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Opuni
• Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah
• One of the bad roads in Twifo Kotokye
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Twifo Kotokye chief
worried about hardship
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
• Due to bad roads
THE CHIEF of Twifo Kotokye
in the Twifo Attiing
the high fares that makes it difficult
for to just break even.”
Morkwa District in the
Listing other problems associated
Central Region, Nana
with the bad road, Nana Asamoah said it
Asamoah IV, is calling on
the government to immediately
upgrade the
road that link Twifo
Praso to Dunkwa-on-
Offin in the Central Region
to aid movement
of persons, goods and
service.
The traditional ruler
explained that due to
the bad nature of the
road, traders and other
business people refused
to travel to the area to
buy farm produce, making
farmer having their
produce going to waste,
thereby suffering untold
financial hardship.
He said even when
buyers came in, drivers
charged them high fares
due to the bad nature
of the road, and “so,
the buyers pay ridiculous
low prices for the
items they buy here cit-
• One of the bad roads in Twifo Kotokye
was difficult transporting sick people to
the hospital, and the worst of it all was
that “pregnant women who ply this road
risk losing their pregnancy or having
premature
delivery”.
The chief said currently vehicles that
risked using the road broke down frequently
while dust cover the passengers.
“What we are saying is that the government
by all means must upgrade the
road before elections, if not, no politician
will embark on political campaign in
the town,” he stated.
Speaking to the DAILY HER-
ITAGE at Kotokye during the inauguration
of linguists and other elders to
assist the chief and the queen in steering
the affairs of the town.
He said the linguists would represent
the chief and the queen on many occasions
as they help them in managing the
affairs of the town.
The chief also called on the Ministry
of Health to immediately post a midwife
to the Twifo Kotokye clinic to boost delivery
in the area.
• INSET: Some elders at Twifo Kotokye palace
File disclosures within 2 weeks
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
UT/Beige Bank cases
• Court directs prosecution
THE ACCRA Circuit Court
presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh
has instructed the prosecution
in the separate cases involving
Michael Nyinaku and Prince Kofi
Amoabeng, Managing Directors of
defunct Beige Bank and UT Bank
respectively, to file their disclosures
within two weeks.
Mr Nyinaku, MD of The Beige
Bank, which is in receivership and
Mr Amoabeng have been separately
charged in their respective cases
with the same offence of stealing
and money laundering.
In the separate case called on
Wednesday, lawyers of the accused
persons who have both pleaded not
guilty demanded that a pre-trial disclosure
of all documents and evidence
the State intends to rely on to
establish her case against the accused
persons.
Lawyer Baffour Gyawu Bonsu
Ashia requested for pre-trial disclosure
in line with practice directives
issued by the office of the Chief
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At COCOBOD trial
State witness chokes
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE THIRD State Prosecution
Witness (PW3) in the
case in which a former
Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of COCOBOD, Dr.
Stephen Kwabena Opuni, and Seidu
Agongo are standing trial has beaten
retreat.
Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah, who is a
former Deputy CEO in charge of
Agronomy and Quality Control, contrary
to his evidence-in-chief, made a
sudden U-turn under cross-examination
to say that the CEO of COCO-
BOD could not be held liable for any
purchase sanctioned by the procurement
unit.
The witness, under cross-examination
by Benson Nutsukpi, one of the
defence lawyers, reiterated that once a
product has gone through the procurement
process of COCOBOD, it means
it has been “validly procured.”
He has been testifying against Dr
Opuni and Agongo, the CEO of
Agricult Ghana Limited accused of
causing financial loss of GH¢271.3 million
to the state due to the distribution
of “sub-standard” fertiliser to cocoa
farmers.
Dr Adu-Ampomah, on January 9,
2020 repeatedly told the court that certification
from Cocoa Research Institute
of Ghana (CRIG) was enough
reason to believe that products had
duly been tested.
“Sir, do you know whether or not a
sample of the Asontem liquid fertilizer has
ever been tested by CRIG?” Nutifafa Nutsukpui,
who is holding brief for Benson
Nutsukpui, counsel for Agongo, asked during
cross-examination.
Dr Adu-Ampomah then replied, “My
Lord, so long as a CRIG certification was
accompanying it, it is assumed it was
tested.”
“Sir, do you know whether or not a
sample of the Asontem liquid fertilizer
has ever been tested by CRIG?” Nutifafa
Nutsukpui, who is holding brief for
Benson Nutsukpui, counsel for Agongo,
asked during cross-examination.
• Under cross-examination
• Says all purchases cleared by
procurement unit valid
• Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah
• Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni
Mr Nutsukpui then put it to him, “Will I
be right to say anyone in your position and
CEO of Ghana Cocoa Board has done no
wrong to rely on CRIG certification to
award contract on fertilizers and agrochemicals.”
Dr. Adu-Ampomah answered, “My
Lord, ideally yes”.
Following the same trajectory, Dr. Adu-
Ampomah on January 21, 2020 stressed the
non-culpability of any Chief Executive of
COCOBOD who bought any agrochemical
product that has been certified by CRIG
and the procurement process approved by
the procurement unit.
The witness was showed a letter dated
16th June, 2017 which he himself signed
for COCOBOD to award WA GreenOK
Company Limited a contract for the supply
of 200,000 litres of GreenOK fertilizer.
After it has been tendered in evidence and
marked as Exhibit 46, he was asked when
GreenOK organic foliar fertilizer came to
the attention of COCOBOD, to which he
said, “I wouldn’t know my Lord”.
He was then asked if CRIG really tested
it and his answer remained “I wouldn’t
know, my Lord”.
“Now look at exhibit 46. What commended
COCOBOD to award the contract?”
counsel for the second
accused asked. He replied, “My
Lord, the procurement process has
been explained to the court already,
so this contract went
through the same process.”
The lawyer then told him,
“Please, tell the court every product
that goes through COCOBOD
procurement process would mean
that they have been validly procured.”
Read excerpts of the Tuesday’s
proceedings
BN: Show him exhibit 49. One
of the products in respect of
which COCOBOD sought approval
is Elite fertilizer, is that correct?
AA: Yes, my Lord
BN: Please take a look at exhibit
23 also and confirm to this
honourable court that it is one of
the products listed in that exhibit
for which COCOBOD sought approval.
AA: Yes my Lord
BN: Did COCOBOD procure the Elite
organic fertilizer?
AA: It is possible, my Lord
BN: Do you know when a sample of
Elite organic fertilizer was brought to CO-
COBOD for testing?
AA: No, my Lord
BN: Do you know whether it was ever
certified by CRIG?
AA: No, my Lord
BN: I am putting it to you that the Elite
organic fertilizer was first certified after
13th October, 2014.
AA: I wouldn’t know, my Lord
BN: You are not aware that COCO-
BOD carried any investigation before ordering
the product, would you?
AA: My Lord, so far as the name of the
product appears here, it means it is certified.
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GSS launches 5-year corporate
plan to support national dev’t
BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI
Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
THE GHANA Statistical
Service has
launched its Corporate
Plan for 2020 to
2024 to lead efficient
collection, production,
management and dissemination
of quality official statistics to provide
Ghana with the needed data for
the achievement of the tenets of
‘the Coordinated Programme of
Economic and Social Development
policies, 2017 to 2024.
It is also to facilitate the move
Beyond Aid agenda and track
Ghana’s performance of international
development indicators notably,
the African Union Agenda
2063and the Sustainable Development
Goals.
The GSS Corporate Plan is to
support national development, outlines
how GSS will continue to use
•Management of GSS showcasing the GSS
Corporate Plan at the launch
cutting edge approaches to statistical
production and analysis, ensuring
that all its outputs are produced to
international standard and are compiled
by competent and motivated
staff.
Prof Samuel K Annim, Government
Statistician of the GSS, at the
launch explained that, GSS is the national
Statistical office of Ghana
with a mission to lead the efficient
production and management of
quality official statistics based on international
standards, using competent
staff for evidence-based
decision-making, in support of national
development.
According to him, over the next
five –years, GSS will be guided by
the Corporate Plan and implementing
the 5-Goals.
“These goals must be achieved in
order to deliver our current and anticipated
statistical programme commitment,
in line with our key user’s
needs,” he added.
He stated that that evidencebased
decision-making should use
the statistical information, collected
by the GSS and throughout the entire
National Statistical System
(NSS).
He said “these data, and statistical
information, provide the trust,
transparency and integrity that society
must demand, and government
must invest; for the true measurement
of national development and
things that matters to our citizens.”
Prof Annim pointed out that
data is a national asset, the evidence
that needed to reliably tracks national
development, for everyone.
“Without the right statistical information
or the latest statistical information,
how will we know that
the policy and international development
interventions in Ghana are
reaching the right people, in the right
places, so that no one is left behind,”
he explained.
Dr Grace Bediako, National Development
Planning Commission,
said evidence-based decision making
should use the statistical information,
collected by the GSS and
throughout the entire NSS.
She said “these data, and statistical
information, provide the trust,
transparency and integrity that society
must demand, and government
must invest; for the true measurement
of national development and
the things that matter to our citizens.
She stated that in the data-driven
world, the national statistics office
needs to ensure it keeps up with deluge
of statistical information which
is created consistently and readily
available to all.
&Env.
We’re on alert for Coronavirus– MoF
THE MINISTRY of Health
(MoF) has assured Ghanaians
it is taking the necessary steps
to prevent Coronavirus, which
is spreading in China from entering
Ghana.
There are fears the dangerous virus can
make its way into Ghana, considering the
closely knitted relationship between nationals
of both countries.
Scores of Chinese nationals are into numerous
activities in Ghana, including illegal
mining, while many Ghanaian business owners
travel to China to conduct business.
In a statement, the health ministry said:
“The Health Authorities in China confirmed
an outbreak of a novel Coronavirus infection
on the 7th January, 2020 in Wuhan
Province in China following a series of reported
cases of pneumonia of unknown
cause in December 2019.
“The outbreak was linked to a local animal
market (spread from animals to humans)
but has also been found to spread from one
person to the other. It can be spread when
an infected person coughs or sneezes on another
person. The disease is characterized by
fever, cough and difficulties in breathing. So
far, four people have been confirmed dead
due to the disease.
“Four other countries (Thailand, South
Korea and Japan and United Arab Emirates)
have also reported cases. The World Health
Organisation has called on countries to
strengthen prevention and control measures
for 2019-nCoV.
“Following the notification of the member
states of the WHO on the outbreak,
Ghana has initiated measures to protect the
general public from the disease. The following
measures are currently being implemented:
1. Alert message sent to all regions
in Ghana on the outbreak in addition to
guidance information on the disease
2. Enhanced surveillance at points of
entry, especially the Kotoka International
Airport”.
The statement added: “In addition, there
is in-country capacity to diagnose 2019-
nCoV through laboratory testing of the appropriate
samples by the Noguchi Memorial
Institute for Medical Research.
As part of measures to prevent an outbreak
in Ghana, passengers from China will
undergo enhanced screening procedures, including
the administration of health questionnaire.
Health facilities have also been
alerted to prepare and manage cases in case
of an outbreak. The general public is advised
to adhere to the following measures as
part of prevention”.

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NDC chairman mocks Bawumia over
omission from Forex Dev C’ttee
THE NATIONAL Chairman of
the National Democratic Congress
(NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu-
Ampofo, has taken a jab at Vice
President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia
over his exclusion from the
committee to look into the causes
of the depreciation of the cedi
and propose solutions to the
problem.
“You will recall that Dr Bawumia
once said that they have the
best economic team. Now the
economic management team
could not control the depreciation
of the cedi against the dollar.
They have now collapsed the
team and formed a committee,
and Dr Bawumia is excluded from
the committee,” Mr Ofosu-Ampofo
said.
•Dr Mahamudu Bawumiah
He made this remark in Kumasi
when he took his turn to address
hundreds of protestors who
had poured onto the streets to
join in the demonstration against
the compilation of a new voters
roll.
His remark comes on the back
of the establishment of a committee
by the government to investigate
the regular fall of the
Cedi against the major trading
currencies, especially the dollar.
The committee, whose membership
is drawn from the office
of the Vice President, Bank of
Ghana, the Ministry of Agriculture,
Ghana Union of Traders Association
(GUTA), Association of
Ghana Industries and some universal
banks among other key
stakeholders, has the Finance
Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta as
the chairman.
The committee, named the FX
Development Committee, is a fulfilment
of a promise made by the
Mr Ofori-Atta last year that the
government would establish a bipartisan
committee to investigate
the structural causes of the cedi
depreciation and propose adequate
measures.
In 2019, the cedi depreciated
by more than 12.7%, the worst
performance since 2015 when the
cedi depreciated by more than
14.6%. This development informed
the establishment of the
committee. StarrFM
Prampam Prampram Land Litigation
Chief calls for peace
•Naagbee Tetteh – Wayo
THE CHIEF of Prampram Traditional
Area, Naagbee Tetteh-
Wayo, has called for peace over
land litigation in the area.
Speaking to the press at his
residence at Prampam in the
Greater Accra Region, he stated
emphatically that land litigation
had dragged the name of his area
in the mud and painted a bad picture
about the people in the area.
He has, therefore, asked all
those who are battling land disputes
to present him with documents
to buttress their claims to
curb future similar situations.
“Land litigation in this area is
painting us black and causing a lot
of problems. Therefore, I would
like to use this medium to urge
everyone who has land here but
having issues to present his documents
so that I will sit down with
my elders and solve such problems
amicably,” Nagbee Tetteh-
Wayo stated.
Information available indicates
that land disputes in Ningo-Pramparm,
especially lands located at
the seashore, have increased by
11% within three years.
It is alleged that the Director
General of State Interests and
Governance Authority (SIGA),
Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, is
also in a dispute over a piece of
land in Prampram with one Mr
Daniel Yeboah at the Accra High
Court Land Division.
A lot of influential persons are
said to be owning acres of land at
Prampram. Kasapa FM
Court issues arrest warrant for site
manager of Airport building
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE HUMAN
Rights Division of
the Accra High
Court presided
over by Justice
Nicholas Mensah
Abodakpi has issued a bench
warrant for the immediate arrest
of Samuel Hinson, a supposed
site manager of the Turkish
Construction firm which is at the
centre of the 22-storey building
saga in the airport residential
area.
Following an application for
contempt against the Kess Plus
Company and its site Manager by
the Association International
School, the court found that Mr
Hinson, the 2nd respondent in
the matter, has deliberately refused
to attend court.
In court on Monday when the
case was called for hearing,
lawyers of Kess Plus Company,
(1st respondent) informed the
court that their affidavit in opposition
had not been served on
the applicant.
He said he was going to follow
that up and make sure the
applicant was served with their
affidavit in opposition.
But with the site manager,
Hinson, 2nd respondent, the
court observed that after the
posting of the order of substituted
service, the 2nd respondent
was deemed to have been
served.
•Construction site
The court added that the substituted
service order was
granted as far back as December
5, 2019, and posted on December
20, which was to last for 14
days.
The court said the 14-day period
had elapsed and the 2nd respondent
was deemed to have
been served with the processes.
A bench warrant was therefore
granted for the arrest of
Hinson.
This was after Belinda Pwamang,
lawyer of Association International
School, made a
request to the court for a warrant
to be issued for his arrest.
The court granted the application
for his immediate arrest.

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DAILY HERITAGE DIGITAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020
Editorial
Coronavirus should definitely be prevented
THERE IS this news making the
rounds that there is an outbreak of a
disease called Coronavirus in China
and spreading to other places of the
world.
It’s also been reported that four
other countries, namely Thailand,
South Korea, Japan and United Arab
Emirates, have also reported cases.
A statement issued by the
country’s Ministry of Health said:
“The Health Authorities in China
confirmed an outbreak of a novel
Coronavirus infection on the 7th
January, 2020 in Wuhan Province in
China following a series of reported
cases of pneumonia of unknown
cause in December 2019.
“The outbreak was linked to a
local animal market, spread from
animals to humans) but has also been
found to spread from one person to
the other. It can be spread when an
infected person coughs or sneezes
on another person. The disease is
characterized by fever, cough and
difficulties in breathing. So far, four
people have been confirmed dead
due to the disease.”
The World Health Organisation is
reported to have called on countries
to strengthen prevention and control
measures against the virus disease.
Contagious and air-borne diseases
like the Coronavirus put strain and
stress on both countries which are
suffering the outbreak and those
trying to prevent any outbreak. In
both cases, expertise, facilities to
contain the respective situations and
financial muscle are needed.
Considering how dangerous the
disease can be in our country, the
Ministry of Health (MoF) has
assured Ghanaians it is taking the
necessary steps to prevent
Coronavirus, from spreading from
China to Ghana.
Among the measures Ghana has
initiated to protect the general public
from the disease are alert message
sent to all regions of the country on
the outbreak in addition to guidance
information on the disease; and
enhanced surveillance at points of
entry, especially the Kotoka
International Airport”.
The Ministry of Health statement
added that there is in-country
capacity to diagnose 2019-nCoV
through laboratory testing of the
appropriate samples by the Noguchi
Memorial Institute for Medical
Research, and that passengers from
China will undergo enhanced
screening procedures, including the
administration of health
questionnaire.
Health facilities have also been
alerted to prepare and manage cases
in case of an outbreak.
The DAILY HERITAGE is
happy to learn of all the measures
but want to appeal to our health
professionals not to assume that the
measures so far outlined are enough
to save the situation. While we pray
that the virus should miss its way to
Ghana, we would like to remind our
health professionals of how some of
their counterparts in other countries
like DR Congo and Liberia lost their
lives to Ebola.
To this end, we want to appeal to
them to begin to think of how to
save themselves first while saving
others.
Police officer shot
dead at Mankessim
BY KWAKU BAAH
ACHEAMFUOR
APOLICE officer has
been shot dead at
Mankessim in the
Mfantseman Municipality
of the Central
Region.
The Lance Corporal was in
mufti and was on his way to the
office when he was shot in the
street. The attack on him follows
a shootout between the police and
some armed robbers who had attacked
a fuel station in the town,
Zeen Fuel station, on the same
day around 12a.m.
The police were called in to
save the situation as the armed
robbers retreated. They, however,
emerged from a nearby bush
around 4:00 a.m., killing the police
officer who was on his way to
work.
The killing of the police officer
has prompted a theory that the
robbers were likely to be town
File disclosures within 2 weeks
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• Court directs prosecution
Justice in 2018 with regard to criminal prosecutions.
Police Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent
of Police (ASP) Emmanuel Nyamekye, while
responding to the request, asked the court for
two weeks by which time they assured they
would have filed and served the defence team.
The trial judge, Mr Essandoh, now a justice
of the High Court, directed the prosecution to
ensure that they file all the documents and evidence
they would be relying on for the trial
and serve same on or before the February 5,
2020 court day..
Bail
While Amoabeng was admitted to bail in
the sum of GHc110m, Nyinaku’s bail sum
was GHc352 million.
Apart from that, they were to produce two
sureties who are public servants earning not
less than GHc 2,000.00. The accused persons
folks, thereby being able to identify
an officer who was not in uniform
and killing him in the
process.
The body of the lance corporal
has since been deposited at the
Cape Coast Teaching Hospital
morgue with the police intensifying
their search for the perpetrators.
are also to deposit their passports with the registrar
of the court and notify the court in writing
anytime they needed to travel. They were
also ordered to report to the police CID twice
a week, on Mondays and Fridays.
Charges
The two Managing Directors have been
charged with two counts of stealing contrary
to section 124 (1) of the Criminal and Other
Offences Act 1969 (Act 29) as amended by
part 4 of ( NLCD) No. 398/69 and money
laundering contrary to section 1(1)(a) of the
Anti-Money Laundering Act 2008 (Act 749).
At COCOBOD trial
State witness
chokes
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BN: With respect to Lithovit, are
you aware of any complaint from
farmers or users of the product at
COCOBOD?
AA: My Lord, during the primary
investigation and also during
EOCO’s investigation, some farmers
complained that the liquid fertilizer
was like water and that when they go
to their farms and there is no water
they could drink some.
BN: Typically, the farmers’ complaint
will come through CRIG and
CHED.
AA: Yes, my Lord, and including
any of the COCOBOD subsidiaries.
BN: In this case, the complaint
came only upon the interrogation of
EOCO.
AA: Yes, in this case
BN: So you won’t be surprised if
I told you that Dr. Arthur (second
prosecution witness) said CRIG is
not aware of any user or farmer
complaint about Lithovit?
AA: I wouldn’t know.

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Politics
DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020
Ghana is in ‘good times’
–Danquah Institute boss
THE EXECUTIVE
Director of policy
think-tank Danquah
Institute, Mr
Richard Ahiagbah,
says Ghana is in
good times despite claims of
hardships by a section of Ghanaians.
In his opinion, the country has
moved from a bad place and is
currently on solid grounds.
Mr Ahiagbah, who has been in
his current job for barely three
months, was on the Morning Starr
with Francis Abban on Wednesday
morning.
After several attempts by the
host Abban to get Mr Ahiagbah
to state his opinion on whether
the country was in hardship or
not, he said “we are in good times,
in the sense that we have moved
from a bad place and we are on
solid grounds to build. Life has always
been a battle. But you go to
a battle when you are prepared.”
“But now we are more prepared
than we were when we
came in 2016,” he established.
Mr Ahiagbah was then referred
to a submission made by former
President Mahama in 2015/2016
when the country was dealing
with power crisis in which he said
“we’ve had to deal with a lot and
we are about to take off,” and
asked about the country’s current
situation.
He said “when someone tells
you we had to deal with hard
times and we are ready for takeoff,
you ask what he did to facilitate
what takeoff he is talking about.
Whoever told you some years ago
that he was ready for takeoff
didn’t prepare anything, he didn’t
prepare a launchpad for his take
off.”
“So if you don’t have a
Launchpad, you can talk about
takeoff [about] all you want but
you are not going to take off
because you don’t have a
launchpad,” he said.
On what the government
of the day could boast of as
a launchpad, he noted, “the
banking sector is reformed,
restructured and is actually
back to working the way it
must.”
He went on, “we are
building beneath ourselves a
solid economic situation. We
are going to be able to substitute
most of our imports
with the ‘one district one factory’
situation. Now that is a
key conversation we have not
had and when that conversation
comes up, we hear some
on the other side would say
‘how many have you built?’.
A very simplistic question.”
Mugeez signs new artiste on record label
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BY ERICA ARTHUR
Mugeez (R) and Tecknikal
Mugeez, known as
one half of the
popular Ghanaian
hip-hop
group R2Bees,
and also the
founder and Chief Executive Officer
of Extrial Music, has currently
signed a new artiste,
Tecknikal, onto his Extrial Music
label.
The new artiste, a Ghanaian
based in Columbus, Ohio and
born Earl Owusu Ansah, has been
doing music professionally since
2016 and released songs such as
the Styla season’ album, the ‘Guapanese’
mixtape, an EP dubbed
‘Dedication’ and some good
amount of singles, “which are all
available on most streaming platforms
under my stage name Tecknikal.
“It’s Safe to say I have over 30
songs out online. I have worked
with numerous producers but noticeably
Oge Beats and DCQ
beats.”
According to the management
of the record label, Tecknikal,
who is currently the only artiste
on the label after he was signed up
in December 2019, was discovered
for his talent and prowess on
beats.
Speaking to Tecknikal, he said,
Mugeez and the R2Bees as a family,
has been his inspiration in his
music journey and he feels blessed
to be part of the family now.
“I’ve known Mugeez personally
for about 2 years prior to
signing with him and this gave me
the opportunity to learn about his
plans for me as his artist, so I
thought to myself this was an
offer I couldn’t refuse. My biggest
concern about getting signed to a
label was never the money involved
but how the label could
help me progress. And I felt confident
that Extrial Music is the
right place to be.
“It feels more like my new
family than a label and in terms of
contributions to my music, they’ve
been heavy on promoting me and
making sure my music is heard
across Ghana and beyond. They
also got me in the studio with a
lot of dope artists; so be sure to
stay tuned for what we got coming.”
Tecknikal, under Extrial Music,
has released his first song dubbed
‘Fantasy’, which was directed by
Mr Victorious and is available on
all online music streaming site.
“It feels more like my
new family than a
label and in terms of
contributions to my
music, they’ve been
heavy on promoting
me and making sure
my music is heard
across Ghana and
beyond.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020
•The Black Stars team
Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
•Coach CK Akonnor
Ghana faces S/Africa, Zimbabwe
& Ethiopia in qualifiers
GHANA HAS been
handed an easy 2022
World Cup qualifying
group as they will face
South Africa, Zimbabwe
and Ethiopia for the tournament to be
held in Qatar.
The Black Stars were drawn in Group
G and they will have to play
Bafana Bafana – regular opponents
for the Black Stars.
Ghana have been regular
winners over South Africa
while Zimbabwe and
Ethiopia have not been in
top form to cause a major
threat to the Black Stars.
Coach CK Akonnor’s men
were drawn in Group G
alongside the Warriors, the
Walias and Bafana Bafana,
who they also contest with
for a place at the 2021 Africa
Cup of Nations.
The Black Stars failed to
qualify for the last edition of
the global spectacle, with
their last appearance dating
back to 2014 when it was
hosted by Brazil.
The four teams will be
battling it out for top spot in
the group and a place in the
final round for a place in the
showpiece event in two years’ time.
The second round is scheduled to
begin in October 2020 and will conclude
in October 2021.
The third round will see the 10 group
winners drawn into five two-legged
knockout ties to be played in November
2021.
•Dede Ayew, Black
Stars skipper
It is expected to be an easy feat for
Black Stars coach CK Akonnor and his
side will make trips to eastern and
southern Africa.
The Black Stars seek to secure first
place in the group, with their first game
taking place in October.
The competing countries were divided
into 10 groups made up of four
national teams.
Only the winners of each group go
through to the final playoff round for a
spot at the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
Then the leaders of each group will
qualify to the third round where they
will be drawn into five home-and-away
ties. The winners of each tie will advance
to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in
Qatar.
Draw results:
Group A: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Niger,
Djibouti
Group B: Tunisia, Zambia, Mauritania,
Equatorial Guinea
Group C: Nigeria, Cape Verde Islands,
Central African Republic, Liberia
Group D: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire,
Mozambique, Malawi
Group E: Mali, Uganda, Kenya,
Rwanda
Group F: Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Angola
Group G: Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Ethiopia
Group H: Senegal, Congo, Namibia,
Togo
Group I: Morocco, Guinea, Guinea-
Bissau, Sudan
Group J: Congo DR, Benin, Madagascar,
Tanzania
Source: W ires

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