby’ (GIR) year-end 

festival at the Kanda Cluster of 

Schools on Wednesday, December 

23, 2017. 

The schools involved in rugby 

ended the term with a touch rugby 

competition among boys and girls. 

It is the third time the programme 

had been held at the Kanda Cluster 

of schools. 

Participating schools included 

the Islamic Training Institute, Al- 

Waleed Comprehensive Islamic 

Basic School, Kanda 3&5 JHS, 

Kanda '1' Basic, Kanda A.M.A JHS 

and Aggrey Memorial International 

School. 

Each school presented two 

teams, boys and girls, with 12 players 

in each side, making up a total of 

96 participants in the event. 

The first round match was between 

the Islamic Training Institute 

against Al-Waleed. In Group B 

Kanda 3&5 JHS played against 

Kanda '1' Basic boys and girls. 

The winner in Group A played 

against the winner of group B while 

the losers competed against each 

other in round two. 

The winner in the girls' group 

was Kanda 3&5 JHS with the second 

position going to Islamic Training 

Institute. The third position 

went to Kanda '1' Basic while Alwaleed 

Comprehensive Islamic 

Basic School ended fourth. 

The winner in the Boys group 

was the Islamic Training Institute 

with Kanda '1' Basic coming second, 

Kanda 3&5 JHS third and Al- 

Waleed Comprehensive Islamic 

Basic being fourth. 

Rafatu Inusah, Ghana Rugby 

Board Member and GIR Development 

Officer, said she saw a massive 

improvement in most of the players 

from all schools. 

"Both boys and girls performed 

very well, and it was an achievement 

for not only me but for Ghana 

Rugby as a whole," Ms Inusah said. 

Inusah cautioned the students to 

take good care of themselves as 

they are going for the Christmas 

holidays and to welcome the new 

year with a renewed energy. 

She emphasised the values of 

rugby as respect, integrity, solidarity, 

discipline and the passion to succeed. 

four years which would mean those left out 

would have to look for other jobs. 

Coach Asare said they had been able to 

win a medal or two over the years and said 

they were aiming for silver or gold after winning 

bronze at the previous edition of the 

competition. 

He further stated that the growth of boxing 

in Ghana was due to the hard work that 

went on at the amateur level and pleaded for 

support for the team. 

‘Get Into Rugby’ ends 2017 on high note 

"I am grateful to God for a successful 

programme and also want to 

thank all who supported the event, 

especially the President and Board 

Chairman, Mr Herbert Mensah,” 

she said. 

Development Officers who took 

part in the festival included Ms 

Rafatu Inusah, Ms Kadija Adams, 

Mr Francis Donkor, Mr Emmanuel 

Kalos, Mr Philip Asomani and some 

players from Conquerors Sporting 

Club. 

Ms Inusah told the students always 

to be united as one big rugby 

family. 

Memunatu from Kanda 3&5 

JHS said she loves to play rugby because 

it is a friendly and exciting 

game for not only boys but girls as 

well.

Daily Heritage December 15

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