SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

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• Police 

confirm 

missing Tadi 

girls dead 

• Excavator with 

UN symbol found 

on the land 

•Soldiers wielding guns at Otinibi 

• Seated in the Tundra Pick-up bucket are a 

cross-section of the suspects been transported 

to the Sowutuom Police Station 

•Kwadwo 

Owusu Afriyie, 

CEO Forestry 

Commission 

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DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 

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Give us ‘filla’ 

• Forestry Commission cries out, says 

forest guards now ‘getting older’ 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh 

THE FORESTRY Commission is, as 

a matter of urgency, calling on persons 

within the forest areas to volunteer 

information that would help 

combat the activities of persons 

who are illegally destroying the forest. 

This is because the current forest guards who 

are mandated to patrol the forest areas to detect 

these illegal activities are growing older and therefore 

the intervention would have to come from 

the people, the Commission has stated. 

Mr Atta Owusu, the Operations Manager of 

the Commission, made this known to the 

DAILY HERITAGE in Accra during the 

launch of the Civil Society Independent Forest 

Monitoring (CSIFM) platform 

aimed at protecting 

the forest reserves. 

“Our forest guards are 

now getting older, so if we 

get people on board who 

are willing to give us information 

freely which will 

lead to the arrest of those 

who are actually committing 

crimes and most offenses, 

we will commit 

much to such people.” 

He told the paper that 

persons who were recruited 

to protect the forest areas 

as guards have a compulsory 

retirement age of 60 

years, at which “you have to 

go home.” 

He said because of their old age, “they cannot 

work as much as they were doing while young, so 

the best thing is people getting on to retirement…Sometimes 

is not easy, but as the old ones 

go out, we have to find people to replace such 

people.” 

Touching on how much timber is allowed to 

be harvested at a time, he said, “We do what we 

call quantity survey, which means taking a stock 

to see what exactly is available and that will inform 

the number of trees you are permitted to 

have. 

“We do enumeration and we use the data to 

do selection of the trees. We call such enumerations 

yield. In other words, it means the number 

of trees you are permitted to have depending on 

what are available. One can have about 500-600 

trees. 

“When we are going to enumerate, we count 

• Members at CSIFM launch 

the trees which are 50cm and above. We don’t 

just count any tree. We also take stock of that, do 

selection based on the formula that we use to ensure 

the right thing is being done.” 

CSIFM Platform 

The CSIFM is a technologically-led tool to 

complement the efforts of the Forestry Commission 

in enforcement by providing information on 

infractions happening on the blind side of the 

authorities for the necessary corrective actions to 

be taken. 

Musah Abu-Juan, the Forest Technical Director 

at the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, 

who launched the platform, on behalf of 

the sector Minister, Peter Amewu, pledged the 

government’s commitment to all the efforts 

being made to protect the country’s forests. 

He commended the seven parties currently 

on the platform, namely Nature and Development 

Foundation (NDF), Tropenbos Ghana 

(TBG), Civic Response, EcoCare, Rural Development 

and Youth Association, Rainforest Alliance 

and Friends of the Earth, for the effort to address 

the infringements in the sector. 

The Forest Technical Director expressed the 

hope that parties would extend the initiative to 

other parts of the regions and districts to protect 

the country's forests. 

Obed Owusu Addai, the Project Coordinator, 

explaining the initiative, 

said civil society organisations 

on the platform 

to employ a technological 

3-tier system of independent 

forest 

monitoring-community 

monitors, communitybased 

organisations 

based in the district and 

civil societies and the 

Forestry Commission. 

He said the launch 

was to create the 

awareness of the public 

and other relevant 

stakeholders about the 

existence of the 

CSIFM platform in 

Ghana. 

The NSA project 

According to him, the NDF and TBG, with 

funding from European Union, had been implementing 

the project “Strengthening the Capacity 

of Non-state Actors (NSAs) to improve Forest 

Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade 

(FLEGT) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation 

and forest Degradation (REDD+). 

NSA project is to monitor, advocate and engage 

with State and on-state ctors on FLEGT- 

Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) and 

REDD+. 

Mr Addai said the system was made up of the 

web platform, mobile application and the transmission 

system and that the thematic areas being 

monitored on the platform would include timber 

harvesting, illegal farming, illegal mining, bushfire, 

transportation of logs and off-reserve largescale 

lands. 

The Project Coordinator said the platform 

had the potential to provide resolution of social 

conflicts around forest usage and restore trust 

and belief in the forestry system. 

He said it would improve detection and documentation 

of infringements and create database 

for easy referencing and for planning purposes. 

"It will provide for interrogation of existing 

laws and advocate revision and amendments, 

where necessary with greater understanding of 

laws and legal compliance," he added. 

Informant safe 

Madam Mercy Owusu, the Executive Director, 

Tropenbos Ghana, explained further that the 

platform would raise important issues that may 

not necessarily be identified in auditing by the 

Timber Validation Department (TVD). 

The Executive Director said the platform 

would provide a well-organised, documented and 

systemic approach to addressing community and 

local level complaints as opposed to other less 

desirable methods of addressing grievances. 

"Information generated through CSIFM 

helps the TVD to better select its samples and 

better channel the scarce resources for effective 

audits. It becomes useful information for TVD 

auditors to begin their work," she explained. 

She said the CSIFM also explored aspects of 

timber legality that received less attention and 

made sure such issues were addressed. 

Sowutuom chiefs, police arrest 20 suspected criminals 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

y.antoh@yahoo.com 

THE CHIEF of Sowutuom and his 

sub-chiefs, with support from men 

drawn from the Sowutuom Police Station, 

have, in a raid, arrested 20 criminals 

operating and terriorising residents 

in the community. 

The exercise took place last Saturday 

dawn in communities that fall under 

Sowutuom such as Santa Maria, Sowutuom, 

Gbawe, Kwashieman and ghettos 

around the area. 

Speaking exclusively to the DAILY 

HERITAGE in an interview, the 

Chief of Sowutuom and Development 

Chief for Ga State, Nii Osabu Akwei 

Ofori Tibo I, said the chiefs took the 

decision to rid the community of criminals 

following consistent attacks by 

traders and other residents in the area. 

Nii Osabu said on daily basis, residents 

report cases of snatching of mobile 

phones, bags and other valuable 

items and continuous cases of robbery 

in the communities. 

“Sowutuom has been marked as safe 

haven for criminals for long. Anytime 

we hear of such news, it saddens our 

hearts that the community we fought 

hard to establish is gradually attracting 

bad name so we, together with the police, 

embarked on a raid to weed out 

criminals,” he stated. 

The chief said the traditional authority, 

together with the youth in the area, 

decided to redeem the name of the 

community from being a criminal den as 

a safe place for residents, hence the action. 

“We need peace and development in 

the community, hence the need to work 

with the police to flush out all ghettos 

and popular criminal operation points to 

ensure the safety of the members in the 

community,” the Ga State Development 

chief stated. 

Based on this, Nii Osabu has directed 

various sub-chefs to form watchdog 

committees to police their areas and 

also mount checkpoints during the 

nights to help fight crime in their jurisdictions. 

He urged all chiefs in the Greater 

Accra Region to emulate this exercise by 

helping the police to fight crime in their 

respective commuities to clean Accra of 

criminal activities. 

The Noyaa Manye of Santa Maria in 

the Sowutoum Traditional Area, Naa 

Mootso Shika I, said the raid coincided 

with a crime watch event organised by 

officials of the Ghana Police Service 

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Soldiers invade Otinibi 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

y.antoh@yahoo.com 

RESIDENTS OF Otinibi 

Hills Community in the La 

Nkwantang Madina 

Municipality in the Greater 

Accra Region are calling on 

the President and the Defence Minister 

to immediately call on the military high 

command to order armed soldiers seen 

to be protecting lands at Otinibi to leave 

the place for their barracks. 

According to the residents and 

particularly the land owners among 

them, in their quest to develop lands 

they bought legally from Otinibi people 

as far back as 2009, they daily suffer 

threats, harassment and sometimes 

beatings from the armed soldiers who 

are said to be protecting a parcel of 

land they claim belongs to one Mr 

Daniel Kojo Gyampa Markins. 

“We are begging the military high 

command to immediately speak to their 

men to withdraw from the area because 

there is no war going on at Otinibi. 

When did the military start policing 

lands for an individual?” they asked. 

Speaking at a packed press 

conference organised by land owners in 

the area, the spokesperson for the 

residents, Mr Akwasi Adarkwa, said the 

total number of residents at the Otinibi 

Hills community were in excess of 200 

with about 60 of them being property 

owners. 

Mr Adarkwa said the soldiers, 

wielding guns, protect masons and 

other construction workers who are 

constructing a fence wall round the land 

that already has properties on it, with 

the owner having the intention of 

pulling down everything on the land. 

He said residents acquired pieces of 

land from the lawful representatives of 

Adjei Kweidza Mansah and Okantsuru 

Dzan families as far back as 2009. 

“We conducted searches at the 

Lands Commission at various times and 

the search proved that the lands were in 

the name of the two families, 

Okantsuru and Adjei Kweidza.” 

“Based on documents shown to 

members of the community, we have 

every reason to believe that the families 

referred to above are lawful custodians 

of the lands and have the right to assign 

us leases on the said land,” he said. 

• Bulldozing properties, while 

owners look on helplessly 

• Mr Akwasi Adarkwa, spokeperson of the Otinibi Hills Community 

He said the landowners had developed 

their lands to various levels such as some 

having completed their buildings and 

occupying them with well-developed road 

network and electricity extension. 

Social Amenities 

Mr Adarkwa said all these social amenities 

were constructed with the support of the 

poverty owners and landlords in the area 

dating back to 2015. 

“We woke up one morning in May 2015, 

some people purporting to work for Mr 

Markins appeared in the community and 

started writing on buildings and structures 

under construction in the community; 

asking that they be 

removed by the orders 

of Markins.” 

He said upon 

enquiries, members of 

the community were 

told that Daniel 

Markins had acquired 

the lands from the 

chiefs and elders of 

Adomobrobe in the 

Eastern Regions and 

that he was going to 

use the land to 

construct houses to 

build a community to 

be called Markins Hills. 

Mr Adarkwa said 

since then there have 

been many instances of disturbances and 

threats by ‘land guards’, with some of them 

attacking members of the community, 

landowners and people working for the 

landowners whenever they attempted to 

develop their lawfully acquired lands. 

He said some of the land guards went to 

the extent of pulling down some structures. 

“When arrested to Oyibi Police Station, 

some of them made it clear that they were 

working on the instructions of Mr Markins,” 

Mr Adarkwa said. 

No demolishing order 

He said so far neither Markins nor his 

assigns nor agents had produced any 

demolition order by any court against any of 

the properties in the community; including 

those marked ‘Remove. By Markins,’ and 

there is no known court process against the 

occupants of the lands being claimed by 

Markins. 

He said on August 24, 2019, some 

community members confronted some 

workers accompanied by some of the known 

land guards grading a large tract of land in 

the community and “the workers and the 

land guards told us they were working for Mr 

Markins.” 

“On August 29, 2019, we woke up to the 

sight of armed military officers on a military 

truck with registration number GA37. 

Initially they refused to engage anyone as to 

their presence until we reported their 

presence to the Oyibi Police and Adenta 

Police stations. A police patrol team came in 

and told us the soldiers were there to work 

for Mr Markins. 

Armed Military 

He said using the armed military 

personnel, Mr Markins had proceeded to 

commence the erection of a wall to envelope 

the properties occupied by households, 

including women and children, and also cut 

them off from roads and footpaths. 

“This is a clear attempt to forcibly take 

over our properties aided and abetted by the 

Ghana Armed Forces. 

“We are therefore contesting the 

aggressive claim of the lands in the 

community which are already occupied since 

2009 and the use of the armed military 

personnel is just a desperate attempt by Mr 

Markins and his agents to illegally drive us 

away from the land acquired through our 

hard work,” he stated. 

“We the members of Otinibi Hills 

Community are calling on the military high 

command to immediately 

call their men to order 

because our understanding 

of the function of the 

military in the Republic is 

to protect the state against 

external aggression. We are 

neither aliens nor 

aggressors and it is difficult 

to understand why armed 

military personnel would 

be employed by an 

individual to intimidate 

law-abiding citizens in 

dispute over lands.” 

All attempts to speak 

with Mr Markins proved 

futile as call to his cell 

phone number went 

unanswered. 

• Soldiers wielding 

guns at Otinibi

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•Hamza Bin Laden was widely seen as a potential 

successor to his father 

Hamza Bin Laden: Trump confirms al-Qaeda leader's son is dead 

US President Donald Trump has 

confirmed that Hamza Bin Laden, 

the son of al-Qaeda founder 

Osama Bin Laden, was killed in a 

US operation. 

Last month, US media - citing 

intelligence officials - reported he 

had died in an air strike. 

He was officially designated by 

the US as a global terrorist two 

years ago. 

He was widely seen as a potential 

successor to his father. 

Thought to be about 30, he had 

sent out calls for attacks on the 

US and other countries. 

"Hamza Bin Laden, the highranking 

al-Qaeda member and son 

of Osama Bin Laden, was killed 

in a United States counter-terrorism 

operation in the 

Afghanistan/Pakistan region," Mr 

Trump said in a brief statement 

issued by the White House. 

"The loss of Hamza Bin 

Laden not only deprives al-Qaeda 

of important leadership skills and 

the symbolic connection to his father, 

but undermines important 

operational activities of the 

group." BBC 

DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 


World news in 4 stories 

South Africa apologises to Nigeria 

over xenophobic attacks 

SOUTH AFRICA has 

apologised to Nigeria 

over a spate of xenophobic 

attacks which 

led to a spike in tensions 

between the two 

countries. 

Twelve people were killed earlier 

this month when mobs attacked 

foreign-owned businesses, 

mainly in Johannesburg. 

A special envoy from South 

Africa presented an apology to 

Nigeria's President Muhammadu 

Buhari on Monday. 

The envoy, Jeff Radebe, expressed 

the country's "sincerest 

apologies" at a meeting in the 

Nigerian capital, Abuja. 

"The incident does not represent 

what we stand for," he said, 

adding that South African police 

would "leave no stone unturned" 

in bringing those involved to justice. 

Mr Radebe also told President 

Buhari that the South African government 

condemned the violence 

and was taking decisive action. 

Mr Buhari thanked Mr Radebe 

for "coming to explain to us what 

happened in South Africa recently, 

leading to [the] killing and displacement 

of foreigners". 

"President Buhari responded to 

profuse apologies from the South 

African president, pledging that 

the relationship between the two 

countries will be solidified," a 

statement from his office said. 

At the end of last week, South 

Africa's President Cyril 

Ramaphosa told the BBC that he 

felt ashamed by the recent violence. 

BBC 

•South Africa has been rocked by a wave of unrest and xenophobic violence this month. 

•George Weah, a former World Footballer of the Year, became 

Liberia's president last year 

Liberia invites ICC to advise 

on war crimes court 

LIBERIA'S PRESIDENT 

George Weah has invited the 

president of the International 

Criminal Court (ICC) to the 

country to discuss the idea of 

setting up a war and economic 

crimes court. 

The tribunal is intended to 

address crimes committed 

during two bouts of brutal 

fighting in 1989-1996 and 

1999-2003 in which some 

250,000 people were killed. 

Thousands more were mutilated 

and raped, often by 

armies of drugged child soldiers 

led by ruthless warlords. 

Regional peacekeepers intervened 

twice to end the fighting. 

Smith Toby, Liberia's 

deputy presidential press secretary, 

told the BBC that President 

Weah had recently met 

ICC President Chile Eboe- 

Osuji in Nigeria to briefly discuss 

the matter. 

“We are awaiting a response 

[from the judge]," Mr 

Toby said. 

There is growing pressure 

to set up a court from key 

players in the West African 

nation, including traditional 

chiefs and elders at a recent 

gathering. 

President Weah has also 

written to the House of Representatives 

seeking their advice 

on the matter. 

Senator Abraham Darius 

Dillon, from the opposition 

Liberty Party, has welcomed 

the move, saying recently on a 

radio programme that it was 

"time to end the culture of 

impunity in our country”. 

BBC 

Iran rules out talks as Trump links Tehran to Saudi oil attack 

IRAN’S SUPREME leader on 

Tuesday ruled out talks with 

Washington after President Donald 

Trump blamed Tehran for an 

attack on Saudi oil facilities that 

knocked out half the kingdom’s 

output. 

Trump said on Monday that it 

looked like Iran was behind the 

weekend strike at the heart of 

the Saudi oil industry, which cut 

5% of global production, but 

stressed he did not want to go to 

war. Iran denied it was to blame. 

“Iranian officials, at any level, 

will never talk to American officials 

... this is part of their policy 

to put pressure on Iran,” Iranian 

state TV quoted Ayatollah Ali 

Khamenei as saying. 

He said talks could only take 

place if the United States returned 

to a nuclear accord between 

Iran and the West that 

Trump abandoned last year. 

U.S.-Iran relations deteriorated 

after Trump quit the accord 

and reimposed sanctions 

over Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic 

programs. He also wants Iran 

to stop supporting regional proxies, 

including Yemen’s Houthi 

group, which has claimed responsibility 

for the attack. 

A day after saying the United 

States was “locked and loaded” 

to respond to the incident, 

Trump said on Monday there 

was “no rush” to do so. “We 

have a lot of options but I’m not 

looking at options right now. We 

want to find definitively who did 

this.” Reuters 

•North Korea's leader 

Kim Jong-un has 

complained about 

South Korea's 

"ridiculous" military 

exercises with the US



05 

Editorial 

All must help Forestry Commission 

STATISTICS ON Ghana’s forest 

and tree cover show that in 2001 the 

country had 1,090, 291 hectares of 

forest cover and this has reduced to 

1,009,275, a percentage loss of 7.4 

over an 18-year period in 2018. 

By this calculation, it is clear that 

even at 7.4% as the constant loss 

rate, in 243 years Ghana would have 

no forest cover, if nothing is done 

from now, but we know that factors 

like population growth and 

associated demands for use of land 

such as building of new 

communities would quicken the rate 

of loss. This means the 243 years 

would reduce. 

Yes, no doubt, we and about five 

generations after us would have died 

and gone but is that good reason to 

refuse to do something about the 

problem of forest loss now? 

We must understand that forest 

loss has a number of far-reaching 

negative effects such as drying up of 

rivers and loss of biodiversity. 

Our generation can be described 

as a selfish one which would not 

leave anything land to the next 

generation if we had the power to 

take land into our graves, including 

the forests. 

History has it that the founders of 

the Aborigines Rights Protection 

Society of the Gold Coast, formed 

in 1897, told the colonists that they 

would not allow the colonists to take 

possession of the native land 

because it belongs to our ancestors, 

the current generation and 

generations unborn, including us at 

the time of the protestations. 

What are we saying now, looking 

at the destruction of forests for 

galamsey and attempts to dispossess 

even some of our own of the little 

space they live on in the land of our 

birth? 

If nothing at all, the DAILY 

HERITAGE thinks it is time we 

checked the destruction of our 

forest and other lands as land is one 

essential thing that supports life in 

everything – food, herbs or 

medicine, survival of water bodies, 

biodiversity, etc etc. 

Everyone must contribute some 

efforts to save our forests and other 

lands. For this reason we of the 

DAILY HERITAGE wish to 

echo and re-echo the call by the 

Forestry Commission, led by Mr 

Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, aka Sir 

John, to persons living within the 

forest areas to volunteer information 

that would help combat the activities 

of persons who are illegally 

destroying the forests. 

There is this popular saying that 

“when the last tree dies the last man 

dies”. So far as seed time and harvest 

time remain, we must have 

Ghanaians always on earth and that 

is by sustaining one of nature’s lifesupporting 

systems – our forests. 

We need foreign 

DNA test 

FROM EMMANUEL OHENE 

GYAN, TADI 

THE QUAYESON and 

Bentum families whose 

kidnapped girls have been 

confirmed dead say they 

want foreign experts to 

carry out the DNA test instead of what 

the Ghana police have done. 

Addressing a news conference at 

Diabene, a suburb of 

the Sekondi-Takoradi 

Metropolis in the 

Western Region of 

Ghana, John Entsie, a 

family member, said the 

affected families never 

saw the said remains 

neither were the DNA 

report shown them 

before the 

announcement by the 

IGP. 

“First of all we are 

disappointed in the 

Commander-in-Chief 

of the Ghana Armed 

Forces for the manner 

in which he has handled 

— Tadi girls’ families 

• Seated in the Tundra pick-up bucket are suspects being 

this whole unfortunate kidnapping 

story. He has demonstrated to us that 

ballot boxes are more valuable to him 

than the lives of our sisters. 

“If he wants us to believe that his 

hands are clean in this development, 

then he should quickly fire CID boss 

COP Tiwaa Addo Danquah and Bryan 

Acheampong for making us believe that 

our sisters were alive,” Entsie 

demanded. 

They have also issued a one-week 

ultimatum to the Police Administration 

to release the said report to the families 

to enable them to carry out their own 

independent test or incur their wrath. 

The Acting Inspector General of 

Police, James Oppong Boanuh, on 

Monday confirmed 

that results of DNA 

tests conducted on 

some human parts 

exhumed in a house 

in Takoradi are 

those of the four 

missing girls. 

A special police 

operation led to the 

discovery and 

exhumation of the 

bodies of the four 

missing Takoradi 

girls at Kasawrodo 

in the Western 

Region, Starr News 

confirmed in August 

this year. 

transported to the Sowutuom Police Station 

Sowutuom chiefs, 

police arrest 20 

suspected criminals 

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and the chiefs to educate residents on crime issues. 

She said Ghana Police Service Report, 2009 on crimes 

in the Greater Accra Region and the 2019 US Embassy Report 

on crimes both made mention of Sowutuom and 

Santa Maria as popular crime areas, which is a wake-up call 

for the chiefs to act. 

The newly-installed Nkosohene for Fan-Milk and proprietor 

of the United Baylor Academy, Mr Maxwel Nseboa 

Aniapam, said the operation, meant to reduce crime and 

flush out all criminals operating in that area, started on Saturday 

dawn around 4:00 a.m. with 15 members drawn from 

the Asafo group and personnel from the Sowutuom police. 

He said all the 20 suspected criminals were handed over 

to the Sowutuom police for further investigations into their 

activities in the area. 

• Police confirm missing Tadi girls dead


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The Mugabe Africans will remember 

BY KOBBY GOMEZ-MENSAH 

DEATH, THE inevitable, 

finally visited 

the man who 

over the last couple 

of decades dominated 

headlines not just in Africa but 

also in the West, China, India and even 

Russia for very many reasons. Little 

has been heard from the courageous, 

fearless, sharp and straight shooting 

tongue of Uncle Bob since the coup 

of November 2017. Africa lost its last 

voice in the liberation and emancipation 

struggle. 

The mutiny by the enemy within 

that took control of the nation to rapturous 

celebrations not only across the 

country but also within western corridors 

of power as well as human frailty 

took its toll. 

The expeditious congratulatory 

messages from many western leaders 

were not in the least shocking. Alas, 

the only African leader who said it as 

it is and told them to the face has been 

shamefully removed. Within a matter 

of hours, promises of supporting former 

Rhodesia to restore its lost glory 

were dangled in the atmosphere to 

give Zimbabweans an impression that 

his exit marked the beginning of their 

socio-economic liberation. Robert 

Mugabe, the sole reason for watching 

the country’s economy to disintegrate 

under sanctions for nearly two 

decades, had been hung to dry. Therefore 

all celebrated. 

Zimbabweans 

In that euphoria following his 

overthrow, many Zimbabweans cursed 

their former leader for sitting on their 

individual and collective progress. 

Months before his toppling, his wife 

Grace, who had assumed godly status, 

schemed with the longest-lasting icon 

of the continent’s liberation struggle 

to inflict pain on many citizens. 

Mugabe had been completely 

blinded by the power he had held on 

to for nearly four decades. Dissenting 

voices were crushed with the heaviest 

of punishments; opponents were brutally 

tamed and members of his government 

who opposed his wife’s 

meteoric rise to political prominence 

simply risked being exterminated. In 

fact, that would become the final 

straw. 

Finally, Mugabe was removed by a 

junta he created, nurtured, resourced 

and unleashed to visit cruelty on his 

people, people he vowed to protect 

and defend. He had become the 

proverbial cannibal, eating his own 

kin. But as the famous Ghanaian saying 

goes, “there is no gain in severing 

one’s tongue and roasting it for meat.” 

The more voices as he clamped down 

on to protect Grace, the more fearlessly 

others spoke up knowing what 

could befall them. The raw terror visited 

on his people is believed to have 

eroded all the gains made for the 

nearly two generations of leadership 

that even his fiercest critics admit 

started pretty well and is credited with 

the high rate of education that make 

Zimbabweans the most educated 

African population. 

Uncle Bob’s determination to bequeath 

to all generations of Zimbabweans 

a quality education is what I 

choose to celebrate. Zimbabweans, 

whether in Africa or diaspora, demonstrate 

the essence of education. No 

wonder many are quick to mention the 

number of academic laurels awarded 

the fallen hero. As a Ghanaian, I see 

his stint with my country’s education 

that influenced his interest in same 

makes him an icon worth celebrating. 

At the time of his surrender, even citizens 

who celebrated his removal 

praised the education he gave them. 

Educating his people 

Mugabe knew that by educating his 

people, he was arming them with gifts 

he himself could not deprive them of 

in future. But he did not quibble with 

it. He rolled out educational opportunities 

and ensured that majority of his 

population was enrolled. No wonder 

when he became a tyrant, the educated 

in the country took him on, courting 

his displeasure and sometimes leading 

to their incarceration. 

The question is if Mugabe were 

a monster, would he invest heavily 

and deliberately to ensure his people’s 

education? My guess is something 

hard to give! Mugabe, like 

any leader, was intoxicated by the 

absoluteness of the power he 

wielded with the backing of the 

military. His army of comrades 

was willing to keep him in power 

to oil their own wheels. I remember 

a BBC ‘Focus on Africa’ interview 

before the election that 

culminated in power sharing with 

the Movement for Democratic 

Change (MDC) leader, Morgan 

Tsvangirai. An information minister 

said: “There was no one capable 

of replacing Robert Mugabe in 

the Zimbabwe African National 

Union – Patriotic Front (Zanu- 

PF)”. I was dumbfounded but in 

these parts, where many are willing 

to sell their mothers in pursuit of 

political power, maybe one shouldn’t 

be shocked after all. 

Since his death was announced 

two weeks ago, many westerners are 

quick to point to the economic decay 

of Zimbabwe at the time of Mugabe’s 

overthrow. 

Land seizures 

The land seizures often find space 

in their criticisms but hardly any mention 

of the history of how unfair the 

original Land Act of 1970 was to the 

indigenes. Again, the impact of economic 

sanctions on the deterioration 

of the southern African country’s 

economy seems lost on these analysts. 

The truth is no economy under sanctions 

thrives. Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, 

Libya and Sudan are enough to confirm 

this theory. Countries placed 

under sanctions become distressed 

with their economies the hardest hit. 

Those able to contain the shocks are 

oil-rich nations but that is only for a 

while. Oil-rich Venezuela caved in 

after a while under US (Western) sanctions. 

In simple terms, nations under 

this spell are subjected to the sort of 

scrutiny that prevents foreign direct 

investment which is critical for 

economies the world over; therefore 

discussing the Zimbabwean crisis 

without regard for these obvious setbacks 

is plainly disingenuous. 

Mugabe had been completely 

blinded by the 

power he had held on to 

for nearly four decades. 

Dissenting voices were 

crushed with the heaviest 

of punishments; opponents 

were brutally 

tamed and members of 

his government who opposed 

his wife’s meteoric 

rise to political 

prominence simply 

risked being exterminated. 

In fact, that 

would become the final 

straw. 

Liberation struggle 

Suggestions that Mugabe was violent 

during the liberation struggle, 

coming from white commentators 

who sought to protect their interest, 

looked the other way or were just 

from unconcerned observers of the 

blood spill and these are ludicrous. 

They deliberately ignore Ian Smith’s 

ruthlessness towards black Rhodesians 

which resulted in the killing of scores 

of black Zimbabweans. 

Not only did Smith unilaterally declare 

independence from Britain but 

he also rigged the election that put 

him in charge of Southern Rhodesia 

with white minority votes over seven 

times the majority’s share of votes. 

White votes totalled 89,594 against 

12,664 black votes, while the rest of 

the black population was consulted 

through tribal and village chiefs who 

depended on the government for their 

salaries. 

His Land Tenure Act of 1970 also 

split the country’s land almost equally 

between 240,000 whites and about 5 

million blacks, allocating 44 million 

acres to whites and 45.2 million acres 

to blacks. But talk of Mugabe’s land 

reform has overshadowed this grave 

injustice to humanity done to the indigenous 

population before real independence 

in 1980. 

Smith’s cruelty was likened to 

Hitler’s Nazism by former Prime 

Minister Garfield Todd (1953 to 

1958), who was later detained by 

Smith under house arrest during the 

latter’s premiership. His only crime 

was supporting black rights and involving 

them in running their heritage. 

In fact, Smith, then his deputy, 

ousted PM Winston Field on the accusation 

that he was unable to secure 

independence in 1962. 

His rise to power 

His rise to power is similar to 

Mnangagwa’s rise to power, except 

that this time the blacks were running 

their own affairs. Smith’s viciousness 

as Zimbabweans 

relentlessly pursued self-governance 

took over 27,000 innocent lives. But 

many white commentators are quick 

to conveniently blame them on the 

split between Robert Mugabe and 

fellow black Zimbabwean in the independence 

struggle, Joshua Nkomo, 

who, despite their differences, was invited 

to the post-independence government. 

As was evident in many independence 

struggles, the opposition is never 

offered an olive branch at the point of 

freedom, but Mugabe shied away from 

that before the subsequent fallout. 

Not only did he run an inclusive 

regime of blacks, but he also invited 

whites in the country to help rebuild it 

at independence after the Lancaster 

House agreement in London paved 

the way for his triumphant return to 

his motherland to lead the country. Of 

course the death of 10,000 to 30,000 

Ndebeles in Matabeleland, mainly supporters 

of Nkomo’s Zimbabwe 

African People’s Union (ZAPU) is regrettable 

and must be condemned. 

Even though we are told that the USbased 

Genocide Watch classified the 

Matabeleland bloodbath as genocide, 

they turned a blind eye due to economic 

progress at the time. If they 

meant well, Mugabe should have faced 

the law for genocide, but it was convenient 

because he was a trusted ally. 

Queen of England 

The irony is that the Queen of 

England, after a decade of such gross 

human rights violations, appointed 

Mugabe as an honorary Knight Grand 

Crossing the Order of Bath when the 

latter visited the UK in 1994. This honour 

was bestowed on Mugabe, knowing 

fully well that Gukurahundi – the 

rain that washes away the chaff, before 

the spring rains – was a government 

policy against Nkomo’s ethnic group. 

Cables from Harare to London and 

other western capitals indicated their 

government’s deep knowledge of the 

atrocities. But as usual, they only 

sought to protect their interests. 

One such cable reported 

noted: Zimbabwe is important to us 

primarily because of major British and 

western economic and strategic interests 

in southern Africa, and Zimbabwe’s 

pivotal position there. Other 

important interests are investment 

(800 million pounds) and trade (120 

million pound export in 1982), Lancaster 

House prestige, and the need to 

avoid a mass white exodus. Zimbabwe 

offers scope to influence the outcome 

of the agonising South Africa problem; 

and is a bulwark against Soviet inroads… 

Zimbabwe’s scale facilitates 

effective external influence on the outcome 

of Zimbabwe experiment, despite 

occasional Zimbabwean 

perversity. 

Attitude towards 

human rights 

The content of the cables explains 

Great Britain’s ‘see no evil’ attitude towards 

human rights violations in their 

African colonies. If it does not touch 

its nerves, it is willing to turn a blind 

eye regardless of the scale of abuse. 

No wonder the land reform policy, 

one that bruised a raw nerve, elicited 

those rapid responses from western 

governments. The fear that British and 

western interests in Zimbabwe were 

threatened could not be fathomed. 

Taking land from white farmers as 

Mugabe did led to massive exodus of 

whites. The so-called strategic economic 

interest was threatened, so 

Zimbabwe could be in ruins for all 

they cared. 

Yes, Mugabe became a tyrant long 

before the land reforms but for as 

long as he did not tinker with western 

stakes, he could do as he pleased. One 

can conveniently say they helped create 

the monstrosity of Mugabe’s leadership. 

As they admit that even though 

they observed this monster hatching, 

they saw no malice in the brutalities. 

Zimbabwean economy 

Another song parroted by the 

western allies and their agents is that 

the Zimbabwean economy was in tatters. 

Of course it was! How was the 

economy supposed to survive when 

the US and the EU were plainly strangling 

it to death? Though the US sanctions 

were targeted at 141 individuals 

and organisations, they were far-reaching 

and stripped the economy to its 

marrow. 

Kobby Gomez-Mensah is a 

Ghanaian jour nalist with research 

interest in African democracy, good 

governance and human rights.


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Balance your mind and your body 

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&Env. 

Greenhills Stroke Rehab 

Centre partnersDaily 

Heritage to fight stroke 

BY NEWSDESK REPORT 

GREENHILLS 

STROKE Rehabilitation 

Centre, 

a professional 

stroke treatment 

centre licensed by 

the Health Facilities Regulatory 

Agency (HeFRA), is embarking on 

free treatment of stroke patients. 

The exercise, also aimed at educating 

the general public on stroke 

rehabilitation and treatments, 

comes off on Saturday, September 

28, 2019, from 7:30a.m.to 

4:30p.m.on the centre’s premises at 

Sakaman. 

A partnership proposal to 

the DAILY HERITAGE signed 

by Mr Isaac Eshun, Event Coordinator, 

says established some five 

years ago, “the centre adopts a 

multi-disciplinary approach to 

stroke treatment, making use of 

professionally trained health personnel, 

including doctors, physiotherapist, 

dieticians, nurses, and 

occupational therapists in offering 

total and comprehensive care to 

our patients.” 

“The centre is located in the Ga 

South Municipality, precisely at 

Sakaman, near Blue Lagoon. 

Greenhills Stroke Rehabilitation 

Centre is by this letter seeking to 

partner with your media house to 

create more awareness of stroke 

treatment. 

“We are embarking on free 

treatment of stroke patients and to 

educate the general public on 

stroke rehabilitation and treatments. 

The main purpose of this 

partnership is to create more 

awareness on stroke prevention, 

which is one of the leading causes 

of death in Ghana. 

“Under the partnership, we 

would like your assistance in (airing/ 

publishing) news stories, announcements, 

and live event 

interviews that will help promote 

the stroke treatment. Greenhills 

stroke rehabilitation centre, in return, 

will include your name and a 

logo on all our promotional materials 

for the programme.” 

Teenage pregnancy drops 

in Adaklu District 

TEENAGE PREGNANCY in 

the Adaklu District has dropped 

significantly from 23.3% in 2015 

to 12.3% in 2018. 

This is as a result of the formation 

of 82 community-based 

adolescent health clubs and making 

adolescent health and family 

planning services accessible to the 

youth. 

TheAdaklu District Director of 

Health Services, Mr Charles Azagba, 

made this known in an interview 

on the sidelines of the launch 

of the Adaklu District Safe Motherhood 

Day Celebration at Adaklu 

Kodzobi on the theme, ‘Midwives 

for mothers.’ 

He said the district recorded 

120 teenage pregnancy cases in 

2015, which was the highest in the 

country. 

He said Adaklu Kpodzi, which 

recorded the highest number of 

cases of teenage pregnancy in 

2015, had 15 cases this year but 

did not record any case in 2018. 

The District Director of 

Health said the clubs met monthly 

to discuss adolescent nutrition, 

sexual and reproductive health issues 

and dangers of teenage pregnancy. 

Mr Azagba said a programme 

known as ‘time with the district 

health directorate’ carved by the 

District Directorate sensitised and 

followed up on communities to 

answer pertinent questions relating 

to reproductive health and also addressed 

some of the challenges 

confronting teenage girls. 

He commended health workers, 

traditional authorities and religious 

leaders for the efforts 

towards reducing what was described 

in 2015 as a ‘catastrophe’ 

and appealed for more support 

from them. GNA 

• Flashback; Teenage pregnancy truncates the education of the girl child 

Let’s support blood donation exercise 

BY PRINCE ESSIEN 

THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOP- 

MENT at the Manna Mission Hospital, 

Madam Linda A Ablorh, has made 

a passionate appeal to Ghanaians to 

participate in blood donation exercises 

in the country. 

According to her, the shortage of 

blood is a major concern to the various 

health institutions as blood is one 

of the lifesaving things in health care. 

Madam Ablorh made this call during 

the hospital’s maiden fun games 

held as a warm-up exercise towards 

the official launch of its 30th anniversary. 

•Madam Linda A. Ablorh (2nd) L), Director of Development at the 

Manna Mission Hospital, and colleagues at the fun games 

“There is a shortage of active 

blood donors to meet the need of increased 

blood interactive awareness on 

blood donation should be organized 

to create awareness and opportunities 

for blood donation,” she told the 

DAILY HERITAGE. 

She said the anniversary would 

host people from the Diaspora and 

health institutions in the country 

• Mrs Ablorh to Ghanaians 

which would be in to lend support. It 

also features activity where people 

from different cultural background 

will come and exhibit their cultures. 

The anniversary, on the theme, 

“Ebenezer and Beyond,” celebrates 

“how far God has brought Manna 

Mission, a seed that was sown in 

Teshie many years ago” in becoming a 

medium through which many lives 

have been touched with the word of 

God and medical services. 

The Deputy Director of nursing 

services at the Manna Mission Hospital, 

Madam Joyce Bulla On her part 

said the anniversary will take place between 

October 12 to November 3, 

2019 

She said the fun game was aimed 

at strengthening the bond and unity of 

“our staff.” 

The fun games involving activities 

such as football, oware, ludo, aerobics, 

lime in spoon, and sack race were held 

between staff of Manna Mission Hospital 

and staff of Manna Mission 

Church and the hospital staff emerged 

the overall winners. 

Some members from the Manna 

Mission Church at the fun games also 

said, they are ready to support the activities 

of the hospital as it’s about to 

celebrate its 30th anniversary. 

“We will support the Manna Mission 

Hospital to have a successful anniversary”.

MTN GHANA Foundation, as part of 

2019 World Literacy Day, which was 

celebrated on September 9, 2019, 

partnered with Akwasi Antwi 

Foundation (AAF) to build a library for 

the Tema Community 20 and its 

environs. 

According to Dr Daniel Baffuor- 

Awuah, the founder of the AAF, the 

library was built in honour of his late 

son, Akwasi Antwi, whose passion for 

books and children was something the 

family will not easily forget, hence the 

library to keep his vision alive. 

Mr Ebenezer Terpkeh, Education 

Portfolio Advisor, MTN Ghana, 

explained that being literate empowered 

an individual to contribute towards the 

News 

DAILY 

MTN Ghana Foundation, AAF 

build library for Tema Comm. 20 

BY ROSEMONDBOATENG ADDAI 

Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com 

The front view of the library 

Socio-economic development of Ghana 

and also help in achieving the 

Sustainable Development Goals on 

education. 

“We are tapping into the global 

agenda that children are able to read or 

have access to read and fill the literacy 

rate in Ghana. The MTN Ghana 

Foundation, in respect of our education 

project, we build libraries across the 

country, in schools and communities; 

this is one way of consolidating children 

to have interest in reading,” he explained. 

The Foundation donated to the 

library GH¢5,000.00 worth of comic 

books, a computer for the librarian and 

MTN TurboNet. 

Other stakeholders for the library are 

Abundance Grace Baptist Church, 

Rainbow Trust Foundation, Red Oak 

Books and Lantern Books. 

CTL Africa launches ‘Live2lead’ 2019 

THE CENTRE for Transformational 

Leadership in Africa (CTL Africa) has officially 

launched this year’s leadership summit 

‘Live2lead’, which will be simulcast in 

Ghana from Atlanta. 

This year’s edition, which is the third CTL 

Africa is hosting, is on the theme ‘Developing 

leaders for today and tomorrow’. 

Speaking at the launch, Chief Executive 

Officer (CEO) of CTL Africa, Samuel Anyim, 

emphasized the need for leadership training 

across all sectors in the country. 

He also called for a national awakening to 

bring the concept of leadership to the forefront 

of Ghana’s national discourse and into all levels 

of our educational curriculum. 

He said this year’s theme was to draw 

attention to the gaping gap in the development 

of our human capital, including “training and 

retaining where all of us unlearn and relearn the 

fundamentals of leadership. Our children 

should be taught these lessons from day one.” 

“Exemplary leadership – we have too many 

examples of failed and corrupt leadership, that 

our children have little choice but to emulate 

same. Apprenticeship – our young people need 

to be afforded the opportunity to learn on the 

job, to be coached and guided on how to lead,” 

he said. 

Mr Anyim noted that CTL Africa was set up 

to equip people with the above skills and also to 

bring to them programmes such as ‘Live2lead’ 

to showcase people who have led well. 

Highlighting lessons to be learned at this 

year’s edition, he said “John C. Maxwell will 

teach practical ways that leaders can seek to 

develop those around them in order to 

maximize the returns on the investment in their 

people.” 

“Nana Ansah Kwao IV will use his 

experience as a transformational and influential 

chief of Adumasa to demonstrate how anyone 

can lead from anywhere, particularly how 

traditional leaders can use their positions to 

help build leaders to lead the nation,” he added 

The event is scheduled to take place on 

October 11 and simulcast in over 300 sites 

around the world, including the College of 

Physicians and Surgeons in Accra. 

Live2lead 2019 will have great speakers like 

Maxwell, Rachel Hollis, Marcus Buckingham, 

Angela Ahrendts, Chris Hogan and Ghana’s 

Nana Ansah Kwao. 

About CTL Africa 

The Centre for Transformational 

Leadership in Africa (CTL Africa) aims to 

bridge the gap between traditional education 

and real life by providing knowledge, programs, 

and facilities necessary for successful living but 

which are not taught in schools. These include 

leadership principles in all aspects of life such 

as self-sacrifice, disciplined living, identifying 

life purpose by committing to resolving 

problems of the world (self-leadership); 

business leadership (entrepreneurship), and 

political leadership among others. 

THE MUNICIPAL Chief Executive 

(MCE) of the Krowor Municipal 

Assembly, Mr Joshua Nii Bortey, has 

given cash and items, all worth GH¢ 

105, 000, to support 69 people 

living with disability in the 

constituency. 

According to him, the maiden 

edition of the disbursement of the 

disability fund received a large 

number of applications but only a 

total of 69 applicants could be 

taken care of in the first 

disbursement. 

Mr Bortey made this known 

when he donated items such as 

deep freezers, wheel chairs, sewing 

machines, an oven for baking 

pastries and its cylinder, a fufupounding 

machine and other 

items and cash to the disabled 

people. 

“As a government, we 

strongly hold the conviction that 

one of the cardinal means of 

minimizing poverty among all 

THE MINISTER of 

Fisheries and 

Aquaculture 

Development (MoFAD), 

Mrs Elizabeth Afoley 

Quaye, has made a 

personal donation of GH¢10, 000 to 

support a sachet water production 

project being embarked on by the 

inmates of the James Camp Prisons. 

“I’m making to you a personal 

donation of GH¢10, 000 towards the 

water production project you are 

undertaking. Yes, I'm donating 

GH¢10,000 for that. It is to show 

appreciation for the good work 

Madam Patience Baffoe-Bonnie is 

doing and this is dear to my heart. As 

a mother, I want to help the youth 

and we are both women. I'm 

impressed about your work and God 

bless you. 

“I appreciate the dedication of the 

OIC; she is the dreamer and the doer 

of her wonderful job and heart desires 

to touch lives. What I believe in as a 

Minister is that you cannot live your 

life paying attention to yourself alone; 

but you also do what God wants you 

to do to touch lives,” she said. 

Mrs Quaye, who is also the 

Member of Parliament for Krowor 

constituency in the Accra metropolis, 

said this when she was addressing a 

gathering of prison officers, prisoners 

and the media, as well as officers from 

the MoFAD, during the maiden tilapia 

harvest at the James Camp Prison. 

HERITAGE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 

KroMA supports 69 PWDs with GH¢105,000 


More skills training for 

effective reintegration 

Mrs Baffoe-Bonnie, Officer incharge 

(OIC) of the prisons, who 

doubles as the Deputy Director of 

Prisons (DDP) and the Acting Greater 

Accra Regional Prisons Commander, 

called the Minister’s attention to a few 

other things that “we do to reform, 

rehabilitate and reintegrate inmates 

into the larger society.” 

According to her, “with the agric 

sector, inmates are taught modern 

techniques of farming, especially the 

growing of vegetables, and the rearing 

of livestock and poultry”. 

PWDs and particularly those outside 

the formal sector of employment 

is to empower them with skills 

and provide them with the 

necessary tools to work, hence our 

quest to support our disabled 

brothers and sisters in order that 

they would be able to develop a 

high sense of responsibility in 

terms of managing their own 

businesses; build their capabilities 

to enable them to advocate and 

assert their rights; and offer quality 

services to the rest of society,” he 

said. 

He also added that though the 

streets were largely spared from the 

nuisance of some PWDs begging, 

he could not guarantee that this 

development would remain so as the 

municipality grew rapidly. 

“I wish to emphasise that the 

focus of the disability fund is not 

just for PWDs who belong to 

associations but to all who fall 

within the category of people for 

which the funds have been allocated. 

Indeed, this provision will safeguard 

Fisheries Minister donates 

GH¢10, 000 to James Camp Prison 

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH 

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com 

•Mr Joshua Nii Bortey, Municipal Chief Executive of the 

Krowor Municipal Assembly 

•Mrs Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Minister of MoFAD (4th L) and other 

dignitaries at the programme 

She said the traditional 

training programmes, 

including block moulding, 

carpentry, masonry, 

tailoring, have been 

expanded to include 

fashion and designing and 

sewing of security service 

uniforms. There were also 

shoe making and skills on 

electrical. 

On the issue of modern 

industrial activities, she said 

the inmates were taken 

through kente weaving, 

batik, tie-and-dye, wig 

weaving, bridal accessories 

and fascinators. Others 

were bead making, door 

and bedside mat 

production, canopy 

making, sachet water production, 

barbering, bamboo works and 

aquarium construction. 

“Currently, we have a new product 

specially designed for uniforms to be 

launched next month and we humbly 

entreat the general public to patronize 

it,” the OIC further stated. 

She urged the media, “to take a 

look at our various projects and 

inform the general public about our 

laudable efforts.” 

the interest of every Tom, Dick and 

Harry who is disabled,” he added. 

The MCE also urged all 

stakeholders, particularly the DFMC, 

to work diligently and transparently 

and ensure judicious use of the 

funds so that the canker of begging 

would completely be eradicated. 

He promised that the committee 

would go the extra mile and develop 

new strategies that would better the 

lives of people with disabilities. 

“My staff and I will be 

monitoring your activities 

periodically to ensure that your 

operations are above board and in 

consonance with the guidelines of 

the National Council for Persons 

with Disabilities (NCPD),” he said. 

The beneficiaries thanked the 

MCE Bortey, and the Member of 

Parliament for the Krowor 

Constituency, Madam Elizabeth 

Afoley Quaye, for “remembering 

them and not making them feel 

out”. 

Aquaculture for 

Food and Jobs 

This year, MoFAD collaborated 

with the RAANAN Fish Feed to 

revamp and stock the James Camp 

Prison fish pond with 1,600 

fingerlings of tilapia and also donated 

235 bags of RAANAN fish feed 

leading to the harvest today. 

The AF&J started in 2018 with a 

series of workshops for stakeholders 

to buy into the idea. Implementation 

of the whole programme began in 

2018, when the Ministry approved of 

the pilot implementation of ‘One 

district, one Illustration per region’. 

The pilot programme began in the 

Ashanti Region in April this year 

(2019). Pentecost Youth fish farmers 

of New Edubiase in the Adansi-South 

District and Osei Tutu Senior High 

School were selected for the pilot 

programme. 

MoFAD has so far constructed 10 

(500m2) ponds for groups and four 

(500m2) ponds for the schools while 

stocking of tilapia and catfish and the 

supply of fish feed will be done this 

month (September). 

Ehi celebrates 

Galiza 

BY PATRICE SYLVESTER 

SELORMEY, EHI 


THE CHIEFS and people 

of Ehi and its surrounding 

villages in the Volta Region 

would climax this year’ 

Galiza festival with a grand 

durbar at Ehi on September 

28. 

The Ehi Nutome 

“Galiza” is an 

agricultural/development 

festival instituted by the 

Dufia of Ehi, Togbui 

Dzeble Adukpo IV, and his 

council of 21 sub-chiefs in 

collaboration with Ehi 

Development Council 

(EDC) to strengthen the 

socio-cultural fibre of the 

community. 

Each year in September, 

the people of the 

community light up the 

Ketu North in the Volta 

Region as they celebrate the 

Ehi Nutome “Galiza”. 

The main objective of 

the festival is to raise funds 

to support self-help projects, 

to disseminate information 

to the people and to 

promote and nurture the 

locally made ‘gali’ (gari) and 

all agri-businesses since Ehi 

is primarily an agro-based 

society. 

It is also aimed at 

celebrating self-motivated 

determination and excellent 

communal spirit of the 

people over the years. This 

year’s festival, according to 

Togbui Adukpo, is on the 

theme ‘Empowering Women 

through Agriculture and 

Entrepreneurship’. 

According to the chief, 

the theme was carefully 

chosen since the main 

occupation of the women is 

gari processing. 

Togbui Adukpo 

explained to DAILY 

HERITAGE that this year’s 

“Galiza”, started on Friday, 

September 6, 2019, would 

continue to be an exciting 

and fun-filled celebration 

which would also be used 

for re-union and dispute 

resolution in order to 

strengthen their sense of 

community involvement. 

He said it was also being 

used to celebrate their 

cultural heritage and 

traditions with pump and 

pageantry. 

A source close to the 

EDC) said there was amost 

a month-long line-up of 

events from the first week 

of September till the grand 

durbar on the last Saturday 

of the same month. 

Activities planned for the 

festival include inter-school 

cultural display at the 

market square, football gala 

between various male and 

female youth teams, cleanup 

exercises by all residents, 

beauty pageant, crusade, 

floats, keep-fit work-outs 

and health screening, 

cultural displays, food 

bazaar, visit to key historical 

sites and Ahi grand homecoming 

durbar . 

The climax of the 

festival, the grand durbar of 

Chiefs and people at the Ehi 

E P Primary School park. 

It is also aimed 

at celebrating 

self-motivated 

determination 

and excellent 

communal spirit 

of the people 

over the years. 

This year’s 

festival, 

according to 

Togbui Adukpo, 

is on the theme 

‘Empowering 

Women through 

Agriculture and 

Entrepreneurship 

’.


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SEPTEMBER 

2019 

TUESDAY 

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Inlaks wins 2019 Best ICT 

Infrastructure provider award 

INLAKS, ONE of the 

fastest-growing ICT infrastructure 

and systems integrator 

in sub-Saharan Africa, 

recently received an award 

for innovation and excellence 

as the “Best ICT Infrastructure 

Provider of the Year” at the 

just-concluded joint 2019 Digital 

Banking Summit and the Digital 

Innovations & Excellence Awards. 

The two-day event, on theme 

‘Digitisation of Banking Sector – 

en route to a cashless Africa,” was 

organised by the International 

Centre for Strategic Alliances 

(ICSA) with KPMG as Knowledge 

Partner; First Bank Nigeria as Official 

Banking Partner and Master- 

Card as a Lead Sponsor. 

It also had in attendance officials 

of banks, quasi-financial institutions, 

and service providers 

from the African continent. 

Dr Maxwell Opoku-Afari, the 

Representatives of Inlaks displaying their awards 

First Deputy Governor of the 

Bank of Ghana, in his keynote address, 

urged stakeholders in the financial 

and banking industry to 

exploit digitisation to meet the 

needs of the unbanked and 

broaden services to all segments 

of society. 

“The adoption of digital technology 

in the banking and financial 

space will help promote transactional 

efficiency in the delivery 

of financial services as well as 

scale up and broaden financial access 

to all segments of the society. 

Digital innovation will create unprecedented 

opportunities for 

Africa to grow its economy, create 

jobs, and transform people’s lives,” 

he said. 

Making a presentation on the 

topic ‘Improving Customer Experience 

through Digital Retail Banking 

Transformation’ at the 

Summit, Olufemi Muraino, Executive 

Director at Inlaks, said: “traditional 

banks must constantly 

innovate to stay relevant in the 

face of fast-growing technology or 

risk losing customers. 

“Exceptional customer experience 

goes beyond standard online 

services; innovation is required because 

digitisation never stops. Digital 

transformation is a continuous 

process; there is no such thing as a 

start and a finish,” he added. 

Referring to a Global CEO 

Survey involving business leaders 

across all sectors conducted by 

PwC, he said 70% of the leaders 

expressed their biggest concerns 

about the speed of technological 

change in financial services, noting 

that the Digital Banking Summit 

was indeed a great avenue for 

African decision-makers to strategise 

and make plans for a better 

future. 

It should be noted that Inlaks 

was also recently awarded “Technology 

Solutions Company of the 

Year” by the Nigerian Leadership 

Award and “Banking Technology 

Solutions Provider of the Year” by 

the Ghana Information, Technology, 

and Telecoms Award 

(GITTA) earlier in 2019. 

Source: 

Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM 

Maintain best quality cocoa production practices 

•Nana Karikari Addo, the Acting Managing Director (MD) of 

Quality Control Company Limited, says the government is 

committed to giving incentive packages to encourage farmers to 

produce more 

COCOA FARMERS have been 

called upon to continue to apply 

best farming practices to sustain 

the production of quality cocoa 

beans for the nation. 

“Ghana is among the best 

cocoa-producing countries and 

we can’t afford to lose our credibility”. 

Nana Karikari Addo, the Acting 

Managing Director (MD) of 

Quality Control Company Limited 

(QCCL) of the Ghana 

Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), said 

this at a farmers’ rally held at 

Goaso in the Ahafo Region. 

The one-day event jointly organised 

by the Cocoa Health Extension 

Division (CHED) of 

COCOBOD and the QCCL attracted 

about 600 cocoa farmers 

from the entire region who asked 

questions and expressed concerns 

about the challenges confronting 

them in the production 

of the commodity. 

Nana Addo said Ghana is second 

to La Cote d’ Ivoire, the 

highest cocoa producing country, 

and the government is committed 

to giving incentive packages 

to encourage farmers to produce 

• QCCL urges farmers 

more. 

The Acting MD of QCCL 

said there was a bill before Parliament 

to ensure standard price 

stability of cocoa to help reduce 

the undue price determination 

from the international market. 

He said COCOBOD was in 

the process of introducing electronic 

cocoa-weighing scales to 

prevent corrupt purchasing 

clerks from cheating farmers. 

Nana Addo said “some unscrupulous 

purchasing clerks 

have adjusted the weighing 

scales so as to cheat the cocoa 

farmers, hence the introduction 

of the electronic scales.” 

Nana Kwasi Bosompra I, the 

Paramount Chief of Goaso Traditional 

Area, who presided over 

the event, urged cocoa farmers 

to engage the services of Agricultural 

Extension Agents 

(AEAs) in their farming activities. 

GNA



DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 11 

News 

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about 

anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for 

yourself —Henry James 

Umar Bun Abdul Aziz Islamic 

Institute gets boarding facility 

FROM MUNTALLA INUSAH, AKIM ODA 


AN ACCRA-BASED 

Zongo Youth Association 

has supported the 

management of Umar 

Bun Abdul (UBA) Aziz 

Islamic Institute, a 

basic school at Akim Oda in the Eastern 

Region, to construct a boarding facility. 

Their gesture forms part of the 

association’s efforts geared towards encouraging 

schooling in Muslim communities 

and improving upon the 

educational standards there. 

The UBA facility provides both 

secular and Arabic lessons and its 

boarding facilities would be a landmark 

in the history of basic Islamic 

education in the region. 

Addressing the gathering at the inauguration 

of the facility, the Municipal 

Chief Executive of Birim Central, 

Mrs Victoria Adu, who was the Guest 

speaker, commended the Association 

for their tremendous effort in lending 

support to the government in its bid 

to transform education. 

She said through education, future 

leaders were groomed and therefore 

urged the students not to joke but take 

their lessons seriously. 

Mission & vision 

Sheikh Abdul Razak Mohammed 

Umar, the Headmaster of the Institute, 

said available facilities in the 

school include dormitories, a computer 

laboratory, a library, administrative 

offices, a staff common room, 

and a dining hall yet to be stocked with 

the full complement of facilities to 

create the enabling environment for 

safety and comfort for students. 

According to him, the mission of 

the UBA was to enable Muslims to 

adopt Islam as a way of life and to assist 

and guide them to perform the obligations 

the Holy Quran prescribed as 

per the tradition of Holy Prophet Mohammed. 

The vision of the UBA, he added, 

is to establish and sustain a learning 

environment, where students would be 

inspired to greater heights with innovative 

ideas. 

The headmaster explained that the 

Institute was initially established for 

only Arabic studies, Qur’an recitation 

and memorization; but it was decided 

later to expand the scope of learning 

to include secular education, and adult 

education, upon his return home after 

his graduation abroad in 2009, adding 

that a teacher training facility would be 

added. 

Population 

Currently, the school has 315 students 

for Qur’anic recitation and 

memorisation, 350 students for Islamic 

studies, 87 students for the secular 

education and 90 students for adult 

education. 

Sheikh Umar said there are many 

students from the outskirts of Akim 

Oda who wish to attend the Institute 

but had no school bus to convey them 

to and from school. 

Zongo Devt fund offers support 

Alhaji Zuberu Alidu, the Corporate 

Affairs and Administrative Manager, 

the Zongo Development Fund, 

explained that the fund would support 

the Institute with furniture and teaching 

and learning materials. 

The Fund, he said, would invest in 

basic services and strategic infrastructure 

in Zongo communities, support 

business in Zongo communities as 

well as provide social protection for 

the poor and vulnerable children, men 

and women there. 

Alhaji Alidu expressed the hope 

that the management would continue 

to work tirelessly to develop the students 

into future leaders. 

He commended individuals and the 

Association for their continuous support 

to the government to improve the 

living standards of people of the 

Zongo communities across the country. 

Values of Islam 

Alhaji Abdul-Razak Adam, the Executive 

Director, Finance and Strategy 

at the Savannah Fruits Company, the 

chairman for the occasion, said the effort 

to provide Islamic education was 

to instill in the children the values of 

Islam for them to become responsible 

individuals in future. 

According to him, individuals can 

take up the responsibility of providing 

education to children in their communities 

and that was exactly what the 

Association seeks to do using religion 

as an entry point to provide support to 

these children. 

Alhaji Adam said as part of the 

bigger plan for the future, they intended 

to acquire over 20-acre land to 

use for a hospital, a senior high school 

and a university based on Islamic values 

and principles. 

Alhaji Osman Abubakari, the 

Chairman of the Zongo Youth Association, 

said it was important to give 

back to the community that has 

trained and empowered them to grow 

to become responsible adults. 

He said education is key to community 

development and urged the 

parents to endeavour to educate their 

children to the highest level. 

“It is also to promote unity, brotherhood 

and cooperation among Muslims 

and non-Muslims,” he said 

Alhaji Abdul also called on the 

youth of the area to take advantage of 

the Institute’s programmes to empower 

themselves educationally. 

. 

•Mrs. Victoria Adu, MCE of Birim Central together with other dignatries 

cutting the tape (Inset) Is the building


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DAILY 

News 


HERITAGE WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 

Open Foundation West Africa trains 

40 on Wikipedia’s operations 


OPEN FOUN- 

DATION West 

Africa, a notfor-profit 

organisation 

in 

Ghana, has organised 

two days’ workshop to 

train students from different universities 

across the country on the 

operations of Wikipedia, an internet 

portal. 

At the workshop which was 

held at Lancaster University campus 

at East Legon in Accra, the 

Chairman of the Board of Open 

Foundation, Mr Felix Nartey, said 

the core mission of the foundation 

is to encourage people to collect, 

develop and disseminate knowledge, 

including educational, cultural 

and historical contents, that 

allow everyone to freely use, distribute 

and modify said contents 

without the payment of royalties. 

The theme of this year workshop 

was ‘Using media, language 

and technology as a tool to advance 

the open movement” 

According to Mr Nartey, the 

open movement is a concept that 

seeks to make information free 

and accessible online to help find 

THE GHANA Non-Communicable 

Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA has 

stated that Ghana cannot hope to end 

its growing non-communicable disease 

(NCD) epidemic while people 

struggle to meet the costs of diagnosis, 

treatment and care. 

According to the group, nearly half 

of Ghana’s annual death rate is accounted 

for by NCDs such as diabetes, 

cardiovascular diseases, cancers 

and mental health at a time when 

health care costs keep rising. 

Dr Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, Chairperson 

of both GhNCDA and the 

Ghana Cancer Board, at the meeting 

), at a meeting held in Accra, said “if 

we are to address the health needs of 

our people, like those living with 

NCDs, we need to do so by ensuring 

everyone enjoys quality standards of 

care and financial protection. In other 

words, Universal Health Coverage 

(UHC). Without UHC we cannot end 

the NCD epidemic.” 

Mr Christopher Agbegah, representing 

the community of people living 

with NCDs, said “Ghana’s health 

solutions of many of the world’s 

most pressing problems in a spirit 

of transparency, collaboration, reuse 

and free access. 

It encompasses open data, open 

government, open development, 

open science, with participatory 

processes, sharing of knowledge 

and outputs and open source software 

as among its key tools. 

Participants 

The fourth edition of the Open 

Ghana needs UHC to end 

non-communicable diseases 

– GhNCDA chairperson 

BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI 

Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com 

•Some of the participants at the workshop 

system is under stress as a result of 

the rapid spread of NCDs.” 

According to him, treatment of 

NCDs comes at a huge cost that undermines 

workforce productivity and 

the economic prosperity of the country. 

“We need to begin to seriously 

consider how UHC might become 

the tool to both treat and prevent the 

NCD epidemic,” he added. 

Mr Alexander Kodwo Kom 

Abban, Deputy Minister of Health, 

lauded the effort of World Health 

Organisation for having UHC on the 

global health agenda and that his ministry 

strongly supported the notion 

that commitments to make UHC a reality 

globally going forward will rely 

on individual governments making 

the right call at a national level. 

He said “the Ghana government is 

committed to implementing UHC 

and ending the NCD epidemic in our 

country.” 

The meeting was attended by government 

representatives, civil society 

organisations, UN Country Representative, 

traditional and religious leaders, 

and international and local nongovernmental 

organisations. 

Foundation workshop was organised 

for 40 participants from the 

University of Ghana, Kwame 

Nkrumah University of Science 

and 

Technology, Ghana Institute of 

Journalism and Ashesi University. 

Copyright 

Mr Nartey made a passionate 

appeal to Ghanaians to take legal 

action against people who use 

someone’s intellectual property 

without the owner’s approval. 

“Copyright is the right to own 

intellectual property. Do not let 

someone make money from your 

intellectual property and what belongs 

to you”, he said. 

Award 

The organizer of the summit, 

Stella Sessy Agbley, said the participants 

would be awarded with certificates, 

T-shirts, pens and other 

items. 

Some of the participants 

thanked Open Foundation West 

Africa for the training. 

“It’s a great pleasure and we 

urge all our colleagues to take 

everything we have been taught serious 

to improve our studies,” they 

said.



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•Mz Dru 

Live FM’s ‘September 

Rush’ on September 21 

LIVE 91.9 FM, ‘Your music 

play station’ will on September 

21, 2019 host its maiden 

house party event dubbed 

‘September Rush’ on the 

Aburi Hills. 

According to the organizers, 

‘September Rush’ will be 

a fun-packed day filled with 

different fun activities like 

human fussball, colour fight 

and lots of drinks and grills. 

The event, which will start 

at 2 p.m., will have Live FM's 

DJ's jamming and an artiste 

concert later in the evening. 

‘September Rush’ is an 

event to welcome students 

back to school in September. 

The premier event will host 

students from University of 

Ghana Legon, UPSA, Accra 

Technical University, Ghana 

Telecom University and other 

universities. 

Mz Dru lights 

up the airwaves 

from Live FM 

BY ERICA ARTHUR 

DRUSILLA 

LARTEY, popularly 

known by her 

stage name Mz 

Dru, is a radio and 

TV presenter, voice-over artist 

and lifestyle blogger among other 

activities and currently based in 

Ghana. 

She started her career in the 

UK just after university on Bang 

Radio, now known as the Beat 

London, as a co-host of the drive 

time show. She also hosted numerous 

live events such as Miss 

Ghana UK and Burna Boys UK 

concert in the O2 as well as red 

carpet for the Ghana Music 

Award UK, and Black Women In 

Excellence Awards. 

Mz Dru relocated to Ghana 

November, last year, in the hope 

of seeing what media in Ghana 

was like and also escaping from 

the monotonous London 

lifestyle. She is currently hosting a 

radio show called Girl Code on 

Live FM. 

She is also the co-host of 

‘Live from the Capital’ with JKD 

on the same station. On TV she 

is the current co-host of ‘Rythmz 

Live’, which airs on Fridays. On 

Saturdays she is back on your 

screens hosting the brand new 

show ‘Rhythmz Top 10 Countdown’ 

on GhOne TV. 

She is a brand ambassador for 

Mensdo Bissap, Liona Nails, 

Chriselle Hair and Beauty Spa in 

East Legon. Her hosting skills 

earned her a spot as the red carpet 

host for the prestigious 

‘Rhythms on the Runway’ at the 

Osu Castle and Ghana Event 

Awards. She has quite a number 

of school tours coming up. 

Her unique flare and voice do 

not only make her different but 

also outstanding as an on-air 

media personality. Other than TV 

and radio, Mz Dru documents 

her life in Ghana on social media, 

mainly Instagram and YouTube. 

At times she tries the life of a 

typical Ghanaian woman selling 

plantain or waakye on the street, 

going motor-biking down to candle-making. 

Mz Dru says her mission is to 

empower, inspire and motivate 

others to do the things they are 

passionate about, whilst living 

their best lives. 

She expresses the belief that 

she is a vessel that other 

brands can work with to influence 

the new generation 

positively. Mz Dru is 

committed to advancement 

of youth brands 

with her free-spirited 

personality. 

It is impossible to 

not break into laughter with Mz 

Dru around and her infectious 

energy would not escape the careful 

observer. We believe that Mz 

Dru, in just under a year in 

Ghana, is already making waves 

in the media industry and truly is 

one to watch out for. 

GAMA 2019 nominates 

Teflon Flexx 


YOUNG GHANAIAN talent 

based in the Northern Region, 

Teflon Flexx, aka the Northern 

Badboy, has earned a nomination 

in this year’s Greater Accra Music 

Awards in the ‘Non-GAMA 

Artiste of the Year’ category. 

The artiste, who currently 

cleared the air over the misconception 

about his nationality, has 

worked on great projects under the 

scheme’s year under review. 

His recent song dubbed ‘Oreo’ 

features Fadilan and Maccasio. 

Teflon has worked with Dopenation 

on his hit song ‘Eskebelebe’ 

Greater 

Accra 

Music 

Awards 

(GAMA), 

an 

annual awards scheme that seeks to 

recognize and award musical talents 

in the Greater Accra Region, 

has been launched and the nominees 

for this year’s event unveiled. 

The scheme, which aims at recognizing 

and celebrating hardworking 

artistes, has opened the voting 

opportunity for fans and individuals 

who appreciate the crafts of the 

nominees to commence voting. 

The voting which started on 

September 6 is scheduled to end 

on October 23, 2019.To vote for 

your favourite artiste dial 

*713*714# select GAMA 

AWARDS, SELECT CATEGORY, 

SELECT YOUR FAVOURITE 

ARTISTE AND VOTE or vote 

using the Speakupp downloaded 

on Appstore 

or Playstore. 

• Teflon 

Flexx

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I’ll wow patrons 

this year — 

Sarkodie 


MUTIPLE-AWARD WINNER 

and BET International Flow 

nominee, Sarkodie, has promised 

his 2019 Rapperholic 

patrons to expect the 

best in terms of performances 

and organisation 

this 

December. 

The seventh edition 

of the annual 

music concert organised 

by the Ghanaian rap artiste 

for music lovers was launched at 

Kwaleyz Residence in Accra on 

Friday, September 13, 2019. It is 

dubbed ‘Rapperholic Unstoppable 

’19’. 

Speaking at the launch, 

Sarkodie said he and his team 

were set to correct all the wrongs 

associated with the previous year’s 

concert, 

“I’m excited because normally 

when I have enough products, 

I’m in a good mood and that’s the 

new project I have, Black 

Love, who has three singles out 

already and a lot of serious 

bangers coming and that puts me 

in a good space. I feel good about 

myself musically,” he said. 

On what to expect, Sarkodie 

said he would love to see fans 

leave the concert with just a few 

words of “Wow, wow, wow”. 

Glitz photos of the day 

COMPILED BY ERICA ARTHUR 

THE GLITZ Style 

Awards is an 

annual award 

scheme organised 

to celebrate and 

award individuals and 

1. Nana Akua Addo 

Style icon, Nana Akua 

Addo, has proven it cannot 

be an error to see her 

as the Queen of Ghana's 

red carpet even though 

she did not get nomination 

for this year's awards. 

The actress, fashion designer 

and style icon has 

already won hearts with 

her stunning style, which 

has left Ghanaians and the 

fashion world speechless. 

Over the past years, 

Nana Akua has been selective 

about the type of 

events she attends and 

whenever she steps on the 

red carpet, she steals all 

the attention and she becomes 

the talk of the 

town on international platforms. 

Nana Akua wore a gorgeous 

dress by a foreign 

designer who goes by the 

name Carl Santiago. 

The dress features a 

layered silver petals designed 

to flaunt her silhouette. 

The fascinating 

part of the dress is the 

iconic eagles resting perfectly 

on her shoulders. 

Such a beautiful piece of 

art merged with style to 

create an incredible look. 

companies investing and 

patronizing the fashion 

industry in Ghana. This year’s 

event was held at Movenpick 

Ambassador Hotel, Saturday, 

September 14, 2019. Many 

beautiful celebrities came out 

in style to grace the event. 

The DAILY HERITAGE 

was impressed with the styles 

and fashion accessories used 

by most of the celebrities and 

so publishes some of the 

pictures that wowed patrons: 

2. Zynnell Zuh 

Zynnell Lydia Zuh 

has been a media sensation 

since she started acting. 

She has worked with 

major industry players 

across borders. 

Entertainment and 

the fashion industry go 

hand in hand and Zynnell 

has set the standard 

for celebrity style. She is 

a trendsetter, experimenting 

with numerous 

haircuts and style reinventions. 

People always 

love what she wears for 

and off the cameras. 

The fashion mogul 

has been to almost all 

major red carpet shows 

so far and she never 

ceases to amaze people. 

4. Pappy 

kojo 

3. Joe 

Mettle

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15 

•Stephen Appiah 

Neymar's 

European 

ban reduced 

to two games 

Stephen Appiah for 

GFA president? 

BLACK STARS 

Technical 

Coordinator and 

former Captain, 

Stephen Appiah, has 

confirmed his interest to 

ultimately become President of 

the Ghana Football Association 

(GFA). 

He says he has gathered valuable 

knowledge during his career 

and possesses qualities that will 

benefit the Ghanaian game. 

The former Juventus midfielder 

strongly said there would 

come a period in the near future 

when the game of football in 

Ghana would be mainly governed 

by former players. 

His comments come at a time 

when the Normalisation Committee 

of the Ghana Football Association 

has set October 25, 

2019 as the day a new president 

will be elected. 

"The criteria to be part of this 

Association require you to associate 

yourself with a club and that 

is what we are not doing. 

“Some of us are having meetings 

and we are thinking about a 

lot of things. When you go to 

Europe football is run by footballers. 

“We are still learning and 

watching whatever is going on, so 

when we come we don’t make the 

same mistakes. As I said, never 

say never; one day it will happen,” 

he said with a smile". 

The 2019 FA Presidency, however, 

is expected to be keenly 

contested as former GFA Vice 

Presidents Fred Pappoe and 

George Afriyie are officially confirming 

their bid to run. 

Former GFA Executive Committee 

member, Wilfred Osei 

Kweku, popularly known as 

Palmer, and Dreams FC Chairman, 

Kurt Okraku, are also 

among a few of the prominent 

names vying for the position. 

Ghanaweb 

THREE-GAME 

EUROPEAN ban 

against Paris St-Germain 

forward Neymar for 

insulting match officials 

has been cut to two by 

the Court of Arbitration 

for Sport. 

The 27-year-old was 

charged by Uefa after 

PSG's Champions 

League exit at home to 

Manchester United on 

March 6. 

Neymar called the 

award of a decisive 94thminute 

United penalty in 

the last-16 second leg-tie 

"a disgrace". 

He will miss the 

games against Real 

Madrid and Galatasaray 

but can return to face 

Club Bruges on October 

22. PSG took the case to 

Cas after Uefa rejected 

their appeal against the 

ban. 

Cas says it will 

publish the reasons 

behind their ruling in a 

few weeks. 

Neymar had a broken 

metatarsal and missed 

both legs of the tie 

against United. 

Referee Damir 

Skomina reviewed 

footage of a Diogo 

Dalot shot striking the 

hand of PSG defender 

Presnel Kimpembe 

before awarding the 

visitors the injury-time 

spot kick, having initially 

given a corner. 

Marcus Rashford's 

penalty ensured a 3-1 

win in Paris for United, 

who went through to the 

Champions League 

quarter-finals on away 

goals after the tie ended 

3-3 on aggregate. 

Neymar wrote on 

social media: "It's a 

disgrace. Four guys who 

know nothing about 

football watch a slowmotion 

replay in front of 

the television. What can 

he do with his hand 

while his back is 

turned?" 

Akufo-Addo, Mahama called to congratulate me — Bukom Banku 

GHANAIAN BOXER, Braimah Kamoko, 

better known as Bukom Banku, has said he has 

received encouragement from very prominent 

members of the society not to quit the sport 

after recording his first victory outside the 

shores of Ghana at age 41. 

“I received a call from President Nana 

Akufo-Addo, John Mahama, Sports Minister, 

Stonebwoy, Shatta Wale and many people who 

say they are happy for me. I want to assure 

them that I will keep training and win a title 

soon,” he said. 

According to Bukom Banku, President 

Nana Akufo-Addo, ex-President Mahama, and 

Mr Asiamah, after congratulating him, told him 

to keep his focus as he aims to get a world title 

fight in the near future. 

The eccentric boxer received a rousing welcome 

on his return home from the United 

Kingdom last Friday and said those who think 

he is over the hill should brace themselves for 

a career revival from him. 

Hundreds of fans thronged the Kotoka International 

Airport on Friday morning to welcome 

their ‘hero’ back home in spectacular 

style. 

Last Saturday, Kamoko, returning to the 

ring after a long hiatus, knocked out his German 

opponent, Rojhat Bilgetekin, to win his 

•Bukom Banku displaying his title 

first international fight outside Africa. 

Banku earned the victory after dropping the 

German in round 3 at St George Hall in Bradford, 

UK. The self-acclaimed 'African Mayweather', 

who loves to inform his fans to 

attend his fight on time in order not to miss 

any action, was true to his words this time by 

ending the fight in less than 10 minutes. 

The current WBO African champion was 

denied a fight abroad by his former promoters 

because of a suspected eye problem. 

But after crossing the hurdle of never fighting 

outside Ghana, Bukom Banku is now hungry 

for more and has vowed not to let his 

advancing age stop him from greatness. 

“This is my first international fight and I 

will want everyone to continue to pray for me 

to win my next fight. I didn't have any support 

in Britain, there were only two Ghanaians in 

the stands, but by God's grace I used my sensibility 

to win my fight. My next fight will be 

next month and by God's grace I will stop my 

opponent in round 4 and I urge everyone to 

pray for me because Ghanaians love me,” 

Banku told the press at the airport. 

Since his historic defeat by Bastie Samir in 

2017, Banku had always wished to find his feet 

back and this win definitely came at the right 

time.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

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