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DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 

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Ghanaian women dying 

of male hormones 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh 

GHANA IS gradually losing her female 

human capital to Polycystic 

Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), a 

condition where there is an increase 

in male hormones in 

women which affects the eggs and consequently 

leads to barrenness. 

With PCOS, the male hormones are dominant 

in women to the point that they affect the 

formation of the female eggs, cause the victims 

to have irregular menses, and make them have it 

difficult to get pregnant or suffer miscarriages or 

sometimes lead to the birth of pre-term babies. 

This condition, according to experts, is killing 

many Ghanaians silently because there are no 

data or records in the country’s health system on 

the condition as many professionals have not 

taken keen interest in studies related to this topic. 

Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE in 

Accra last Friday, a public health nurse at 

Adabraka Polyclinic and founder of Laurel 

Women Health Foundation, Ms Cindy Ofori-Appiah, 

said PCOS is a silent killer among a number 

of Ghanaian women resulting in many pre-mature 

births. 

Ms Ofori-Appiah said the condition affects 

women at puberty level - that is the first period of 

menstruation to the ages of 45-50 years because 

many people are not aware of the disease so “we 

want to create the awareness this September.” 

She said because many people are not aware 

of the condition or fear victimisation from health 

professionals, they pass through the backdoor to 

seek healthcare while others do not discuss at all. 

“There are others who have been diagnosed 

and gone through every treatment but it looks 

like there is no hope for them and so are waiting 

for the disease to kill them while others are fighting 

the condition,” she stated. 

According to her, the causes of this condition 

are unknown and research is currently ongoing 

•Ms Cindy Ofori-Appiah, public health 

nurse at Adabraka Polyclinic and founder 

of Laurel Women Health Foundation 

to determine the cause, but there are predisposing 

factors such as genetic, environmental factors 

and lifestyle. 

Global overview of disease 

Ms Ofori-Appiah added that research had revealed 

that there were currently over four million 

more women globally suffering this condition 

more than those with breast cancer, lupus and diabetes 

because it starts from puberty. 

It further states that between five to 10% of 

women of childbearing age in the United States 

of America, or roughly five million, have PCOS, 

adding that less than 50% of the victims are 

properly diagnosed, leaving millions of women 

living with PCOS undiagnosed, which is 

the most common cause of female infertility. 

Signs and symptoms 

The public health nurse said one clear sign of 

PCOS is irregular period in which case the menstrual 

cycle changes totally without following any 

pattern. 

“Another cause is spotting of blood during 

your period instead of experiencing normal flow 

of blood where the pad is not well soaked,” she 

said. 

She stated prolonged bleeding was also a situation 

where one could have continuous blood 

flow for about one to six months or more, forcing 

people to wear big diapers, adding that there 

could also be intermittent bleeding over a period. 

Ms Ofori-Appiah mentioned that when 

women grow hairs on the chest and face, for instance, 

it simply means there are unusually male 

hormones in the body. 

She said PCOS could cause depression, anxiety, 

sleep disorders and anger in victims. 

Ms Ofori-Appiah said other symptoms include 

loneliness, mood swings, oily face, disorder 

in eating, hair loss, boldness, high insulin level, 

dark skin patches (armpit, under the breast), 

darkening, frequent headaches, gaining weight 

unnecessarily, poor memory, dry eyes, and fatigue. 

NGO 

She said her foundation is reaching out to all 

women with this condition to come out boldly to 

fight the condition in order to give it attention. 

Ms Ofori-Appiah said she started to develop 

the interest to campaign against PCOS when “I 

got the admission to do my MPhil at University 

of Ghana and, as part of my thesis, decided to 

prove to the supervisor that the condition exists 

and ever since started the campaign on Facebook, 

many women have come to confess.” 

She called on all Ghanaians, especially 

women, to join the campaign this month (September) 

to fight and march against the disease to 

create the awareness to all that there is hope for 

those who are battling that condition. 

Man, wife 

fight over 

twins 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh 

A LOTTO writer, Mr Francis Mensah, a resident 

of Gbawe CP in the Ga South Municipality 

in the Greater Accra Region, is accusing 

his wife, Ms Adjoa Yeboah, of selling their 

twin babies (a boy and a girl) for 

GH20,000.00 to one Ms Sheila Darko under 

the guise of surrogacy. 

However, Ms Yeboah has refuted the accusation, 

maintaining that the twin babies are 

not for Mr Mensah but Ms Darko as she entered 

into agreement with Ms Darko to go 

through the process of surrogacy. 

Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE in 

Accra, Mr Mensah said on November 16, 

2016, his wife, Ms Yeboah, told him she had 

taken seed and that she had decided to terminate 

the baby. 

He called for the intervention of her wife’s 

mother and Ms Yeboah agreed to keep the 

pregnancy. 

Mr Mensah said before then Ms Yeboah 

used to go to Ms Darko’s house to help with 

house chores and when along the line he had 

some quarrel with the wife, she temporarily 

moved to live with Ms Darko. 

He said while all attempts to bring his wife 

back home failed, “I went to her hometown, 

Agona Odoben, to report the case to the family, 

where she was summoned and the case 

was settled between us so she was tasked to 

move quickly to the house upon leaving the 

village but she refused to obey the family.” 

He added that the last thing she heard 

about her was that the wife was seen at Anyaa 

Market pregnant and “on September 5, 2017 

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• Residents running to safety from their homes 

Rains devastate Wa 

BY KWAME ACHEAMPONG 

AFOUR-HOUR torrential 

rainfall in the 

Upper West Region 

on Friday has left 

over hundred residents 

homeless and many property 

destroyed in the Wa 

municipality. 

• After 4hrs 

of downpour 

The massive rain flooded 

major parts of Wa and its surroundings 

causing panic 

among residents. 

Meanwhile, the National 

Disaster Management Organisation 

(NADMO) who got 

into action on time, helped to 

rescue residents who were hit 

hard by the impact of the 

rains. 

No casualty was recorded. 

Meanwhile, the National 

Disaster Management 

Organisation (NADMO) 

who got into action on 

time, helped to rescue 

residents who were hit 

hard by the impact of 

the rains. 

Man, wife fight over twins 

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Ms Yeboah’s younger sister, Ms Adjoa Appiah, 

called me on phone that Ms Yeboah had 

given birth to twins, a boy and a girl.” 

Mr Mensah said, “I quickly called her on 

phone and she confirmed to me and asked 

me to call her in three days’ time because she 

was feeling weak. On the third day, when I 

called her she told me the babies had passed 

away and the hospital had buried them. But 

when I went to check with the Ridge Hospital, 

I was told the babies were alive. 

“I was surprised to see that one week after 

the incident Ms Darko also claimed she had 

given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, without 

me having noticed her pregnancy. 

“Some days later, Ms Yeboah went to 

Agona Odoben and told my sister that because 

I couldn’t take care of her, she had sold 

the babies for GH20,000.00.” 

Mr Mensah said on January 25, 2018, he 

received a court summon from the Kaneshie 

District Magistrate Court stating that Ms 

Sheila Darko and Mr James Darko had sued 

me for defamation of character and an order 

compelling him to go back to the community 

and make pronouncement that the statement 

he had earlier made was false and unfounded. 

“I couldn’t pay for a lawyer but my church 

hired the services of a lawyer and the very 

day I attended the court proceedings Ms 

Darko withdrew and discontinued the case,” 

he stated. 

Mr Mensah said he went to the Gbawe 

Lafa Police Station to report the case where 

an officer was dispatched to go with him to 

Agona Odoben to arrest Ms Yeboah. 

Reacting to the issue, Ms Yeboah refuted 

the allegation that she had sold the babies but 

stated that the babies do not belong to Mr 

Mensah because she did a surrogacy arrangement 

with Ms Darko. 

According to Ms Yeboah, Mr Mensah had 

neglected his parental obligation as he had 

failed to take care of their children, which resulted 

in his wife leaving his house a year ago. 

She accused Mr Mensah, among many 

things, of being inconsiderate and denying 

their fourth born as being the father so “how 

can the same man who claims the fourth 

child is not his come to claim a year after that 

the twins belong to him? 

“Sir, please that man is not truthful at all; 

ignore him because all that he is saying is a 

palpable lie and my God will judge him for 

that.” 

The paper’s sources at the Gbawe Lafa 

Police Station alleged that Ms Yeboah had 

written two different reports, one in respect 

of the claim that the babies died at the hospital 

and the other being that she had a surrogacy 

agreement with Ms Darko. 

The police said they wanted to take custody 

of the babies until the matter was settled 

but counsel for Ms Darko had filed a suit at 

the High Court restraining them from taking 

custody of the babies. 

Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE, 

Ms Darko said she had issues with child-bearing 

so she spoke with a certain woman who 

said she knew someone who could help her 

do surrogacy. 

“So after sometime Ms Yeboah, whom I 

have known for years and helped before, 

agreed to do it for me,” she said. 

Ms Darko said “there was no financial 

agreement between us but I compensated her 

to take care of the rest of the children.” 

Counsel for both Ms Yeboah and Ms 

Darko, Dr Maurice Ankrah, said surrogacy is 

a new thing in the country and that many 

people are not aware of how it operates. 

Meanwhile, a Senior Public Health Nurse 

at the Adabraka Polyclinic, Madam Cindy 

Ofori-Appiah, says the issue of surrogacy is 

difficult to tackle in the Ghanaian cultural environment 

because of the Ghanaian’s view of 

paternity. 

For instance, she said if a married woman 

could not take seed at all, then it would take 

the semen of her husband and the egg of the 

surrogate mother to be used by a doctor to 

make any pregnancy possible in the surrogate 

mother.

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•Displaced people are already sheltering 

in Idlib province 

Syria Idlib: UN warns of threat to civilians if new offensive begins 

THE UN envoy to Syria has 

warned of a "perfect storm" in 

north-west Syria if the government 

goes ahead with its threatened 

offensive against rebels. 

Staffan de Mistura called for 

humanitarian corridors to be set 

up to allow civilians to be evacuated 

temporarily. 

With rebels defeated in most 

of Syria, such an offensive 

could prove to be the last big 

battle of the civil war. 

Russia, the government's 

main military ally, has also 

stepped up its rhetoric. 

Foreign Minister Sergei 

Lavrov said "terrorists" must be 

wiped out in Idlib, accusing 

them of using civilians as 

human shields. 

Both he and his Syrian counterpart, 

Walid Muallem, accused 

rebels of preparing to stage a 

chemical attack in Idlib in order 

to blame pro-government 

forces and draw new US military 

retaliation. 

Mr de Mistura said both the 

government and the rebels had 

the ability to make chlorinebased 

chemical weapons. BBC 


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World news in 4 stories 

UN urges Greece to act as Moria refugee camp reaches 'boiling point’ 

The UN refugee agency has urged 

Greece to move asylum seekers off 

Lesbos after the Victoria Derbyshire 

programme exposed appalling 

conditions. 

It said the Moria camp was 

"reaching boiling point" and the 

Greek government should rapidly 

speed up the process of transferring 

people to the mainland. 

The camp has capacity for 

about 2,000 but is currently home 

to some 8,000, with violence and 

sexual assault rife. 

The Greek government has 

been approached for comment. 

Living standards inside the 

camp are so bad that many charities 

refuse to operate inside in 

protest. The day we filmed there, 

two people were stabbed in the 

lunch queue. 

"We are particularly concerned 

about woefully inadequate sanitary 

facilities, fighting amongst frustrated 

communities, rising levels of 

sexual harassment and assaults and 

the increasing need for medical 

and psycho-social care," Charlie 

Yaxley, spokesman for the UN 

High Commissioner for Refugees 

(UNHCR), told a Geneva briefing. 

Mr Yaxley said the Greek government 

had made previous commitments 

to transfer people to 

shelters on the mainland and had 

received European Union funding 

for it. 

The UNHCR called on the 

Greek authorities to rapidly speed 

up transfer of those eligible to 

mainland Greece and to increase 

capacity on the mainland to house 

them. BBC 

•Some children at the camp have respiratory diseases from tear gas fired by 

police to quell fights. 

Merkel pledges to help 

Nigerian youth 

GERMANY’S CHANCELLOR 

Angela Merkel has said that her 

country is keen to provide more 

legal pathways for migration to 

Nigerian citizens. 

She made the remark during a 

joint press conference with President 

Muhammadu Buhari in the 

Nigerian capital, Abuja. 

Nigeria is the last stop on the 

German leader’s tour of West 

Africa. 

Mrs Merkel said she also wanted 

to increase the number of Nigerians 

studying in Germany, which 

currently stands at 1,200. 

She added that Germany would 

do more to share its expertise in 

technical and vocational training 

with Nigeria. 

Mrs Merkel and President 

Buhari said they had agreed that 

human trafficking and illegal migration 

could only be tackled if economic 

opportunities were provided 

for young people. 

There are currently an estimated 

30,000 Nigerians living illegally in 

Germany. 

Mrs Merkel said she's also keen 

to deepen economic ties with Nigeria 

beyond the industrial sector. 

The two leaders signed deals in 

agriculture and car production, including 

agreeing to providing credit 

to farmers. 

Mrs Merkel is the second Western 

leader to visit Nigeria this week. 

The British Prime Minister Theresa 

May also travelled to Abuja and 

Lagos on Wednesday. BBC 

•The UN commission says China discriminates against its Uighur population 

UN 'alarmed' by reports 

of China's mass 

detention of Uighurs 

•Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Muhammadu Buhari 

THE UN says it is alarmed 

by reports of the mass detention 

of Uighurs in China and 

called for the release of those 

held on a counter terrorism 

"pretext". 

It comes after a UN committee 

heard reports that up 

to one million Muslim 

Uighurs in western Xinjiang 

region, were held in re-education 

camps. 

Beijing has denied the allegations 

but admitted that 

some religious extremists 

were being held for re-education. 

China blames Islamist militants 

and separatists for unrest 

in the region. 

During a review earlier 

this month, members of the 

United Nations Committee 

on the Elimination of Racial 

Discrimination said credible 

reports suggested Beijing had 

"turned the Uighur autonomous 

region into something 

that resembles a 

massive internment camp". 

China responded that 

Uighurs enjoyed full rights 

but Beijing made a rare admission 

that "those deceived 

by religious extremism... shall 

be assisted by resettlement 

and re-education". BBC



05 

Editorial 

Fight against cyber-crime must be intensified 

AT A time when technology is advancing 

at an alarming rate with 

its attendant negative consequences, 

it is becoming increasingly 

necessary for countries to 

increase cyber security to protect 

their computers, programmes, 

networks and data from attack. 

It is true that the internet is 

now a major source of useful information 

for billions across the 

world; but it is also true that hundreds 

and thousands of hackers 

are all over the world invading the 

privacy of others for mischievous 

purposes. 

The United States’ (US) Intelligence 

Community, for instance, 

has had to open investigations 

into a possible Russian cyber-attack 

into US systems aimed at influencing 

the 2016 presidential 

election in favour of Donald J. 

Trump because Russian President 

Vladimir Putin, a former KGB 

member is known to have a visceral 

dislike for Hillary Clinton. 

Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks is 

also known to be a major exploiter 

of information hacked by 

computer wizards to achieve specified 

objectives. 

In Ghana, the threats are very 

real. Cyber-crime takes the form 

of computer-related fraud popularly 

known as ‘Sakawa’, cyber 

bank heists, child pornography, 

mobile money transfer fraud, 

breaches and violation of computer 

network security, identification 

theft, industrial espionage 

and election rigging, among others. 

‘Sakawa’ particularly, is a major 

headache because many of our 

youth are involved in the criminal 

act to get rich quick. 

Every effort should therefore 

be made to contain the crime before 

it gets completely out of 

hand. 

The National Cyber Security 

Council, therefore, ought to work 

even harder to curb the increasing 

rate of cyber-crime in the country. 

We need to have a robust system 

against criminals who are exploiting 

the speed, convenience 

and anonymity of the internet to 

commit crime. 

Zoomlion hands over 500 trucks, 

1,000 containers to MMDAs 

BY BENJAMIN TANDOH 

THE MINISTER for Local Government 

and Rural Development, Hajia 

Alima Mahama has urged Metropolitan, 

Municipal and District 

Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to 

cooperate with the Ministry of Water Resources 

and Sanitation to improve the sanitation situation 

in the country. 

The minister entreated Ghanaians to hold executives 

of district assemblies responsible for 

the poor sanitation condition, saying, “that is 

one of their (MMDCEs) key responsibilities.” 

According to her, sanitation had been a challenge 

over the years, and added that the government 

was on course to make the country one of 

the neatest in Africa. 

Speaking at the handing over of vehicles to 

MMDCEs by Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Hajia 

Mahama highlighted the need for the district assemblies 

to take care of the sanitation situation 

in the country. 

“Sanitation is an area that we are serious 

about, and we should pay serious attention to,” 

the minister stated. 

She further urged other private waste management 

companies to assist the government in 

improving the sanitation situation in the country. 

The minister said the government was 

opened to working with the private sector to 

achieve its goal and improve the conditions of 

the country. 

• Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, Executive Chairman, Zoomlion Ghana Limited 

PHOTO: RAMSON EBO ACQUAH 

She commended Zoomlion Ghana Limited 

for their role in improving the sanitation situation 

in the country, and called on all Ghanaians 

to play their part in ensuring that the country is 

clean. 

“I will commend Zoomlion for partnering 

MMDCEs to find solution to the sanitation 

problem facing our country,” she said. 

Also speaking at the event, the Deputy Minister 

for Water Resources and Sanitation, Mr 

Michael Yaw Gyato, urged stakeholders in the 

sanitation sector to enhance their work to help 

the country achieve its goal as the cleanest country 

in Africa by the year 2020. 

He called for innovative measures in the industry 

to convert waste products into other reusable 

products. 

The deputy minster expressed dissatisfaction 

about the poor sanitation in the country, adding 

that, “we therefore expect each and every one to 

take the necessary steps to maintain good sanitation.” 

He disclosed that his ministry would soon 

roll out some of its initiatives and policies which 

are aimed at improving sanitation in the country. 

“The ministry would like to emphasise that 

sanitation is first and foremost every citizen’s 

civic responsibility,” he added. 

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr 

Ishmael Ashitey pleaded with the local assemblies 

to develop a maintenance plan to ensure 

that their tools work for long. 

“I would therefore appeal to all of us to 

change our attitude in this direction if we are to 

achieve our dream,” he said. 

Zoomlion supports MMDCEs 

Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management 

giant, donated 500 vehicles and 1,000 containers 

to Metropolitan, Municipal and District 

Assemblies (MMDAs) who have contract with 

the company. 

The donation was to assist the local authorities 

to help fight filth in the country which is in 

line with the government’s aim of making the 

country one of the neatest in Africa. 

In his remarks, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, 

Executive Chairman, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, 

said his outfit was committed to working with 

the government to achieve its goal. 

He further lauded past and recent governments 

for their fight against filth in the country, 

and lauded the current government for establishing 

a sanitation ministry to fight poor sanitation. 

“Over the years, we have proven our capacity 

to handle waste in this country with the level of 

expertise of any international company. 

“We have developed a robust research and 

development system with remarkable capacity to 

customise and innovate based on our indigenous 

knowledge,” he said.


06 

BY NANA BRAM OKAE II 

IHAVE been completely 

shocked ever since the 

scandal broke over the 

banks that have gone over 

the tip and have plunged 

the nation into a financial 

crisis. Lots and lots of tax payers’ 

money have gone into bailing 

some banks out, which in the end 

has come to naught, regrettably. 

Personalities 

I’m extremely worried also 

that personalities mentioned in 

the scandal are very highly educated 

people who should know 

by every stretch of the imagination 

that what they were doing 

was not in the best interest of 

their respective banks and the 

country at large. 

Pastor Mensa Otabil, one of 

the personalities mentioned in 

the scandal has come out to say 

that while he was board chairman 

at Capital Bank they took decisions 

some of which inured to 

the benefit of the bank and some 

of which did not but all the same 

they took those decisions with 

the best of intentions. How sad 

and how ridiculous! 

He is also saying that he was 

only a non-executive chairman 

and that he was not involved in 

the day-to-day activities of the 

bank; meaning, you can’t blame 

him for anything. 

Views DAILY 

Otabil sounds too simplistic over 

very serious financial issues 

Board chairman 

Well said, but that is not all 

for a board chairman. I’m sure by 

now he has been made to understand 

that as an ordinary board 

member you are liable when 

there is a problem in the company 

whose board you sit on. 

This is to say, all the Board 

members of Capital Bank at the 

time of the mess leading to the 

revocation of their licence, have 

a case to answer jointly and severally 

and this includes Pastor 

Mensa Otabil. 

The pastor had many Ghanaians’ 

blood pressure shoot up the 

other day when he went to 

church with his ‘my God is good’ 

mantra. What is this? When you 

and your colleagues have done 

something abominable to the 

good people of Ghana by squandering 

their money given you to 

sanitize your bank which was 

bleeding profusely, you go to 

church not to show remorse but 

to add insult to injury by proclaiming 

‘my God is good’ to the 

disbelief of many citizens except 

your church members who see 

you as God and not as an ordinary 

mortal. God, by the way, is 

good to everybody not only to 

pastors. 

‘My God is good’ 

It was on that same occasion 

that the pastor spoke of ‘interesting 

things happening’ involving 

him and that ‘my God is good.’ 

I should like to point out that 

nothing ‘interesting involving’ 

Pastor Otabil is happening. On 

•Pastor Mensa Otabil, 

the contrary, something shameful 

and scandalous involving him is 

happening and he must brace 

himself for the worst. 

So far, there has been no remorse 

shown by him over this 

matter which makes the issue of 

Woyome ‘baby case.’ Ghanaians 

will not sit down to allow Gh610 

million to go waste because it involves 

Pastor Mensa Otabil and 

his colleagues. 

Education 

We need money to give education 

to our children at the secondary 

level free of charge; we 

need money to fix the numerous 

roads in the hinterland that become 

impassable at the least rain; 

we need money to continue 

building and equipping CHIPS 

compounds throughout the 

country because the health needs 

of the people are very important. 

It’s clear Pastor Otabil is treating 

the huge scandal facing him 

We need money to give education to our children at the 

secondary level free of charge; we need money to fix the 

numerous roads in the hinterland that become impassable 

at the least rain; we need money to continue building 

and equipping CHIPS compounds throughout the country 

because the health needs of the people are very important. 

HERITAGE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 

and his colleagues as a trivial case 

and looks not bothered at all per 

his demeanour because ‘my God 

is good.’ 

Eii! This is not a spiritual matter; 

this is money matter which 

belongs to the realm of the physical. 

The two must not be mixed 

to court undeserved sympathy 

from unsuspecting Christians. Already, 

we are seeing signs of that. 

Many of his church members 

are said to have stated boldly on 

social media that they stand by 

their founder at all times irrespective 

of what he is said to 

have done at Capital Bank when 

he was the chairman of the 

Board. 

Educated people 

But you see, there is a problem 

I have with highly educated 

people of this country-----that 

they have brought the country on 

its knees since the attainment of 

independence in 1957 through 

corruption. Every corruption 

scandal that has evolved in this 

country involves people who are 

highly educated and you wonder 

whether they went to university 

to learn the art of stealing from 

public purse. 

If you do the check list you 

will know----SADA was staffed 

with very, well educated people 

and yet they found a way of diverting 

huge sums of money into 

their private pockets and that was 

the end of SADA—the end of 

the great idea conceived to help 

the people of the north. 

Almost all the officials indicted 

for diversion and misuse 

of SADA funds went scot-free at 

the time except Mr. Gilbert Iddi 

who was removed as managing 

director. Those who took part in 

‘sharing’ the funds remained at 

post for a little while and told to 

refund the moneys but it’s unclear 

whether they did the refund 

before the change of government 

in 2017. 

Many of those mentioned in 

this scandal included one Dr. 

Charles Jebuni who as chief technical 

director took a total of 

Ghc437, 206 in a period of 22 

months; Mr. SalifuMahama who 

was hired as a consultant for 

housing engineering and was paid 

a total of Ghc96, 000 for 16 

months; Mr. BakariSadiqNyari 

who was a consultant on Land 

and was paid a total of Ghc108, 

000 for ten months; Mr. 

Kennedy Mohamed who bought 

a laptop computer for GHc6000 

was a consultant on Resource 

Mobilization and collected a total 

of Ghc75, 000 for ten months. 

As I said above, it’s not clear 

whether they have refunded the 

monies to the state or not. My 

apologies to them if they have 

refunded monies belonging to 

the state. All of them are very 

highly educated personalities. 

NSS big men 

Then, somewhere in 2013, 

2014 and 2015 top officials of 

the National Service Secretariat 

together with their boss developed 

a scheme and managed to 

steal millions of cedis into their 

private pockets and are now before 

the courts to answer criminal 

charges against them. 

GYEEDA 

Abuga Pele and Asibit, formerly 

of GYEEDA are now 

doing time at Nsawam prisons 

because of their crimes at GY- 

EEDA, two highly educated gentlemen. 

Auditor-General 

The Auditor-General also 

highlights malfeasance committed 

by various government officials 

who are all well educated 

every year in his report but to no 

effect. The PAC of Parliament 

only barks and leaves it at that. 

Perhaps, this is the reason why 

white-collar thievery has become 

the order of the day and people 

are indulging in it like it’s nobody’s 

business. 

I hope though that in this particular 

case of bank malfeasance, 

the government should be able 

to recover monies belonging to 

the state for us irrespective of 

personalities involved because it’s 

a huge sum of money we are 

talking about. I rest my case. 

If you do the check 

list you will know---- 

SADA was staffed 

with very, well educated 

people and 

yet they found a 

way of diverting 

huge sums of 

money into their 

private pockets 

and that was the 

end of SADA—the 

end of the great 

idea conceived to 

help the people of 

the north.


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• Achieving zero hunger in Ghana 

An assessment of post-harvest losses 

and market linkages 

BY PROF RAMATU M. AL-HASSAN 

HUNGER IS a condition 

in which a person, 

for a sustained 

period, is unable to 

eat sufficient food to 

meet basic nutritional 

needs in terms of both macro and 

micro nutrients (JAK Foundation, 

2017); hunger is at the centre of malnutrition. 

Eight hundred and fifteen 

million people globally, do not get 

enough food to lead a normal, active 

life. Available estimates suggest that at 

least 2 million Ghanaians are undernourished. 

This situation needs to 

change according to the Sustainable 

Development Goal 2, which aims to 

end hunger by 2030. 

The World Food Programme in 

Ghana (WFP) commissioned the John 

Agyekum Kufuor Foundation to undertake 

a Zero Hunger Strategic Review 

(GZHSR) on behalf of the 

Government of Ghana, through the 

Ministry of Planning/National Development 

Planning Commission 

(NDPC). The objective of the 

GZHSR was to provide a baseline assessment 

of hunger, food insecurity 

and malnutrition, and the report aims 

to support a common understanding 

of the problems and how to solve 

them by 2030. The GZHSR report 

forms the basis of this review, which 

focuses on postharvest losses and 

weak market linkages as contributors 

to hunger and malnutrition. 

•Ghana loses about 318,514 tonnes of maize annually to post-harvest losses 

Ghana hunger situation 

According to the GZHSR report, 

despite achieving the MDG1 (halving 

poverty prevalence by 2015), hunger 

and malnutrition are still prevalent in 

the population and is characterised by 

a skewed spatial distribution with 

higher concentration in rural areas 

and northern Ghana. Extreme 

poverty is defined as those whose 

standard of living is insufficient to 

meet their basic nutritional requirements 

even if they devoted their entire 

consumption budget to food. 

Extreme poverty rate in rural areas 

was 15 percent, compared to 2 percent 

of the urban population. Furthermore, 

the three northern regions 

have an extreme poverty rate of 29.7 

percent, almost three times the national 

average. The Volta Region also 

had a prevalence rate of 9 percent. 

The outcomes of undernourishment 

are stunting and being underweight 

(children being too thin for their age) 

and hidden hunger (a situation of micronutrient 

deficiency), for example, 

two-thirds of children under five years 

are anaemic. 

Causes 

The GZHSR report identifies limited 

access of farmers to reliable markets 

for their produce, and high 

postharvest losses as some of the 

contributory factors to extreme 

poverty and undernourishment. 

Therefore, addressing the above challenges 

is central to the attainment of 

SDG 2. 

Postharvest management and 

food losses 

Postharvest loss is defined as the 

degradation in both quantity (physical 

loss in quantity) and quality (nutrient 

composition, acceptability and edibility). 

As a developing country, postharvest 

losses are high in Ghana, especially 

at the farmer level. 

Estimates of postharvest losses 

vary according to the crop and 

method of estimation. What is clear is 

that the country loses quite a bit of 

agricultural produce to inappropriate 

management of harvested produce. 

Ghana loses over three hundred thousand 

tonnes of maize annually to 

postharvest losses. 

A review of studies on postharvest 

losses in Ghana recorded very high 

upper limits of losses suffered by 

farmers; as high as 26 percent for cassava, 

50 percent for maize, 94 percent 

for cowpea (Vowotor et al., 2013). 

The losses are also very high for 

processed products (e.g. 20.9 - 72 percent 

for cassava chips and gari, and 36 

percent for yam chips). A loss of 50 

percent of maize produced is not just 

loss of food or potential earnings, but 

also of investment in the production 

of the commodity, further impoverishing 

the farmer and other actors in 

the value chain. 

The causes of losses are pests and 

diseases, poor storage and transportation 

practices that lead to bruising and 

physical damage including 

rotting. Agricultural 

produce in 

Ghana is not transported 

in fit-for-purpose 

vehicles such as 

cool vans for fresh 

produce (fruits, vegetables, 

fish and 

meats). Farmers and 

traders have poor or 

inadequate storage infrastructure, 

including 

drying and cleaning 

facilities. An inventory 

of commercial 

post-harvest infrastructure 

identified 

about 13000 warehouses, 

that have 

rather low levels of 

utilisation due to lack 

of trust in them by 

farmers. 

Some of the facilities 

need additional 

enhancements such as 

drying platforms, cold stores and 

trained warehouse managers. The 

Peasant Farmers Association of 

Ghana has advocated for challenges 

such as bad road infrastructure, inadequate 

machinery, extension services, 

and adoption of simple post-harvest 

technologies to be urgently addressed. 

For liquidity reasons, farmers may also 

be pressured to sell at low prices as 

there are no risk management instruments 

to fall on. 

Market linkages and food and 

nutrition security 

The GZHSR has identified low 

producer prices and inability of farmers 

to sell their produce as market access 

challenges for farmers. Most 

agricultural producers participate in 

informal physical or cash markets, in 

which exchange is face-to-face, and 

most importantly selling is seldom 

linked to a specific off-taker. As a result, 

the farmer does not hedge to offset 

negative price fluctuations in an 

environment of high production seasonality. 

The approach for linking smallholders 

to markets is participatory 

market development. In this approach, 

farmers are supported to 

identify market opportunities and to 

supply adequate quantities and quality 

on a regular and timely basis. Such 

support includes, helping farmers 

build their assets to produce what the 

market demands, providing them with 

information to take the right decisions, 

and continuous knowledge upgrading 

for them to stay competitive 

in the market. Availability of the right 

infrastructure, especially roads to 

physically link production areas to 

market centres is critical for enhancing 

market access. 

Reducing postharvest losses and 

linking farmers to markets requires 

partnership between government, especially 

at the local level, farmers, 

other private sector actors and civil 

society. 

The state provides needed public 

goods such infrastructure (including 

well designed and appropriately 

equipped markets), research, dissemination 

of knowledge and information, 

and enforcement of standards for 

marketing. In the special case of 

smallholders, smart subsidies such as 

matching grants may be used to help 

them acquire production assets, a 

strategy that has been used by agricultural 

development projects in this 

country. In fact the state can consider 

such subsidies as instruments of social 

protection. 

Farmers on their part, need to reorient 

themselves to invest in meeting 

the demands of the market including 

standards. The private sector can engage 

smallholders in inclusive market 

models for mutual benefit. Civil society 

can advocate for appropriate policies 

for the farmers plus engage with 

farmers at the local level to support 

the market development (e.g. building 

skills for price negotiations and sensitising 

farmers on contract relations). 

Conclusion 

Achieving zero hunger in a decade 

may seem a tall order, but it is possible 

if the right partnerships are forged 

at the local level and an inclusive market 

systems development approach is 

adopted.

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GHANAIAN RENOWNED fiber optic 

inventor, Dr Thomas Mensah, last month 

was welcomed to Dubai by Her Excellency 

Samata Gifty Bukari, Consul General of 

Dubai. 

According to the inventor, who owns 

more than five patents, the two discussed 

industrialization of Ghana and how to 

improve technology development in the 

country. 

He also met with Business Leaders in 

Dubai who have transformed Dubai from 

a desert to a major tourist destination and 

technology leader. 

Dr Mensah told the DAILY 

HERITAGE that, “Dubai and UAE are 

involving its students from high schools 

and university in Rocket Science and Space 

as was shown by a CNN documentary 

recently. 

“They are training their future leaders 

who are today’s students to be part of and 

serious contributors to the Science, an 

innovation of tomorrow. Sustainable 

Development Goals are also taught, 

including solar and renewable Energy.” 

He added that “Dubai boasts the tallest 

skyscraper in the world, taller than the 

Sears Building in Chicago and the Empire 

State Building in New York. Technology 

permeates the entire modern city of 

Dubai. In fact, UAE has embarked upon a 

project to turn desert into rich farmland to 

produce 60% more food than it does 

currently. 

“Agreements have been signed with 

Chinese companies to produce vegetables, 

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DAILY 

Ghanaian fibre optic 

inventor meets Consul 

General to Dubai 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

rice, 

and other crops as well as grow trees in 

the desert. The world, and especially 

Africa, can learn a lot from how UAE has 

used technology and innovation to 

transform Dubai and other cities into 

places of wonder and envy compared to 

many cities around the globe.” 

Dr. Mensah also discussed the Silicon 

Valley of Ghana, which he has 

successfully launched at the Kofi Annan 

Centre in Accra. The technology platform 

associated with the idea is 

www.Siliconvalleygh.com and this has 

attracted International attention, especially 

when Google announced that it was 

locating its Google Artificial Research Lab 

in Ghana. 

Four countries were in the competition, 

Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, and South 

Africa. Ghana has won this prize. Other 

cities who have such research centres 

include Paris, Zurich, Silicon Valley USA, 

and Tel Aviv. 

This is the first of its kind in Africa. 

Google is also helping in IT infrastructure 

with its Google Fiber in major cities with 

faster Broadband and Internet access. 

Dr. Thomas Mensah is also working 

with the Railway Ministry to install fibre 

optic cable along the railway lines for 

signalling, rail safety and Internet 

connectivity, especially in rural areas. 

These efforts and others like the High 

Speed Rail network led by the Ministry of 

Rail and the MRO, an aircraft maintenance 

facility led by the Ministry of Aviation, 

will make Ghana the leader in Africa in 

terms of technological innovation. 

•Her Excellency Samata Gifty Bukari and Dr Thomas Mensah 

Tarkwa-Nsuaem to get Astro turf 

In its bid to promote and sustain 

sports development and education in 

Ghana, the Ghana National 

Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) 

Foundation has cut the sod for the 

construction of an artificial turf at 

Dompim in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem 

Municipality. 

At a short but colourful 

ceremony to officially cut the sod for 

the commencement of the project 

last Wednesday, Dr. Patrick K. Ofori, 

leader of delegation for the GNPC 

Foundation, mentioned that the 

turf's location at Dompim was 

agreed on at a meeting between Mr 

Gilbert Ken Asmah, Municipal Chief 

Executive, and Mr. George Mireku 

Duker, Member of Parliament for 

Tarkwa. 

He expressed the hope that the 

turf would meet international 

standards and announced that the 

project would be completed within 

eight months. 

The Municipal Chief Executive 

for Tarkwa-Nsuaem, Gilbert Ken 

Asmah, commended the foundation 

for considering the municipality in 

the construction of such a laudable 

edifice. He added that the move fell 

in line with his vision to empower 

AJUSTICE of the Court 

of Appeal, Justice Sir 

Dennis Dominic Adjei, 

is calling on the 

Attorney General, Ms 

Gloria Akuffo, to take 

up the mantle of ensuring that Ghana 

Publishing Company Ltd, the 

publisher in charge of printing legal 

documents in the country, publishes 

up-to-date laws. 

According to him, though most of 

the laws or statutes in the country 

have been repealed, revoked and 

amended, records at Ghana Publishing 

do not reflect those changes,which 

thwarts the efforts of lawyers in court. 

“The Attorney General should 

take up the mantle to ensure that 

Ghana Publishing sells up-to- date 

statutes. Whenever the laws are 

repealed, revoked and amended the 

new laws should come to the notice of 

Ghana Publishing so that they can sell 

up-to-date books,” he stated. 

Justice 

Adjei, who was speaking in an 

interview after launching his fourth 

book titled ‘Criminal Procedure and 

Practice in Ghana,’ said the latest book 

had come to correct the anomalies in 

the system. 

According to him, “we have a 

HERITAGE, MONDAY SEPTEMER 3, 2018 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Ensure Ghana Publishing 

sells up-to-date law books 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

The MCE, Gilbert Ken Asmah (in jacket), cutting the sod for the commencement of the project 

•Gloria Afua Akuffo, the 

Attorney-General 

and develop sport talents within the 

municipally. 

He urged the contractors to 

employ people within the Dompim 

area to take up tasks in all the 

aspects of the construction works. 

He commended the Member of 

Parliament (MP) for the area, George 

Mireku Duker, for his consistent and 

rapid efforts in securing the muchawaited 

project for the constituency, 

and challenged the people of 

Dompim to have a sense of 

belongings towards the project when 

completed. 

"You will be the custodians of 

the artificial turf and as such you 

must inculcate the spirit of 

maintenance so as to prolong its 

lifespan,” he added. 

•Justice Sir Dennis Adjei, Court 

of Appeal Judge 

government 

printer which prints statutes or all the 

laws in Ghana and it is responsible for 

publishing and printing of all statutes 

in Ghana, but you go and buy some of 

the books for the laws.” 

Mr Duker re-echoed the MCE's 

voice on the need to involve the 

local people as workers during the 

construction period. 

"I am reliably informed that the 

pitch comes with a fence, flood 

lights, plush dressing rooms and a 

stand-by generator to provide power 

in the unlikely event of power cut 

from the national grid,” he said. 

About the book 

According to him, the 

latest book has “brought all 

the laws to its final state so if 

you buy the book you have all 

the current laws in it. The 

book also discusses the 

Attorney General because the 

constitution creates the 

Attorney General as the 

principal legal advisor and state 

prosecutor. 

The latest book follows his 

previous publications, 

‘Interpretation of the Law’, 

‘Land Law Practising and 

Conveyance’ and ‘Criminal Law’. 

Attorney General 

Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, the 

Attorney General and Minister 

of Justice, while launching the 

book, appealed to the bench, bar and 

the general public, as well as faculties, 

to make the publication worthwhile by 

patronising it and pledged to be one 

such example. 

While commending the author for 

such a magnificent feat, she 

Mr Duker called for the need to 

spread development across the 

municipality so that people from the 

area would also see themselves as 

enjoying from the national cake. 

He further commended 

Goldfields Ghana, Tarkwa Mine, for 

the ongoing renovation works at the 

Abontiakoon stadium. 

He said the sod would soon be 

cut for the construction of Tarkwa 

T&A park into a facility meeting 

international status by the kind 

courtesy of Goldfields Ghana 

Limited and Tarkwa Mine, whilst 

Ghana Manganese Company would 

also cut the sod for the construction 

of an artificial turf at Dadwen. 

The MP and the MCE, together 

with Nana Kwaku Nkrumah 

Odiasempa IV, Chief of Dompim, 

jointly performed the sod-cutting 

and officially handed over the project 

site to the contractor. 

Those who attended the event 

included members of the GNPC 

Foundation, opinion leaders, 

management and players of 

Medeama Sporting Club and the 

people of Dompim. 

encouraged him not to rest on his 

laurels but publish more books to help 

the nation. She appealed to the bench, 

bar and the general public as well as 

faculties to make the publication 

worthwhile by patronizing it. 

“I find the author’s discussion on 

the roles and functions of the AG on 

prosecution with profound interest. 

Part of the AG powers has been 

delegated to the Special Prosecutor, 

EOCO and the police. I urge these 

institutions to patronize Justice Dennis 

Adjei’s book.” 

Justice Dotse 

Justice Jones Victor Dotse, justice 

of the Supreme Court, while sharing 

his thoughts on the book, said, the 

author’s work had “come to fill a void” 

that had been left for a long while. 

Justice Dotes, therefore, 

recommended the book to all since it 

had been arranged to help learn the 

basics and application of the law. 

Master your 

language 

• Lecturer urges Ghanaians 

BY BENJAMIN TANDOH 

A SENIOR lecturer at the 

Linguistics Department of the 

University of Ghana, Dr 

Clement Appah, has expressed 

worry about the poor usage of 

languages in the country. 

According to him, Ghanaians 

have become “sloppy” in the 

use of languages, arguing that 

languages are not rightly spoken 

in the country, not even the 

local ones. 

Speaking to the DAILY 

HERITAGE on the sidelines of 

the maiden lecture on the use of 

language prior to the 

inauguration of the Language 

Centre of the University of 

Professional Studies, Accra 

(UPSA), Dr Appah urged 

Ghanaians to try and master 

their languages before adopting 

another one. 

He expressed the opinion 

that the use of the local 

languages during official 

gatherings will help promote it, 

saying, “allow people to use it 

where they can use it.” 

“In Parliament, the 

constitution says if someone 

wants to speak [in the local 

language], just give the person 

an interpreter. We should just 

provide the facility. 

“This thing about people 

being asked not to speak 

vernacular in the schools should 

be stopped. These are our 

languages and people should be 

encouraged to use the 

languages,” he told the paper. 

Though he argued that there 

should not be a legislative 

instrument to promote local 

languages, Dr Appah suggested 

that parents and guardians 

should use their local languages 

at home in order to preserve 

their culture and heritage. 

“When we were growing up, 

we never went to learn any 

[local] language. Our parents 

spoke the language with us and 

we learnt it. That’s how it’s 

supposed to be,” he said. 

“You sometimes listen to 

people speaking Twi and it’s 

okay for them to say anything 

and go. Even when we speak 

English we don’t seem to want 

to speak English. It’s just once 

we understand it, then it’s okay. 

“People are communicating 

with a lot of wrong structures, 

people are just saying anything, 

once the other person 

understands, then it’s okay. But 

every language has a structure, 

though it allows room for 

flexibility,” he added. 

Also speaking at the event, 

Prof. Domwini Dabire Kuupole, 

a former Vice Chancellor, 

University of Cape Coast, 

reiterated the need for 

Ghanaians to pay attention to 

the study of the French 

language. 

He urged Ghanaians to 

position themselves to take 

advantage of the growing 

academic and job market by 

studying the French language. 

“The ability to speak French 

is an advantage regardless of 

your programme of study, even 

where it is not required for 

admission,” he said. 

Prof. Kuupole further 

expressed the view that the 

study of French would help 

strengthen Ghana’s relationship 

with her sub-regional 

neighbours, as well as create a 

career opportunity for the 

student. 

“The ability to speak both 

French and English is an 

advantage for finding job with 

the many multinational 

companies using French as their 

working language,” he argued. 

Language center will help 

government policies 

Alhaji Mohammed Sadat, 

Coordinator, Language Centre, 

UPSA, stated that the facility 

would play its role to improve 

education in the country. 

He expressed concerns about 

the downward trend of the 

academic performance of 

students in Ghana, especially in 

the junior and senior high 

schools. 

In view of this, Mr Sadat 

disclosed that the Centre will 

partake in the Vice Chancellor’s 

initiative, dubbed ‘Community 

Initiative Programme’, which is 

aimed at supporting students in 

the junior and senior high 

schools. 

“Under the programme, the 

Language Centre is mandated to 

organize free vacation classes for 

students in senior high and 

junior high schools in the 

catchment communities around 

the university,” he stated.


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2018 

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Subscribers get up to 100% 

bonus on Glo data plans 

GLO MOBILE 

Ghana on Saturday 

launched a 

revolutionary 

data plan, Glo 

Unlimited Data 

24/7 Pack, which gives unlimited 

data and voice combo to its subscribers 

for a whole month at a 

modest price of GH¢300.00. 

Unveiling the pack to an enthusiastic 

crowd at the venue of 

its flagship concert, the Glo Mega 

Music, held at the Fantasy Dome, 

Trade Fair Center, La, Accra on 

Saturday evening, Glo's Regional 

Chief Marketing Officer, Mr. 

Ashok Israni, said that the product 

"remains the first of its kind 

in the entire continent of Africa". 

According to him, "This is an 

unlimited offer from an unlimited 

network. It is not just unlimited 

but it is equally affordable because 

with as low as GHc300, a subscriber 

gets unlimited data and access 

to the interment 24/7 for a 

full month in addition to free 

Glo-Glo calls for 30 days and 300 

minutes off net free calls to any 

network of the subscriber’s 

choice". 

In addition to the new pack, 

Israni also announced that the 

network had revised its data bundle 

plans by giving a 100% 

bonus on data on all data plans. 

Explaining the 100 percent 

bonus, he said, for example, that 

the "daily data plan of GHc3 

which hitherto gave 175MB data 

for three days now gives 300MB 

data for three days, while the 

weekly plan GHc10 of 850MB 

for 10 days now offers 1.7GB 

data for 30 days". 

For a GHc15 data pack which 

used to have 1.5GB data, the new 

data accruable to the subscriber is 

now 3GB, while a GHc30 subscription 

which used to deliver 

3.2GB data now delivers a whopping 

7.2GB data. Similarly, a 

GHc40 subscription, hitherto 

with a 4GB data value, now has 

10GB data on offer from Glo. 

"This new upto 100% bonus 

on data plans is the first ever in 

Ghana and that we are introducing 

it now shows how dearly we 

hold our subscribers here in 

Ghana and we want to assure 

them that Glo Mobile Ghana will 

continue to delight them with 

products and services, the best 

ever they can get from any network", 

he enthused. 

Glo, he reiterated, "has extensive 

range of data products; our 

data bundles cater for the network 

needs of our esteemed customers 

by extending best values", adding 

that the new Glo Unlimited Voice 

& Data 24/7 Pack "is available to 

old subscribers and new subscribers 

alike and the offer is 

available to all plans". 

Subscribers who wish to purchase 

any of the data plans are to 

dial *555# to purchase. 

The new propositions by Glo 

are clear demonstration of its 

leadership position as grandmasters 

of Data in Ghana as the 

company has gone ahead to liberalise 

the availability of Data to 

consumers at the most affordable 

and pocket-friendly rates. 

Auto Plaza launches 2019 ‘Hyundai Santa Fe’ in Ghana 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

AUTO PLAZA Limited (APL), 

an authorised partner of Hyundai 

vehicles in the country has outdoored 

its new 2019 Hyundai 

Santa Fe SUV on the Ghanaian 

market for prospective car buyers 

at very affordable prices. 

The model targeted all professionals 

from different background, 

according to APL could 

enjoy a luxury vehicle without attracting 

the luxury vehicle levy 

policy in the system. 

Addressing the media at a 

short ceremony to outdoor the 

vehicles, the Chief Executive Officer 

(CEO)of Auto Plaza, Jihad 

M Hijazi described the ‘Hyundai 

Santa Fe’ the latest brand from 

Auto Plaza, distributors of 

Hyundai vehicles in country as a 

“more reliable” vehicle than previous 

brands. 

“We have introduced the 

Deluxe Edition at 49,000 dollars 

and the Limited Edition at 45,000 

dollars which is slightly above the 

previous edition but with many 

cutting edge technology upgrades.” 

According to him, although 

the features and comfort of the 

vehicle can be described as luxury, 

it falls below the luxury vehicle 

levy bracket because of its 2.4- 

liter engine capacity. 

“It is a more reliable Santa Fe 

than the current Santa Fe we have. 

It is a more powerful Santa Fe; it 

is a more fuel-efficient Santa Fe 

•Jihad M Hijazi (R), CEO of Auto Plaza Ltd, addressing the media flanked by Shirrry Borketey Manison, Marketing 

manager INSET: 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe’ 

and it is an extremely exciting design 

for the consumer.” 

“It’s one of the most popular 

brands in our reigns and it’s one 

of the best sellers despite the fact 

that it costs more than some of 

our other vehicles in the range,” 

the CEO said. 

“So our vehicles (prices) 

started around $10,000, and the 

2019 Santa Fe range from $45,000 

to $49,000.” 

It would be recalled that recently 

in the mid-year review 

budget by the Finance Minister 

some taxes were introduced on 

luxury vehicles with 2.9-liter engines 

and above, but with the capacity 

of just 2.4 litres, the 

‘Hyundai Santa Fe’ saves buyers 

from this levy. 

Features 

The new sleek Hyundai Santa 

Fe according to Auto Plaza is expected 

to compete effectively with 

other luxury vehicles on the automobile 

market 

Features of the 2019 Hyundai 

Santa Fe include heads-up display, 

temperature controlled back seating 

air conditioner, 8 airbags, 360 

degrees’ surround view Monitor 

camera, rear park assist warning 

system, smart key push button engine 

start and stop among others. 

The launch means the 

‘Hyundai Santa Fe’ can now be 

purchased in all Auto Plaza shops 

in Ghana.



DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 11 

Politics 

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about 

anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for 

yourself —Henry James 

E-waste recycling facility to be constructed 

in Agbogbloshie –Akufo-Addo 

THE PRESIDENT of the 

Republic, Nana Addo 

Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 

has revealed that the 

construction of an integrated 

e-waste recycling 

facility, at Agbogbloshie, a suburb of 

Accra, will commence in October this 

year. 

Speaking at the launch of national 

integrated e-waste management programme, 

on Wednesday, 29th August, 

2018, President Akufo-Addo noted 

that the down-side of the Information 

and Communications Technology revolution 

has meant the production of 

high volumes of electrical and electronic 

waste. 

With an estimated 40 to 50 million 

tons of e-waste generated annually, and 

with Ghana serving as the final destination 

for e-waste, the President noted 

that e-waste is a major global problem, 

and one of the top environmental challenges 

of the 21st century. 

Used electronic and electrical 

equipment imported into the country 

continue to be the major source of 

electronic waste, as many have not 

been tested for functionality, and in 

contravention of regional and international 

laws, such as the Bamako Convention, 

the Basel Convention, and EU 

e-waste shipment regulations. 

President Akufo-Addo noted that 

with Near End-of-Life used equipment 

not covered by existing international or 

regional conventions. Government has 

passed the Hazardous and Electronic 

Waste Control and Management Act, 

Act 917 (2016). 

The Act, the President explained, 

marks the initiation of two key provisions 

of Act 917, which are critical to 

the successful implementation of this 

new Law. 

“First is the designation of the external 

service provider, i.e. SGS, to verify, 

assess and collect the Advance 

Recycle Eco Fee on all electrical and 

electronic equipment, under the Fifth 

Schedule of Act 917, imported from all 

exporting countries. Second is the establishment 

of a state-of-the-art recycling 

facility to be constructed at 

Agbogbloshie, in fulfilment of section 

31 of Act 917,” he said. 

President Akufo-Addo assured that 

the recycling facility will not be a standalone 

entity, as there is a component of 

the project that will support the establishment 

of a network of collection 

centres to provide continuous supply 

of raw material to sustain the operations 

of the facility. 

This component, he said, will create 

over twenty-two thousand (22,000) 

self-sustaining jobs for the Ghanaian 

youth. 

President Akufo-Addo was confident 

that “we are about to see an end 

to this global environmental challenge 

in Ghana, that is fast becoming a national 

security threat to most governments 

on the continent.” 

One important aspect of the Act, 

the President highlighted, is the establishment 

of a fund to support key 

trade associations, such as the Ghana 

Union of Traders’ Association, the Association 

of Ghana Industries, and the 

Media, and to support research in academic 

and research institutions. 

“The Fund will offer incentives for 

collection, transportation and disposal 

of electrical waste, and promote public 

education on the safe disposal of electrical 

and electronic waste and negative 

effects of electronic waste,” he said. 

He, thus, urged, all agencies involved 

in the project to co-operate and 

develop a strategic business plan which 

will put the e-waste fund into productive 

use for the benefit of all. 

“I encourage members of the various 

scrap dealers’ 

associations, across 

the country, also to 

take full advantage 

of this programme. 

I appeal 

to them to halt the 

burning of electrical 

and electronic 

wastes, as it only 

pollutes our environment 

and the 

quality of air we 

breathe. They have 

an opportunity, 

through this programme, 

to expand 

their scrap collection 

ventures into 

big businesses,” 

President Akufo- 

Addo stressed. 

As co-Chair of 

the Group of Advocates 

of Eminent 

Persons for 

the implementation 

of the 2030 

UN SDGs, President 

Akufo-Addo 

was excited that 

the implementation 

of the National 

Integrated 

E-Waste Management 

Programme 

is directly linked to 

addressing six of 

the 17 United Nations 

Sustainable 

Development 

Goals. 

They include 

Goal 3, i.e. ensuring 

healthy lives 

and promotion of 

•Model of the e-waste recycling facility to be built at Agbogbloshie 

added. 

well-being for all; Goal 6, i.e. ensuring 

availability and sustainable management 

of water and sanitation for all; 

Goal 8, i.e. promoting sustained, inclusive 

and sustainable economic 

growth, full and productive 

employment and decent work 

for all; Goal 11, i.e. making 

cities and human settlements 

inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable; 

Goal 12, i.e. ensuring 

sustainable consumption and 

production patterns; and Goal 

14, i.e. conserving and sustainably 

using the oceans, seas and 

marine resources. 

“So, from Monday, 1st October, 

2018, the operationalisation 

of Act 917 will begin with 

the collection of the Advance 

Recycling Eco Fee on all electrical 

and electronic items from 

all exporting countries. Construction 

of the integrated e- 

waste recycling facility will also 

commence in October this 

year,” President Akufo-Addo


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Politics 



Deal with VW must benefit 

Ghana – Adu Asare 


FORMER ADENTAN 

Member of Parliament, 

Mr Kojo Adu 

Asare has hailed the 

planned move by German 

car manufacturer 

VW to establish an Assembling 

Plant in Ghana. 

German Chancellor Angela 

Merkel made the disclosure on 

Thursday at a joint press conference 

with the Ghanaian President 

Akufo-Addo as she paid a oneday 

working visit to the West 

African state. 

She said other German giants 

in pharmaceutical and technology 

are to also invest in the Ghanaian 

economy to support the Government’s 

‘Ghana beyond Aid 

agenda’. 

It is not yet clear the terms of 

the agreement between Ghana 

and the German car manufacturer, 

who recently established a 

plant in Rwanda. 

Some Ghanaians have however 

said the move may lead to 

the annihilation of local car manufacturer 

Kantanka. 

Speaking to Morning Starr Friday, 

the former lawmaker said the 

VW assembling plant will be a 

massive boost for Ghana’s economy 

but local interest must be 

guarded by government. 

•Mr Kojo Adu Asare 

“When it comes to matters of 

employment generation, you cannot 

only expect that it should 

come from your country. Sometimes 

it is important to bring into 

your country technology that is 

not available. VW is a brand that 

has stood the test of time over 

the years. It will take a while for 

people to build interest in the 

quality of Kantanka. Kantanka is 

making some progress anyway 

but they should be allowed to 

grow through the processes. VW 

coming to Ghana is a plus. We 

should tighten the agreement we 

will have with them such that we 

benefit greatly as well,” he said. 

Electoral Areas in Brong-Ahafo 

to jump to 967 in 2019 

BY DENNIS PEPRAH 

ADDITIONAL 201 electoral 

areas are to be created 

in the Brong-Ahafo Region 

to make the electoral areas 

967 for both local and national 

elections, Mr Frank 

Nunoo, a Deputy Regional 

Director of the Electoral 

Commission (EC) announced 

on Thursday. 

Currently, the region has 

766 electoral areas spread in 

29 districts and municipalities 

and if created, the electoral 

areas are expected to 

take effect in the next District 

level Assembly Elections 

in 2019. 

Speaking at a stakeholders 

meeting mainly attended 

by representatives from political 

parties and the media 

in Sunyani, Mr Nunoo said 

the EC was in active engagements 

with key stakeholders 

such as the 

traditional authorities and 

district assemblies to determine 

the naming of the new 

electoral areas. 

He said the proposed 

new electoral areas would be 

submitted to parliament, 

adding that there was also 

the possibility of re-aligning 

some of the electoral areas. 

In a breakdown, Mr 

Nunoo said four new areas 

were to be created in 

Asunafo South, Asunafo 

north-10, Asutifi Southeight, 

Asutifi North-13, 

Tano North-seven, Sunyani 

Municipal-five, Sunyani 

West—seven, Dormaa Municipal-10 

and Dormaa 

West-five. 

Dormaa East-five, 

Berekum-four, Jaman 

South-six, Banda-six, Taineight, 

Jaman North-four, 

Wenchi-10, Techiman-11, 

KIntampo North-11, Kintampo 

South-11, Nkoranza 

North-10, Nkoranza Southeight, 

Atebubu-Amantinseven, 

Pru East-6, Pru 

West-seven, Sene East-six, 

Sene West-seven, and Techiman 

North-five. 

No new electoral area 

would be created in Tano 

South Municipality. 

On the proposed creation 

of the new Bono East 

and Ahafo Regions, Mr 

Nunoo said the regional office 

of the commission had 

received Voter Management 

Systems (VMS) from other 

regional offices of the EC 

and deployed to areas where 

the referendum would be 

held in December. 

Mr Charles Damoah, 

also as Deputy Brong- 

Ahafo Regional Director of 

the EC said when created 

the new Bono East region is 

expected to comprised 16 

districts and municipalities 

whilst Ahafo Region would 

have six districts and Municipalities. 

He said a limited registration 

exercise would soon 

be open at the referendum 

areas to enable people who 

had attained 18 years to register 

and participate during 

the referendum, adding the 

exercise would be done online. 

GNA 

Goosie Tanoh joins NDC race 


GOOSIE TANOH has formally written 

to the leadership of the National 

Democratic Congress (NDC) of his 

intentions to contest the upcoming 

flagbearership race of the opposition 

party. 

The letter is to enable him get the 

backing of the party executives should 

he be impeded as he goes to the regions 

to canvass for votes. 

Goosie who is a known face within 

the NDC fraternity broke away from 

party in 1998 when former President 

Jerry John Rawlings chose the late Prof 

John Atta Mills to lead the party in the 

2000 elections, but has rejoined in the 

hope to win power from the ruling 

New Patriotic Party in 2020. 

He will have to beat competition 

from some 10 other candidates including 

front runner John Dramani Mahama. 

Submitting his letter Thursday, Mr 

•Goosie Tano 

Tanoh said: “We are here today to fulfill 

a requirement, as announced by 

our dear General Secretary to submit 

our letter of intent, as to the intention 

of myself Augustus Goosie Tanoh to 

contest the presidential primaries for 

the NDC and hopefully with success 

become the flagbearer for NDC in the 

2020 election”. 

On his part, the NDC general secretary 

Johnson Asiedu Nketia assured 

the candidates of fairness from the national 

executives. 

“We are not worried if anybody 

does not bring their letters of intent 

and they proceed to campaign. They 

will not be fringing on any of our laws. 

But if they meet a problem on the 

field, they will find it problematic to 

reach anybody to complain to. This is 

not the first I am presiding over such 

election, I am sure my record of impartiality 

when it comes to such elections 

is already known, and I don’t 

need to repeat it,” he said.

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WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 

• A section of the audience 

• ‘Girl Code' brand on display 

• ‘The fans were thrilled 

Season III of Live 

91.9 FM’s ‘Girl 

Code’ launched 

• ‘Girl Code' brand 

THE THIRD season of 

women empowerment initiative 

‘Girl Code’ has 

been launched. 

Held on Thursday, August 30 at 

KikiBee’s, it offered an insight into 

what patrons will experience over the 

next 12 months. 

Guests including Stephanie Benson, 

Eli Kharis, Lerny Lomotey and AJ Sarpong 

shared with host, Regina Van 

Helvert how they managed to ignite 

their dreams and a lot more. 

There were performances by Nana 

Yaa, Ekow Joe and Yaw Berk. 

Organisers say they are “taking 

things up a notch in igniting the 

dreams of young ladies in tertiary institutions 

by giving practical knowledge 

based on experiences of our 

speakers.” 

A student each from the 10 universities 

to be toured would win a prize 

start up package including airtime 

from LIVE 91.9 FM and products 

from sponsors. 

‘Girl Code’ is a tertiary tour focused 

on inspiring young ladies 

through conversations that cut across 

education, relationships, health, spirituality 

and career development. 

The theme for ‘Girl Code’ season 

three is ‘Igniting Dreams.’ It is powered 

by Your Music PlayStation, LIVE 

91.9 FM. 

• ‘Discussion time • Live performance at play • There were great performances by artistes

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DAILY 



•Patapaa 

Forget the cold reception, we achieved 

what we wanted in Nigeria — Zylofon Media 

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR of 

Zylofon Media, Samuel Atuobi Baah, 

well known as Sammy Flex, has finally 

spoken on the reception and experience 

Ghanaian musicians received on the 24th 

August this year in Nigeria at the concert 

launch of Zylofon Media and Menzgold. 

Sammy Flex speaking to Zionfelix on 

Radio Universe said the Nigerians were 

not familiar with the Ghanaian artists so 

they could not be blamed. 

He also added that he won’t accept 

the rumors circulating that the Nigerians 

were mean to their artists because some 

few African artists have also received 

cold reception in Ghana because their 

songs were no big. 

“Our songs that are played in this 

town and the artists we sent there to perform 

was the problem because most of 

the Nigerians didn’t know the songs and 

were not familiar with our artists which 

is normal so it’s not a challenge,” he told 

Zionfelix on the Brunch2Lunch entertainment 

show. 

He cited an example that ‘we were in 

this town when Nasty C, a big act in 

South Africa came to perform but nobody 

moved to his songs because his 

songs were not big here. This has also 

happened to other foreign acts so I 

won’t say it’s a challenge,” he added. 

The Head of Communication at the 

entertainment firm revealed that the 

concert was not purposely to challenge 

the Nigerian artiste in the country but 

was to advertise the Zylofon Media and 

Menzgold brand to the people in the 

country. 

The host of Zylofon FM’s morning 

entertainment show further noted that 

after several analogies, he can say that 

the Zylofon media artistes not being noticed 

is acceptable because it will succor 

them to maneuver their plan the next 

time. 

Sammy also noted that their launch 

and concert at the Convention Centre 

was very successful though their artists 

had cold reception from the crowd. 

“Zion I would say this concert was 

not to compete with the Nigerians but it 

was rather a concert to promote Zylofon 

Media. We the members of Zylofon 

Media are pleased with the mileage we 

had in Nigeria because of the event. 

“It’s the fans of the artist that’s worried 

but not us. We now know the strategy 

to use the next time and also in our 

operation.” Sammy maintained. 

Fashion tips every 

lady should know 

YOU KNOW how sometimes you just know things, 

but don’t realise that you do until someone mentions 

it out loud. That’s just the case with fashion too, and 

that’s why we always need tips from experts, fashionists 

and designers to validate what we know. But, 

often while reading about stuff, we realise how we 

miss tiny details and how other people have a different 

perspective to offer! Like they say, the devil is in 

the details. If you were wishing that it’d be nice to 

have a list that states it all out for you, we’ve got you 

covered. So, today, let’s take a look at 50 Fashion 

Tips that will come in handy for every girl – whether 

you are a college girl or a lady boss. Ready? Let’s do 

this. 

1. For beginners, know your body type 

Knowing your body type is the basic thing to 

know about yourself. Everything works around this, 

so this is one of the biggest fashion tips or advise 

that anyone can give you. 

2. Wear the right bra 

Wearing the right intimates is essential for both 

health and fashion. You need to know your size and 

when to wear what; basically, you need to know it all. 

3. Invest In Good Lingerie 

Sometimes it is nice to indulge and treat yourself 

to good lingerie. 

4. Own classics – Trench, Leather, 

Denim Jackets 

Classics like these are timeless, and every girl 

needs them in her closet. They come in handy all 

through the year in one way or another. 

5. Scarves – Come a long way in all 

seasons 

Woolen, silk, satin, linen, blanket, etc. – you need 

it all. Some work wonders in winters, while some are 

for summer and the others are perfect for fall fashion. 

Janet Jackson’s 

necklace in 

‘Made for Now’ 

video designed 

by Ghanaian 

ONE THING that stands out 

in Janet Jackson’s costume 

for her ‘Made for Now’ 

music video is her necklace. 

The short video clip which was done in 

remembrance of Michael Jackson (Janet’s 

late brother) on his birthday sees 

the queen styled in beautiful 

neck, head and hand jewelry. 

The neck piece 

was made by 

Ghana’s award winning 

jewelry designer, 

Aphia 

Sakyi. 

Titled ‘Yaa Asantewaa,’ 

the necklace 

is taken from 

her-soon-to-be-released 

Summer/Harmattan 

2018 collection 

’50 Shades of Grey’ at Accra 

Fashion Week 2018 in October. 

Janet Jackson’s new video ‘Made For 

Now’ is a fun up tempo music that takes you 

back to the old days when urban RnB had 

fun and life. 

•Janet 

Jackson 

The sister of the late great Michael Jackson 

stunned viewers in her heavily style 

African attire throughout the video. 

The mega star recently took to instagram 

to post her first instagram video that sees a 

humorous spoof version of her auditions 

for the ‘Made For Now’ video featuring instagram 

stars such as @KingBach and 

@BlameItOnKway. 

Janet Jackson plays the role 

of a queen that approves 

the talents before her. 

The collaboration 

might just be the most 

iconic Ghanaian/Western 

fashion collaboration 

in today’s 

Ghanaian fashion 

world. 

The late Michael Jackson 

was also once adorned 

African clothes on his visit 

to Ghana in 1995. 

However, a modern version of 

African fashion and a modern Africa 

can see this collaboration not just as an acknowledgement 

of African roots, but an inspiration 

for African future.

DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

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15 

•Thomas 

Partey 

Asante Kotoko 

is 83 years old 

UEFA CL 

Ghana Internationals 

face tough opponents 

GHANA’S THOMAS Partey, 

Rashid Sumaila, Abdul Baba Rahman, 

Kasim Nuhu and Kwadwo 

Asamoah will all be facing tough 

opponents at the group stage of 

the UEFA Champions League with 

their respective clubs. 

The quintet are the only Ghanaians 

to play in this season’s UEFA 

Champions League. 

Partey and his Atletico Madrid 

side have been drawn in Group A 

together with Borussia Dortmund, 

AS Monaco and Club Brugge. 

Sumaila, who will be playing in 

the Champions League for the first 

time, will have to help his Red Star 

Belgrade side manage what is believed 

to be the group of death, 

having been paired with last season’s 

finalist Liverpool, PSG and 

Napoli. 

Schalke O4, who will feature 

Ghana’s Abdul Baba Rahman are 

in the same group with FC Porto, 

Galatasery and Lokomotiv 

Moskva. 

Nuhu and his team Hoffienhiem 

face an uphill task with Manchester 

City, Olympique Lyon and 

Shakhter Donetsk. 

Kwadwo Asamoah who played 

in the Champions League with Juventus 

last season is expected to 

help his new Club Inter Milan 

make it out of a group which has 

the likes of former Champions 

Barcelona, PSV and Tottenham 

Hotspurs. 

GHANAIAN GIANTS Asante 

Kotoko turned 83 years last 

Friday, August 31. According 

to the history books, Mr 

J.S.K. Frimpong, 

popularly called Teacher 

Frimpong, then a 

teacher of the Kumasi 

Government 

School, who had 

all the time 

shown interest 

in “Kumasi 

Titanics”, a 

club established 

in 

1926, organised 

some 

men from his 

school and 

proposed a 

change of name 

from “Kumasi Titanics” 

to Asante 

Kotoko SC. 

Permission had to be 

obtained from the Asantehene 

(King of the Kingdom of 

Ashanti) because the name ‘Kotoko’, meaning 

‘Porcupine’, is the official symbol of the 

Ashanti nation. 

The Asantehene, Nana Sir Osei Agyeman 

Prempeh II, became the first life patron of 

the club. 

Asante Kotoko SC was subsequently 

formally 

founded. The club 

have a record of 23 

league titles and 

nine Ghana FA 

Cup trophies. 

They are also 

two-time 

champions 

of Africa 

Club 

Championship, 

which is 

now the 

CAF Champions 

League. 

In 2010, International 

Football 

Federation of 

History and Statistics 

(IFFHS) awarded Asante 

Kotoko SC as Africa’s club of 

the century. Source: Asantekotokosc 

Govt has no evidence to prosecute Nyantakyi — AG 

THERE IS no evidence to initiate criminal 

prosecution against former Ghana 

football boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi, the 

country's Attorney General and Minister 

for Justice, Gloria Akuffo, has revealed. 

Calls for the prosecution of the former 

FIFA Council member has heightened 

in the West African country after 

he was shown in a documentary allegedly 

taking kickbacks. 

The image of Nyantakyi has been 

battered after an investigative piece by 

controversial Ghanaian journalist Anas 

Aremeyaw Anas revealed widespread 

corruption in the game. 

The former Ghana football leader is 

under criminal investigations in the 

powerful African nation but it has 

emerged prosecutors are struggling to 

build a case which critics say exposes the 

•Gloria Akuffo, Attorney General and 

Minister for Justice 

ugly reality of the local game. 

And the country's legal adviser to the 

government, Ms Akuffo, says there is no 

evidence to prosecute the embattled former 

FA top official. 

“I have not received any docket for 

prosecution. It would be recalled that 

when the issues started, the CID started 

a probe. The probe is still ongoing and 

when they forward anything to me, I 

will look at it,” she stated. 

She explained that until her office 

was furnished with adequate evidence 

on the matter, there was nothing she 

could do as far as prosecution was concerned. 

“You need evidence to proceed to 

court and at the moment I have not received 

anything from the investigators,” 

she insisted. 

The Ghanaian has been forced to resign 

from his roles at CAF and FIFA 

following the scandalous exposé as he 

fights to redeem his image which has 

been bruised beyond measure. 

Nyantakyi, who has been GFA president 

since 2005 and was elected to the 

FIFA Council in September 2016, was 

filmed in a hotel room appearing to take 

a $65,000 bribe from a supposed businessman 

seeking to sponsor the Ghanaian 

football league. 

The Anas exposé has brought football 

on its knees after the government 

backtracked on attempts to dissolve the 

Ghana Football Association. 

FIFA has announced it will form a 

Normalisation Committee to oversee 

the running of football for the next six 

months.

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Black Satellites to 

undergo CAF MRI test 

GHANA UNDER-17 team will undergo 

a final MRI test conducted by CAF ahead 

of the start of the CAF U17 qualifying 

tournament. 

Ghana was forced to make last minute 

changes to its squad after conducting 

their own test which saw two influential 

players – Adam Saad and Emmanuel Bio 

– disqualified. 

CAF will, however, conduct final test 

for all the teams to ensure that all players 

are of the standard.The MRI qualification 

grade by CAF has been set at 5. 

Ghana is in Group A alongside hosts 

Niger and Togo. Only the winner of this 

tournament will qualify for next year’s 

U17 Africa Cup tournament to be staged 

in Tanzania. 

•Ghana Under-17 team 

Europa League: 

Arsenal drawn against 

Sporting, Chelsea 

meet PAOK Salonika 

• Cristiano Ronaldo 

Ronaldo dropped 

from Portugal squad 

CRISTIANO RONALDO has been left out 

of Portugal’s squad for the Nations League 

and friendly matches at his own request, 

Coach Fernando Santos said. 

Santos said he and Ronaldo had 

discussed the situation after the star moved 

from Real Madrid to Juventus “and I 

decided, given the process of adaptation he 

needed (at his new club), that he would not 

be with us during this window”. 

Portugal squad in full: 

Goalkeepers: Beto (Goztepe), Claudio 

Ramos (Tondela), Rui Patricio (Wolves) 

Defenders: Joao Cancelo 

(Juventus), Ruben Dias (Benfica), Raphael 

Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Pedro 

Mendes (Montpellier), Luis Neto 

(Zenit), Pepe (Besiktas), Mario Rui (Napoli), 

Cedric Soares (Southampton) 

Midfielders: William Carvalho (Real 

Betis), Bruno Fernandes (Sporting CP), 

Gedson Fernandes (Benfica), Ruben Neves 

(Wolves), Sergio Oliveira (Porto), Pizzi 

(Benfica), Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich) 

Forwards: Bruma (RB Leipzig), Goncalo 

Guedes (Valencia), Rony Lopes 

(Monaco), Gelson Martins (Atletico 

Madrid), Andre Silva (Sevilla), Bernardo 

Silva (Manchester City). Source: AFP 

ARSENAL WILL play 

Sporting Lisbon in the group 

stage of the Europa League. 

Unai Emery's side have been drawn in 

Group E of this season's competition with 

the Portuguese club, Qarabag of 

Azerbaijan and Ukrainian side Vorskla. 

Chelsea, who won the competition in 

2012-13, are in Group L with Greek side 

PAOK Salonika, BATE Borisov of Belarus 

and Hungarian outfit Vidi. 

Celtic meet Salzburg, RB Leipzig and 

Rosenborg while Rangers face Rapid 

Vienna, Villarreal and Spartak Moscow. 

The final of this season's Europa 

League takes place in Baku, the capital of 

Azerbaijan, on May 29. 

Spanish clubs have won the 

competition for five of the last seven 

seasons and Sevilla - who triumphed under 

Emery in 2014, 2015 and 2016 - have been 

drawn to face Russian side Krasnodar, 

Standard Liege of Belgium and Turkey's 

Akhisar. 

Dudelange, the first club from 

Luxembourg to reach the group stage of 

the competition, were handed a trip to the 

San Siro to play AC Milan. 

Arsenal and Chelsea 

Arsenal will face about 4,971 miles of 

flying to reach their three away fixtures, 

including a lengthy flight of over 2,400 

miles to Baku, where Qarabag play. 

The Gunners will take on a Sporting 

side decimated by players cancelling their 

contracts this summer following an attack 

by fans at the training ground last term. 

But they have started this season with 

two league wins and a draw to sit third in 

the Portuguese top tier, with former 

Manchester United winger Nani finding 

the net three times. 

Vorskla, winners of the Ukrainian title 

in 2017-18, have only reached this stage of 

the Europa League once before but 

finished bottom of their group in the 

2011-12 campaign. 

Qarabag have been managed by 

Gurban Gurbanov - who is now also in 

charge of the Azerbaijan national team - 

for a decade and competed in the 

Champions League last season. 

Hungary for Blues but which 

ground? 

Chelsea have less travelling distance 

than their London rivals with about 3,400 

miles to cover for Thursday fixtures on the 

road. 

Vidi, who changed their name from 

Videoton this summer, have not featured 

in the group stage since 2012-13, when 

they produced home wins over Sporting 

Lisbon and Basel at their home stadium, 

which is under reconstruction and has 

faced recent delays. 

They played at the home of 

Ferencvaros for their recent Champions 

League play-off with AEK Athens, which 

they lost to drop into the Europa League. 

PAOK Salonika, who finished second 

in the Greek top tier last season, also 

dropped out of the Champions League 

having lost their play-off against Benfica. 

BATE Borisov lost 4-2 and 6-0 to 

Arsenal in last season's Europa League to 

eventually finish bottom of their group. 

Europa League draw in full 

Group A: Bayer Leverkusen (Ger), 

Ludogorets Razgrad (Bul), FC Zurich 

(Swi), AEK Larnaca (Cyp) 

Group B: Salzburg (Aut), CELTIC, RB 

Leipzig (Ger), Rosenborg (Nor) 

Group C: Zenit St Petersburg (Rus), FC 

Copenhagen (Den), Bordeaux (Fra), Slavia 

Prague (Cze) 

Group D: Anderlecht (Bel), Fenerbahce 

(Tur), Dinamo Zagreb (Cro), Spartak 

Trnava (Svk) 

Group E: ARSENAL, Sporting Lisbon 

(Por), Qarabag (Aze), Vorskla Poltava (Ukr) 

Group F: Olympiakos (Gre), AC Milan 

(Ita), Real Betis (Spa), Dudelange (Lux) 

Group G: Villarreal (Spa), Rapid Vienna 

(Aut), Spartak Moscow (Rus), RANGERS 

Group H: Lazio (Ita), Marseille (Fra), 

Eintracht Frankfurt (Ger), Apollon 

Limassol (Cyp) 

Group I: Besiktas (Tur), KRC Genk (Bel), 

Malmo (Swe), Sarpsborg (Nor) 

Group J: Sevilla (Spa), Krasnodar (Rus), 

Standard Liege (Bel), Akhisar Belediyespor 

(Tur) 

Group K: Dynamo Kiev (Ukr), Astana 

(Kaz), Rennes (Fra), Jablonec (Cze) 

Group L: CHELSEA, PAOK Saloniki 

(Gre), BATE Borisov (Blr), Vidi (Hun).

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