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Inside February 21, 2018 .qxp_Layout 1 2/20/18 5:53 PM Page 3 Post-Brexit UK won't be like Mad Max, says David Davis •Britain will not be plunged into a Mad Max-style BRITAIN WILL not be "plunged into a Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction" after it leaves the European Union(EU), the Brexit secretary has said. David Davis said the United Kingdom(UK) wanted to lead a "global race to the top" in rights and standards not, as some feared, a "competitive race to the bottom". British business could "never be cheaper than China" and must focus instead on product and service quality. He also suggested a Brexit deal by the end of 2018 was "well on the cards". The Brexit secretary's address to Austrian business leaders in Vienna is the latest in a series of speeches the UK government is calling "the road to Brexit" as it faces demands to spell out details of the future partnership it wants with the EU. The UK says it wants to avoid obstacles to smooth trade with the EU although it is leaving the single market and the customs union when Brexit happens in March 2019. BBC DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH Kenya allows opposition figures to fly to Zimbabwe KENYAN OFFI- CIALS have allowed two opposition supporters to fly to Zimbabwe after detaining them at an airport overnight. Senator James Orengo and financier Jimi Wanjigi planned to attend opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's burial. But officials said the pair failed to present a court order overturning an existing suspension of their passports. Both men support Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who named himself "the people's president" last month. There is growing concern that the government is ignoring civil liberties in response to the mock inauguration of Mr Odinga Unlike Mr Orengo and Mr Wanjigi, Mr Odinga was allowed to fly to Zimbabwe, without any difficulties, •A funeral service was held for Tsvangirai in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, on Monday for the burial of Mr Tsvangirai, his long-time friend. The Zimbabwean politician died of colon cancer on 14 February, and thousands of people are expected to attend his interment in his home village of Buhera. Kenyan immigration officials had held Mr Orengo and Mr Wanjigi at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport overnight on Monday after they failed to present a court order authorising them to fly. BBC World news in 4 stories •Children have been hurt in the latest bombing Mozambique rubbish dump collapse kills at least 17 people AT LEAST 17 people - including children - have been killed in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, and many more injured after a huge mound of rubbish collapsed, officials say. The pile of waste, some 15m (49ft) high, gave way in heavy rains at 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Monday. The dump is known to be home to some of the city's poorest residents, who build makeshift camps amid the rubbish. Five homes on the edge were also crushed in the disaster. Rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors. A spokesman for the emergency services, Leonilde Pelembe, warned it was likely there were more victims under the waste. "The information we received from local authorities is that the number of people living in those houses exceeds the number of deaths recorded," Mr Pelembe said. The Hulene district of Maputo is one of the most deprived parts of the capital. Many, including children, have little choice but to make their homes either on or next to the dump. The dump not only provides them with food but also goods to sell, our correspondent Jose Tembe explains. BBC Scores of civilians killed in Eastern Ghouta strikes BOMBARDMENTS BY Syrian government forces have killed at least 100 people including 20 children in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus, rescue teams and monitors say. This would make Monday one of the deadliest days for the district since it came under siege in 2013. The Syria Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, said bombs were continuing to fall on Tuesday morning. Syrian forces stepped up an offensive to retake the area earlier this month. The Eastern Ghouta is the last major opposition enclave near the capital and is completely surrounded by areas under government control. Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, reports that civilians have been killed and wounded in fresh air strikes on Douma, Misraba and al-Nashabiya. The White Helmets, a rescue group, said three people were killed in Misraba and four were killed in al-Marj on Tuesday. The UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and the White Helmets both said more than 100 people had died in bombing on Monday. BBC •Children have been hurt in the latest bombing
WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018. 05 Editorial Campaign against illicit drugs must be intensified THE NARCOTICS Control Board has since 1992 collaborated with the International Community to fight drug menace in the country. Though efforts have been made to win the war against drugs, available information reveals that Ghana appears to be losing the fight against illicit drugs. World Drug Report 2014, for instance, paints a gloomy picture- Ghana was reported to have surpassed Jamaica in the usage of drugs. The report revealed that drug use continues to exact a significant toll, with valuable human lives and productive years of many persons being lost. An estimated 183,000 (range: 95,000-226,000) drugrelated deaths were reported in 2012. That figure corresponds to a mortality rate of 40.0 (range: 20.8-49.3) deaths per million among the population aged 15-64. Globally, it is estimated that in 2012, between 162 million and 324 million people, corresponding to between 3.5% and 7.0% of the world population aged 15-64, had used an illicit drug -mainly a substance belonging to the cannabis, opioid, cocaine or amphetamine-type stimulants group — at least once in the previous year. The indicators portend trouble, particularly, at a time when pupils in our schools are increasingly getting addicted to wee and other dangerous substances. We, therefore, need to scaleup the campaign, as well as enforce the drug laws to save millions of our youth who have been deceived into smoking marijuana and using other deadly drugs. Gbawe Kwatei Family breaks silence BY PHILIP ANTOH philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh Traders vs soldiers brouhaha… • Some of the angry traders registering their protest against the armed soldiers FOLLOWING THE battle between Mallam Market Traders Association and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources over the ownership of a reclaimed portion of land at Mallam Market leading to the destruction of 185 bags of salt by armed soldiers last Thursday, the head of the Gbawe Kwatei Family and Dzasetse of Gbawe, Nii Adam Kwatei Quartey has broken his silence. According to him, the Mallam Market is occupied by only two people - the Mallam Market Traders Association and one Stanley Owusu. Nii Quartey said the Mallam Market Traders Association is the only legitimate occupant which has documents to prove ownership of the land and that the family had not met with any institution or ministry over change of ownership. He added that “as we speak; no institution, ministry or government agency has consulted the family for any portion of land or change of ownership of the reclaimed land at the Mallam Market.” Speaking to the DAILY HER- ITAGE, the Dzasetse said, “nobody should disturb the market women,” because according to him the women have really suffered in reclaiming the land which was a waterlogged area. History of the Mallam Market Giving the history of the market, the head of family said the place was called Gbawe Clay Field in 1953 and was leased to Gold Coast Industrial Development Cooperation. The Dzasetse revealed that in 1994, Gbawe Family gave the 13.45 acres of land at Mallam Market to the market women led by late Lydia Looye Commey. The traders have since been paying royalties to the family. On the Ministry of Sanitation and “Even though we cannot fight the government, what we are asking is that they should follow due process of first calling on the owners of the land.” Water Resources taking ownership of the land, he said “we are not aware of any such transaction because no government can take possession of a land without first contacting the traditional rulers in the area. “ Though we cannot fight the government, what we are asking is that they should follow due process of first calling on the owners of the land,” Nii Quartey stated. The Secretary to the Gbawe Family, Nii Afutu Quartey called on the market women to remain calm, adding that nobody can take the land forcefully from them since there were genuine documents covering the land. The leadership of the Mallam Traders Association is therefore calling on President Nana Akufo-Addo to immediately call the Minister of Sanitation and Resources, Mr Kofi Adda to order. Responding to the allegation, the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources stated on various media platforms that the government had secured the place for the construction of modern landfill site. It would be recalled that the DAILY HERITAGE published a front page story on Monday February 19, 2018 captioned ‘Soldiers on Rampage at Mallam Market, Destroy 185 Bags of Salt and followed up on Tuesday with caption ‘Angry Traders Threaten Naked Demo, Over Destruction of 185 Bags of Salt by Armed Soldiers.’
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