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COVID-19:
Prez’s directives
didn’t stop NIA
registration
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE DEPUTY Attorney
General, Godfred Dame,
has said activities of the
National Identification Authority
(NIA) for the registration
of the Ghana Card do not fall
under the directives issued by the President
Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo.
According to the Mr Dame, the directives
issued by the President as part
of containment measures to curb the
deadly COVID-19 do not require the
NIA to halt its registration exercise in
the Eastern Region.
The exercise has since been suspended
by a 10-day court injunction
pending the final determination.
In a statement of case in opposition
to the motion for interim injunction
filed against the NIA, the Deputy AG
said although the President gave directives
for the suspension of public gatherings,
the NIA’s work does not fall
under the category of businesses that
were to practise social distancing protocol
as one of the precautionary measures.
“The court will observe that much
as the President directed that all public
gatherings should be suspended, in the
•Deputy AG writes to court over injunction
same speech on Sunday, March 15,
2020, the President expressly preserved
the continued operation of businesses
and other workplaces subject to the observance
of prescribed social distancing
between patrons and staff.”
•Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame
“…the effect of the President’s directive
is that manufacturing, industrial
and service workplaces, including the
civil service and service in other organs
of government, local market, supermarket,
shopping mall, restaurant, security
services and other essential services
continue to function, but subject to the
strict practice of prescribed social distancing,”
he said.
He further argued that their work is
part of public services and as such the
ban declared by the president last Sunday
does not include the Ghana card
registration and the plaintiffs on that
basis have no case against the authority.
He stated among other things that
“from a careful study of the applicants’
case, they purported to be ventilating a
public grievance.
“We submit that a human rights action
instituted under article 33 and
order 67 of the High Court Civil Procedure
Rule, 2004, CI 67, cannot be used
as an avenue to vindicate public rights.
“That the National Identification
Authority (NIA) is a statutory authority,
part of the public services of Government
and performing services which
were not proscribed or outlawed by the
letter and spirit of the directives of the
President dated Sunday, 15th March,
2020.”
“The aspect of the President’s directives
that concerns it is in the area of
ensuring social distancing and personal
hygiene protocols which it has been adhering
to.”
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Covid-19 grabs 53
NEWSDESK REPORT
TWENTY six more
cases of the deadly
Coronavirus (COVID-
19) have been
recorded, the Health
Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu,
yesterday revealed, making the
total of confirmed cases in Ghana
rise to 53.
The latest cases were recorded
from tests conducted on people
who arrived in Ghana on Sunday
and were mandatorily quarantined
by the government.
• In 13 days
Addressing the media at a
press conference, the Health
Minister explained that 1030
people were mandatorily
quarantined after they arrived
in the country on Sunday and
All social gatherings have been
banned by President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo with Ghana’s
borders closed to traffic. People
who arrived in the country before
the closure of its land, sea and air
borders have been locked for a
14-day mandatory quarantine.
Monday.
Samples were taken from
611 people and out of 185 of
the samples tested 25 tested
positive for COVID-19. More
tests are still being carried out
according to the Agyeman
Manu.
This shoots
up Ghana’s
COVID-19 infection
cases to
52 with two
deaths. Globally,
392,159 people
have been infected
out of
which 17,138
have died and
102,850 people
having fully recovered.
China, Italy,
USA, Spain,
Germany and the UK are the
worst-hit countries in the
world with South Africa and
Egypt being the hardest-hit
countries on the African continent.
All social gatherings have
been banned by President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo with Ghana’s borders
closed to traffic. People who
arrived in the country before
the closure of its land, sea
and air borders have been
locked for a 14-day mandatory
quarantine.
The Ghana Tourism Authority
on Monday also ordered
the indefinite closure of
all beaches across the country
as part of measures to check
the spread of the COVID-19
disease.
COVID-19:
Prez’s directives didn’t stop NIA registration
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• Deputy AG writes to court over injunction
Background
The NIA last Friday suspended
the mass registration
exercise in the Eastern Region
from Saturday, March 21, following
an interlocutory injunction
restraining it from doing
so.
A statement signed by the
Acting Head of Public Affairs,
Assistant Commissioner of Immigration
Francis Palmdeti, and
copied to the DAILY HER-
ITAGE earlier, said its field
officers were to return to their
various registration centres to
render account regarding registration
equipment, materials
and consumables in their custody.
Those who had not received
their Ghana cards, it said, would
be notified by SMS or phone
calls as to when and where to
receive them, it said.
Subject matter
Emmanuel Akumatey Okrah
and Kevor Mark-Oliver last Friday,
March 20, filed the interlocutory
injunction application
at the Accra High Court. They
argued among other things that
the continuous registration and
issuance of the Ghana card in
the Eastern Region had a strong
tendency in “aggravating the
spread of the coronavirus.”
The two contended that it
also violated the applicants'
right to good health since the
registration exercise exposed
them to a high risk of contracting
the Covid-19.
NIA Registraion
The NIA started the exercise
in the region on March 4 and it
was scheduled to end on March
27, to complete the nationwide
mass exercise, which has been
carried out in all the other 15
regions.
However, following the President's
directive on the limitation
on public gatherings, as
part of efforts to contain the
outbreak of COVID-19, the
Authority has come under pressure
to cease the exercise.
The Commission on Human
Rights and Administrative Justice
(CHRAJ) earlier declared
that the continuation of the exercise
was a clear violation of
the President's directive and
that it should be stopped immediately.
Other groups such as the
Ghana Medical Association,
National Democratic Congress
(NDC) ASEPA and the Graduate
Students Association of
Ghana (GRASAG) also called
for the suspension of exercise.

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Hotel industry hard hit
Owners beg for govt support
THE NATIONAL financial
secretary of
the Ghana Hotels
Association, Kordzovi
Ahadzi, has
called on the government
to consider a reduction in the
tax obligations of hotels as the industry
goes through tough times as
the most affected sector following
a ban on social gatherings in the
country by President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo over Covid-
19
In an interview with Starr
News’ Faisel Abdul-Iddrisu on Saturday,
Mr Ahadzi said, “Though
the ban is necessary and appropriate,
it’s affecting us badly and so it
requires some interventions that
would keep hotel owners in business.”
Mr Ahadzi, who is also the
owner of Agblor Lodge, a hotel
located at Keta, said that business
had really gone down with most of
the hotels recording a zero occupancy
rate.
“For instance, since the ban was
imposed, occupancy rate has been
zero; we do funeral tourism in our
area and as result of the ban, funerals
have been cancelled, weddings
and conferences have been
cancelled. Nonetheless, like I said,
the ban is necessary for our own
safety,” he stated.
He called on the government to
consider reducing taxes and levies
as a measure to ensure the survival
of the hotel industry as the fight
against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic
continues.
“In my view, the government
needs to put in some sort of intervention
to cushion and stimulate
us, other than that, we may have to
lay off some of our workers or
probably be out of business completely.
The hotel industry pays
close to 22 different taxes so the
government can look at it and reduce
some components.
For instance, the government
can look at it and for the meantime
reduce VAT for us; perhaps bring
it to 3%. Government can also put
us back on domestic consumption
of electricity other than the industrial.
We are paying industrial
charges and I pay ten times what
the domestic consumers pay but in
this critical time, it’s necessary government
considers this to cushion
us,” he said.
Mr Ahadzi also called on the
Ghana Tourism Authority to consider
using the 1% GTA Levy to
purchase hand sanitizers and other
relevant kits that the hotels may
need to support the fight against
the novel coronavirus, adding that
“there should be a central point
where the hotels can buy the sanitizers
because, as it stands, we are
into competition with the public
and that is not really healthy for
the industry.”
Currently, the hospitality industry
has financial obligations with
over 20 regulatory bodies that include
the Ghana Revenue Authority,
Electricity Company of Ghana,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Ghana Tourism Authority, and
Food and Drugs Authority.
Ghana has since Tuesday,
March 24, recorded a total of 52
cases and two deaths from the
pandemic.
&Env.
Stay home if you have no business in town - GHS
DR WINFRED
OFOSU, the
Upper East Regional
Director
of the Ghana
Health Service
(GHS), has entreated residents of
the region not to loiter in town if
they have no urgent businesses to
execute.
The advice was part of measures
to ensure that residents stayed
safe, and prevents the possible
spread of the Coronavirus Disease
2019 (COVID-19) in the region.
Dr Ofosu said one could contract
the virus unknowingly when
one moves into areas infected with
it. “When an infected person
coughs or sneezes, the virus could
stay in the air for about eight
hours.
“So the person may even release
it and go away, and if you
come into that area, you could be
infected. If you don’t have anything
to do outside your home,
stay home because when you are
outside, someone who has the disease
may sneeze or cough, then
you get the virus.”
The Director was
speaking at a ceremony to
present Veronica buckets,
nose masks, bottles of liquid
soap, alcohol-based
hand sanitizers and tissue
papers to four selected
Municipal and District Assemblies
(MDAs) in the region.
The Assemblies included
the Bolgatanga Municipal
Assembly, the
Kassena-Nankana Municipal,
the Bawku Municipal
and the Builsa South District
Assemblies.
The brief ceremony
was at the instance of the
Upper East Regional Coordinating
Council
(UERCC), and brought together
Chief Executives from selected
Assemblies and the
leadership of market women from
the four selected MDAs and the
media.
The hand-washing facilities
which would be distributed to
•Dr Winfred Ofosu
market centres and positioned at
vantage areas in the selected municipalities
and districts, came as
the initiative of the Ministry of
Local Government and Rural Development
to promote proper
hand-washing practice among
market women
and members
of the public to
minimise the
spread of
COVID-19.
Dr Ofosu
called on individuals
to observe
the
principle of social
distancing
and that the
practice should
not be limited
to public gatherings
alone.
“Even in our
offices, we
should make
sure that we redesign
our sitting
arrangements, particularly when
you have two or more people in
one office, so that there is sufficient
distance, and adequate ventilation.”
He said it was critical for offices
that received customers or
clients to observe a distance of at
least one to two metres between
officers and customers, “Because
you don’t know who is infected.
There are quite a number of people
who may have the virus but
they are asymptomatic, they don’t
show any signs, and may have the
capability to actually transmit the
infection.”
Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the
Upper East Regional Deputy Director
of the GHS in charge of
Public Health, who demonstrated
to participants the process of
proper hand washing and application
of alcohol-based hand sanitizer,
said for effective hand
washing, all wrist watches and
rings should be removed and long
sleeve shirts folded to elbow level.
He urged them to ensure that
the water in the Veronica buckets
was clean before usage and use tissue
paper to clean their hands
after washing, and not hand towels
or handkerchiefs because such
items could contaminate their
hand.

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We’re not overwhelmed
Says NOGUCHI:
PROFESSOR
KWABENA
Anang, the Director
at the Noguchi Memorial
Institute for
Medical Research,
has revealed that they have the
capacity to test 1000 samples
daily as the COVID-19 infections
steadily increase in Ghana.
According to him, the institute
is well-positioned to handle
testing of COVID-19 samples
but the capacities of other laboratories
must be built to help the
institute if infections begin to
peak.
“We can do 1000 samples on
a daily basis…so the institute is
well-positioned but we must
build the capacities of other laboratories,”
Prof Anang told host
Lantam Papanko on GHOne TV
yesterday, adding, “the government
said that people arriving by
air should be quarantined and
tested so now we are testing in
the 100s but we not overwhelmed.”
Ghana has so far recorded 27
cases of the coronavirus disease
with two deaths. Globally the
coronavirus has affected over
280, 000 people with over 16,
000 deaths.
China, Italy, USA, Spain, Germany
and the UK are the worsthit
countries in the world with
South Africa and Egypt being
the hardest-hit countries on the
African continent.
All social gatherings have
been banned by President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
with Ghana’s borders also closed
to traffic. People arriving in the
country are locked for a 14-day
mandatory quarantine.
The Ghana Tourism Authority
also on Monday ordered the
indefinite closure of all beaches
across the country as part of
measures to slow the spread of
the COVID-19 disease.
•Professor Kwabena Anang
Court fines stubborn Nkwakaw pastor GHC1, 200
BY KOJO ANSAH
THE NKAWKAW District Magistrate’s
Court presided over by His
Worship Albert Kwasi Owusu has
convicted Pastor of Kingdom of
God Church to a fine of
GHc1,200 in default serves eighteen(18)
imprisonment in hard
labour. Pastor John Jeremiah
Addo was arrested for holding
church service last Sunday despite
the ban on public gathering to
check the spread of the novel
coronavirus.
The convict pleaded guilty to
charges of unlawful assembly and
offensive conduct conducive to
the breach of peace when he was
put before the court on Tuesday,
March 24, 2020, by Prosecutor
Chief Inspector Emmanuel
Ankrah.
Pastor Addo has, however, paid
the fine.
Background
The Nkawkaw District Police
Command in the Eastern Region
arrested the pastor at Amanfrom,
a suburb of Nkawkaw, for holding
church service on Sunday.
Pastor Addo,40, was arrested
after a sub-chief of the community,
Nana Mireku Asumeng, reported
him to the police .
The day patrol team from
Nkawkaw quickly stormed the
church where the Pastor was seen
holding service with 50 congregants.
He was arrested while the
congregants were dispersed.
During interrogation, the Pastor
told police he did not understand
why the government had
closed down churches but allowed
traders to sell at the market.
On Wednesday, March 18,
2020, a prayer camp was shut
down by the Akuapem South District
Security Council (DISEC)in
the Eastern Region for flouting
President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo’s directive on suspension
of church activities.
The founder of the Prayer
Camp -- the Break of Mountains
Prayer Camp -- located at Pokrom,
near Aburi, Prophetess Veronica
Okai, was arrested alongside his
Church Elder.
Ghana has recorded 52 confirmed
cases of Covid-19 with two
fatalities as of March 24, 2020.
The first case was recorded on
March 13, 2020.

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Editorial
This year’s rainfall must not be destructive
TWO DAYS ago, Accra
went calm due to a disinfestation
exercise conducted
in the city as part of the
measures to contain the
spread of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
in the country.
Life virtually came to a
standstill as markets, shops,
other marketing centres
and even eateries were
closed. Most people stayed
indoors and the few who
came out complained of
hunger and thirst. Only a
few commercial vehicles,
especially trotros, came to
do business yet they found
it difficult to get enough
passengers to make their
trips to be able to make the
required takings for the day.
Yesterday, Accra woke up
from its slumber but the little
rainfall it experienced
spoilt ‘the parties’ in various
parts of the city, especially
the trading centres
and other busy places.
Places like Circles and Mile
7 at Achimota got a bit
flooded and many other
places got muddy. Both situations
made movement in
town uncomfortable and
places where refuse had
been left uncollected became
unsightly because of
the rain that fell on the refuse.
We have no doubt that
the refuse that remains uncollected
today has started
emitting unbearable stench.
In fact, we of the
DAILY HERITAGE,
for some time now, have
been prompting the city authorities
and other stakeholders
that the rains were
coming and that they
needed to take the necessary
measures to stem
flooding in the city. We
have even suggested that
the powers that be should
not take subterfuge in the
spread of the COVID-19
and abandon projects that
equally threaten human
lives such as clearing the
drains of their silt and
dredging the Odaw and
other big drains in the city
to stem disasters like flooding
of communities and attendant
deaths and
destruction of property.
We do not want to have
the cause to say we are vindicated,
so we would like
the city authorities to take
yesterday’s slight rainfall
and its effects as a wake-up
call to discharge their responsibilities
to the people
before the unexpected happens.
Ghana must enforce
Disability Law − GFD
BY RAMSON ACQUAH-HAYFORD
FORMER PRESIDENT of the Ghana
Federation of Disability Organisations
(GFD), Kumasi Metro, Prince Debrah, has
lamented the lack of supervision and implementation
of the Disability Act 2006 (Act
715), which, among other things, calls for all
public buildings to be made disability-friendly.
Speaking as part of an advocacy action
carried out by the Business Sector Advocacy
Challenge Fund, Mr Debrah said the implementation
of the Disability Act 2006 led to a
10-year moratorium at the end of which all
public buildings were to be disability-friendly.
However, after 13 years and three years after
the expiration of the moratorium, no significant
achievement has been recorded.
He added that the lack of accessibility of
the disabled to public buildings is limiting
equal opportunities and denying the disabled
access to healthcare, education and employment.
“Accessibility to the physical and built environment
remains one of the key challenges
faced by Persons With Disabilities (PWD). It
is a source of denial of rights enjoyed by others
and also contributes significantly towards
unemployment, injustice, discrimination, low
levels of literacy, exclusion and isolation,” he
added.
“The built environment in Ghana is not
barrier-free. It does not allow for easy and
safe movement, function or access for all regardless
of age, sex or condition. An inaccessible
physical environment and space, without
doubt, leads to significant loss of dignity and
independence. A barrier-free environment
enables an individual with or without a disability
to access facilities and services with
dignity and independence,” he said.
The Secretary for the Ashanti Regional
branch of the GFD, Suraya Alidu, pointed
out that PWDs
had been ignored
in the
country’s response
to the
ongoing coronavirus
crisis. She
pointed out, for
example, that
there had been
no sign language
interpreter
at any of
the President’s
addresses to the
nation.
She added
that PWDs
were equally at risk of contracting the virus
and provisions should be made to accommodate
them in future broadcasts.

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DAILY HERITAGE MARCH 25 2020
We’re running out of personal protective equipment
• KCCR presses the panic button
BY KWAME ACHEAMPONG
THE KUMASI Centre for Collaborative
Research (KCCR) is
running out of personal protective
equipment (PPEs) in the
wake of coronavirus in Ghana, a
researcher with the facility has
said.
The Centre is one of the only
two facilities with the capacity to
test coronavirus cases in Ghana.
Over 70 suspected cases of the
virus have been tested at the facility
Speaking to Francis Abban on
the Morning Starr show on
Tuesday, a Research Scientist at
the centre, Dr. Augustina
Sylverken, said they had informed
the Ashanti regional
health directorate about the impending
shortage of the PPEs.
“Our stock is depleting
quickly and we have already informed
the region about it,” she
said.
On calls for a lockdown of
the country to avoid the spread
of the virus, she said such a
move should be based on scientific
evidence and on account of
cases confirmed.
Meanwhile, the Trades Union
Congress (TUC) has blamed the
According to the
head of research of
the TUC, Dr.
Kwabena Nyarko
Otoo, Ghana could
have avoided some
of the cases of
Covid-19 if government
had taken the
decision to shut the
borders earlier.
government for the seeming
spread of coronavirus in Ghana.
According to the head of research
of the TUC, Dr. Kwabena
Nyarko Otoo, Ghana could have
avoided some of the cases of
Covid-19 if government had
taken the decision to shut the
borders earlier.
Also speaking to Francis
Abban on the Morning Starr
show yesterday, Dr. Nyarko
urged the government to immediately
lock down the country in
order to avoid further spread of
the deadly virus.
” If the ports had shut down
a little bit earlier, we wouldn’t
have imported some of the
cases. We have realized that the
delay is what has led us to where
we are now. We think that a gradual
lockdown will be like what
we have already in place. There
are many who cannot even afford
the sanitizers and it is impossible
to do social distancing
in public transports and all that.
“So considering all these
things, we think that giving the
many risks, the best thing to do
is to shut down, a general lockdown.
In 28 days when we had
locked down the country, we
would have reduced the risk of
the spread,” he said.
Emmanuel Smith appreciates
God amid coronavirus pandemic
GHANAIAN-
BORN UK-
BASED singer
and songwriter
Emmanuel Smith
has teamed up
with Obed Psych of Ghanaian
urban gospel group ‘Preachers’ on
his new worship song dubbed ‘You
are’.
The song, which was produced
and video-directed by ReplayPlanet
studio in Ghana, is an exhortation
piece which is about the goodness
of God in spite of all the things
happening around the world.
In an interview with Smith, he
said “I was inspired to write this
song because I realised that I
wasn’t giving enough credit or
thanks to God for the things He
had done in my life because I was
so focused on what wasn’t working
in my life or what I lacked.”
According to him, he featured
Psych because “We had been talking
about doing a song together
and when the idea of this song
came I felt confident within me
that he was the right person for it.”
Smith, who has shared the stage
with the likes of Stellar Awardwinning
Jason Nelson, US-based
Todd Galberth and other great
personalities, and was part of the
contestants on the ITV hit show
‘The Voice UK’, recently released
a single dubbed ‘Kokonsa’, which,
he explains, talks about what it
feels like to have people gossiping.
About Emmanuel Smith
The Lewisham-bred psalmist
was propelled to the attention of
the mainstream audience when he
performed on the coveted main
stage at ‘Big Church Day Out’ and
‘Festival of Life UK’ held at the
ExCel, London.
Smith, a proud mummy’s boy,
credits his mother for being the
most influential person in his life,
saying, “I am blessed to have a
mother who instilled the love of
God in me at a tender age, and also
ensured that I remain grounded in
God. She’s instilled in me the faith
to never give up and that’s what I
still walk with.”
The young artist, who is passionate
about engaging culture and
bridging the mainstream-gospel divide
without compromising the
message of Christ, said, he desires
to give people hope and Joy
through his talent.
He recalled that “One of my
earliest memories was singing with
my childhood friends at a very
young age in Tema. We used cooking
pots and pans to create instruments
as we loved to perform. I
was always told that I loved to
dance like American artist Bobby
Brown. Any song that would come
on in church, even if it was a slow
worship song, I would do my
‘Bobby Brown’ dance to it and
there was a time a guest preacher
• Emmanuel Smith
gave me money for my dance. ”
Smith, who is a product of
Cambridge International in Kumasi,
Swanlea in Aldgate UK and
Kingston University and Southbank
University where he did
Media and Cultural Studies, also
loves his pencil and canvas becausehe
loves painting and drawing.
He advised the Ghana music industry
players to keep the industry
growing by being consistent and
relevant to feed their fans with
their craft.
“That’s one of the things that
have helped me. No matter how
many times you fail, you have to
keep going and one day the fruits
of your labour will show.”
He shared that, “Apart from
being paid in monetary form, one
of the things that my career has
brought me is the inspirational aspect
of my story on how it doesn’t
matter what your start in life is as
long as you don’t limit yourself
anything and everything is possible.”
Smith says he is inspired by Go
and his mother and he is a big fan
of Sonnie Badu and Joe Mettle.
He has released three captivating
singles, which are ‘Weather’,
‘Coming Up’ and ‘Asore Ye De,
which are available on all online
music shops.
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Stephen Appiah is the
best player I played with
• Says Charles Taylor
CHARLES TAY-
LOR, a former
sensational player
on the Ghanaian
football field, has
mentioned Stephen Appiah, a
former Black Stars captain, as
the best player he played with in
his career.
The Ghanaian footballer,
who played for Hearts of Oak
and Kumasi Asante Kotoko, said
this when speaking on a interview
on Tru 92.5fm, an Eastern
Region-based radio station monitored
by the DAILY HER-
ITAGE.
He said Appiah was not only
good on the pitch but his commitment
also counted.
He said he was also grateful
to Appiah for paying his plane
ticket to Italy by the time he
wanted him to play for Brescia
before the disappointment from
Hearts of Oak.
He said his contract with
Brescia expired during the time
Hearts of Oak wanted him to go
and play for a Switzerland-based
club.
"I was supposed to return to
Italy after they let me come and
prepare in Ghana so I informed
our C.E.O that I would be
leaving Hearts of Oak on
Wednesday but he told me
there was a team in Switzerland
and they were ready to
pay me $1million.
“I wanted to earn more
money for Hearts so I boycotted
Italy for Switzerland
but after all, I wasted my
time there without doing
anything. Later on it was
too late to return to Brescia
in Italy but I still appreciate
what Stephen did and he is
my best ever player in
Ghana."
•Stephen Appiah
Christian Atsu can't leave Ghana
• Christian Atsu
• As government has shut down airspace
NEWCASTLE UNITED
winger Christian Atsu can't leave
his native Ghana after the government
shut down the country's
airspace.
The 28-year-old sneaked into
the West African nation well in
time before the shutdown. The
English Premier League is expected
to return until at least
April 30 due to the pandemic.
Ghana's government has shut
down the country's airspace and
borders due to the coronavirus
pandemic which has infected 52
people in the West African nation.
The situation means the
wideman cannot travel to England,
which has also imposed
travel restrictions with no end in
sight.
Global leaders are racing
against time to find a vaccine
and fast as the deadly virus continues
to wreak havoc - bringing
football activities to a complete
halt.
Footballers have also been affected
by the situation which
threatens the existence of humanity.
Kotoko agree to settle $180k
Emmanuel Clottey’s fine
ASANTE KOTOKO have
agreed to settle the $180,000
fine slapped on Emmanuel
Clottey by FIFA for a breach of
contract with Esperance.
Kotoko communicated the
latest development on Clottey's
saga to Esperance through Offside
Oku Consult, managed by
renowned football administrator,
Ashford Tetteh Oku, whom
they hired to help them retrieve
the transfer fee regarding the
sale of Kwame Bonsu to the
Tunisian giants.
It is further explained that
since Asante Kotoko sold
Kwame Bonsu for $150,000,
they will pay $30,000 to Esperance
as the balance of the fine
imposed on Clottey.
It would be recalled that the
Tunisian giants paid $1.5 million
to sign Clottey from Berekum
Chelsea in 2012.
He struggled to find his feet
at the club and decided to end
his contract with Esperance.
He left for Ghana and signed
a deal with Kumasi Asante Kotoko,
but Esperance referred the
matter to FIFA for a breach of
contract.
FIFA found Clottey guilty of
the charges and slapped a
$180,000 fine on him and instructed
that Asante Kotoko
should ensure he pays the
amount to the Tunisians in
2015.
However, Clottey filed a writ
at an Accra High Court against
Asante Kotoko that the Kumasi
giants should pay the full fine
imposed on him by FIFA because
they failed to inform him
about correspondence from the
world football governing body
on the matter.
The ruling on the issue is yet
to be pronounced by the Accra
High Court yet Kotoko have
agreed to pay the fine. The former
Ghana Premier League top
scorer currently plays for Great
Olympics.
• Kotoko will pay the fine for signing Clottey illegally