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•Evans Obessey apologising
to the mother, Rose Duku
• The accident scene
•Chairman of Remand Review Taskforce, Justice Clemence
Honyenugah, (3rd R) and the Justice For All team
• Jean
Mensa,
EC Chair
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Get Knocked Down, It’s
Whether You Get Up.”
– By Vince Lombardi
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Proprietor, teacher punished for caning 9-yr-old Nigerian
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE HUMAN Rights Division of
the Accra High Court has awarded
costs and damages against Mitzi
Zormelo, proprietor of Aristoland
Montessori School in Nungua, and
Samuel Arhin, a teacher, for
human rights violation in the form
of brutally caning a 9-year-old
child for not doing her Twi homework.
The Court, presided over by
Justice Nicholas Mensah Cudjoe
Abodakpi, said in his landmark
judgement that the respondents
had committed serious human
• For not doing Twi homework
rights violation against the child
who was aged nine as of January
2017 when the teacher employed
corporal punishment on her for
failure to do two homework assignments.
The Human Rights court held
that corporal punishment had
been outlawed in the country and
as such offended the 1992 constitution,
the GES Act, GES code of
conduct for teachers, UN Convention
on Children's Rights and the
African Charter on Children's
Rights.
In its judgement on Friday, the
court said the four witnesses who
filed affidavits in support of the
respondents’ case were all teachers
and they gave inconsistent evidence.
It said investigations by the
Ghana Police Service, GES and
medical report by LEKMA Hospital
proved that the respondents
were liable for the allegation
against them.
Background
In February 2017, a 9-year-old
Nigerian pupil, Ogechi Nwosu, of
Aristoland Montessori School in
Nungua, Accra, was brutally lashed
by her teacher for failing to complete
her Twi assignments.
“On Wednesday, I didn’t do my
Twi homework and my teacher
caned me on my buttocks. The
marks were very big. I couldn’t sit
down, the pains were so much…
He told the people who hadn’t
done their homework to stand in
front of the class and he beat us.
He held my dress and hit me three
times; it was so painful I couldn’t
sit down. I had to force myself
and sit down”.
Narrating the incident to Starr
News’s Atiewin Mbillah-Lawson,
Ogechi said on that fateful
Wednesday she got to school without
completing her Twi homework,
as a result, her teacher,
Samuel Arhin, resorted to caning
on her buttocks, an act which left
the little girl scared, bruised and
unable to sit down.
Shocked and disgusted, Mr. and
Mrs. Nwosu, parents of Nwosu,
could not come to terms with their
daughter’s predicament.
“She came home sad and in
tears and I asked her and she said
her teachers had caned her on her
buttocks. After looking at it, I was
in tears. I couldn’t believe what I
saw on her butts,” Uche Nwosu,
the father, said.
Mr. Nwosu petitioned the Ministries
of Education, and Gender
and Social Protection, DOVVSU
and the IGP to look into the case.
He also filed a suit against the
teacher and authorities of the
school.
CGM hails EC for publishing
political parties’ accounts
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
CITIZEN GHANA MOVEMENT
(CGM), a civil society organisation,
has commended the Electoral
Commission (EC) for
publishing for the first time in the
27 years’ history of Ghana’s Fourth Republic,
the audited accounts of all political parties,
making it a first step in the anti-corruption campaign.
According to the group, even though the
laws of the land and the Political Parties Act
mandate all political parties to present their
statements of accounts to the public on an annual
basis, through the Commission , this law
was arbitrarily ignored by the Commission and
the parties.
Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE
after the first official publication, the Head of
Operations at CGM, Mr Ato Banful, said making
public the audited accounts of these political
parties was a first step towards the
anti-corruption fight in the country.
Mr Banful said CGM achieved the feat after
securing court judgment on February 9, 2018
from the Human Rights court in Accra directing
the EC to publish the statements of accounts of
all political parties for the purpose of public information
in accordance with national law.
• Jean Mensa, EC Chair
In a press release to the paper, CGM hails
the EC for publishing accounts of the parties,
which publication the group said was long overdue,
and that the publication will engage industry
players to scrutinise the documents to
ascertain their authenticity.
Below is the fool statement
CitizenGhana Movement Advocacy
Prompts Electoral Commission to Publish
Financial Accounts of Political Parties
Following a two-year advocacy campaign and
a lawsuit led by CitizenGhana Movement
(CGM), the Electoral Commission of Ghana
has released the financial accounts of all political
parties, marking a significant step towards
transparency and accountability.
The release of these statements of accounts
is the first time in the 27-year history of
Ghana’s Fourth Republic that the financial
records of political parties have been made
available to the public.
Publication of the statements reverses the
decades-long trend of political parties breaching
the 1992 Constitution, which guarantees all
Ghanaian citizens the right to information, and
the Political Parties Act, which mandates that all
political parties present their statements of accounts
to the public on an annual basis, through
the Commission.
Despite this breach of national law, the Electoral
Commission previously failed to enforce
these provisions until now.
On Friday, 9th February, 2018, the Citizen-
Ghana Movement secured an order from the
Human Rights Court, Accra directing the Electoral
Commission (EC) to publish the statements
of accounts of all political parties for the
purpose of public information in accordance
with national law.
The Honourable Court ordered the Commission
to perform these duties by September
1, 2018. However, the Commission failed to
meet the deadline ostensibly because of the
constitutional procedures and subsequent transition
going on at the time.
To prompt action, CGM wrote to the new
Commission in December 2018 to remind the
public body to comply with the Court’s order.
In reply, the Commission issued a notice demanding
that all political parties submit their
statements of accounts to the Commission by
the 13th of February 2019.
Subsequently on 21st March, 2019, the Commission
published the statements of accounts of
all registered political parties in the Daily
Graphic newspaper.
In accordance with the Court’s order, the
Commission also prescribed a fee that the CitizenGhana
Movement was to pay for copies of
the accounts. The CitizenGhana Movement has
paid this amount and expects to receive the
copies shortly.
Financial disclosures by political parties are a
key public accountability mechanism. Making
the sources of political party funding public discourages
the acceptance of funds from unsavoury
individuals or organizations.
The CitizenGhana Movement is hopeful that
the release of these statements of accounts will
mark the beginning of a new era of transparency
in the financing of Ghanaian political
parties.

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I'm sorry
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
A28-YEAR-OLD Accounting
student who brandished
a machete at his
68-year-old mother for
which he was in remand
for an unspecified period has been discharged
unconditionally from the
Akuse Local Prisons after spending a
month and 11 days in prison.
His release from prison custody
came when he remorsefully apologised
to the mother and asked for her forgiveness
during a Justice for All Programme
held at the Akuse Prisons last
Friday.
Evans Obessey, a level 200 student of
the Zenith University Collage, was in
remand at the Akuse Prison after her
biological mother, Rose Duku, had reported
him to the Atimpoku Police for
threat of harm.
But at the Akuse Prisons on Friday
during the Justice for All Programme
sitting designed to decongest the prisons,
Madam Rose Duku, the complainant,
shed tears while asking the
court to discharge her son.
According to the complainant, she
reported the incident to the Atimpoku
police because she feared her life was at
risk but has now realised that she went
far by causing his last born to be remanded
in the prison.
It was the case of the Obessey that
he had been sleeping at a mechanic
shop in Accra for years while schooling
at the Zenith College.
• Son apologises to mother after
threatening her with machete
According to him, the
struggles he was going
through and the fact that he
lost a restaurant job he had
been doing to take care of
himself and to pay his fees
made him to informd the
mother to allow him rent out
his own room at Akrade,
where the family live, to use
the money to support himself.
The mother, he said, refused
that request and such
development frustrated him
as a result of which he pulled
a machete on mother.
Apology
When the matter came up
at the Justice for All sitting before the Chairman
of Remand Review Taskforce, Justice
Clemence Honyenugah, who doubles as a
Court of Appeal Judge, Obessey knelt before
his mother and said, "Mom, I’m sorry, forgive
me. It will not happen again. I did that
out of frustration, forgive me."
Obessey, who has deferred his Accounting
course at Zenith College, said he realised
the repercussion of his action when he was
remanded in the prison. He told the court
that going forward, he would be law-abiding,
show respect to the elderly and the mother at
all times.
He also urged his prison mates he was living
behind and the youth in general to not
indulge in way-wardness.
‘I've forgiven you’
Madam Duku, 68, a mother of three,
who was all
•Evans Obessey apologising
to the mother, Rose Duku
tears, pleaded with the court to discharge his
son because her intention was not to get him
detained in prison.
The trader, moments after the discharge
of his son, held the hands of her son who
was kneeling before her asking forgiveness,
saying "I have forgiven you. I needed not
throw my baby out with the bathwater”, and
while the mother was speaking, they hugged
each other amidst spontaneous clapping
from the all present.
Remand prisoners
At the end of the sitting, one other inmate,
Musa Bari, who had spent seven years
on remand for an alleged rape, was discharged
while 16 were given bail.
Three applications were refused and two
were struck out as withdrawn. The total
number of inmates dealt with were 23.
Justice Honyenugah, however, cautioned
police investigators to ensure that all remand
prisoners who had
been
granted bail were released per the orders of
the court.
“I cautioned them that no one remains in
the prisons after they have been granted bail
otherwise all that we have been doing will
just be in vain. Assuming we grant bail to
someone today and the next time we come
back and he is still here, then what are you
doing? We have wasted time and energy but
we hope it doesn’t happened.”
He explained that there were moves to
decentralise the exercise in the regions but
her Ladyship the Chief Justice was yet to
take a final decision on this
matter
Ṗrison history
A Deputy Director of
Prisons, Godwin
Hoenyedzi, who is the officer
in charge of the prison,
said there were 67 remand
prisoners out of which 23
had been discharge but
“the situation is still bad because
there is only one cell
for remand prisoners, so
when the number starts
going up it we become worried.”
He expressed gratitude
to the Justice For All programme,
saying, “That is
why the Justice For All programme
had come as a relief for us because
the 106-year-old prison was designed to
house only 90 inmates, but, the prison has
223 convicted prisoners and 67 remand prisoners.”
About Justice for All
The Justice For All programme, which is
facilitated by POS Foundation, is a special inprison
court sitting meant to look into the
cases of remand prisoners, and prisoners
whose trials are unreasonably delayed.
The programme constitutes a key component
of the rule of law, access to justice and
the sustained promotion and protection of
the human rights of prisoners – both remand
prisoners and convicted prisoners, and
of course, their handlers, who are officials of
the Prisons Service, and, by extension, the
families of these persons that I have identified.
Through the initiative, hundreds of prisoners
have been freed from jail and saved the
government purse.
•Chairman of Remand Review Taskforce, Justice
Clemence Honyenugah, (3rd L), Akuse Prison Officers
and the Justice For All team •The Justice For All team •Musa Bari was unconditionally discharged

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•The threat level
was temporarily
raised to its
highest level after
the shooting
Utrecht shooting: Suspect admits deadly tram attack
A MAN has admitted to
killing three people on a tram
in Utrecht and said he acted
alone, Dutch prosecutors say.
Turkish-born Gokmen
Tanis, 37, wounded five others
and was arrested on Monday
after a city-wide manhunt.
A judge on Friday extended
his detention for two weeks as
investigations continue.
Prosecutors are assessing
whether he was driven by terrorist
motives or his actions
came from personal problems
combined with radicalised
ideas.
Three other men, aged 23,
27 and 40, were arrested after
the incident but have since
been released.
Prosecutors said their investigation
now led them to
believe the gunman had no
help from other people.
Turkey's President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan had previously
said his country's intelligence
service was "looking
into" the attack. BBC
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•Jacob Zuma
Anti-Bouteflika protests
continue in Algeria
HUNDREDS OF thousands
of people have taken to the
streets of Algerian cities for
the fifth consecutive Friday
to demand the resignation of
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
The anti-government website,
El Khabar, said the rain in
Algiers had not dampened
people's spirits; another website
said that thousands also
turned out in the cities of Relianze,
Oran, Bouira and Tizi-
Ouzou.
Demonstrations began a
month ago when the 82-yearold
president decided to
stand again for office - but
they continued after he said
he would not contest a fifth
term.
President Bouteflika also
postponed upcoming elections,
prompting largely
peaceful protests calling for
immediate change. BBC
Zuma 'nuclear plan could
have averted blackouts’
FORMER SOUTH
African President Jacob
Zuma has waded into
the national debate of
how to deal with the
crippling interruption of
electricity in the country.
State-owned power utility company
Eskom has been implementing
daily power cuts designed to
prevent a total collapse of the overstretched
electricity grid.
Mr Zuma told local Business Day
news site that a controversial nuclear
deal with Russia, that he
fronted when he was in office,
could have averted the current crisis.
“The fact of the matter is nuclear
could solve our problems,
once and for all. Now we are in
deep, we are therefore increasing
the debt of the country with no
hope to bring it down. That’s a
problem," Mr Zuma said.
The plan to build eight nuclear
plants, with the support of Russia
and other countries at an estimated
cost of around 1tn rand ($76bn;
£59bn) was annulled by a court in
2017 following a legal challenge by
environmental groups.
There were also allegations that
the cost of the project had been inflated.
The country currently has
one nuclear plant.
Environmental groups say
South Africa should rely more on
renewable energy to meet its electricity
needs. BBC
• The people demand the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Golan Heights: Syria condemns Donald Trump's remarks
SYRIA HAS condemned as "irresponsible"
US President Donald
Trump's comments that it was
time to recognise Israel's sovereignty
over the occupied Golan
Heights.
A statement published by the
Syrian state news agency said it
showed the "blind bias" of the US
towards Israel.
It said Syria was determined to
recover the area "through all available
means".
Israel captured the Golan
Heights from Syria in 1967 and
annexed it in 1981 in a move not
• The Golan Heights has a political
and strategic significance which
belies its size
recognised internationally.
Israel wants to contain the military
presence of its arch-enemy
Iran in Syria, which has grown
stronger throughout eight years of
conflict.
Mr Trump's remarks on Thursday
overturned decades of US
policy on the issue. In a tweet, he
said the plateau was of "critical
strategic and security importance
to the State of Israel and regional
stability!"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu thanked the US president
in a phone call, telling him
"you've made history".
The statement carried by the
Sana news agency said Mr Trump's
comments had shown "contempt"
for international law and that they
would not change "the reality that
the Golan was and will remain Syrian,
Arab".
"The Syrian nation is more determined
to liberate this precious
piece of Syrian national land
through all available means," the
unnamed foreign ministry source
added. BBC

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Editorial
Passenger empowerment can reduce accidents
BY ALL means every one of us will
die one day but how we exit this earth
and what causes us to leave together
is the issue. “Why this statement?”
one may ask. The statement becomes
highly significant when we think
about the fact that some die in good
old age from natural causes while
others die from unnatural causes like
suicides and accidents and the fact
that some deaths are described as
being premature.
In the case of premature deaths,
age is not so much the issue but the
fact that such deaths have come
about through hopelessness or
carelessness of the dead persons or
somebody else who may be alive.
Sometimes some people lose all hope
or do something careless and take
their lives to avoid the consequences
of their actions and at other times
some people, through sheer
carelessness, send innocent people to
their graves.
The saddest of all deaths are those
that are caused by sheer careless of
others, who often stay back to enjoy
life. One of the people who kill
others and mostly hang around to eat
and drink is the driver. For their
carelessness, which come in various
forms such as non-maintenance of
their vehicles, speeding and disregard
for road signs, drivers, commercial
drivers in particular, send people to
their early graves.
Without trying to remind relatives
of accident victims, dead or alive, the
DAILY HERITAGE wish to
make reference to the carnage on our
roads, the fresh one being the one
that occurred at Kintampo on Friday
in which about 50 people lost their
lives with 40 being injured. We
understand that there are road traffic
laws but deem it sad to say that
everything seems to point to the fact
that those who check those laws are
either relaxing or the task is beyond
them and so others must be made to
come in and help them.
We can see that drivers are so
much engrossed in impunity that they
do not care about the laws, probably
because they not deterrent enough.
People who see the impunity of
the driver at play the best are
passenger, so the DAILY
HERITAGE wants to advise that
passengers must be given some
power of arrest or control over the
driver so that they can check speeding
and other road offences.
Ghanaian drivers insult passengers
who try to ask them to drive well and
their insults and other hostilities deter
others to keep quiet because it seems
the drivers assume unnecessary
power over the passengers. It is about
time passengers are educated at the
point of boarding vehicles, the lorry
stations and given some powers to
check drivers. The DAILY
HERITAGE believes that if this is
well done the road carnage will come
down drastically.
PRESIDENT NANA Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his vice,
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, have
consoled bereaved families following
a fatal road carnage in Kintampo that
claimed over 50 lives.
Akufo-Addo, Mahama mourn
Kintampo accident victims
BY KENT MENSAH
PRESIDENT NANA Akufo-
Addo and his vice Dr. Mahamudu
Bawumia have
consoled bereaved families following
a deadly road carnage in
Kintampo claiming over 50 lives.
A head-on collision involving two
buses in Kintampo on Friday also left over
40 passengers injured in the new Bono
East region.
The buses were each carrying about 50
passengers at the time of the crash. Emergency
services were at the scene, including
firefighters who helped put out fire which
engulfed one of the vehicles.
Speaking at the annual end-of-year gettogether
of the West Africa Security Service
Association (WASSA) of the Ghana
Police Service on Friday, 22 March 2019,
Mr Akufo-Addo said: “My sympathies and
condolences go to all the families and
loved ones of the deceased. May the
Almighty grant their souls peaceful rest”.
Former president John Mahama has
also expressed concerns about deaths on
Ghana’s road, calling on all stakeholders to
find solution to it.
•Flashback: President Nana Akufo-Addo exchanging greetings with John
Dramani Mahama, Flagbearer of NDC
The cause of the crashes is still to be
established but rumours are that the driver
of one of the vehicles lost control after
falling asleep.
“Fifty-five were brought in dead and
out of that number 35 were burnt beyond
recognition. Forty people were brought in
alive, but one died. Four people have been
referred – two had severe head injuries and
other two sustained multiple fractures on
the rib,” Dr. Prince Kwabena Tabi of the
Kintampo South Medical Hospital told
Starr News
Rose Anane, who was on one of the
buses, said: “I was fast asleep then I heard
a loud bang. We managed to break the
glass and it was just a few of us – about 10
– who managed to move out.
“In a matter of seconds, the vehicle
went on fire, with the others still trapped
in the car. We watched as the fire consumed
them. It was late into the night.”
The crash has renewed calls for Ghanaian
authorities to enforce traffic rules to
reduce deaths on the country’s poorly
maintained roads.
Gifty Mintah, a resident, said: “We’ve
been speaking to the local assembly to fix
rumble strips on the road, but they said
this is a highway so it’s not possible. For
how long are we going to look on for people
to keep dying?”
Rumble strips are positioned at the
edges of roads and make noise when cars
pass over them to alert drivers.Crashes are
common on highways in Ghana because
of poor maintenance, disregard for traffic
regulations and unroadworthy vehicles.
An average of six people die on the
country’s roads every day, according to the
Ghanaian police’s motor transport and
traffic directorate.
In February 2016, 70 people were
killed and 13 injured when two buses collided
in Kintampo.
In July 2017, a bus carrying players and
officials from one of Ghana’s leading football
clubs, Asante Kotoko, crashed into the
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Missing Takoradi girls’ saga taints
Ghana’s brand and reputation
BY STEPHANIE YEBOAA DARKO,
STUDENT GIJ
MY PARENTS
used to tell me
that Ghana was
the safest
country in
Africa; they believed
in the assertion and always
took pride in it. Is it still the case
in recent times…? I really don’t
think so!
My country of birth is now
synonymous with insecurity
spurred on by a recent wave of
vigilante and now kidnapping
cases.
Kidnapping is a growing menace
in Ghana and other parts of
the world, especially Nigeria and
it comes as no wonder that a
Nigerian is in custody for the
kidnapping cases that have
rocked Ghana in the last couple
of months.
It has been eight months since
three girls were kidnapped in
Takoradi in the Western Region,
a region referred to as the oil region
of Ghana. Since the ladies
went missing almost a year ago,
all measures put in place to find
them have proven futile. The
main suspect – Samuel Wills –
keeps changing his narration to
the police every single day.
Are we, the citizens, going to
sit aloof and watch while he
keeps playing with our emotions
and intelligence? When are we
getting our girls back? Are we
going to continuously apportion
blame to our political leaders and
allow our girls to wail wherever
More jobs should be created to get our youth employed
so they desist from indulging themselves
in such unlawful acts because our elders always
tell us that “the devil finds job for an idle hand”.
Let’s not sit idle and watch on while our future
leaders are taken away from us, No!!...this must
not happen.
they find themselves now? These
girls are crying for our help, their
parents are wailing and are fed up
with the cock and bull stories,
our future leaders are being taken
away by some greedy and wicked
souls, whose only interest is
money.
On August 15, 2018, a 16-
year-old senior high school student
was kidnapped just 100
metres from her home in the
Takoradi metropolis. Two days
after, a 21-year-old lady too got
kidnapped in the same town and
on December 4, 2018, an 18-
year-old girl also went missing.
Till date we do not know the
whereabouts of these girls.
The question I keep asking is
“where are our girls after the
huge sums collected from their
parents?” My biggest fear and
worry is, what happens to them
as they are kept away by these
criminals? My guess is that some
may get molested, raped, abused
and tortured in all kinds of inhuman
manner. My heart aches because
it could have been me, your
sister, daughter or your girlfriend.
I am gradually losing trust in the
security agencies as they seem
not to double their efforts to find
these young girls. Sometimes I
ask myself, have they been trafficked
out of the country?
The seeming inaction on the
part of those responsible for
finding the girls taints the country’s
brand and reputation, particularly
to those who are living
outside but know Ghana to be a
land of peace.
Today, it is happening in
Takoradi, but tomorrow it might
happen in Accra or any other
part of the country and it could
be your relative. What does the
future hold for us as a country?
My humble plea to the government
is to scale up the reward to
citizens who aid with information
pertaining to kidnapping and
other criminal activities. This will
aid in making us responsible citizens
and more vigilant about
what goes on in our surrounding.
More jobs should be created
to get our youth employed so
they desist from indulging themselves
in such unlawful acts because
our elders always tell us
that “the devil finds job for an
idle hand”. Let’s not sit idle and
watch on while our future leaders
are taken away from us,
No!!...this must not happen.
Let’s come together and fight
to get our girls back. We can be
each other’s keeper. We are one
people and one great country.
*Bring Our Taadi Girls Back!!!
*We Stand Against Kidnapping!!!
*Say No To Kidnapping.

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5 Reasons why water is preferred to soft drink
• Soft drinks steal water
from the body
They work very much like a diuretic
which takes away more
water than it provides to the body.
Just to process the high levels of
sugar in them, soft drinks steal a
considerable amount of water
from the body. To replace the
water stolen by soft drinks, you
need to drink 8-12 glasses of water
for every one glass of soft drinks
that you consume.
• Soft drinks never
quench your thirst
Constantly denying your body
an adequate amount of water can
lead to ‘Chronic Cellular Dehydration’,
a condition that weakens
your body at the cellular level.
This, in turn, can lead to a weakened
immune system and a
plethora of diseases.
• Soft drinks can remove
rust
Soft drinks can remove rust
from a car bumper or other metal
surfaces. Imagine what it's doing
to your digestive tract as well as
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Do frequent check-ups
• Doctor appeals to men
BY BENJAIMN TANDOH
AMEDICAL Consultant
at the Medi-Moses
Prostate Centre, Dr
Prince Osei, has urged
the public, especially
men, to frequently check
their health status, particularly that of
the prostrate, in order to reduce
prostate-related sicknesses.
According to him, prostate sickness,
when identified early, could be rectified,
adding that it will be improper for one
to wait for signs and symptoms before
seeking medical advice.
Dr Osei said this during an interview
with the DAILY HERITAGE during a
free prostrate screening for workers of
the Kaneshie Market Complex in Accra.
The exercise was organised by the
Accra Market Limited, Kaneshie Market
Complex Branch, and supported by
Medi-Moses Prostate Centre and the
Ghana Private Road Transport Union
(GPRTU), Kaneshie branch.
In his statement, Dr Osei indicated
that though prostate enlargement could
be a natural phenomenon due to age,
there are some activities that cause the
incidence, and advised against excessive
taking of alcohol and smoking.
“Men are likely to have an enlarged
prostrate from age 35. However, there
are some activities that can cause this,
like drinking a lot of alcohol, excessive
smoking, and eating fatty foods.
•Some of the drivers going
through medical screening at
the Kaneshie Lorry Park
“That notwithstanding, any man at
all can still have an enlarged prostate and
the key way to manage it is to do frequent
check-up,” he said.
He further explained that it was
likely for one to experience late symptoms
for their conditions, hence the
need for frequent check-up.
“If you are waiting for symptoms
before you take any action, then it might
be too late. That is why it is better for
people to take advantage of free screenings
in the community.
“This type of exercise gives the ordinary
Ghanaian the opportunity to know
the state of his prostate, which is encouraging,”
he said.
He expressed his delight about the
exercise and indicated that the opportunity
to help improve the health conditions
of the public motivated people like
him to join the exercise.
Also speaking to the paper, Mrs
Anita Aihoon, Human Resource/Administrative
Manager,
Accra Market Limited,
Kaneshie Market Complex,
said the exercise formed
part of their Social Corporate
Responsibility.
She added that the
health of their clients were
paramount to them, hence
the exercise.
“We realised that good
health is important for
people from all walks of
life. We realised that we
needed to do something
for our people so we organised
this program to
give back to our clients,”
she said.
Explaining their decision
to deal with male-related
sickness, Mrs Aihoon
said it was time for the
public to pay attention to
the health of men, adding
that the market had had
health programs for the female
in the past.
“In our society, the men are the head
of the family and if they are affected
with this prostate cancer, then it’s going
to affect both the women and the children.
So, the exercise is to promote
men’s health,” she said.
She further reiterated the need for
frequent check-up, stating that “knowing
your medical condition will help you live
a healthy life.”
Mr Kweku Amoah, Welfare Operations
Commander, GPRTU, Kaneshie
Branch, lauded the management of the
market for the initiative.
According to him, the lack of time
for people in the market made it difficult
for them to visit health facilities on regular
basis, and indicated that the exercise
would help to improve their health conditions.
“When we were told about this initiative,
we were happy and fully supported
it because it was for our benefit,”
he said.
He added that, “Most of our drivers
have some form of health problems so
exercises like this will only better our
lives.”
A beneficiary, Mr Kwame Issaka, a
porter at the market, expressed his gratitude
to the organisers of the exercise.
He said, “This is my first time checking
for the state of my prostate, and this
was possible because the market authorities
have made it free for us.”
Madam Harriet Anita Abaidoo, a
community activist, and a former Progressive
People’s Party Member of Parliament
aspirant for the Okaikoi
Constituency, expressed her displeasure
about the lack of education by the Nation
Commission on Civic Education on
ways of improving the sanitation of the
market places.
She called for adequate measures to
ensure that the market is kept clean always,
saying, “I think the government
has a lot to do in terms of advocacy and
education.
‘Don’t microwave these foods’
MICROWAVES ARE one of the
greatest inventions, but putting
certain foods in a microwave is the
worst thing you do.
Microwaves are usually for the
easy fixes and quick reheats but it
might not always be the safe alternative.
There are five things you
should never place inside a microwave
– for your own good.
Styrofoam
Even though you may be just
reheating for a few minutes, avoid
the temptation. Styrofoam containers
are made from polystyrene
foam, which is a type of plastic.
And we all know we are not
supposed to microwave plastic.
Notice how it looks different after
microwaving?
It's releasing toxic chemicals
that will be harmful to you inside
the food.
Water
Don’t try to boil water inside a
microwave unless it has something,
like a teabag inside it to defuse
the energy.
Otherwise, the water will superheat
but would be unable to physically
boil, with the vessel
remaining cool, which would result
in an upward explosion once you
dip anything inside it.
Hot peppers
The microwave vaporizes the
capsaicin and retains it inside. Capsaicin
is the active compound
which makes peppers spicy. The
moment you open the microwave
door, the vapour will come out
and burn your face.
Aluminium foil
Just like metal, placing aluminium
foil in a microwave can
send supercharged plasma shooting
through your appliance which
could start a fire. Preferably, transfer
your leftovers from the foil
into a microwave safe bowl.
Bread
The bread won't result in
flames, but you will be left with
dry soul-less bread.
•Some foods are dangerous when microwaved

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DAILY
Rainstorm rips off schools,
houses at Okorase
A HEAVY rainstorm has
wreaked havoc at Okorase, a
farming community community
in the Akuapem North
Municipality of the Eastern
Region.
Classrooms, staff common
rooms and Computer
Laboratories of Three schools;
Methodist Primary, Presby
Primary and Methodist Junior
High School have all been ripped
off.
Teaching and learning
materials such as exercise books
and computers in these school
were soaked with water.
Also, some examination
papers printed for upcoming end
of term examination scheduled
for next week were also affected.
According to one of the
headmistresses of the affected
schools, urgent help is needed to
help restore academic work
which has been disrupted.
The headmistress of Okorase
Methodist Primary School, Ms
•KG pupils waiting for their
turn to do the march past
•The scene after the rainstorm
Linda Asare Appiah-Danquah,
said the KG classroom has been
affected as well as recently
acquired computers for ICT
Practicals.
Rev Sarbeng Appiah- Kubi,
Minister in charge of Okorase
Methodist Church told Kasapa
News the Church is considering
given out its uncompleted church
building to temporarily
accommodate the displaced
pupils but was concerned with its
•KG pupils of His Grace and Mercy Preparatory School
presenting their petition to the MCE
•Odeefuo Oteng Korankye II,
Berekusohene sits in state
suitability for academic work
since it is not in good shape.
Thursday’s •The rainstorm cleared site in
Okorase proposed also affected for dozens the of
houses and shops SHS displacing
many residents.
Many giant billboards along
the Okorase to Koforidua
township have been floored.
Reports indicate that the
rainstorm was recorded in many
parts of the region and may have
caused problems elsewhere.
FOR THE second time in
a row the hearing of an
application by the
Electoral Commission
for an extension of time
to implement the
Representation of People’s
Amendment Act (ROPAA) has
suffered adjournment.
On March 4, 2019 the case was
adjourned to March 21 for the
application for the extension to be
moved.
But counsel for the respondents,
Samson Lardi Anyenini, told the
court that there had been a new
development for which they would
need an adjournment.
He prayed the court for an
adjournment to allow the
respondents in the case file a
supplementary affidavit to enable
them to fully present their side of
the case.
According to him, it was
supposed to have been filed on
Wednesday but some difficulties
were encountered and it delayed but
it was filed on Thursday.
DAILY HERITAGE Court
Correspondent MuntallaInusah has
reported that Justin Amenuvor,
counsel for EC who was to move
the application raised no objection.
The court, presided over by
Justice Nicholas Mensah Cudjoe
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BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com
Abodakpi, adjourned the case to
April 3, 2019.
Trial of JB’s killers begins April 1
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com
THE TRIAL of Daniel Asiedu, the man
indicted for the murder of the Member
of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North,
Mr Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, will
commence on April 1, 2019 at the
Criminal Division of the Accra High
Court.
Also standing trial is Vincent Bosso,
the second accused person, who, together
with Asiedu, is alleged to have planned a
robbery operation that subsequently
resulted in the murder of the former
legislator.
Asiedu is facing three counts of
murder, robbery and conspiracy to
commit robbery, while Bosso is facing a
charge of conspiracy to commit robbery.
In court on Thursday for the second
time after their committals on February
11, the court presided over by Justice
George Boadi fixed April 1 to start the
trial because he had just received the
documents from the district court that
performed the committals.
Asiedu, alias Sexy Don Don, urged
the court to find him a competent lawyer
to help him fight his case.
• The two accused persons being whisked away
According to him, the reason he was
asking for lawyers from the International
Criminal Court was that the government
would compromise the lawyers since
“money can do anything in Ghana.”
11 Witnesses, 29 material evidence
Ms Sefakor Batse, a Senior State
Attorney, informed the court that the
State would call 11 witnesses and also rely
on 29 exhibits to prove its case at the
trial. Presenting the facts of the case, Ms
Batse said Asiedu and Bossu planned to
go on a robbery spree, but due to a
•Jean Mensa, EC boss
misunderstanding, Bosso did not partake
in the act.
She said Asiedu went to the MP’s
house on February 9, 2016 around
1:00a.m. and robbed him of his three
mobile phones and that he gave two of
the phones to a repairer to unlock but the
repairer saw blood stains on the phone
and reported the matter to the police.
Ms Batse also contended that Asiedu
entered the house of the MP at 1a.m. and
noticed that the light in the room of the
MP was on and the room had no metal
EC Application
The EC, in an application
filed to ask for time to
implement Act 699, the
Chairperson of EC, Jean
Mensa, said the Commission
had been bedeviled with some
challenges which affected its
ability to implement the Act.
It would be recalled that
on December 17, 2017 the
Human Rights Division of
the Accra High Court ordered
the EC to activate the process
that would enable Ghanaians
living abroad to vote in the
country’s elections.
The court said within 12
calendar months – beginning
from January 1, 2018 – the
EC should lay before
Parliament the modalities for
the implementation of the
ROPAA Act so that Ghanaian
citizens living abroad could
take part in election 2020.
The court, presided over
by Justice Anthony K.
Yeboah, also ordered the EC
to explain why it failed to
implement the Act within one
month after the expiration of
the 12-month period.
Justice Yeboah’s court also
ordered the EC to publish the
reasons in the media.
In a motion filed at the Accra
bars to prevent him from entering it.
The court heard that Asiedu grabbed
a ladder and climbed onto the porch and
entered the room through the window.
She said the MP, who had returned
home at 11:40 p.m. the previous day, was
fast asleep. Asiedu, upon entering the
room, started searching it and in the
process, the MP woke up in an attempt
to stop him from taking anything from
the room.
She said Asiedu stabbed Mr
Danquah- Adu in the process, leading to
his death.
‘I planned MP’s killing’
When offered the opportunity to
speak, Asiedu, first accused persons (A1),
told the court that he had planned the
murder of the MP with some others.
He told the court that even though
there was enough money when he broke
into the room of the MP, the intention
was not to steal but to kill.
He also told the court that as part of
their plan, it was known to him that he
would be arrested after the incident.
Asiedu also told the court that he
entered the MP’s house through his main
gate even though security was tight and
that not even a dog would be allowed to
pass in front of the house.
High Court, the EC said the Act
had not been implemented
principally because of three main
challenges which the EC faced
shortly after the order.
The challenges, the EC
Chairperson said, included the
removal of Charlotte Osei and her
two deputies, Amadu Sulley and
Georgina Opoku-Amankwa, who
were found guilty of six allegations
levelled against them by some
petitioners.
The EC said also that it failed to
implement the order of the Court
thereafter because of its work
relating to the referenda to create
six new regions in the country.
Mrs Mensa indicated in the
affidavit of support that the EC
had inaugurated a committee,
chaired by the Deputy Chairperson,
Dr BossmanAsare Eric.
She said the committee was
working with the general public,
stakeholders and other countries
that are practising External Voting
to take the appropriate steps for its
implementation in Ghana.
She, therefore, prayed the court
to give EC more time to
operationalise Act 699 for 12
calendar months ending January
2020.
He told the court that ever since his
arrest, he had never seen those he
planned the incident with.
NPP contracted me, not NDC
He told the court that contrary to his
earlier claims that it was some members
within the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) who contracted him, it was rather
members of the New Patriotic Party
(NPP), because ever since he went to the
Nsawam Medium Security Prison, he had
accepted Christ and decided to speak the
truth even if he would have to die for it.
According to him, he had mentioned
the names of those persons when he was
re-arrested by the police after the High
Court had discharged him earlier.
He told the court that the statement
he had given to the police could not be
traced, hence his plea for him to be
offered ICC lawyers for the truth to
come out.
He said the family of JB Danquah-
Adu “is still blaming me. My lord, that is
why I am saying I need help to get an
ICC lawyer else the truth will not come
out.”
He also told the court that he did not
know Bossu, the second accused persons.
from Order Paper
SPEAKER OF Parliament,
Prof Mike Oquaye, has
ordered the removal of the
Right to Information bill
from the House’s Order
Paper.
The order was
necessitated by demands by
Civil Society Organisations
(CSOs) for some
amendments to be effected
before the passage of the
bill into law.
The RTI Coalition has
presented some proposals to
be incorporated into the bill
before its passage into law..
Announcing the
directive, the Speaker said,
“We are duty-bound to
listen to other viewpoints
on this matter.”
The Speaker’s directive
comes barely 24hours after
the Majority Leader and
Minister for Parliamentary
Affairs disclosed the Bill
would be passed into law on
Friday, March 22.
“Mr Speaker, as I said,
the matter of policy has
been sorted out. What is left
now is that new proposals
have come from civil society
for us to factor them into
the bill. Other than that,
nothing prevents us from
bringing matters to a
closure.
“That’s why I’m saying it
is even possible to bring
matters to a closure this
•Prof Mike Oquaye,
Speaker of Parliament
week, Friday [that is, March
21],” Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-
Bonsu stated.
Second Deputy Speaker
Alban Bagbin, during last
Wednesday’s Parliamentary
proceedings, urged CSOs to
lessen their push for their
proposals to be
incorporated into the bill at
all cost.
He said: “Civil societies
should be informed that
these things are
evolutionary, not
revolutionary. They are
evolutionary and so some of
the proposals could be
legislated upon but they
could be held up when it
comes to issues of
implementation.”
RTI
The RTI bill was laid
before Parliament by the
Deputy Attorney General
Joseph Kpemka Dindiok in
March this year.
It has been 22 years since
the first RTI bill was drafted
under the auspices of the
Institute of Economic
Affairs (IEA), and 16 years
since the Executive arm of
government in 2002 drafted
the first RTI bill.
The draft Executive Bill
was subsequently reviewed
in 2003, 2005 and 2007 but
was never laid in Parliament
until February 5, 2010.

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CyberGhana to host Cyber security
conference, awards tomorrow
BY RAMSON ACQUAH-HAYFORD
CYBERGHANA,
A non-profit
cyber security organisation,
will
host the second
edition of the Cybersecurity
Conference and
Awards tomorrow at the Benjilo
Auditorium at Achimota, Accra.
The event, which will be happening
on the theme ‘Expanding
Cyber Security Knowledge, Skills
and Services in Ghana’, is expected
to sensitise the public to
the need for cyber security skills
and services in Ghana and while
awards will be given to the people
who have created technology tools
that have solved real problems.
Mr Samuel Owusu, Executive
Director at CyberGhana, spoke
with the DAILY HERITAGE
ahead of tomorrow's event, he
stated that "One of our main objectives
of this event is to inform
the teeming unemployed youth
about the free cyber security programs
they can take advantage of."
He added that there would be
workshops at the conference
where a wide range of cyber security
topics and information would
be deliberated on.
"We will discuss choosing the
right security creek and consultancy
services, promoting cyber security
talents in Ghana and other
•Flashback: Panel discussion after that year’s event
cyber-related issues."
Keynote Speaker will be Mr
Eric Akumiah, Chief Executive
Officer, AI Consulting Limited.
Some distinguished guests that will
be present are Desmond Israel,
Solicitor and barrister at the
Supreme Court of Ghana; and
Eric Pope Ackaa, Software engineer
and cyber security architect
from Virginia, United States of
America.
He expressed the hope that this
year's event will attract more people
as compared to the 825 attendance
last year, he then showed
gratitude to the main sponsor of
•Mr Christian Chammas, CEO, Vivo Energy
the event Advanced Evidence Discovery
Ghana for their unrelenting
support.
MTN hosts technology experts to discuss ‘Location Intelligence’
MTN GHANA and Business
World will host leading Technology
Experts at the 25th MTN
Business World Executive Breakfast
Meeting.
The much-anticipated event,
on the theme ‘Location Intelligence:
The Driver for Business
Success’, will take place on March
28, 2019 at the Kempinski Hotel
Gold Coast City in Accra.
The event seeks to uncover
how businesses and organizations
can take full advantage of Location
Intelligence to identify new
customer markets, optimize sales
territories, manage risk, and boost
profitability.
According to Business Intelligence
experts, companies that
don’t adopt insight-driven, customer-centric
strategies will struggle
to stay alive. Technology and
customer expectations are evolving
too rapidly for non-adopters
to keep up.
The panel of experts who will
be speaking include Karthik
Raman, an IBM Executive who
has over 25 years of experience
•Mr Noel Kojo-Ganson, Chief Marketing Officer of MTN
across Telecom and Media Industry.
He leads IBM’s Industrial
Services in Telco and extensively
covers the “One IBM” approach
According to Business
Intelligence experts,
companies
that don’t adopt insight-driven,
customer-centric
strategies will struggle
to stay alive.
Technology and customer
expectations
are evolving too rapidly
for non-adopters
to keep up.
into key Telcos in the Africa region.
Amerley Ampofo, Senior Manager
Customers Analytics at
MTN, who is currently leading
the company to the path of a
Business Intelligence Centre of
Excellence, is also one of the
speakers. The third is Nana Osei
Kwasi Afrifa, Chief Executive
Officer of Vokacom, the company
driving Ghana’s Digital addressing
solution, Asaase GPS.
In discussing the importance
of location intelligence and the
reasons why MTN is excited
about this forum, the Chief Marketing
Officer of MTN, Mr. Noel
Kojo-Ganson, said. “As a telecoms
organization providing cutting
edge data in this industry, we
are confident that our resource
persons will share valuable insights
into the use of Location
Intelligence for business growth.”
The Executive Breakfast series,
which is in its eighth year, is the
leading thought leadership and
networking platform for Ghanaian
business executives and entrepreneurs
attracting over 1000 executives
annually.
It has hosted a number of international,
motivational and business
leaders, including Mac
Attram, Robin Banks, Brian Tracy,
Siya Xuza, Elikem Nutifafa
Kuenyehia, Jason Njoku, Sharon
Lechter, Mr Yaw Nsarkoh, Rosa
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about
anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for
yourself —Henry James
I’ll continue to fulfil my promises – Akufo-Addo
PRESIDENT NANA
Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo has said the government
is fully committed to
the well-being and welfare
of the men and women of
the Ghana Armed Forces.
Speaking at the end-of-year Wassa
of the Ghana Armed Forces, at
Burma Camp, on Thursday, March 21,
2019, President Akufo-Addo stated
that “we will continue to stay true to
the pledges we made in the 2016 manifesto
that brought my party, the New
Patriotic Party, and I into office.”
Outlining some of the measures
put in place to improve the welfare
and well-being of the Ghana Armed
Forces, the President stated that his
Government, upon assumption of office,
increased the United Nations
Peacekeeping Troops contribution allowances
from $30 to $35 per soldier
per day.
“We cleared the outstanding arrears
of $13 million for all peacekeeping
personnel; we are now paying your
allowances at the place of operations.
As you wished, we have also settled
the 11.1% of arrears due to the civilian
employees, and effected a 10% upward
salary review for all personnel,”
he added.
•President Akufo-
Addo serving some
army personnel
after the event
President Akufo-Addo indicated
further that the completion of the
third phase of the 37 Military Hospital
is on course, and that the Government
was also going to complete the
500-bed Military Hospital in the
Ashanti Region, and begin the third
phase of this project soon.
“’Work is on-going on the barracks
regeneration projects, with the
four blocks of 16 flats, each between
60% to 75% complete. Nearly a
month ago, in fulfilment of an October
2018 pledge, I presented 50
ANKAI buses, 40 Toyota Land
Cruiser Hardbody vehicles, and 50
Toyota Hilux pickups, which form
part of the first tranche of 138 staff
and operational vehicles of various
categories, to the Armed Forces,” he
added.
He continued, “During the year,
we will provide the Army with 30
Otokar Armoured Personnel Carriers
(APC), and six fast patrol boats for
the Navy. We are also making systematic
efforts to protect our offshore hydrocarbon
assets, now of great value,
by establishing a Forward Operating
Base at Enzulebu, in the Western Region,
for their protection. Construction
of the base will begin this year.”
With respect to the Air Force, the
President stated that two of the M.I
17 helicopters were sent for overhauling
and returned to the jurisdiction,
and funds had been released to extend
the flying hours for the third helicopter.
“Similarly, when we took office, all
three of the CASA C295 transport
aircraft had broken down. We have
fixed one of them, and the remaining
two have been sent out of the country
for overhauling. One is due back in
the country next month, and the other
in October,” he added.
President Akufo-Addo reassured
that Government would not relent in
its efforts in transforming the Ghana
Armed Forces into a formidable
force, and would continue to help enhance
the capacity and capabilities of
the Armed Forces towards the development
of our nation.

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CDD raises concerns over voter
verification during referendum
THE DEPUTY Executive
Director of
Ghana Centre for
Democratic Development
(CDD), Dr
Franklin Oduro, has
raised issues with the resort to
manual verification of voters during
last December’s referendum,
saying that was not good for the
integrity of the election.
He said although it was not illegal
to do manual verification of
voters during voting, the mass
level at which this was carried out
raised questions about the credibility
of the polls.
Dr Oduro, however, said he
was not surprised that the two
main political parties – New Patriotic
Party (NPP) and National
Democratic Congress (NDC), did
not complain because they both
supported the creation of the new
regions.
The CDD Deputy Executive
Director was speaking on the
•Dr Franklin Oduro,
Deputy Executive
Director of CDD
topic: ‘The 2018 referendum: lessons
for 2019 referendum and
election 2020’, at a strategic partners’
learning event organised by
NORSAAC, a civil society organisation
(CSO), in Tamale.
The programme formed part
of NORSAAC’s “Referendum We
Want” project, supported by
STAR-Ghana Foundation.
It brought together state institutions,
CSOs, political parties, traditional
authorities and the media.
The aim was to share NOR-
SAAC’s observation report on the
December 2018 referendum on
the creation of new regions, for
the participants to assess the conduct
of the poll, and make recommendations
to help improve the
conduct of the upcoming referendum
in September.
Dr Oduro cautioned that “if
we use discredited means to get a
certain outcome against the will of
the people, the consequences will
be dire for the country”.
The referendum, to be held in
September on the election of
Metropolitan Municipal and District
Chief Executives (MMD-
CEs), was complex in terms of
the issues involved and he called
for more resources for state bodies
to undertake effective public
education.
This was necessary to make
sure that the people become wellinformed
to make the right decision.
The NORSAAC’s report
faulted electoral officials for the
wrong placing of voting booths,
something it said did not allow for
the secrecy of voting.
It also deplored the situation
where polling officials help some
voters to thumb-print ballot papers
and proceed to drop them in
the ballot boxes themselves.
Alhaji Abdul Razak Saani,
Northern Regional Director of
National Commission for Civic
Education (NCCE), highlighted
the need to deepen efforts in
building public confidence in the
Electoral Commission (EC) to
help the people to believe that it
was doing a good job.
Mr Alhassan Mohammed Awal,
Executive Director of NOR-
SAAC, said measures should be
taken to ensure that flaws identified
during the December 2018
referendum were not
repeated.GNA
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Bill, 2019 has been introduced in Parliament and referred to the Committee on Health for consideration
and report.
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submit memoranda to the Clerk to the Committee within two (2) weeks after publication.
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Kwesi Arthur has
my style – Lazee
BY ERICA ARTHUR
SWEDISH-BORN Ghanaian
artiste and Chief Executive Officer
of Timeless Music,
Mawuli Kwabla Morton
Kulego, known in the music
space as Lazee, has praised young Ghanaian
BET nominee Kwesi Arthur and described
his style of music as unique.
According to the Swedish Grammy
nominee, he will choose Kwesi Arthur
over any artiste in Ghana because “I think
our respective style would fit together. I’m
a big fan of his music.”
In a telephone interview with the
artiste, who is based in Sweden, he said
his plan in the music industry is to inspire,
motivate the youth to be themselves
and be better.
Lazee, whose father was a DJ,
grew up influenced by music. He
chose to do rap because he said,
“I felt that was my attitude at the
time and something I could relate
to.”
Sharing his experience as a
black guy doing urban music
in a white-dominated country,
he said, “Doing urban music
in a white-dominated country
isn’t easy; I had no
choice but to believe in myself
because no one else
could see my vision. It
hasn’t been smooth, it’s all
self-motivation.”
He says he has worked
with Raekwon (Wu
Tang), Sean Kingston,
Krayzie Bone (Bone
Thugs N) Harmony,
Swedish House Mafia,
Prince of 4x4 and has over 500 tracks.
Lazee said, “I look up to artistes that
have accomplished what I trying to do.
Everyone from Jay-Z, Drake, Diddy are
all big inspirations for me.”
His latest song, ‘Flex’, was inspired by
his trip to Ghana. “It’s my first time
singing in my native language, which is
Ga. So I hope the people
like it.”
About Lazee
Mawuli
Kulego is an
artist/songwriter
from
Sweden.
In 2006,
• Lazee, artiste
Lazee released his first mixed tape, ‘It Is
What It Is’, a collaboration with hip hop
legend DJ Kay Slay (NYC). With influences
from Rap, RnB and Reggae, Lazee
found a way to combine these with all the
90\s rock pop music he grew up listening
to in Europe.
He quickly found his strength in writing
and composing a sound that’s familiar
but new. Lazee’s first single, ‘Rock Away’,
was an instant hit and entered the charts
in the spring of 2008, before it was even
officially released. It ended up in the top
10, and rotated frequently on all major
Scandinavian radio stations and Swedish
MTV.
After that, his first album, ‘Setting
Standards’, was released. Sharing the stage
with acts such as Lady Gaga, Snoop
Dogg, Ne-Yo, Wyclef Jean, and 50
Cent and being advised by the
legendary Quincy Jones,
Lazee has proved not only
to be a great performer but
also a great entertainer.
After studying Performing
Arts at UCLA,
Lazee focused more on
songwriting and has
since worked with
both seasoned and
new producers.
With his latest release
with Warner
Music/ Parlophone
signed
artist and world
producer Ishi,
Lazee is well on
his way to becoming
a well
known writer
and top liner.
‘Ponobiom’ to
feature top intl.
artistes on 'Upness
Collection' album
BY RAMSON ACQUAH-HAYFORD
• Ponobiom
MULTIPLE 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards
nominee Ponobiom is currently in London making
preparations towards the grand launch of his
studio album 'Upness Collection.”
According to his management, he will be working
with top international artistes while there.
One of the leading members of the artiste’s
management team at Uptown Energy Records,
who spoke to the DAILY HERITAGE on
condition of anonymity, said the Uptown Energy
boss is out to make some recordings, mostly with
some UK-based artistes and shoot videos for his
"Upness Collection".
When asked which artiste Ponobiom might be
working with, he stated that, "We're holding on to
their names for now because production is still in
session but we will let the fans know immediately
we're through with the final track listing."
He elaborated on some plans of the Uptown
Energy record label, saying, "This year uptown
energy will release three artistes into the mainstream;
Shuga Kwame, Tha Blackboi and Otope.
"It is part of Pono's aim to support all talents
so he is planning on making them a priority this
year."
He concluded that Ghanaians should expect
major works from the three 'Soldiers' this year and
beyond."
Kobby Salm, Kingzkid
drop ‘Uncommon’ EP
BY ERICA ARTHUR
TWO OF Africa’s Finest Christian Hiphop
artistes, Kobby Salm and Kingzkid,
have dropped their uncommon EP.
The two are the first ever
Christian/Gospel artistes in Ghana to
work on a joint project.
The Uncommon EP, which was released
on March 20, 2019 and was inspired
by the 1Peter 2:9, has three unique songs
titled ‘Overdose’, ‘Assurance’ and ‘Sing
Your Praise’ respectively. The songs were
respectively produced by three of Ghana’s
finest producers -- Mikemillz, JumpOff
and Vacs.
The much-anticipated EP has the official
video of ‘Overdose’ directed by
Kemist Gold.
• Kobby Salm

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Medikal cheated on
me — Sister Derby
GHANAIAN MUSI-
CIAN and television
presenter Deborah
Owusu Bonsu, popularly
known as Sister
Derby, has finally disclosed in an interview
how her relationship with
rapper Medikal ended.
According to Sister Derby, also
known as ‘The African Mermaid’,
she broke up with Medikal after she
heard rumours about him cheating
on her.
“There were rumours of cheating
and when I found out I just left. I
know people think otherwise but I
left.
I don’t see why I should fight for
someone who is proving to be otherwise,
there is no point. I saw the
break-up coming so I left,” she disclosed.
Sister Derby also stated that she
wrote her hit song ‘Kakalika Love’ in
2018 before she broke up with
Medikal.
According to her, the song was
not a ‘diss’ song as some want to
make Ghanaians believe but a way of
telling her fans that she was no more
in a relationship with Medikal.
“People assume and say it is a
diss song, but as an artist, at the
beginning of our relationship, I
made my fans and the world to
know that I am dating this person.
“As the break-up happened,
it’s a way to also tell my fans this
is the story. I can’t be a coward
or hypocrite and stay silent about
it. That is a way of telling my
story, and there were no insults in
it,” Sister Derby added.
• Sister Derby
Choosing French as second language
disrespectful — Okyeame Kwame
GHANAIAN MUSICIAN, Okyeame
Kwame, is worried about a recent statement
made by Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor
Botchwey, that Ghana is considering
choosing French as second language.
The minister said this while addressing
the opening session of the 2019 La Francophonie
Week in Accra.
But according to Okyeame, that will be
disrespectful to Ghana’s culture. He rather
suggests that one of Ghana’s local languages
be chosen as the official language of
Ghana.
“French as a second language is disrespectful
to our pride and culture. It is bad
enough that our first language is another
person’s language. What is wrong with
making one of our local languages our first
language,” he posted on twitter.
Okyeame further explained that all
countries that have developed did so by
using their own language as the official
means of communication.
This has re-ignited the debate of
whether or not Ghana should choose a
local language as its official language or a
national language.
While some has said it is a good idea,
others think that it will be difficult to
choose one local language because of the
tribal differences in the country.
Another group also has said that French
is an international language and that adding
it to English would boost business communication.
Okyeame, a ‘Made in Ghana’ ambassador
is bent on projecting Ghana’s pride and
heritage through music.
This is what is encapsulated in his yetto-be-released
‘Made in Ghana’ album.
•Okyeame Kwame
“If you are wack, I will not
listen to you,” he said on
Joy FM and described
‘One Corner’ hit maker
Patapaa as the worst
among the three artistes.
D-Black jabs Tinny
GHANAIAN RAPPER and
owner of Black Avenue
Musik (BAM), D-Black, has
responded to Tinny for calling
him a “wack” rapper.
In a tweet, D-Black questioned
why the Ga rapper
has been missing in action
on the music scene for years
despite his “amazing” rap
skills.
In an interview on Joy
FM on Monday, Tinny described
popular artistes D-
Black, Kwaw Kese and
Patapaa as “wack” rappers in
Ghana.
“If you are wack, I will
not listen to you,” he said on
Joy FM and described ‘One
Corner’ hit maker Patapaa as
the worst among the three
artistes.
D-Black responded with
a subtle jab, asking Tinny
what he has been doing with
his supposed “amazing” rap
skills.
“Hmm lol. Ah w33. Wondering
what he’s been using
his ‘amazing’ rap skills for
these past years,” D-Black
said in a reply to a tweet.
D-Black’s comment reechoed
claims that Tinny has
not been able to produce hit
songs in the past few years.
•D-Black

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15
Pogba tops 10 best
midfielders in the world?
WE ARE reaching the
business end of the
2018/19 season of football
and like every other
season; we have witnessed
brilliant football all around the world.
In football, every position is important, but
the midfield governs a team's performance.
The midfielders breakdown opposition
play by making timely interceptions, they dictate
the proceedings in the middle and they
also create goalscoring opportunities. The
midfielders also tend to do the dirty work for
the team, so that their attackers can do the
damage upfield.
It was pretty difficult to pick out the top
10 midfielders in the world at the moment, as
there have been a number of brilliant performances
in the middle of the park. Before
beginning with the slideshow, here are the
midfielders who just missed out from this list.
Honorable mentions: Thiago Alcantara (
Bayern Munich), Casemiro ( Real Madrid),
Luka Modric ( Real Madrid), Thomas Partey (
Atletico Madrid), Miralem Pjanic ( Juventus),
Piotr Zielinski ( Napoli), Marco Verrati ( Paris
Saint-Germain), Lucas Torreira ( Arsenal).
All the above players were considered, but
they just didn't cut into the top 10 in the
world according to me. This list is purely
based on performances this season and not
on reputation.
So, without further ado, here are the top
10 midfielders in the world at the moment:
#10 N'Golo Kante:
In spite of being played out of position,
Kante has been brilliant for Chelsea FC.
Kante has played most of this season in the
right midfielder position as Sarri prefers
Jorginho as the deep-lying playmaker. In spite
of being played out of position, the Frenchman
has been absolutely brilliant for Chelsea.
Kante has been running the show for the
Blues, while Jorginho has faltered in his preferred
role.
Kante has adjusted his game perfectly and
he has scored 3 goals and assisted 4, which is
not bad for a natural defensive midfielder. If
Sarri would have played Kante in his preferred
role, he might have the best in the
world again, but Sarri clearly doesn't see
Kante as his defensive midfielder.
#9 Axel Witsel:
Witsel can be considered the best signing
of the summer. Witsel signed for Borussia
Dortmund this summer and what a signing
the Belgian has been. He can be considered as
the best signing of the summer this season.
The Belgian has completely transformed
Dortmund's midfield and has been running
the show for BVB in the middle of the field.
Witsel has been a pivotal part of Dortmund's
title challenge this season. His timely
interceptions and tackles have instigated many
Dortmund counterattacks. The Belgian has
won 71 percent of his tackles this year and
has scored 3 goals.
#8 Georginio Wijnaldum:
Liverpool's best midfielder this season,
Wijnaldum When Liverpool signed Fabinho
and Keita, everyone thought that Wijnaldum
would get less game time, but that hasn't happened.
Wijnaldum has been Liverpool's best
midfielder this season. The Holland international
has played primarily in two positions,
that is the number 6 role and the number 8
role.
Wijnaldum prefers the number 8 role,
but his versatile nature permits
to him play anywhere in
the midfield. He is absolutely
vital to Liverpool's
chances
of winning the
Premier
League this
season. His
interceptions,
tackling,
tenacity
and tireless
running have
been a highlight
this year.
#7 David
Silva:
David Silva remains
vital for Manchester
City's quadruple
dream - FA Cup Quarter Final.
David Silva has been
Premier League's most
consistent midfielder
over the years and he
has showed his class
again this season.
With Kevin de
Bruyne out for
most of the season
through injury,
the Spaniard
had to step up
and he along with
Bernardo Silva
have done just that.
The 33-year-old
has scored 9 goals and
assisted 10 this season.
He just like last season has
been Pep Guardiola's go to
man. The Spaniard is one of best on
the ball and his vision can be compared to the
very best. He remains vital for City in their
quadruple dream.
#6 Sergio Busquets:
FC Barcelona's conductor, Sergio Busquets
Busquets is the definition of a deeplying
playmaker. The Spaniard is the
conductor of Barcelona and everything good
on the field goes through him. He controls
the tempo of the game, helps Barcelona keep
possession in tricky areas, he is brilliant on the
ball and his timely interceptions help the Blaugrana
regain possession.
The 30-year-old veteran midfielder does all
the dirty work so that the likes of Luis Suarez
and Lionel Messi can do the damage upfield.
He has won 72 percent of his tackles in La
Liga this season, which just further states his
defensive authority. He doesn't do much in
terms of goals and assists, but what he does
with the ball is that he keeps things simple
and tidy.
• Paul
Pogba
• N'Golo
Kante
• Bernardo
Silva
#5 Fernandinho:
Newport County AFC v Manchester City -
FA Cup Fifth Round Another player much
similar to Busquets is the Brazilian Fernandinho.
His the most important player for Pep
Guardiola in Manchester City. He has been
tremendously again for City this
season. He just like Busquets
conducts everything in the
middle of the Sky
Blues.
The 33-year-old
operates as the
deepest
of the
three midfielders
and allows
the likes of
David Silva
and Bernardo
Silva to roam
around and create
chaos for upfield.
The Brazilian is
one of the most underrated
performers in this brilliant
City side, but his importance
can be stated by the fact that he has won 75
percent of his tackles in the Premier League
this season which is the most in this City side.
#4 Tanguy Ndombele:
Lyon's Ndombele has been brilliant for the
team and could be making a big summer
move. Ndombele has been a beast in the middle
of the park for Lyon this season. The
young Frenchman is the definition of a modern
day midfielder. He has been brilliant both
in the league and in the Champions League.
The 22-year-old plays as a defensive midfielder
and has traits similar to his French
compatriot Paul Pogba. He can drive through
the midfield, pick out passes at will and has
that swagger about his play. He has given 6 assists
in the Ligue 1 this season, which is not
bad for a defensive midfielder.
His stats in the Champions League are absolutely
incredible. He has won 71 percent of
his duels and a 100 percent of his aerial duels
in Europe this season, which just tells you
how hard he works off the ball. The Frenchman
is now on the radar of Europe's big boys
and a huge summer move is on the cards.
#3 Ivan Rakitic:
Rakitic has won 79% of his tackles in the
La Liga this season. Rakitic has been brilliant
for the Blaugrana this season. The Croatian
had a wonderful World Cup and he has continued
his form this season for Barcelona.
The Croatian is one of the most underappreciated
players in world football, but this season
he has proved again that he is one of the
best in the world.
The 31-year-old operates on the right side
of the 3 man midfield and is the definition of
a box to box midfielder. His work rate, tenacity
and energy are indispensable to this
Barcelona side. The Croatian has 9 assists and
5 goals to his name this season and has won
about 79 percent of his tackles in the La Liga
this season.
#2 Bernardo Silva:
Bernardo Silva has
been undroppable for
Pep Guardiola. With
Kevin de Bruyne
ruled out for the
majority of the
season, it was
time for
Bernardo Silva
to step up for
Manchester
City in their
Belgian star's
absence. The little
Portuguese has
done just that. In
fact he has been so
great that Pep Guardiola
described him as undroppable.
Silva has played mostly in the
right midfield role for City and he has
been running the show alongside Fernandinho
and David Silva. The Portuguese is know
for his attacking play, but his defensive stats
are one a defender would be proud of.
In the Premier League, the Portuguese has
won 75 percent of his tackles. He has scored a
total of 10 goals and assisted 9 this season.
The 24-year-old is full of tenacity and his energy
is indispensable to this City side.
#1 Paul Pogba:
The World Cup winner has been vital for
Ole's squad this season. After winning the
World Cup, it was time for Pogba to step up
at Manchester United, but at the start of the
season, he was pretty inconsistent. But with
the arrived of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Old
Trafford, the big Frenchman has looked absolutely
unstoppable in the middle of the
park.
He has been producing insane stats for a
midfielder. He has scored 14 goals this season,
the most by any midfielder in the world
and he has assisted 11. He has been involved
in a total of 25 goals, which is again the highest
by any midfielder in the world this season.
He has been creating chances, scoring
goals and winning Manchester United
matches on his own. Also, he is criticized for
his lack of desire to defend. The stats suggest
otherwise, the 26-year-old has won 64 percent
of his tackles in the Premier League this season,
which is not bad for a player who is creating
so much on the other end.