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Inside May 24, 2018 .qxp_Layout 1 5/23/18 9:36 PM Page 3 • Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed comes from the Oromo ethnic group Opposition leaders arrive in Ethiopia capital SENIOR OFFICIALS of an exiled Ethiopian opposition party, the Oromo Democratic Front or ODF, have arrived in the capital Addis Ababa for peace talks with the government. The ODF formed five years ago after its members broke away from the Oromo Liberation Front - which took up arms against the government in the 1970s. The recently elected Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, is an Oromo - the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia - and he has called for reconciliation in order to unite the country. Any potential dialogue with the OLF would be more complicated as it has been defined as a terrorist organisation. BBC DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2018 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH Zimbabwe government rebukes deputy minister ZIMBABWE'S GOV- ERNMENT has condemned Deputy Finance Minister Terence Mukupe for reportedly saying the army will not accept opposition leader Nelson Chamisa as president. Mr Mukupe's comments, if true, were "reckless" and did not reflect the position of the government, ruling Zanu-PF party and the military, actiing Minister for Information Simon Khaya Moyo said in a statement. Such comments “amount to direct contempt” of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and "imperil national peace and stability", the statement added. Mr Mukupe was quoted by the privately owned NewsDay website dismissing Mr Chamisa, 40, as a "child", adding the generals who forced ex-President Robert Mugabe to resign in November would not hand power to him. “How can we say, honestly, the soldiers took the country, practically snatched it from Mugabe, to come and hand it over to Chamisa? “This country, where it is now and where it is coming from, needs a grown up, a steady hand, a person who can stabilise things,” he was •Nelson Chamisa plans to contest the presidency for the first time quoted as saying. Mr Chamisa plans to run against Mr Mnangagwa, 75, in elections due later this year. He sees himself as the successor of veteran Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who died in February aged 65. His numerous attempts to dislodge Mr Mugabe from power failed. BBC World news in 4 stories Embattled South African premier stands down SOUTH AFRICA'S embattled North West province premier has stepped down after allegations of corruption in his administration led to violent protests. Supra Mahumapelo's resignation was welcomed by Ace Magashule - secretary-general of the ruling African Nation Congress (ANC) - who praised it as a "selfless decision", according to the party's official Twitter account. • Supra Mahumapelo The government imposed direct rule over North West province earlier this month, following the outbreak of violent protests in April. Clashes took place in the area where protesters are demanding jobs, housing and an end to corruption. Mr Mahumapelo's administration has been accused of corruption and the misuse of state funds - accusations he denies. BBC Iran slams U.S. sanctions push, Syria rejects idea of Iranian withdrawal IRAN ON Wednesday kept up a drumbeat of opposition to U.S. demands for sweeping change in its foreign policy and nuclear program, and Tehran’s ally Damascus dismissed out of hand a U.S. call for a withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria. France, one of several European powers dismayed by the U.S. withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear accord, said Washington’s method of adding more sanctions on Tehran would reinforce the country’s dominant hardliners. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday threatened Iran with “the strongest sanctions in history” if it did not curb its regional influence, accusing Tehran of supporting armed groups in countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. Pompeo was speaking two weeks after President Donald Trump pulled out of an international nuclear deal with Iran that had lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs to its nuclear program. European powers see the accord as the best chance of stopping Tehran acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Pompeo had repeated old allegations against Tehran “only with a stronger and more indecent tone”. “Mr Pompeo and other U.S. officials in the current administration are prisoners of their wrong illusions, prisoners of their past and have been taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups,” he told state television. Reuters
WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2018 05 Editorial Are we serious? AT THE last count, common cholera killed over a hundred of our citizens due to the nasty nature of our environment and the uncouth behaviour of our compatriots. Filth in Accra and other parts of the country remains a huge problem to Ghana even with the advent of the Millennium City project. Just recently when it rained for just about two hours, the city was exposed again as many parts experienced flooding due to choked gutters and scattered garbage. Hygiene is extremely important to any civilised nation and therefore there is the need to put premium on it. But, that appears not to be the case as Ghana’s only diploma-awarding hygiene institution has been completely neglected with graduates of the institution being allowed to rot in their houses. Not long ago we threw the spotlight on the sad story of the school where the authorities, after going through frustrations for years, decided to convert the institution into a day school. According to the story, the intention was to avert any disaster because the school’s hostel was at the verge of total collapse. The facility, which was established alongside the school before independence, had not seen any major renovation till 2010 when the hostel was awarded on a contract but was abandoned along the line, citing government’s failure to pay for the first phase of work done. “Per the current situation, we have no other option than to turn the institution into a day school where the students will be coming from home because we cannot risk their lives, while the few lecturers have also been asked to seek accommodation outside,” a source at the school stated. Reports are that graduates of the three hygiene institutions in the country suffer to get jobs. Why should we allow graduates who have acquired knowledge of hygiene management to rot in the house while we wallow in filth? This is not right. Ghana is just not serious. The Ministry of Health should act quickly and get the hygiene institutions in shape and make good use of the graduates instead of wasting money and resources when there is an avoidable epidemic. We'II pay GH¢100k licence fees GHANA NATIONAL Chamber of Licensed Banker to Banker Lotto Operators and Agents (GNCLBBLOA) says it supports demand for the lotto operating licence fee of GH¢ 100.000.00 approved by the Board of Directors of National Lottery Authority (NLA) to be paid by private lotto operators. Addressing a press conference in Kumasi yesterday, the Founder and Executive Chairman of GN- CLBBLOA, Mr. Frank Adjei, noted that the private lotto operators had about 200 lotto agents, 170 lotto sub-agents and over 150, 000 lotto writers across Ghana. This, according to him, is the largest and strongest banker-tobanker lotto group in Ghana. Mr Adjei stated that he was the first lotto operator in Ghana to pay the GH¢ 100.000.00 to the NLA as licence fees on March 15, 2018. He pointed out that the Board of NLA ordered the leaders for all the various groups of banker-tobanker lottery to submit their proposals to the NLA for discussion in order to finalize the licence fees for the operators, agents and writers of banker to banker lottery. “Mr Frank Adjei was the only lotto operator who suggested the • Mr. Frank Adjei, Founder and Executive Chairman of GNCLBBLOA, addressing the press conference in Kumasi least amount of money (GHC 200, 000) as a nationwide licence fees for Private Lotto Operators to the Board of NLA.” “Honestly speaking, the Lotto Operators and Agents who are now attacking Kofi Osei-Ameyaw over the One Million Ghana Cedis are not being truthful to themselves, the media, Government and Ghanaians in general because if NLA has agreed to accept the GH¢ 500,000 License Fees per Region as [had been] suggested by these Lotto Operators and Agents at the NLA Board Meeting, then it means that every Lotto Operator who want to operate nationwide was supposed to pay Five Million Ghana Cedis to the NLA as License Fees,” he explained. Instead of paying Five Million Ghana Cedis as license fees to operate the whole country, Mr. Adjei • Private lotto Operators assures NLA noted that the NLA has drastically reduced the licence fees to GH¢ 100.000.00. He said they were grateful to Osei-Ameyaw and the Board of NLA over this decision but some people were rather destroying the reputation of the NLA boss over the One Million Ghana Cedis. He commend Mr Osei-Ameyaw, for taking pragmatic steps to register and license the Operators, Agents and Writers of Banker to Banker Lottery under the Public- Private Partnership in accordance with the National Lotto Act, 2006 (Act 722). Mr. Adjei asserted that they are ever ready and very determined to partner the National Lottery Authority and every government to realize the vision of creating jobs and maximizing revenue for socio-economic development. He urged the Board of NLA to address the following concerns in order to strengthen the operations and administration of the National Lottery Authority: He called on NLA to arrest Nigerians, Chinese and other foreign nationals who are operating Lotto business in Ghana especially the foreign nationals operating Banker to Banker Lottery. “We are urging the NLA and Ghana Police Service to arrest and prosecute Vitarex Odele (populary Known as Olembe), a Nigerian who is illegally operating Lotto Business in the Brong-Ahafo Region. This is highly unacceptable. No foreigner is permitted to operate any form of Lottery in Ghana under the National Lotto Act, 2006 (Act 722). “We are expecting the Board to be proactive and come up with measures, action plan and policies towards arresting the recalcitrant Ghanaian Lotto operators, agents and writers, who are refusing to pay the licence fees to the National Lottery Authority. He appealed to NLA to consider drawing between 6:50p.m. to 7p.m., adding that, “This will enable more people to stake Lotto from both the Lotto Marketing Companies and LMCB2B.” He also urged the Board of NLA to speed up the process of issuing the LMCB2B Licence to Mr Adjei as quickly as possible since he had fully paid his licence fees of one million Ghana cedis to the National Lottery Authority on March 15, 2018. He suggested that the Ministry of Finance should empower Mr Osei-Ameyaw to embark on nationwide tour to clarify issues, doubts and conspiracy theories against the operations and management of the Lotto business in Ghana.
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