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• Dr Nana Anima
Wiafe Akenten
•Mr Mike Oquaye Jnr submitting his forms at the
party office at Dome Kwabenya
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Mike Oquaye Jnr
flays Adjoa Safo
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
GHANA’S HIGH
Commissioner to
India, Mr Mike
Oquaye Jnr, who
is contesting in
the upcoming Parliamentary
primaries by the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) in the Dome
Kwabenya Constituency, has accused
the incumbent Member
of Parliament (MP) for the
area, Ms Sarah Adjoa Sarfo, of
being selective in meeting the
needs and desires of the constituents.
Mr Oquaye argued that the
selective approach adopted by
the MP is adversely affecting
the growth of the constituency.
Addressing delegates after
successfully filing his nomination
to challenge his opponent,
Lawyer Oquaye said , “I assure
you that my victory will reunite
the base of the party. I will
work with all the delegates irrespective
of our differences. I
am fully aware of the selective
approach adopted by the MP in
• Over selective justice
• As he files nomination for NPP primaries
meeting your needs.
“I won’t discriminate
against anyone. My victiory
will unite the party and will
strengthen the existing structures
for the victory of the
NPP in 2020.”
Touching on what necessitated
his decision to contest
the second time, Mr Oquaye
said, “I was motivated to make
the second move for the seat
because of the cry by some
grass-roots people and delegates
that they are mostly neglected
when people win
elections.”
He stated that there were
factions among the constituents
because some members
were aggrieved for certain
issues, emphasising that it was
imperative for this acrimony to
be resolved to avoid any tension
in the party.
The governing NPP would
go to the polls on April 25 in
all the 169 constituencies where
the party has sitting MPs to
elect its parliamentary candidates
for the 2020 parliamentary
elections.
Mr Oquaye faces stiff competition
as he comes up against
the incumbent and Minister of
State in charge of Public Procurement,
Ms Adjoa Safo, who
is seeking re-election for the
third time.
• Mr Mike Oquaye Jnr on his way to file his nomiation
Minority justifies SONA boycott
THE MINORITY in Parliament has
explained they walked out of President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s
State of the Nation Address yesterday
over the numerous ill happenings in
the country since the NPP took office
in 2017.
“As we speak, the President has
refused to implement the
recommendations of the Emile Short
Commission following the statesponsored
terrorism that occurred
during the Ayawaso West Wuogon byelection
in January 2019. The
President continues to shield his
indicted appointees as he even confers
• Says Ghana not in normal times
on them more authority to perpetrate
mayhem ahead of the 2020 presidential
and parliamentary elections.
“Contrary to the Emile Short
Commission recommendation,
President Akufo-Addo has blatantly
refused to disband the illegal SWAT
team which has been populated by
known hoodlums belonging to his
vigilante groups,” the statement said.
The statement also mentioned the
shut-down of some radio stations as
part of the reasons for the boycott.
We reproduce a statement by the
minority:
Statement by Minority On The
Walkout At Today’s State Of The
Nation Address As Addressed By
Minority Leader, Hon. Haruna
Iddrisu In Parliament:
We duly welcome you to this press
briefing and thank you for your
continuous indulgence and dedicated
contributions to free expression in
Ghana.
We, constituting the Minority in
Ghana’s Parliament have convened this
press interaction to put forth the
reasons for staging a walkout on the
day the president was expected to
deliver a message on the state of the
nation as required by Article 67 of the
1992 Constitution of Ghana.
From the outset, we need to make
clear that these are not normal times in
the democratic trajectory of our
country.
We are clad in black today to
mourn the fascist and authoritarian
tendencies that have conspired to
threaten the health of Ghana’s
democracy.
Since becoming President of our
republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo has conducted the affairs of
state with the kind of tyranny,
despotism and authoritarianism that
frightens many objective observers.
We have in the face of extreme
provocation exercised restraint and
urged the president to depart from his
perilous path that puts the democracy
of our country at great risk.
Sadly, matters are totally out of
control. The democracy we all toiled
and sacrificed to establish is now
threatened by the highhandedness of
President Akufo-Addo. The man who
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Enforce use of
mother tongue
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
DR NANA Anima
Wiafe Akenten, the
first Ghanaian to acquire
a PhD in Twi,
has called on politicians
to exercise the ‘political will’
of ensuring that schools adhere to
the education policy that the
mother tongue is used as a
medium of instruction in the
country.
According to her, even though
the Twi language, for instance, is a
medium of instruction for the first
three years of basic education, this
is not the case on the ground because
most teachers in even public
schools show no interest in the use
of the mother tongue as a medium
of instruction.
In an interview with the DAILY
HERITAGE yesterday, ahead of
the celebration of today, February
21, as the International Mother
Language Day, she said Ghana
would need the ‘political boldness’
to enforce such policy because
“the current state of affairs is
gradually killing the love for the
country’s various vernaculars like
Fante, Ga, Ewe and Dagbani.
• In basic schools
• Dr Anima Wiafe
Akenten urges politicians
Dr Wiafe Akenten,
who is a lecturer
at the
Ajumako language
campus of the University
of Education,
Winneba
(UEW), said the
time had come for
parents to engage
their children to
value and love their
mother tongue in
order to know and
appreciate their culture
and exhibit
goodwill for their
country.
“It is a call that I
wish parents will
teach their children
their mother tongue
so that the children
will grow and appreciate
its existence,”
she stated.
The lecturer said
research had stated
that children who use their mother
tongue in the early stages of life have
complete development of the brain
while multi-linguals have brain development
challenges.
She said the country’s earlier governments
such as the administration of Dr
Kwame Nkrumah adhered to the use of
the mother tongue as the medium of instruction
and this really helped that generation
to develop and appreciate their
culture and environment.
The Twi lecturer said the mother
tongue helps children to learn about
their environment, feel part of the situation
and problems, and make conscious
effort of addressing situations better
than using a foreign language.
She said while Ghanaians had failed
to appreciate and value their mother
tongue, countries such as United Kingdom
and United States are happy to use
Akan adages in their various Parliaments
for emphasis.
“Why do we have to frown on our
own mother tongue when conscious effort
is being made by Google and other
search engines gradually to introduce the
Twi Language, for instance, as a medium
of communication and very soon it will
shock the world? Prof. Akenten asked
rhetorically, adding that some universities
in the United States have introduced Twi
as subject.
Dr Wiafe Akenten lauded radio stations
whose medium of communication
is basically the mother tongue.
The Twi lecturer, therefore, called on
all Ghanaians to embrace their mother
tongue, value it and use it as the first tool
of instruction at home and lower part of
basic education to help the children appreciate
and develop with it.
Background
International Mother Language Day is
a worldwide annual observance held on
February 21 to promote awareness of
linguistic and cultural diversity and to
promote multilingualism.
It was first announced by UN-
ESCO on November 17, 1999 and
was formally recognised by the
United Nations General Assembly
with the adoption of UN Resolution
56/262 Multilingualism in
2002.
Mother Language Day is part
of a broader initiative "to promote
the preservation and protection of
all languages used by peoples of
the world" as adopted by the UN
General Assembly on May 16,
2007 in UN Resolution 61/266,
which also established 2008 as the
International Year of Languages.
“It is a call that
I wish parents
will teach their
children their
mother tongue
so that the
children will
grow and
appreciate its
existence,” she
stated.

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Producer price inflation rises to 13.3%
BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI
Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
THE PRODUCER
Price Index (PPI)
that measures the
average change over
time in the prices received
by domestic
producers for the production of
their goods and services for the
month of January 2020 went up to
13.3%.
The PPI and corresponding inflation
rates are presented for all
industry with a breakdown for
three major sub-sectors, namely
mining and quarrying, manufacturing
and utilities.
The rate for January is 0.3%
percentage point increase in producer
inflation relative to the rate
recorded in December 2019 with
13.0%.
Professor Samuel Kobina
Annim, Government Statistician
of Ghana Statistical Service, at a
press briefing in Accra, explained
that the monthly change in producer
price index between December
2019 and January 2020 was
0.5%.
For mining and quarrying, he
said the producer inflation rate decreased
by 1.5 percentage points
over the December 2019 rate of
33.7% to record 32.2% in January
2020.
He added that for manufacturing,
the rate for January 2020 was
The Statistician added that manufacture
of machinery and equipment
not else classified recorded the highest
inflation rate of 24.7%, followed
by manufacture of food products and
beverages with 13.6%, manufacture
for coke, petroleum products 13.0%,
and manufacture of other non-metallic
mineral products 10.1% while
manufacture of fabricated metal
products recorded 9.6%.
0.8 percentage point higher than
that of December 2019 (8.8%).
“During the month of January
2020, five out of the 16 major
groups in the manufacturing subsector
recorded inflation higher
than the sector average of 9.6%,”
he explained.
The Statistician added that
manufacture of machinery and
equipment not else classified
recorded the highest inflation rate
of 24.7%, followed by manufacture
of food products and beverages
with 13.6%, manufacture for
coke, petroleum products 13.0%,
and manufacture of other nonmetallic
mineral products 10.1%
while manufacture of fabricated
metal products recorded 9.6%.
&Env.
• Coronavirus
We’ll evacuate Ghanaian students
when necessary – Akufo-Addo
PRESIDENT NANA
Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo has stated that
Ghanaian students in
Wuhan, the epicentre
of the deadly coronavirus
outbreak in China, will be
evacuated only when it becomes
necessary.
The President, addressing Parliament
during his 4th State of the
Nation Address, revealed that
there were over 4600 Ghanaian
students in China, adding that
over 300 were located in Wuhan.
He, however, added that the
students are currently safe and are
in constant touch with Ghana’s
mission in China.
“We have not ruled out the option
of repatriating Ghanaian students
from Wuhan due to the
outbreak of coronavirus if it becomes
necessary,” he said.
The President cautioned MPs
not to dabble in ill politics aimed
at scoring cheap political points
with regard to the evacuation of
Ghanaian students in China since
it is a very delicate matter.
Ghanaian students in China
have been unhappy about the
government’s refusal to evacuate
•Blood sample with respiratory coronavirus positive
them from the coronavirus-hit
country.
Foreign Affairs Minister,
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, on
Tuesday revealed that the government,
upon consultations, had decided
not to evacuate the Ghanaian
students stranded in China
amidst the 2019 novel coronavirus
outbreak.
She added that due to the decision,
other measures like the shipment
of local food items were
being executed to support and ensure
that the students were comfortable.
The President
cautioned MPs
not to dabble in ill
politics aimed at
scoring cheap political
points with
regard to the
evacuation of
Ghanaian students
in China
since it is a very
delicate matter.

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Amazing Grace Children’s
Foundation shows love to children
• At Korle-Bu Children Ward, Chosen Children Home
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
AUS-BASED children’s
medical services charity,
Amazing Grace
Children’s Foundation
(AGCF), has presented
stimulating growth materialsto
the patientsat the Children’s
Ward of the Cancer Unit of the Korle
Bu Teaching Hospitalto help their
treatment.
The exercise is to show the foundation’s
commitment and effort in championingthe
Millennium Development
Goal five, which focuses on the improvement
of maternal and infant
health and also show of love and care
to underprivileged children.
The donation was led by the
founder of the AGCF, Dr Gloria
Nimo, and forms part of series of activities
earmarked to champion the
foundation’s goals and mission to,
among other things, construct a children
hospital at Prampram.
In an interview with the DAILY
HERITAGE after the exercise, the
vice president of AGCF, Pauls Joseph,
said, “We decided to donate to Korle-
Bu Teachings Hospital Children Ward
because we want to put smiles on each
child’s face.”
While describing the exercise as
heart-warming, she said “we brought
them toys and it brought what we
wanted to see in the underprivileged
children.”
“We saw the parents being happy,
we saw the children with happy faces
and that was one thing that we wanted
to do. The children at the cancer ward
do not have the opportunity to play
with one another but at least giving
them toys one after the other they can
play,” she observed.
Children hospital at Prampram
She told the paper that as part of
their mission, “We do this a lot. So
part of the mission of Amazing Grace
Children Foundation is to provide
healthcare to children from different
groups and our goal is to build a children
hospital in Prampram and also to
bring healthcare in other countries in
Africa.
“Even though this was the first
time of donating items to the Korle-
Bu hospital, the foundation has done a
lot of things in other health facilities
like PrincessMarieLouise Children's
Hospital before. We have gone to several
orphanages like we went today,
and we do this very often.
She added that “even if we are not
here we send donation from the US
back here and we provide those
things.”
Heartwarming experience
Director of Volunteer Services at
AGCF, Dorian Royal, said the experience
with the children at the Korle-Bu
Cancer Unit “was very heart-warning
to see them make efforts to please us
for the things we have done and we
feel motivated for the kind of things
we do.”
According to her, “we try to visit
hospitals where we have heard ofchildren
needs, so that what we do benefits
them, and parents who have to
adjust to stress can actually appreciate
the efforts that weput in to do something
for them, for their children and
those children who are in the nursing
homes.
She added that the exercise was
also “to lift their (children’s) day because
we know that they don’t have the
same opportunity that we have and
they are not as fortunate as we are.”
Gratitude
Dr Michael Akinyemi, a medical officer
at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital,
told the paper that “the care we
give these children is directed at fixing
their conditions, but their psychology
is also very important to the outcome
that we are looking for, which is improvement
of care.
He therefore expressed gratitude to
the leadership of AGCF for the kind
gesture ,saying “when we make the
children happy and let them know that
we love them, it also helps us in our
mission to make them better, so that is
why we are grateful to what Amazing
Grace Children Foundation has done”
According to him, for the time
spent with the children and the smile,
“you could see smiles on their faces
despite the challenges they are going
through. It is a great feeling and we are
very happy for that.”
They also donated items such as
books, learning games, different toys
that will help with the stimulation of
the children growth and things.
Chosen Children’s Home
From Korle Bu, the AGCF members
went to the Chosen Children
Home at Darkuman in Accra to donate
similar items there.
The caretaker of the Home, Gity
Annan, who received the delegation on
behalf of the home, said the school
was started as a rehabilitation centre
but was later converted into a children’s
home.
According to her, there is a collaboration
with the social welfare, so children
whose parents are not known are
brought to the home. The home
has 68 children and 10 volunteers.
Miss Annan, however, expressed
gratitude to AGCF for the gesture and
prayed for God’s blessings for them,
saying “we thank them for the good
things they have brought to us and we
appreciate it more. It will open the
children’s mind and help them in their
development.”
She called on other philanthropists
to emulate the kind example of the
AGCF. .
Tapioca festival announces 2020 activities
THE GHANA Spaa Media at
Ada-Foah in the Greater ACCRA
Region has announced activities
for the third edition of its annual
festival dubbed the ‘Tapioca Festival
2020.’
Following a successful and
spectacular first two editions, the
third edition promises to be bigger
and better in the historic town of
Ada.
The festival is aimed at boosting
tourism, its allied businesses,
services, culture and rich arts of
the Ada state on the theme ‘Emancipation’.
Tapioca Festival’s founder, Seth
Priceless Ala-Amegavie, in a release
copied to the DAILY HER-
ITAGE, said this year’s festival
would not only provoke orgasmic
feeling, experiential of the finest
talents but also the bedrock for
creativity and unlimited capabilities.
“We’re excited to be leading an
experience that breaks people out
of their boxes. Everyone at this
event will be empowered to believe,
to think free and to act without
limit to what they can do with
their greatness. Beyond the return,
there is so much the African can
do.”
The 2020 festival is a threemonth
long event packed with lots
of activities starting from Saturday,
February 8, 2020, with a workshop
through to Monday, April 13,with
a beach carnival to climax the
event at Cocoloco Beach Resort to
be held by Whats Up Tv.
Other activities will include Ada
Trade Expo by the Ada Business
Resource Center, Nikomeahe Arts
Fair by Ada Senior High School,
and Ferry Rave. A complete and
more detailed line of activities is
attached to Tapioca activities on
our website,
tapiocafestival.com/tapioca activities.
Spaa Media says it looks forward
to continuing our good relationship
with sponsors, the press,
artists, arts, culture and history enthusiasts
and patrons in general.
Spaa Media
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focused on creating varied content
for the world market. Instituted on
the existence of divergent values
of dynamism, assertiveness, passion,
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DAILY HERITAGE DIGITAL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
IN OUR today’s edition Dr Nana
Anima Wiafe Akenten, the first
Ghanaian to acquire a PhD in Twi,
has called on politicians to exercise
the ‘political will’ of ensuring that
schools adhere to the education
policy that the mother tongue be used
as a medium of instruction in the
country.
According to her, even though the
Twi language, for instance, is a
medium of instruction for the first
three years of basic education, this is
not the case on the ground because
most teachers in even public schools
show no interest in the use of the
mother tongue as a medium of
instruction.
She said this in relation to the
celebration of today, February 21, as
the International Mother Language
Day, a day first announced
by UNESCO on November 17, 1999,
Editorial
Help develop mother tongue
and was formally recognised by
the United Nations General
Assembly with the adoption of UN
Resolution 56/262 Multilingualism in
2002 for a worldwide annual
observance
to
promote awareness of linguistic and c
ultural diversity and to
promote multilingualism.
The truth of the matter is that no
country would see true development
if the citizens do not value language,
local or foreign. In fact, the
competence level of a people’s
language has a relation to their level
of commitment to their own
endeavours whose aggregate results
in the level of development they
show. This is because language is the
tool for the functioning of any
culture, whose elements comprise all
that goes on in a particular society –
education, farming, medical or herbal
practice, housing, justice delivery,
research, and so on and so forth.
The other truth is that countries
that have somewhat developed have
used their own mother tongue as the
language of instruction for education
– the British, Germans, French,
Chinese, Arabs, Japanese, Russians,
Canadians, Americans, Koreans,
Malaysians, you name them.
The Malaysians, for instance, are
on record as having incorporated into
their Malay language science
expressions they did not have but
acknowledged could aid them in
science education. They only spelt
such expressions in Malay.
The problem we have in Ghana is
that the Twi-speaking people in
general force to find local expressions
for almost everything. When this
happens, the language does not grow
and so becomes limited for any
proper education.
The point is that if our present
generation would love to speak the
mother tongue, it should be
developed by way of adding
borrowed words and expressions
from various languages to capture
current state of affairs. The truth is
that the Ghanaian languages lack
certain expressions used globally.
Computer, for instance, has come
with its own expressions and so are
other modern inventions. What local
word can we use in referring to the
fridge if we do not want to use the
English word?
The DAILY HERITAGE
support the call by Dr Anima Wiafe
Akenten but would like to appeal to
her and others like her to help
develop Ghanaian languages to make
them attractive both locally and
globally.
Minority justifies SONA boycott
• READ FROM PAGE 2
in opposition styled himself as a champion
democrat has turned out to be a nightmare and
an existential threat to our fledgling democracy.
We continue to witness heightened
impunity from officialdom.
As we speak, the President has refused to
implement the recommendations of the Emile
Short Commission following the state
sponsored terrorism that occurred during the
Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election in January
2019. The President continues to shield his
indicted appointees as he even confers on them
more authority to perpetrate mayhem ahead of
the 2020 presidential and parliamentary
elections.
Contrary to the Emile Short Commission
recommendation, President Akufo-Addo has
blatantly refused to disband the illegal SWAT
team which has been populated by known
hoodlums belonging to his vigilante groups.
Many more of these blood thirsty
hoodlums continue to be trained at national
security installations and are being armed ahead
of the 2020 elections.
President Akufo-Addo goes down in
history as the only President in the Fourth
Republic to supervise the cruel removal of
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission,
Madam Charlotte Osei. That conduct in infamy
appears to have paved the way for an elaborate
scheme to rig the 2020 elections by compiling a
new Voters Register. Majority Leader Osei
• Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu
Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu let the cat out of the bag
when he stated emphatically that if the NPP
was successful in compiling a new Voters
Register, the NDC will never come back to
power. One wonders how a register that
brought the NDC to power in 2012 and the
NPP to power in 2016 can suddenly become so
discredited in the eyes of the NPP if not for
the sinister agenda exposed inadvertently by
the Majority Leader.
The Akufo-Addo-led Government in
cahoots with the Jean Mensah-led Electoral
Commission remains intransigent despite
overwhelming public opposition including
from a strong coalition of Civil Society
Organisations and Political Parties. We cannot
help but agree with the US State Department
Human Rights report which has raised
concerns of possible voter suppression in
opposition strongholds as the real intention for
the needless and wasteful new Voters Register.
Under President Akufo-Addo’s watch,
media freedoms and free expression have come
under unprecedented attack. The Government
has still not found the killers of investigative
journalist, Ahmed Hussain-Suale who was
assassinated in cold blood. Despite demands
from the international community for action,
he refuses to speak to the matter and no
updates on investigations have been provided.
Many journalists continue to be attacked, with
others having to seek refuge outside the
jurisdiction.
His Government continues to close down
Radio stations particularly those with affiliation
to his political opponents. Only last week, his
administration after the Gestapo closures of
Radio Gold and Radio XYZ, and many others,
closed down Radio Tongu and Fox FM,
Takoradi in the most bizarre of circumstances.
The growing culture of impunity and the
tyranny that has reached alarming proportions
was once again on the prowl when agents of
National Security demolished businesses
belonging to Ghanaians in the private sector
located at the Ghana Trade Fair Site at dawn
under the cover of darkness. Not even notice
was served on the owners to take out their
valuables ahead of the barbaric demolition. We
are not in any doubt that the cruel nature of
the demolishing which has been justified by the
President’s appointees and spokespersons was
targeted at former award-winning journalist,
Raymond Archer who many in this
administration have not forgiven for his
incisive and explosive investigative pieces of
yesteryears.
As noted, these are not normal times.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Our tradition is credited for laying the
foundations for this Fourth Republican
dispensation. It is our moral duty to the
Constitution we swore to protect and the
people we serve in this House to rise and resist
oppressor’s rule – in that enduring and rallying
call of our national anthem.
Our walkout was therefore a bold protest
against tyranny and to send a very clear
message directly to President Akufo-Addo that
enough is enough. We shall no longer accept
the growing levels of impunity and
unconstitutionalism masked by duplicitous and
hollow rhetoric.
Ghana belongs to all of us and so shall we
all stand to defend the democracy we have all
laboured for. Like Thomas Jefferson, we
declare: “I have sworn upon the altar of God,
eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man.”
Thank you for your attention.

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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Voters’ register: Go and register
• Akufo-Addo to Ghanaians
THE PRESIDENT,
Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, has appealed
to all Ghanaians
to go out and
register when the
registration exercise for the compilation
of a new voters’ register begins.
According to the President, it is
the civic responsibility of every
Ghanaian to go out and get their
new voters’ card ahead of the
2020 elections.
“Go and register, I appeal to
every Ghanaian to go and register,
it is our civic right to do so,” the
President said during his 4th State
of the Nation Address, which was
boycotted by the Minority in Parliament.
The President added that
“Things are working in Ghana and
Ghana is changing. Our country is
in good health and in competent
hands.”
The Electoral Commission
(EC) says it will begin compiling
the new voters register for the December
2020 elections in April.
The Commission added it
hoped to end the exercise by the
end of May.
The Director of Electoral Services,
Dr Serebour Quaicoe, made
this known in a radio
interview with Accra-based Starr
FM on Thursday [January 20,
2020].
“We want to start by mid-April
and by the end of May we will
have finished,” he said.
The EC said it was planning to
procure a new biometric voter
management system (BVMS) and
compile a new voters register since
the current system was outdated.
While some 13 political parties
led by the New Patriotic Party
(NPP) have thrown their weight
behind the EC for the new BVMS
and compilation of the new register,
the Inter-Party Resistance
against the New Voters Register,
made up of six political parties led
by the opposition National Democratic
Congress (NDC), has kicked
against it.
Meanwhile, the EC says the
procurement of the new BVMS
and compilation of a new register
will save the country GH¢173.07
million, compared to upgrading
the current system.
• An official of EC
Gambia’s Jizzle takes away the
most awards at WahSahlat Awards
including Artist of the Year
h
“I FEEL good about it, it’s just a
great feeling you know. I believe
that I got all of those awards because
of the hard work and dedication
that I put in my music,
through-out these years. So I am
really honored and send a big
thanks to all the fans and supporters
that voted and believed in
me,” expresses Jizzle.
He continues, “The fans are
always there for me making sure
that Jizzle is up there. I feel so
happy, so blessed. A lot of work
will be done for this year and
every other year, Man of Every
Year, you know.” After dominating
the music scene all year, with
Jizzle’s music being heard all over
the country, Team Jizzle and Jizzle
Kingdom are humbled to get
recognition for the hard work
that they have put into promoting
and marketing the music.”
Jizzle received four awards;
Artist of the Year,
Song of the Year for
Turn by Turn on his
Finally Album,
Video of the Year
with Nobles for
Killer, and Afrofusion
Artist of the
Year. Jizzle has been
in such great demand
that even after
his successful stadium
show in November;
the holidays
found him performing
all over the
country and currently
he is on a nation-wide
tour.
Overjoyed by his
awards, he is planning
a youth family
fun day and concert
on April 18th 2020.
It will be day of
laughter and music just for
the children and their families
who make up a large fan
base for the artist.
Jizzle also congratulates
his fellow honorees and
beams at the idea that together
they are making
Gambian music a strong international
force representing
the people and the
culture.
Jizzle is really excited
about 2020; it will be an excellent
year. He has many
surprises in store for his
fans including his Scorpion
Ep coming out March 6th.
He has been crossing into
mainstream markets and is
ready to go out into the
world and perform for his
fans in other places.”

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Kotoko CEO disowns
coach over juju
KOTOKO COACH, Maxwell Konadu,
has been left to bear the brunt of the
drama that blighted the club’s Ghana Premier
League week 11 fixture against Aduana
Stars as the club’s Executive CEO
distances himself from the ‘disgraceful’ incident.
Ghana’s social media space has been
awash with posts condemning and ridiculing
Kotoko for being ‘primitive’ and ‘unprofessional’.
Some of the commentators have called
for severe punishment for Kotoko and Aduana
for bringing the name of Ghana football
into disrepute.
In a post-match interview, Maxwell
Konadu failed to explain the reason behind
his decision to start with ten players instead
of the eleven indicated on the team’s
sheet’.
Konadu told StarTimes’ Eli Kondoh
that “I cannot explain why we started with
10 players against Aduana Stars.”
But in an interesting turn of events, the
Executive CEO of Kumasi Asante Kotoko,
Kwame Kyei, has disclosed his disapproval
of the whole episode.
Kyei told Asempa FM that he does not
believe in superstition and played no role in
the drama that unfolded in Dormaa on
Wednesday.
‘Juju’ plays no part in deciding football
matches. Juju does not play football. I feel
if you pray, whatever is left is up to you
(team/players) to deliver. If you don’t work
hard, nothing will come to fruition. So let’s
rid the game of juju matters so our football
can improve.
“You won’t see things like this in Europe,
it’s only here in Africa, I disagree juju
plays football. If juju plays football, then
India would have won the World Cup”.
Meanwhile, a retired Ghanaian referee,
William Agbovi, has ruled out the possibility
of Kotoko and Aduana getting punishment
from the GFA.
According to him, the two clubs violated
no law with their decision to start a
game with 10 players instead of 11.
“FIFA law three talks about the number
of players allowed to start a game. The law
allows that you can even start a game with
seven players but must include someone
identified as a goalkeeper. So none of them
has flouted the regulations of the FA.
That’s why the referee did not say anything
because you can choose to start with ten or
nine players but you don’t have to exceed
the maximum of eleven”.
Great Olympics
appoint new coach
Ghana move up in
2020 FIFA ranking
GHANA HAS moved one
place up in the latest FIFA
World Ranking released yesterday.
In a largely unchanged
Top 50, Ghana is the only
country that made the move up
the ranking.
But the 2010 World Cup
quarter-finalists are tied with
Costa Rica on the 46th position.
Ghana’s gains did not affect
their position on the
Africa rankings, unfortunately,
as they still remain sixth.
They are only better on the
log than Egypt, Cameroun,
Mali and DR Congo in the Top
10. Senegal remain the topranked
African side though
20th on the world ranking.
Tunisia and Nigeria follow
in second and third positions
• The Black Stars team
respectively with African
champions Algeria being
fourth.
Morocco join them as the
Top 5 highest-ranked African
sides.
Belgium continue to stay
top on the overall ranking with
world champions France,
Brazil, England and Uruguay
making up the Top 5.
ACCRA GREAT Olympics
have agreed on a one-year renewable
contract with former
MTN FA Cup winning coach,
Daniel Annor Walker.
The position became vacant
after the resignation of substantive
coach Prince George
Koffie.
Assistant coach Seth Hoffman
has been in charge of the
team in their last three games.
•Daniel Annor Walker
The coach told the Times
Sports yesterday he was in to
help the team earn a respectable
place on the league
table.
“I have signed a one-year renewable
contract with the club;
within this period they will
look at my performance and
decide whether w could extend
it or otherwise.”
After supervising training
yesterday,
Coach Walker
expressed optimism
over the
team’s ability
to succeed in
the competition.
Walker
coached Nania
FC from 2005,
guiding them
to become
MTN FA Cup
lords in 2011
and has had
stints with
Berekum
Chelsea and
Medeama SC.
He recently
undertook a
refresher
course at Italian
club side
AC Milan.