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•Rev. Ismaila Hans Awudu with his
wife, Mrs Josephine Ismaila Awudu,
CEO of J’s Cake and Floral Institute
• Ex-President,
Jerry John Rawlings
• Alban
Bagbin, NDC
Presidential
hopeful
• James Kwofie, MD, Ghana Post
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J’s Cake & Floral
Institute marks
7th graduation
•Some cakes displayed at
the graduation ceremony
•A cross-section of the general public
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE CHIEF Executive Officer
(CEO) of J’s Cakes
and Floral Institute, Mrs
Josephine Ismaila Awudu,
has called on the government
to strengthen and empower the
vocational sector to train young men
and women in the country.
Mrs Awudu said it was time Ghanaians
shifted their focus from the service
sector and paid much attention to the
vocational development of its citizens to
develop the economy.
“It is time we stopped I want to be a
doctor, lawyer and professor with big
qualifications such as PhD, MBA and
degree with the intention of working in
the service sector resulting in graduate
unemployment and rather develop talents
in skills development,” she stated.
She made this known during the 7th
graduation of J’s Cakes and Floral Institute
at School Junction, Ashaley Botwe
in Accra last weekend.
According to Mrs Awudu, the vocational
sector is a booming business area
driving, which professional nurses,
bankers and others have found profitable
to venture into and “I believe one
day, presidents’ wives will come and
learn.”
She said J’s Cakes is positioned to
give world class education to people
who wants to venture into the cake and
floral industry via courses such as Cake
Baking and Decoration, Pastry Making,
Floral, Balloon Work, Fabrics Work,
Digital Entrepreneurship, Marketing and
Catering.
She said the institute undertakes
NVTI exams in proficiency one and two
and awards diploma and certificate upon
completion of
three-month
main courses
and onemonth
and
two-week
short courses,
adding that
currently the
floral institute
was about to
be affiliated
to the Laweh
Open University
to give its
students further
studies in entrepreneurship.
Challenges
Mrs Awudu said most students could
not pay for the full cost of tuition and
therefore the institute had to support
those who are loyal to the school to ensure
that they go through the course.
In all, 30 students were graduated
and called on all parents to encourage
their children to enrol in the vocational
sector.
The board chairman of the National
Road Safety Commission and head pastor
of the International Central Gospel
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•The graduands on their way to the podium

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JJ punches Bagbin
BY KENT MENSAH
• Over stammerer, blind man comment
FORMER PRESI-
DENT Jerry John
Rawlings has expressed
serious misgivings
about
comments made by a flagbearer
hopeful of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC),
Mr Alban Bagbin against the
erstwhile Mahama administration.
The Second Deputy Speaker
of Parliament reportedly attributed
the poor performance of
the previous government to the
appointment of the two disabled
persons – a stammerer,
Dr Omane Boamah and Dr
Seidu Danaa, a blind person.
Mr Bagbin slammed former
president John Mahama for appointing
Dr Boamah as Communications
Minister, despite
being a stammerer.
“I learnt from tradition that
it is not the chief that speaks, it
is the linguist and, so, when
you are a leader, you must have
a very good linguist.
• Ex-President, Jerry John Rawlings (R) with Alban Bagbin, NDC Presidential aspirant
“When Prof [Atta Mills] was in power,
Haruna Iddrisu was our linguist in charge
of communication, when my brother
John [Mahama] came to power, he substituted
him for Dr Omane Boamah who is
a natural stammerer,” the Nadowli Kaleo
Member of Parliament said during his
tour of the Volta Region.
He added: “He is a very intelligent boy,
he is smart but when he is speaking, he
wastes time in coming out and Ghanaians
do not have that much patience, so, they
are always looking for those that are rattling.
“So, even though you might have a
good message, you will not succeed in
marketing that message because somebody
is there from the other side rattling
and they are listening to him, so, we came
down.”
The former President, who is also the
chairman of the party’s Council of Elders,
said the comments of Mr Bagbin were
unacceptable and contrary to the values
and principles of social inclusion of the
NDC.
Flt Lt Rawlings emphasised that the
ongoing intra party democratic processes
taking place are meant to further deepen
the democratic credentials of the party
and indicated that the National Executive
Committee of the party will have to ensure
the full application of the rules and
regulations governing campaign utterances
and electioneering.
“Such utterances have the tendency to
negatively affect the unity and cohesion of
the party,” the former President stated.
Meanwhile, persons who stammer have
issued a statement demanding an apology
from the legislature over such “disparaging
comments.
“We find his description of the former
minister not only unguarded, reckless and
infantile, but an attack on all well-meaning
stammerers in the communications industry,”
the statement said.
It added: “It’s against this backdrop
that we demand an apology.”
Ukraine imprisons Ghanaian
BY BENJAMIN TANDOH
MR ISHMAEL Toff-Mensah, an
Accra-based businessman, has
been detained at the Lukyanivska
Prison in Kyiv, Ukraine, after
being accused of trying to bribe an
officer of the country’s immigration
service.
Mr Toff-Mensah, 32, was
picked up by the Ukrainian security
agency at the Kharkov Airport
after he travelled to the country to
look for his nephew, Mr Nurideen
Brown Richardson.
A source who narrated the incident
to the DAILY HER-
ITAGE said Mr Toff-Mensah
• After accusing him of bribery
was sent by his family to look for
his nephew who they had not
heard from for more than a
month.
The source told the paper that
Mr Toff-Mensah had been arraigned
and is awaiting judgment,
though he had been in prison for
about 24 days.
Explaining the situation, the
source said, “upon his arrival at
the Kharkov Airport on July 28,
2018, Mr Toff-Mensah was supposed
to meet a representative of
the family to see him through the
immigration processes. During the
time that he was waiting at the airport
for the representative, he was
picked up by security personnel
for interrogation.
“Because they don’t understand
English, they were finding it difficult
to understand him until one
of the guys [officers] came around
and took him to a different office
and instructed him to put off all
his devices.
“Then in the room, the immigration
officer asked him how
much he had in his wallet and
when he removed the wallet to
show them how much he had, the
guy called the police and told them
he is trying to bribe the officers,”
the source told the paper.
The source continued that,
“they made him sign two documents,
one was written in Ukrainian
language and one was written
in English, but after someone read
the documents he said the documents
were different.”
“He was arraigned on Monday,
30 July for the first hearing but before
that he was told he will pay a
fine of $500 before they release
him so we organised and got it for
him. So we thought after that he
will be discharged after the court
hearing.
“But after we gave the money
to the immigration officers they
told us that they will present it to
the court after the hearing on
Monday,” the source said.
The source further narrated to
the paper that the situation had
become complicated after the case
was given to another judge to handle.
“After the adjournment, the
case was given to another judge
who we heard set September 12,
because they said he was on vacation,”
the source said.
Though the source said they
had petitioned the Foreign Affairs
Ministry, the ministry was yet to
react to the issue.
“We’ve petitioned the Ministry
three times about the issue and
they said they have to go through
the Embassy in Switzerland because
there is none in Ukraine and
we are still waiting for their response,”
the source said.

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•Ukraine accuses Russia of sending its troops and
arming separatists in the east
Ukraine crisis: Five soldiers killed in clashes in east
FIVE SOLDIERS have been
killed and seven wounded in
eastern Ukraine during an assault
by separatist forces,
Ukraine's defence ministry says.
Four died during a five-hour
clash near Krymske, a village
50km (31 miles) north-west of
Luhansk. Another was killed by
artillery fire.
Ukraine and pro-Russian
rebels have blamed each other
for violating the current ceasefire.
The deaths come amid a
spike in violence following
clashes last week.
Ukrainian negotiators have
said that a new ceasefire is due
to come into effect on 29 August,
in time for the new school
year.
Moscow denies sending its
troops and providing weapons
to the separatists, but admits
that Russian "volunteers" are
helping the rebels. BBC
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UK's 'no-deal' Brexit plans warn of credit card fees
BREXIT SECRETARY Dominic
Raab has set out what he called
"practical and proportionate" advice
in case the UK leaves the EU
without a deal.
The guidance includes instructions
for businesses who could
face extra paperwork at borders
and contingency plans to avoid
medicine shortages.
Britons visiting the EU could
also face extra credit card charges.
Ministers say a deal is the most
likely outcome but that "shortterm
disruption" is possible without
one.
BBC political correspondent
Chris Mason described the publication
as a "vast swirling porridge
of detail - much of it at a technical
level, advising individual industries
about the manner in which they
are regulated in the event of a nodeal
Brexit".
In the 24 documents, which
cover industries including medicine,
finance and farming, it says:
Mr Raab said reaching a deal
with the EU was the "overriding
priority" and "by far the most
likely outcome" but that "we must
be ready to consider the alternative".
He also dismissed what he said
were "wilder claims" about the impact
of not reaching a deal, including
that it could spark a "sandwich
famine" in the UK.
"Let me assure you that, contrary
to one of the wilder claims,
you will still be able to enjoy a
BLT after Brexit, and there are no
plans to deploy the Army to maintain
food supplies," he said. BBC
•Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said he hoped the no-deal preparations
would be "rendered redundant" by an agreement with the EU
Trump says 'everybody
would be very poor' if he's
impeached
PRESIDENT DON-
ALD Trump said
"everybody would be
very poor" and questioned
how he could
be impeached when
he's made strides improving economic
conditions in an interview
aired Thursday.
"If I ever got impeached, I think
the market would crash, I think
everybody would be very poor,"
Trump said in response to a question
from Fox News' Ainsley
Earhardt, who asked if he believes
Democrats would try to impeach
him if they win back control of
Congress. "You would see numbers
that you wouldn't believe.”
"You know, I guess it says something
like high crimes and all -- I
don't know how you can impeach
somebody who has done a great
job," Trump said.
Trump said during the interview
that he would give himself an "A+"
if asked to grade his performance in
office so far, citing his successful
appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch
to the Supreme Court and predicting
that Brett Kavanaugh, his
next high court pick, will be confirmed
as well.
•President Donald Trump
"I give myself an A+. I don't
think any President has ever done
what I have done," Trump said.
"We haven't even been 2 years.
Biggest tax cuts in history. Soon to
be two unbelievable Supreme Court
justices, I'm sure that Justice Kavanaugh
will be approved. Justice
Gorsuch has been a star. You look
at all the things we have done with
regulations, the economy is the best
it has ever been in history. The only
thing I'm doing badly in is the press
doesn't cover me fairly," Trump
said. CNN
•Bobi Wine has been transferred from military custody to prison
Uganda's Bobi Wine:
Pop star MP charged
with treason
THE UGANDAN MP and
pop star Bobi Wine has been
charged with treason in a
civilian court shortly after a
military court freed him.
Bobi Wine, whose real
name is Robert Kyagulanyi,
was immediately re-arrested
after being released.
His lawyers say he has
been assaulted in detention,
which the military and President
Yoweri Museveni deny.
He was detained along
with 30 others ahead of last
week's by-election in the
north-western town of Arua.
The arrests have raised
tension across the country
and sparked protests. Police
have sealed off the homes of
a number of opposition
politicians, and high-profile
opposition figure Kizza Besigye
has been arrested in the
capital Kampala.
The BBC's Catherine
Byaruhanga, who was at
court in the northern town of
Gulu, says he was unable to
stand by himself and there
were moments when he was
visibly in pain.
His lawyer said he needed
"urgent medical care",
Uganda's New Vision newspaper
reported. BBC

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Editorial
FDA must go beyond warning and cause arrest of quack doctors
THE FOOD and Drugs Authority
(FDA) has listed more than 44 diseases
for which advertisement for
treatment, prevention or cure are
prohibited in the country.
Accordingly, the FDA has directed
that no media house or person
should advertise a drug, a herbal medicinal
product, cosmetic, medical device
or household chemical substance
to the public as a treatment for a disease,
disorder or an abnormal physical
state unless the authority had
approved the advertisement.
The diseases include alcoholism,
amenorrhoea, appendicitis, arteriosclerosis,
asthma, bladder stones,
blindness, cancer, convulsion, deafness,
diabetes, and diphtheria, diseases
of the reproductive organ,
dropsy, epilepsy, and erysipelas.
Others are; fibroid, gallstones,
goitre, heart disease, hernia or rupture,
hypertension, infertility, kidney
failure, kidney stones, leprosy,
leukemia, locomotory, systemic lupus
erythematosus, mental disorders,
nephritis or bright’s disease, and obesity.
The rest cover; paralysis, pleurisy,
pneumonia, poliomyelitis, prostate
diseases, scarlet fever, septicemia,
sexual impotence, smallpox, tetanus
or lock-jaw, trachoma, and tuberculosis.
Mr Emmanuel Nkrumah, Head of
Cosmetics and Household Chemical
Substance Department at FDA, who
made the revelation during sensitisation
training in Wa said: “They shall
not be advertised either in a Live Presenter
Mention or in any form of advertisement.”
He said the FDA would crack the
whip on anyone or media house that
violated the law.
“No one shall advertise food unless
the advertisement has been approved
by the authority,” he stressed.
The move by the FDA, in the view
of the DAILY HERITAGE, is
on point in that many miscreants
have virtually taken over the media
landscape and churning out all kinds
of garbage for treatment of very
complicated ailments.
It is true that traditional medicine
is very potent, but some of these
crooks do not have the needed qualification
to produce such medications
and operate in very filthy environments
to produce those concoctions.
We, therefore, support the FDA in
the campaign and urges them to go
beyond the caution and cause the arrest
and prosecution of these quack
doctors who are out there deceiving
the public.
UN honours Kofi
Annan at a wreathlaying
ceremony
No layoff at
Ghana Post
• Management
assures workers
THE UNITED Nations (UN)
System in Ghana has joined
the government and the people
of Ghana in mourning
the loss of former UN Secretary-General,
Mr Kofi Annan and has
expressed heartfelt condolences to Mrs
Nane Annan, the children and the entire
family.
At a wreath-laying ceremony held in
New York, UN Secretary-General António
Guterres paid tribute to the late
Kofi Annan, noting that “he put people
at the centre of the work of the United
Nations, and was able to turn compassion
into action across the UN system.”
According to the UN Secretary-General,
“in many ways, Kofi Annan was the
United Nations.”
He added that Kofi Annan was “a
true voice for the voiceless, … [and]
worked creatively to bridge differences
and protect the most vulnerable. He
stood his ground without antagonising
others; his humility, good humour, courtesy
and charm went hand-in-hand with
enormous wisdom and strength.”
Ms. Christine Evans-Klock, the UN
Resident Coordinator in Ghana, said that
“the UN family in Ghana joins all
Ghanaians in mourning the passing of
former UN Secretary-General, Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate, and son of Ghana,
• Kofi Annan, former UN, Secretary General Honoured
Mr Kofi Annan. We give thanks for his
amazing life of service to peace, human
rights and development.”
Referring to his life-long commitment
to the United Nations, Ms. Evans-Klock
pointed out that “what would be the
most significant sign of respect for Kofi
Annan, is the resoluteness with which we
follow his example and act on our own
opportunities to make a difference and to
ensure that no one is left behind.”
The UN Country Team in Ghana
shares Ghana’s grief at this time and
stands with all Ghanaians in honouring
the outstanding leadership and service of
Mr Kofi Annan.
OUR ATTENTION has
been drawn to a newspaper
publication by Daily Heritage
with the headline, “Ghana
Post to lay off 90% of staff
over lack of ICT knowledge”.
In the said publication,
the editor alluded to the fact
that “after a crunch meeting
on the effective running of
the digital addressing system
among other ICT elements,
being synchronize into the
operation of Ghana, management
of Ghana Post
company have decided to retrench
at least 90% of the
staff instead of spending
huge sums of money to train
them in ICT when they
would retire in the next five
years”. Management of
Ghana Post wishes to deny
claim made by the paper.
Ghana Post has been on a
digitization path, introducing
e-Commerce, e-Services, financial
services and courier
services that rely on ICT.
Nevertheless, Ghana Post’s
operations go beyond ICT.
The postal operations cover
an entire supply chain network
from acceptance to delivery
and therefore require
manual operations to compliment
technology.
As part of transforming
the business to drive efficiencies,
Ghana Post under the
Ministry of Communications
launched Digital Addressing
System in 2017. There has
been a significant increase in
the usage of the Ghana Post
GPS App. The general public
is therefore encouraged to
download the Ghana Post
GPS App and generate their
digital addresses. To get an
address tag, Ghana Post accredited
agents are available
to assist all customers. Please
call 0800716000 or
0579579100 or 0302668138
for more details.
Management wishes to
thank our cherished customers
and our key stakeholders
for their support.
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Taking the mantle from Kofi
Annan: Role of African youth
BY JULIUS KARL D FIEVE
|fievedkjulius@gmail.com
IWAS in faraway Mafi
Akukokpo, a small village
in the Mafi Zongo Electoral
Area of the Central
Tongu District of the Volta
Region, Ghana, West
Africa when I heard of the sudden
demise of a hero, mentor,
role model, peace advocate and
governance icon, Kofi Annan.
That community is one of the
most deprived in Ghana and has
been in the news lately for their
lack of potable water. As their
Local Assembly Member, I could
not sleep after watching the
video of the poor women, children
and men drinking a water
that is “muddy, brownish, unclean
and thick as porridge”, unhygienic
and contaminated from
unwholesome source.
We have appealed to authorities
to help solve the challenges
but to no avail and the only option
left was to involve the
media. So definitely I was in the
community with some development
partners to iron out how
we could help them get access to
potable water.
I was really petrified when
news pop in of the death of
somebody I always pray to meet.
In fact, my prayer has always
been to meet Kofi Annan and
Barack Obama. These two global
leaders inspire me to the brim. It
sounded fake but time and time
pass by and leading major media
networks in Ghana started confirming
it.
The latter the boom came
from the BBC, CNN, and Aljazeera
among other global
media outlets. We have lost a fine
gentleman who carried Ghana
and Africa to the United Nations
(UN). I cannot agree more when
Anthony Guttaires, the current
UN Secretary General said that
“Kofi Annan was the UN.”
Mr Kofi Annan was a legend
of peace, leadership and governance.
His love and stance on affairs
of the youths and children
are worth emulating by all leaders
across the world. He demonstrated
through his exploits with
the UN that humanity has the
ability to make development sustainable
to ensure that it meets
the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their
own needs.
In summary, Kofi Annan was
a generational thinker who ruthlessly
believed in this current
generation to make a better and
progressive future for the next
generation.
But I believe that, as young
leaders, the best tribute and remembrance
of this legend is to
continue shaping our local communities
and ensure we collaboratively
work to ensure we
achieve the United Nations target
of eradicating poverty and
hunger. That means, we lead the
agenda for the creation and implementation
of society-transforming
initiatives that would
ensure community development,
local economic development and
transformation.
I believe, we the youths must
be the change we want to see in
This also means that, we the
youths must ensure our local
communities participate in
political processes and decision
making and that their
voices are heard by those in
authority no matter the cost
it comes with. It also calls for
accountability and equity in
service delivery. We must
push for efforts to develop
plans and make policies that
ensure growth and bridge
the inequality gap.
the world if we really want the
legacies of Kofi Annan to live
on. Kofi Annan really represents
the best of everything the world
needs.
We must disruptively and innovatively
ensure governments
and those in authorities at all levels
create a just and empowered
society which would not create
economic growth in which the
majority are poor but a system
where those poor get their fair
share of the resources required
for growth.
This also means that, we the
youths must ensure our local
communities participate in political
processes and decision making
and that their voices are
heard by those in authority no
matter the cost it comes with. It
also calls for accountability and
equity in service delivery. We
must push for efforts to develop
plans and make policies that ensure
growth and bridge the inequality
gap.
To get the kind of Kofi
Annan in Africa would take ages.
He was Africa to the whole
world and Africa was him. He
represented every good thing the
world needs to know about
Africa. But to be able to produce
another Kofi Annan then we the
youths must take up leadership
and governance roles in our local
communities, volunteer to make
a difference in the lives of fellow
Africans and work with hard
•The late Kofi Annan
work to have our presence felt at
the global level.
African Youths must be passionate
and zealous about leadership,
entrepreneurship and
volunteerism and building an impeccable
career or professional
future for themselves and society.
We must be passionate about servant
leadership and being active
citizens by creating change and
making positive differences in
our communities, Africa, and the
world. We must always be socially
responsible by getting connected
with the problems of our
communities as well as the solutions.
We the youths must certainly
return to society some of the
benefits that have been given us
through the shaping of lives and
creating differences within them.
These are the only way another
Kofi Annan could be produced.
But when we fail to do
these, then the world would go
back to the chasm.
I believe we can and we will.
“Yes we can”
It is a sad moment for Africa
and it is a sad moment for global
peace and development.
But I believe, Kofi Annan
never dies.
Hedenyuie (RIP) Kofi Annan

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Health benefits of banana
• Blood pressure
Maintaining a low sodium intake is essential
to lowering blood pressure, however
increasing potassium intake may be
just as important because of its vasodilation
effects. According to the National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey,
fewer than 2% of adults meet the
daily 4700 mg recommendation. Also
high potassium intake is associated with a
20% decreased risk of dying from all
causes.
• Asthma
A study conducted by the Imperial
College of London found that children
who ate just one banana per day had a
34% less chance of developing asthma.
• Cancer
Consuming bananas, oranges and orange
juice in the first two years of life
may reduce the risk of developing childhood
leukemia. As a good source of vitamin
C, bananas can help combat the formation
of free radicals known to cause
cancer. High fiber intakes from fruits and
vegetables like bananas are associated
with a lowered risk of colorectal cancer.
• Heart health
The fiber, potassium, vitamin C and
B6 content in bananas all support heart
health. An increase in potassium intake
along with a decrease in sodium intake is
the most important dietary change that a
person can make to reduce their risk of
cardiovascular disease
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DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2018
&Env.
FDA bans 44 diseases
from advertisement
GHANA’S FOOD
and Drugs Authority
(FDA)
has listed more
than 44 diseases
for which advertisement
for treatment, prevention
or cure is prohibited in the country.
The FDA has directed that no
media house or a person should
advertise a drug, a herbal medicinal
product, cosmetic, medical device
or household chemical
substance to the public as a treatment
for a disease, disorder or an
abnormal physical state unless the
authority has approved the advertisement.
The diseases include alcoholism,
amenorrhoea, appendicitis,
arteriosclerosis, asthma,
bladder stones, blindness, cancer,
convulsion, deafness, diabetes, and
diphtheria, diseases of the reproductive
organ, dropsy, epilepsy,
and erysipelas.
Others are fibroid, gallstones,
goiter, heart disease, hernia or
rupture, hypertension, infertility,
kidney failure, kidney stones, leprosy,
leukaemia, locomotory, systemic
lupus erythematosus, mental
disorders, nephritis or Bright’s disease,
and obesity.
The rest are paralysis, pleurisy,
pneumonia, poliomyelitis, prostate
diseases, scarlet fever, septicemia,
sexual impotence, smallpox,
tetanus or lock-jaw, trachoma, and
tuberculosis.
Mr Emmanuel Nkrumah, the
Head of Cosmetics and Household
Chemical Substance Department
at FDA, who made the
revelation during sensitization
training in Wa, said “they shall not
be advertised either in a Live Presenter
Mention (LPM) or in any
form of advertisement.”
He said the FDA would crack
the whip on anyone or media
house that would violate the law.
“No one shall advertise food
unless the advertisement has been
approved by the authority,” he
stressed.
Mr James Lartey, the Head of
Communications at FDA, said
many people were hiding behind
social media and doing unapproved
advertisement and those
who contravened provisions of
the law would be prosecuted and
if found guilty and could be liable
to a conviction and or a fine not
less than 7500 penalty units.
“All media houses and advertisers
are therefore urged to treat it
as important and comply in the interest
of public health and safety,”
he said.
He encouraged the public and
the media to provide the FDA
with information on activities
likely to endanger public health
and safety.
Health Minister commissions Agona Mankrong Polyclinic
MR KWEKU Agyeman Manu, the
Minister of Health, has commissioned
a polyclinic at Agona Mnakrong in
Agona East District in the Central Region
to promote quality health care
delivery in the district.
The Health Minister was accompanied
by Professor Nsiah Asare, Director
General of the Ghana Health
Service (GHS), Dr Stephen Anyomi,
Deputy Director, Clinical Care, Dr.
Alexis Narg-Beifubah, Central Regional
Director of Health Service, and
some Directors of the Ministry in
Accra.
The 15-bed polyclinic has an Administration
block, a pharmacy, an operation
theatre, a delivery room,
female and male wards and an Out-patients
Department (OPD).
The project, funded by government,
was constructed by VAMED
Engineering Construction Company,
and was completed in two years.
Addressing the gathering at the
ceremony, Mr Agyeman Manu said the
government saw it fit to continue all
projects started by the previous government.
He said President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo made a promise
•The beautiful edifice (Inset) Mr Kweku Agyeman Manu, Health Minister
to Ghanaians that if they voted for
him and the NPP into power all projects
started by former President John
Mahama would be continued provided
a project was genuinely awarded.
He said the NPP government had
approved the Universal Health Care
system, which would provide every
district with quality health care, adding
that it was aimed at bringing healthcare
on the doorstep of the people nationwide.
Mr Agyeman Manu, who is also
the Member of Parliament (MP) for
Dormaa Central in the Brong Ahafo
Region, said the previous government
approved payment for only two health
projects, adding that the government
of President Akufo-Addo had made
full payment for 34 polyclinics, including
10 in the Central Region
alone, which had been commissioned.
He urged health workers who
would be posted to the new polyclinic
to ensure zero tolerance of maternal
mortality at the facility.
The Minister of Health called on
the youth to desist from taking tramadol,
and wee smoking as well as excessive
cigarette smoking, which can
be harmful to their lives and urged the
chiefs and opinion leaders to hold
constant interaction with the youth
about the dangers of hard drugs.
He cautioned the people against
self-medication, which could be dangerous
to one’s health and lead to
death.
Professor Nsiah Asare, Director
General of Ghana Health Service
(GHS), said doctors would be visiting
the newly-commissioned polyclinic
weekly to take care of the patients.
The Director General of GHS expressed
concern about the increasing
number of teenage pregnancy cases in
the rural and urban areas and asked
nurses and other health workers to educate
the youth to abstain from premarital
sex.
Professor Nsiah Asare said the
government’s new policy is to ensure
that more CHIP compounds are built
to provide health services to the rural
folks to reduce pressure on referral facilities
and teaching hospitals.
He asked the chiefs and opinion
leaders of Agona Mankrong and surrounding
towns to educate the people
on the need to register with the National
Health Insurance (NHIS) to enable
them to receive medical treatment
without any burden.
Mr Dennis Armah-Frempong,
Agona East District Chief Executive
(DCE), appealed to the Minister of
Health and the Director General of
Ghana Health Service to upgrade the
Agona Nsaba Health Centre to a district
hospital.
The DCE announced that a sixunit
two-bedroom flats for nurses and
other staff members, who would be
posted to the facility at Agona
Mankrong had been completed.
Nana Kweku Ntsiful II, Chief of
Agona Mankrong, who chaired the
function, commended the government
for the completion of the project,
adding that the new polyclinic would
stop people from travelling far to seek
medical treatment.

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THE FAMILY of Kofi Annan has stated
that the departed United Nations (UN)
chief will be buried in Ghana.
“The Government of Ghana will
shortly announce the arrangements for a
State ceremony, which will take place in
Accra,” the family announced in a
statement on Thursday.
However, it said the UN will hold
memorial “events in New York and
Geneva” for its former secretary general
prior to the ceremony in Ghana.
“The dates for those events will be
announced in due course,” the statement
added.
“The family has kindly asked that no
flowers be sent. For those still wishing to
have their thoughts and support reflected
in a gift, they suggest a contribution to the
Kofi Annan
Foundation:www.kofiannanfoundation.org
/donate,” it stated.
“The Annan family wishes to thank
most sincerely the many who have
expressed their condolences following the
passing of Kofi Annan. The family has
found great solace in the outpouring of
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Kofi Annan to be buried
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BY KENT MENSAH
•The late Kofi Annan
love and support.”
Mr Annan passed on in Switzerland
after a short illness.
“The Annan family
wishes to thank
most sincerely the
many who have
expressed their
condolences
following the
passing of Kofi
Annan. The family
has found great
solace in the
outpouring of love
and support.”
THE ELECTORAL
Commission (EC) has announced
it has suspended the issuance of
replacement of Voter ID card
with immediate effect.
The commission in a
statement said the move is to
enable it mobilise and retool its
district Voter Management
System (VMS).
“The EC announces, with
immediate effect, the temporary
nationwide suspension of the
issuance of replacement voter ID
card at its district offices. This is
to enable the Commission to
mobilise and retool its district
VMS, as part of its preparatory
activities toward its scheduled
2018 online Limited Voters
Registration Exercise.
“A new date for the
resumption of the ID card
replacement services will be
announced in due course. Any
inconvenience caused by this
notice is very much regretted,” a
statement signed by the Public
Relations Manager of the
Commission Eric Dzakpasu
noted.
Meanwhile, the EC has noted
that the absence of the biggest
opposition party from
Wednesday’s Inter-party Advisory
Committee meeting organised by
the Commission took shine out
of the programme.
The National Democratic
Congress (NDC) declined to
attend the meeting which was
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Delay in passage of RTI bill
has created room for
corruption –E/R Chief Imam
BY KOJO ANSAH
THE EASTERN
Regional Chief Imam,
Ahaji Usif Amudani
Suleman has expressed
worry over the footdragging
that had
characterised the passage of the the
22-year-old Right to Information Bill
(RTI).
The RTI Bill, aimed at
making information easily accessible
to the media and Ghanaians to
facilitate the fight against corruption,
has been in legislation for almost two
decades.
Successive governments have
failed to ensure its passage despite
many promises.
RTI was first drafted some 22
years ago by stakeholders under the
auspices of the Institute of Economic
Affairs.
The draft executive bill went
through many reviews in 2003, 2005
and 2007 before it was finally laid
before parliament in 2010 but was
withdrawn for amendment.
The Bill has gone through over
EC suspends voter ID replacement exercise
BY KWAME ACHEAMPONG
•Ahaji Usif Amudani Suleman, Eastern Regional Chief Imam
•Jean Mensa, EC chairperson
one thousand amendments
and laid before Parliament
on several occasions but still
not passed despite assurance
by the current government
who promised to pass it
before 2017 ended.
According to the Eastern
Regional Chief Imam, the
delay in passing the RTI Bill
is depriving citizens timely
information over agreements
entered by the government
leading to financial loss to
the country.
"It is worth stressing that
the passage of the RTI Bill
is long overdue and the
government must see to its
passage in earnest. The
absence of the law has
created a vacuum resulting in
issues reaching worse stage
before it is realised. This has
contributed to huge financial
loss to the state hence the
need to act now," he noted.
He said this during a
gathering to celebrate the
Eidul-Adha Festival at the
Koforidua Central Mosque.
chaired by the Deputy
Chairperson of the Election
Management Body, Samuel Tettey
citing late invitation.
According to the NDC, it
received the invitation to the
meeting at 12:15 pm for a
meeting which was to start at
1:00 pm.
A letter inviting the governing
New Patriotic Party (NPP)
including the largest opposition
party, the NDC read in part: “On
behalf of the Electoral
Commission of Ghana, I am
pleased to invite you to Inter-
Party Advisory Committee
meeting on Wednesday
22nd August 2018. The time is
1:00 pm. The venue is the IPAC
room of the Electoral
Commission.”
Inmate busted for
smuggling wee
into prison
BY KOJO ANSAH
ELEVEN WRAPS of dried
leaves suspected to be Indian
hemp have been retrieved
from an inmate at the
Koforidua Prisons.
Information gathered
indicated that the suspect
prisoner, Edward Asiedu, was
taken out for external labour
duties with other colleagues
under the guard of one
Lance Corporal Gusu on
August 11, 2018 but a routine
further search conducted on
the suspect having returned
to the prison yard led to the
identification of 11 wraps of
the narcotic substance.
The Director of the
Koforidua Prisons, Bob
Derry, proceeded to the
Effiduase District
Police Command to lodge
official complaint.
The Public Relations
Officer (PRO) of the Eastern
Regional Police Command,
DSP Ebenezer Tetteh told
the DAILY
HERITAGE that the
caution statement of the
suspect had been taken and
he admitted ownership of the
substance.
According to the PRO,
further investigations are
being conducted to unravel
other accomplices.
The Interior Minister,
Ambrose Dery during a
working visit to the
Koforidua Prisons in May
this year directed the
Inspector General of Police
(IGP) David Asante Apeatu
and the Director General of
Ghana Prisons, Patrick Darko
Missah to collaborate and
come up with security
measures targeted at curbing
disturbing sophisticated
crimes rearing its head in
various prisons across the
country.
“If we have criminal
kingpins in there and still
controlling their groups
outside, it is a thing that we
need to work on so I will be
directing the IGP and the
Director General of Prisons
to work together to make
sure that we come out with
measures, equipment and
arrangements that will make
sure that we stop it.”
The pronouncement by
the Interior Minister followed
revelations by the Deputy
Director of Prisons in
Charge of Eastern Region
Command, DDP Isaac Kofi
Egyir, that there were
syndicates increasingly aiding
the smuggling of contraband
items and drugs into the
prison through intricate
means difficult to be detected
by mere physical inspection.
“Contraband goods such
as mobile phones,
unprescribed drugs, narcotics
sneak into the yard all
because we lack the requisite
gadgets to aid our manual
surveillance that we use. Now
they have become so
sophisticated that just mere
physical inspection and
searches do not survive the
task. “For example, it is very
common to apprehend
visitors with narcotics rapped
in a factory sealed mackerel,
milo and even the ladies
under their body.
“If we have criminal
kingpins in there and
still controlling their
groups outside, it is a
thing that we need to
work on so I will be
directing the IGP and
the Director General
of Prisons to work
together to make sure
that we come out
with measures,
equipment and
arrangements that
will make sure that
we stop it.”

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uniBank suit against BoG
is good – Dalex Finance Boss
MR JOE Jackson, Director
of Business
Operations at Dalex
Finance, has described
as apt the
suit by uniBank
shareholders against the Bank of
Ghana over the revocation of the licence
of the indigenous bank.
The shareholders of uniBank, led
by former Finance Minister and Governor
of the central bank, Dr
Kwabena Duffuor, on August 20, beseeched
the High Court over what they
described as “arbitrary and capricious”
decision of the Dr Ernest Addisonled
BoG to revoke the licence of uni-
Bank.
They are therefore praying the
High Court to place an injunction on
the BoG’s decision to revoke the licence
and place uniBank in private
hands.
uniBank was one of five local
banks which were merged into the
Consolidated Bank of Ghana a few
weeks ago over alleged regulatory
•Mr Joe Jackson, Director of Business Operations at Dalex Finance
breaches by the five banks.
Speaking to ‘Starr Business’s Fred
Dzakpata, Jackson lauded uniBank’s
decision to sue the central bank over
the revocation of its licence.
The suit, according to him, will be
a test case for banking regulation in the
country and also influence reforms in
the sector.
“I think it is a good thing. The last
few weeks a lot has been thrown out.
Some people are postulating that
there’s an element of politics, vindictiveness
whatever. It will be good to
test this in court. And, if the situation
is really as bad as the central bank is
saying, we will see it. If there’s some
other element at play it will be seen,”
said Jackson.
“It’s good to shine the light. Rumours,
darkness is not good. It creates
insecurity and takes away the trust that
underlines the financial sector,” he
added.
Meanwhile, the President of
IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has
challenged claims by the central bank
that uniBank was financially stressed,
leading to its takeover.
The BoG, on August 1, relying on a
KPMG report, merged uniBank and
four other banks under a new name,
Consolidated Bank of Ghana (CBG).
Mr Cudjoe said according to the
Governor of the Central Bank, Ernest
Addison, the merger was necessary because
the five banks, including uni-
Bank, were in critical financial distress
and that “it will help ensure that the
banking sector maintains a strong indigenous
presence.”
The outspoken policy analyst, however,
expressed wonder if the declaration
that uniBank was broke was not a
deliberate ploy to waste taxpayers’
monies.
He said after breathtaking exchanges
with Dr Duffuor, founder of
uniBank, he believes the claims of the
central bank were not cogent.
“The presentation from the Central
Bank is X-rated and sadly it is mischievously
being released without adequate
notice to uniBank!” he stated last
Thursday in a Facebook post.
“I have seen the papers and spoken
at length to Dr Kwabeba Dufour, the
former Finance Minister and Central
Bank Governor…
“This is not how to treat even your
worst enemy. While appearing to sanitize
the financial industry, let us be
careful we do not create political
arrangements that will be visited and
changed by another set of politicians.”
Republic Bank beats BoG deadline to meet capital requirement
REPUBLIC BANK (Ghana) Limited
has met the new Bank of
Ghana minimum capital requirements
ahead of the set deadline of
December 2018.
The announcement comes
after the Bank successfully completed
its Rights Issues to raise an
additional GH¢255 million from
its shareholders.
The offer, which opened from
July 23 to August 10, 2018, received
161 applications from qualifying
shareholders subscribing for
a total of 588,384,402 shares,
which were in excess of the
463,636,364 shares on offer.
The offer therefore raised
GHS323.61 million, representing
a subscription rate of 127%, exceeding
the targeted offer amount
of GH¢255 million and further
putting the Bank’s stated capital in
excess of GH¢ 400 million.
•Mr Anthony Jordan, Managing Director of
Republic Bank
After fully allotting a total of
395,582,160 entitlements and
68,054,204 extra shares to qualifying
shareholders, all the applicants
received the shares that they applied
for with the exception of
Republic Financial Holdings Limited,
which will receive a refund of
GH¢ 68,611,420.90.
Mr Anthony Jordan, Managing
Director of Republic Bank, expressed
his profound gratitude to
the shareholders, customers, management
and staff for believing in
Republic Bank and helping the
Bank to achieve this feat.
According to him, the oversubscription
of the rights issues is a
clear indication of the overwhelming
confidence shareholders
have in the future of the bank.
He stated that the bank would
continue to pursue its growth and
development agenda by continuing
to offer support to
growing and established
Ghanaian businesses.
“We will continue to
give more support to businesses
by giving them the
most innovative, efficient
and convenient banking
services just as could be
experienced globally. Republic
Bank is committed
to remaining competitive
in the Ghanaian market
and will continue to build
sustainable businesses for
individuals and corporate
entities, as well as in the
communities we serve,” he
added.
He called on the business
community to join
the Republic Bank family
to share in the bank’s over
180 years worth of continuous
excellence in the banking
industry and also take advantage
of the bank’s loan campaigns,
especially the just launched 'Back
to School Loan' sale whose applicants
can get up to 10 times
their monthly net salaries as
loans at a flat rate of 13.65%.
Republic Bank is a member
of the Republic Financial Holdings
Limited (RFHL), the largest
bank in the English-speaking
Caribbean with an asset base of
over US$ 12 billion.
RFHL recorded $993.3 million
profit at the end of June
2018, representing an increase of
$34.4 million or 3.6% over that
of the last financial year.

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about
anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for
yourself —Henry James
NDC race:
I’ll right wrong of past – Mahama
BY KENT MENSAH
FORMER PRESI-
DENT John Dramani
Mahama has presented
his letter of intent to
contest for the flagbearer
position of the
National Democratic Congress
(NDC) ahead of election 2020.
He said a comeback will provide
him an opportunity to “right
the wrong of the past.”
“I’ve prayed diligently about
the task ahead and I believe I owe
a duty to God and my country to
take our great party back into government
to right the wrongs of
the past and to put an end to the
cries of the people under the current
dispensation,” Mr Mahama
said in a short video moments
after the letter was presented to
the party executives on his behalf.
He added: “The 2020 election
presents our party, the NDC, with
a great opportunity to offer yet
again, visionary leadership driven
by a commitment to create oppor-
•Former President John Mahama
tunities for all our people and not
just a few.”
The letter was presented by
Ambassador Ohene Agyekum on
Thursday, 23 August 2018 at the
NDC headquarters.
In the video posted on Mahama’s
Facebook page, he said:
“I’m happy to confirm that I’ve
submitted my letter to the General
Secretary of the National Democratic
Congress, confirming my
decision to contest for the position
of the flagbearer for the
NDC when the party opens nominations
later this year.
“In coming to this firm decision,
I’ve ponder deeply and
soberly on the socio-economic
and political landscape of our
country today, vis a vis the clear
path we had started to build,
aimed at positioning Ghana as a
true middle-income country by
modernizing our dilapidated social
and economic infrastructure and
gradually inculcating in the
Ghanaian a sense of patriotism,
self-belief and commitment to a
One Ghana Agenda.
“I’ve taken into consideration
the groundswell of support, the
never-ending calls and encouragement
from a large section of our
party elders, members of our
party, supporters and Ghanaians
from diverse backgrounds.
“I’ve prayed diligently about
the task ahead and I believe I owe
a duty to God and my country to
take our great party back into government
to right the wrongs of
the past and to put an end to the
cries of the people under the current
dispensation. The 2020 election
presents our party, the NDC,
with a great opportunity to offer
yet again, visionary leadership
driven by a commitment to create
opportunities for all our people
and not just a few.
“Our collective victory in 2020
will end the increasing hardships,
expand the base of our economy,
create more sustainable jobs, ensure
shared prosperity for all and
pursue good governance including
peace, unity and security.
“As a servant leader, I have listened
with deep respect to the elders
of our party, to members of
our party and Ghanaians from all
walks of life, and I am honoured
to avail myself for truthful, transparent,
selfless, unifying and dedicated
service to the National
Democratic Congress and above
all to the good people of Ghana.”
Mr Mahama will be contesting
his previous appointees such as
the current second deputy speaker
of Parliament Alban Bagbin,
Ekow Spio-Garbrah, Sylvester
Mensah and Prof. Joshua Alabi.
NDC’s boycott took shine out of IPAC meeting — EC
BY KWAME ACHEAMPONG
THE ELECTORAL Commission
has noted that the absence
of the biggest opposition party
from Wednesday’s Inter-party
Advisory Committee meeting organised
by the Commission took
shine out of the programme.
The National Democratic
Congress (NDC) declined to attend
the meeting which was
chaired by the Deputy Chairperson
of the Election Management
Body, Samuel Tettey citing late invitation.
According to the NDC, it received
the invitation to the meeting
at 12:15 for a meeting which
was to start at 1:00 pm.
A letter inviting the governing
New Patriotic Party including the
largest opposition party, the
NDC read in parts: “On behalf
of the Electoral Commission of
Ghana, I am pleased to invite you
to Inter-Party Advisory Committee
(IPAC) meeting on Wednesday
22nd August 2018. The time
is 1:00 pm. The venue is the
IPAC room of the Electoral
Commission.”
The purpose of the IPAC
meeting was to “discuss the 2018
limited Registration Exercise and
the Referendum.”
Speaking to Starr News, the
public relations officer of the
commission Eric Dzakpasu said
the presence of the NDC would
have made the meeting and deliberations
better.
“We would’ve wished all the
parties were represented and then
to raise their concern, in fact
when I said the other parties were
represented, it was not as if they
were very comfortable with the
arrangement, they raised this
major concern that the notice
was too short, they were not prepared,
but then we also explained
the time constraint relative to our
program of activities and also
apologised that moving forward
things will be done properly as
we use to do it.
“So we would have wished
they had come to raise their concern
then we explain and apologise
as we did to the others. You
know as the main opposition
party, it took some bit of shine
out of the meeting, out of the
deliberations. If they were
around it would’ve been better
but it’s rather unfortunate they
were not around and we are
sorry, we apologise,” he told Starr
News’ Kwaku Obeng Adjei.
“We would’ve wished all the
parties were represented and
then to raise their concern, in
fact when I said the other parties
were represented, it was
not as if they were very comfortable
with the arrangement,
they raised this major
concern that the notice was
too short, they were not prepared,
but then we also explained
the time constraint
relative to our program of activities
and also apologised
that moving forward things
will be done properly as we
use to do it.

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HERITAGE MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2018
Man cannot subvert God’s
plans – Ablakwa to Bagbin
BY MOHAMMED AWAL
THE MEMBER of
Parliament (MP) for
North Tongu, Mr
Samuel Okudzeto
Ablakwa on Thursday
responded to
the litany of insults heaped on
him by Second Deputy Speaker of
Parliament, Mr Alban Bagbin with
a lucid story from the Bible.
In his bid to lead the opposition
National Democratic Congress
(NDC) into the 2020
elections, Mr Bagbin in a tirade
during his interaction with delegates
of the party in the Volta Region
questioned the competence
of some of the appointees of former
President John Mahama.
Mr Ablakwa, who served as
former Deputy Education Minister
in charge of Tertiary under the
erstwhile Mahama administration,
former Communications and
Chieftaincy Ministers, Dr Omane
Boamah and Henry Seidu Daana
featured prominently in Mr Bagbin’s
unprovoked diatribes.
Responding to the veteran lawmaker’s
comments which were described
as “reckless” by many
including renowned pollster Ben
Ephson, Ablakwa said: “There
may be a time that some people in
your own family may think
they are throwing you into
a pit and selling you to
the enemy for cheap
but they realize not
as in the case of
Joseph that man
cannot subvert
God’s plans.”
“When by
the Grace of
God you have
survived the
rough and tumble
of public office
for about a
decade and have
been through Parliamentary
vetting at least
twice without a single petition
questioning your suitability
or eligibility, you do not now have
to convince any objective observer
about your capabilities and or the
contributions you have made over
the period,” he added.
Below is Samuel Okudzeto
Ablakwa’s full response
The Bible tells the story of
how Joseph’s own brothers conspired
to strip him off his beautiful
robe of many colours which
his father who loved him so much
had made for him when they laid
ambush at Dotham and threw him
into a pit.
•Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for
North Tongu
Joseph’s
brothers did not stop there they
further agreed to sell him to the
Ishmaelites for a mere twenty
shekels of silver just to get rid of
him.
There may be a time that some
people in your own family may
think they are throwing you into a
pit and selling you to the enemy
for cheap but they realize not as in
the case of Joseph that man cannot
subvert God’s plans.
When by the Grace of God
you have survived the rough and
tumble of public office for about
a decade and have been through
Parliamentary vettings at least
twice without a single petition
questioning your suitability or eligibility,
you do not now have to
convince any objective observer
about your capabilities
and or the contributions you
have made over the period.
When you have been
President of a respected
mass student organization
such as the National Union
of Ghana Students and stood
on the side of students regardless
of the consequences,
you can only be proud of the
price you pay for doing that; for
others before you paid even more
by dismissals, torture, imprisonment
and death. Be it as it may, my
peers know I was never rusticated
or nearly ever close to that.
Having my certificate withheld
for two years ostensibly because I
had led a students’ demonstration
to protest against interference in
student’s elections only after I had
gained admission to the Faculty of
Law at the University of Ghana
some eleven years ago is a badge I
wear with deep pride.
Better for history to count me
as one who paid a little price for
keeping faith with the students
who elected me than one who betrayed
the cause.
Glad that when I finally decided
to actively engage in national
politics I chose the party that has
in its DNA respect for youthful
dynamism, fresh perspectives and
new ideas that naturally come to
the young as epitomized in the
NDC’s history from the likes of
Chairman Jerry John Rawlings,
Ato Ahwoi, Prof. Kwamina
Ahwoi, Kwame Peprah, Steeve
Akuffo, Kofi Totobi- Quakyi, the
late P. V. Obeng and many others
who though were below their midthirties
served this country with
distinction.
Despite the threats, the youth
in our party face these days from
certain quarters, I have no regrets
for joining this great tradition
whose former youthful leaders
continue to inspire me to this day.
Similarly, I urge the youth in
our party not to despair but to remain
steadfast, united and motivated
towards the eventual
transformation of our dear country.
It’s been more than a decade
and I can only thank God for His
preservation.
God bless this amazing Akatamanso
family.
Vigilantism dangerous for Ghana’s democracy – Afari-Gyan
BY KWAME ACHEAMPONG
GHANA’S FORMER electoral
commission chairperson, Dr
Kwadwo Afari Gyan has bemoaned
vigilantism in Ghana’s
politics.
In his view, vigilantism and
money politics have the tendency
to undermine the nation’s democracy.
Party vigilantism has surged
since the New Patriotic Party
(NPP) won power in 2016.
Many youth groups associated
with the party have stormed and
seized state facilities over one concern
or the other. Two weeks ago,
Kandahar boys, one of such
groups, invaded the Tamale Teaching
Hospital and asked the Chief
Executive of the facility to pack
out.
Speaking at a dialogue event in
Accra, Dr Afari Gyan said such
practices including lofty promises
by politicians must be checked in
order to safeguard Ghana’s
•Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan is former chairperson of the Electoral Commission
democracy.
“I think ways must be found
to restrict the role of money in
elections. It is now common
knowledge all over the world that
unbridled use of money in elections
makes it possible for [people
with money], irrespective of the
sources of their money, to hijack
the electoral process to the detriment
of genuine electoral competition.
“Again it is becoming the
norm for our politicians to make
many promises in their election
campaign. Those promises can
easily become millstones around
the politician’s neck.
“Finally, the rise of vigilantism
in the political landscape is not a
healthy development for the conduct
of free and fair elections nor
for the politicians themselves,” he
said.
Dr Afari-Gyan was in charge
of Ghana’s electoral commission
until July 2015 when he retired.

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•Delay
Play more
Ghanaian songs
— DJ Akuaa
I once lived in a mechanic
shop at Tema — Delay
GHANAIAN BROADCASTER,
Deloris Frimpong-Manso, popularly
known as Delay, has shared
her success story with patrons of
2018 iYES conference.
Addressing the audience last
Wednesday night at the National
Theatre, the controversial broadcaster
said her journey in the media
had not been rosy.
She recounted an incident
which ended her at a mechanic
shop.
“Around 2003, I was staying
with my auntie in Tema and I had a
little argument with her and her
husband thought I was a bit difficult
to control so they threw me
out of the house. I was 21. I had
nowhere to go. I ended staying
with some friends at a mechanic
shop in Tema Community 2,” she
said.
The producer of the ‘Cocoa
KEY STYLE
SKINNY MEN need
not coil in fear of trying something
to wear.This style guide will
show you how to rock clothes if
you’re on the slimmer
side. There’s plenty of style advice
out there for guys with a larger
frame or bigger build but men
with much smaller body shapes
have plenty of dilemmas themselves
when it comes to building a
wardrobe.
Brown’ and ‘Afia Schwarzenegger’
television series said few weeks
after she was sacked from her
aunt’s house, her mother passed
away.
Delay also talked about the trials,
rejection and fortunes of her
quest to be a broadcaster.
She recounted how she worked
at Adom FM at midnight for a
year without salary because she was
not an employee – she was just
being tried.
According to her, these challenges
did not break her – she said
she believes they prepared her for
the successes she is enjoying now.
Delay has gained acclaim for
her exceptional questioning abilities
on her Delay Show.
She has worked with Life FM,
Nkosuo FM, Top FM, TV3 and
Oman FM.
Style do’s for skinny
men
Many assume that slim guys
can wear whatever they want. It’s
true that they have more options
but there are still a few simple
rules to bear in mind to make
sure you’re not making any sartorial
errors that do your shape an
injustice.
Do wear crew necks
You want to avoid V-necks at
all costs, particularly ones with a
BY ERICA ARTHUR
AMERICA-
BASED Ghanaian
female Disc
Jockey, EwurakuaNaru,
known in the entertainment industry
as DJ Akuaa, is encouraging
Ghanaian DJs, home and
abroad, to play more Ghanaian
songs just like other countries’
DJ.
According to the award-winning
young DJ, most of his fellow
DJs from Nigeria play
almost 100% of their country’s
music, which mostly does not
happen to most Ghanaian DJs.
In an exclusive interview
with DJ Akuaa, she said, “You
sometimes enter a club and all
you hear is Nigerian songs or
songs of other nations being
played by Ghanaian DJs, which
in a way does not contribute
positively to the growth of the
Ghanaian music industry.
“Nigerian DJs play their
songs everywhere they find
themselves and I encourage
GH DJs to exhibit same for
our artistes.”
She said most of the songs
more drastic scoop. You’ve not
got huge pectorials to show off
and that’s okay – even if you did,
we wouldn’t suggest showing
them off. Crew necks give the appearance
of squared shoulders
and complement a narrower
frame much better than scooped
necks. This jacket from The Idle
Man is the perfect accompaniment
to any look, and fits in with
the clean shape of a T-shirt.
Do wear slim fitting
she plays are all Ghanaian and
basically selected to satisfy her
fan base on all the international
platforms where she exhibit her
craft.
The DJ cum artiste also revealed
that aside Djing from
Friday night to Sunday night,
she works with JP Morgan
Chase & Co., an American
RULES Key style rules for skinny men
tailoring
You may think this will just accentuate
your shape but if you’re
going to a formal event, you want
to keep your tailoring slim fitting.
It will give you a cleaner silhouette
and give the appearance of a
more customised fitting. Whatever
you do, just make sure your
suit fits you properly, you don’t
want any bagging in the trousers
and you don’t want the suit jacket
to look too big. If you’re a big fan
•DJ
Akuaa
multinational investment bank
and financial services company
headquartered in New York
City, from 9 a.m. – 5p.m. on
weekdays.
DJ Akuaa recently released a
new single dubbed ‘Sing for
me’, on which he featured both
BisaK’Dei and Joey B.
of skinnier fits then you can also
get away with a skinny fitting suit.
Do wear clothes that fit
This may sound obvious but
it’s probably the most common
mistake skinnier men make. The
temptation is to hide your frame
by wearing baggier pieces of
clothing, but this will only make
you look smaller – and like you’re
wearing your brother’s hand-medowns.
Avoid baggy jeans, oversized
tees and really chunky
outerwear. Well fitted clothes are
what you should always be aiming
for – the days of jeans hanging
below your arse are over.

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Season 7 MTN Hitmaker launched
BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI
Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
MTN GHANA, a telecommunication giant, has
launched the seventh season of MTN Hitmaker
realty show, which identifies, nurtures and economically
empowers talented young Ghanaians
who desire a career in the music industry.
Mr Guido Sopimeeh, Acting Chief Marketing
Officer for MTN Ghana, explained at the launch
recently that MTN was happy with the impact the
Hitmaker show had made in the Ghana music industry
and as an enabler that creates the platform
for the underground artistes to show the world
what they have.
“MTN Ghana is giving yet another opportunity
to music hopefuls to be part of the 7th edition
of MTN Hitmaker. We are by this launch
inviting people who have the flair, confidence,
style and attitude for stardom to take advantage of
Season Seven of the Hitmaker music show to register
and submit their songs for consideration,” he
said.
• Ultimate winner gets GH¢100,000
• Past winners of Hitmakers with Mr Guido Sopimeeh (5th R),
Acting Chief Marketing Officer of MTN Ghana
He also said the company had recognized the
fact that successful applicants who make it to the
semifinal were mostly raw talents.
According to him, MTN will talk steps to help
improve their skill and prepare them for the market.
“As part of the process, we are going to keep
them at a boot camp where they will be groomed
by a technical team made up of voice coaches,
choreographers, music director, image stylist and
many more. The contestants will be taken through
breathing exercises, speech improvements and
other key techniques required preparing them for
the entertainment industry,” he explained.
Mr Sopimeeh said after the boot camp, the
company would unveil12 finalists who would
compete for the ultimate prize of ¢100,000.00
recording deal.
He said the event would be a 13-week reality
TV show where the finalists would get the opportunity
to showcase their talents to the world.
“To further promote the finalists, MTN will
offer contestants access to digital tools to promote
themselves using MTN platforms on social
media and other digital channels. This is to help
inculcate the use of digital marketing in our young
musicians since that is where the world is moving
towards,” he added.
Regina
Van-Helvert
launches
‘Jungle
Justice’
• D Black (R)
with his driver,
Nana Fosu
D Black gifts
his driver
brand new car
GHANAIAN RAPPER, Desmond Blackmore, popularly
known as D Black, has given his personal
driver, Nana Fosu, a brand new car for his loyalty.
According to the rapper, even before he came
into the limelight, the man who was a taxi driver
then served him well.
"Happy Birthday to my brother always! My personal
driver of 8 years (guys I hate driving Chale).
“Been with me even when I was coming up 5
years before that and didn’t have a car, he was that
same taxi driver that drove me places when I
couldn’t afford to pay him, he’d smile and tell me
when you make it remember me. I didn’t forget!!
Loyalty is rare and matters a lot to me!! Enjoy ur
Birthday and your new car champ @nana_fosu1…
”.he wrote
BY ERICA ARTHUR
YOUNG GHANA-
IAN media personality
and entrepreneur,
Regina Van- Helvert
on Friday August 24
launched a campaign against Jungle
Justice at Alisa Hotel, Accra.
According to the media personality,
who is also the founder
of Van- Helvert foundation, Jungle
Justice, which is referred to as
Mob Justice is a form of public
extrajudicial killings, where an ‘alleged
criminal’ is humiliated,
beaten and in some cases ‘summarily
executed’, by a crowd or
vigilante group, is a practice that
should not be encouraged in the
society.
Speaking at the event, Van-
Helvert explained that, her foundation
which tackles social issues
is set to spearhead the campaign
against Jungle Justice, which is a
menace that everybody could be a
victim of. The campaign is set to
start with a hashtag on social
media which is #stopjunglejustice.
The event was graced by ACP
David Eklu who endorsed his
support for the project. He said
“this should be termed as jungle
injustice. This canker shouldn’t be
the battle of only the police but
for the society. The media should
also create awareness of the dangers
involved in this menace.”
Also, the father of the late
Captain Mahama, Captain Denise
Mahama endorsed the project, he
said “I will throw in my efforts
for this project.”
The launch was honoured by
two Members of Parliament, Mr
Seth Acheampong and Mr Andrew
Ankrah who also added
their endorsement to the project.
Other personalities at the
event which was hosted by news
anchor Patrick Stephenson of
GHOne TV were the mother of
Regina, actors and actresses and
other media personalities.
The Campaign was launched
with a premier of a short movie
dubbed ‘Jungle Justice’ which
starred Yvonne Nelson, John
Dumelo, and Striker of ‘ Beast of
no Nation’ fame.
• Regina Van-
Helvert

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Arise, Sir Gareth!
BY ALEX BYSOUTH, BBC SPORT
WHAT DO Gareth
Southgate, Mike Dean,
Sergio Ramos and that
football you kicked into
your neighbour's back
garden all have in common?
Each has been the subject of an online petition
- some racking up a handful of responses
while others, like those calling for
Real Madrid defender Ramos to be punished
for a tackle that forced Liverpool's Mohamed
Salah out of the Champions League final,
have had hundreds of thousands of interactions.
Lending your virtual signature to a campaign
for change is the new way of venting
frustration at perceived sporting wrongdoing,
it seems.
Nothing is off limits in the world of football
petitions. According to one, England's
World Cup quarter-final defeat by Argentina
in 1986 should be replayed - this time using
VAR.
Back in the present, and Tottenham are
the latest club to feel the wrath of an online
army of justice-seekers, with a petition set up
last week calling for the Premier League club
to be docked points over their stadium delay,
garnering more than 16,000 supporters.
The petition, aiming to reach Parliament,
urges browsers to sign and see Tottenham
"punished accordingly for their actions".
AdChoices
Spurs 'leading fans up garden path'
Tottenham have "continued to lead their
own fans and the public up the garden path"
about the club's new 62,062-seat arena, which
was initially expected to be ready to host the
club's Premier League home game against
Liverpool on September 15, says the campaign
on Change.org.
Having already agreed to play Fulham at
Wembley on the first day of the season, Spurs
said the delay in entering the new ground is
because of "issues with the critical safety systems".
They will now
• The world according to
online football petitions
• Mike Dean
also host Cardiff at the national stadium on
October 6, while a venue for the north London
outfit's home fixture against Manchester
City on October 28 is still to be
confirmed.
It is the "element of uncertainty" that
has riled one disgruntled football fan
enough to spark a petition and more than
16,000 others to sign it
"A smaller club would receive a point deduction,
so what makes Tottenham an exception
to this?" it adds.
'Replay the Champions
League final'
A petition calling for "measures to be
taken against Ramos by Fifa and Uefa"
gained serious traction. More than half a
million people have signed it.
The petition's argument is that Ramos intentionally
injured Liverpool forward Salah
and "instead of winning matches fairly", he
"uses tricks that defy the spirit of the game
and fair play".
The incident in the Champions League
final went unpunished by the referee and
Ramos later said an initial "arm grab" by Salah
led to the Egyptian's injury.
It was not the only campaign targeting
Ramos - an Egyptian lawyer also filed a lawsuit
worth £874m for the "physical and psychological
harm" caused to the people of
Egypt.
If another petition, this time aimed at Parliament,
had got its way, the Champions
League final would have been replayed without
the Real Madrid defender (and presumably
without Salah too, as he was injured).
It was rejected
"Bloody hell, they have given this Salah
thing a lot of attention," Ramos said in the aftermath.
Sir Gareth & a Pickford
bank
holiday
Southgate
tube station
was briefly renamed
after
the England
boss during
the World Cup
Remember
when football
was coming
home and
England were
going to win
the World
Cup?
Three
Lions fever
captured the
nation, and
also the imagination
of petitioners.
It began before the tournament,
with petitions calling for certain players
to be picked for the England squad -
Glenn Murray, Jonjo Shelvey, James
Milner (with even a specific request for
the Liverpool man to play in centre
midfield) - one for England's training
kit to be used as their official home kit,
and another for Arsene Wenger to be
named the national team's boss.
As England got off to a winning
start, employees at a well-known coffee
shop put their signatures to a petition
to be allowed to clock off work
early to watch the knockout games.
Then, once it looked more and
more likely that England were going
to win the World Cup for the first
time since 1966, there were multiple
online campaigns for the Monday
after the final to be made a national
holiday.
Manager Gareth Southgate (having
shrugged off Wenger to hold on to his
job) would become a Sir - perhaps that Monday
should be called 'Southgate Day', some
suggested? - as would Golden Boot winner
Harry Kane, while goalkeeper Jordan Pickford's
birthday ( March 7, the petition clarifies)
should also become a bank holiday
following his penalty shootout heroics against
Colombia.
But England didn't win the World Cup,
losing instead in the semi-finals to Croatia. A
petition for the game to be replayed was rejected.
The serious side...
So does starting a petition actually make a
difference? If you're one of the 106,611 people
who signed a campaign on Change.org to
stop Mike Dean refereeing another Arsenal
game, probably not.
The website dubbed "the world's platform
• Sergio Ramos has become
the pantomime villain of
petitions this summer
• Gareth
Southgate
for change" allows any person or organisation
to begin a petition about any topic, with the
idea being to catch the attention of and engage
with decision-makers.
Sporting petitioners have also hijacked the
official UK Government website.
But while some campaigns, like making it
legal to keep footballs kicked into your garden,
are more tongue-in-cheek or wishful
thinking, others have raised issues to be discussed
in Parliament.
Any petition that meets regulations and
draws 100,000 signatures will be considered
for debate, such as allowing Premier League
and Championship football clubs to introduce
safe standing.
"Due process must be followed to ensure
the safety of fans now and in the future,"
sports minister Tracey Crouch said during the
debate.

27/08/2018
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• Rev. Ismaila Hans Awudu, Board Chairman of
National Road Safety Commission and head pastor
of ICGC, Yahweh Temple branch at East Legon
• From Right: Mr Olakunle Olutimehin, Rev. Ismaila Hans Awudu,
Mrs Josephine Ismaila Awudu (CEO), Ms Felicia Twumasi
(Chairperson) and Mrs Lynda Owusu Afriyie at high table
J’s Cake & Floral
Institute marks
7th graduation
• Ms Felicia Twumasi, chairperson of the
occasion and CEO of Homefood, delivering her
speech at the 7th graduation ceremony
• Mrs Josephine Ismaila Awudu, CEO of J’s Cake and
Floral Institute, presenting the best student award
• READ FROM PAGE 2
• Mrs Ismaila Awudu, Rev Ismaila Awudu and Ms Felicia
Twumasi inspecting the handiworks of the students
• Samples of the floral works the students presented
Church, Yahweh Temple East Legon branch, Rev
Ismaila Hans Awudu, entreated the graduands to
be useful in society by making sure that they put
all that they had learnt into practice.
Rev. Ismaila called on the state to ensure that
there are more vocational institutions across the
country to train the teeming youth to end the
unemployment situation.
The chairperson of the occasion and CEO of
Homefoods, Ms Felicia Twumasi, called on
parents to enrol their children in J’s Cake and
Floral Institute to make them employable in
society.
Ms Twumasi said Homefoods has a strong
commitment to every sector of foods, grains,
legumes, seasonings, spices, snacks and anything
bakery. She continued that the company was
going to establish an award scheme for the best
student henceforth through an incubation
scheme in training abroad, cash and tools to bake
for J’s Cakes institution.
One of the graduands, Ms Esther Atisu,
talked about the passion and enthusiasm of the
lecturers and how dedicated they are in ensuring
that the students understand what they teach
them.
• Mrs Josephine
Ismaila Awudu,
CEO of J’s Cake
and Floral
Institute
• Prototype of some of the
cakes done by the granduands
• Rev and Mrs Ismaila Awudu with the granduands after the event
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