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DAILY HERITAGE, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2018 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH
Prof. Adei, others salute
Berekusohene for
educational fund
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com
THE FORMER Rector of the Ghana
Institute of Management and Public
Administration, Prof. Stephen Adei, has
lauded and praised the effort of the
Berekusohene, Odeefo Oteng Korankye II,
for initiating an educational fund to
support school children in the Berekuso
Traditional Area.
The chief of Berekuso has, since the
launch of the ‘Oteng Korankye II
Educational Fund,’ last year supported over
11 students with all their needs to pursue
various courses in senior high schools.
At a ceremony to raise funds for the
Odeefo Oteng Korankye II Education
Fund at Berekuso in the Eastern Region,
Prof. Adei said the effort of the
Berekusohene to raise funds to support
•Odeefo Oteng Korankye II, (M) and his elders
and promote education in his area
deserved commendation.
A popular radio newscaster with the
Despite Group of Companies, Odi
Ahenkan Kwame Yeboah, also praised the
Berekuso chief for his role in transforming
education in the area.
He also commended him for releasing
lands for the establishment of one of the
country’s best tertiary institutions, Ashesi
University.
The target of the fundraiser was
GH¢200, 000 and there was all indications
that the target was met as the management
of Ashesi alone donated GH¢ 50, 000.00
to support the fund.
The Odeefo Oteng Korankye II
Education Fund is mainly meant to
support students from Berekuso and its
environs who come up with good grades in
the Basic Education Certificate
Examination.
•Professor Stephen Adei
Nungua in massive clean-up exercise
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com
THE OFFICE of the Gborbu Wulomo-
Shitse, the Overlord of the Gadamgme
State, in collaboration with the office of
the Krowor Member of Parliament (MP),
has organised a clean- up exercise to keep
the township clean and healthy as they
celebrate the Kplejoo Homowo Festival.
For the past weeks, the people of
Nungua have begun customary processes
towards the celebration of the Nungua
festival and cleaning the township was one
of the activities aimed at keeping the town
clean.
Mrs Elizabeth Afoley Quaye , MP for
Krowor and Minister in charge Fisheries
and Aquaculture Development was present
for the clean-up exercise at which she
called for all to remain united and
collaborate to fight filth.
“Let’s all be united and stand to fight
against indiscriminate disposal of plastic
waste, which has become a thorny issue in
our country now. Let’s talk to those who
dispose of waste in the drains to desist
from that,” she advised.
FORMER PRESIDENT
Flight Lieutenant Jerry John
Rawlings has said former
Presidents John Agyekum
Kufuor and John Dramani
Mahama who ruled the
country after him were evil and
corrupt leaders.
According to him, former President
Kufuor is ‘evil’ and former President
Mahama is a ‘rogue’ who destroyed the
country.
He said, “I know with my integrity
when I die, I will go to heaven but
when I see these corrupt leaders, I will
ask permission from God and flog
them.
“If they don’t leave heaven for me,
I will go and leave the heavens and
join Satan in hell because I cannot stay
in the same place with them,” Mr
Rawlings stated.
Mr Rawlings made these statements
when the chiefs and people of Mepe
in the North Tongu Constituency in
the Volta Region paid a courtesy call
on him to officially invite him to the
final funeral rites of Mamaga Awusi
Sreku II, queen of the Mepe
Traditional Area.
He said former President Kufuor
Dustbins at vantage points
Touching on efforts being made to
came to sell some Ghanaian
companies to foreigners and awarded
himself with the Grand Order of The
Star and Eagles of Ghana.
eradicate the indiscriminate disposal of
rubbish into drains, the MP said one of the
Mr Rawlings said former President
Kufuor, during his time, also tried to
sideline Ewes in the military, adding
that it came to a time when the service
main aims of the newly-created Krowor
District Assembly is to clean the area.
was looking for senior officers and
were enlisting 40 in every region.
He said “when it got to Volta
Region they tried to substitute the
well-known names with their own
people, but when the list got to
Burma Camp they did the right
thing.”
He described former President
Mahama as a rogue who
superintended over corruption.
Mr Rawlings lamented that during
former President Mahama’s era, he
personally negotiated for a project to
be established at Vorlor in the North
Tongu area “but before I released,
some party executives had shared the
land among themselves.”
He said people from the Volta
Region have faithfully voted for the
National Democratic Congress on
many occasions but they have
nothing to be proud of because they
live in poverty coupled with bad road
network.
The chiefs and people of Mepe,
who were hosted by the Member of
Parliament for the North Tongu
Constituency, Mr Samuel Okudzeto
Ablakwa, said the late Mamaga Awusi
Sreku III was a great queen who
ruled for over 63 years and described
her as a big loss to the nation.
Mr Ablakwa said pre-burial rites
would start on Friday, August 17, with
interment on Saturday, August 18, at
the Presbyterian Church of Ghana,
“We will provide bins at all vantage
points to enable people to dump waste
products in. We are educating people on
the matter to let them know the
importance of keeping the surroundings
clean.
“In many cases, it brings about
outbreak of sicknesses like cholera. So we
are appealing to those who defaecate in the
open to put a stop to it. The insect vectors
feed on them and transmit the sickness
after they sit on our foods.”
Nii Okpleh Dzalesane, the Oblantah
Mantse (Youth Chief of Nungua), said the
aim of the exercise was to make the
environment clean ahead of the Homowo
festival.
He said the office of the Gborbu
Wulomo would continue to liaise with the
office of the MP to make the clean-up
exercise periodical in the area apart from
the national sanitation day.
Nii Ayi Isaac, the Ghana Private Roads
and Transport Union boss at Nungua, Mr
Josuha Bortey, personal aide of the MP, Mr
Samuel Nii Noi Tetteh, Martin Bortey and
Madam Eunice, the leader of the Nungua
Market Women Association, were all
present at the exercise.
Kufuor evil, Mahama a rogue —JJ
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
• As Kplejoo Homowo festival gathers momentum
•The moment of the clean-up exercise
•Former President Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings
Mepe and thanksgiving service on
August 19 in the same church.
He said, “I
know with my
integrity when I
die, I will go to
heaven but when
I see these
corrupt leaders, I
will ask
permission from
God and flog
them.
“If they don’t
leave heaven for
me, I will go and
leave the heavens
and join Satan in
hell because I
cannot stay in the
same place with
them,” Mr
Rawlings stated.
Rawlings, wife to attend
funeral of Mepe queen
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
FORMER PRESIDENT
Jerry John Rawlings and
former First Lady, Mrs
Konadu Agyemang
Rawlings, will on Saturday,
August 18, 2018, attend the
final rites for the funeral of
the queen of Mepe
Traditional Area in the
North Tongu District of the
Volta Region, Mamaga
Awusi Sreku III.
Mamaga Sreku, who
reigned for 63 years and was
a close confidant of the
Rawlingses, died in
November 2017.
Mr Rawlings made this
declaration when a 15-
member delegation from the
Mepe Traditional Council
paid a courtesy call on him
at his Ridge residence in
Accra on Tuesday, May 21,
2018.
The delegation, which
was led by the paramount
queen of Mafi Traditional
Area, Mamaga Sename II
and supported by the
Member of Parliament (MP)
for North Tongu
Constituency, Mr Samuel
Okudzeto Ablakwa, was to
officially inform Mr
Rawlings and his wife about
Mamaga Sreku’s final
funeral rites.
Addressing the
delegation, Mr Rawlings
expressed shock about the
demise of the queen of
Mepe and stated that “a hero
has fallen”.
“I want to assure you that
my wife and I will join you
the chiefs and people of
Mepe that day to give our
last respects to Mamaga
Sreku because she was really
a queen with a track record
of nurturing and growing
people,” Mr Rawlings stated.
He said all traditional
office holders in the Volta
Region who had played
significant roles in ensuring
that the region and the state
got what was due it would
be remembered and
honoured accordingly during
their reign.
In her response, the
queen of Mafi Traditional
Area, Mamaga Sename II,
and the family thanked Mr
Rawlings for confirming to
be present at the funeral and
assured him that the offices
of President Nana Akufo-
Addo, former President John
Dramani Mahama and
former President John
Agyekum Kufuor would also
be notified.
Meanwhile, the Mepe
Traditional Council has set
Friday, August 17, to Sunday,
August 19, 2018, as the
period for the final funeral
rites of Mamaga Sreku.
Briefing journalists on
the arrangements of the
final funeral rites,
spokesperson for Tosu-
Kporsue family from Adzigo
Divisional Clan of Mepe, Mr
Doe Ambrose Gidi, said the
funeral is opened to the
public, but urged strict
adherence to the
arrangements.
Mr Gidi explained that
“there will be firing of
muskets in the streets, the
executioners will also be
around to display, and the
chiefs as well would also be
paraded.”
He revealed that wake
would start on Friday,
August 17, at the late queen’s
palace with the burial service
at Mepe Presbyterian Church
on Sunday August 18, 2018.
In connection with the
funeral, a ban had been
placed on all funerals from
August 17-18, 2018.
•Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, addressing a
delegation of chiefs and people of Mepe Traditional
Area