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•Daud 

Ointment 

was adjudged 

the best 

ointment at 

the ceremony 

• Dr Daud 

Hamidu, CEO, 

Daud Herbal 

Hospital, with 

the award 

• Dr James Orleans- 

Lindsay, Executive 

Chairman of JL 

Properties 

• CMB traders busy on their brisk business 

• Scenes at the St. 

Stephen’s Presbyterian 

Senior High School at 

Asiakwa in the East 

Akyem Municipality 

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“It’s Not Whether You 

Get Knocked Down, It’s 

Whether You Get Up.” 

– By Vince Lombardi 

CONTENT 

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May Day - Wednesday, 1st May 

Eid al-Fitr - Wednesday, 5th June* 

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CMB traders call for Railway 

Police Commander’s head 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh 

PETTY TRADERS at CMB market 

who sell their wares in and around the 

National Investment Bank (NIB) area 

are appealing to the Inspector General 

of Police to immediately call the Railway 

Police Commander to order over what they 

described as constant harassment. 

The traders are accusing DSP Asante, the Railway 

Police Commander, for unlawful arrest and 

constant harassment for selling on the pavement 

to support their families. 

According to the angry traders, on many occasions 

the police commander have caused their arrest 

and demanded that they pay various sums of 

money before being granted bail. 

Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE, one 

of the spokesperson of the traders and a pawpaw 

seller, Mrs Joyce Kwabi, said the irony of the 

whole situation was that officials of the Accra 

Metropolitan Assembly, on daily basis, collected 

market tolls and “have given us licence to operate.” 

Mrs Kwabi accused the commander for collecting 

GH¢10,000 from a store owner, hence his 

• Accuse him of constant harassment 

constant arrest and harassment of the traders 

aimed at sacking us from the place. 

She said “in February alone more than 23 market 

women were arrested and sent to the police 

• CMB traders busy on their brisk business 

station around 8 a.m. and we were released on bail 

at 8 p.m. Some of us had to call our husbands to 

come and pay GH¢30.00 before we were released.” 

A ginger and garlic seller, Mrs Salomey 

Amoah, said on March 27, 2019, DSP Asante ordered 

his men to arrest 15 of us and we were 

asked to pay GH¢30.00 each before we were released. 

“When we got to the police station, the commander 

said because we were selling on the pavement 

we should write our statement so after the 

statement we waited till 7 p.m. when he came to 

tell us to write another statement and around 8 

p.m. asked us to look for people to bail us,” Mrs 

Amoah stated. 

Mrs Joyce Acheampong said few weeks ago, 

the commander asked his men to throw all my 

things into the gutter after which he wanted to arrest 

me but I managed to run away. 

Reacting to the accusations, DSP Asante called 

the bluff of the women, describing their accusation 

as ‘shit’ and denied ever taking money from 

someone to influence his decision. 

DSP Asante said selling on pavements and 

other restricted areas in the city was against the 

Public Nuisance Act, adding that what the traders 

were engaging in was illegality and would ensure 

that the right things were done. 

“I will continue to arrest them on many occasions 

to make their act criminal. then I will 

process them to court for prosecution,” the Police 

Commander stated. 

Osafo Maafo hot 

BY KENT MENSAH 

• OccupyGhana demands apology 

over ‘disrespectful’ comment 

PRESSURE GROUP, OccupyGhana, 

has said it is disappointed in the Senior 

Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo over his 

comments that the release of an illegal 

Chinese miner, Aisha Huang, was to 

safeguard the country’s relationship 

with China. 

Mr Osafo-Maafo justified the government’s 

decision to discontinue the 

prosecution of Aisha Huang. According 

to him, jailing her in Ghana will not 

have solved the country’s economic 

problems. 

He made the comments at the government’s 

recent town hall meeting in 

the US in response to a question from a 

participant in the program who sought 

to know why the government deported 

the Chinese national instead of jailing 

her in accordance with Ghanaian laws. 

Osafo Maafo, in his response, 

stressed Ghana’s diplomatic ties with 

China and the huge investments Chinese 

companies were making in developing 

the country’s infrastructure, citing 

the $2 billion Sinohydro deal. 

“We have a very good relationship 

with China. Today, the main company 

that is helping develop the infrastructure 

system in Ghana is Sinohydro, it is 

a Chinese company. It is the one that is 

going to help process our bauxite and 

provide about two billion dollars to 

us… So when there are these kinds of 

arrangements, there are other things behind 

the scenes,” the minister stressed. 

“Putting that lady (Aisha Huang) in 

jail in Ghana is not going to solve your 

economic problems. It is not going to 

make you happy or me happy, that’s not 

important; the most important thing is 

that she has been deported out of 

Ghana,” he added. 

However, in a statement OccupyGhana 

said the senior minister’s 

comments are “distasteful and disrespectful” 

to Ghanaians and so he must 

apologise. 

“The Senior Minister’s comments 

make a complete mockery of the fight 

against galamsey and the critical steps 

government and the coalition against 

galamsey have taken to address this 

issue. This statement suggests that, at 

the right price tag, foreigners implicated 

in the appalling desecration of Ghana’s 

environment, rivers and laws can be exonerated. 

“It positions foreigners who 

break/flout our laws as untouchable 

and above the law because their countries 

offer economic partnerships and 

benefits. It sacrifices the enforcement 

of our laws and the safeguarding of 

our environmental resources on the 

cheap altar of present gain,” the statement 

said. 

Below is the full statement: 

Occupyghana® Disappointed by 

• Senior Minister Yaw 

Osafo-Maafo 

Senior Minister’s Comments Regarding 

Aisha Huang 

OccupyGhana® is highly disappointed 

by the recent reported utterances 

of Senior Minister Yaw Osafo 

Maafo at a town hall meeting in the 

United States. We are dismayed by the 

Minister’s attempt to water down government’s 

abysmal use of its discretion 

with respect to the deportation of Chinese 

galamsey queen Aisha Huang, 

who was on trial for her illegal mining 

operations in Ghana. As a leading 

member of government, the Senior 

Minister’s attempt to justify the lack of 

prosecution of Aisha Huang on the 

basis of Ghana’s relationship with 

China and the prospect of receiving $2 

billion under the Sinohydro bauxite 

project is distasteful and disrespectful to 

all of us in this Republic who have 

worked hard to bring about an end to 

illegal mining activities. 

The Senior Minister’s comments 

make a complete mockery of the fight 

against galamsey and the critical steps 

government and the coalition against 

galamsey have taken to address this 

issue. This statement suggests that, at 

the right price tag, foreigners implicated 

in the appalling desecration of Ghana’s 

environment, rivers and laws can be exonerated. 

It positions foreigners who 

break/flout our laws as untouchable 

and above the law because their countries 

offer economic partnerships and 

benefits. It sacrifices the enforcement 

of our laws and the safeguarding of 

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03 

Forget govt jobs 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

REAL ESTATE Developer and 

Executive Chairman of JL 

Properties, a wholly-owned 

Ghanaian real estate company, 

Dr James Orleans- 

Lindsay, has sounded a word of caution 

to would-be graduates whose sole aim of 

employment is to grab government jobs 

that they are bound to fail. 

He said until the youth and, for that 

matter, would-be graduates realised that 

the best way to make it in life was to be 

creative and innovative, the unemployed 

rate in the country would hit a record 

high, a development he said would spell 

doom for the nation’s future. 

Dr Orleans-Lindsay made this known 

to the DAILY HERITAGE during a visit 

of students from Kyebi Technical Institute 

to JL Properties for an on-the-job 

training experience. 

Plan your own business 

“In the current state, all those going 

to tertiary institutions with the aim of 

going to gain government employments 

are bound to fail so our youth support 

podium, with our collaboration, is rather 

telling people and directing them that be 

practical and then go on your own. 

“The point is that, start and plan getting 

out of school to set up your own 

business. That is the only way that you 

can be out of this (unemployment) situation. 

• Be innovative and create your own 

• Estate Developer rallies unemployed graduates 

• Dr James Orleans-Lindsay, Executive Chairman of JL Properties 

I travel and drive across this country a 

lot, especially the coastal belt, and if you 

know what I know and if you’ve seen what 

I’ve seen,” Dr Orleans-Lindsay said. 

He added that “from Aflao to Discove, 

if you go to the towns across and you see 

the level of unemployment and the number 

of people not even going to school to start 

with, plus the unemployed, you would be 

worried for this nation.” 

Insecurity stirs at the rich 

Dr Orleans-Lindsay, affectionately called 

Uncle Ato, whose effort has transformed 

the once Achimota dumping site into a 

place of estate houses, said the rate of unemployment 

in the country put the lives of 

the haves in jeopardy. 

“Even if yourself, as single as you are, as 

a singular human being or as a family unit, 

your are enjoying wealth and your are doing 

well, you will be afraid of your own self 

(sic), because this is pure insecurity stirring 

at us. 

“If the number of people not working, 

and there is no job for anybody, don’t let us 

kid ourselves. There is no job for us, look, 

if 70% of our revenue is being used for 

salaries and emoluments, the other 20% is 

being used to pay for debt services (not the 

debt itself), 10% is what is left for infrastructure 

development, creation of new 

businesses by the government and stuffs, 

then there is a problem there, so these are 

some of the things that we need to push to 

get people off the streets.” 

The executive chairman told this paper 

that the only way to accommodate the unemployment 

situation in the country is to 

support individuals to have their own practical 

businesses. 

“Because it is the only way for us to accommodate 

this serious unemployment situation 

in the country, so we are talking to 

government, to send our plans and everything. 

We have lined up a series of meetings 

so that we also let them know our 

plans and what is interesting is that at our 

Youth Support Podium, it is just plans, 

[and] there is the practical aspect.” 

Osafo Maafo hot 

• READ FROM PAGE 2 

our environmental resources on the 

cheap altar of present gain. 

We note that far from expecting 

their nationals to be exonerated from 

criminal activities abroad, China dissociates 

itself from their actions in similar 

matters. In Tanzania, as reported by international 

media, for example, notorious 

Chinese ‘Ivory Queen’ Yang 

Fenglan, involved in the illegal trading 

of elephant tusks, was prosecuted and 

handed a jail sentence of 15 years in 

February 2019. The ruling was supported 

by Beijing, and the Chinese government 

apparently refused to extend 

any help or support to this Chinese native. 

OccupyGhana® has followed 

keenly the unfortunate resurgence in 

galamsey activities and the continued 

destruction of Ghana’s forest reserves 

and water resources. We have also 

taken due notice of government’s slow 

work at unraveling the issues and exacting 

justice for this country from government 

appointees fingered by 

investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw 

Anas for engaging in allegedly corrupt 

practices that have undermined the 

fight against illegal mining. In this light, 

we are dumbfounded to have learnt of 

the discontinuation of Aisha Huang’s 

prosecution and her subsequent swift 

deportation that has deprived and denied 

this country of its due justice. 

We infer from all that has gone on 

before that government did not intend 

for Aisha Huang to answer to the laws 

of this country. Government’s reluctance 

to hold the galamsey queen accountable 

reared its head when the 

Charge Sheet in the case of Republic v. 

En Huang & 4 Others (Case No. CR 

344/2017) and dated 8th May 2017, 

laid and filed offences against the Accused 

Persons that did not match the 

severity of the act of employing or 

being employed “illegally at a smallscale 

mining site.” It was only when 

OccupyGhana® objected strongly in a 

petition dated May 16, 2017 to the office 

of the Attorney General that her 

charge sheet was amended. In our petition, 

we requested the Attorney-General 

to slap Aisha Huang with charges 

under Section 99 of the Minerals and 

Mining Act. Under that Act she, a foreigner, 

would have attracted a maximum 

fine of GH¢3.6M, and/or a 

maximum jail term of 20 years upon 

conviction. We disagree vehemently 

with the Senior Minister’s unfounded 

declaration that making Ms. Huang face 

the full wrath of Ghanaian law would 

have had no economic benefits. 3.6M 

Ghana Cedis could do more for a robust 

Emergency Response System than 

letting her off the hook, unless the Senior 

Minister somehow believes, in spite 

of government’s own concessions to 

the Sinohydro project, that the Chinese 

facility is offered to Ghana under philanthropic 

conditions. 

The comments from the Senior 

Minister are deeply troubling when examined 

under all the facts available to 

us where Aisha Huang is concerned. 

The relationship of Ghana to foreign 

nations and investors should have little 

to do with the enforcement of the rule 

of law, the punishment of perpetrators 

of serious wrongdoing, and the critical 

deterrent effect such prosecutions have 

on the actions of other would-be 

wrongdoers. We expect the Senior Minister 

to withdraw his remarks and apologise 

unreservedly for same. Failing 

that, we expect the office of the President 

to dissociate itself from his misguided 

comments and show proper 

leadership by calling the Minister to immediate 

order. Only thus will we retain 

what faith we have left of this government’s 

commitment to ending illegal 

mining activities in Ghana. 

Yours, for God and Country 

OccupyGhana®

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•The Red Cross helped local officials 

evacuate homes around the town of Sokndal 

where the fires were most dangerous 

Europe wildfires: Norway police evacuate hundreds in Sogndal 

HUNDREDS OF people have 

had to leave their homes in Norway 

as emergency services try to 

extinguish forest fires raging in 

the south of the country. 

Some 148 homes were evacuated 

around the town of Sokndal, 

where fires have been burning 

since Tuesday. 

Police said the fires were still 

out of control and warned that 

heavy winds could help them to 

spread. 

April is very early for forest 

fires in Norway, and experts have 

warned of a dramatic increase 

across the continent. 

This month alone, wildfires 

have broken out in Sweden, Germany 

and the UK. 

Fires in Europe "are way 

above the average" for this time 

of year, an official at the EU's European 

Forest Fire Information 

System (Effis) told the BBC. 

"The season is drastically 

worse than those of the last 

decade." 

The official added that a "very 

dry winter in most of Europe" 

and persistent drought had contributed 

to the rise in forest fires, 

and that the "long term forecast is 

not promising for an improvement". 

BBC 



World news in 4 stories 

South Africa floods: Death toll 

after Durban rains rises to 60 

FLOODS AND mudslides 

in the South 

African city of Durban 

and the wider KwaZulu- 

Natal province have 

killed at least 60 people, 

officials say. 

A six-month-old baby and a 

young child are among the dead. 

More than 1,000 people have 

been displaced according to President 

Cyril Ramaphosa who has 

flown into the region to visit the affected 

areas. 

Southern and eastern parts of 

• President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has 

led Algeria since 1999 

• Riek Machar (l) and Salva Kiir shook hands in their "final final" peace deal last year 

•The rains have led to landslides destroying property and roads 

the country have been badly hit by 

torrential rain in the last few days. 

More flooding and strong winds 

are expected in coastal areas and a 

severe weather warning is still in 

place. 

The raging floods damaged 

businesses, homes and at least two 

universities - while hundreds of 

people have been displaced. 

South Africa's President Cyril 

Ramaphosa has been visiting those 

who lost family members in the 

floods. 

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko reports 

that the president laid a 

wreath at a place where eight died. 

He was also seen pushing away his 

bodyguards who tried to block people 

from talking to him. 

"It was important to come and 

see what has happened. We pass 

our condolences to the families of 

those who have died in this disaster. 

We are saddened by what has happened 

here. The loss of life is never 

easy, especially when so unexpected," 

he said on the ground. 

BBC 

•Most of the victims were children 

More than 200 rescued 

from human traffickers 

ALMOST 220 victims of 

human trafficking have been 

rescued by police in Benin 

and Nigeria, in an operation 

coordinated by the International 

police agency Interpol. 

Those affected include 

157 children aged between 11 

and 16 and the victims were 

from Benin, Burkina Faso, 

Niger, Nigeria and Togo. 

Many of the rescued minors 

were moved across the 

border between Nigeria and 

Benin as "merchandise" and 

made to work in markets, or 

as housemaids, according to 

Interpol. 

Some were the victims of 

sexual exploitation. 

The police found a boy 

who had been forced to carry 

bags of rice weighing up to 

40kg (88lb) across the border 

between Nigeria and Benin. 

The victims were rescued 

in the first half of April. 

About 100 officers carried 

out raids and identity checks 

at markets, air and sea ports, 

as well as in settlements at 

the border between Nigeria 

and Benin. 

Some 47 people have 

been arrested, and their possessions 

seized. 

The operation was part of 

an Interpol Global Task 

force, set up to increase international 

cooperation in combating 

human trafficking. 

BBC 

Egypt president could rule until 2030 

EGYPTIANS HAVE overwhelmingly 

approved in a referendum 

constitutional changes 

that could allow President Abdul 

Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power 

until 2030. 

The National Election Authority 

said 88.8% of those who 

took part endorsed the proposals. 

The turnout was 44.3%. 

Mr Sisi's second term has 

been extended from four to six 

years, and he will be allowed to 

seek one more term in 2024. 

The changes also expand the 

military's power to intervene in 

politics and give Mr Sisi more 

power over the judiciary. 

In 2013, Mr Sisi led the military's 

overthrow of Egypt's first 

democratically elected president, 

Mohammed Morsi, following 

protests against his rule. 

Since then, he has overseen 

what human rights groups say is 

an unprecedented crackdown on 

dissent that has led to the detention 

of tens of thousands of 

people. 

National Election Authority 

chairman Lashin Ibrahim announced 

on Tuesday night that 

26.4m valid votes were cast in 

the three-day referendum, which 

took place from Saturday to 

Monday. Another 831,000 ballots 

were deemed to be void. 

BBC 

• More than 23.4 million people voted in favour of 

the constitutional changes, officials said



05 

Editorial 

Avoid delay in prosecuting corruption cases 

CORRUPTION has become a 

huge bane to the country’s 

development in that it siphons 

state funds into private pockets, 

thereby depriving us of the muchneeded 

resources to advance our 

development. 

Corruption seems to be 

acceptable in our society because 

values such as honesty and hard 

work have been ignored. The norm 

now is “get rich no matter what” 

because our society applauds 

riches, no matter the sources. No 

wonder there are Ponzi schemes 

here and there, inflation of cost of 

government contracts, bribery, 

commercialisation of spiritual 

gifting, shoddy work resulting from 

wrong aggregate of materials for 

projects, robberies, internet fraud 

and the like. 

The absence of specific laws 

and laxity of existing ones, coupled 

with our society’s proclivity to hail 

riches, have created fertile grounds 

for people to love trying one 

corrupt way or another to make 

money. 

Though we cannot just wake up 

and begin to attack people for 

corruption because they are rich or 

wealthy, it becomes worrying when 

corruption cases in the public 

domain are not prosecuted by the 

State. 

It is on record that among their 

campaign messages in the run-up 

to the 2016 elections, the New 

Patriotic Party (NPP) vehemently 

spoke about the corrupt practices 

of National Democratic Congress 

(NDC) appointees and that they 

would have them prosecuted if 

they (NPP) won the elections. 

An article on page 6 of today’s 

issue of our paper points out some 

of the cases that must be 

prosecuted but are enjoying 

holiday. 

The DAILY HERITAGE 

would like to inform the 

government that one of the 

common conversations about its 

performance has to do with the 

prosecution of appointees of the 

administration it came to 

overthrow who were involved in 

corruption. 

And while we all wait for what is 

going to happen, whether to 

prosecute or not to prosecute, the 

DAILY HERITAGE would 

want the government to feed the 

public with information as to what 

preparation it is doing, at least 

concerning such cases that are 

already in the public domain 

because the rumours and half 

truths do not help the public, 

especially those who hate 

corruption to the core. 

3 Students injured 

BY KOJO ANSAH 

• As rainstorm rips off Girls’ 

Dormitory of St. Stephen’s SHS 

THREE FEMALE students of 

St. Stephen’s Presbyterian 

Senior High School 

(STEPSS) at Asiakwa in the 

East Akyem Municipality of 

the Eastern Region sustained minor injuries 

in a heavy rainstorm disaster which 

ripped off the Girls’ Dormitory. 

The injured students were yet to be 

sent to the hospital. Also affected in the 

rainstorm disaster that hit the school on 

Tuesday around 5p.m. are the school canteen, 

classrooms and a modern notice 

board recently erected. 

The destruction of the classroomturned-dormitory 

has displaced dozens of 

students as they are struggling to have a 

place to sleep. Last Tuesday, the displaced 

students have been perching in classrooms 

since the disaster. 

The students were seen salvaging their 

soaked books, school uniforms, mattresses 

and learning material on Tuesday 

during DAILY HERITAGE’s visit 

there. 

The headmaster of the school, Samuel 

Asante Anarfi, told the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE that the disaster had worsened 

the already distressful infrastructure challenges 

in the school, disrupting academic 

exercise. 

He appealed for urgent aid to help reroof 

the affected buildings to enable academic 

exercise to resume with alacrity. 

“The disaster has affected academic exercise. 

Now, we are struggling to find a 

• Scenes at the St. 

Stephen’s Presbyterian 

Senior High 

School at Asiakwa 

in the East Akyem 

Municipality 

place for the students to sleep. Yesterday 

for instance, they slept in a classroom. We 

urgently need packets of roofing sheets to 

re-roof the affected buildings. Exams time 

is also near.” 

The Headmaster appealed to the government 

to help expand the limited infrastructure 

in the school for adequate 

facilities to accommodate the growing 

population as a result of the Free SHS 

policy. 

Officials of National Disaster Management 

Organisation were yet to visit the 

scene for assessment at the time of our 

visit.

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DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2019 

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.


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 



&Env. 

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

spread_ APRIL 25, 2019.qxp_SHOWBIZ TEMP 24/04/2019 10:19 PM Page 1 

News 

DAILY 

Review Essential Herbal 

Medicines list - GHAFTRAM 

BY RAMSON ACQUAH-HAYFORD 

THE PRESIDENT of the Ghana 

Federation of Traditional Medicine 

Practitioners Associations 

(GHAFTRAM), Kojo Odum Eduful, has 

called for the establishment of a 

permanent body for the review of the 

Essential Herbal Medicines list. 

Speaking on Thursday, April 4, at a 

workshop, under the auspices of the 

Business Sector Advocacy Challenge 

(BUSAC) Fund Phase III, alongside the 

European Union, USAID and DANIDA, 

MrEduful said evidence abounded to 

show that traditional medicine was not 

only cheaper but also more accessible 

than its allopathic counterpart in Ghana. 

“There is also evidence to show that 

most traditional medicine practitioners 

operate from small and largely unhygienic 

environments using very crude 

production methods that result in 

relatively higher levels of toxicity and 

microbial contaminants which have 

resulted in some fatalities or future health 

complications for some patients. 

Improved monitoring and education has 

seen significant improvement in the 

situation,” he added. 

He said studie had shown that about 

3,000 herbal formulations had been 

documented as being efficacious for 

specific conditions in Ghana, out of 

which over 600 were circulating as herbal 

medicine products, with a number of 

them having undergone preliminary 

phyto-chemical analysis and safety test at 

the Centre for Scientific Research into 

Plant Medicine with a lot more 

undergoing various scientific tests. 

He added that the proven efficacy of 

herbal medicine made it important for the 

government to formulate anational policy 

as well as regulation for the proper use of 

traditional medicine and its integration 

into the national healthcare system. 

Mr Eduful also called for the establish 

•Dr Thomas Mensah 

of a regulatory mechanism to control the 

safety and quality of products and of 

practice and the creation of awareness 

about safe and effective TM/CAM 

therapies among the public and 

consumers. 

He recalled that 10 years ago, the 

Ministry of Health, working in concert 

with the Traditional and Alternative 

Medicine Practice Directorate, began the 

process of compiling an Essential Herbal 

Medicines List (EHML). However, he 

lamented that this process had stalled 

much to the disappointment and 

detriment of herbal medicine practitioners 

and producers in the country. 

Mr Eduful urged participants at the 

workshop to deliberate on building 

consensus on the way forward for the 

compilation of the EHML, which will be 

consistent with international standards 

and best practices to ensure that the 

herbal medicine sub-sector of the 

traditional medicine industry contribute 

more significantly to the delivery of 

quality affordable and accessible 

healthcare to the Ghanaian populace. 

He added that the 

proven efficacy of 

herbal medicine 

made it important for 

the government to 

formulate anational 

policy as well as 

regulation for the 

proper use of 

traditional medicine 

and its integration 

into the national 

healthcare system. 

•Mr Kojo Odum Eduful, GHAFTRAM president, addressing attendants 

MEMBER OF 

Parliament of Subin 

Constituency in the 

Kumasi metropolis, 

Eugine Boakye 

Antwi, has 

expressed worry over the high 

frequency at which major markets 

within the Kumasi metropolis are 

razed down by fire on Easter 

festivities. 

On Friday, April 19, part of 

Kumasi Central Market, known as 

‘Bode’, was engulfed in violent fire 

which destroyed many goods in the 

market despite the timely response 

from a joint team of of fire fighters 

from Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, 

the Komfo Anokye, and the Regional 

Fire Command. 

Surprisingly, the famous Asafo 

Market also had its share of the fire 

disaster twice within 42 hours, 

between Saturday and Sunday, April 

20 and 21, 2019 respectively 

destroying properties worth thousands 

of Ghana cedis within that short time. 

This raised suspicion among the 

populace in the metropolis, 

particularly the direct victims of the 

disaster , who did not rule out arson. 

Fire fighter say they believe the 

GROUP calling itself ‘Asylum Down 

Union’ has, as part of activities lined 

up to make themselves useful in the 

area, donated assorted items to the 

Accra Psychiatric Hospital estimated 

at GH¢5000. 

According to the group, the 

donation to the mental hospital was 

to start its intended projects from 

home (Asylum Down), which are 

targeted at growing the welfare of its 

members and needy persons in the 

area. 

Stephen Martey, the president of 

the union, in an interview with the 

DAILY HERITAGE after the 

donation, said there were many of 

such activities the union had lined up 

to execute in the coming days. 

“When we started this 

programme, we decided as youth of 

A 

fires could have been stopped on time 

due to their prompt response to 

distress calls to the fire scene, if they 

had secured direct access to the area 

without having to encounter illegal 

structure on roads to the inside of the 

market. 

Here was massive destruction of 

sewing machines, food items, cloths, 

and leather material use for making 

belts and shoes. 

Victims, in interviews with 

Ultimate News, called on the 

Asylum Down to try and support 

each other to grow the community 

and also to ensure that things that 

are needed to improve our welfare as 

HERITAGE, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2019 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Subin MP consoles Asafo 

Market fire victims 

BY ISAAC BEDIAKO 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com 

•Eugine Boakye Antwi (R), Member of Parliament of Subin 

Constituency, interacting with fire victims in the Kumasi metropolis 

youth are provided. 

Touching on the choice of the 

Psychiatric Hospital, he said, “we 

wanted to start this from home and 

government for support to enable 

them to restart life the market. 

“Currently we have lost all our 

capital to the fire which started last 

night as traders and artisans in this 

market, we seriously need 

government support to restart our 

operations in the market,’’ Zonal 

president of tailors and dressmakers 

association, Kwaku Amankwah, told 

journalists. 

However, Member of Parliament 

for the area, Eugene Boakye Antwi, 

who expressed shock at the level of 

destruction in the market, after 

touring the area with National 

Disaster Management Organisation 

Ashanti Regional Director, Kwabena 

Asylum Down Union donates to Accra Psychiatric Hospital 

•President of the Asylum Down Union, Stephen Martey, presenting the items on 

behalf of the group to Francisca Ntow, PRO of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital 

psychiatric hospital 

is also our home 

so we decided to 

donate to them as 

the first step of 

our first project we 

intend doing this 

year. There are 

others we will roll 

out within the year 

in question.” 

The union, 

according to the 

president, has a 

membership of 55 

and it is opened to 

anybody within 

Asylum Down 

area. 

Madam 

Francisca Ntow, 

the Public 

Relations Officer of the hospital, 

after receiving the items, said, “We 

received it so heartedly because in 

this house we don’t reject any gift. 

Nsenkyire, assured the victims of 

government support to enable them 

to restart their work as soon as 

possible. 

“Burning of some portions of the 

Central Market and Asafo Market 

continuously within a matter of 48 

hours during the Easter holidays is 

unfortunate. I think the security 

agencies, including NADMO, must 

intensify their intelligence gathering,” 

he said. 

“I have seen the level of 

destruction by the fire in the market 

personally. Let me use this 

opportunity to console the victims; I 

will personally meet the NADMO 

boss in Accra to assist you victims,” 

he assured. 

Mr Nsenkyire said markets in the 

Ashanti Region required improved 

security systems and other 

installations. 

He said security personnel in the 

various markets in the Kumasi 

metropolis were old for security jobs. 

“Our markets need young and 

serious security personnel who are 

proactive, not the old ones we have 

now. We need strong personnel who 

will be patrolling the markets to 

identify any security threat for quick 

action, so I am going to work on it,” 

he said. 

“Mental health is supposed to be 

free in Ghana but unfortunately we 

don’t have subventions regularly so 

some of these gestures come in to 

supplement what we have one way 

or another. 

She, however, expressed gratitude 

to the union saying, “We are very 

grateful because it has actually come 

in handy when you look at the items, 

especially the drinks. These are 

things that are not on our daily 

menu. Some of these things help us 

a lot.” 

She appealed to the general 

public, corporate organisations, 

philanthropists and churches to 

come and support us. We have so 

many needs and anyone who wants 

to extend a hand of support, we are 

ready to welcome them.” 

The items included sachets of 

water, oil, toiletries, bags of rice, 

drinks, biscuits, tins of Tasty Tom 

tomatoes. 

NUACA wants national 

buffer zone policy for 

Ghana enforced 


THE PRESIDENT of the 

National Union of Aquaculture 

Associations (NUACA), Mr 

Francis Garbrah, has made a 

passionate appeal to all relevant 

duty bearers, especially the Water 

Resources Commission, 

Traditional Authorities and the 

Ministry of Fisheries and 

Aquaculture, to act in concert for 

the review and strict enforcement 

of the National Riparian Buffer 

Zone Policy for Ghana. 

Speaking at a media campaign 

under the auspices of the Business 

Sector Advocacy Challenge 

(BUSAC) Fund as well as the 

European Union, DANIDA and 

USAID, Mr Garbrah explained 

that the buffer zone policy had 

been designed as a harmonized 

document of all the dormant and 

fragmented regulations in the 

country concerning buffers 

bordering water bodies or river 

systems. 

“It is also designed to provide 

comprehensive measures and 

actions that would guide the 

coordinated creation of vegetative 

buffers for the preservation and 

functioning of our water bodies 

and vital ecosystems,” he added. 

He explained that Riparian 

vegetation along the catchment 

landscapes of the water bodies in 

Ghana provided a wide range of 

socio economic, biophysical and 

ecological functions. However, 

human-induced activities such as 

uncontrolled logging and mining 

activities, human settlements, 

urbanization, livestock 

populations, illegal mining and 

poor agricultural practices had 

degraded the vegetation cover at 

head waters and along the banks 

of many river systems and other 

surface water bodies. 

“These poor, unsustained 

management practices are 

jeopardizing not only the 

aquaculture potential 

of Ghana, but also the 

physical quality of the 

environment, the 

hydrological and 

ecological support 

systems and the 

livelihoods of local 

inhabitants around 

these water bodies. 

These activities have 

further exposed most 

of Ghana’s rivers and 

water bodies to the 

vagaries of the 

weather, and as a result 

the many streams and 

rivers, which used to 

be perennial, but are 

now experiencing 

periodic drying up and 

thereby constricting the 

opportunities for aquaculture 

development in Ghana,” he said. 

He said the buffer zone policy 

was intended to protect, 

regenerate and maintain the native 

vegetation in riparian buffer zones 

to improve water quality by 

instituting proper procedures for 

managing and controlling the 

above activities along riverbanks 

and generally in catchments of 

surface water bodies. 

“The document, among others, 

serves to clarify the requirements 

for water quality and quantity and 

to outline a national policy on 

buffer zones as part of managing 

Ghana’s river basins in an 

integrated manner and to 

harmonize traditional and existing 

public institutional standards on 

buffer zones in Ghana,” he 

explained. 

The National Secretary of 

NUACA, Siaw Danso, stated that, 

“reduced vegetative cover along 

waterbodies, coupled with 

increasing pollution from 

domestic and, in some cases, 

industrial waste have resulted in 

increased sediments and nutrient 

loading of streams and the 

consequent deterioration in water 

quality of the natural water bodies 

and their suitability for 

aquaculture.” 

“Under the Water Resources 

Commission Act 522 (1996) 

Section 35(f), the Water Resources 

Commission (WRC) may, by 

legislative instruments, make 

regulations to facilitate a proper 

operational environment for its 

mandated functions, hence the 

buffer zone policy intangible 

terms should be backed politically 

and administratively in the form 

of the enactment of appropriate 

legislative instrument (LI) to 

ensure compliance of stipulations 

in the policy, and consequently 

aim at correcting conditions, 

which adversely affect water 

quality and quantity from land 

degradation,” he added. 

•Mr Francis Garbrah, president 

of the National Union of 

Aquaculture Associations


22TH 

MARCH, 

2019 

FRIDAY 

CURRENCY PARIS CODE BUYING SELLING 

US Dollar USDGHS 4.7871 4.7919 

RATES Pound Sterling GBPGHS 

6.1380 

6.1461 

Euro 

GBPGHS 

5.4483 

5.4530 

10 



CyberGhana to host Cyber security 

conference, awards tomorrow 


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 

Whitaker and many more.



DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2019 11 

Politics 

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.


12 

DAILY 

Politics 


HERITAGE MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2019 

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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ANNOUNCEMENT 

INVITATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR MEMORANDA ON THE GHANA 

HEALTH SERVICE AND TEACHING HOSPITALS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2019 

The General Public is kindly informed that the Ghana Health Service and Teaching Hospitals (Amendment) 

Bill, 2019 has been introduced in Parliament and referred to the Committee on Health for consideration 

and report. 

Interested persons, groups and organizations willing to make submissions on the Bill are kindly requested to 

submit memoranda to the Clerk to the Committee within two (2) weeks after publication. 

THE CLERK TO THE COMMITTEE 

PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH 

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ACCRA 

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WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2019 

Fimfim exposes the 

‘forces’ in music industry 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

FIMFIM THE Rapperman, 

an artiste, has 

stated that the entertainment 

industry in the 

country needs reformation 

because of some acts that undermine 

its growth to the expected 

standard. 

The prolific Ghanaian sound 

engineer, known in private life as 

Isaac Adu Buxton, calls those acts 

‘Forces.’ 

Firmfim the Rapperman, who 

is also a producer, said the entertainment 

industry does not support 

originality, a development he attributed 

to laziness among some of its 

players. 

The prolific artiste, who is leading 

a-one-man crusade to correct 

these malicious acts in the industry, 

said, “The industry is not paying; 

the industry is on its last legs.” 

Firmfim the Rapperman has 

composed a new tune dubbed 

‘Forces’, which exposes the forces 

that work against talents and creativity 

in the Ghanaian entertainment 

industry. 

In an interview with DAILY 

HERITAGE, Fimfim explained 

that ‘Forces’ was inspired by challenges 

faced by the artistes in the 

music industry. 

“The industry has been compromised 

to the point where one 

artiste needs to sound like the next 

in order to be given audience.” 

He added that, “Several artistes 

pay a lot of money to get a record 

done, huge sum to shoot music 

videos and even pay to get it played 

on the radio, yet the fans are hesitant 

to click on buy links to support 

the act. 

“Diversity breeds expansion 

and that's what the various stakeholders 

are failing to appreciate. 

The industry needs fresh breed of 

artistes to grow and proper structures 

to function, hence the inspiration 

behind the choice of name 

for the song. ‘Forces’ targets every 

stakeholder of the industry, Government 

inclusive.” 

Fimfim, who is also known as 

the conceptual lyricist, in the song, 

addressed artistes to go back to 

writing songs. 

He said “the torchbearers of 

the industry should point the light 

to the right direction, with the government 

introducing working 

structures that will check and protect 

the intellectual properties of 

the creative arts as a whole. 

Hammering on the fact that 

some industry players do not support 

talents, but support individuals 

based on how controversial 

they get by either exposing some 

parts of their bodies or doing 

something to get attention. 

“Sex sells but what happens 

when these same features that 

made you sexually attractive 

fades due to aging? Real talent 

never dies; thus. I will urge 

these female artistes to work 

on their talent to sell rather 

than focusing on their sexuality 

as a means of breaking 

through. The art goes beyond 

the fame.” 

‘Forces’ was written and 

produced by Fimfim and it 

features DJ Huarache, who 

did the scratch works during 

the interludes. 

“I am a "conceptual lyricist" 

who loves addressing 

issues,” Fimfim said. 

The song is available on 

all digital distribution platforms 

like sound cloud, 

iTunes, spotify, deezer, and 

Amazon. 

The video to the song will be 

dropped soon. 

• Fimfim the 

Rapperman 

Miss Ghana UK shows love to psychiatric patients 


THE WINNER of Miss Ghana UK, 

Akua Ohenewaa Anim, and the first 

runner-up, Sherrie Gauld Akoto, on 

Easter eve led the Miss Ghana Foundation 

to donate assorted items to the 

Accra Psychiatric Hospital. 

The annual gesture from the 

foundation is one that they intend to 

keep going since mental health sits at 

the very top of the foundation’s priorities. 

Miss Anim told the DAILY 

HERITAGE after the donation 

that, “We’re filled with such great 

pleasure and love as we stand here 

today to present these items to the 

hospital. 

“…And we’re aware all this 

wouldn’t be impactful if not for the 

amazing works the nurses and caretakers 

here are doing.” 

She called on corporate bodies, institutions 

and individuals to contribute 

their quota to the 

improvement of the hospital. 

• Miss Akua Ohenewaa Anim (R), presenting the items to Madam Beatrice Nyarko (L) 

Miss Akoto said coming back to 

give to the hospital was destined because 

her grandmother was a nurse 

there years back. 

“My Grandmother Georgina 

Ohene Akoto was a psychiatric nurse 

in this hospital sometime in the 60’s. 

And I am a newly-qualified psychiatric 

nurse, so it runs in the blood actually,” 

she said with a grin. 

Miss Akoto added that it was a 

very insightful moment for her because 

she had got to understand the 

difference between mental health systems 

in the United Kingdom and 

Ghana. 

“This has made me decide to return 

sometime soon to merge some 

experiences from the UK with that 

of Ghana and implement certain 

policies to help improve mental 

health here.” 

Items donated to the hospital included 

food, toiletries and medical 

supplies. 

Beatrice Nyarko, Deputy Director 

of Nursing Services, receiving the 

items on behalf of the hospital, said, 

“It is interesting that every year the 

Foundation thinks about us, especially 

the children who are quite unfortunate 

and abandoned by their parents. 

This donation is a relief because 

whatever we do for them comes 

from the hospital’s coffers and it gets 

stressful at times. 

“We would like to say a big thank 

you to them and ask God to replace 

everything they lost, and we believe 

this will not be the end of our relationship.”

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Opinion 


Water is life, but faces domestic violence 

BY ANIMA JACQUELINE, STUDENT, GIJ 

IPERFECTLY remember the 

ordeal I went through waiting 

for hours before, to my 

surprise, I could collect unclean 

brownish water, whose 

impurities had to settle 

down to make it a little attractive 

for any domestic activities like 

cooking, drinking or bathing. 

This was my experience in my 

hometown for some weeks. It was 

like a vacation on the Sahara 

Desert, where water is very scarce 

and so with the little available, one 

would have to manage to be able 

to survive for the rest of your life 

time. I am very certain that you 

might have gone through a similar 

situation which made you to realize 

that indeed ' Water is life'. 

In sub-Saharan Africa, one of 

the the numerous resources we 

boast of is water unlike places 

such as Yemen, Libya, Jordan, and 

Djibouti. But as to whether we 

really appreciate it is the headache 

of the government and some sanitation 

organizations. 

Nature, in its own wisdom, has 

blessed us with streams, lakes, 

•A water scene 

rivers, the seas and other water 

bodies to serve as home for 

aquatic beings, and for farming, 

domestic activities such as drinking, 

washing, and cooking, and 

other uses. 

Today, it is so sad that water, 

with its numerous benefits, is undergoing 

unfair hard punches 

from humans who need it most to 

survive. According to Mr. Ben 

Ampomah, Executive Secretary of 

Water Resources, 

"about 60% of 

Ghana's water bodies 

are polluted". (source 

:GNA) 

Iceland's Blue Lagoon, 

for instance, is 

one of the beautiful 

lagoons and its beauty 

attracts more tourists 

and serves as a source 

of income for the 

country. However, the 

Korle Lagoon in 

Accra, on the other 

hand, has lost its 

beauty to becoming 

the principal receptacle 

into which all 

major drainage channels 

in the city empty 

their wastes and it, in 

turn, empties everything 

into the sea. 

Large amounts of untreated 

industrial waste 

emptied into the 

drains have led to severe 

pollution of the lagoon and 

disrupted its natural ecology. 

As the government spends 

huge sums of money to dredge 

the river to get rid of its silt and 

loads of garbage from it, residents 

are also in full force throwing all 

manner of waste materials into the 

Odaw river, thus cutting back all 

effort put in place to clear its 

bruises. 

Many of our beautiful rivers 

are ironically polluted by individuals 

who live near and depend on 

them as major sources of drinking 

water. Take, for example, the pollution 

from galamsey. Our seas 

too have consumed a lot of plastic 

waste and faecal matter, which is 

killing our fishes. Fishermen now 

go to the sea and return home 

with nets full of plastics instead of 

fish and this is ripping apart 

tourism in Ghana in a way and 

soon, the beaches would not be an 

attractive place anymore. 

A Sustainable Development 

Goal is clear that there should be 

water for all by 2030, which means 

"leaving no one behind ". If so, 

why don't you and I join forces to 

save what we have since other 

people in other parts of the world 

are struggling to have water. 

The writer is a level 300 student 

of the Ghana Institute of 

Journalism 

Can we win the sanitation war at Labadi? 

BY EMMANUEL ASARE, STUDENT, GIJ 

ON A visit to any city in Ghana 

today one would see heaps of 

garbage everywhere, including 

streams and gutters. 

The problem of solid waste 

management is a direct result of 

challenges, including the rapidly 

growing urban population, few 

waste treatment options in Ghana, 

irregular collection of solid waste, 

negative habits and apathy of the 

general public towards the environment. 

The rate at which solid waste is 

growing on our streets and in 

drainage is so menacing that it is 

difficult to tell when “Accra is 

going to be the cleanest city in 

Africa” as declared by the Akufo- 

Addo-led administration since it 

assumed power after the 2016 

general elections would be 

achieved. 

Speaking at a recent sanitation 

launch, Sanitation Education 

Everywhere, by Walcourt Green, a 

non-governmental organization 

which aims at promoting sanitation, 

at the International Press 

Centre, Patrick Buamah, the 

Deputy Minister for Sanitation 

and Water Resources, said, “Most 

recent data indicates that only 

15% of Ghanaians have access to 

improved sanitation whilst about 

19% defaecate in the open”, a situation 

which is not encouraging. 

He gave the assurance that, “In 

as much as we feel so bad about 

our poor sanitation situation, we 

hope in the new commitments 

that we have made in the Global 

Development Agenda -- the Sustainable 

Development Goal 6 -- 

of ensuring access to improved 

sanitation and hygiene for all by 

2030.” 

For some decades now, at 

Labadi in the LA Dadekotopon 

Constituency, there have not been 

rubbish-collecting centres at vantage 

points, where the residents 

dump their solid wastes. Until the 

waste collectors who do house-tohouse 

with sacks and sometimes 

carts to collect the waste come 

around, refuse would be heaped 

in plastic bags and containers in 

various corners in the households, 

attracting flies and other insects to 

feed on. When this persists, diseases 

related to poor sanitation 

such as malaria, diarrhoea, intestinal 

worms and cholera are reported 

at the local hospital. 

Solid wastes are seen in every 

• A poor 

sanitaation area 

nook and cranny of this part of 

the city. The Labadi beach is an 

eyesore as the first scene to welcome 

you there is cluster of solid 

wastes, wastes which were not 

generated by nature but by the the 

residents of the town. 

As a result of dumping of 

solid wastes in drains and intentional 

littering around, the wastes 

found their way into the sea, 

which all drains are linked to, thus 

making the place very unhealthy 

to patronize. 

The residents admitted that indiscriminate 

dumping of waste 

has to do with bad habit this must 

change. They said, “We need to 

change our attitudes towards sanitation 

in Labadi and its environs. 

Some people in the community 

openly defaecate in the drains and 

the sea in the evenings. Dumping 

of refuse and other solid waste 

materials in the drains during 

rainy periods must be stopped.” 

They also 

opined that, 

“Since there is 

no provision of 

dustbins by the 

District Assembly 

and a place 

where we can go 

and dump solid 

wastes, residents 

have no choice 

but to throw 

them in the sea.” 

However, Mr. 

John Alexis Pwamang, 

Acting 

Executive Director 

of the Environmental 

Protection 

Agency, has expressed 

concern 

that, “Majority 

of the populace believe that waste 

management is a sole responsibility 

of the government. It is, however, 

stated in Article 41(k) of the 

1992 Constitution of Ghana that 

it is the duty of every citizen to 

protect and safeguard the environment.” 

The writer is a level 300 student 

of the Ghana Institute of 

Journalism

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Is Nyantakyi’s ‘ghost’ haunting 

Dan Kweku Yeboah? 

BY MICHAEL NSIAH OTCHERE 

• Dan Kwaku Yeboah, PRO NC 

• Anas Aremeyaw Anas 

MANY FOOT- 

BALL-LOV- 

ING fans on 

September 13, 

2018 came to 

the realization 

that Ghana football was expected 

to go through reforms to pave 

the way for excitement, joy and 

ecstasy that once characterized 

our game. 

The Normalization Committee 

(NC), since its inception late 

last year, have had their own issues 

with how to deal with the 

public and I believe my elder 

brother and colleague Dan 

Kwaku Yeboah was hired to 

bridge that gap. 

How events have unfolded 

over the period is there for the 

public to judge because I believe 

that if someone wants to 

progress in life or embark on 

whatever he or she deems fit, he 

or she will always need to stay focused 

by discarding past events 

which will not bring any positive 

results that will help to achieve 

success. 

When my brother Dan Kweku 

Yeboah was handed the PRO job, 

I said to myself “now cometh the 

hour for the astute sports journalist 

to showcase what he’s got all 

these years”. 

I wouldn’t want to side with 

what many people had said just 

because they believed he was a 

staunch critic of the previous administration. 

Fast-forward, the level of inconsistency 

in that department 

headed by Kweku Yeboah ever 

since the Normalization Committee 

came into force clearly beats 

my imagination. 

My little knowledge about 

Public Relations (PR) says you 

work ethically even when all the 

media wants is headlines because 

PR fails when there is no integrity. 

Ironically, considering how 

much of our work involves in 

maintaining and improving reputations, 

Public Relations doesn’t 

always have the best representative 

when it comes to ethics. 

Does that mean my good 

brother fall in that category? I 

should think so, because maybe 

he is being measured by the same 

standards he set for the previous 

administration. 

On Wednesday, April 17, 

2019, Power Distribution Service 

(PDS) had come visiting the previous 

night so my phone and laptop 

batteries had all run down. 

I went to the office around 

2:00 p.m. on Wednesday only to 

find out on social media after 

charging my phones and laptop 

that my elder brother was trending. 

Apparently he was the guest 

on Songo’s ‘Fire for Fire’ show 

and had tagged those criticizing 

and asking the NC to stick to 

their core mandate and speed up 

activities as those who lost their 

‘chop money’ due to the collapse 

of the Nyantakyi-led administration. 

I kept asking myself “so [was 

it the reason why] when the 

Nyantakyi administration was in 

power, Kweku Yeboah was always 

criticizing and chastising them 

even when they had made some 

good scores in some areas of 

their administration?” 

So will one also be fair to conclude 

that Kweku Yeboah was 

not getting his “chop money” 

from the Nyantakyi administration 

or he was also getting his 

“chop money” from somewhere 

to always see everything wrong 

with the Nyantakyi-led administration? 

Well, that won’t be at my call 

since the public will decide for 

themselves. 

“They are creating an impression 

that the mandate of the 

Normalization Committee has 

been extended because they failed 

to deliver. 

“If you check the record, 

there is nowhere in the world that 

Normalization Committee has 

executed their mandate within the 

first six month. 

“The Normalization in 

Uruguay went beyond six 

months, same for Zimbabwe; 

Cameroun had two years. You 

have used 13 years to destroy it, 

how do you expect us to use six 

months to fix the mess created; 

are we magicians? 

With these comments attributed 

to my big brother, I clearly 

felt that Nyantakyi’s “ghost” is 

still haunting my colleague. 

Whether fans, followers or 

even haters of Nyantakyi like it 

• Kwasi Nyantakyi, a former GFA boss 

or not, the former GFA president 

is history and a goner. 

He will never come back to 

active football activities, so 

Kweku Yeboah should better 

wake up from his sleep. 

I believe the NC led by Dr 

Kofi Amoah gave him the nod to 

speak for them because they 

might have seen something good 

in him. 

So if you get the chance to educate 

Ghanaians on what you intend 

to do to normalize football, 

Nyantakyi is history so stay focused 

and work to deliver on 

your mandate, my brother. 

As the Normalization Committee 

once said, they would not 

allow the inherent greatness of 

our football to die on the “altar 

of selfishness, greed and braggadocio.” 

So do many and all soccer-loving 

fans want to see clear-cut interventions, 

and submissions 

from you that will in no time save 

our once loved sports, which is 

football? 

Inasmuch as the previous administration 

led by Nyantakyi had 

several issues, the 13 years my 

brother is claiming nothing good 

came out of, Ghana at least 

recorded some positives which I 

wouldn’t like to go into because 

as I said we should rather be 

using our energies and strength to 

look into the future with lots of 

positives, which starts with you 

and all of us in the industry. 

“The very foundation of 

Ghana football will collapse in a 

heap, to be rebuilt by the concerned 

sports journalists and the 

honest football people who will 

remain standing.” 

This was the famous quote 

“The Normalization 

in Uruguay 

went beyond six 

months, same for 

Zimbabwe; 

Cameroun had 

two years. You 

have used 13 

years to destroy it, 

how do you expect 

us to use six 

months to fix the 

mess created; are 

we magicians? 

from investigative journalist Anas 

Aremeyaw Anas prior to the premiering 

of the Number 12 Expose. 

But as things stand now, I am 

tempted to believe that the socalled 

concerned sports journalist 

and the once honest ones who 

were touted to remain standing 

have all fallen. 

Let me borrow this famous 

quote from Abraham Lincoln 

which says “what kills a skunk is 

the publicity it gives itself.” 

Maybe the greatest mistake the 

NC made was to have appointed 

my good brother as its spokesperson 

but my advice to Kweku 

Yeboah is that some of your utterances 

in the past might have 

cost you some discomfort in your 

role as the GFA’s Spokesperson 

but as once said by Warren Buffet, 

“It takes 20 years to build a 

reputation and five minutes to 

ruin it. If you think about it, you 

will do things differently.” 

Both past and present sports 

journalists in the country have a 

core mandate to make our industry 

thrive again. Because once 

again as said by the great Malcom 

X, “the media is the most powerful 

entity on Earth.” 

“They have the power to make 

the innocent guilty and make the 

guilty innocent and that’s power 

but we must use it positively to 

benefit mankind.” 

God save our motherland 

Ghana and make the once noble 

and respected sports journalism 

job great again. 

The writer is a sports journalist 

at Starr FM, a unit of 

the EIB Network


25/04/2019 

THURSDAY. DAILY HERITAGE | Email: info@dailyheritage.com.gh 

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Daud 

Ointment 

wins best 

ointment 

award 

She indicated that 

it would be 

appropriate for 

the government to 

construct at least 

a factory for the 

production of 

herbal medicine in 

each region, an 

initiative she 

explained would 

help reduce 

unemployment in 

the country. 

• Dr Daud Hamidu, CEO, 

Daud Herbal Hospital, 

with the award 

•Dr Daud Hamidu (L), CEO, Daud Herbal Hospital, Dr 

Mary Dei-Zanga (2nd R), CEO, Ropheka Clinic and Brand 

Ambassador, and a member of the team presenting 

their award to the Asantehemaa, Nana Ama Konadu 

Yiadom III, at the Manhyia Palace 

BY BENJAMIN TANDOH 

DAUD OINTMENT, a 

product of the Daud 

Herbal Hospital, has 

been adjudged the best 

ointment at the second 

edition of the Herbal Awards held in 

Kumasi last Monday. 

The award scheme, was instituted 

by Nyamedua Herbal Foundation, is 

aimed at awarding and supporting 

outstanding individuals in the herbal 

industry in Ghana. 

At the Kumasi event, Madam 

Cecilia Gyaase Konamah, Founder of 

the Ghana National Herbal Awards, 

called on the government to include 

herbal medicine in their 'One-district, 

one-factory' project. 

She indicated that it woukd be 

appropriate for the government to 

construct at least a factory for 

the production of herbal 

medicine in each region, an 

initiative she explained 

would help reduce 

unemployment in the 

country. 

Madam Konamah, 

popularly known as 

Abena Ghana, pleaded 

with the government to 

provide financial 

assistance to herbal 

medicine practitioners, 

adding that, “people in 

the industry need 

support.” 

In his speech, Dr 

Daud Hamidu, Chief 

Executive Officer, 

Daud Herbal Hospital, urged herbal 

medicine practitioners to focus on 

the quality of their products. 

He expressed the opinion that 

herbal medicine practitioners have a 

role in the 

development of the country, adding 

that, “we can help build the country.” 

Dr Hamidu further lauded the 

efforts of the organisers of the 

awards for recognising and rewarding 

players in the herbal industry. 

The management of Daud Herbal 

Hospital paid a courtesy call on the 

Queen of the Ashanti Kingdom, 

Nana Ama Konadu Yiadom III, at 

the Manhyia Palace. 

Nana Yiadom congratulated 

the team on their achievement 

and urged them to keep up 

their hard work. 

She further entreated 

them to ensure the survival 

and efficacy of herbal 

medicine, and pleaded 

with them to teach 

the younger 

generation herbal 

medicine. 

• Daud Ointment was 

adjudged the best 

ointment at the ceremony

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