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Head, Corporate Comm. 

OmniBSIC Bank 

•Kwabena 

Agyapong 

• Brother Mark 

Dankyira Korankye, 

the Acting General 

Secretary of TEWU 

•Mr Kofi Nti, the 

Commissioner-General 

•Ms Daniela Osei Mensah, the missing girl 

Rejoinder 

Rejoinder: Tension 

brews at F/Service 

THE PUBLIC Relations Officer of the Ghana 

National Fire Service, Mr Ellis Robinson Okoe, has 

sent a rejoinder in connection with our lead story of 

August 1, 2019 with the headline ‘Tension brews at 

F/Service’ denying some expressions attributed to 

him under our subheading ‘Reactions’, which is 

also the last part of the story. 

Mr Okoe says he did not use the expression “socalled 

aggrieved officers” (in first paragraph). He 

also says the word most in the following quote was 

• Continued on page 3 

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DAILY QUOTE 

Don't forget to tell yourself 

positive things daily! You must 

love yourself internally to glow 

externally — Hannah Bronfman 

CONTENT 

ANNIVERSARIES 

- Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day - 

Saturday, 21 Sep 

– Farmers' Day — Friday, 6 Dec 

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17-yr-old student missing 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

y.antoh@yahoo.com 

A FARMER and resident of Ejisu 

Abenease in the Ashanti Region, Mr 

Isaac Osei Mensah, is appealing to 

Ghanaians to help the Abuakwa Police 

Command to speedily unravel 

the mystery surrounding the whereabouts 

of her 17-year-old daughter, 

Ms Daniela Osei Mensah, a Form 1, 

Home Economic student of Jachie 

Pramso Senior High School. 

Speaking at a press conference in 

Accra, Mr Mensah said the last time 

the family saw Daniela was May 7, 

2018, when she came to Kumasi to 

buy some items for school. 

He said she requested for 

GH¢400.00 to buy some items for 

practicals as a Home Economic student, 

so “I sent the money to her 

mother, which she want to collect 

and told the mother she was going 

to Kumasi to purchase those items 

and go back to school.” 

“So as for us we thought she had 

• Ms Daniela Osei 

Mensah, the missing girl 

gone back to school; it was after a 

week that her housemistress called 

that Daniela had not been in school 

for the past one week. We were surprised 

and on May 18, 2018 made an 

official complaint to the Abuakwa 

Police,” Mr Mensah stated. 

He said the police told them they 

would do their investigations but 

“we, as a family thought the girl had 

gone to see a friend or she had gone 

somewhere and that she would 

come but till today, no one has 

heard from her.” 

Speaking while in tears, Mr Mensah 

said, “For now what we are saying 

is that, we are calling on the 

Ghanaian media to send this message 

across so that they can help us 

find our daughter. Since May 7, 

2018, no one has heard of Daniela 

again 

“When the incident happened, 

we went to the school to meet the 

management, thinking some of her 

friends would know her whereabouts 

but that that did not happen. 

“We believe in the Ghana Police 

Service and we know that they will 

help us find our daughter and we are 

appealing to Ghanaians and the general 

public that if anyone has heard 

of Daniela, he/she should alert the 

police or report to the nearest police 

station. 

Reduce politics, increase 

tax education • GRA C’sioner-General to media 

FROM KWEKU GYASI ESSEL, KOFORIDUA 

MEDIA PRACTITIONERS 

have been called upon to shift 

some of the attention given 

to politics to tax education to 

persuade the citizenry to cherish 

the obligation to pay tax to ensure the state 

has the needed revenue for national development. 

Mr Kofi Nti, the Commissioner-General 

of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), 

made the appeal at the opening of a two-day 

training workshop for members of the Private 

Newspapers Association of Ghana (PRIN- 

PAG) held in Koforidua on Saturday, August 

10, and Sunday, August 11, 2019. 

“I am craving for a time when, for three 

weeks running, the media would concentrate 

on attitudinal change among the citizenry to 

pay tax rather than the concentration on politics,” 

the Commissioner-General said. 

Mr Nti said the ratio of tax revenue to 

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 12.3% in 

Ghana, which is not appreciable, and so “we need 

to, at least, move our figure to 20% and that calls 

for the support of the media.” 

He said the greater part of that ratio came 

from the formal sector, explaining that tax payment 

in the informal sector was not appreciable, a 

situation that needed attention from all stakeholders. 

He therefore commended the leadership of 

PRINPAG for organising the workshop to make 

journalists better understand tax issues so they 

• Mr Kofi Nti, the Commissioner-General of the 

Ghana Revenue Authority 

could support the GRA to have it easier to collect 

taxes. He saluted also for choosing an apt theme, 

‘Bringing the informal sector into the tax net: the 

role of the media’. 

Mr Nti said the GRA had put in measures to 

maximise tax revenue, including allowing informal 

sector workers to pay tax using a mobile money 

platform. 

Earlier, the president of PRINPAG, Mr Andrew 

Edwin Arthur, had, in his welcome address, 

called on media houses to use their outlets like television, 

radio, newspapers and online 

portals to put out messages persuasive 

enough to make the citizenry 

want to pay their taxes. 

He underscored the need for 

journalists to take particular interest 

in continuous and specialist education, 

pointing out that “if the media 

in Ghana wants to stay relevant, 

there is the need for specialisation, 

which is the reason for the workshop.” 

Mr Arthur asked the GRA management 

to motivate the taxmen and 

women enough to “stop them from 

being prey to enticement to corruption.” 

He also asked the GRA and Parliament 

to do enough stakeholder 

consultation in their attempts to formulate 

tax laws in order to save situations 

where certain tax bills or laws 

should be dropped as had become 

the recent case of the luxury car tax. 

The PRINPAG president then 

thanked the GRA for sponsoring 

the workshop. 

When he took his turn as the’ landlord’ of the 

workshop host region, Mr Eric Kwakye Darfour, 

the Eastern Regional Minister, emphasised the corelation 

between tax revenue and national development, 

stressing that “tax is compulsory” once the 

citizenry want to see development in the country. 

He said lack of tax payment, particularly in the 

informal sector, where 80% of Ghanaian workers 

could be found, was due to certain factors such as 

illiteracy, lack of tax education, ignorance of tax 

laws, and lack of proper documentation on the 

part of tax collectors, questioning, for instance, 

why a company should operate for 10 years before 

being assessed for tax payment. 

“I don’t think this is right. The situation must 

change because when this happens, it would lead 

to a bargain and the bargain would not go in 

favour of GRA.” 

The chairman for the occasion was Mr Affail 

Monney, the president of the Ghana Journalists 

Association. 

He reminded journalists that their greatest 

need was capacity building and so they should take 

workshops and other learning opportunities seriously. 

Mr Monney reminded journalists of their cardinal 

role of setting agenda but admonished them 

to “avoid useless or reckless agenda because this is 

inimical to national development.” 

Nine topics bordering on taxation were discussed 

at the two-day workshop, including 

‘Emerging Trends in Tax Administration; ‘Corporate 

Institutions and the PAYE Policy: Compliance 

and Challenges; Auction of Confiscated Goods 

and Vehicles’; ‘Movement of Goods Under Suspense 

Regimes’; ‘Penalties for Tax Evasion/Consequences 

of Tax Evasion for Nation Building’; 

‘Impact of Tax Waivers on Ghana’s Economy’; 

and ‘The Significance of the Tax Identification 

Number (TIN)’. 

The resource persons for the workshop were 

Madam Georgina Zeng, Mr Sugar E.F.K. 

Adukonu, Mr Salifu Koray, Madam Yvonne 

Konadu-Wiafe, Mr Patrick Danso, Mr Prince Akwaboah 

and Mr Emmanuel Tetteh, all of GRA; 

and Mr Daniel Nuer of the Ministry of Finance.

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Trouble looms for 

SHS students? 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

captainmut@yahoo.com 

THE TEACHERS and Educational 

Workers' Union 

(TEWU) are demanding equal 

treatment for both teaching 

and non-teaching staff in 

terms of 50-50 sharing of incentives and 

motivational packages else the Senior 

High School students would be left to 

starve. 

It is the case of TEWU that the recent 

introduction of Green and Gold tracks has 

created some comfort for teachers, but 

same cannot be said of the non-teaching 

staff, who are left to work long hours without 

rest. 

Brother Mark Dankyira Korankye, the 

Acting General Secretary of TEWU, said 

“we have tolerated some of these things 

for far too long and our members are 

dying, our members are suffering.” 

According to him, “it is enshrined in 

the Labour Act that every worker deserves 

a leave, so we will take our leave,” adding, 

“Why do we continue to suffer, if the people 

we are working for do not recognize 

the fact that we are suffering, so we say 

yes, you want to bring the final year students 

to school. We are happy we are 

preparing them for their final exams so if 

our concerns are not addressed, we will 

also advise ourselves. 

“Teachers are assigned to tracks, so 

when Green track is in session, Green 

track teachers are on duty. But Gold track 

teachers are on holidays. but for the nonteaching 

staff, whether green or blue or 

white, we are working throughout. 

“No break and therefore we think that 

if we are the ones doing the hard work. 

Can you imagine the situation where the 

matron refused to go to the kitchen to 

cook for just one day? What will happen 

in the school? So if we (non-teaching 

staff) are doing the hard work and no 

break, we think that we should even be 

given more. 

• As TEWU demand 50-50 share of 

incentives for non-teaching staff 

• And warns Education authorities over 

imposition of SIC insurance policy 

Teachers alone cannot reform 

or bring total education 

to the child; it takes the nonteaching 

staff as well, so let 

share 50-50. 

Mr Korankye said all this in 

an interview with the DAILY 

HERITAGE after a press 

briefing in Accra on other issues 

worrying TEWU members. 

‘Stop imposing SIC 

insurance on us’ 

At the press briefing, 

TEWU called on the management 

of the Ghana Education 

Service (GES) to stop the illegal 

deduction of the SIC insurance 

premium from 

members' salaries to ensure industrial 

peace. 

They called on the GES to, 

as a matter of urgency, refund 

all deductions made from 

members’ salaries so far, 

adding that TEWU would no 

longer tolerate the imposition 

of the insurance policy on its 

members. 

Represented by Mr Korankye 

at a press briefing in Accra, the Union 

expressed concern about the entrenched position 

taken by the management of GES to continue 

to deduct monies from the salaries of 

members in the name of an insurance policy. 

The Acting General Secretary said members 

of the Union at its regional conference 

barely two months ago, unanimously condemned 

the deductions because the consent of 

members was not sought in the first place for 

them to agree or not to subscribe to the policy. 

“Our position is that it is an insurance 

package, so individuals who think that it is 

good for them, should have been given the 

• Brother Mark Dankyira Korankye, the 

acting General Secretary of TEWU 

opportunity to pick a form and fill it to subscribe 

to it but not impose it on members,” he 

said. 

He said other issues raised during the regional 

conferences were the delay in paying 

critical support premium to all categories of 

workers under TEWU, increasing workload 

under the SHS double track system, backlog of 

promotions, and need to fast-track recruitment 

of more non-teaching staff, among 

other issues. 

Critical support Premium 

Touching on the issue of the critical support 

premium, the Union called on the government 

and the management of GES to take 

steps to ensure that every member of the 

GES enjoyed the premium just as it had been 

done for civil servants. 

“There has been a long-standing debate between 

TEWU and GES management, regarding 

the eight classes of our membership who 

are not enjoying the critical support premium 

which pre-supposes that maybe their work is 

not necessary. 

“But we believe that everybody’s work is 

important in the education sector in general. 

And therefore we are calling on the government 

and the GES management to take steps 

to ensure that every member of the GES enjoys 

the critical support just as it has been 

done for civil servants.” 

Backlog of promotions 

On the issue of promotion, TEWU said 

there had been a huge backlog of outstanding 

promotions among members, urging the authorities 

to fast-track the process to get all 

those who are due for promotion to be promoted. 

He explained that the delay in promotion 

was really demoralising members to give their 

best, adding that for more than two years 

members who have received their promotion 

letters were yet to be placed on their new 

grade. 

The TEWU leadership has urged GES to 

expedite action on the recruitment process to 

augment the numbers of the non-teaching 

staff, instead of relying on temporary staff, 

who were paid by the Parent Teachers' Association. 

"It is the expectation of the TEWU national 

leadership and entire membership that 

these concerns raised will be addressed 

promptly, to avoid any action that can derail 

the academic calendar," he added. 

Delay in recruitment more 

non-teaching staff 

Mr Korankye also explained that the leadership 

is worried that the promised by GES 

management that in June there will be some 

recruitment of non-teaching staff, has not materialize. 

“We are in August now and have not seen 

any action in this direction. We pray that the 

authorities will expedite the recruitment 

process to augment the numbers of the nonteaching 

staff. 

“It is the expectation of the TEWU national 

leadership and entire membership that 

these concerns raised will be addressed 

promptly, to avoid any action that can derail 

the academic calendar. We would say for emphasis 

that [this will happen] if nothing concrete 

is done,” he added. 

As at the time of going to bed, the Ghana 

Education Service had withdrawn 40,000 

teachers from the policy with further assurance 

that they would cancel the entire policy if 

teachers did not want to be included in the initiative. 

Rejoinder: 

Tension brews 

at F/Service 

• Continued from Front Page 

not his word; rather he used 

some: “It will interest you to 

know that these guys who are 

making the noise for promotion, 

most of them cannot 

even write their names correctly, 

not to talk of becoming 

officers to disgrace the service,” 

he stated. 

Our investigation shows 

that “the so-called aggrieved 

officers” was used by our reporter 

in an attempt to describe 

the officers concerned 

seeing that they were angry. 

As for the most, we can only 

say it was a slip that occurred 

in the course of transcribing 

the interview Mr Okoe 

granted us. 

We sincerely retract those 

expressions and apologise for 

any harm they have caused.

• The prime minister hugged Poul-Erik Rasmussen, 

who campaigned for years for an apology 

Danish PM apologises for historical abuse in children's homes 

DANISH PRIME Minister Mette 

Frederiksen has officially said 

sorry to hundreds of victims of 

historical abuse in state-run 

homes. 

From 1945 to 1976 children 

were sexually abused, beaten and 

drugged at the homes, an official 

inquiry found. 

The abuse took place across 

Denmark and campaigners have 

for years appealed to the state to 

accept it was at fault. 

"The apology means everything. 

All we wanted was peace of 

mind," said one of the victims, 

Arne Roel Jorgensen. 

The sixty-eight-year-old told 

the BBC how the lives of many of 

the children had been ruined by 

the abuse. Alcohol, drugs, multiple 

jobs and failed marriages had 

all taken their toll. 

The Social Democrat prime 

minister met dozens of victims of 

the scandal at her official residence 

at Marienborg on Tuesday. 

BBC 



Kenya police raid mansion 

in drugs investigation 

POLICE IN Kenya are 

searching the house of 

tycoon Ali Punjani in 

Mombasa in an ongoing 

drug-trafficking investigation 

that began in the 

US. 

Three people have been arrested 

at the property including a Nepalese 

woman who says she is his wife, and 

two men - one a Nepalese national 

and the other Indian. 

Mr Punjani is one of four people 

- including Kenyan brothers Baktash 

and Ibrahim Akasha - facing drug 

trafficking charges in New York. 

The fourth man, Vijay Goswami, 

identified Mr Punjani as an alleged 

rival drug dealer in Mombasa. 

Mr Punjani has not commented 

on the allegations against him. 

The Akasha brothers pleaded 

guilty last year to several drug violations 

including a conspiracy to 

smuggle over 100kg of heroin and 

methamphetamine into the US. 

•The Building 

The offences can lead to a life 

sentence, but the Akasha brothers 

reportedly entered a plea bargain in 

which they would reveal the identities 

of their fellow traffickers. 

Mr Punjani's lawyer, Jeff Asige, 

told journalists on Monday that his 

client was in India for medical treatment. 

His family released a photo 

which appeared to show him lying 

on a hospital bed. BBC 

World news in 4 stories 

•Zandile Gumede has denied any wrongdoing 

Durban mayor and 

colleagues sacked 

SOUTH AFRICA'S governing 

African National Congress 

(ANC) has sacked the mayor 

of one of its key municipalities 

- eThekwini (Durban) in 

KwaZulu-Natal - amid corruption, 

fraud and racketeering 

allegations. 

Zandile Gumede, along 

with the entire eThekwini executive, 

were removed from 

their positions following a 

special provincial executive 

committee meeting, according 

to the ANC in that province. 

Leaving the meeting, Ms 

Gumede refused to comment 

on its outcome. It is not clear 

at this stage if she will be contesting 

her party’s decision. 

But securing a job is the 

least of Ms Gumede's worries. 

She has a pending corruption 

case to contend with, having 

been arrested earlier this year 

on charges relating to the 

award of a government contract 

worth 208m rand 

($13,550; £11,220). 

The former mayor’s arrest 

led to protests by supporters 

who claim she is being targeted 

by a faction within the 

party. 

Ms Gumede has denied 

any wrongdoing and is currently 

out bail on bail. Her 

corruption case is due back in 

court in January next year. 

BBC 

Yemen conflict: Southern separatists seize control of Aden 

YEMENI SEPARATISTS have 

taken effective control of the port 

city of Aden after days of fighting 

with troops loyal to the internationally 

backed government. 

Forces aligned with the UAEbacked 

Southern Transitional 

Council (STC) - which wants an 

independent south - said they had 

seized control of military camps 

and the presidential palace. 

The opposing Saudi-led coalition 

said it had responded with 

military action. 

The government itself characterised 

the STC's seizure of Aden 

as a "coup". 

Coalition forces had called on 

the STC to withdraw from their 

positions in Aden or face further 

action. It said it launched its strike 

against a "threat" to the country's 

government. 

With the STC in control of 

Aden on Saturday, both sides 

agreed to a ceasefire, which appears 

to be holding despite the 

strike. 

Southern separatists have 

fought alongside pro-government 

forces for much of Yemen's civil 

conflict but it has long seemed an 

•Aden has been the temporary base of President 

Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi's government 

uneasy alliance. 

The southern port city of 

Aden has been the temporary 

base of President Abdrabbuh 

Mansour Hadi's government. 

The president himself is based 

in the Saudi capital Riyadh. 

An official with the separatist 

Security Belt militia told 

AFP that it seized the presidential 

palace on Saturday without a 

fight. 

"Two hundred soldiers from 

the Presidential Guard were 

given safe passage out of the 

palace," the official said. BBC



05 

CITIZENS of all countries make 

demands on their governments as a 

way of ensuring development and 

progress in their communities. Some 

of these demands are schools, 

hospitals, houses, roads and 

employment, which are obvious to the 

man on the street. However, there are 

others like funding of scientific 

research, environmental protection and 

security. 

The question is how do 

governments get money to meet all 

those demands that have become 

burdens or obligations for them? 

Someone would say government 

revenue. What then is government 

revenue? It is the totality of all moneys 

accruing to the government from 

various sources such as income tax, 

import and export duties, dividends 

from state-owned organisations, profit 

from trade, certain charges like fees 

paid for certain state services and 

foreign aid. 

Clearly, a look at the sources tells 

that taxes come from individuals as 

workers and owners of properties, for 

instance, and from businesses. Analysis 

of these revenue sources would also 

show that taxes form a very significant 

aspect of total government revenue. 

And while in some countries, especially 

the US, Canada and those in Europe, 

citizens willingly pay tax because they 

have embraced the idea to support 

their governments to develop their 

countries, in Ghana, tax evasion and 

avoidance are rife. 

It is on record that tax evasion is 

criminal but tax avoidance is allowed 

for some circumstances. For example, 

Editorial 

Help GRA to exceed revenue targets 

some new companies are given tax 

holidays for a period for them to stand 

well before they would start paying tax. 

It is also the case that some goods 

imported for charitable purposes are 

exempted from import duty payment. 

The problem is that some people 

abuse the tax avoidance system because 

they turn round to sell such import-free 

goods while after enjoying the tax 

holiday, some business owners shut 

down and open new businesses to 

enjoy the facility again. Once this 

happens, it means that some individuals 

business owners are exploiting the tax 

avoidance as dodgy scheme. 

Under such circumstances, both tax 

evasion and avoidance undermine the 

efforts of the Ghana Revenue 

Authority (GRA), which is given 

revenue targets to meet in order for the 

country to have the needed funds to 

run the State machinery. 

The DAILY HERITAGE 

wishes to implore all Ghanaians to pay 

all taxes due, and also report individuals 

and businesses trying to shortchange 

the State in terms of tax payment to 

the police and the GRA. The GRA 

says there are good incentives for those 

who would expose such nation 

wreckers, meaning while you help bring 

more money to the State, the State 

would reward you for efforts. 

If we want to see Ghana develop, 

then we all should help GRA to exceed 

its current targets for the State to use 

such performance as basis to set bigger 

revenue targets for the GRA. That way 

we would also be contributing to the 

government’s agenda of ‘Ghana 

Beyond Aid’. 

Who wins Heroes of 

Change Season V today? 

MTN HEROES of Change 

season V final show 

comes off today at 

6:00p.m. at the Accra International 

Conference 

Centre 

The Season V of MTN Heroes of 

Change includes a 13-week TV series on 

how ordinary Ghanaians are transforming 

lives in the areas of health, education 

and economic empowerment. 

The ultimate winner will receive a 

cash prize of GH¢100, 000 whilst the 

three category winners will be awarded 

GH¢30,000 each to be invested in their 

projects for wider impact. MTN Ghana 

Foundation will also present Special 

Awards to selected media personnel and 

young heroes who are also driving change 

in their respective areas. 

The final 10 nominees are Diana 

Adjei, Rev Fr. Akologo Dominic Alale 

Azumah, Justin Yelevielbayire, Mawusi 

Awity, Charles Ofori Antipem, Daniel 

Owusu Asiamah, Frank Abeku Adams, 

Benjamin Akinkang, David Hagan, and 

Louisa Enyonam Ansah. 

Guests at the awards ceremony will be 

entertained by Kuami Eugene, Tagoe Sisters, 

Rex Omar, Uncle Ato and Kwan Pa 

Band. 

• Dr Akinkang 

Benjamin 

•Charles Ofori 

Antipem 

• Daniel Owusu 

Asiamah 

•David Hagan 

•Diana Adjei 

• Frank Abeku 

Adams 

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Yelevielbayire- WA 

• Louisa Enyonam 

Ansah 

•Madam Mawusi 

Awity 

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Enriching Ghana through 

Green Financing 

BY KOJO AKOI-LARBI 

O 

NE OF the 

greatest 

global challenges 

facing 

present 

and future 

generations is our transition to 

a low-carbon environment 

with requisite environmental 

elements for the sustenance of 

human life. 

The transition is estimated 

to be worth tens of millions of 

dollars in investment over the 

coming decades. 

In recent times, the human 

race has been bedeviled by disasters 

such as flooding, landslides 

and extreme heat events 

with a number of fatalities. 

Apart from compromising 

outdoor human activities that 

we used to enjoy in the past, 

today, lengthy exposure to high 

temperatures can lead to heat 

cramps, fainting, heat exhaustion, 

heat stroke and possibly 

death (Smith et al. 2014). 

To effectively and efficiently 

steer the world away from this 

situation, financial institutions 

across the globe are adopting 

‘Green Financing’ as a strategy 

to mitigate the impact of climate 

change. 

Green Financing is described 

as the financing of investments 

that provide 

environmental benefits in the 

broader context of environmentally 

sustainable development. 

These environmental 

benefits include reductions in 

air, water and land pollution, 

•Kojo Akoi-Larbi, Communications Manager at Stanbic Bank, Ghana 

reductions in greenhouse gas 

emissions, improved energy efficiency 

while utilising existing 

natural resources, as well as the 

mitigation of, and adaptation 

to climate change and their cobenefits. 

For the Organisation for 

Economic Co-operation and 

Development (OECD) Green 

Finance is finance for “achieving 

economic growth while reducing 

pollution and 

greenhouse gas emissions, 

minimising waste and improving 

efficiency in the use of natural 

resources. 

The organizational approach 

to green finance is 

rooted in an understanding 

that the financial system both 

serves and relies on the economy- 

an element that is embedded 

and thrives on the 

environment. What this means 

is that when taking business 

decisions, organisations should 

consider not just the financial 

implications of the decision, 

but also the implications for 

the wider economy, society and 

the environment. 

This mind-set can influence 

every area of the business; 

from operations, staff recruitment 

and development, and investment 

strategy, to product 

design and pricing, risk management, 

marketing and financial 

management. 

Green Finance has become 

a necessary feature within the 

Stanbic Bank’s involvement in the GGF Show is part of a 

long standing commitment to moving Ghana and Africa 

forward sustainably. Earlier this year, Stanbic Bank 

made a huge stride in the renewable energy revolution 

in the country with the installation of solar power systems 

at three of the bank’s branches in Accra and 

Tema. 

It is with this understanding 

and commitment 

to ensuring 

sustainable environment 

that Stanbic 

Bank Ghana has 

partnered the Ghana 

Garden and Flower 

(GGF) Movement to 

organize the Ghana 

Garden and Flower 

Show. This year’s 

Ghana Garden and 

Flower Show focused 

on creating awareness 

on environmental 

conservation and 

sanitation under the 

theme “Enriching 

Ghana, a Garden at a 

Time”. 

global banking space 

because of the relationship 

between finance 

and the natural 

environment - finance 

impacts the natural environment 

directly and 

indirectly. The environment 

also directly 

and indirectly impacts 

finance and the performance 

of investments. 

It is with this understanding 

and commitment 

to ensuring 

sustainable environment 

that Stanbic 

Bank Ghana has partnered 

the Ghana Garden 

and Flower (GGF) 

Movement to organize 

the Ghana Garden and 

Flower Show. This 

year’s Ghana Garden 

and Flower Show focused 

on creating 

awareness on environmental 

conservation 

and sanitation under 

the theme “Enriching 

Ghana, a Garden at a Time”. 

Stanbic Bank’s involvement 

in the GGF Show is part of a 

long standing commitment to 

moving Ghana and Africa forward 

sustainably. Earlier this 

year, Stanbic Bank made a 

huge stride in the renewable 

energy revolution in the country 

with the installation of 

solar power systems at three of 

the bank’s branches in Accra 

and Tema. 

There is evidence that gives 

credibility to the fact that ignoring 

issues that affect the environment 

will eventually have 

dire consequences on global financing 

and economic growth. 

Our actions and inactions 

could create risks of major disruption 

to economic and social 

activity, later in this century 

and in the next, on a scale similar 

to those associated with 

the great wars. 

Stanbic Bank is well known 

for its involvement in sustainable 

environment and development 

projects in Ghana. The 

flower show is an event by the 

Ghana Garden and Flower 

Movement. The first edition 

was held in August 2013. 

The movement seeks to create 

awareness among Ghanaians 

about the commercial, aesthetic 

and psychological benefits 

of horticulture and 

floriculture. 

Green Financing is 

described as the financing 

of investments 

that provide 

environmental benefits 

in the broader 

context of environmentally 

sustainable 

development. These 

environmental benefits 

include reductions 

in air, water 

and land pollution, 

reductions in greenhouse 

gas emissions, 

improved 

energy efficiency 

while utilising existing 

natural resources, 

as well as 

the mitigation of, 

and adaptation to climate 

change and 

their co-benefits.

Importance of Shea butter 

• Moisturising 

The concentration of natural vitamins 

and fatty acids in Shea butter 

makes it incredibly nourishing 

and moisturizing for skin. It is 

often used to remedy dry skin and 

to help protect the skin’s natural 

oils. 

• Reduces inflammation 

A 2010 study found that due to 

its cinnamic acid and other natural 

properties, Shea butter was anti-inflammatory. 

One compound in 

particular, lupeol cinnamate, was 

found to reduce skin inflammation 

and even potentially help avoid 

skin mutations. This also makes it 

beneficial for some people with 

acne. 

• Skin smoothing 

Shea butter aids in the skin’s 

natural collagen production and 

contains oleic, stearic, palmitic and 

linolenic acids that protect and 

nourish the skin to prevent drying. 

With long term use, many people 

report skin softening and strengthening 

as well as wrinkle reduction. 



&Env. 

Owaaman Foundation 

stocks Korle Bu blood bank 


Captainmut@yahoo.com 

THE OWAAMAN 

Foundation, a charitable 

organisation, in 

collaboration with 

the Korle Bu Teaching 

Hospital blood 

bank, has organised a blood donation 

event to stock the hospital’s 

blood bank to support persons 

who would need blood when they 

visited the facility. 

The exercise, which is an annual 

event put together by Naa 

Adoley Owaaman I, the Queenmother 

of Russia Mnemnetey, 

who is also the founder of the 

Owaaman Foundation, was used 

to examine over 150 people (men, 

women, children and the aged) 

freely. 

Officials from the National 

•Naa Adoley Owaaman, a Queenmother of Russia Mnemnetey and founder of Owaaman Foundation (right arm stretched) explaining 

things to MP Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey. INSET: People undergoing health screening 

Health Insurance Scheme offices 

were also brought on board to 

renew insurance cards for holders 

as well as register new beneficiaries 

free of charge. 

Naa Owaaman expressed satisfaction 

at the end of the exercise 

and thanked all who supported her 

in making the event to a success. 

Mr Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey, 

the Member of Parliament for 

Ablekuma Central, who also supported 

the exercise, commended 

the queenmother and her foundation 

for the good job she was 

doing for the people. 

He expressed his readiness to 

lend support for any viable cause 

and charged the queenmother to 

continue taking up issues on 

health and sanitation seriously. He 

supported over 150 persons in the 

area to register with the NHIS free 

of charge. 

Zoomlion, others to use WHO-recommended 

biological agent for mosquito control 

THE VECTOR Control Unit of 

waste management giant, Zoomlion 

Ghana Limited, in collaboration with 

the Ministry of Health, is set to use 

Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis 

(BTI) which is a biological agent recommended 

by the World Health Organization 

(WHO) as efficient to 

control outdoor mosquitoes. 

BTI is a bacterial agent that kills 

mosquito at the larvae stage during the 

process of larviciding at mosquito 

breeding sites before they develop into 

adult mosquitoes. The use of BTI has 

been touted by the WHO as environmentally 

safe as it does not emit toxins 

that threaten human and aquatic lives. 

A senior Research Assistant with 

the Entomology team of Noguchi 

Memorial Institute for Medical Research, 

Mr Andy Asafu-Adjaye, disclosed 

this during a training program 

held in Sunyani for Zoomlion staff 

and stakeholders in the malaria control 

exercise. 

•Rev Ebenezer Kwame Addae, Head of Zoomlion Vector Control 

unit engaging the participants 

He indicated that the on-going research 

is revealing that mosquitoes are 

developing some resistance to some 

class of insecticides used for in-door 

residual spraying and the use of longlasting 

insecticide nets, hence the need 

to complement these efforts by using 

a safe biological agent such as BTI to 

kill mosquitoes at the larvae stage. 

He said the Ministry of Health, 

in partnership with 

Zoomlion Ghana 

Limited, is undertaking 

larvae source 

management activities 

in the various assemblies 

to 

complement interventions 

such as indoor 

residual 

spraying and the use 

of long-lasting insecticide 

nets to help 

control mosquitoes 

that transmits malaria 

and yellow fever 

among other deadly 

diseases. 

The Brong Ahafo 

Regional Environmental Health 

Director, Mr. Isaac Richmond 

Mensah, expressed his excitements 

about the effective collaboration 

with Zoomlion to impart modern 

knowledge to stakeholders and 

help address environmental health 

challenges. 

The Head of Vector Control 

Unit of Zoomlion, Rev Ebenezer 

Kwame Addae, explained that participants 

in the training programme, 

who included malaria 

focal persons, health promotion 

officers, District Environmental 

Health officers and staff of 

Zoomlion from the various districts 

in the Brong Ahafo Region, 

were exposed to effective larval 

source management. 

He said the scientific knowledge 

gain from the training would enable 

participants to enhance their delivery 

of larviciding activities in our communities 

and improve health conditions 

of residents in the Brong Ahafo Region.

MADAM DIANA Adjei , a beautician and 

founder of Aseda Foundation in Takoradi, 

says she learnt the hairdressing trade for a 

year and decided to assist prostitutes plying 

their profession on the street to get decent 

work so she approached them to teach them 

the trade, hence the start of Aseda Beauty 

Salon and subsequently the foundation. 

“I decided I was going to live with them 

in the kiosk serving as my salon. They 

became fulfilled and secured, hard-working 

and dedicated and since that time, over 20 

years and still counting, Aseda Beauty Salon 

trains people for free,” she said. 

Aseda Foundation 

“At Aseda Foundation, what I do is to go 

round the country, mobilize people who are 

interested in learning trades and also people 

who by some reasons can’t further their 

education and are wasting away in some 

villages and towns, then bring them to 

Takoradi and give them to some trade 

masters like welding masters, spraying 

masters, refrigeration mechanics masters, 

tiling masters etc, to learn the job for free,” 

she Diana said. 

Diana said it is the grace of God that 

helps her to negotiate with the various 

masters for free apprenticeship but she takes 

care of the trainees’ accommodation, 

feeding, clothing and some other basic 

needs, down to the tools they use to learn 

the trade till they pass out. 

“After they pass out, I help also with 

their startup; I fund some of them, and I 

push others to work on contract with 

people,” she added. 

What are your major achievements? 

The founder said she had been able to 

talk to 610 masters in 25 different vocations, 

who are currently training over 3400 

children from she mobilized from Northern, 

Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Central and Eastern 

regions, as well as the Western Region 

How much impact has your project had? 

I have been able to bring from the streets 

some prostitutes who are now bosses of 

their own businesses and have also been 

married. 

What challenges have you faced? 

The challenges are uncountable; the 

root of them all is finances. For instance, 

because of the impact, a lot of the children 

are showing interest and when they come, 

accommodation becomes a challenge, as well 

as feeding and clothing. 

How do you feel when you see the 

impact your work has had? 

When I visit the shops of the people I 

have trained, sometimes I weep, because 

when I cast my mind back to how they were 

when they came in, the struggles and now 

they own well-equipped shops, I feel fulfilled 

and I give all the praise to God. 

I have had testimonies from some 

Ivorian girls who joined the Enchi group to 

come and train and what they said was they 

thought they were coming for prostitution 

but my intervention had given them hope. 

Sabina Assan, nominator, said, “The 

children are a lot, and Diana herself is a wife 

and a mother, and to have added these 

numbers and given them a better life, in 

terms of health, shelter and clothing, all by 

herself without any support, she needs all 

News 

DAILY 

MTN Heroes of Change: 

Ms Adjei trains prostitutes in trading 

• Madam Diana Adjei, 

Beautician and founder of 

Aseda Foundation 

the 

help she can get. 

“ Diana started this project at age 20 and 

she is now 42 and has all this done alone 

and expanded, with the increasing numbers 

today, she needs all the support she can get 

because it’s out of a genuine heart.” 

Mr S. K. Adisu, Community Leader, said: 

“I have known Diana for over 20 years, 

during her apprentice days before I became 

an assembly member. With time I got to 

know she was involved in training young 

girls in the beautician vocation for free. I 

began paying close attention to her and even 

brought some ladies from my community 

and church for her to train. 

“For someone to go all out, to put these 

numbers on health insurance, to provide 

them food, clothing and shelter without any 

sponsorship or support, she needs to be 

rewarded and encouraged to do more. She 

has brought total behavioural change to the 

society, especially young ones.” 

Rita Nyaho, Beneficiary, said she was a 

prostitute in a club, and saw a group of 

young women who came to the club to 

have fun so she approached them and 

asked who they were and they introduced 

her to their madam. 

“I approached her and she told me they 

were a group of beauticians so she gave me 

her contact and location and then I chased 

her the following day. Accommodation and 

feeding were problems for me and so I was 

prostituting to raise capital for my future. 

Therefore when I met the woman and she 

told me she wasn’t going to take anything 

from me when she trains me, accommodate 

me and clothe me, I became shocked 

“Quickly, I joined them and never went 

back to the club. I didn’t know the clubbing 

was the madam’s strategy to pull girls like 

myself from there. Today I am a graduate of 

her vocational training; she started my 

business for me and has also helped me to 

get into marriage.” 

Ghana’s human rights needs improvement 

- Director of Amnesty Intl Ghana 

HERITAGE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

Arrest public master trainers offering 

training to private schools - GNACOP 


philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh 

THE EXECUTIVE 

Director for Ghana 

National Council for 

Private Schools 

(GNACOPS), Mr 

Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah 

has called on the public, especially 

academic stakeholders, to report any 

public master trainer extorting monies 

from private school teachers in the 

name of training them to fit into the 

new academic curriculum yet to be 

implemented from the September 17, 

2019. 

According to Mr Gyetuah, some 

government teachers who were 

trained as master trainers for the new 

academic curriculum have started 

extorting monies from some private 

school teachers for training. 

He said the ongoing canker 

strongly contradicted the road map 

agreed between them, leadership of 

Ministry of Education and its agency 

National Council for Curriculum and 

Assessment. 

Speaking at a press conference in 

Accra, Mr Gyetuah disclosed that per 

the content of the agreement, private 

schools have their own road map for 



THE DIRECTOR of Amnesty 

International Ghana (AI), Mr Robert 

Akoto Amoafo, has stated that 

Ghana’s human rights activities need 

improvement because human rights 

do not relate to only elections and 

voting. 

According to Mr Amoafo, human 

rights include one’s ability to access 

good drinking water, food to eat, 

participate fully in local governance 

and be active at all times but the case 

of Ghana is limited to only voting in 

an election. 

Speaking at a Youth Camp 

organised by Amnesty International 

Ghana for the youth dealing in 

human rights drawn from all the 

regions in Ghana at the Pentecost 

Convention Centre at Gomoa Fetteh 

in the Central Region, he called on 

the youth to always exhibit a 

•Mr Enoch Gyetuah (2nd L), Executive Director of GNACOPS flanked 

by his executives at the press conference in Accra 

the training of private teachers. 

“Any master trainer of the public 

sector who shows up to train a 

private school teacher should not be 

allowed. Such people should be 

reported, arrested and dealt with 

according to the laws of the country,” 

he announced. 

He added that master trainers of 

public institutions were trained with 

the resources of the state and are 

defensive skill. 

Mr Amoafo, speaking on the 

theme; ‘Increasing Human Rights 

Impacts through Digital Media: the 

Role of the Youth,’ said “clearly 

human rights situation in Ghana is 

not the best and is not the one that 

as a human rights advocate will able 

to give thumbs up to.” 

“As for me I think that there is 

more that we have to do to get there 

because in Ghana, human rights is 

limited to the right to vote during 

election but forgetting the rights to 

dignity, participate fully in local 

governance and even accessibility to 

basic life opportunities,” he stated. 

He said AI impact assessment 

report for 2018 revealed that actions 

taking place in the digital media had 

impacts on their campaigns online. 

Therefore “we decided to increase 

the accessibility campaign.” 

Mr Amoafo added that through 

social media, AI was able to make 

huge impact on awareness by 

therefore not supposed to raise a 

charge for any training. 

“It is against the laws of the 

state...This is the reason why the 

Ministry has called upon the private 

schools to train their own master 

trainers," he strongly noted. 

He announced that as part of the 

drafted measures towards the training 

of private school teachers, 130 master 

trainers in the private sector have so 

•Mr Robert AkotoAmoafo, Director of AI, Ghana 

presenting an award to one of the youth 

educating Ghanaians on issues about 

bails and human rights campaigns. 

He said the youth camp was 

aimed at placing the youth at a point 

where they could be empowered to 

far been trained for the 

various categories of the 

new curriculum and that 

they were inducted and 

confirmed on Friday, July 

26, 2019, at Ghana 

Atomic Energy 

Commission by the 

Deputy Minister for 

Education, Mr Osei Yaw 

Adutwum. 

According to him, the 

trainers have already 

started a stimulation 

training to ascertain the 

level of their 

understanding of the 

new curriculum. 

Mr Gyetuah said the 

130 master trainers from 

the GNACOP would, as 

part of their duties, be 

authorised to train over 

70,000 private school teachers at all 

the 98 selected training centres across 

the country within the months from 

the beginning of August to 

September 14, 2019. 

He said the Ashanti Region alone 

had been apportioned 20 training 

centres, Greater Accra 10, Bono East 

Region seven, and Ahafo Region five 

among others. 

take actions concerning human rights 

issues in their various communities. 

The Board Vice Chairperson in 

charge of Youth Education, Mrs 

Elizabeth Adomako, said the youth 

“Any master trainer 

of the public sector 

who shows up to train 

a private school 

teacher should not be 

allowed. Such people 

should be reported, 

arrested and dealt 

with according to the 

laws of the country,” 

he announced. 

He, however, pledged to ensure 

that all private schools were covered 

under the training. 

He said the new curriculum 

introduced by the Ghana Education 

Service and the National Council for 

Curriculum Assessment would go a 

long way to improve the learning 

outcomes of the various basic 

schools in the country. 

The new system, he noted, would, 

unlike the old one, put students on a 

good academic pedestal and that 

parents would be able to assess the 

performance of their children. 

were gathered to teach them 

how to take action through 

digital media and also send 

solidarity message online. 

Mrs Amoako said “we want 

to educate them and empower 

them to see more activeness 

online.” 

The Chairman for the 

occasion, who doubles as a 

Member of the National Youth 

Coordinating Team, Ms Ellen 

Dzidzor Boateng, said the 

programme started on July 28 

and ended on July 30, 2019 

during which time the youth 

learnt about Microsoft to enable 

them to use digital media to 

advance human rights activities. 

Ms Boateng said the youth 

were taken through parallel 

workshops such as human rights 

education and campaign and 

mobilization to propel them in order 

to be able to organize their various 

activities in the regions. 

Lord’s Garden 

Montessori 

holds maiden 

graduation 

BY PRINCE ESSIEN 

THE LORD’S Garden 

Montessori School of Nungua 

in the Krowor Municipal 

Assembly has held its first 

graduation ceremony for three 

graduands with a call on 

parents to invest in the 

education of their wards (sic). 

The ceremony was held on 

the theme ‘Quality Pre-school 

Education: the Role of Parents 

and Teachers’. 

Madam Elizabeth 

Akowuah, the Early Childhood 

Coordinator of the Tema 

Metropolitan Assembly, who 

was the guest speaker, said 

parents had greater role to play 

for ensuring quality education 

of their wards (sic). 

She said, “It is important to 

educate your wards (sic) since 

they are the future generation 

of the country,” adding that 

parents had shirked their 

responsibilities to house-helps 

and running after money, 

which is not helping in the 

upbringing and proper training 

of the child. 

“Parents wake up early in 

the morning and go to work. 

They report home very late 

and do not even check 

whether their children have 

done their home work,” she 

added. 

Role of parents 

According to Madam 

Akowuah, “Parents must be 

careful in how they address 

school concerns in front of 

their child. If they display a 

negative attitude toward 

school, their child may adopt 

that as his/her own attitude 

toward school.” 

She further said research 

had revealed that high selfesteem 

and student 

achievement are closely related 

to positive parental 

involvement in school 

activities. 

“When parents get involved 

in school, it can be a 

motivating factor to the child. 

It tells the child that the 

parents think school is 

important. Parents need to 

keep in touch with their child's 

school and build a relationship 

with the teacher,” she said. 

Role of teachers 

Madam Akowuah said the 

most common role a teacher 

plays in the classroom is to 

teach knowledge to children 

using a curriculum that meets 

state guidelines, which they 

must follow. 

The director and 

headmistress of the school, 

Mrs Rosemary Bota, urged the 

graduands to value education 

and study hard to achieve their 

dreams and aspirations. 

The graduands also 

expressed their gratitude to 

school authorities for 

honouring them, saying “being 

a student, your primary role is 

to learn. Taking keen interest 

in studies will help one 

understand facts and figures, 

the social and natural 

environment and how things 

work in reality.” 

•Mrs Rosemary Bota, Headmistress of Lord’s Garden 

School and some of the graduands

15TH 

JULY 

2019 

FRIDAY 

CURRENCY PARIS CODE BUYING SELLING 

US Dollar USDGHS 5.2083 5.2135 

RATES Pound Sterling GBPGHS 

6.6015 

6.6086 

Euro 

GBPGHS 

5.8545 

5.8577 

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Access Bank marks 10th 

Anniversary with “Save More, 

Win More” promotion 

AS PART of its 10th 

Anniversary celebrations, 

Access Bank 

Ghana has unveiled 

an industry first 

branch-based savings 

promotion dubbed “Save More, Win 

More” with an objective of helping 

its customers to inculcate a healthy 

savings habit whilst winning fantastic 

rewards every month. 

On the campaign theme “10 years 

of more”, the promotion seeks to 

reaffirm the bank’s brand promise of 

delivering “more than banking” 

whilst rewarding thousands of its existing 

and new customers across all 

51 branches nationwide. 

Speaking on the bank’s rationale 

for launching the promotion, the 

Managing Director of Access Bank, 

Mr Olumide Olatunji, said the promotion 

was a way of thanking customers 

for their loyalty over the past 

decade of the Bank’s operations in 

Ghana. 

He said there were savings challenges 

faced by a number of Ghanaians, 

attributing them to lack of goal 

setting and procrastination. 

He added, “Over the past years, 

we have continuously developed 

lifestyle-based products and services 

that provide flexible options for all 

Ghanaians to save and invest no 

matter how small their income may 

be - because we believe that everyone 

has a dream that must be fulfilled; 

a dream to “own” the future 

they want to see. And this they can 

achieve if the right support systems 

and incentives are in place”. 

According to Mr Olatunji, the 

promotion will further deepen Access 

Bank’s financial inclusion drive 

by bringing the unbanked and underserved 

segments of the market into 

mainstream banking. 

The “Save More, Win More”promotion, 

which will run from August 

13 till the end of December 2019, 

will simply require existing customers 

to deposit as little as GH¢100 

or more into their current or savings 

account every month to win awards. 

New customers will simply need to 

open an account and follow similar 

steps. 

•Stephen Abban – Divisional Head, Retail Banking speaking on behalf of the MD 

He explained that the unique 

thing about the promo is that there 

shall be no draws, as the Bank will be 

rewarding thousands of customers at 

all their branches across the country. 

He said “in addition to the ultimate 

cash prizes that will be won at 

the end of the promotion, other 

winners who will be rewarded every 

month will walk away with Smart 

TVs, free school fees payments, 

weekend getaways, fuel coupons, 

meal tickets, DSTV with 3 months’ 

subscription, airtime, branded T 

Shirts and many more.” 

Through Access Bank’s several 

product innovations in the digital 

space such as the largely patronised 

Access Mobile App, the *901# mobile 

banking service as well as our 

deposit-taking ATMs, the Bank has 

enabled its customers to reduce their 

time spent at banking halls to perform 

simple transactions such as depositing 

money into their accounts. 

Customers can therefore be assured 

of a variety of digital channels to 

take advantage of the “Save More, 

Win More” promotion. 

Inflation for July 

goes up to 9.4% 

BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI 

Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com 

THE CONSUMER Price 

Index (CPI), which measures 

the change over time in the 

general price level of goods 

and services that households 

acquire for the purposes of 

consumption, in the month 

of July 2019 slightly went up 

to 9.4%. 

Briefing the press in 

Accra yesterday, Mr David 

Kombat, Deputy Government 

Statistician of the 

Ghana Statistical Service, 

said the year-on-year inflation 

rate as measured by CPI 

went up by 0.3 percentage 

point from the 9.1% 

recorded in June 2019. 

According to him, the 

rate of inflation for July 

2019 is the percentage 

change in CPI over the 12- 

month period, from July 

2018 to July 2019. 

“The monthly change 

rate for July 2019 was 0.6% 

compared with the 0.8% 

recorded for June 2019,” he 

explained. 

For the food and non-alcoholic 

beverages group, the 

Statistician pointed out that 

the year -on -year inflation 

rate recorded 6.6%, which is 

0.1 percentage points lower 

than the rate recorded in 

June 2019. 

“Six subgroups of the 

food and non-alcoholic beverages 

group recorded inflation 

rates higher than the 

group’s average rate of 6.6 

%,” he said. 

For the non-food group, 

Mr Kombat said it recorded 

a year-on-year inflation rate 

of 10.7% in July 2019, compared 

to 10.3% recorded for 

June 2019. 

The Statistician explained 

that four subgroups 

recorded year-on-year inflation 

rates higher than the 

group’s average rate of 

10.7%. 

He said “clothing and 

footwear recorded highest 

inflation rate of 14.9% followed 

by recreation and culture 

14.8%, furnishings, 

household equipment and 

routine maintenance 14.6%, 

and miscellaneous goods 

and services subgroup 

11.2%.” 

“Inflation was lowest in 

the education subsector with 

6.4%,” he added. 

Mr Kombat pointed out 

that the year-on-year inflation 

rate at the regional level 

ranged from 8.5% for Upper 

East to 11.1% for Upper 

West. 

Five regions, Upper West, 

Brong Ahafo, Volta, Western 

and Ashanti regions, 

recorded inflation rates 

above the national average 

of 9.4%.


DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2019 11 

News 

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about 

anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for 

yourself —Henry James 

Ga West MCE to contest 

Amasaman NPP primaries 



THE MUNICIPAL 

Chief Executive 

(MCE) for Ga West 

Municipal Assembly, 

Mr Clement Wilkinson, 

has filed his 

nomination to contest the upcoming 

New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary 

primaries in the 

Amasaman constituency. 

The MCE contested the race in 

2012 and 2016 but lost to the National 

Democratic Congress 

(NDC) but was appointed MCE 

after the 2016 election when his 

party won power. 

Mr Wilkinson has this time expressed 

strong optimism of winning 

the primaries, and also 

snatching the seat, which is currently 

occupied by the largest opposition 

party member, Mr 

Emmanuel Nii Okai Laryea. 

Addressing supporters after filing 

his nomination, the MCE said 

he was the best candidate for the 

job, hence the need for delegates of 

the party to vote massively for him. 

According to him, he has done 

a lot for Amasaman, including a 

65-km road project. 

He also touched on a water 

project and the construction of 

five CHIP compounds to improve 

health delivery in the area. 

He went further to tout his 

achievement in the area of job creation, 

saying, “I have been able to 

provide jobs for nearly 200 youth 

who are not even members of our 

party. My record is impeccable and 

unprecedented. I have done a lot 

for the people and my record is 

there for everyone to see. 

“I am sure with the support of 

the President and his men, residents 

would see our record. I am 

appealing to delegates to vote massively 

for me so I will continue to 

do my best and serve them.” 

Mr Wilkinson said the achievements 

of the ruling NPP could not 

be compared to the incompetence 

of the NDC. 

To him, Ghanaians would regret 

should they vote for the NDC “because 

a vote for the NDC is a vote 

for incompetence, mismanagement 

and corruption. However, a vote 

for the NPP is a vote for quality 

leadership and fiscal discipline.” 

He said he was hopeful by the 

end of his tenure, the area would 

have benefitted from its fair share 

of the national cake. 

The MCE also claimed that 

members of the NDC were even 

rooting for him because of his 

dedication to work and desire to 

serve. 

In his view, Amasaman is the 

gateway to Accra for being a location 

for a number of factories, 

hence the decision by the government 

to redesign the locality into a 

first-class municipality with access 

to quality roads, potable water and 

better opportunities. 

The former Communication Director 

of the NPP, Mr Adomako 

Baafi, supporting the candidature 

of the MCE, said he is a perfect 

candidate as he cuts across all the 

political divides. 

“I am supporting him because 

of his dedication to work and 

transparency,” Mr Baafi said. 

He has done a lot for the party 

and I believe he will be the best 

candidate for the NPP in 

Amasaman. 

Some supporters of the NDC 

who joined him to file described 

him as a great personality. 

They admonished the NPP to 

vote massively for him at the primaries 

slated for September 28, 

2019. 

“I am sure with the 

support of the President 

and his men, 

residents would see 

our record. I am appealing 

to delegates 

to vote massively for 

me so I will continue 

to do my best and 

serve them.” 

Mr Wilkinson said the 

achievements of the 

ruling NPP could not 

be compared to the 

incompetence of the 

NDC. 

•Mr Clement Wilkinson, Ga West 

MCE, holding a mic to address party 

supporters at the constituency 

office

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HERITAGE FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2019 

Heroes of Change Season V 

Dr Akinkang brings hope 

to residents of Sandema 

Dr Akinkang 

Benjamin, Senior 

Medical 

Officer and 

founder of 

Team of Hope 

in Sandema in the Upper East 

Region, explained how he ended 

up saving the life of his nephew 

when there were no doctors at 

Sandema hospitals. 

According to him, the people 

of Sandema are so poor that 

when they get sick, they are unable 

to visit the hospital for 

proper examination, hence he 

decided to offer free surgeries in 

the month of November. 

“I called on some friends in 

the medical field and 15 clinical 

officers came together to offer 

free surgical care to the people 

of Sandema and beyond. Announcements 

are made on radio; 

we visit areas and screen these 

people. We then make sure we 

register those who are willing to 

get rid of their issues,” he 

added. 

What challenges have you 

faced? 

Dr Akinkang lamented how 

the patients are unable to visit 

the hospital due to transportation 

problem and as such he has 

to organise a transport for them 

to come for the surgery. 

He said, “A financial support 

will be so much appreciated. It 

does not mean if we don’t get 

the support we will stop, no. We 

want to acquire a mini-van that 

can transport these patients in 

for the surgery and after back to 

their homes.” 

Mr Anthony Akum Nyemi, 

nominator, said “I nominated 

Akinkang because of the passion 

he has for the people of 

Sandema. He approached me 

about what he wanted to do and 

that he needed me on board. It 

•Dr Akinkang Benjamin, Medical 

Officer and founder of Team of 

Hope 

was a good idea and so I gladly 

joined. I so much admire his 

passion for his work. For the 

love he has shown my people 

and my community, he is my 

hero.” 

Mr Sheriff, a beneficiary, explained 

how the Team of Hope 

saved the life of his wife after 

she had been delivered of a 

baby and had swollen stomach. 

According to him, the wife 

was confirmed to have a fibroid 

and had to go for surgery, and 

the team operated on her free 

free of charge and is now strong 

strong. 

Mr Atoaling Akgandi, farmer 

and another beneficiary, said, “I 

had severe pains in my waist and 

a lump. I visited the hospital and 

after several tests, I was told that 

it was hernia. I was given medication 

but nothing changed. I 

later came back to the hospital 

and was introduced to the Team 

of Hope and after running several 

scans and tests, they saw 

that it was possible to be operated 

on. I had no money to do 

this but they made it possible 

for me. God bless the Team of 

Hope.” 

He said, “A financial 

support will be so 

much appreciated. It 

does not mean if we 

don’t get the support 

we will stop, no. We 

want to acquire a minivan 

that can transport 

these patients in for 

the surgery and after 

back to their homes.” 

Mawusi empowers over 7000 women across Ghana 

The MTN Heroes of Change 

Season 5 TV series highlights the 

work of Madam Mawusi Awity, 

the founder of Network of 

Women in Growth. 

Mawusi started Network of 

Women in Growth (NEWIG 

GHANA) in 2002 with the aim 

of empowering Ghanaian 

women with vocational skills that 

will help liberate them from 

poverty. 

She trains women in skills 

such as sewing, electrical works, 

plumbing, driving, building and 

construction, soap making, and 

hairdressing among others. Since 

its inception, her Foundation has 

trained over 7000 women across 

Ghana. She equips her trainees 

with tools and materials to establish 

their own business after the 

training. 

Mawusi said her major 

achievement has been the training 

of over 100 women from the 

Gambaga Witch Camp in the 

Northern Region with skills that 

has empowered them to fend for 

themselves. 

“Training some of the women 

•Madam Mawusi Awity 

at Gambaga has been my major 

achievement, because these 

women were considered outcasts 

in their communities. Now they 

feel important and are contributing 

towards the development of 

their community. 

Mawusi is one of the 10 finalists 

of the MTN Heroes of 

Change Season 5. She was nominated 

by Selasie Awity. 

Commenting on Mawusi’s 

project, one of the beneficiaries, 

Ms. Gloria Kankam, stated that 

Madam Mawusi has been a blessing 

to her and her other colleagues. 

“She trained and created 

the opportunity for me to attend 

other training programmes outside 

Ghana. Now I have started 

my own NGO which focuses 

on….? and I’ll always remain indebted 

to her; I still come over to 

help.” 

MTN Heroes of Change Season 

5 was launched in November 

2018 and at the close of the submission 

of entries on January 29, 

2019, over 1,200 entries had been 

received. 

The top 10 finalists were announced 

in May 2019. They are 

Diana Adjei, Rev Fr Akologo 

Dominic Alale AzumahCharles 

Ofori Antipem, Daniel Owusu 

Asiamah, Frank Abeku Adams, 

Benjamin Akinkang, David 

Hagan, and Louisa Enyonam 

Ansah, Justin Kantavooro Yelevielbayire 

and Mawusi Awity. 

The award ceremony of MTN 

Heroes of Change Season 5 has 

been slated for tomorrow, Friday, 

August 16, 2019 at the Accra International 

Conference Centre. 

The ultimate winner will receive 

a cash price of GH¢100, 

000 and category winners would 

be awarded with GH¢30, 000 

each to be invested in their projects 

for wider impact, while the 

rest of the six heroes will each be 

given GH¢10, 000 to support 

their projects. MTN Ghana 

Foundation will also present Special 

Awards to selected media 

personnel and young heroes who 

are also driving change in their 

respective areas.



13 

Rise above peer pressure 

THE Acting Executive Director 

of the Ghana Institution of 

Engineers (GhIE) and a 

former General Secretary 

of the ruling New 

Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Kwabena 

Agyei Agyapong, has charged the 

youth to rise above peer pressure and 

be satisfied with who they are and 

thank God for whatever He has 

given to them. 

He noted that some young people 

in the current generation suffer from 

peer pressure because they are looking 

to do things they are not capable 

of. He thus urged them to appreciate 

what God has given to them “and 

also recognise every day as a bonus 

in your life”. 

This, he said, is very crucial because 

it is important to have mental 

fortitude to make it in life; adding 

that Christians must support each 

other every step of the way. 

“God has invested in us; therefore 

we should have the spirit of 

contentment and love for each 

other,” he pointed put. 

He also called on Christians to 

• Kwabena Agyapong advises youth 

• Kwabena 

Agyapong 

be guided by the spirit of service, 

selflessness and sacrifice in order to 

engender belongingness and spirituality 

in the Church. 

Mr. Agyapong made the call 

when he addressed the Mt. Sinai 

Methodist Society, Atomic- 

Kwabenya, as the Guest of Honour 

at the church’s home-coming event 

held on Sunday as part of activities 

marking its 50th anniversary. 

The programme was organised 

by the 50th Anniversary Committee 

of the church to bring together the 

founding members of the society to 

honour them for their selfless efforts 

in the establishment and 

growth of the Mt. Sinai Society. 

Mr. Agyapong, who is a member 

of the Mt. Sinai Methodist Society, 

said the Methodist Church had 

served society well, establishing 

schools and offering scholarships 

and other forms of support for students 

from under-privileged backgrounds 

and so needed to be 

celebrated. 

He urged the leadership of the church to 

pay more attention to the spirituality of the 

people. 

The Guest Speaker at the event and 

President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, 

Accra, Very Rev. Johnson Kwabena 

Asamoah-Gyadu, observed that many of 

the problems people faced were self-inflicted. 

“We make decisions that we should not 

have made, so if we need help we must 

begin to take responsibility. We need to be 

resolute in the face of challenges,” he said. 

A former Steward of the Mt Sinai Society, 

Mrs. Patience Yawa Aniagyei, who is the 

current Steward of the Kwabenya Circuit of 

the Methodist Church, recounted the history 

of the society and congratulated those 

who had worked hard over the years to 

grow the church. 

The Chairman of the Planning Committee 

of the Mt Sinai Methodist Society 50th 

Anniversary Celebrations, Mr. Clifford Duke 

Mettle, explained that the home-coming 

event was organised “to celebrate the society’s 

gracious existence and also reconnect 

with one another for spiritual growth 

through prayer”. 

Over 700 teachers in LEKMA 

under training on new curriculum 


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OVER SEVEN hundred Circuit supervisors, 

head teachers and teachers in 

public basic schools under the Ledzokuku 

and Krowor Municipal Assemblies 

are undergoing training in the new 

curriculum expected to be introduced 

in the 2018/2019 academic year for 

Kindergarten One to Primary Six. 

They are part of about 152,000 

teachers made up of three groups from 

all over the country who started the one 

week training which began on Tuesday 

at 996 school centres spread throughout 

the 260 districts in the 16 regions of 

the country. 

Mrs Gloria Naa Ahinee Clerk, the 

Municipal Director of Educator at 

LEKMA, from whose jurisdiction 702 

basic school teachers are undergoing 

the Standard-based training teachers at 

the Nungua Senior High School, and 

the Teshie Southern Cluster of Schools 

urged the beneficiaries to take the training 

seriously. 

She said the Ministry of Education 

and the Ghana Education Service, having 

gone through relevant documents 

and consultations came up with the national 

pre-tertiary curriculum framework 

(NPCF). 

“The aim of the NPCF for which 

we have all gathered here came about in 

view of the fact that Ghana is keen in 

accelerating the improvement in educational 

provisions with particular emphasis 

on quality education for all. You will 

• Mrs 

Gloria Naa 

Ahinee 

Clerk 

realise that 

unlike the old 

syllabus which 

focused on preparing 

students to pass 

examinations, this new document 

called curriculum aims at building 

character and nurturing values among 

other objectives. 

“I pray that you participate in the 

workshop with all the seriousness that it 

deserves; pay rapt attention, take part in 

workshop activities and ask relevant 

questions that will eventually inure to 

the benefit of the learner so that at the 

end, I am sure you will come out of the 

training, well equipped to deliver quality 

education to the learners in LEKMA in 

particular and Ghana as a whole,” she 

expressed. 

Resource person 

Mr Maurice Adjetey, the representative 

of the National Council for Curriculum 

Assessment, who is monitoring 

the exercise at LEKMA, 

told this paper that the 

approved basic curriculum 

for KG One 

to Primary Six would 

be implemented in 

September, at the 

start of the 2019-2020 

academic year. 

According to him, 

“the new curriculum was 

developed by the NaCCA and 

is a shift from the objective-based 

curriculum to a standards-based curriculum 

with focus on strengthening the 

acquisition of the 4Rs (Reading, wRiting, 

aRithmetic and cReativity) as foundational 

skills for life-long learning and 

national development,” he said. 

The GES officially and publicly 

launched the new curriculum last April 

and offered the opportunity to book 

publishers to start developing appropriate 

textbooks. 

He explained that the GES and 

NaCCA had developed training manuals, 

including training guides and teacher 

resource packs, and also had the entire 

curriculum and training materials in soft 

copy. 

Out of a total of 702 at LEKMA, 

249 participants are from Krowor while 

453 participants are from Ledzokuku.

14 



‘Women in Worship’ 

2019 launched 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

THE ANNUAL ‘Women In Worship’ 

event was officially 

launched on Saturday, August 10, 

2019, after a health walk against 

cervical cancer, undertaken as 

part of the ‘Akatasia Campaign’ at Action 

Chapel, Spintex, Accra. 

According to the Chief Executive Officer 

of Genet Services and founder of ‘Women in 

Worship’, Mrs Georgina Nettey, “the walk 

against cervical cancer is a worthy cause; most 

women are shy to talk about their reproductive 

health. Creating the awareness is what 

this walk was about.” 

The walk started from the Action Chapel 

• 2019 Women In Worship officially launched with a health walk 

on the Spintex road through the Airport traffic 

lights to the Accra Mall and back to the 

Action Chapel. The participants were subsequently 

taken through some aerobic sessions. 

Mrs Nettey said Nigerian musician, Mercy 

Chinwo, will be headlining the ‘Women In 

Worship 2019’, supported by 2019 VGMA 

Gospel Artiste of the Year, Diana Hamilton; 

Daughters of Glorious Jesus, Cece 

Twum, Cindy Thompson and many others. 

The all-female gospel minstrel concert also 

focuses on serving humanity by supporting 

global education, sensitisation and awareness 

of cervical cancer, with a campaign dubbed 

‘The Akatasia Campaign.’ 

This year's event will be used as a vessel to 

heal and change God’s people in moments of 

worship, she added. 

Mrs Nettey used the opportunity to encourage 

women to exercise regularly to keep 

them healthy at all times. 

The 2019 edition of ‘Women In Worship’ 

will take place at the Dome of the Action 

Chapel. 

Young Mission 

Entertainment 

Signs Freda Rhymz 

YOUNG MISSION Entertainment, a 

Paris-based Ghanaian booking and 

entertainment company, which has 

over the years made very major impacts 

in the lives of most artistes in 

the country, has officially been able to 

sign its ever first unique female rapper 

Freda Rhymz. 

Freda Rhymz parted ways with her 

former record label, Black Avenue 

Muzik, after working with them for a 

year. 

Born Freda Baffour Awuah, Freda 

Rhymz made history by emerging the 

winner of the sixth season of the 

MTN Hitmaker music reality show. 

She is the first female to win that reality 

show. 

Through intense effort, Freda 

Rhymz released three singles and 

music videos between March 2018 

and May 2019 under Black Avenue 

Muzik. 

She released ‘Jammin’ (a Hiphop/Rap 

song), ‘I Dey Go’ featuring 

Kelvyn Boy (an Afrobeats song), and 

‘Pay’, featuring D-Black (an 

Afrobeats/Hip-hop song)’. 

Apart from the songs/videos, the 

rapper also released two freestyle 

music videos within that same period 

and two label singles and music 

videos -‘Kokorkor’ and ‘WataBam- 

Bum’. 

Today, the management and booking 

company is very proud to announce 

their signing of Freda Rhymz 

into their good books. 

The contract is for a five-year period 

and is subject to renewal. 

In a short ceremony to unveil their 

new artiste at the young mission entertainment 

office at the Airport Residential 

Area in Accra, the Chief 

Executive Officer of the Young Mission 

Entertainment, Nana Amoako 

Frempong, told SVTV Africa he was 

excited about his new signing and 

looking forward to working with her. 

"It's difficult for a female artiste to 

blow in Ghana and looking at how 

hard she has worked to be where she 

is now, we thought of coming in and 

helping her reach the top. So I'm excited 

about the signing and looking 

forward to working with her" 

The newly-signed artiste also expressed 

her excitement and said she 

had been longing to work with Young 

Mission Entertainment. 

Other artistes who were said to be 

signed on by the company are music 

producer and singer, Danny Beatz 

and MC and singer, Ogee. 

Stop being selfish 

• Teflon Flexx cautions Fancy Gadam 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

ONE OF Ghana’s talented artistes, 

Akaateba Christopher, known in showbiz 

as Teflon Flexx, who is based in Tamale, 

has cautioned his fellow artiste, Fancy 

Gadam , to support young artistes in the 

North. 

According to the young artist, Fancy 

Gadam has not supported 

young artists in 

the Northern music 

scene in the north 

enough to get them to 

the limelight unlike what 

some of the big artists in 

the south do. 

In an interview on 

GHOne TV, Teflon 

Flexx shared his concern 

on the state of the music 

industry in the north. 

He said, “There are 

a lot of great talents in 

the north but they have 

been neglected by the 

mainstream artistes. A 

mainstream artiste like 

Fancy Gadam is not 

supportive enough to 

the underground musicians 

in the north”. 

Teflon Flexx has become 

a household 

name in the music industry 

after he released 

‘ Murder’ 

The song espouses 

how he is deeply in 

love with his woman and the extent to 

which he will protect the love. 

He has recently dropped a new tune 

dubbed ‘Eskebelebe’, which featured 

Dopenation and was produced by twist 

of Dopenation 

Teflon Flexx dominated the media 

space after putting up splendid performance 

at the Total Shutdown concert at 

the Bukom Arena in Accra hosted by 

Maccasio. 

• Teflon Flexx

DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

DAILY HERITAGE 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2019 

15 

I’m in a good condition 

EMMANUEL AGYEMANG 

Badu has revealed that he is 

in a good condition after 

being rushed to hospital on 

Wednesday night in Italy. 

The former Asante Kotoko midfielder 

was diagnosed with a pulmonary 

microembolism. 

Serie A side Hellas Verona announced 

that the player was taken to 

hospital, where he was diagnosed with 

a pulmonary microembolism – a blood 

clot in the lungs. 

Hellas Verona released a statement 

• Agyemang Badu assures 

saying the player had been hospitalized 

following the incident and would remain 

under observation for some days. 

“The player’s conditions are good 

and he will remain under observation 

for a few days. This is a small blood 

clot in the lung, which can be extremely 

serious, even fatal, if not 

treated.” 

However, the former Asante Kotoko 

star on Thursday said he was in 

the best of conditions despite being 

rushed to the hospital. 

He took to his whatSapp status yesterday 

morning to assure his friends 

that he was in good condition. 

He wrote, "Good morning and 

thank you all for your well wishes. I am 

in good condition." 

Agyemang-Badu joined Hellas 

Verona from Udinese on loan with an 

option to buy. 

• Emmanuel 

Agyemang Badu 

Ozil, Kolasinac 

'100%' ready to play 

LIVERPOOL'S VIRGIL van Dijk and England's 

Lucy Bronze have been nominated for 

Uefa's ‘Player of the Year’ awards for 2018-19. 

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the 

other nominees for the men's award, won by 

Luka Modric last year. 

Bronze is shortlisted for the women's award 

with Lyon team-mates Ada Hegerberg and 

Amandine Henry. 

The Lionesses right-back, 27, and the 

Netherlands' Van Dijk, 28, are both in the final 

three for the first time. 

Bronze helped England reach the semi-finals 

of this summer's women’s World Cup in 

France, after winning the Women's Champions 

•From L-R: Lionel Messi, Van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo 

Messi, Ronaldo, Van 

Dijk up for ‘Uefa Player 

of the Year’ award 

League with Lyon alongside Norwegian striker 

Hegerberg and French midfielder Henry. 

Van Dijk, the Professional Footballers' Association 

Player of the Year for 2018-19, was an 

integral part of the Liverpool side that won the 

Champions League in June and lifted the Super 

Cup on Wednesday. 

Barcelona and Argentina forward Messi has 

won Uefa's individual award three times since 

2009, while Ronaldo - of Juventus and Portugal 

- has been crowned as the continent's best 

player four times since 2008. 

Hegerberg was the 2016 winner of the 

women's award, while Henry has now been 

nominated four times in five seasons 

ARSENAL MANAGER Unai 

Emery is "100%" confident Mesut 

Ozil and Sead Kolasinac are mentally 

ready to play against Burnley 

on Saturday. 

The pair were left out of the 

Gunners' season-opening win over 

Newcastle because of "further security 

fears" after being involved in 

a carjacking attempt by an armed 

gang in July. 

Midfielder Ozil and left-back 

Kolasinac have returned to training. 

Two men have since been charged 

with a public order offence. 

Arsenal pulled Ozil, 30, and 25- 

year-old Kolasinac from the away 

game at St James' Park because of 

"further security incidents". 

"The welfare of our players and 

their families is always a top priority. 

We have taken this decision following 

discussion with the players 

and their representatives," the club 

said at the time. 

In his pre-match news conference, 

Emery said former Germany 

player Ozil and Bosnia-Herzegovina 

international Kolasinac "mentality 

is focused on us, for training and 

the match". 

He said: "My focus is to be positive 

and think the players are 100 

per cent with their mind here. I 

want to help them be normal with 

us, training, thinking and above all 

taking the focus for each match." 

Emery said his only "focus and 

direction" is Saturday's game when 

asked if former World Cup winner 

Ozil will start amid interest from 

MLS side DC United. 

Ferhat Ercan, of Highgate, and 

Salaman Ekinci, of Tottenham, 

were arrested on August 8 outside 

the north London home of Ozil, 

and have since been charged. 

Mr Ercan and Mr Ekinci, both 

27, are due to appear at Highbury 

Corner Magistrates' Court on September 

6. Police said they were 

treating the public order offence 

and the attempted car-jacking as 

separate incidents. 

•Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac

August 16

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