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•Mr Martin A. 

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•Mohammed- 

Mubarak Muntaka, 

Minority Chief Whip 

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WORLD 

Tunisia hit by new 

anti-austerity 

protests 

POLITICS 

Akufo-Addo surrounded 

by sycophants 

– Sammy 

Crabbe 

BUSINESS 

PG.04 

MTN Ghana Foundation 

adjudged ‘Foundation 

of the Year’ 

SPORTS 

PG.11 

Mercy Tagoe takes 

over Black Queens 

• As Dramani 

resigns 

PG.10 

PG.15 

$100k expats saga… 

Why Muntaka asked for probe 

BY STEPHEN ODOI-LARBI 

MINORITY 

CHIEF Whip 

and star witness 

in the ongoing 

probe into the 

cash for seat 

saga, Mohammed-Mubarak 

Muntaka, has told the five-member 

ad hoc committee that he was 

pushed to demand more answers 

because of the denial of knowledge 

of resource mobilisation in connection 

to the matter by the Deputy 

Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr 

Carlos Ahenkorah, and the Ministry's 

Chief Director. 

According to Mr Muntaka, after 

receiving a brief that some monies 

were collected from expatriates 

who attended the Ghana Expatriates 

Business Award, he approached 

the Chief Director of the 

Trade and Industry Ministry during 

a committee sitting and demanded 

from him why they allowed such a 

thing to happen. 

The Chief Director, according 

to Muntaka, denied knowledge of 

the matter. 

Further to that, he said he 

closely monitored Mr Ahenkorah, 

who also denied knowledge of the 

mobilization of resource at the 

event on Kasapa FM. 

This denial of knowledge, he 

noted, provoked him to demand 

more answers to the matter. 

"When I approached the Chief 

Director, he told me he didn't 

know what happened. So, I asked 

myself how such a thing would 

•Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, Minority Chief Whip 

happen without the knowledge of 

the chief principal spending officer. 

Subsequent to that, the deputy 

minister denied on Kasapa FM that 

the ministry was part of resource 

mobilisation. So their comments 

provoked me to dig further for answers," 

he noted in his testimony 

before the Ad hoc Committee on 

Thursday, January 11, 2018,” Mr 

Muntaka said. 

On January 5, 2018, the Minority 

Chief Whip moved a motion at 

an emergency Parliamentary sitting 

and called on the House to investigate 

the alleged levies collected by 

the Ministry of Trade and Industry 

and calculate the Ghana Cedi 

equivalent of various sums in dollars 

collected from expatriate businesses 

and related matters during 

the recently held Ghana Expatriates 

Business Awards in Accra. 

According to him, the documents 

at his disposal clearly 

showed that some monies were 

collected from expatriates, noting 

that such was unethical. 

The motion was seconded by 

the Member of Parliament (MP) 

for North Tongu, Samuel 

Okudzeto Ablakwa. 

But the Majority Leader, Mr 

Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, debating 

the motion, told the House 

that the mover of the motion himself 

did not sign the affidavit attached 

to his motion. 

Apart from that, 28 MPs whose 

names were captured in the list of 

77 as having signed to the affidavit 

calling for the emergency sitting 

had no signature against their 

names. 

Some of the Members were the 

Second Deputy Speaker, Hon 

Alban Bagbin; MP for Asunafo 

South, Eric Opoku; MP for Asutifi 

South, Collins Dauda; MP for Damongo, 

Adam Mutawakilu; MP for 

Korle Klottey, Zanetor Rawlings; 

MP for Ablekuma South, Alfred 

Okoe Vanderpuije; and Felicia 

Adjei, MP for Kintampo South. 

The rest were MP for Agona 

East, Queenstar Pokuah Sawyerr; 

MP for Tamale Central, Inusah 

Fuseini; and MP for Sekyere 

Afram Plains, Alex Adomako 

Mensah, among others. 

He told the House that based 

on the procedural irregularities 

which he considered to be gross 

abuse of the processes of Parliament, 

it was important for the 

Speaker to dismiss "what we have 

before us as incompetent." 

However, the Speaker, after listening 

to the debate on the issue, 

ruled that though there were procedural 

irregularities in the motion 

filed by the Minority, the matter before 

the House was of grave importance. 

He, therefore, directed the 

House be suspended for 30 minutes 

to enable the mover of the 

motion to correct the procedural irregularities. 

But such correction was not 

done when the House resumed sitting. 

The Speaker, ruling on the matter, 

directed that a five-member 

committee be set up to investigate 

it. 

The five are Majority Chief 

Whip, Kwesi Ameyaw Cheremeh, 

Chairman; MP for Adentan, Yaw 

Buabeng Asamoah; MP for New 

Juaben South, Dr Mark Assibey- 

Yeboah; MP for Ketu North, James 

Klutse Avedzi; and MP for Bolgatanga, 

Dominic Ayeni. 

The terms of reference of 

the committee include: 

1. When did the matter under 

consideration arise? 

2. Can it be perceived in terms 

of what the lawyers normally describe 

as Novus Actus Intervenus - 

is it something new that has arisen? 

3. Will the matter be raised during 

the regular sitting session with 

prudent vigilance? 

4. Has the matter been raised in 

any form or whatsoever during the 

session and why raise it in the moment 

Parliament goes on recess? 

The Committee, according to 

the Speaker, is to submit its report 

on January 24, 2018.

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It is better to fail in originality 

than to succeed in imitation 

— Herman Melville 

Akufo-Addo names NDC 

guru Special Prosecutor 

THE PRESI- 

DENT of the 

Republic, Nana 

Addo Dankwa 

Akufo-Addo, 

has nominated 

Martin Alamisi Burnes 

Kaiser Amidu as the Special 

Prosecutor, subject to the approval 

of Parliament. 

According to President Akufo- 

Addo, the Attorney General, Gloria 

Akuffo, by a letter dated Thursday, 

January 11, 2018, exercised her power 

of nomination, and submitted to him, 

for his acceptance, the name of Martin 

Amidu as the proposed Special 

Prosecutor. 

“I have accepted the Attorney 

General’s nomination, and will, in 

turn, submit for Parliament’s approval, 

when it reconvenes on January 23, 

2018, for its first meeting of this New 

Year, the name of Martin Alamisi 

Burnes Kaiser Amidu to be the first 

Special Prosecutor under the law,” he 

added. 

President Akufo-Addo made this 

known yesterday at a press conference 

at the Flagstaff House. 

The President told the media that 

the appointment of Mr Amidu as 

Special Prosecutor is because he is 

fully convinced that Mr Amidu, “a 

prominent legal personality, who held 

the high office of Attorney General 

of the Republic in the government of 

the late President Prof. John Evans 

Atta Mills, has the requisite integrity, 

competence, courage and independence 

of character to discharge effectively 

the responsibilities of this new 

office.” 

President Akufo-Addo recounted 

the commendation given by the 

Supreme Court to Martin Amidu for 

his public spiritedness in the case of 

Amidu vrs Attorney-General, Waterville 

and Woyome [2013-2014] 1 

SCGLR 112 @ 166. 

It would be recalled that in that 

judgement, the respected judge, Dotse 

JSC, of the Supreme Court stated that 

“…The role of the Plaintiff, Martin 

Alamisi Amidu, a distinguished former 

Attorney-General of this country, 

needs to be highly commended as was 

done in the lead judgment of the 

court. The Plaintiff, in my opinion, 

must be highly commended for his 

vigilante role in protecting the wanton 

dissipation of the public purse…” 

The court also, in a related suit, 

had this to say about Mr Amidu: “… 

the Plaintiff (that is to say Mr Amidu) 

•President Nana Akufo-Addo described Martin Amidu as the man with the requisite integrity 

is to be commended for his public 

spiritedness which has fuelled his 

meticulous and industrious presentation 

of this case…” 

President Akufo-Addo told the 

gathering that he could also, personally, 

vouch for the public spiritedness 

of Mr Amidu. 

“We were on opposite sides in a 

series of landmark constitutional 

cases in the period leading up to and 

in the early years of the 4th Republic, 

well known to students of constitutional 

law, which helped shape the 

evolution of the Constitution of the 

4th Republic. As Deputy Attorney 

General, as he then was, he conducted 

those cases with the fairness which 

should be a cardinal feature of the 

conduct of any self-respecting 

lawyer,” he said. 

The President noted further that 

Mr Amidu has indicated his willingness 

to accept the appointment as 

Special Prosecutor. 

“I, thus, have the honour to submit 

to Parliament, when it reconvenes, 

the name of Martin Alamisi 

Burnes Kaiser Amidu, for its approval 

for appointment as Special 

Prosecutor,” the President said. 

He said he was hopeful that the 

praiseworthy speed and dispatch 

with which Parliament acted on his 

nominees for ministerial appointment 

last year would characterise its 

handling of this nomination to enable 

Mr Amidu, as soon as possible, 

to enter into office to begin the important 

work that awaits him. 

“I congratulate him on his deserved 

nomination, and wish him 

Godspeed in the valiant efforts he 

will undoubtedly be making to enhance 

the quality of governance of 

our country. The Ghanaian people 

will be the beneficiaries of that,” the 

President concluded. 

Profile of Martin Amidu 

Martin A. B. K. Amidu is a Ghanaian 

politician. He was the Attorney- 

General and Minister for Justice from 

January 2011 till January 2012. He is 

the man who introduced the word 

‘gargantuan’, into the lexicon of 

Ghanaian politics, when he opened 

the can of worms about the Woyome 

scandal which was set to be the worst 

financial scandal in Ghana’s fiscal history 

at the time. 

Deputy Attorney-General 

Amidu served as the Deputy Attorney-General 

for about the last four 

years of the Provisional National Defence 

Council military government. 

Amidu is a member of the National 

Democratic Congress (NDC). 

After civilian rule was established 

in the Fourth Republic in January 

1993, he continued to serve in the 

government of Jerry John Rawlings as 

Deputy Attorney-General. This he did 

for both terms lasting eight years until 

January 2001. 

Minister for Interior 

In January 2010, following a cabinet 

reshuffle, President Mills replaced 

Cletus Avoka with Amidu as the Minister 

for Interior. As Amidu is a 

Builsa, some people raised questions 

as to his neutrality in dealing with the 

Bawku conflict. He, however, went 

successfully through vetting by the 

Parliament of Ghana and assumed his 

post. 

Attorney General 

Following the second major cabinet 

reshuffle by President Mills, 

Amidu became the Attorney General 

and Minister for Justice of Ghana. 

Removal from Office 

Amidu was relieved of his post on 

Thursday January 19, 2012 by President 

John Evans Atta Mills under circumstances 

described by aides as ‘his 

misconduct’ at a meeting chaired by 

the president at the Osu Castle on 

January 18, 2012. 

He made allegations related to alleged 

financial impropriety on the part 

of another cabinet minister, allegations 

he was asked by the president to 

substantiate. 

Amidu, the former Attorney General, 

single-handedly challenged the legality 

of the payments at the Supreme 

Court after having been relieved of 

his post. 

The Supreme Court in 2014 ordered 

Mr Woyome to pay back the 

money as Supreme Court judges 

unanimously granted the Attorney- 

General clearance to execute the 

court’s judgment, ordering Mr Woyome 

to refund the cash to the State. 

Following the delays in retrieving 

the money, Mr. Amidu in 2016 filed 

an application at the Supreme Court 

seeking to examine Woyome on how 

he would pay back the money, after 

the Attorney General’s office under 

the Mahama Administration, led by 

the former Minister for Justice, Marietta 

Brew Appiah-Oppong, discontinued 

a similar application. 

In February 2017, however, Mr. 

Amidu withdrew his suit seeking an 

oral examination, explaining that the 

change of government under the New 

Patriotic Party led by His Excellency 

the President, Nana Addo Dankwah 

Akuffo Addo, and assurance by his 

Attorney General, Miss Gloria 

Akuffo, to retrieve all judgment debts 

wrongfully paid to Mr Woyome were 

the reason for his decision and 

prayed the Supreme Court to stay proceedings 

on the oral examination 

since he had filed for a review of the 

case. 

Woyome’s lawyer, Ken Anku, argued 

that his client would face an irreparable 

damage if the oral 

examination was allowed to take place 

but the Deputy Attorney General, 

Godfred Dame, opposed the application, 

describing the reasons as incompetent 

and unmeritorious. 

Amidu has also been in private 

legal practice as a barrister and solicitor 

of the Supreme Court of Ghana 

and also as a private, professional conflict 

resolution consultant. 

He has authored at least six outstanding 

legal publications discussing 

issues like the power of a court to 

convict an accused person for a lesser 

or included offence other than 

charged; the qualification and the constitutional 

position of the Attorney- 

General; and the scope and effect of 

judicial power in the enforcement and 

defence of the 1992 Constitution of 

Ghana. 

His new calling as ‘citizen vigilante’ 

found expression in his introduction 

late last year, of the now very hackneyed 

word ‘gargantuan’ into Ghana’s 

politics, a word he used to describe 

the scale of fraud he insisted had been 

perpetrated by his colleagues in government 

against the State, especially in 

the fraudulent payment of court 

judgement debts to organisations and 

individuals. 

Education 

Unlike many high-profile lawyers 

of his generation, Mr Amidu did not 

attend the best of second cycle 

schools. 

After elementary school, he 

gained admission to a private educational 

institution in Tamale housed in 

makeshift structures and designated a 

commercial school by its founder and 

headmaster, Mr Ben Gogoe. 

As the years went by, Mr Amidu 

became obsessed with books, especially 

political science books. He fed 

ravenously on Marx and Engels. 

After law school, Mr Amidu, like 

many young intellectuals of the time 

who had the outlook of ‘progressives’, 

drifted into the emerging leftist 

politics of the June Four Movement. 

Mr Amidu graduated from the 

University of Ghana in 1976 with an 

LLB (Hons) and the Ghana Law 

School in 1978 with a Barrister/Solicitor 

at Law (BL) degree. 

He also holds a Master of Arts 

Degree in Conflict Resolution from 

the Antioch University, Ohio, USA. 

The former Attorney-General and 

Minister of Justice joined the NDC 

in 1992. 

He was the party’s vice-presidential 

candidate in the December 2000 

presidential elections which the NDC 

presidential candidate, Professor 

J.E.A Mills, lost to the New Patriotic 

Party’s (NPP’s) John Agyekum Kufuor.

Inside Jan 12, 2018 .qxp_Layout 1 1/11/18 8:35 PM Page 3 

•Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema 

is Africa's longest-serving ruler 

Equatorial Guinea failed coup planned overseas 

A FAILED attempt to overthrow 

Equatorial Guinea's government in 

December was organised in 

France, the oil-rich West African 

state's foreign minister has said, 

AFP news agency report 

However, the coup plot did not 

involve the French government, 

Agapito Mba Mokuy added, without 

naming the suspects. 

"We will cooperate with France 

as soon as we have more information," 

he was quoted as saying. 

Mr Moku also announced that 

Equatorial Guinea was suspending 

its participation in a scheme to 

allow free visa travel among six 

countries in the Central African 

Economic and Monetary Community 

(Cemac) grouping. 

The scheme could not be implemented, 

"given what has happened 

in Equatorial Guinea" and 

the absence of "secure" passports, 

AFP quoted him as saying. 

Equatorial Guinea has been 

ruled since 1979 by Teodoro 

Obiang Nguema, Africa's longestserving 

president. 

His critics accuse him of being 

one of Africa's most repressive 

rulers. BBC 



World news in 4 stories 

Yakuza boss arrested in Thailand after tattoos go viral 

THAI POLICE have arrested a 

Japanese yakuza boss on the 

run for 15 years after pictures 

of his tattoos went viral on 

Facebook. 

Shigeharu Shirai is accused 

of murdering a gang rival in 

2003. 

The photographs of the 74- 

year old fugitive's elaborate 

yakuza tattoos were taken by a 

local person in Thailand unaware 

of his identity. 

The mafia-like yakuza gangs 

have been part of Japanese society 

for centuries and have an 

estimated 60,000 members. 

While the gangs themselves 

are not illegal, much of their 

earnings are gained illicitly 

through gambling, prostitution, 

drug trafficking and cyberhacking. 

When the pictures of Mr 

Shirai went viral they caught 

the attention of Japanese police 

who requested his arrest. 

Police detained him in the 

town of Lopburi, north of 

Bangkok, for visa violations 

and he will be extradited to 

Japan to face the murder 

charges. 

According to Thai police, he 

admitted he was a member of a 

yakuza gang but did not confess 

to the 2003 murder. He 

fled Japan for Thailand in 2005. 

BBC 

•Shigeharu Shirai is to be extradited to Japan 

•Riot police used tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters 

Tunisia hit by new 

anti-austerity protests 

Riots in Pakistan's 

Kasur over child 

rape, killing 

TWO PROTESTERS have 

died in rioting over the latest 

in a series of child murders 

in the Pakistani city of 

Kasur. 

The body of eight-yearold 

Zainab was found in a 

rubbish dump on Tuesday, 

several days after she went 

missing. She had been raped 

and strangled. 

Angry demonstrators say 

the authorities are doing little 

to stem the spate of abductions, 

sexual assaults and 

killings. 

Police in Kasur say there 

have been 12 similar murders 

in the past two years. 

They say five of them are 

linked to one suspect who is 

being hunted by hundreds of 

officers and DNA samples 

have been taken from 90 

possible suspects. 

The two protesters were 

killed after police shot at an 

angry crowd attempting to 

storm a police headquarters 

in Kasur, about 20km (12 

miles) south of Lahore. 

Zainab's murder has 

sparked outrage across the 

rest of Pakistan. Well-known 

film and cricket stars demanded 

the killer be caught 

and the military offered support 

to the police. BBC 

MORE THAN 300 

people have been 

arrested in 

Tunisia 

overnight, as 

anger over the 

government's austerity measures 

spilled into the streets once more. 

Police used tear gas against large 

crowds demonstrating against price 

rises affecting basic goods. 

The army was deployed into 

towns across the country to protect 

government buildings, which have 

become targets. 

PM Youssef Chahed condemned 

acts of "vandalism" by the 

protesters, saying they were trying 

to weaken the state. 

The protests began peacefully 

last week, but escalated on Monday 

evening. Wednesday was the third 

successive night of violence, with 

almost 600 people arrested in total 

since the start of the week. 

Interior ministry spokesman 

Khelifa Chiban told news outlets 

that more than 300 were arrested 

on Wednesday night alone. 

The government has accused 

demonstrators of torching police 

cars and attacking officials. Some 

people attempted to take over 

shopping malls and stores, while 

others blocked roads. 

The army was also forced to 

enter the town of Thala, near the 

Algerian border, overnight on 

Wednesday after police were forced 

to retreat after protesters burnt 

down the national security offices, 

news agency Reuters reports. 

The defence ministry said the 

army was now protecting banks, 

post offices and other government 

buildings in Tunisia's main cities. 

BBC 

•Protesters say the authorities are doing little to 

stop the killings



Why can’t the security agencies contain 

the Fulani herdsmen menace? 

IT APPEARS our security services 

are losing the fight against the lawless 

and brutish nomadic herdsmen in the 

country. 

Though the security apparatus has 

set up Operation Cow Leg to flush 

out the nomadic herdsmen who are 

wreaking havoc on Agogo in the 

Ashanti Region, Affram Plains in the 

Eastern Region and other parts of the 

country, the Fulani herdsmen appear 

to be defeating the taskforce. 

Days ago, five soldiers were shot at 

Agogo by some cruelest Fulani herdsmen 

when the soldiers stormed the 

grazing area where the herdsmen feed 

their cattle. The soldiers were shot at 

during an exchange of gunfire with 

the nomads. 

Many Ghanaians reacted angrily at 

the shooting incident and charged the 

police to apprehend all the perpetrators. 

While the police are busy hunting 

the culprits, another reprehensible incident 

has occurred at Drobonso in 

the Sekyere Afram Plains District of 

the Ashanti Region. 

According to media reports, two 

police officers stationed at Drobonso 

were yesterday dawn killed by some 

armed men who blocked the road. 

A third victim is said to be receiving 

treatment at the Okomfo Anokye 

Teaching Hospital. The attack is the 

second in a week after armed herdsmen 

shot at the five soldiers at Agogo. 

The chief of Drobonso, Nana 

Dwamena Dankwa, according to 

media reports, suspects nomadic 

herdsmen were behind the attack. 

The inference is that there could be 

deadly reprisal attacks against the Fulani 

herdsmen by the residents of the 

affected areas. 

The security forces should, therefore, 

be on red alert in all flashpoints 

where the Fulani herdsmen menace is 

rife. 

They must also up their strategies 

to nip the growing Fulani herdsmen 

menace in the bud because it is getting 

out of hand and creating the impression 

that the security forces are 

unable to contain the situation. 

Full trial of Major Mahama 

‘killers’ begins Feb 15 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

THE 14 accused persons 

being held for 

the death of Major 

Maxwell Adams Mahama 

have been officially 

charged and 

committed to stand trial at the 

High Court for three charges, including 

murder. 

At their committal proceedings 

at the Accra Central Magistrate 

Court yesterday, the presiding 

judge, His Worship Mr Ebenezer 

Kweku Ansah, said per the evidence 

before the court the accused 

persons must be made to appear 

before the High Court to answer 

to the three charges levelled 

against them. 

The trial at the High Court is 

expected to start on February 15, 

2018 after the State presents 52 

exhibits to have them committed. 

Who are they? 

The 14 accused persons expected 

to stand trial are William 

Baah, the assembly member; 

• Some of the accused persons after court proceedings 

Bernard Asamoah, Kofi Nyame, 

Akwasi Baah, Kwame Tuffuor, 

Joseph Appiah and Michael 

Annin. 

The rest are Bismark Donkor, 

John Bosie, Akwasi Asante, 

Charles Kwaning, Emmanuel 

Badu, Bismark Abanga and 

Kwadwo Nimah 

State presents 52 pieces of evidence 

State Prosecutors presented 52 

pieces of evidence to incriminate 

the accused persons, including a 

recorded video and pictures of 

crime scene. 

In the Bill of Indictment, there 

were enough evidence, including 

pellets, empty cartridges, pictures 

from the crime scene, two guns, 

partly burnt shirt, a cell phone belonging 

to Major Maxwell Mahama, 

cement blocks, stick, metal 

bar, and stones among other 

things against them. 

Mr Kweku-Ansah, after perusing 

the evidence, said he become 

convinced and committed the 14 

accused persons to trial at the 

High Court. 

Accused persons to rely 

on Diaso police 

Defence counsel, Mr George 

Bernard Shaw, told the court that 

though they had witnesses to call, 

they preferred to withhold the 

names and only bring them to 

court when needed. 

He, however, indicated to the 

court that some police officers at 

Diaso would be part of the witnesses 

they intended to call in the 

course of the trial at the High 

Court. 

Explaining why his clients declined 

to comment when offered 

the opportunity by the court, Mr 

Shaw said per the instructions he 

had received, they had nothing to 

do with the crime. 

“It is their right to comment or 

not on the prosecutions’ evidence...we 

have made known to 

the court that they do not agree 

with some of the things that the 

prosecutions are alleging,” Mr 

Shaw added. 

Background 

Major Mahama of the 5 Battalion 

of Infantry was lynched while 

he was on his early morning jogging 

on Monday, May 29, 2017. 

In a video shot of the incident 

and circulated on social media, the 

officer was seen surrendering his 

weapon before the mob carried 

out their dastardly act. The mob 

later claimed they mistook him for 

an armed robber because he carried 

a weapon. 

The fallen officer, whom many 

have described as decent and gentle, 

died on Monday, May 29, after 

he was beaten, stoned and burnt 

by residents of Denkyira-Obuasi 

in the Central Region. 

He was posthumously promoted 

to the rank of Major on 

June 5, by President Nana Addo 

Dankwa Akufo-Addo. 

Parliament in November 2017 

approved a bill that will make the 

spouse and children of Major Mahama 

the State’s responsibility. The 

bill was in fulfilment of the President's 

promise to the family of 

Major Mahama.


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KIDDIES Corner 

Short stories for kids 

WORD SEARCH PUZZLE 

The Elephant Rope 

AS A man was 

passing by elephants, 

he suddenly 

stopped, 

confused by the 

fact that these 

huge creatures were being held 

by only a small rope tied to their 

front leg. No chains, no cages. It 

was obvious that the elephants 

could, at anytime, break away 

from their bonds but for some 

reason, they did not. 

He saw a trainer nearby and 

asked why these animals just 

stood there and made no attempt 

to get away. “Well,” trainer 

said, “when they are very young 

and much smaller we use the 

same size rope to tie them and, 

at that age, it’s enough to hold 

them. As they grow up, they are 

conditioned to believe they cannot 

break away. They believe the 

rope can still hold them, so they 

never try to break free.” 

The man was amazed. These 

animals could at any time break 

free from their bonds but because 

they believed they couldn’t, 

they were stuck right where 

they were. 

Like the elephants, how many 

of us go through life hanging 

onto a belief that we cannot do 

something, simply because we 

failed at it once before? 

Failure is part of learning; we 

should never give up the struggle 

in life. www.livin3.com 

MATHS PROBLEMS 

Solve the following 

1.Multiply: (x – 4)(x + 5) 

(a) x2 + 5x - 20, 

(b) x2 - 4x - 20, 

(c) x2 - x - 20, 

(d) x2 + x - 20. 

Solution: 

(x – 4)(x + 5). 

= x(x + 5) -4(x + 5). 

= x2 + 5x – 4x – 20. 

= x2 + x - 20. 

Answer: (d) 

2. Factor: 5x2 – 15x – 20. 

(a) 5(x-4)(x+1), 

(b) -2(x-4)(x+5), 

(c) -5(x+4)(x-1), 

(d) 5(x+4)(x+1). 

Solution: 

5x2 – 15x – 20. 

= 5(x2 – 3x – 4). 

= 5(x2 – 4x + x – 4). 

= 5{x(x - 4) +1(x - 4)}. 

= 5(x-4)(x+1). 

Answer: (a). 

3. The sum of three numbers is 98. 

The ratio of the first to the second 

is 2/3, and the ratio of the second to the 

third is 5/8. The second number is: 

(a) 15, (b) 20, (c) 30, (d) 32, (e) 33 

Solution: 

Let the three numbers be x, y and z. 

Sum of the numbers is 98. 

x + y + z = 98………………(i) 

The ratio of the first to the second 

is 2/3. 

x/y = 2/3. 

x = 2/3 × y. 

x = 2y/3. 

The ratio of the second to the third is 5/8. 

y/z = 5/8. 

z/y = 8/5. 

z = 8/5 × y. 

z = 8y/5. 

Put the value of x = 2y/3 and z = 8y/5 in (i). 

2y/3 + y + 8y/5 = 98 

49y/15 = 98. 

49y = 98 × 15. 

49y = 1470. 

y = 1470/49. 

y = 30 . 

Therefore, the second number is 30.


How to get rid of catarrh 

• Take sips of cold or 

warm water. 

• Use a saline nasal rinse. 

• Inhale steam. 

• Try oil-pulling with coconut 

oil. 

• Gargle with salt water. 

• Ask a pharmacist. 

about over-the-counter 

medications. 

• See a doctor under certain 

conditions. 

• Rule out and treat underlying 

conditions. 

• Ask your doctor about 

self-help techniques. 



&Env. 

US team gives medical care in 

under-served communities 

BY CLIFFORD YAW FRIMPONG 

ACORPS of medical 

practitioners 

from the United 

States is in the 

country to extend 

medical care to 

children in a number of underserved 

communities within the 

Greater Accra Region. 

The team of about 25 medical 

personnel, comprising ophthalmologists, 

dentists, obstetricians 

and general practitioners, is being 

supported by local volunteers to 

deliver healthcare to thousands of 

households. 

The exercise, which commenced 

in Ashaiman on January 

8, was extended to communities in 

the Ningo-Prampram District, 

with the support of the Sentse of 

Prampram and the Member of 

Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr 

Samuel George Nartey. 

The group is expected to end 

its medical mission trip tomorrow 

Saturday with a visit to the 

Sekondi Prison, where they will 

donate sanitary items to female inmates. 

Beneficiaries in the 

• Mrs Gloria Nimo, Founder of Amazing 

Grace Children Foundation 

Lekpongunor community and its 

environs on Tuesday, January 9, 

received attention for various 

medical conditions, including conjunctivitis, 

worm infestation, ulcers 

and malaria. They were also 

given free dental and ophthalmological 

care. 

This is an annual exercise 

which has run for the past three 

years and is coordinated by the 

Amazing Grace Children’s Foundation, 

an America-based charity 

founded by Ghanaian Mrs Gloria 

Nimo. 

The organisation, whose ultimate 

goal is to help reduce infant 

and maternal mortality rates in 

Ghana, is already engaged in an 

ongoing project to build an ultramodern 

children's hospital at 

Prampram towards attaining that 

goal. 

This is a project in which the 

MP for the area has shown profound 

interest and is partnering 

with the traditional authorities in 

the area to bring to fruition. 

This hospital, which would be 

the second of such facility in the 

country after the Princess Marie 

Louise Children’s Hospital in 

Accra, would also serve as a research 

centre for paediatrics in the 

country. 

Mrs Nimo, speaking to journalists 

on the third day of the medical 

outreach held in 

Lekpongunor, stressed the need 

for Ghana to increase 

efforts in reducing 

infant and 

maternal mortality 

to meet the Millennium 

Development 

Goals. 

She said in order 

to have healthy 

adults in the future, 

special attention 

ought to be paid to 

the medical needs 

of children and 

must be at the top 

of the health 

agenda of successive 

governments. 

Mrs Nimo bemoaned 

the alarming 

rate of infant 

and maternal mortality 

in the country, 

attributing it to the 

lack of specialised 

facilities and personnel. 

“Children’s healthcare is very 

delicate and requires special attention 

and training. This, however, 

seems to be lacking in this country, 

and our mission is in response 

to the situation,” she said. 

“Adults know where to go for 

specialist care but parents do not 

know where to take their children 

for such.” 

She further stressed the need 

for the establishment of medical 

facilities across the country to deliver 

quality healthcare, particularly 

to women and children, saying 

that would help Ghana reverse the 

trend of infant and maternal 

deaths. 

Miss Jessica Jaffe, a volunteer 

on the group, expressed her excitement 

for being part of the exercise 

and was pleased with the 

amount of information she had 

gathered from the communities. 

Madam Dora Narh, a nursing 

mother, expressed her gratitude to 

the outreach team for giving her 

child medical care which she otherwise 

would not have had access 

to. 

Meanwhile, Mrs Nimo has said 

her foundation shall work hard to 

mobilise resources to see to the 

completion of the hospital. 

She has thus called on the government 

of Ghana, corporate 

bodies and non-governmental organisations 

to come on board to 

help complete the project. 

People who try one cigarette become daily smokers - Study 

AT LEAST two-thirds of those 

who try cigarettes go on to become 

daily smokers, even if only 

temporarily, research suggests. 

Data from four countries, UK, 

US, Australia and New Zealand, 

found that 60.3% of people had 

tried smoking and an estimated 

68.9% of them progressed to a 

daily habit. 

The study's authors said the 

research showed the ‘remarkable 

hold’ cigarettes could establish 

after one experience. 

They said it confirmed the importance 

of stopping cigarette experimentation. 

The meta-analysis, published 

in the journal ‘Nicotine and Tobacco 

Research’, was based on 

215,000 respondents to eight surveys 

between 2000 and 2016 contained 

in the Global Health Data 

Exchange. 

Lead researcher Prof. Peter 

Hajek, from Queen Mary University 

of London, said it was the 

first time the link between trying a 

first cigarette and becoming a regular 

smoker had been documented 

in such a large set of data. 

“We've found that the conversion 

rate from first-time smoker 

to daily smoker is surprisingly 

high, which helps confirm the importance 

of preventing cigarette 

experimentation in the first 

place,” he said. 

“The UK is seeing a dramatic 

reduction in smoking at the moment 

and this tallies with recent 

findings that only 19% of 11- to 

15-year-olds have ever tried a cigarette, 

so the good news is that 

we are on the right track.” 

Smoking rates all-time low 

In 2016, 15.5% of adults from 

the UK smoked, about 7.6 million 

people, according to the Office 

for National Statistics, is down 

from 19.9% in 2010. 

In the same period, 19.3% of 

18- to 24-year-olds were smokers, 

compared with 25.8% in 2010. 

Deborah Arnott, chief executive 

of the charity Action on 

Smoking and Health, called for 

greater government regulation of 

tobacco sales. 

"The government is refusing 

to introduce licensing for tobacco 

retailers, even though there is 

strong support for this both from 

the public and retailers," she said. 

However, the study's authors 

said there were limitations to the 

research. 

One was that the surveys had 

yielded different results for the 

proportions who had progressed 

to becoming daily smokers - from 

52% in one in the US to 82% in 

another in the UK - which meant 

the 68.9% figure was an estimate, 

as a weighted average of the figures. 

The authors also said there 

were questions about the accuracy 

of people's recall of their smoking 

history.

spread_Jan 12 2018.qxp_SHOWBIZ TEMP 1/11/18 8:36 PM Page 1 

A DAY’S sensitisation workshop for 

journalists, staff of Information 

Services Department and National 

Commission on Civic Education on 

the creation of new regions held in 

the Volta Region has ended in Ho 

with a call on the beneficiaries to 

educate the public about the 

misconception that the process was 

politically motivated. 

The workshop, which was the 

second in the series was organized 

by the Minister of Reorganization 

and Development. 

Addressing the participants, Dan 

Kwaku Botwe, Minister of 

Reorganisation and Development 

said the creation of the new regions 

was demand-driven and that the 

president could not create a region 

by a fiat but can only facilitate it, 

saying there is no partisan 

consideration in the creation of the 

new regions. 

He said the government was not 

involved in the mooting of creation 

of new regions and would not 

impose it on the people but rather it 

was the people themselves who are 

demanding it. 

The minister said the President 

was only acting on Chapter 2 (2) of 

the 1992 Constitution upon the 

advice of the Council of State by 

appointing a commission of inquiry 

to get into the petitioners demand 

and make recommendations. 

He alleged the three past 

Presidents, on meeting the president 

at the Flagstaff House, also agreed 

to the need for the creation of new 

regions and advised him to tread 

cautiously. 

He stated that the first time the 

country saw reorganisation was in 

1983 during the Provisional 

National Defence Council era when 

the Upper Region was separated but 

now they are using constitutional 

process to undertake this important 

execrate. 

The minister tasked stakeholders 

to explain the process well to the 

people so that people who are 

campaigning with mischief would 

understand it themselves. 

He stressed that his ministry was 

News 

Media, others 

schooled on creation 

of new regions 

FROM PATRICE SYLVESTER 

SELORMEY, HO 

not advocating the creation of any 

new region, adding they were only 

sensitising the people in 

communities where petitions had 

come from. 

The minister reiterated that the 

government was not spending a 

pesewa to propagate the aeration of 

any new region. 

He therefore urged the people to 

take advantage of the constitution 

and do the right thing. 

Answering questions from the 

participants, he said the government 

had not given any name or 

demarcation and that the capital had 

not been decided on any creation. 

“If you don’t give birth to a baby, 

how do you give it a name?” he 

asked. 

The Volta Regional Minister, Dr 

Archibald Yaw Letsa, said the 

workshop was to brief stakeholders 

to understand the process so that 

they can properly inform the 

agitating public, adding there should 

not be any prejudice so that there 

could informed opinion. 

He stated that 

the first time the 

country saw 

reorganization 

was in 1983 

during the 

Provisional 

National Defence 

Council era when 

the Upper Region 

was separated 

but now they are 

using 

constitutional 

process to 

undertake this 

important 

execrate. 

BY KOJO ANSAH 

SCORES OF students of Oti 

Boateng Senior High School in 

Koforidua in the Eastern Region 

have had their hairs barbered on 

campus on orders of the school 

authorities. 

The students, mostly boarders, 

reported at the school from 

vacation with bushy hairs contrary 

to school regulations, hence the 

compulsory barbering. Some of the 

day students with bushy hair were 

asked to go home to be barbered. 

Also, students who wore 

unprescribed sandals had them 

seized for a period before being 

released to them. The students have 

been ordered to wear black or 

brown leather sandals with flathead. 

Some parents who were not 

happy with the action of the school 

authorities stormed there to express 

concerns. 

But the headmaster of the 

school, John Hawkson Arthur, 

explained that the decision was to 

enforce discipline among students. 

Some of the students, he said, came 

to school wearing corset heels. 

He lamented that parents were 

becoming less interested in the 

welfare of their children. 

DAILY HERITAGE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 

Oti Boateng SHS shaves recalcitrant students 

PWDs face excruciating 

challenges – Research 

BY MOHAMMED AWAL 

ARESEARCH 

commissioned by EIB 

Network and 

conducted by Hope for 

Future Generations 

(HFFG) has revealed 

that majority of People with 

Disabilities (PWDs) in the Northern 

Region face serious challenges in 

relation to access to entrepreneurial, 

economic and livelihood 

opportunities. 

This, according to the research, 

makes it difficult for them to save 

since their monthly expenses are much 

more than their income. The research, 

which focused on the Savelugu and 

Yendi districts in the region, revealed 

that most of the participants are 

skilled but they need adequate funds 

to operate. 

‘’Out of participants who receive 

monthly income, 60.5%, representing 

23 females, have incomes that range 

from GH$100 to GH$ 500,’’ the 

report disclosed. 

It stated that PWDs find it difficult 

to get access to entrepreneurial 

services in these two districts, stating, 

‘’the challenge, however, is that, these 

services are difficult to access and also 

some of them not available.’’ 

The research stated that “57.9% of 

the participants indicated that it is 

quite difficult to access these services 

even though some of them (Soap 

making, Beads making, Tailoring and 

others) exist but social and 

entrepreneurial services are difficult to 

find in these districts and even if one 

finds them, the funds needed to start 

up is a challenge.’’ 

The research, which was 

commissioned in line with the ‘Starr 

Woman Project’ with special focus on 

the Dream Edition targeting disabled 

women entrepreneurs, disclosed that, 

‘’Aside entrepreneurial jobs, it is 

difficult to search for jobs. The few 

•Society seems to neglect people with disability 

participants who have tried to access 

jobs always find it difficult to get them 

because they are not treated equally.’’ 

According to the research, majority 

of PWDs in the Northern Region 

would have been able to engage in 

business opportunities but are faced 

with financial challenges to start up 

their business. 

District Assembly 

Common Fund 

The research indicated that 

majority of PWDs in the two districts 

were not aware of the funds allocated 

•The premises of Oti Boateng Senior High School 

to them in the District Assembly 

Common Fund. The district assembly 

has 3% component of the Common 

Fund to support PWDs start up or 

establish small-scale business in the 

various districts. 

However, the research indicated 

that, “Both districts narrated that it is 

difficult to even know the amount that 

is available to them in terms of the 

fund.’’ 

The research further indicated that, 

“Most respondents also indicated that 

the amount that is given at the end of 

the day is too small to even start up a 

business. Respondents indicated that it 

ranges from 200-500 Ghana Cedis.” 

‘’Majority of the respondents 

(63.2%) have some form of 

knowledge in relation to the District 

Assembly Common Fund with 36.8%, 

representing 14 respondents, who do 

not know of the Common Fund. 

‘’However, 42.1% (16) have ever 

accessed the funds while 55.3% (21) 

have never accessed it. Out of the 

respondents who have accessed it, just 

a few have been able to get access to 

the cash,’’ it was disclosed in the study. 

Access to Water and 

Sanitation 

The research found that PWDs 

face a challenge in accessing water in 

the two districts in the Northern 

regions. 

They revealed that since the PWDs 

are weak, they usually depend on their 

neighbours and family members. 

‘’Toilet facilities are not accessible 

and most of the PWDs do not have 

such facilities in their homes, which 

becomes a challenge. The physically 

challenged and visually impaired are 

not able to access these facilities 

because of the way they are 

developed. 

‘’The visually impaired always have 

to move with assistance to different 

locations to access this service, which 

is a challenge because you are likely 

not to find assistance at certain times 

of the night,’’ the report mentioned. 


No negative 

impact in 

creation of new 

region - Dep. 

Minister 

FROM PATRICE SYLVESTER 

SELORMEY, HO 

THE DEPUTY Volta 

Regional Minister, Maxwell 

Kofi Blagodjie, has stated that 

the creation of a new region 

out of the existing Volta 

Region would not have any 

negative impact on the 

development of the southern 

part and that all facilities 

meant for the region remains 

theirs. 

The minister stressed that 

if the people are asking for a 

new region, it meant that they 

were pleading with the 

government to help speed up 

with development. 

He said he was happy 

leaders on either side of the 

major political divide coming 

from the area had accented to 

the creation of the Oti 

Region because that was the 

people’s demand. 

In an interview in Ho, he 

challenged agitators to stop 

hiding behind their parochial 

interests and allow the 

commission to do the work 

assigned it. 

“If the people are asking 

for a separate region to speed 

up development, they are 

right and anyone against it is 

anti-development,” he said. 

Mr Blagodjie argue that 

not all the agitators are 

coming from Volta North and 

if over 400 chiefs, opinion 

leaders and interest groups 

are asking for a new region to 

speed up development, it is in 

the right direction and anyone 

who is against it does not 

understand what development 

means. 

The minister told the 

DAILY HERITAGE that 

about eight (8) districts of the 

current Volta Region, 

including Biakoye, Krachi- 

Nchuwuru, Krachi- 

Nchumuru, Krachi East and 

West, Nkwanta South and 

North, Kadjebi and Jasikan 

and some Guan-speaking 

towns of Likpe, Santrokofi 

and Akpafu would constitute 

the Oti Region. 

The Minister further 

argued that the existing five 

municipal assemblies of the 

region were found in the 

southern part until recently 

that one was created in the 

area. 

According to him, the area 

covers 58.2% of the total land 

coverage of the region. 

Mr Blagodjie furthermore 

noted that out of the seven 

colleges of Education only 

two are located in the area, 

while there is no fitting health 

facility to cater for the over 

700,000 population of the 

northern area. 

He said that is the fact 

besides the bad road network 

even though the north is a 

cocoa-growing area. 

“Major roads linking key 

districts are cut off because 

of the broken bridge at 

Odumase which is yet to be 

constructed. No good town 

roads,” he sadly said. 

He, therefore, urged the 

agitators to be mindful of the 

government’s decision to 

develop the nation and “stop 

being spectators but citizens.” 

Mr Blagodjie 

furthermore noted 

that out of the 

seven colleges of 

Education only 

two are located in 

the area, while 

there is no fitting 

health facility to 

cater for the over 

700,000 

population of the 

northern area.


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JANUARY 

2018 

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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

MTN Ghana Foundation adjudged 

‘Foundation of the Year’ 

MTN GHANA 

Foundation, the 

Corporate Social 

Responsibility 

arm of MTN 

Ghana, has been 

adjudged ‘Foundation of The 

Year’ 2017 at the Sustainability and 

Social Investment Awards held in 

Accra. 

In a citation, MTN Ghana 

Foundation was eulogised for its 

achievements during the year 

under review coupled with its 

enormous impact on society. 

MTN Ghana Foundation also 

won two other awards, namely 

Best Company in Partnership for 

Community Development and 

Project of the Year. The awards 

were in recognition of MTN 

Ghana Foundation’s initiatives in 

the areas of corporate social investments, 

impact of projects in 

the communities and focus on 

achieving inclusive growth and 

sustainable development. 

Commenting on the awards, 

the acting Corporate Services Executive, 

Mr Robert Kuzoe, said, 

“The mission of the MTN Foundation 

is to improve the quality of 

lives of people through appropriate 

and sustainable Corporate Social 

Responsibility interventions in 

communities where MTN operates.” 

“These awards testify that 

MTN Ghana Foundation had positively 

impacted a number of communities 

in Ghana.The 

Foundation will continue to 

brighten the lives of the people by 

investing in impactful and sustainable 

projects and ultimately be the 

benchmark of Corporate Social 

Responsibility in Ghana,” he 

added. 

He dedicated the awards to the 

Board Members of the MTN 

Ghana Foundation, the Management 

and staff of MTN and to all 

MTN Ghana Foundation beneficiaries 

across the country. 

The Sustainability and Social 

Investment Awards (SSI Awards) 

is an annual event organised and 

hosted by Ion Africa Business 

•Mr Robert Kuzoe receiving the award 

(IAB) in partnership with Firmus 

Advisory, a leading research company 

in Ghana. 

The awards identify and publicly 

recognise the exemplary success 

of all companies operating in 

Ghana who are engaged in voluntarily 

improving the quality of life 

of the people through impactful 

and sustainable social investment 

projects and programmes in communities. 

The awards were organised 

on the theme 'Investing in 

people, impacting lives.' 

Since its establishment in 2007, 

the MTN Ghana Foundation has 

invested USD 13 million in over 

142 major projects in the areas of 

Education, Health and Economic 

Empowerment, which are directly 

impacting an estimated population 

of four million and several others 

indirectly. 

The Foundation on October 

30, 2017 launched its 10th Anniversary 

celebrations on the 

theme ‘Celebrating 10 Years of 

Brightening Lives, Inspiring a 

Brighter Future.’ 

FNB Bank Ghana appoints retail banking head 

BY KENT MENSAH 

FIRST NATIONAL Bank has appointed 

Hannah Annobil-Acquah as 

Head of Retail Banking. Ms Annobil- 

Acquah brings on board a wealth of 

experience in retail banking, having 

worked in various functions in the sector 

for over a decade. 

Until her appointment, Mrs Annobil-Acquah 

was Head, Personal Markets 

at Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited, 

where she played a key role in building 

the retail business of the bank and is 

credited with significant achievements. 

She holds an MPhil in Finance and 

Investment Analysis from the University 

of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

and BSc. Land Economy from the 

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science 

and Technology (KNUST), 

Ghana. She is a fellow of the Cambridge 

Commonwealth Trust. 

“We are excited to have Hannah 

join the Executive Management team 

of our bank. Hannah will oversee 

building FNB’s retail functions to be a 

market leader while serving the needs 

of our customers. In her new role as 

Head, Retail Banking, Hannah will 

leverage her 15-year banking experience 

within the Ghanaian banking sector 

to grow First National Bank’s retail 

capabilities,” said Richard Hudson, 

Chief Executive Officer of First National 

Bank. 

“Her experience will assist in unlocking 

further value in our suite of 

retail offering, strategise to give our 

clients the FNB experience as we expand 

our operations to other parts of 

Ghana,” Mr Hudson explained. 

“Leading the Retail Banking business 

at First National Bank Ghana is a 

new and exciting challenge for me. 

First National Bank is very well known 

for its unique and innovative approach 

to banking. There’s a lot of potential 

to significantly improve the customer 

experience in this market and I am 

looking forward to the opportunities 

this role brings,” said Annobil-Acquah. 

An athlete in her secondary and 

tertiary school days at Wesley Girls 

High School and KNUST, Ms Annobil-Acquah 

is an ardent Kotoko and 

Manchester United fan and loves to 

watch tennis and athletics. 

Ms Annobil- Acquah’s appointment 

took effect on January 2, 2018. 

First National Bank Ghana is a 

subsidiary of South Africa’s FirstRand 

Group, which is the largest bank by 

market capitalisation listed on the Johannesburg 

Stock Exchange – Africa’s 

largest bourse. 

The bank is leveraging off the experience 

and financial muscle of its 

parent company to excel in Ghana. 

•Hannah Annobil- Acquah 

The bank headquartered in South 

Africa also has a presence in Namibia, 

Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, 

Mozambique, Zambia, Kenya, Angola 

and Tanzania.



DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 11 

Politics 

“There are greater things to be achieved in 

every new year, and each and everyone must 

prepare themselves to be great, not by words of 

the mouth, but by a lot of sacrifices.” 

— Michael Bassey Johnson 

Prez Akufo-Addo swears in High 

Commissioner to Malaysia 

THE PRESIDENT of 

the Republic, Nana 

Addo Dankwa 

Akufo-Addo, has 

presented letters of 

credence to Ghana’s 

High Commissioner to Malaysia, 

Akua Sakyiwa Ahenkorah, at a 

brief ceremony at the Flagstaff 

House, on Wednesday, January 10, 

2018. 

In his remarks, after the swearing-in 

ceremony, President Akufo- 

Addo noted that Miss Ahenkorah, 

a career diplomat, who becomes 

Ghana’s first female High Commissioner 

to Malaysia, is deserving 

of the appointment and eminently 

qualified to represent Ghana. 

The President, thus, reminded 

the High Commissioner of the 

fact that “the image of our country 

is high in the comity of nations, 

and Ghana is a considered a 

beacon of stability and democracy 

on the continent of Africa and beyond. 

It is an image that you have 

to do everything possible to guard 

and uphold.” 

It would be recalled that Ghana 

attained independence at the same 

time as Malaysia, however, 

Malaysia has chalked remarkable 

economic successes over the period. 

The President recalled the historical 

account of Malaysia 

•President Nana Akufo-Addo presenting the letter of credence to the High Commissioner 

“procuring her first palm kennel 

seedlings from Ghana. But, today, 

this crop has become the main-stay 

of that country’s economy, producing 

millions of tons of palm oil 

annually”, whereas Ghana has not 

gained much from the cash crop. 

It is in line with the President’s 

vision of a ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ 

that he urged Miss Ahenkorah to 

be focused on her mandate, maintain 

a cordial working relationship 

with her staff and the Ghanaian 

community, as well as secure investment 

into Ghana. 

In her acceptance remarks, 

Madam Ahenkora thanked the 

President for the great honour 

done her, and assured him of her 

“determination to justify the decision 

by Government to enhance 

the involvement of women in the 

development of this country”. 

She promised to deliver on her 

“mandate in achieving the overall 

government objective of improving 

the well-being of the good 

people of Ghana”. 

The High Commissioner assured 

the President of her “responsibility 

to drive private sector 

investments into Ghana to help in 

achieving the government’s flagship 

programmes of One-District- 

One-Factory, 

One-Village-One-Dam, Planting 

for Food and Jobs; and the overall 

objective of developing Ghana Beyond 

Aid.” 

She further promised to “safeguard, 

protect and promote the 

image and interest of Ghana at all 

times”, adding that she will 

strengthen the already cordial relations 

not only between Ghana and 

Malaysia, but also with the countries 

of concurrent accreditations 

such as Brunei Darussalam, Thailand, 

Indonesia and the Philippines; 

and also explore areas of 

effective cooperation.” 

Miss Ahenkorah thanked the 

President for “the great honour” 

done her by “this appointment as 

High Commissioner of Ghana to 

Malaysia”, and expressed her gratitude 

for the confidence reposed in 

her, and assured the President of 

her “loyalty to the government and 

people of Ghana,” in the discharge 

of her duties. 

Present at the ceremony were 

the Chief of Staff, Hon. Akosua 

Frema Osei Opare; Minister for 

Foreign Minister, Shirley Ayorkor 

Botchwey; Deputy Minister for 

Foreign Affairs, Charles Owiredu; 

officials of the Presidency and 

Foreign Ministry, and family of the 

High Commissioner. 

Akufo-Addo surrounded by sycophants – Sammy Crabbe 

THE SUSPENDED Second National 

Vice-Chairman of the governing New 

Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Sammy 

Crabbe, has launched a scathing attack 

on members of the Akufo-Addo government. 

According to him, about eighty 

percent of them are sycophants. 

“There are lots of sycophants 

around the President and the danger 

about it is that, it moves resources in 

the wrong direction. There are about 

80% of sycophants around the President 

and with time, they will burnout 

like charcoal… Because it will come to 

a time when they will need people who 

can deliver,” he told Bola Ray Wednesday, 

January 10, 2018 on Starr Chat. 

Mr Crabbe who declared he is not 

scared of courting controversies also 

dismissed John Boadu as the acting 

General Secretary of the NPP. 

According to him, that description 

is alien to the party’s Constitution. 

“There’s nothing like that…in our 

Constitution,” he said. “It is better for 

people to shine their eyes, open them 

up and look at things…” 

The National Executive Committee 

(NEC) of the NPP in December 2015 

affirmed the decision of the party’s 

Disciplinary Committee to suspend its 

Second National Vice-Chairman, Mr 

Crabbe and the General Secretary 

Kwabena Agyei Agyepong. 

The decision to suspend the two 

was taken after members of the NEC 

held a crucial meeting on the matter at 

the party’s headquarters in Accra. 

Long before the NEC meeting 

came to a close, some supporters of 

the party converged outside the party’s 

headquarters popping champagne in a 

jubilant mood, apparently in anticipation 

of the announcement. 

Mr Crabbe, who dismissed his suspension 

as illegal, headed for court to 

get him reinstated but an Accra High 

Court dismissed his suit in 2016. 

According to the judge, Justice Sir 

Dennis Adjei, the national disciplinary 

committee of the NPP had jurisdiction 

to hear and punish anyone who had 

•President Nana Akufo-Addo 

been found to have breached some 

rules of the party. 

Mr Crabbe said despite respecting 

the court’s decision, he still held the 

view that his suspension is ridiculously 

illegal. 

“I really do not believe that it 

should be allowed [their suspension],” 

he declared, saying, “First all, it is a 

very difficult thing to get elected as a 

national officer…going into the constituencies 

you meet people you look 

them in the eye, sometimes you ride 

rough, you go into people’s bedrooms, 

sleep rough, they look into your eyes, 

make promises to them and then you 

get elected. The delegates are not stupid. 

They look at you and elect and 

then you sit there. So, I just do not 

want to accept that people who have 

never been elected can just sit down 

and decide they would just negate the 

will of the people on the ground.” 

When Bola Ray pointed out to him 

that he contested the decision in court 

and lost, Mr Crabbe snapped, “It doesn’t 

really mean that it was right. It was 

wrong and we needed to put it out 

there.”


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HERITAGE FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 

Ghana Revenue Authority 

Integrity. Fairness. Service. 

PUBLIC NOTICE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION 

IMPORT LEVY ACT 

ADAG 074 

In September 2017, the African Union Assembly 

decided to impose a 0.2% levy on “eligible Imports” of 

goods originating from a Non- Member territory into a 

Member State territory to be consumed in the member 

States. 

The Parliament of Ghana has since passed the 

AFRICAN LEVY ACT, ACT 952 (2017) to implement 

that decision of The African Union. This means that 

imports which qualify under the Act shall attract a levy 

of 0.2% on the Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF) of the 

Goods. 

Under the Act (Act 952), the Ghana Revenue Authority 

has been given the responsibility to collect the levy. 

The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority 

has therefore put in the necessary measures to implement 

this mandate. 

The General Public, especially the trading Public, 

 

accordingly hereby informed that effective Friday, 12 th 

January, 2018, all Imports as shall be directed by the 

Commissioner-General, in accordance with the Act 

(952) shall attract a levy of 0.2% of CIF to be paid before 

goods are released to the affected importers. 

The Commissioner-General wishes to express his own gratitude 

and that of the Ghana Revenue Authority to Clients of the Ghana 

Revenue Authority for your kind cooperation over the years and 

hopes same would be accorded in this national exercise. 

COMMISSIONER-GENERAL 

www.gra.gov.gh

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BY ABIGAIL ASARE 

‘Beasts Of No Nation’ crew yet 

to receive 2015 GMA plaques 

MANAGER OF 

Actor Abraham 

Attah, Mawuko 

Kuadzi, has revealed 

that 

Ghana Movie 

Awards (GMA), organisers of the 

annual film award to recognise excellence 

in the Ghanaian film industry, 

have withheld award 

plaques won by Abraham Attah, 

Idris Elba and Cary Fukunaga for 

their roles in ‘Beasts of No Nation’. 

The sixth edition of the annual 

Ghana Movie Awards, which came 

off on Wednesday, December 30, 

2015 at the Accra International 

Conference Centre, announced the 

young actor as ‘Discovery Of The 

Year’ and ‘Actor In A Leading 

Role’ for his lead role as a child soldier 

(Agu) in his feature film debut 

in ‘Beasts of No Nation’ (2015). 

The event, which was attended 

by some stakeholders in the industry, 

saw Cary Joji Fukunaga, director 

of ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 

sweeping the highest number of 

•Abraham Atta(L) with 

Idris Elba on set for 

‘Beast of No Nation’ 

• 

awards. 

Kuadzi expressed disappointment 

in the organizers of the 

award scheme for deceiving the recipients. 

According to him, the inability 

of the Ghana Movie Awards to honour 

its promise since 2015 raises 

lots of credibility issues regarding 

the scheme. 

“Last year, I am glad the 

Awards didn’t happen because 

awards would be given and taken 

back stage and you will never get it. 

“In 2015 Abraham Attah, Idris 

Elba, Cary Fukunaga and a host of 

people who worked so hard on 

‘Beasts of No Nation’ were named 

winners of various categories but 

till today 2018, they have not yet 

received their awards. Countless 

times we have followed up but all 

we get is “they are on their way, 

you will get them soon”. 

“Zylofon Media, I pray you address 

this issues or do well not to 

repeat the same mistake as we have 

great respect for your outfit. 

Ghana Movie Awards lost it and it 

gives you a lot of work to do. But 

we believe what you are capable of 

doing [the job].” Kuadzi posted on 

Facebook. 

Jack Daniels rocks 

Kizomba Festival 

•Revellers having fun 

at the Kizomba 

Festival 

LEADING NIGHTLIFE marketing 

agency, The Accra Nightlyf 

Group and Jack Daniels 

exceeded expectations once 

again as they delivered a truly 

unique Ghanaian theme party 

experience at a series of events 

across the city dubbed ‘A Jack 

Daniels Christmas’. 

The best party people in the 

city defined the various events 

on the calendar individually as 

an eclectic mix of the finest 

rave Disc Jockeys, awesome 

Christmas themed cocktails, 

Jack Fire “Shots on Shots” by 

the hour, and lots of giveaways. 

Kicking off with the 2017 

Ghana Dance festival at the 

Afrikiko Leisure Centre. The 

colorful event featured spicy 

Salsa, Kizomba and various 

afro-Latin dance performers 

from across the continent as 

well as the UK. 

The next event dubbed ‘Back 

to 94’ saw the city’s affluent 

yuppies, corporate professionals 

and socialites turning up in style 

and in their numbers at the 

Plot7 Nightclub and partied till 

the break of dawn. 

The night brought back the 

nostalgic days of ‘94 with the 

best of music from the era provided 

by Frenchkiss DJ. 

A sold-out crowd turned up 

at the Paparazzi Lounge for the 

2nd Annual Xmas Eve Party. 

The party was back at Plot 7 for 

the epic ‘Funky Christmas’ rave 

that had not been witnessed 

before. 

Leading female DJ on the 

nightlife circuit, DJ Nyce, and 

DJ Wallpaper teamed up to deliver 

an electric party at the 

“Krazy Party” at Krazy Bar 

(Former Duplex) at Osu on 

Boxing Day.



•Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, 

a member of the Creative 

Arts Council 

Rahim Banda 

named Ghana Jobs 

Bank ambassador 

Akufo-Addo’s 

daughter 

abandons job? 

YOUNG ACTOR Rahim 

Banda has been unveiled as 

one of the ambassadors of 

Ghana Jobs Bank Initiative at 

a ceremony tointroduce Ex- 

President J. A. Kufuor as the 

initiative’s patron. 

The Ghana Job Bank Initiative 

– a subsidiary of 

EON3 Group Company Limited 

– is a social media and 

digital marketing initiative that 

seeks to create employment 

opportunities for the youth. 

Under the initiative, which 

is divided into two sections, 

namely ‘Business Incubator’ 

and ‘Ghana Smart Youth’, 

Ghanaian youth are expected 

to be mentored on entrepreneurship 

and trained in software 

engineering and 

open-data platform system. 

Those who are to benefit 

from the ‘Ghana Smart 

Youth’ segment of the project 

are expected to be offered internship 

programmes in 

Dubai, India and the United 

States. 

Former President Kufuor, 

who accepted his new role as 

the patron, observed that the 

introduction of the initiative 

was timely, considering the 

high levels of unemployment 

in the country. 

The unveiling ceremony 

was held at the ex-president’s 

residence and attended by a 

number of dignitaries. 

Rahim Banda, who is already 

a Free SHS ambassador, 

and Steven Blessing Ackah, 

first Ghanaian to chair the 

G200 Youth Summit, were 

named as the ambassadors for 

the initiative. 

Sarkodie, Nana Aba 

Anamoah and Joselyn Dumas 

were among entertainment 

personalities who were present 

to support the initiative. 

LAST YEAR a threemember 

committee 

was set up by the 

Minister of 

Tourism, Arts and 

Culture. It included 

President Nana Addo 

Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s 

daughter Gyankroma Akufo- 

Addo, Mark Okraku Mantey 

as President and Bibi Bright 

as Secretary. However, reliable 

information gathered by 

entertainmentgh.com indicates 

that Miss Akufo-Addo, 

has abandoned the office and 

her responsibilities as Director 

of the Creative Arts Council. 

“She has not been seen at 

the office for quite a long 

time, especially after the 

Council got its new office at 

the Accra Tourism Expo Centre,” 

a reliable source confirmed. 

Gyankroma has also failed 

to show up at meetings relating 

to the Creative Arts Council 

at the Ministry for a long 

time. 

One source also said 

Gyankorama’s desertion of 

the Council started when the 

three-member team faced 

some ‘frustration’ in getting 

an office and resources for its 

operations after it was inaugurated. 

“She is operating from her 

own office and clearly, it has 

nothing to do with the Council, 

especially when she does 

not show up for meetings,” 

the source stated. 

The Ministry of Tourism, 

Arts and Culture, in consultation 

with key stakeholders, 

appointed a three-member to 

lead the Creative Arts Council 

in March, last year and the 

team, as part of its terms of 

reference, was supposed to 

embark on a road-show 

across the country, to nominate 

members that would 

make up the Creative Arts 

Council. 

Catherine Afeku, the Minister 

of Tourism, Arts and 

Culture, in her introduction of 

the team to the media, said 

the nominations to the Council 

would be in consultation 

with Creative Arts Associations. 

She said as per their mandate, 

the team would also select 

veterans in the industry to 

form a five-member governing 

board, which would guide 

the activities of the Council. 

Entertainmentgh.com has 

tried to reach out to the President 

of the three-member 

team, Okraku Mantey, on the 

neglect of the Council by 

Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, but 

he is yet to respond to the 

calls and messages. 

•Rahim Banda (L) 

with Sarkodie after 

the ceremony

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Sports 


Mercy Tagoe 

takes over 

Black Queens 

• As Dramani resigns 

•David Accam 

FORMER BLACK Queens 

player, Mercy Tagoe, temporarily 

takes charge of 

the Female national team 

as Didi Dramani is believed 

to have secured an 

offer from Danish side Nordsjaelland 

to become their assistant coach and 

has therefore resigned according to 

FA sources. 

Dramani’s exit as Black 

Queens head coach comes 

as a major blow to the 

team ahead of the 

African Women’s 

Championship, 

which will be staged 

in Ghana. 

However, assistant 

coach Tagoe 

has been told to 

take charge of the 

team as they begin 

preparations for next 

month’s WAFU 

women’s cup. 

The Black Queens will 

assemble for camping ahead 

of next month’s WAFU 

Women’s Cup of Nations in Cote 

d’Ivoire. 

Ghana have been drawn against 

hosts Ivory Coast, Niger and Burkina 

Faso. 

FC Nordsjælland will be the second 

top-flight club Dramani will be 

coaching after Asante Kotoko. 

•Didi 

Dramani 

David Accam urges 

Hearts of Oak to re-live 

past performances 

BLACK STARS winger 

David Accam has urged the 

leadership of Accra Hearts 

of Oak to structure the 

club well such that they can 

re-live their glory days 

again. 

The former CAF Champions 

League winners have 

been struggling to win the 

Ghana Premier League trophy 

since 2009 and have 

also been very inconsistent 

with their technical department 

within that period. 

The Phobians failed to 

end their trophy-less run 

last season for finishing 

third on the Ghana Premier 

League table and also lost 

the FA Cup trophy to 

sworn rivals Asante Kotoko. 

Accam says he believes 

that if proper structures are 

put in place, the club could 

be unbeatable again as they 

were some years back. 

“I think we need to put a 

lot of stuff in order if we 

want to challenge for the 

Premiership and be a force 

to reckon with in Africa. 

“We haven’t been to 

Africa for a long time and I 

can’t even remember the 

last time we won the league 

and that’s so bad,” he said. 

“We need to do a lot 

from top to down and look 

more professional. I think 

the leadership are doing 

their best now but hopefully 

this year will be ours.” 

Hearts of Oak remain 

the only club in the history 

of Ghana to have won the 

Premier League for a record 

six consecutive times. 

They can also boast of 

winning the CAF Champions 

League, the CAF Confederation 

Cup and the 

CAF Super Cup, an enviable 

feat that no other club 

in Ghana have equalled. 

GHANAsoccernet.com 

I won’t lose any sleep over 

the G8 tournament – Polack 

HEAD COACH of Asante 

Kotoko, Steven Polack, 

has stated that he 

will not lose any sleep if 

he is unable to win the 

ongoing G8 competition 

after his side’s 

shock 1-0 defeat at the 

hands of Dreams FC. 

Richard Addai’s well 

taken goal on the stroke 

of half time was 

enough to snatch all 

three points and upset 

the fabulous club in Kumasi 

on Wednesday. 

The Porcupine Warriors 

missed a golden 

opportunity to draw 

level in the game when 

Frederick Boateng failed 

to convert a penalty 

awarded to them in the 

65th minute. 

Speaking to reporters 

after the game, Polack 

congratulated Dreams 

FC and admitted they 

were the better team on 

the day. He lamented 

his side’s lack of quality 

in possession and said 

he believes that was 

where the game was 

lost. 

He stressed that the 

tournament is a learning 

curve for his players 

and for him to assess 

them with an eye on the 

upcoming season. 

“Its a pre-season 

where you look at players, 

it’s a tournament I 

will like to win but I’m 

not necessarily going to 

lose any sleep over it if 

I don’t win.” 

Kotoko will come up 

against Premier League 

Champions Aduana in a 

must-win game on Sunday 

in the last round of 

group matches. Ghanaguardian.com 

•Steven Polack

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Ronaldo wants 

Premier League 

manager to 

replace Zidane 

•Kazuyoshi 

Miura 

REAL MADRID 

superstar Cristiano 

Ronaldo reportedly 

wants Liverpool 

manager Jurgen Klopp 

to replace Zinedine 

Zidane at the club if Real Madrid 

president Florentino Perez decides 

to make a change in that 

department. 

According to Don Balon, the 

Portugal international is a big fan of 

the German tactician and his 

experience of working with big 

names and motivating his teams to a 

higher level. 

Klopp worked wonders with 

previous club Borussia Dortmund, 

leading them to two Bundesliga 

titles and the 2013 Champions 

League final, following a period of 

little success for the club. 

And while he has been unable to 

work his magic in quite the same 

way at Liverpool, Klopp has turned 

the Reds into one of the best 

attacking teams in Europe when 

they are at their best. 

The 50-year-old’s style of play 

could certainly see him fit in well as 

coach of Madrid, who are struggling 

this season under Zidane. 

Don Balon suggest the French 

tactician’s days at the club could be 

numbered, and Perez is already 

considering replacements for him. 

It may be a tad ambitious to lure 

Klopp away from Liverpool any 

time soon, but the report states 

Ronaldo would place him top of his 

list of preferred candidates. 

•Cristiano 

Ronaldo 

Japanese striker 

signs new deal at 50 

STRIKER KAZUYOSHI 

Miura, who turns 51 next 

month, has signed a new 

contract with Japanese 

second division club 

Yokohama FC. 

The deal means he will 

enter the 33rd season of his 

record-breaking career, 

which began at the Brazilian 

side Santos in 1986. 

"I will always play my 

heart out and hope to 

continue to grow (as a 

player)," he told Kyodo news 

agency. 

The former Genoa and 

Dinamo Zagreb player has 

been at Yokohama since 

2005. 

Capped 89 times for his 

country, Miura has had his 

139 goals place him sixth in 

the all-time list of top 

scorers in the J-League's top 

division. 

Aged just 15, Miura left 

Japan for Brazil to pursue 

his football dream in 

1982. He was eventually 

signed by Santos, for 

whom he made his 

professional debut in 

1986 aged just 19. 

Miura left Santos for 

Palmeiras later that same 

year. One of his team-mates 

at Palmeiras was Mirandinha, 

who in 1987 became the first 

Brazilian to play in English 

football after joining 

Newcastle United for 

£575,000. 

Miura was top scorer and 

Most Valuable Player of the 

inaugural Japanese J.League 

season in 1993, seeing off 

star imports such as Gary 

Lineker and Zico to both 

accolades. 

His J.League exploits saw 

him become the first 

Japanese recipient of the 

‘Asian Player of the Year’ 

award in 1993. 

He made his Japan debut 

in 1990 and fired the country 

to their first ever World Cup 

appearance in 1998 by 

scoring 14 goals in qualifying 

stages. 

However, he was 

controversially omitted from 

the final squad for France 

and retired from 

international football two 

years later, having scored 55 

goals in 89 appearances. 

He has played in Europe 

for Genoa and Dinamo 

Zagreb, winning the Croatian 

league title with the latter in 

1999. 

Miura joined current club 

Yokohama FC as a 38-yearold 

in 2005 and has since 

made over 200 league 

appearances for the club. 

BBCsports

January 12

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