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Murder suspects issuing 

threats at Oshiyie 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh 

SOME TEN people 

believed to be the 

main suspects in the 

killing of two people, 

Rudy Anteye, on 

March 3, 2017 and Nii Armah 

Kwaku, on August 17, 2017, at 

Oshiyie in the Greater Accra 

Region are said to be back in 

town issuing more death threats. 

Speaking to the DAILY 

HERITAGE, the Oshiyie 

Stool Secretary, Newland Nii 

Ansah, said some suspects were 

arrested for the murder that occured 

in March and later 

granted bail. 

Two of these suspects 

Yeboah Annoh and Eni Copson 

he said were remanded into 

prisons custody at Nsawam. 

He said others mentioned in 

the killing ran away but returned 

in August to commit the second 

murder. 

Nii Ansah said “after the 

gruesome murder of our two 

relations, the family started a 

court process because we believe 

in rule of law but the culprits 

left town after the 

incidents for fear of being arrested.” 

The Stool secretary said the 

• The body of one of the two people killed at Oshiyie 

Accra Circuit Court issued a 

bench warrant for the arrest of 

one Paul Buxton, a self-acclaimed 

Nii Djaase Asafoatse, 

David Nii Baah, Afadi Annoh, 

also known as Yiiwatse, and 

seven others but they had disappeared 

immediately after the 

murder. 

Nii Ansah said after the suspects 

went into hiding, Oshiyie 

began to enjoy the peace which 

was long missing, but tension 

started brewing again immediately 

these suspects came back 

under police protection, issuing 

all manner of threats to people 

who identified them as culprits 

in the two murder cases. 

“As we speak, all the 10 suspects 

are living in Oshiyie in 

one house issuing threats to 

people who try to associate 

them with the murders, saying, 

for instance, that if they don’t 

know and they act funny, what 

happened in 2017 would be too 

small,” Nii Ansah stated. 

The Stool secretary said “the 

suspects are beating their chest 

in town claiming to have neutralised 

the bench warrant and 

therefore no one can arrest 

them.” 

“After seeing them back in 

town, we reported the matter to 

the prosecutor, who asked us to 

look for any police officer to arrest 

them but no policeman is 

ready to do so.” 

Nii Ansah is therefore appealing 

to the Inspector General 

of Police to immediately call the 

Greater Accra Regional Command 

to order for the law to 

take its course and the suspects

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03 

Man kills man 

over puppy 

•The puppy 



AMISUNDER- 

STANDING which 

ensued between 

two friends over the 

whereabouts of a 

puppy belonging to one of them 

has led to the killing of one of 

them, Fofo Foli. 

The killing of 35-year-old 

mason and father of six, with 

the seventh one on the way, occurred 

at Blema, near Burma 

Camp, in the Greater Accra Region. 

The Cantonment Police have 

arrested a 37-year-old Papa Yaw, 

a civilian employee with the 

Ghana Armed Forces, at Burma 

Camp, who is also into farming, 

in connection with the murder 

and has since been reminded in 

police custody by the La District 

Magistrate Court presided over 

by Her Worship Juliet Osei- 

Deudu last Tuesday, May 7, 

“But immediately he [Foli] turned to walk 

away from them 15 metres away from 

our house, the suspect hit him on the 

head with a club and he fell. The suspect 

hit him the second time before we could 

shout for help,” she stated. 

•The place where Fofo Foli and his family lived before his killing 

2019. 

The suspect is to reappear in court 

on May 21, 2019. 

Narrating her ordeal to the DAI LY 

HERITAGE in Accra at Blema, the 

widow of Foli, Ms Taasivee Latsu, 40- 

year-old pregnant mother of six who 

lives in an uncompleted structure, said 

the deceased and the suspect were 

good friends and even drank together. 

According to her, her husband visited 

the 

suspect, who 

owns a puppy, and 

while the husband was returning 

home, it followed him to the 

house. 

Ms Latsu said on April 30, 2019, at 

about 12 noon, Papa Yaw, holding a 

club and accompanied by three guys, 

met Foli, who was on his way to attend 

the call of nature, and confronted him, 

but Foli asked them to wait for him to 

return from the call of nature. 

“But immediately he [Foli] turned to 

walk away from them 15 metres away 

from our house, the suspect hit him on 

the head with a club and he fell. The 

suspect hit him the second time before 

we could shout for help,” she stated. 

She said they immediately took him 

into a taxi and rushed him to the Ridge 

Hospital but was pronounced dead on 

arrival. 

Ms Latsu added that the body had 

been deposited at the Ridge Hospital 

but preparations were going on to 

transfer the body to the Police Hospital 

for autopsy. 

She appealed to Ghanaians to help 

her cater for the children and also 

wanted justice to be served.

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Arab pro-democracy activis 

Syria war: UN alarm at escalation of hostilities in Idlib 

THE UN has called for an urgent 

de-escalation in northwestern 

Syria, after fighting 

between government and opposition 

forces reportedly left 

dozens of civilians dead or injured. 

Secretary General António 

Guterres urged all parties to 

recommit to a truce covering 

opposition-held parts of Idlib, 

Aleppo and Hama provinces. 

Rescuers said at least 20 

civilians were killed in air 

strikes on Tuesday. 

On Monday, two medical 

facilities were reportedly targeted 

by warplanes. 

Idlib, northern Hama and 

western Aleppo make up the 

last opposition stronghold remaining 

in Syria after eight 

years of civil war. 

The region is covered by 

truce brokered in September 

by Russia, which backs President 

Bashar al-Assad, and 

Turkey, which supports the opposition, 

that has spared the 

2.7 million civilians living there 

from a major government offensive. 

BBC 



More than 40 million 

displaced globally 

ANEW REPORT says 41 

million people have been 

displaced worldwide in 

the last year, with conflicts 

in some African 

countries contributing 

significantly to that number. 

The Global Report on Internal Displacement 

says this is the highest number 

of internally displaced people the 

world has ever seen. 

The report says conflict, violence and 

disasters witnessed around the world last 

year have forced 28 million people to 

flee their homes to other parts of their 

own country. 

This is an increase of more than a 

million since the end of 2017 and twothirds 

more than the global number of 

refugees. 

The highest numbers recorded are in 

the Democratic Republic of Congo and 

Syria where conflicts have been raging 

for years. 

Ethiopia also tops the list of countries 

with nearly three million newly displaced 

people in the last year - most 

fleeing ethnically-fuelled violence. 

Globally, natural disasters like tropical 

cyclones, monsoon floods, wildfires and 

drought have also triggered the displacement 

of millions in countries like China, 

India and Philippines. 

“The findings of this report are a 

wake-up call to world leaders. Millions of 

people forced to flee their homes last 

year are being failed by ineffective national 

governance and insufficient international 

diplomacy," said Jan Egeland, 

secretary-general of the Norwegian 

Refugee Council. 

"Because they haven't crossed a border, 

they receive pitiful global attention. 

All displaced people have a right to protection 

and the international community 

has a duty to ensure it,” added Mr Egeland. 

BBC 

•Maternity leave is a 

right for working 

• President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has 

• Conflict has forced many to flee their homes in mothers in many 

led Algeria since 1999 

Ethiopia and the • Democratic countries 

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

World news in 4 stories 

Mugabe's tractors and 

vehicles to be auctioned 

•Robert Mugabe was 

pushed out of office in 2017 

after a brief military 

takeover 

VEHICLES AND farm 

equipment belonging to 

Zimbabwe's former President 

Robert Mugabe, 95, are 

set to be auctioned on Saturday, 

in a possible sign that 

his family's business empire 

could be in financial trouble, 

the state-run Herald 

newspaper reports. 

The daily quotes an advertisement 

by a local auction 

firm, announcing plans 

to sell off about 30 vehicles, 

including a Mercedes Benz 

C-class limousine and Ford 

Rangers. 

Horse trucks, tractors, 

motor cycles and disc harrows 

from the Mugabe family's 

Gushungo Dairy farm 

would also be auctioned. 

The Herald reported that 

it was not immediately clear 

why the family was auctioning 

the items but its business 

empire, built during 

Mr Mugabe's 37 years in 

power, has been facing lawsuits 

over unpaid debts. 

Mr Mugabe was ousted 

in 2017 after a military 

takeover and was succeeded 

by his former deputy, Emmerson 

Mnangagwa. 

Last week, Mr Mnangagwa 

said Mr Mugabe was 

in Singapore for medical 

treatment. BBC 

Ramaphosa set to make changes as ANC sails to victory 

SOUTH AFRICA'S President 

Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to 

make significant cabinet changes 

in the coming days, after his governing 

African National Congress 

(ANC) secured a reduced, but 

comfortable majority in this 

week’s general election. 

With three quarters of votes 

counted, it’s now clear the main 

opposition failed to capitalise on 

years of government corruption 

and economic stagnation. 

The political landscape has 

shifted only slightly with these 

elections, with the ANC slipping 

from 62% to 57% nationally. 

That’s still quite an achievement 

for a party that has presided 

over a decade of economic stagnation 

and entrenched corruption. 

President Cyril Ramaphosa can 

now claim a mandate to trim a 

bloated cabinet, see off his rivals, 

and watch a revived justice system 

bring an end to a culture of impunity. 

This has been a bad election 

for the opposition Democratic Alliance 

which lost votes, and failed 

to capitalise on the government’s 

mistakes. BBC 

President Cyril 

Ramaphosa can 

now claim a mandate 

to trim a 

bloated cabinet, 

see off his rivals, 

and watch a revived 

justice system 

bring an end to 

a culture of impunity. 

• President Cyril 

Ramaphosa has promised to 

step up the fight against 

corruption



05 

Editorial 

Don’t fail Kantanka car promise 

THE NEWS making the rounds 

that the government would 

support the large-scale production 

of Kantanka vehicles is highly 

welcome. The Minister of Trade 

and Industry, Mr Alan Kwadwo 

Kyerematen, is quoted in the 

media as having said so. 

He added that the government 

would provide the needed 

environment and incentives for 

Kantanka Automobile Company 

Limited to produce more to feed 

the local market and even export 

to the rest of the African markets. 

Mr Kyerematen dispelled the 

fear that foreign automobile 

companies coming to do business 

in our country would have 

competitive edge over the local 

carmaker. 

He is quoted as saying , ”You 

will see what benefits the 

Kantanka brand will have.” 

Obviously, a viable company or 

enterprise in any country would be 

a conduit for creating jobs and 

raising tax revenue for the state, 

and a viable Kantanka carmanufacturing 

company would 

not be an exception. 

The DAILY HERITAGE is 

only worried that oftentimes 

governments give such promises 

and assurances but fall short of 

fulfilling them. Much as we would 

not want to make references, 

successive governments cannot 

deny instances of their failure to 

fulfil even certain promises they 

pronounced as being on their 

priority lists. 

This time we expect the Nana 

Akufo-Addo government, on 

whose behalf the minister makes 

the promise, to make a difference 

as its performance so far points to 

good things for our country. The 

government should not delay 

things in this matter the way it is 

delaying the prosecution of 

corruption cases. 

We also want to appeal to the 

local carmaker to consider certain 

issues with regard to its operations 

when the government comes to its 

aid. One, it should not 

compromise quality and durability. 

Two, it should not evade tax. 

Three, it should consider the 

pricing of its cars such that 

Ghanaians would prefer them to 

imported ones. And finally, their 

spare parts should be everywhere. 

When all these are done, the 

DAILY HERITAGE believes 

Ghanaians would love their 

Kantanka just as the Indians 

cherish their Tata, the Koreans 

respect their Hyundai and KIA, 

and the Japanese admire their 

Toyota, Nissan and Honda. 

Wife stones 

husband to death 

BY KOJO ANSAH 

A52-YEAR-OLD 

man Michael Opey 

Lamptey has 

allegedly been 

killed by his wife, 

Rebecca Lamptey, a psychiatric 

patient after crashing his head 

with a grinding stone repeatedly 

on a number of occasions. 

The late Lamptey was 

reportedly attacked by his wife 

while he was fast asleep with 

reports suggesting that he bled 

profusely before his passing. 

The incident occurred May 9, 

2019 at Aboabo, a community 

near Koforidua, the Eastern 

Regional Capital. 

The Public Relations Officer of the 

Eastern Regional Police 

Command, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, 

told the DAILY HERITAGE that 

upon receipt of information about 

the incident, a team of investigators 

were dispatched to the scene. 

The Public Relations Officer 

of the Eastern Regional Police 

Command, DSP Ebenezer 

Tetteh, told the DAILY 

HERITAGE that upon 

receipt of information about the 

•This is the type of grinding 

stone that was used by the suspect. 

It is normally used by 

women in the kitchen 

incident, a team of investigators 

were dispatched to the scene. 

According to him, the team 

found Lamptey lay in a prone 

position in a pool of blood with 

severe fracture in the head and 

face completely deformed. 

He said after taking 

inventories of the crime scene, 

the body was 

conveyed to the 

St. Joseph 

Hospital 

Morgue for 

preservation 

and autopsy. He 

said the suspect 

was arrested while 

the grinding stone has 

been kept as exhibit. 

The Assembly Member for 

Aboabo Electoral Area, Achirah 

Samuel Tettey told Starr News 

the Couple settled in the 

community about 5 years ago 

after building their own house. 

According to him, the mental 

problem of the suspect 

intermittently triggers causing 

her to engage in several 

misconduct in the community.


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Okada: An economy 

booster or human killer? 

BY EMMA DAVIS, STUDENT, GIJ 

IS THE new-found trade of 

using motorbikes for commercial 

purposes, popularly 

known as ‘Okada’ among 

the youth, reducing unemployment 

rate or sinking 

human resources? 

Okada was in the 1980s nicknamed 

after a local Nigerian airline, 

Okada Air, which was 

located near Benin City, as a result 

of the local familiarity with 

the airline at that time. Okada 

gradually spread to other parts of 

Nigeria from Lagos and gradually 

invaded other African countries 

like Ghana. 

The patronage of Okada had 

not been a problem in Ghana as 

it was the easiest and cheapest 

means of transport in the rural 

communities until it leached into 

the towns and cities as a means 

of transportation convenience 

for urban dwellers in Accra, Kumasi 

and Cape Coast. 

What used to be a means of 

transport for rural folks to help 

them do their businesses is now a 

viable source of livelihood for 

many Ghanaian youth. Some 

people who have also seen this 

sector feasible for investment buy 

the motorbikes for young men in 

their neighbourhood who are unemployed 

or give out the motorbikes 

to people who approach 

them for the bikes to work with 

the bikes and bring in daily takings. 

However in 2012, the use of 

motorbikes for commercial transport 

in Ghana was banned under 

Regulation 128(1-4) of the Road 

Traffic Regulations. It states: 

“The licensing authority shall not 

register a motorcycle to carry a 

fare-paying passenger.” 

The law prevents anyone from 

using motorcycle or tricycle for 

commercial purposes except for 

courier and delivery services, 

while it also prevents people 

from riding on motorbikes or tricycles 

as passengers. 

The existing legislation has 

not deterred people from operating 

Okada business despite the 

sometimes fatal consequences. 

A family man with three kids, 

Sadiq Inusah, who operates 

Okada in Ashaiman and Tema 

said he joined the business due to 

unemployment and severe hardship. 

“I have written an application 

for a job but over a month now I 

haven’t been called. Now, I have 

a wife and kids, how do I look 

after them? This job is my best 

option because I’m not well educated. 

Moreover, we earn daily 

wages unlike being employed. 

Even if a company is set, it cannot 

clear all of us from the 

streets.” 

Inusah lamented about the 

frequent arrests by the police 

which prevent them from operating 

in peace. 

“Look at where we are 

packed; if they come they will arrest 

us. Whether you have licence 

or not the fact that you are operating 

Okada is enough for them 

to arrest you. Over 80 motorbikes 

were arrested by the 

Ashaiman Divisional Police just 

last month even though some of 

them have licences. Because of 

that there are no Okada operating 

at Ashaiman Traffic.” 

Saddiq further urged the government 

to legalise Okada and 

regulate it so that everyone will 

benefit. 

“Government should register 

motorbikes and give them an 

amount to pay over a period to 

generate revenue. They should 

also tag motorbikes so it will be 

easy to identify the ones that 

flout the laws. Now, if every motorbike 

is tagged with a number 

and the environment they operate 

such as 29; Ashaiman or 2; 

Tema, none of the operators will 

•Motor riders - are they safe? 

be able to steal from passengers 

because when they are reported 

they can be tracked down,” he 

suggested. 

In the last six years, the 

‘Okada craze’ has enthralled residents 

of Accra, Tema and 

Ashaiman because of its ability 

to meander through traffic and 

get passengers to their destinations 

on time even though their 

fares are higher than those of 

commercial vehicles such as taxis 

and trotro. 

A regular customer of Okada, 

Obed Asante, said he prefers 

Okada because it is faster and he 

is able to beat traffic, however, he 

cautions the riders when they 

ride recklessly. Asking him about 

his opinion on speculations of 

Okada riders stealing from passengers 

or coming back at night 

to rob homes after dropping passengers 

he said, “before I pick 

Okada I make sure that I don’t 

have valuable things on me. I 

haven’t thought of that and I 

haven’t experienced that but it 

can happen to me so I have taken 

protective measures at home.” 

A taxi driver who works and 

resides in Ashaiman but plies 

Tema sometimes, Samuel Doe, 

opined that even though the 

Okada business affects his trade, 

there are customers for everyone. 

“It is someone’s source of income 

so I’m not really against it 

but the way they ride is the problem. 

The speed at which they 

move without caution is scary,” 

he said. 

He also stated that Okada 

cannot be fully cleared from the 

system because of corruption. 

“The police arrest them all the 

time but you find them operating 

the next day. This is because of 

the bribes they take. Just recently 

some were arrested and taken by 

the Tema SWAT team but look 

around, they’re all over,” he exclaimed. 

Although the intentions of 

Okada operators are to work 

hard and make a living, their activities 

have been labelled as 

counterproductive because many 

of them flout road traffic regulations. 

Some of the riders do not 

wear helmets; neither do they 

provide helmets for their passengers, 

hence putting lives in danger. 

Some of them operate 

without licence nor insurance. 

They also ride recklessly resulting 

in road accidents. 

Senior doctor at the Accident 

and Trauma centre at Tema General 

Hospital, Ernest Awinimi, 

said “Most accident cases are as a 

In the last six years, the ‘Okada craze’ has enthralled residents 

of Accra, Tema and Ashaiman because of its ability 

to meander through traffic and get passengers to their 

destinations on time even though their fares are higher 

than those of commercial vehicles such as taxis and 

trotro. 

result of Okada. There are new 

cases every day. If we’re able to 

ban Okada, the accidents will reduce 

drastically. It is also reducing 

our human resource. There 

was one case where a manager 

was hit by ‘aboboyaa’ (popular 

name for tricycle). He initially 

thought it was a motorbike and 

so he waited for it to pass, only 

for him to cross the road and be 

smashed by the carrier,” he said. 

He added that Okada, nevertheless 

came with some benefits 

such as helping people to get to 

work. 

He said, “sometimes when 

I’m late for work, I park my car 

and pick Okada. One time I had 

to come and perform an operation 

but the traffic was hectic so I 

parked my car and hopped onto 

one. I caution the riders when 

they ride carelessly but when they 

don’t listen I alight and pick another 

one.” 

In some situations, the motorbikes 

are used to commit crimes 

such as snatching of valuables 

like mobile phones, bags and 

purses from people. A resident of 

Tema Community 21 Annex, 

Akosua Amponsah, stated that 

the gates and security measures 

implemented in the neighbourhood 

were as a result of frequent 

attacks by motorbikes. 

“One woman who operates a 

provision shop in front of her 

house was stabbed one night 

when she tried to fight with the 

thieves as she was closing down. 

My daughter’s phone was almost 

snatched from her around 7p.m. 

when people were still awake. It 

became really scary so shops had 

to close at nine and wherever you 

were in town you had to get 

home before 9p.m. because the 

motorbikes used to operate at 

that time. So the landlords came 

up with this initiative,” she said. 

With the entire hullabaloo about 

the negative implications of Okada, 

some authorities are advocating its 

legalisation. Minority Chief Whip, 

Muntaka Mubarak, addressing Parliament 

on Thursday, March 28, 2019 

argued that Okada provided jobs for 

thousands of youth and so legalising 

it would ensure they obey road traffic 

regulations. 

“Let us review the law to accommodate 

Okada operators by mainstreaming 

them into our national 

transport system so that they can be 

identified, registered, licensed and 

policed to work within the road traffic 

regulations,” he said. 

Also the head of education at 

the Motor Traffic and Transport 

Department (MTTD) of the 

Ghana Police service, Superintendent 

Alexander Kwaku Obeng, 

called for a relook at the law prohibiting 

the use of motorcycles for 

commercial purposes. He made 

this call during a discussion on 

JoyFM’s Super Morning Show on 

Monday, February 25, 2019. 

“The needs of Okada across the 

country are different. Lack of availability 

of public transport makes 

people rely on it. But it is bringing 

policing into dispute so until the law 

is reviewed, we will continue to arrest 

those who use motorcycles for commercial 

business, those without the 

right costumes and those unregistered,” 

he said. 

The writer is a level 300 student 

of the Ghana Institute of Jour nalism


Tips on how to deal with stress 

Take a time out 

Practise yoga, listen to music, 

meditate, get a massage, or learn 

relaxation techniques. Stepping 

back from the problem helps clear 

your head. 

Eat well-balanced meals 

Do not skip any meals. Do 

keep healthful, energy-boosting 

snacks on hand. 

Get enough sleep 

When stressed, your body 

needs additional sleep and rest. 

Exercise daily 

To help you feel good and 

maintain your health. 

Follow the fitness tips as provided 

below: 

Take deep breaths 

Inhale and exhale slowly. 

Welcome humour 

A good laugh goes a long way 

to eliminate or reduce stress. 

Maintain a positive attitude 

Make an effort to replace negative 

thoughts with positive ones. 



&Env. 

Ashaiman to end open defaecation by 2020 



THE ASHAIMAN 

Municipal Assembly 

(ASHMA) has 

promised to end 

open defaecation by 

the year 2020. 

According to the Assembly, the 

area has recorded progress with regard 

to open defecation, adding 

that the Assembly is hopeful in the 

years by the time set, the area 

would have joined the open-defaecation-free 

zones as the Assembly 

continues to improve the situation. 

The Coordinating Director for 

ASHMA, Mr Kwadwo Akuamoah 

Boateng, said, “Now, 0.2% of the 

population use the open pit and 

0.2% practise open defaecation, 

which is an improvement of 4% 

recorded in 2010.” 

Mr Boateng made this known 

during a tour by the members of 

the Media Coalition against Open 

Defaecation (MCODe) and Coalition 

of NGO’s in Water and Sanitation 

(CONIWAS) around some 

open-defecation areas in the municipality. 

Mr Akuamoah Boateng said the 

Assembly, under its sanitation intervention 

projects, had increased 

access to toilet by 3,365, and 1,247 

additional projects had been subsidised 

under the Greater Accra 

Metropolitan Assembly Sanitation 

and Water Project (GAMA-SWP). 

He said as part of commitment 

to ending the menace, the Assembly 

gave a moratorium of up to 

February this year for 

landlords/landladies to get toilet 

facilities or face prosecution. 

He noted that since the end of 

the deadline, 13 cases had been arraigned 

and two people had already 

been convicted and fined 

GH¢960.00 and GH¢1,200.00 respectively. 

The occasion 

took 

• Dr Doris Yartey, Patron of MCODe (INSET: Part of the Tulaku community 

where open defaecation is rampant 

journalists, 

members of 

MCODe, 

CONIWAS and officials from the 

Assembly to Tulaku, a slum area 

along the motorway and just right 

behind the China Mall, where locals 

defaecate in the open. 

When journalists and members 

of the groups arrived at Tulaku, 

some miscreants who were in the 

act of defaecating took to their 

heels when they saw the media 

presence. 

In an interview with some locals, 

they alluded to the fact that 

they practised open defaecation in 

the area because of the bad condition 

of the public toilets in the 

community. 

A 39-year-old driver, Mr 

Ibrahim Abubakar, said they did 

not keep toilet facility in the community 

clean and it was expensive 

too notwithstanding. “The place is 

also filled with wee smokers and 

so you cannot go there if you 

don’t want to inhale smoke.” 

An Environmental Health Assistant 

at ASHMA, Mr Nangodi 

Baba, said the GAM-SWP provided 

a subsidy for which every 

household could get a stand-alone 

toilet facility for GH 1,100. 00 

He, however, said it was sad to 

note that out of 200 households 

targeted since the year 2017, 

only18 households had been able 

to acquire the facility. 

The Patron of the Coalition, 

Dr Doris Yartey, said she was not 

impressed with the commitment 

shown by the ASHMA to end 

open defaecation, adding that the 

statistics read by Mr Boateng, Coordinating 

Director for ASHMA, 

did not reflect the situation on the 

ground. 

Dr Yartey said the situation on 

the ground was disappointing and 

urged the ASHMA to do more to 

improve the situation. 

Dr Yartey said the MCODe and 

its partners had the same objective 

of fighting open defaecation, and 

hence would continue in asking 

the authorities the right questions 

to address the situation. 

Mr Emmanuel Addai, Convener 

of the Coalition, said that 

the MCODe was formed in September, 

2018 and this was their 

first advocacy campaign against 

open defaecation. 

He said they received support 

from UNICEF and World Vision 

International, Ghana. He said he 

expected the information gathered 

from the tour to feed into a 

planned national symposium on 

open defecation later in the year. 

Rich & Bard cleans up Osu 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

A YOUTH group operating under 

the umbrella name Rich & Bard- 

Kinka We at Osu in the Greater 

Accra Region has embarked on a 

massive clean-up exercise within 

the metropolis to breed hope into 

the national sanitation day exercise. 

The clean-up exercise began 

from the Osu Mantse Palace and 

spread to the Castle Junction, 

NDK Financial Service lane and 

other major streets within Osu. 

The president of Rich & Bard, 

Robert Lutterodt, in an interview 

with the DAILY HERITAGE 

after they had defied a downpour, 

appealed to residents to fully participate 

in the national sanitation 

day exercise to keep the environment 

clean. 

The exercise on the national 

sanitation day was on the theme; 

‘Clean Environment, safe food, 

healthy people.’ 

Lutterodt urged all youth 

groups in the area to show commitment 

to ensuring that the various 

gutters were kept clean. The 

president of the association explained 

that even though it had a 

membership base of about 100, 

the one-year-old group had done a 

lot within its short existence. 

“We are taking this exercise to 

clean our environment because 

cleanliness is next to godliness and 

we must all ensure that we keep 

our environment clean. This is the 

only way we can keep ourselves 

healthier. 

He added that, “We have been 

existing for the past one year and 

have also done free health screening 

and helped some of our members 

in education.” 

He called on the authorities to 

place metal covers instead of concrete 

on gutters and also advised 

persons who drop waste indiscriminately 

into the various gutters to 

shy away from that practice. 

Mr Leeford Kpakpo Quarshie, 

the Constituency Chairman National 

Democratic Congress, who 

threw his weight behind the exercise, 

called for a united front in 

fighting against filth. 

•Mr Leeford Kpakpo Quarshie, the Constituency Chairman of the National 

Democratic Congress, cleaning the gutters with members of Rich & Bard

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Ahead of Nungua Kplejoo festival 

Gborbu Wulomo performs 

‘Dudor mli nu woo’ rites 


muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com 

THE FILLING of pot with sacred 

water at Nungua, which opens doors for 

other activities towards the celebration 

of the Nungua festival dubbed ‘Dudor 

mli nu woo’ has been performed. 

The sacred rite, performed last 

Sunday, was led by a young girl who is a 

virgin, with the Gborbu Wulomo, Wor- 

Lumor Konor Borketey Laweh Tsuru 

XXXIII, commissioning her to lead the 

rites to the place where the pot was 

filled. She carried the sacred pot on her 

head. 

The pot filling exercise lasted an 

hour on Sunday morning, having started 

from the traditional home and ended at 

the Gborbu Koo Naa, the sacred forest 

at Nungua. 

The leadership of the area, however, 

called on all persons who have 

connection to the Ga Dangme state to 

support the festival. 

Apart from the Gborbu Wulomo, the 

event was attended by the Osu Wulomo 

and other traditional leaders from all the 

Ga Dangme clans. 

In a related development, a new 

•Dr Thomas Mensah 

priestess was initiated as custom 

demands. 

The sacred rite, 

performed last 

Sunday, was led by a 

young girl who is a 

virgin, with the 

Gborbu Wulomo, 

Wor-Lumor Konor 

Borketey Laweh 

Tsuru XXXIII, 

commissioning her 

to lead the rites to 

the place where the 

pot was filled. She 

carried the sacred 

pot on her head. 

•A young girl rerurning from the ancestral place with the filled pot 

EC’s request for time to 

implement ROPAA granted 


muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com 

THE ELECTORAL 

Commission's (EC’s) 

request for an extension 

of time to implement 

the Peoples 

Representation Act 

(ROPAA) has been granted by the 

Human Rights Division of the Accra 

High Court. 

The court, presided over by Justice 

Nicholas Abodakpi, said the 

leadership of the EC had changed 

over the course of time and so it 

would be important the EC was 

allowed time as requested. 

The court said the EC had done 

nothing to show they had disobeyed 

orders that were previously made 

even though orders in the earlier 

judgement had not been complied 

with. 

A cost of GH¢8, 000 has been 

THE PRESIDENT of the National 

Reuse and Recyclers Association 

(NARRA), Eric Pappoe, has 

disclosed that the absence of any tax 

incentive on the importation of 

equipment and machinery used in 

the waste collection and recycling 

industry in Ghana is a major barrier 

to the development of a viable waste 

collection, reuse and recycling 

business. 

Speaking at a workshop for the 

introduction of appropriate fiscal 

policy interventions to stimulate 

sustained growth in the recycling 

sector of the national economy, he 

said the high tariffs on such 

equipment and machinery was 

making the cost of doing business in 

this recycling industry very expensive 

and unattractive to investors as 

industry actors were unable to invest 

in the required machinery and 

technology. 

At the workshop held under the 

auspices of the Business Sector 

Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund 

Phase III, alongside the EU, USAID 

and DANIDA, he added that certain 

import tariffs on recycling equipment 

and machinery had become a major 

awarded to the respondent against the 

EC for failing to comply with the 

earlier orders. 

Background 

On Monday, April 3, lawyers of 

the Commission, led by Justine 

Amenuvor, while moving the motion 

for the extension of time among 

other things, argued that the 

processes to implement the court 

orders were negatively affected by the 

removal of the previous EC boss and 

her deputies. 

He, however, prayed the court to 

grant the Commission time to 

implement the court orders, whose 

implementation was to start on 

January 1, 2018 and run till 

December 31 the same year. 

But lawyer Samson Lardy 

Anyenini for the applicants, who are 

Ghanaians living abroad, told the 

court that application by the EC was 

belated and failed to respect the court 

judgement and orders. 

obstacle towards the growth and 

development of the recycling 

industry in Ghana with the situation 

further complicated by the 

bureaucracy involved in applying for 

According to him, the new 

Commission was properly constituted 

by the President as far back as July 1, 

2018, which time was six month 

before the expiration of the court 

orders. 

He added that from July last year 

till now made it nine months and 

therefore the EC’s claims that it did 

not have enough time should not be 

tolerated by the court. 

Lawyer Anyenini argued that ever 

since the new Commission was 

constituted, it had gone ahead to 

create six new regions through a 

referendum. 

He said the Commission had again 

announced plans for another 

referendum, a clear demonstration 

that the Commission was not 

interested in complying with the 

court orders. 

Counsel argued that if the court 

was minded to consider the strange 

application, it must order the 

Commission to comply with the 

tax exemption in a process that is 

heavily influenced by cronyism and 

political considerations. 

“Feasibility study on plastic waste 

by the Centre for Scientific and 

court judgement and its orders within 

three months. 

He added that a clear roadmap 

with a compelling action plan be 

demanded from the Commission 

should the court decide to grant its 

application. 

Counsel, while concluding his 

reply, said claims that the 

Commission was affected by the 

removal of the previous EC boss for 

which reason they could not comply 

with the court orders should be 

rejected and commit the EC and its 

Commissioners for contempt of 

court. 

But the court, in its ruling, said 

even though the EC did not show the 

quantum of work it had done with 

regard to implementing the ROPAA, 

it admitted the Commission had over 

the last 30 years have changed 

leadership. 

The court subsequently granted 

the application. 

Govt must support recycling sector — NARRA 

BY RAMSON ACQUAH-HAYFORD 

•Eric Pappoe, President of NARRA 

Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2015 

indicated that GH¢1,200,000 could 

be generated in the country every a 

month, if plastics alone go through 

various stages towards recycling. The 

stages include collection, sorting and 

sale as raw material plastic waste 

recycling firms. More importantly 

each of these stages will generate 

thousands of employment for people 

engaged in the plastic waste value 

chain,” he said. 

“Naturally, this should attract 

various forms of investments into 

the plastic recycling business in 

Ghana. However, current taxes and 

administrative levies are a major 

disincentive to recycling firms and 

would be investors industry. The 

effect of this current fiscal regime 

for plastic recycling in Ghana, 

coupled with other relevant costs of 

doing business in the country 

combine to deny the Ghanaian 

economy of the enormous benefits 

that could be derived from a thriving 

plastic waste recycling industry in the 

country, he added. 

He cautioned government and the 

public not to blame plastic 

manufacturers for the inevitable 

floods if nothing is done to desilt 

open drains and intensify the 

national campaign against dumping 

On Monday, April 3, 

lawyers of the 

Commission, led by 

Justine Amenuvor, 

while moving the 

motion for the 

extension of time 

among other things, 

argued that the 

processes to 

implement the court 

orders were negatively 

affected by the 

removal of the 

previous EC boss and 

her deputies. 

of waste in public. 

“If, as a country, introduce 

appropriate fiscal policy incentives 

for the recycling industry and back it 

with adequate investment of 

resources in changing our bad 

littering habits through the 

implementation of properly planned 

and executed behaviour change 

communication strategies, we can go 

ahead and ban plastics and we shall 

still be bedeviled with our perennial 

flood problems,” he said. 

“It is important for government 

to take a critical look at its tax 

incentives on not only the plastic 

waste but also general waste recycling 

in Ghana as a mechanism to 

promote investment machinery 

needed by the waste collection, 

reuse and recycling industry to help 

achieve government's vison of 

industrializing Ghana under the One- 

District-One-Factory (1D1F) policy 

as well as enhance the economic 

value of waste in general to serve as 

a disincentive against public littering 

and boost the waste recycling 

industry as a viable means of curbing 

the waste menace confronting the 

country and turn it around to create 

jobs for our teeming unemployed 

youth,” he added. 

Stop reading political 

meanings into 

projects — Odike 

FROM ENOCK AKONNOR, KUMASI 

FORMER FLAGBEARER for 

United Progressive Party (UPP), 

Mr Akwasi Addai Odike, has 

described as immaterial the 

reading of political meanings into 

the just-ended sod-cutting 

ceremony for the commencement 

of phase II of the construction 

and redevelopment of the 

Kumasi Central Market. 

The outspoken former 

presidential candidate chastised 

politicians who are claiming credit 

over the construction of the 

multi-purpose terminal for not 

doing any good concerning the 

economic development of 

Kumasi. 

Speaking on a Kumasi-based 

radio station, Nhyira FM 104.5, 

the businessman-turned-politician 

advised members of both New 

Patriotic (NPP) and National 

Democratic Congress (NDC) to 

consider the economic benefits 

the project would bring to 

Asanteman and Ghana as a whole 

and desist from attaching political 

sentiments to it. 

"All investment benefits that 

will be tapped from the utilization 

of the facility will favour the 

whole of Ghana and not NPP or 

NDC," he stressed. 

Mr. Odike, however, called on 

authorities of Kumasi 

Metropolitan Authority to ensure 

an effective implementation of 

the assembly's bye-laws in their 

attempt to regulate the conduct of 

traders in the utilization of the 

•Mr Akwasi Addai Odike, former 

flag bearer of UPP 

facility. 

On Thursday, May 2, 2019, 

the sod was cut for the 

commencement of phase II of 

the construction and 

redevelopment of the Kumasi 

Central Market and the provision 

of associated infrastructure. 

The €248 million 

redevelopment project will be 

completed within 48 months, and 

will have 6,500 leasable 

commercial spaces; 5,400 closed 

stores; 800 kiosks; 50 restaurants; 

210 fishmonger and butcher 

stores; 40 livestock stores; and 

1,800 square metres of 

community facilities. Additionally, 

the project will provide other 

essential facilities such as a waste 

treatment plant, a police station, a 

fire station, post offices, and an 

amphitheatre. 

The €248 million 

redevelopment project 

will be completed 

within 48 months, and 

will have 6,500 

leasable commercial 

spaces; 5,400 closed 

stores; 800 kiosks; 50 

restaurants; 210 

fishmonger and 

butcher stores; 40 

livestock stores; and 

1,800 square metres 

of community 

facilities.


10ST 

MAY 

2019 

FRIDAY 

CURRENCY PARIS CODE BUYING SELLING 

US Dollar USDGHS 5.1300 5.3500 

RATES Pound Sterling GBPGHS 

6.7372 

7.0599 

Euro 

GBPGHS 

5.8308 

6.1156 

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MTN commends 30 shortlisted community heroes 

FOUR MONTHS after 

the launch of MTN 

Heroes of Change Season 

5, judges have 

pruned down the 1,200 

projects shortlisted to 

top 30. 

MTN says following this, a 

team was dispatched into the communities 

to authenticate and verify 

the stories of the people and their 

projects. Following the verifications 

process, a report will be presented 

for further review of the 

projects and the top 10 selected by 

an independent panel of judges 

who have diverse experience and 

expertise in academia, communications 

and economics. 

The top 10 projects will be 

filmed and featured in a 13-week 

television series which seeks to 

highlight the activities of the heroes 

to the public. At the end of 

the television programme, an 

event will be held to announce the 

ultimate hero and category winners. 

•Flashback: A previous winner (left) receiving her award 

The handlers of the initiative 

say the ultimate winner will be presented 

with a cash prize of 

GH¢100,000.00 whilst the three 

category winners will be awarded 

GH¢30,000.00 each to be invested 

in their projects for wider impact. 

MTN Ghana Foundation says it 

will also present special awards to 

selected media personnel and 

young heroes who are also driving 

change in their respective areas. 

Commenting 

on the entries, 

Mr Samuel Koranteng, 

the 

Corporate Services 

Executive of 

MTN Ghana, 

said, “We are 

happy to be getting 

closer to selecting 

the 

finalists for the 

TV series. We 

look forward to 

showcasing the 

work of unsung 

heroes who have 

dedicated their 

lives and resources 

to the 

service of their 

communities.” 

Launch of Heroes of 

Change Season 5 

MTN Heroes of Change Season 

5 was launched in November 

2018 and submission of entries 

ended on January 25, 2019. 

Since the inception of MTN 

Heroes of Change in July 2013, a 

total of 40 people have been identified 

and recognized on MTN 

Heroes of Change platform for 

committing their personal resources 

to improve their communities 

and brighten lives. 

Four out of the total number 

emerged ultimate winners. They 

are Dr Abrokwa-Yenkyera, a plastic 

surgeon and founder of Grafts 

Foundation; Madam Paulina Opei, 

founder of Save our Lives Orphanage; 

Genevieve Basigha, 

founder of Research Utilization 

School for the Deaf; and Naomi 

Esi Amoah of Blessed Home Orphanage 

MTN Heroes of Change has 

won several awards. The awards 

include the 2016 IPR Best Community 

Relations Programme of 

the Year and the CSR Program of 

the Year 2015 by the Head of 

State Awards (HoSA) Scheme. 

Farid Antar heads Republic Bank 

THE BOARD of Directors of 

Republic Bank (Ghana) Limited 

has announced the appointment 

of Mr Farid Antar as the Managing 

Director of the Bank following 

receipt of regulatory approval 

from the Bank of Ghana. 

He succeeds Mr Anthony Jordan, 

who retired from active service 

in April 2019. 

Mr Antar is an experienced 

banker with over 39 years of professional 

and practical exposure in 

the banking and financial services 

industry in Trinidad & Tobago 

and in Barbados, both in the 

Caribbean. 

Prior to this appointment, he 

was the General Manager - Enterprise 

Risk Management and Chief 

Risk Officer at Republic Financial 

Holdings Limited, the parent 

company of Republic Bank 

(Ghana) Limited. 

He previously served as General 

Manager - Corporate Operations 

& Process Improvement, 

Senior Manager - Regional Operations 

(Overseas), Senior Manager 

- Business Transformation, Senior 

Manager - Retail Delivery & Marketing, 

Manager - Product Parameterisation 

& Business Growth, 

and Marketing Manager - Personal 

& Commercial Lendings. 

Mr Antar, until recently, was 

also the Chairman of the Board 

of Directors of Republic 

Caribbean Investments Limited, 

Atlantic Financial Limited and 

Republic Bank (Suriname) Holdings 

Limited; a Director of G4S 

Holdings (Trinidad) Limited and 

the London Street Project Company 

Limited; and a Trustee for 

the Caribbean Court of Justice 

Trust Fund (CCJTF). 

He is an Associate of the 

Chartered Institute of Bankers 

(ACIB), Trinidad & Tobago and a 

Fellow of the Institute of Chartered 

Secretaries & Administrators 

(ICSA), UK. He is also an 

Anti-Money Laundering Certified 

Associate (AMLCA). 

He is expected to continue the 

transformation process started by 

his predecessors with the view to 

growing Republic Bank (Ghana) 

Limited into a Tier 1 bank in 

Ghana. 

Mr Antar has assured the 

Board of Directors, Executives, 

staff and customers of the bank 

that he will continue with the 

great strides made by his predecessors 

and the strategic path 

adopted by the bank. 

“The Board, Executive, Staff 

and Stakeholders welcome Mr 

Farid Antar to this new appointment 

and pledge their support to 

him,” said an official release. 

•Mr Farid Antar, MD, 

Republic Bank



DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019 11 

Politics 

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about 

anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for 

yourself —Henry James 

Prez calls on political leaders to be sincere 

PRESIDENT NANA 

Addo Dankwa Akufo- 

Addo has called on 

political leaders to be 

sincere in their dealings 

with the people 

and tell the truth about their 

achievements. 

President Akufo-Addo said 

politicians must not resort to deceit 

about with non-existent 

record of events and projects for 

political gains. 

He said this when a 28-man 

delegation from the Upper West 

Regional House of Chiefs called 

on him at the Jubilee House in 

Accra. 

Led by the Tumu Kuoro, 

Babini Kanton VI, who is also the 

President of the Upper West Regional 

House of Chiefs, the delegation 

was at the Presidency to 

discuss a number of concerns and 

challenges pertaining to the area, 

chief among them being the poor 

nature of roads. 

President Akufo-Addo indicated 

that in all his travels across 

the country and interactions with 

both traditional and local authorities, 

the common appeal was for 

his Administration to have their 

•President Akufo-Addo (3rd R in the front roll) in a hand shake with 

some regional house chief members at Jubilee House 

deplorable roads fixed. 

"The roads are my biggest burden 

in Ghana,” he said and expressed 

wonder as to why that 

should be the case when his immediate 

predecessor had claimed 

that he had done all the roads in 

the country, and was responsible 

for unprecedented infrastructural 

development in the country during 

his tenure. 

"It is not good for us as politicians 

to be misleading the people... 

If you have not done something, 

don't claim it…. The people themselves 

will tell the truth on what's 

going on," he said. 

The President told the delegation 

that a top priority of his Administration 

was to improve the 

condition of the major trunk 

roads that connected Ghana to 

neighboring countries to open up 

the nation to trade in the West 

African Sub-region. 

He assured the Chiefs of 

his government's commitment 

to developing the 

Lawra-Tumu trunk road 

that connects Ghana to 

Burkina Faso, as well as 

construct other roads in the 

area. 

“There is allocation for 

this in the budget,” he said. 

The delegation appealed 

to President Akufo-Addo 

to facilitate the passage of 

the University of Development 

Studies (UDS) Autonomous 

Campuses Bill 

into law. 

They also entreated the 

President to look into the 

timely completion of the 

Wa Regional Hospital to enhance 

healthcare delivery in 

the Region. 

The traditional leaders 

further requested the speeding up 

of the Wa Airport project to enable 

the carriers to operate commercial 

flights to the region. 

The President assured them 

that their concerns would be addressed 

in due course. 

Police gives details on killing of NDC chairman 

POLICE INVESTIGATORS in 

the Upper West Region have confirmed 

the death of Mr Poulabong 

Bayiilela Richard, National 

Democratic Congress (NDC) 

Chairman for the Dafiama- 

Bussie-Issa Constituency, detailing 

how it all happened. 

According to them, at about 

10:30 p.m on Wednesday, May 8, 

2019, one Desmond Atingani was 

driving a Mercedes-Benz car with 

registration number GW 3366-Y 

from Kojokperi to Wa with four 

persons, including Richard, on 

board it. 

They said the car was intercepted 

by four robbers but the 

driver failed to stop leading to the 

bandits’ shooting and killing of 

Richard, aged 45, who was seated 

beside the driver. 

The driver sustained gunshot 

wounds and was admitted to the 

Upper West Regional Hospital for 

treatment while the body of 

Richard was deposited at the 

morgue for preservation, pending 

autopsy. 

Meanwhile, some party 

•The deceased (left) and the broken windscreen of the vehicle 

sources, including the deputy director 

of elections in the region, 

Osman Seidu, are suspecting foul 

play in his death since he hails 

from the same constituency with 

the Regional Chairman of the 

New Patriotic Party (NPP). 

“The NPP regional chairman 

is from that constituency and they 

are working very hard to take that 

constituency,” Seidu is quoted to 

have told dailymailgh.com, which 

first broke the story. 

According to them, 

at about 10:30 

p.m on Wednesday, 

May 8, 2019, 

one Desmond Atingani 

was driving a 

Mercedes-Benz 

car with registration 

number GW 

3366-Y from Kojokperi 

to Wa with 

four persons, including 

Richard, 

on board it.


12 

DAILY 

Politics 


HERITAGE MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019 

US Ambassador lauds YOLO season 5 

BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI 

Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com 

AGHANAIAN 

youth series, ‘You 

Only Live Once’ 

(YOLO), season 

five has been premiered 

in Accra to 

educate, entertain and inform the 

youth of their reproductive life 

cycle. 

The series, which forms part of 

‘Good Life, Live it Well’ initiative, 

is a campaign that promotes positive 

health behaviours in a wide variety 

of health areas that include 

reproductive health, malaria prevention, 

and nutrition through 

both traditional and digital media. 

YOLO TV series, since its 

launch in 2015 by the National 

Population Council, has the aim to 

educate the youth on healthy reproductive 

behaviour and equip 

them with skills to deal with peer 

pressure and the other challenges 

that affect their everyday lives. 

Ambassador Sullivan, at the 

premiere held in Silverbird Cinemas, 

West Hills Mall, said YOLO 

was one of Ghana’s most popular 

shows and that she was very proud 

of the fact that it was an example 

of the commitment of the U.S and 

Ghana to improve the health and 

well-being of the world’s greatest 

resource, which is the youth. 

She explained that the series, 

ranked as one of the most influential 

TV programmes in Ghana that 

have not only provided a platform 

to reach young people with key information 

on healthy behaviours 

and practices but also helped to 

shape the actors to become reproductive 

health ambassadors. 

“The show’s stars serve as peer educators 

and role models, and promote 

healthy lifestyles to their numerous 

young social media followers. Youth 

participation and youth leadership is 

vital to development and can contribute 

to more sustainable investments 

to end cycles of poverty; build 

resilient, democratic societies; improve 

•Ambassador Stephanie S. Sullivan, U.S 

Ambassador to Ghana 

health and nutrition outcomes; 

and strengthen economies,” 

she added. 

Ambassador Sullivan commended 

the government of 

Ghana, especially the National 

Population Council, the Ghana 

Health Service and the media 

partners, for their leadership in 

making adolescent health a priority. 

Mr Ivan Quashigah, producer 

and director of YOLO, 

said they had introduced in 

season five series young adolescent 

characters that relate to 

their target audience. 

He explained that the other 

characters that were not seen 

in the season five would come 

in the next series as and when 

they were needed. 

Celebrities like Adjetey Annang, 

Jackie Appiah, Aaron 

Adatsi, and Queenstar Annafi 

graced the occasion. 

Rawlings condemns brutal Amasaman police assault 

BY KENT MENSAH 

FORMER PRESIDENT Rawlings 

has condemned the brutal assault 

on a police man at 

Amasaman a few days ago, stating 

that to assault a man in uniform in 

such a manner is an indictment on 

our society and totally unjustifiable. 

“It is painful the extent to 

which a policeman was badly 

beaten to the point that you could 

hardly see his eyes. What could 

have justified that? What stopped 

us from literally arresting him if 

the situation warranted it and leading 

him to a police station? 

“To disrespect a lawman and to 

even go as far as to assault him to 

the extent that was done was 

going too far,” the former President 

said. 

Former President Rawlings 

raised the concern when he received 

the National Chief Imam, 

Sheikh Nuhu Sharabutu at his office 

and called on him to pray 

against such impunity. 

“No one is perfect and I know 

the burden that the police generally 

carry. Things are tough and 

they carry a heavy burden. The 

means to do their work effectively 

is inadequate and they are doing 

their best. Assuming 30 per cent 

of the police were to decide not to 

put in their best, can you imagine 

the confusion we will have? Let’s 

imagine a situation without the police; 

we will be much worse. It 

could be an uncontrollable situation,” 

he explained. 

He called on the National Chief 

Imam to pray against such lawless 

impunity. He said, “no amount of 

temptation and difficulty should 

push us to go as far as we went in 

the Ashaiman incident.” 

Acknowledging the fact that 

• Former President Jerry John Rawlings (R) in a handshake with the National Chief 

Imam, Sheikh Osmanu Nuhu Sharabutu 

there is a lot of stress, pain and 

difficulty in society currently, the 

former President said that is still 

no reason to take it out on a police 

man. 

Sgt. Mahanadi of the police SWAT 

unit was assaulted at Amasaman a few 

days ago with the video going viral on 

social media platforms. It is still unclear 

what necessitated the action. 

ENVIRONMENT 

He also spoke about the danger to 

our environment through human 

greed and abuse and disclosed that a 

recent United Nations report had exposed 

the fact that one million animal 

and plant species are now threatened 

with extinction. 

He said our children and 

grandchildren will be the ones 

who would suffer the most from 

the kind of greed and neglect that 

caused damage to the environment. 

He said undoing the damage 

cannot be done overnight and 

called on all humanity to wake up 

to the reality. 

The former President urged 

Sheikh Sharabutu to pray “for us 

to contain our excesses and our 

greed and to scale down our material 

desires”.



Patapaa, R2bees, Teni others 

to headline Ghana Meets Naija 


13 

BY RAMSON ACQUAH-HAYFORD 

THE ‘SKOPATUMANA’ trendsetter, Patapaa, 

R2bees, Wande Coal, and a host of other artistes 

have been billed to headline the ninth edition of 

‘Ghana Meets Naija’. 

Empire Entertainment, organizers of the 

event, made this known at an event held at the 

Tang Palace Hotel, Accra last Friday. 

Victor AD and Creamy will join fellow Nigerian 

artistes Wande Coal and Teni while Medikal, 

Narh Na (formerly Akoo Nana), Kofi Mole, 

Quamina MP, Coco and others will join the 

Ghanaian side for the battle. 

Artistes from Barbados, Canada and other 

countries are also expected to perform. 

The music industry has 

no love — Obligation 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

BUDDING GHANAIAN Dancehall artiste 

Ebenezer Appiah Moore, known in the music 

scene as Obligation, has said that the Ghanaian 

music industry lacks love and togetherness. 

Obligation, who started his music career 

last year, says he was once a rapper and challenged 

himself to do Gospel dancehall and 

that currently he has a new song dubbed 

‘Speedy Recovery’. 

The artiste who describes himself as 

passionate and someone who loves God and 

does music for life wants his colleague 

artistes to abhor jealousy and rather show 

love and support especially to the new 

artiste for them to find their grounds in 

the industry 

In an interview, he said, 

“I have eight singles 

produced by 

SkyBeatz & 

Kojobeatz 

and I'm 

• Ebenezer 

Appiah Moore 

still independent without a manager. My current 

song is ‘Speedy Recovery’. I chose the 

name because I want to wish anyone who 

doesn't believe in God a Speedy Recovery. 

“I look up to Shatta 

Wale, Medikal, 

Kwesi Arthur and 

I'm always inspired 

by reading 

my Bible. 

Most of my 

songs are 

Gospel dancehall. 

I will tell 

anyone who 

looks up to me to 

stay focused and 

never lose hope. 

“I will love to feature 

Shatta Wale, Medikal or 

Kwesi Arthur on my 

songs soon.” 

Afro Nation enlists 

Stonebwoy, Shatta 

Wale, others 

for Dec. festival 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

AFRO NATION, an event that 

seeks to promote Africa 

music, has chosen to host this 

year’s event in Ghana at the 

Labama Beach Resort and so 

has enlisted some great African heavy 

weight artistes to entertain patrons from 

December 27 – 30, 2019. 

Alkaline, Burna Boy, Davido, Shatta 

Wale, Stonebwoy, Wizkid, Kidi, Kuami Euguene, 

La Meme Gang, Naira Marley, 

Not3s, Teni, The Compozers, Wendi Shay, 

Yemi Alade, Yxng Bane, and more others to 

be announced soon. DJ Vyrusky, DJ Obi 

and Distruction Boyz have been listed as official 

jocks for the event. More performers 

will be announced in subsequent rollouts. 

According to organizers, Afro Nation 

promises to be the biggest music and arts 

festival in Ghana this year as they hope of 

pulling at least 15,000 patrons. 

Speaking to the organizers they said 

“they will be dropping to the minute feeds 

between now and during the festival. 

Laboma Beach Resort, a very vast and clean 

coastline, with a capacity for an audience of 

over 40,000, is the holding grounds for Afro 

Nation Ghana. The event starts from December 

27 to December 30, 2019. 

The four-day festival will celebrate different 

music genres amongst which are 

Afro-beats, Hip-hop, UK Rap, Reggae and 

Dancehall on the serene coastline of Accra, 

Ghana. 

#AfroNation is an all-inclusive music 

and arts festival meant to celebrate and eulogize 

African culture across various continents, 

not just Africa. Afro Nation, 

however, stages in Portugal for the European 

wave in the summer this year. 

The four-day festival will 

celebrate different 

music genres amongst 

which are Afro-beats, 

Hip-hop, UK Rap, 

Reggae and Dancehall 

on the serene coastline 

of Accra, Ghana. 

MultiChoice revamps DStv Thanks programme 

MULTICHOICE HAS revamped its DStv Thanks 

programme, the company’s customer rewards programme 

designed to incentivise and show appreciation 

to active customers for their continuous 

loyalty and support. 

According to the company, customers who pay 

their DStv account on time will be eligible to unlock 

a world of amazing new rewards with DStv 

Thanks, which started May 2, 2019. 

Madam Cecil Sunkwa-Mills, Managing Director, 

MultiChoice Ghana, said, “The relaunch of 

our DStv Thanks with these new benefits is a key 

• Gives customers exciting new benefits 

step for our business in establishing a stronger relationship 

strategy with our loyal customers.” 

“It’s a key piece of a bigger picture of us putting 

our customers at the heart of everything we 

do and showing them appreciation for their continuous 

support and loyalty to our business,” she 

added. 

The company explained to the media that all 

DStv customers that continue to pay on time will 

be eligible to get new DStv Thanks perks, which 

are all available on www.dstv.com/thanks! 

“To ensure that there is something for all DStv 

packages, the DStv Thanks rewards will be allocated 

according to the packages while DStv customers 

on Compact+, Compact, Family and 

Access, who pay their account on time will also 

continue to get their one week of extra sports 

channels on a higher package benefit,” DStv said. 

They said with DStv Thanks, there are rewards 

for every subscriber. 

“Simply pay your DStv subscription on time 

and enjoy the benefits. Eligible customers can 

check and access their rewards by logging on to 

www.dstv.com/thanks using their last name or mobile 

number to access their voucher codes and 

more information on the program,” the company 

said. 

Some of the partners for the DStv Thanks are 

Electroland, Zoobashop online, Yolo Group and 

Equity Pharmacy



Opinion 


Lemon wedges are dirty little secret 

BY NANA ABA MENSAH, STUDENT, GIJ 

WHETHER IT'S 

going into your 

water, cocktail, 

tea, or soda, the 

lemon slice is a 

common drink 

companion. But have you ever wondered 

where it's actually been? What happens 

when you go and sit in a restaurant? The 

nice and polite server comes and asks 

you, ‘What would you like to drink?' 

Whether you order a soda, a pint of beer 

or lemonade, it often comes with a slice 

of lemon. But be warned. Despite all the 

health benefits of lemon, lemon wedges 

are not as clean as you might hope. 

You might want to ask your server 

not to put lemon wedges in your drink 

after reading this. 

A 2007 study published in the Journal 

of Environmental Health tested 76 

lemons from 27 restaurants for germs 

and other dirty stuff. They give your 

drink a boost of flavour, but they may 

also offer a whole host of other things. 

The study found that nearly 70% of 

restaurant lemon wedges are covered in 

up to 25 different types of germs. 

Among them: faecal matter, E. Coli, and 

contamination from raw meat. And it 

wasn't just the lemons' rinds the pulps, 

A SECTION of the inhabitants of 

Tema Community Seven expressed 

their concerns on the issue of excessive 

increase of smoking in the 

community as they lay down few 

disruptive concerns, including dangers 

to the environment. 

Smoking of weed and cigarettes 

is no news in Ghana and definitely 

not in this community. Every community 

experiences a lot of changes 

from quiet days to happy days, 

fights and quarrels to theft and insecurity, 

sudden deaths of neighbours 

and noise pollution. 

Judging from the direct personal 

interviews conducted, one common 

worry that they never seem to get 

rid of is the excessive public smoking 

that goes on from dawn to 

dusk. It is said that in times past, 

the only time you would smell the 

smoke of cigarette was when you 

pass by someone who had just had 

a joint or when you pass by a spot. 

The ‘wee base’ as it was and still is 

hosts anyone willing to smoke a 

joint. It was an inner circle thing 

and age did matter. It is always left 

to your imagination what happens 

inside. 

Effects of smoking 

In recent times, nothing is left 

for the people to imagine anymore. 

Now, the wee base isn’t enough, all 

smoking activities are now in the 

open. 

People in the community, who 

wanted to remain anonymous, said 

one alarming factor was how males 

and females who smoke are underage. 

Some single mothers bitterly 

expressed fears that their adolescent 

sons may engage in such acts as 

they leave them at home in the 

morning for work and come home 

at night. They said their only prayer 

was that their kids would not get influenced 

by what they see as normal 

in the area. 

Another concern is the health 

hazard it causes to those who don’t 

smoke. One man described a scene 

that always takes place under a big 

tree with benches around where the 

old men sit to play draft and chat. 

He said you could be sitting and all 

of a sudden boys would come and 

sit around and start smoking. Its is 

two things: you either vacate the 

place or take the smoke in. As some 

may not see it as hazardous, it was 

announced by the Food and Drug 

Authority (FDA) that those who inhale 

smoke are exposed to over 700 

chemicals, 70 of which cause cancer. 

Most of the inhabitant of the 

community complained about the 

unnecessary creating of noise by 

29% of the dirty lemons contained 

crawling bacteria. 

Although lemons have known antimicrobial 

properties, the results of the 

study indicate that a wide variety of microorganisms 

may survive on the flesh 

and the rind of a sliced lemon, the authors 

wrote in their report. "Restaurant 

patrons should be aware that lemon slices 

added to beverages may include potentially 

pathogenic microbes." 

Lemons could be contaminated for a 

number of reasons. While you might be 

diligent enough to scrub your lemons at 

home, there's no guarantee that the wait 

worker at your go-to restaurant is washing 

every single one (or their hands after 

their bathroom break) to perfection. This 

is coupled with the fact that possibly they 

may use the same knives for meat and 

other food items or worse, the same cutting 

boards and contamination can 

quickly spread. Lemons and other citrus 

are especially susceptible because they are 

covered in pores, giving bacteria extra 

surface area to dig into. 

But before you swear off the slices altogether, 

we should note that there 

haven't been any illness outbreaks traced 

to contaminated lemons in drinks. Your 

best bet is to ask for slices on a small 

plate. Then, squeeze the lemon juice directly 

into the water, and refrain from 

dropping the entire thing into your glass. 

It may not protect you entirely, but it'll 

greatly reduce your exposure to any unwelcome 

bacteria. 

Another investigation conducted by 

the ABC investigations tested lemons 

from 10 different restaurants and found 

out that more than half the lemon slices 

contained human waste. 

Philip Tierno, Ph.D., clinical professor 

of microbiology and pathology at 

NYU Langone Medical Center, has conducted 

dozens of similar experiments, including 

one commissioned by ABC 

News, which found that half of the 

lemon wedges collected from various 

restaurants were contaminated with 

human faecal matter. What's more, the 

ABC cameras nabbed employees handling 

lemons with their bare hands. And 

in Tierno's experience, restaurants may 

not be diligently washing lemons or they 

rinse them, but don't scrub. It's also easy 

for a worker's hands, whether it be a bartender 

serving up a drink or a chef slicing 

the fruit in the kitchen, to 

cross-contaminate after dealing with patrons, 

washing glasses and handling food. 

But beyond the gross-out factor, how 

likely is lemon to actually make you sick? 

The answer, according to Tierno, is that 

there is a decidedly small but distinct risk. 

"The usual course will probably result in 

no infection, but there is a possibility," he 

says, with a caveat: "You can't live in a 

bubble. Your immune system is usually 

pretty good." 

Germaphobe lemon lovers might opt 

to squeeze the juice directly into the 

smokers, boys and girls alike. This 

disrupts their peace in the course of 

the day. After they get ‘high’, it’s as 

if there is a need for noise making. 

Woe unto the one that tries to shut 

them up or reason with them. They 

get into quarrels and fights. And in 

the evenings as you pass by corners 

or paths where they stand or sit to 

smoke and make the mistake to 

peep or just look at them, they pronounce 

certain threats and insults 

on you. This restricts some people 

from sending kids on errands and 

passing by certain lanes in the community. 

Police operation 

Under the infamous tree, the 

men talked about a scene they describe 

as funny. One hot afternoon 

just recently, the police, upon many 

worrisome complaints from people, 

literally stormed the various corners 

and wee base to make some arrest. 

They described how the fortunate 

ones were able to escape leaving the 

unfortunate ones, mostly ladies, behind. 

This, they say, wis not the first 

or second time the police have been 

involved in this matter. 

A waakye seller also lamented 

about how she had to wake up and 

sweep away chunks of joint sticks 

along with the other items the 

smokers decided to leave in her 

space. She said she comes to work 

water instead of letting the wedge float 

about for the duration of a meal -- doing 

so will reduce exposure, though not eliminate 

it, as Tierno points out that even 

the flesh of the lemon can be contaminated. 

A new study by a New Jersey microbiologist 

found nasty bacteria on twothirds 

of the lemons that were tested 

from 21 restaurants. 

“It was gross,” said Anne LaGrange 

Loving, an assistant science professor at 

Passaic County Community College.” 

Loving decided to do the study after 

noticing a waitress with dirty fingernails 

delivering a drink to a table. “They put 

lemon in my Diet Coke, I didn’t ask for 

it, and so I decided to do a study.” 

Loving and her team swabbed for 

bacteria as soon as drinks hit the table at 

restaurants all around Paterson, New Jersey. 

“You would think they had dipped 

the lemons in raw meat,” she said, referring 

to the high levels of bacteria that she 

found. 

The swabs of lemon wedges revealed 

everything from high counts of faecal 

bacteria to a couple of dozen other microorganisms 

most of which can make 

you sick. They found bacteria on the rind 

and on the flesh of the lemons. 

Health laws require lemons to be 

handled with gloves or tongs. But it is 

common practice for waiters and waitresses 

to simply pop the little lemon 

and sees her benches and tables she 

ties or keeps around all scattered at 

different places. She says she believes 

some of the boys sit or sleep 

on them during the night. 

Some people did raise an alarming 

issue stating that one corner or 

base of the smokers was right behind 

a filling station. They said they 

feared as the activity got deeper 

and deeper, there may be an unfortunate 

day when one lighter or joint 

may come into contact with fuel 

and endanger the lives of the people 

living in the community. 

Suggestions 

In trying to prevent such unfortunate 

situations and solving these 

many problems and issues, some 

solutions were mentioned. 

The first possible solution given 

was for the boys and girls who 

smoke to stay in their various 

homes. As funny as this may seem, 

it’s serious. To come out and endanger 

the health and peace of someone, 

staying home seems like the 

best solution. 

Others called for the strict involvement 

of the police in protecting 

and helping to save citizens of 

the various communities and the 

country by making strict laws and 

regulations because it seems the existing 

ones are not being respected. 

She also added that even upon the 

wedge onto a drinking glass with their 

bare hands. 

If an employee’s hands aren’t clean, 

however, then touching the lemons is 

likely to contaminate them with bacteria 

according to Loving. 

This is not the first time that Anne Loving 

has gone looking for bacteria in unusual 

places. She did a study several years ago and 

found bacteria on communion cups. 

The restaurant health standards tend to 

be less rigid for garnishes and thus the 

lemon slice in your drink is more likely to 

have way more bacteria than the food on 

your plate. All the above investigators found 

that chefs at the restaurant often grabbed 

lemon without gloves, which means if they 

didn’t clean their hands after using the bathroom 

or touching other germy spots, there 

are high chances of transferring those 

germs to the lemon. 

But before you get super paranoid, you 

must know that the garnish won’t actually 

make you sick. The authors of the 2007 

study admitted that there haven’t been diseases 

and outbreaks due to dirty lemon in 

the drinks and this still holds true. 

But why take a chance when it comes 

to your health? So, next time you visit a 

restaurant, request your server to bring 

your water or soda without any lemon 

slices in it. 

The writer is a level 300 student of 

the Ghana Institute of Journalism 

Weed and cigarette smoking in public rampant now 

BY DANIELLA OBBOH, STUDENT, GIJ 

recent arrest, there has been no improvement 

to curb this issue in the 

community. The boys have become 

comfortable in their mess. 

Also another suggested that increasing 

the tax on cigarette and 

weed would be helpful because as it 

is now, one stick of cigarette costs 

as low as 20 pesewas so it’s very 

easy for even a kid to purchase it. If 

weed becomes expensive to buy, 

maybe the number or the excessiveness 

concerning its use will reduce. 

Conclusion 

It may seem that smoking in public 

is normal but actually it’s not. Smoking 

in public places is banned in Ghana to 

protect non-smokers from tobacco- related 

diseases. The possession, use or 

growing of weed or tobacco should 

only allowed and legal if permission or 

licence is granted by the Ministry of 

Health. If anyone is caught unlawfully 

possessing weed, he or she is liable to 

up to ten years in prison. The Narcotic 

Drugs ( Control, Enforcements And 

Sanctions) Law, 1990 (PNDC Law 

236), Section 5 states that No person 

shall without lawful authority or excuse 

smoke, sniff , consume , inject in his 

body or otherwise administer narcotic 

drug on his body. The people of Tema 

community Seven deserve peace and 

quiet, don’t you think so? 

The writer is a level 300 student of 

the Ghana Institute of Journalism

DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Sports 


15 

Lucy Quist quits 

Normalisation Committee 

LUCY QUIST, the Vice 

Chairperson of the 

Normalisation Committee put 

together by FIFA to fix Ghana 

Football after the #12 

investigations by Anas Aremeyaw 

Anas has resigned from the 

committee. 

Announcing her decision on 

Facebook, the former Airtel 

Ghana CEO said: ” I would like 

to express my profound gratitude 

to my colleagues on the 

Normalisation Committee, FIFA, 

the State and people of Ghana 

for the opportunity to serve in 

the capacity of the Vice President 

of the NC for the last 8 months 

since inauguration in September 

2018. For personal reasons, it is 

now time for me to 

leave the committee. 

“The continued 

transformation of 

football in Ghana 

will require the 

support of 

everyone passionate 

about the game. I 

pray that all 

stakeholders will 

put their differences 

aside and focus on 

achieving the 

greater vision of 

football that not 

only produces great 

players for Ghana 

but by extension 

makes a positive 

impact on our 

economic fortunes. 

“I am 

particularly proud 

of our work in 

bringing 

experienced people 

• Lucy 

Quist 

together in ad hoc committees to 

redefine our strategies for the 

national and domestic teams, 

referees and coaches, technical 

development, and marketing and 

sponsorship. Collectively the 

exercise produced blueprints for 

change and I commend the 

various committees for the great 

work they did”. 

FIFA in September last year 

appointed the four-member 

Normalisation Committee that 

will run Ghana football and 

organise election of new 

executives of the Ghana Football 

Association (GFA). The mandate 

of the committee which expired 

in March this year has been 

extended to September. 

• Sulley Ali 

Muntari 

Muntari asks to 

play at AFCON? 

CONTROVERSIAL 

GHANA star Sulley 

Ali Muntari has 

begged the chairman 

of the Normalisation 

Committee (NC) to be 

included in the squad for the 

2019 Africa Cup of Nations. 

Dr Kofi Amoah says he received 

a phone call from the 

Spain-based midfielder who said 

he will even accept the chance to 

play for the Black Stars for 15 

minutes at the tournament in 

Egypt. 

Muntari is making the desperate 

plea to Dr Amoah even 

though he has an outstanding 

stand-off with the Black Stars 

coach Kwesi Appiah who is on 

the verge of naming his squad. 

The 34-year-old has not 

played for Ghana since he exited 

from the Black Stars at the 2014 

World Cup for indiscipline under 

coach Appiah who is keen on instilling 

discipline in the squad. 

Dr Amoah has now told 

coach Appiah to consider 

whether to name Muntari in the 

squad even if he won't play a 

starting role in the squad at the 

tournament in Egypt. 

“I had a call from Sulley 

Muntari and the way he was talking 

with passion I couldn't believe 

it. He said if coach Kwesi 

Appiah will only play him for 15 

minutes, he will be grateful and 

accept it. This is a player who was 

clubless but now playing regularly 

but I think the final decision is in 

the hands of the coach,” he 

added. 

Muntari has made just two appearances 

in the Spanish second 

tier since joining since Albacete 

five months ago. Muntari has 

played 84 times for Ghana with 

20 goals to his account. 

The Black Stars will play in 

Group F of the Afcon alongside 

Cameroon, Benin and Guinea- 

Bissau. 

ENGLISH CLUBS have created 

European football history by taking 

all four final spots in the continent's 

two major competitions. 

Arsenal won in Valencia and 

Chelsea beat Eintracht Frankfurt on 

Thursday to reach the Europa 

League final. That followed dramatic 

wins for Liverpool over 

Barcelona and Tottenham against 

Ajax in the Champions League. 

It is the first time all four finalists 

in Europe's top two competitions 

have come from one nation. 

There have only been two all- 

English finals before, with Tottenham 

beating Wolves in the 1971-72 

Uefa Cup and Manchester United 

Champs League & Europa League: 

English clubs make history by taking four final places 

• Son — 

Tottenham 

• Hazard 

— Chelsea 

• Sallah — 

Liverpool 

• Aubameyang 

— Arsenal 

beating Chelsea in the 2007-08 

Champions League. 

Spain had three teams in the finals 

of the two competitions in 

2015-16, with Real Madrid and 

Atletico Madrid contesting the 

Champions League trophy and Unai 

Emery's Sevilla winning the Europa 

League. 

"In England the level is very 

high and the Premier League is the 

best championship in Europe," said 

Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri. 

Arsenal and Chelsea will meet in 

Baku, Azerbaijan - 2,468 miles from 

London - on 29 May, with a Champions 

League spot at stake for the 

Gunners, who could become the 

fifth English side to qualify for next 

season's competition. Chelsea are 

already assured of their place after 

cementing a top-four finish in the 

Premier League. 

Baku's Olympic Stadium has a 

capacity of 68,700 but Uefa has allocated 

only 6,000 tickets to each 

club, a decision Arsenal described 

as "disappointing", adding that it 

presents them with "extreme difficulties" 

in how to allocate tickets". 

Tottenham and Liverpool will 

meet in Madrid on 1 June, with fans 

of those clubs also facing travel issues 

of their own, with direct 

flights from the UK reaching 

£1,300 and some airlines being accused 

of "profiteering". 

The Premier League clubs' 

achievements means there will also 

be an all-English Uefa Super Cup in 

August. That game will be played in 

Istanbul, Turkey.

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