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GH¢400K filing fee:
Go and raise funds
— Nketia to aspirants
BY KWAME ACHEAMPONG
THE GENERAL Secretary of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson
Asiedu Nketia has defended the party’s
decision to charge a staggering
GH¢400,000.00 filing fee for presidential
aspirants.
According to him, the amount is to cater
for the cost of running the polls in all 275
constituencies across the country.
Speaking to Francis Abban on the
Morning Starr Friday, Mr Nketia said the
move is also to enable the candidates exhibit
their ability to raise funds since a nominee
becomes leader of the party once he becomes
the candidate.
“We don’t expect them to cough this
amount from their accounts, but they are the
lead fundraisers for the party so they must
prove their capability to raise funds for the
party. The candidate becomes the leader of
the party so he or she must show that they
can raise funds for the party.
“I disagree with anyone who thinks that
raising money to file nomination encourages
•Mrs
•Vincent
Elizabeth
Norgbedzi,
Naa Afoley
CEO,
Quaye,
Reagvin
Fisheries Minister and
Christopher
Ventures
Lamora,
Limited
Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy
•Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary, NDC
corruption. If the system wants to discourage
corruption then we must all talk about
possible means of doing so.”
“We don’t expect
them to cough this
amount from their
accounts, but they
are the lead
fundraisers for the
party so they must
prove their capability
to raise funds for the
party. The candidate
becomes the leader
of the party so he or
she must show that
they can raise funds
for the party.
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT
of Police, (ASP) Emmanuel Kwaku
Ashilevi, who was shot and killed
during the 21st January, 2018, attack
on the Kwabenya Police Station by
armed men has been posthumously
honoured by the Police Service
together with 12 others who also
died in the line of duty.
President Nana Akufo-Addo
joined the Police Command to
perform the memorial ceremony at
the National Police Training School
at Tesono, Accra. The Minister for
the Interior, Ambrose Dery; the
Inspector General of Police, David
Asante-Apeatu; the Chief of
Defence Staff, Lieutenant General
Obed Akwa; Deputy Minister for
Defence, Major-retired Derrick
Oduro, and the entire Police Service
hierarchy joined the President to
observe the Memorial Day.
The President on arrival lighted
the perpetual flame. Subsequently, he
laid the first wreath for and on
behalf of the government and
THE CHIEF Justice,
Sophia Akuffo has
called on recruits and
commissioners for
Oath who would be
assisting the National
Identification Authority (NIA) in the
registration of the Ghana card not to
swear in any person who is not there
in person.
According to the CJ, it is an
offense punishable by law for any
commissioner to administer oath to
persons whose claims and identity
cannot be verified.
Justice Akuffo made this call
when she swore in over 800
successful candidates who had been
trained to embark on the registration
exercise in the southern sector of
the country which comprised of
Greater Accra, Volta, Western,
Eastern and Central Regions.
people of Ghana. The Inspector
General of Police laid the second
wreath on behalf of the Ghana
Police Service, a representative of
the bereaved families laid the third
wreath and the last was laid on
behalf of the chieftaincy institution
by a representative of traditional
rulers. President Akufo-Addo before
departing toured the cenotaph and
signed the remembrance book.
The exaltation
In his words of exhalation
captioned ‘Grieving in Hope’,
Assistant Commissioner of Police,
(ACP) Very Rev. Frank Twum-Baah,
said in the phase of an enemy’s
attack, grief can never be selfish.
He preached saying in grief, one
can only find hope in Jesus Christ.
Quoting Charles Henry Brent, who
once said, “A ship sails to the
morning breeze and starts for the
ocean. She is an object and I stand
watching her till at last she fades
from the horizon.
“You should not under any
circumstance swear in anyone you
have not seen in person or whose
claims you cannot verify. The
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Slain Kwabenya officer Ashilevi, 12 others honoured
“And someone at my side says,
‘she is gone’ gone where? gone from
my sight, that is all; She is just as
large in the masts, hull and spars as
she was when I saw her. And just as
republic in whose name you will
be working requires accurate and
reliable information and your task is
to make sure that this exercise
able to bear her load of living freight
to its destination. The diminished
size and total loss of sight is in me,
not in her; And just at the moment
when someone at my side says, ‘she
is gone.’ There are others who are
watching her coming, and other
voices take up a glad shout, ‘there
she comes’ – and that is dying.”
Very Rev. Twum-Baah urged the
bereaved families to take consolation
in the fact that their departed loved
ones are resting in the bosom of the
Lord.
The officers honoured
At the 2018 ceremony, 13 police
officers were honoured. ASP
Emmanuel Kwaku Asilevi, Chief
Inspector Adolph Mutse, Corporal
Nicholas Duku, Corporal Daniel
Adu Tieku, and Corporal Prosper
Ashinyo, had their names engraved
on the Wall of Honour.
Sergeant Yakubu Seidu, Sergeant
Emmanuel Aduko, Sergeant Owusu
Appiah, Corporal Salifu Alhassan,
provides that.”
According to her, “per
regulation 56 of the judicial
service regulations and the
LI 319, you are to
administer only lawful oath
and to take only lawful
affirmations and affidavits
and remember that any
oath affirmation or
affidavit that is in violation
of the constitution of
Ghana or any statute in
force, such as the statutory
declarations acts of 1971,
the oath act and the
citizenship act is unlawful
and when you are in
violation and is found
guilty it is an offense
punishable under the laws
of Ghana.”
No confrontation
Prof Ken Attafuah, the Executive
Director of NIA, urged the officers
not to engage the people in any
Corporal Thomas Kwame Adu,
Lance Corporal Animon Kwaku
Danso, Lance Corporal Abdulai
Sumaila, and Constable Emmanuel
Lamptey, had their names inscribed
in the ‘Roll of Honour.’
The police memorial day
The Police Memorial Day was
first celebrated in the year 2014. In
the maiden celebration, all officers
who qualified for honours prior to
the day were immortalised. Two
years later in 2016, a cenotaph was
inaugurated for the purpose of
cresting a ‘Wall of Honour.’
Fifteen police officers were
immortalised in that year with eight
names engraved on the ‘Wall of
Honour’ and seven inscribed in the
‘Roll of Honour’. Similarly, in 2017,
nine police officers were honoured.
Five of them had their names
engraved on the ‘Wall of Honour’
and remaining inscribed in the ‘Roll
of Honour.’
Don’t swear in persons
you can’t verify — CJ to NIA
officers
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
Muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
•Prof. Ken Attafuah, NIA
•Late (ASP) Emmanuel
Kwaku Ashilevi
•Sophia Akuffo, Chief Justice
confrontational issue.
“Your duty is not to embark on a
challenge but maintain the elegance
of our position as the
commissioners of oath; you are not
to go into the arena of confrontation
with people you have reasons to
believe are not Ghanaians. In such
circumstances, it is your duty to alert
the registration officials who will be
at the centre with you; they have
been properly trained to assist in
mounting the challenge process,” he
noted.
“You should not under any
circumstance swear in
anyone you have not seen in
person or whose claims you
cannot verify. The republic in
whose name you will be
working requires accurate
and reliable information and
your task is to make sure
that this exercise provides
that.”
Volta farmers
appeal to
Akufo-Addo for
inclusion in 1D1F
programme
FROM PATRICE SYLVESTER
SELORMEY, ZIOPE
pselormey2015@gmail.com
THE VOLTA Regional
Minister, Dr Archibald Yao
Letsa has discouraged farmers
along the Ziope/Agotime
enclave from cultivating
tomatoes since their product
cannot be processed into
anything that can guarantee
their being included in the
IDIF Programme.
According to the Minister,
people have examined the
type of tomatoes they
cultivate in the area and have
concluded that the tomatoes
have high water content which
cannot be processed into
anything.
But, the Agotime/Ziope
District Director of
Agriculture, Mr Emmanuel
Laryea disagreed with the
minister: “Not that is not
suitable for a tomato factory
if you process 100kg for
example it will give you about
70kg.”
He said the district has
quality high yielding varieties
of tomato seeds that could be
supplied to the farmers.
An Agricultural Technical
Officer for Ziope area, Mr
Eric Klutse said farmers
would be sensitised through
massive education, hence the
minister’s claim is neither here
nor there.
Dr Letsa made this
comment which was carried
live on all Ho Fm stations and
monitored by this reporter.
Some of the farmers in an
interview said they would not
be discouraged by the
minister’s comments.
“The situation of tomato
farmers in Ziope traditional
area of Agotime Ziope
district of the Volta Region is
so pathetic that farmers sell a
create of tomatoes at
GH¢30.00,” they noted.
According to the angry
farmers, who produce over
5,000 creates of tomato on
daily basis, the regional
ministers’ pronouncements
are disheartening, hence called
on President Nana Addo
Akufo-Addo to intervene.
“The situation
of tomato farmers
in Ziope
traditional area of
Agotime Ziope
district of the
Volta Region is so
pathetic that
farmers sell a
create of
tomatoes at
GH¢30.00,” they
noted.
But, the Agotime/Ziope District
Director of Agriculture, Mr Emmanuel
Laryea disagreed with the minister: “Not
that is not suitable for a tomato factory if
you process 100kg for example it will
give you about 70kg.”