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Inside <strong>June</strong> 1, 2018 .qxp_Layout 1 5/31/18 8:28 PM Page 3 • They met in an apartment on New York's East Side Kim-Trump summit: Top officials meet to salvage summit THE RIGHT-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss a historic summit. Gen Kim Yong-chol dined with Mr Pompeo after flying in from China, and the two are due to meet again on Thursday. He is the most senior North Korean to visit the US in nearly 20 years. US President Donald Trump told reporters he expects Gen Kim to come to Washington DC on Friday and deliver a letter from Kim Jong-un. The president said he "looks forward" to reading the letter, and that talks are going "very well" between the two sides. President Trump cancelled the 12 <strong>June</strong> summit, but both sides have since made fresh efforts to revive the plan. Scheduled to happen in Singapore, the historic meeting between Mr Trump and Kim Jong-un would be the first between sitting US and North Korean leaders. BBC DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2018 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH World news in 4 stories Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax 'to stop gossip’ UGANDA'S PAR- LIAMENT has passed a law to impose a controversial tax on people using social media platforms. It imposes a 200 shilling [$0.05, £0.04] daily levy on people using internet messaging platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Twitter. President Yoweri Museveni had pushed for the changes, arguing that social media encouraged gossip. The law should come into effect on 1 July but there remain doubts about how it will be implemented. The new Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill will also impose various other taxes, including a 1% levy on the total value of mobile money transactions - which civil society groups complain will affect poorer Ugandans who rarely use banking services. State Minister for Finance David Bahati told parliament that the tax increases were needed to help Uganda pay off its growing national debt. Experts and at least one major internet service provider have raised doubts about how a daily tax on social media will be implemented, the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga reports from Uganda. The government is struggling to ensure all mobile phone SIM cards are properly registered. And of the 23.6 million mobile phone subscribers in the country, only 17 million use the internet, Reuters reports. BBC •President Museveni says there won't be a tax on internet data as it is useful for education •The minister says the performance was upsetting South Africa row over 'naked' school choir SOUTH AFRICA'S education minister Angie Motshekga has condemned a school for allowing girls to expose their buttocks and breasts in a choir competition, saying it was undignified and promoted their "sexual objectification", the local Times Live news site reports. It is extremely disappointing to see that our educators have exposed young girls to this type of public displays of nudity. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being proud of your culture and heritage‚ but there was absolutely no need for these children to perform completely naked. That indignity goes against the values of our cultures. This is even more upsetting considering the increased sexual objectification of women and girls for the entertainment of men. We further apologise to the families of the young girls for the trauma and harm caused.” The choir master, however, defended the performance at a competition in Mthatha - the main town in the Xhosa heartland of Eastern Cape province - on Friday. The lead singers took off their traditional blankets (umbhaco) and danced with only small aprons (inkciyo) during a segment which focused on Xhosa tradition, the unnamed choir master was quoted by the Daily Dispatch newspaper as saying. BBC United Arab Emirates jails activist for 10 years 'for defaming nation’ A PROMINENT activist in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for "defaming" the country on social media. Ahmed Mansoor, a 48-yearold father of four, was arrested in March last year. Rights group had condemned his detention, saying that he was held in solitary confinement without a lawyer. He has also been fined one million dirhams ($272,000; £205,000) and will be placed under surveillance for three years after his release. Mansoor was cleared of cooperating with a terrorist organisation, but found guilty of using social media sites to "publish false information that damages the country's reputation" and to "spread hatred and sectarianism", local media reported on Wednesday. In 2011, he was one of five activists arrested after calling for political or economic reforms. All were later pardoned by authorities. Four years later, Mansoor received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders for what was cited as his work in raising concerns about arbitrary detention, torture and degrading treatment in the UAE, in the face of repeated intimidation and harassment. BBC •President Museveni says there won't be a tax on internet data as it is useful for education
WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2018 05 Editorial Medical and Dental Council has failed Ghanaians THE GHANA Medical and Dental Council has admitted that the embattled director of the Advanced Body Sculpt, known as Obengfo Hospital, Dr Dominic Obeng-Andoh, was not licensed to practise at the facility. According to the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Medical and Dental Council, Dr Eli Atikpui, Dr Obeng-Andoh was not licensed to practise at the facility where Stacy Offei Darko, a Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme, met her untimely death. “We have made our position clear, Dr Obeng-Andoh has no valid licence," he told Joy News. “We cannot conclude that it is negligence at this point in time, but it sounds strange. The chronology of events described by the mother suggests something terrible happened, and not to the standards of a medical and health facility.” The Registrar also recounted that between 2012 and 2013, Dr Obeng-Andoh appeared before the Council, was found guilty of medical malpractice, and suspended for three years. Dr Atikpui also said though the facility was shut down on two occasions by the Council, the facility somehow still operated. “Why was an institution that was shut down by a regulator reopened without recourse to the provisions of the law?” the CEO quipped. The DAILY HERITAGE is disappointed in the Council for asking questions when it ought to be providing answers to why the facility, which was operated by someone without licence, was still in operation. If the Council had done its work well, Stacy would not have gone there for medical service in the first place. The Council should accept that it failed woefully because but for the untimely death of Stacy, the Advanced Body Sculpt would still have been in operation. The time to sit up is now. The Council should do its work well and close down all facilities that should not be in operation and not wait for ‘disaster’ before acting. Pupils write exam on laps BY PHILIP ANTOH philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh • At Obakrowa M/A Basic School due to lack of desks • A cross section of pupils in the classroom IN THEIR quest to catch up with the rest of their counterparts in the capital city and other parts of the country, pupils of Obakrowa M/A Basic School at Ashalaja in the Ga South Municipality in the Greater Accra Region have resorted to writing on their laps in the classroom. This is because the school lacks adequate furniture to serve the over 460 pupils in the institution. The learning condition is so bad as at least three pupils are made to share a single dual desk. The school, which was established in 1960, has a current population of 460 with only 40 dual desks forcing teachers to ask parents to provide their pupils with dual desks on admission. Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE, the head teacher of the school, Mr Alex Adzikunu, said the condition was affecting academic work because pupils who write on their laps were always slow. Mr Adzikunu said Obakrowa M/A Basic School, which is made up of kindergarten, primary and junior high school, always falls on plastic chairs from Obakrowa Presbyterian Church of Ghana for their daily teaching and learning. He added that when a pupil goes for the plastic chair because of lack of desks, the pupil is compelled to put the book on his/her lap to write an exam or class text. “Because the few desks in the school are made to accommodate four pupils instead of two, when it comes to individual assessment it is very difficult to assess. Parents who cannot afford GH100.00 dual desk and GH 70.00 mono-desk for their children are forced to look elsewhere,” Mr Adzikunu stated. The head teacher said most parents who could not bear the agony their children go through withdraw and enrol them elsewhere. Mr Adzikunu said the school had only 20 desks until it received an extra 20 from the municipal education director, Mr Felicia Okai, sometime ago. He is, therefore, calling on corporate Ghana and philanthropists to assist the school with dual desks to ensure a conducive environment for teaching and learning. The learning condition is so bad as at least three pupils are made to share a single dual desk.
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