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•Mr Joshua Nii Bortey, MCE, KroMA
•Sebastian Ampah, one of the aggrieved assembly
members, addressing the press
KroMA
MCE hot
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Honyenugah,
3 others
cleared
for S/Court
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.By Appointments
Committee of
Parliament
• As assembly members
plot for his impeachment
• Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenugah
High Court fixes June 23 for ruling on injunction case
against Establishment of Emergency Com. System
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Afaglo threatens to
stop political campaign
in Ketu South
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• For govt's failure in
ensuring development
• Mr Novihoho Afaglo
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NEWS DESK REPORT
MEMBERS OF
the Minority on
the Appointments
Committee
of Parliament
have joined hands with their
colleagues in the Majority to
approve the nomination of Justice
Clemence Jackson Honyenugah
as a Supreme Court
judge.
A report by the Committee
sighted by the DAILY HER-
ITAGE showed a unanimous approval
of the judge and three
others, including Justice lssifu
Omoro Tanko Amadu, Mr. Emmanuel
Yoni Kulendi and Professor
Henrietta JAN. Mensa-Bonsu,
who appeared before the House
for vetting.
The minority appeared to have
rescinded their earlier objection to
Justice Honyenugah’s approval
over his endorsement of President
Nana Addo Akufo-Addo for reelection.
Justice Honyenuga, during his
vetting, apologised for appearing
to have endorsed President Akufo-
Addo during a durbar in the Volta
Region early this year.
Justice Honyenuga, in his welcome
address to President Akufo-
Addo at a durbar of chiefs and
people of the Afajato South District,
had commended the President
for various development
policies introduced under his leadership.
He said “with the vision of the
President and the gains made in
his first term, Ghanaians may consider
giving him another four
years” and this responded to with
loud cheers of people at the durbar
grounds.
Many, including legal luminaries,
who felt the judge probably
erred in this open declaration took
to social media to criticize his conduct.
Some media reports suggested
the comments were meant to endear
him further to the current
government for his nomination to
the Supreme Court.
Answering questions during his
vetting, the then Supreme Court
Judge nominee apologised for endorsing
the President, saying he
was only reading a statement
handed him on behalf of the
paramount chiefs.
“In reading that statement, we
didn’t intend in endorsing the
president, our understanding was
that we were wishing him well…
This is what has been happening
in this country for a very long
time…On my part, if out of political
dissatisfaction some people are
unhappy with whatever I am supposed
to have said, then I am
sorry,” Justice Honyenuga said.
High Court fixes June 23 for ruling on injunction case
against Establishment of Emergency Com. System
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE HIGH Court in Accra,
presided over by Justice Stephen
Oppong, has fixed June 23, 2020
to rule on an interlocutory injunction
suit challenging the directives
of the President over
Executive Instrument (EI) 63,
which seeks the establishment of
Emergency Communications
System-Instrument, 2020.
In court on Wednesday, when
the case was called, the applicant,
through his lawyers, led by Justice
SremSai, filed their amended
version of the interlocutory injunction
with its accompanying
statement of case.
The court, prior to adjoining
the case, said there would be no
oral argument, while ordering
that should anybody have any
processes to file, they must do so
before June 15, 2020.
DAILYHERITAGE’s
Court Correspondent Muntalla
Inusah reports that the Respondents
in the case, Vodafone,
MTN, National Communication
Authority, Kelni GVG and Attorney
General Department,
were all served with the
amended processes this morning.
A private legal practitioner,
Francis Kwarteng Arthur, has instituted
a court action against the
government seeking to stop the
President, KelniGVG and the
National Communication Authority
(NCA) from relying on
Executive Instrument 63 to procure
his personal information
from Vodafone Ghana and
MTN Ghana for purposes of
contact tracing in the COVID-19
pandemic fight.
Background
It is the contention of MrKwarteng
Arthur that the Executive
Instrument issued by
President Akufo-Addo on the
23rd of March 2020 directing
MTN and Vodafone to make
available to Government the details
of their subscribers, including
his, based on powers vested
in the President under provisions
in the Electronic Communications
Act, 2008, (Act 775), would
amount to a breach of his fundamental
human rights and his
right to privacy in his personal
information, which is in the possession
of Vodafone and MTN.
“The applicant is alarmed by
this development; and disagrees
vehemently with the claim that
the President followed the law
and due process in requesting or
causing a request to be made for
the body of personal information.
The applicant believes that
even though the President has
the power to procure his personal
information under the appropriate
circumstances, taking
into account the appropriate factors,
the manner in which he is
seeking to procure the information
at this particular time
breaches the law and, consequently,
violates his right to administrative
justice, to privacy
and equality, hence the present
action”. The facts in the Statement
of Case were filed at the
High Court on the 6th of April
2020 said.
About EI 63
The Executive Instrument
(EI 63) titled the “Establishment
of Emergency Communications
Systems Instrument, 2020”,
states in the first paragraph that,
“Whereas, under the power conferred
by section 100 of the
Electronic Communications Act,
2008(Act 775), the President
may, by Executive Instrument,
make written requests and issue
orders to operators or providers
of electronic communications
networks or services requiring
them to provide user information
or otherwise in aid of law
enforcement or national security”,
President Akufo-Addo ordered
network operators or
service providers to make available
“all caller and called numbers,
Merchant Codes, Mobile
Station International Subscriber
Directory Number Codes and
International Mobile Equipment
Identity Codes and Site location
to the National Communications
Authority to facilitate locationbased
tracking” in this time of a
public health emergency.
The applicant, according to
his affidavit in support of his
case, among other reliefs, is seeing
an order of the High Court
“to quash the President’s directives
in EI 63 to the extent that
they have violated, are violating
or are likely to violate his fundamental
human rights and freedoms”.

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KroMA MCE hot
BY PRINCE ESSIEN
• As assembly members
plot for his impeachment
SOME AGGRIEVED assembly
members of the Krowor
Municipal Assembly
(KroMA) have called for the
immediate removal of the
Municipal Chief Executive (MCE),
Mr Joshua Nii Bortey, describing him
as ‘incompetent.’
According to the aggrieved assembly
members, “leaders of 21st Century
offers services to humanity and adopt
solution-driven agenda to the benefit
of the masses and not the few” but
the MCE serves only his friends and
family at the assembly.
Addressing a press conference in
Accra yesterday, Sebastian Ampah, the
Assembly member for the Mukweidjor
Electoral Area, who spoke on behalf
of his aggrieved colleagues, alluded to
the provisions in the model Standing
Orders of Local Government.
He said “pursuant to Order 3, section
16(1)(2) on page 10 of the Standing
Orders of Local Government
states, “The District Chief Executive
may be removed from office at any
time by a vote of no confidence supported
by the votes of not less than
two-third of all members of the district
assembly passed against the District
Chief Executive.
“A ballot on a vote of no confidence shall
not be conducted unless a resolution supported
by at least one-third of all the members
of the assembly to that effect has been
carried” supported by Section 20 subsection
4(a) of the local Government Act, 2016 (Act
936).
The aggrieved assembly members explained
that per the clause of the Local Government
Act and the model Standing Orders,
they want the immediate removal of the
MCE on grounds that he is “incompetent,
arrogant and [fond of] display
of power.”
Non-functional assembly
Mr Ampah told the media
that the MCE had rendered
non-functional the newly-inaugurated
assembly created
by the President Nana
Akufo-Addo’s government
from erstwhile Ledzokuku
Krowor Municipal Assembly
(LEKMA) in 2018 to bring
development to the people of
Nungua Krowor, but rather
display arrogance and show
of power.
“His incompetence has
made the community not to
benefit from the creation of
the assembly,” he added.
Award of contracts and
conflict of interest
The assembly members
also accused the MCE of
awarding all contracts of the
Municipal Assembly to himself
and his in-law, one Richmond
Kotei Djane, who is
also the superintendent of
the revenue collection and its
management at the assembly,
which clearly indicates a conflict
of interest,
which is against the
laws of the country.
• Sebastian Ampah, one of the aggrieved assembly
members, addressing the press
No PM at
KroMA
They also alleged
that Mr Bortey, after
the swearing-in of the
newly-elected assembly members
and the government appointees,
ought to have ensured
that an election was
conducted by the Electoral
Commission to choose a Presiding
Memeber, but till date,
he had not done that.
The aggrieved assembly
members said apart from the
fact that his incompetence
had produced no results, it
had led him to take an entrenched
position not to call
for the election of the Presiding
Member through the Coordinating
Director and so he
was running the Municipality
as a private entity.
No General assembly
meeting, no
committees
Mr Ampah said because
MCE Bortey was interested
in corrupt activities in the assembly
and did not want anyone
to challenge him, he had
decided not to call for general
“The Municipal Assembly work through committees and
his incompetence to produce Presiding Member has happily
led him not to form the constitutionally-mandated
committees and he is running the assembly from his
dairy,” he said.
assembly meeting to form
committees, approve budget
and do other things like having
emergency activities such
as Covid 19 deliberations “to
see how we would manage
our various electoral areas in
these difficult times.
“The Municipal Assembly
work through committees
and his incompetence to produce
Presiding Member has
happily led him not to form
the constitutionally-mandated
committees and he is running
the assembly from his dairy,”
he said.
The aggrieved assembly
members also lamented that
the MCE had no respect for
the assembly and did not engage
them in any decision
making process concerning
the assembly.
Mini-demonstration
Prior to addressing the
media, aggrieved assembly
members staged a mimidemonstration
from the
Nungua Traditional Authority
offices to the premises of the
assembly,
Seven out of the 11 assembly
members who signed
the release were Lawrence Nii
Bortey Borquaye -- Nii
Laweh Electoral Area; Mr
Francis Ashie Anum -- Nii
Odoi Ablade Electoral Area;
William Ajai Okai -- Antwere
Gonno Electoral Area:
Robert Oko Odiko -- Klowe
Konaa Electoral Area: Mr
Abdulai Sakra, Blekese West
Electoral Area; and Solomon
Borteye Bortier, Sokpoti
Electoral Area.
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Menzgold appoints Payboy to
settle aggrieved customers
EMBATTLED GOLD
dealership firm, Menzgold
Ghana Limited,
has appointed Payboy
Company Limited as a
third party to negotiate
debt settlement with its numerous
aggrieved clients.
In a statement, Menzgold said:
“Following advice given and subsequently
reiterated in a press release
issued on the 18th of
December 2019 with reference
number KBA 3015/19 by our
counsel, we’re happy to introduce
Payboy Company Limited, a digital
payment marketing and promotions
company, headquartered
at No. 34 Nii Ako Nortei Street,
Blohum Road, Dzorwulu, Accra,
as the appointed third party entity
with the capacity to negotiate
‘Debt Settlement Agreements’
and to facilitate payments of
same, in our committed resolve to
ensure the eventual full debt settlements
by Menzgold within the
shortest possible time”.
“Counting on your kind cooperation
as we strive to achieve this
noble debt settlement objective,”
the statement added.
Meanwhile, on April 22, 2020,
the Coalition of Aggrieved Customers
of Menzgold (CACM) described
Payboy Company Limited,
an alleged offshoot of the defunct
gold-trading company, as a Ponzi
scheme and cautioned its members
against doing business with
the firm.
It followed calls to customers
by Payboy Company to pay an
amount in order to retrieve their
locked-up funds from the defunct
gold-trading company.
In a statement issued by the
Coalition signed by the leadership
of CACM on Wednesday, 22
April 2020, the group advised its
members “to stay away from Payboy
Company Limited.”
According to the Coalition, information
reaching them indicates
that: “About 319 customers have
fallen prey to the latest scandal by
Payboy, which extorts 9% to 20%
of their locked-up investment
with the pretext that they can
work magic to enable them to get
their locked-up investment paid.
Our investigation shows that the
activities of Payboy, an offshoot
of Menzgold CEO is nothing but
a Ponzi scheme calculated to outwit
unsuspecting customers of
Menzgold. Many of the customers
of Menzgold have received
invites, adverts and
messages asking them to partake
in this scheme, which we find
quite nauseating.”
The statement continued that
the promoters of “this latest scam
promise 5% payment of one’s
locked-up funds bi-monthly for
the next 18 months. After more
than three hours’ interrogation
between the leadership of CACM
and one Eric Mensah, who claims
to be an agent of Payboy, the latter
revealed that NAM1 endorses
Payboy’s activity and that people
who pay the 9 per cent are finally
paid by Menzgold, whose owner
is Nana Appiah Mensah.
Customers will recall that in
November and December 2018,
MenzGold, through the CEO,
asked them to pay a 5% migration
fee which never saw the light of
day and all those monies are
locked-up.”
The Coalition further continued
that it would like to “know
whether the Bank of Ghana or
Securities and Exchange Commission
has licensed Payboy to take
money from the public?”
It added that the leadership of
the CACM finds “this latest
arrangement quite repugnant
since Menzgold claims it cannot
pay customers. However, the latest
arrangements, where Payboy
takes 9 percent to 20 percent
from customers automatically empowers
Menzgold to be able to
start paying 5 percent of customers’
money. This is, in our
view, Ponzi in its newest form and
customers who patronise such
scheme will lose.”
&Env.
Should African Health Ministers
be medical doctors?
BY PRINCE AKPAH. MD OF
AVANCE MEDIA
IN THIS time of a global crisis,
where the world is faced
with graving concerns about
how to fight the coronavirus,
I am deeply concerned
about the readiness
of Africa’s leadership as this has
become a testing period for our
leaders to showcase their experience
with regard to occupying the
distinguished position as health
ministers in Africa.
With worrying predictions
from the World Health Organisation
and other international
NGOs about how the continent
will be hit with lots of cases and
eventually deaths because of the
lack of adequate and wellequipped
health facilities, this
whole period does not only scare
us but also presents an opportunity
for African leaders to prove
their worth and showcase how
prepared they are to engineer the
development of the health sector
in the shortest possible time.
During my research on listing
who health ministers in Africa are,
I developed an interest to also
look at their professional backgrounds
and how qualified they
are to occupy such position beyond
their political affiliations.
Through this, I discovered that
out of the 54 countries on the
continent, 36, representing 66%,
have backgrounds in the medical
field either as a practitioner or a
professor. With their combined
experience, we can safely assert
that African countries with health
minister with medical backgrounds
will have enough understanding
of their health systems
and how they can fix the challenges
emanating.
Borrowing from the fact that a
lot of African traditions also believe
in that tender, loving and caring
nature of women, I also
discovered that, only 14 women
occupy the position of health
ministers across the whole continent.
These counties are Angola,
Burkina Faso, Comoros, Congo
Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Guinea Bissau, Liberia, South
Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania and
Uganda. Accepting the empirical
fact that women are better managers
than men, one wonders why
there are not a lot more women
health ministers across Africa.
As this is a testing period for all
health ministers, who are on the
frontline of beating this global
pandemic, I'm sitting, looking at
the result of my research and
wondering, "Will these individuals
be able to deal with Covid-19 now
that the cases on the continent are
skyrocketing? Will they politicize
everything they do, as usual, or
will they abandon us by resigning
in the eleventh hour.?Worst still,
maybe they'll seek support from
the USA, Europe or Asia as
African leaders are known for.
Ironically, most of these 'developed'
countries are more hard hit
by this pandemic than Africa. So
how are they going to help us
when they need the resources
most now?
With a look at how political
leaders are appointed, I believe
that as Africans, we must begin to
question our leaders to become
accountable to us beyond the ballot
box and must ensure they are
first leaders in their field of experience
before being politicians or
we will continue to complain of
the model of leadership on the
continent, which mostly is characterised
by the idiomatic expression,
“square peg in a round hole.”

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NEWS
BY PHILIP ANTOH
THE GENERAL
Manager of Savannah
Waste Management
Services
Limited, a subsidiary
of Zoomlion
Ghana Limited in the Northern
Region, Mr Peter Dawuni, has appealed
to Ghanaians to take seriously
the disinfection and
fumigation exercises being undertaken
by Zoomlion in collaboration
with corporate entities and
individuals.
He encouraged heads of
households to ensure that their
homes are also disinfected just as
the schools, police stations, markets
and many other public places.
He underscored the need for
banks and corporate institutions to
take advantage of the company's
cut-down pricing model as support
to Ghanaians towards curbing
the spread of the novel Covid-19
pandemic.
Mr Dawuni said the fight
against Covid-19 was a collective
and integrated responsibility for
all. "Everybody must take keen interest
in the fight because the virus
fears no one and so at our individual
levels, we must take up the
challenge to fight it".
He said one surest way we all
could fight the virus simply is to
disinfect our homes, our offices
and common places and observe
the Ghana Health Services and the
World Health Organisation
(WHO) protocols such as washing
hands with soap under running
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Take advantage of Zoomlion's corporate
Covid-19 disinfection programme
•Officials of Zoomlion ready to disinfect Temasco
water, use of hand sanitizers,
observing social
distancing and the
avoidance of handshake.
The General Manager,
who was speaking
during the fumigation
and disinfection of the
Tamale Senior High
School (Tamasco), disclosed
his outfit's 24/7
availability to partner individuals
to deal with
this global pandemic
through disinfection and
fumigation.
"It is important that
mothers incorporate disinfection
into their daily
activities to ensure that
their children and husbands
are properly protected.
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Rainstorm rips off roofs of Osino
Health Centre , 23 houses
BY KOJO ANSAH
RAINSTORM HAS
devastated parts of
Fanteakwa South
District of the
Eastern Region.
The violent rainstorm ripped
off the roofs of the Osino
Health Centre and at least a 23
houses in Osino, Juaso and Saamang
communities, displacing
about 200 occupants.
•The roof of the health centre ripped off
Many belongings, including
television sets, refrigerators,
medical supplies and other
household items were destroyed
in the Monday rains.
At the Osino Health Centre
the roofs of the Consulting,
Dispensary and Accounts rooms
were ripped off.
A four-bedroom staff accommodation
facility also had
it's roof ripped off.
The affected health workers
were seen salvaging their
drenched items.
The incident at the health facility
has obstructed healthcare
delivery, hence urgent response
is required to restore normalcy.
Officials of the National Disaster
Management Organization
have visited the affected areas
for assessment to facilitate provision
of relief items
The District Chief Executive
for Fanteakwa South, Mr Adjaben
Ntori, told the DAILY
HERITAGE, he would visit
the health centre to ascertain the
gravity of damage caused to inform
the necessary intervention.
Two die in galamsey pit
BY KOJO ANSAH
•A galamseyer entering a pit
TWO ILLEGAL miners have died
after a mining pit caved in on them
The incident occurred on May 18,
2020, around 9:00 a.m. at a mining
site of Nawara Mining Company at
Akyem Osino in the Fanteakwa South
District of the Eastern Region.
The bodies of the deceased persons,
Atwere Emmanuel, 29, and Gyimah
Samuel, have been deposited at
Kibi Government Hospital Morgue.
Information gathered from the
community indicate that the two went
to scavenge for gold “known locally
as ‘kolikoli’, in an abandoned mining
pit of Nawara Mining Company with
some other illegal miners.
However, whilst prospecting for
the precious mineral, the pit suddenly
caved in on them.
They were belatedly removed from
the pit after strenuous effort but pronounced
dead on arrival at the Hawa
Memorial Hospital at Akyem Osiem.
A brother to the deceased, Asare
Bright, reported the incident to the
Osino police. The bodies were moved
from the Hawa Memorial Hospital to
Kibi Government Hospital morgue.
The Public Relations Officer of
the Eastern Regional Police Command
told Starr News, the Osino police
had initiated an investigation into
the incident.
On May 1, 2020, a 37-year-old illegal
miner, Razak Bempong, died in a
similar manner at Akyem Mampong
in Atiwa East District.
Bempong and others were illegally
mining in a pit mined by Gold Bank
Mining Limited when the pit caved in,
trapping him dead.
Illegal mining has resurfaced with
impunity in many parts of the Eastern
Region as the country battles
coronavirus pandemic.
The Birim River has become polluted
again, as a result, increasing the
turbidity of the raw water, sometimes
to as high as 11,000NTU.

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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2020
Editorial
This freedom of speech
ONE OF the tenets of democracy is
freedom of speech, free speech or freedom
of expression.
Freedom of speech simply means
every citizen has the right to express an
opinion but have we stopped to ask ourselves
if we can express every piece of
opinion?
This question demands a very
lengthy discussion, probably an endless
one, because those who would choose
to discuss it would certainly bring out
many ideas.
The DAILY HERITAGE wishes
to call attention to this issue of free expression
because it seems some people
are abusing it simply because they do
not understand it or are just being mischievous
with it. Their action may be
because the establishment or the authorities
or the agencies that should
prompt the citizenry about the proper
exercise of the right to free speech have
reneged on that mandate.
Also, Ghanaians have become a people
who gloss or laugh over certain
statements and dismiss them as thrash
or mere joke.
If we take opinions seriously, especially
those expressed in the public
space by people who matter in society,
we would be amazed about the peace
and tranquility we would enjoy and the
progress we would make because we
would devote precious time to always
plan for the way forward in improving
our lives.
If as a people, we do not gloss over
certain loose expressions, the politicians,
for example, would not come to us with
empty or outrageous promises and go
to sleep after winning elections.
We should also note that certain
opinions are inciting and can one day
lead to crime or any other bad behaviour.
This is because there is a group of
people in society who would remain followers
of certain people they respect as
their leaders in certain respects and as
such would swallow whatever they bring
out.
This is why the DAILY HERITAGE
would not support opinions that would
one day cause trouble for us all.
To situate the argument, we would
like to make reference to one piece of
opinion that would cause us trouble one
day, if not checked.
This is the stand taken by some community
members that they would prevent
politicians from campaigning in
their communities because of lack of
the expected development in terms of
roads, pipe-borne water, schools, hospitals,
you name them.
Today, there is news that a Mr Novihoho
Afoaglo, described as the Chief
Executive Officer of Marrer Ghana
Limited and Susatgad Boat Building and
Fishing Industries, has threatened to bar
any political party from engaging in political
campaigning in Ketu South District
in the Volta Region because successive
governments have failed in providing
development projects in the area.
Let all those who think like Afaglo
know that they can use the courts to
seek redress if they think they have a
case against anyone.
He and others like him should note
that they are wrong if they think their
stand is harmless.
It can turn really violent and violate
the law if their threat is carried out.
This is because while they resist the
politicians , they should not forget that
there are some within the same community
who can join the politicians to oppose
them or they can even oppose
them independent of the visiting politicians.
Therefore, we all should remember
that freedom of speech goes with responsibility.
Afaglo threatens to stop
political campaign in Ketu South
BY PHILIP ANTOH
.philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE CHIEF Executive
Officer of Marrer
Ghana Limited
and Susatgad Boat
Building and Fishing
Industries, Mr Novihoho
Afaglo, has threatened to bar
any political party from engaging
in political campaigning in
Ketu South District in the Volta
Region if politicians fail to embark
on any development projects.
According to him, successive
governments have failed the people
in providing them with social
amenities, hence the need for action
"You see, if nothing is done
before they start their campaigning,
I will single-handedly mobilise
the youth to drive them away and
I will give them the reasons why
they should not waste their
time in voting," MrAfaglo
stated.
He said he is ready to allocate
200-acre land to the
government to embark on
development projects in the
area.
MrAfaglo said Ketu
South is one of the poorest
districts in the region as it
lags in development
“I am ready to allocate
200 acres of land to the
government if it agrees to
use it in constructing
schools, hospitals and factories
to ensure the youth get
jobs to do.
“Even though the district
is an agriculturally-dominated
area, many farmers
don’t get the needed support
or seedlings to plant at
the right time while the fisherfolks
also lack basic equipment
for fishing so their
He said very soon
politicians will be going
through the whole
country, including Ketu
South, to engage in political
campaigning and
promising heaven but
immediately they win
the power they were
looking for, they forget
the plight of the people
who voted for them.
yields are nothing to write
home about,” he stated.
Mr Afaglo said Covid-
19 had had a great toll on
Ketu South District because
it is one of the
hotspots in the region,
adding that many citizens
had lost their jobs and
livelihood to the pandemic
and therefore needed government’s
urgent support.
He said over the years,
successive governments
had ignored the plight of
citizens as many towns in
the area lacked good road
network, good schools
and hospitals and so residents
travel long distances
to access healthcare.
“It’s a place government
needs to throw more
light on and I think it’s
about time we aborted the
mentality of abandoning
certain districts based on
the fact that it’s a New Patriotic
Party or National Democratic
Congress stronghold, forgetting
we are all citizens of Ghana,” he
stated.
He said very soon politicians
will be going through the whole
country, including Ketu South, to
engage in political campaigning
and promising heaven but immediately
they win the power they
were looking for, they forget the
plight of the people who voted
for them.
He again said it was time the
government focused on developing
areas where the people were
ready to help by providing the
necessary support such as labour,
lands and logistics.
He called on well-to-do citizens
of Ketu South to always remember
the plights of their
fathers, mothers, sons, daughters,
sisters and brothers back home,
and help them out of the hardships.

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Only 25 people will be allowed at
registration centres at a time – EC
BY KWAME ACHEAPONG
THE COMMUNI-
CATIONS Director
for the Electoral
Commission, Mrs
Sylvia Annor, has
stated that not more
than 25 people will be permitted
at a registration centre at a given
time when the commission begins
the mass voter registration exercise
for the December polls.
According to Ms Annor, the
Commission will put the necessary
safety protocols in place to
ensure that Ghanaians are adequately
protected against contracting
Covid-19 while
participating in the exercise.
Speaking to Francis Abban on
the Morning Starr on Wednesday,
the EC spokesperson said the
commission was poised to develop
a voters’ roll for the upcoming
Presidential and parliamentary
elections.
“At each point in time we will
ensure that we do not have more
than 25 persons, including the of-
•Flashback: Ghanaians queue to vote
ficials at any registration centre,”
she said.
She added: “People coming to
register will be given hand sanitizers
before they enter the registration
centre, you need to wear a
face mask; without a face mask,
you cannot enter a registration
centre. There will be no crowding
at the registration centre, I can assure
you”.
She reiterated the EC’s position
that existing Voter’s ID cards
would not be accepted as proof
of identity during the registration
exercise.
“You need a Ghanaian passport
or Ghana card, if for one
reason or another you don’t have
one of the two, then you fall on
the other, which is getting two
guarantors to guarantee for you.
“We are not using the old voters’
ID
card, the
voters’ ID
card, some
people
argue, is not
a good
index for
identification.
It’s an
established
fact that the
ID card is
not a good
index for
proof of
identification”.
Meanwhile,
the
opposition
National
Democratic
Congress (NDC) has alleged that
the Electoral Commission and
National Identification Authority
are conspiring to suppress voters
in the strongholds of the party.
Addressing a news conference
last week, National Chairman of
the party, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo,
alleged that the decision of the
Electoral Commission to push for
the Ghana Card, birth certificate
and passport as the primary documents
required to register during
the voters’ registration exercise is
part of a grand scheme to rig the
2020 elections in favour of the
governing NPP.
According to Mr Ampofo, the
decision by the NIA to increase
the number of registration centres
in the Ashanti Region but keep
few in the strongholds of the
NDC is part of the voter suppression
agenda.
“The President, seeing defeat
staring glaringly at him, is in conjunction
with the Jean Mensa-led
EC and the Ken Attafuah- led
NIA desperately scheming to rig
the 2020 elections and hold on to
power at all cost.
“Not even the unusual circumstances
we find ourselves in,
which require that we pull together
for our collective survival
as a nation, are enough to deter
the actors of this plot from their
unGodly act.”
Mr Ampofo also wondered
why the EC would like to ignore
the voter’s ID which, he said, is
the most credible document of
identity in the county and rather
go for birth certificates which are
easily obtainable.
Stop ‘beefing,’ create substantial music that
transforms society - Rocky Dawuni
BY ERICA ARTHUR
VETERAN Afro-
Roots Musician and
humanitarian, Rocky
Dawuni, has called
on musicians to do
songs that portray
the positive things in the country
to the world rather than wasting
their time to do diss songs.
Addressing issues on the current
beef between Sista Afia and
Freda Rhymz that almost turned
murky on the TV3 premises in an
exclusive interview with Amansan
Krakye on Radio Central, he said...
"It is a waste of time, let's allow
our creative works to portray positivity
about Ghana to the world.
We don't need to create a wrong
impression among the
youth that in music you
need to fight and be
against each other in order
to get attention, it's a
wrong move.
"Some people beef just
to get attention and create
hype in the press but let's
focus and sound positive
in our songs. It's more to
do with selfishness and
the desire to usurp someone
else's honour in order
to always be ahead,” he
added.
"If it is arranged as a
play for fun that both
artistes agree behind the
scenes that we are going
to beef each other for competitiveness,
then I don't have any issues
with it.
"But when it becomes serious
such that it turns to be full of insults
and physical assault, then obviously
we would be badly
influencing children who see these
artistes as role models. It works
for some people to get attention
but I think it is high time we put
these things behind us and the
media should not be buying into
those stuffs and focus on things
that are positive"
Rocky Dawuni dropped a new
video, 'Champion Arise' last week
on YouTube. It is one of the singles
off his latest album 'Beats Of
Zion'.

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2006 World Cup:
GFA failed me
• Laryea Kingston says
BY BETTY YAWSON
FORMER BLACK Stars
player Laryea Kingston
has blamed the Ghana
Football Association
for his exclusion from
the 2006 World Cup
squad.
Laryea has described his entire
playing career as a success but says
his failure to play at the World
Cup is a dent in his career.
During the 2006 Africa Cup of
Nations in Egypt, Kingston was
handed a four-game ban after an
incident with Senegal’s Habib
Beye.
The former Hearts of Oak,
Terek Grozny and Locomotive
Moscow player, who played all the
qualifying games for the 2006
World Cup, was overlooked due to
the ban and he says he believes
the management of the FA at the
time could have done something
to overturn that decision.
“That time was our first qualification
to the World Cup and you
know it was a huge platform so
most Ghanaians and everyone
never believed that we could sail
through from the group stage so
they felt there was no need to
send me there because of the ban.
“But it happened that we were
able to progress from our group
but for me management should
have prevented that unfortunate
incident…it’s something that most
of the management at that time
will regret,” he told Starr Sports.
• Laryea Kingston
• Daniel Amartey
Amartey will leave Leicester City
• Chibsah gives hint
BY BETTY YAWSON
FORMER GHANA international
Yusif Alhassan Chibsah
has revealed to Starr Sports that
Daniel Amartey is set to leave
Leicester City to seek new opportunities
after falling out of
favour under manager Brendan
Rodgers.
Amartey has fallen down the
pecking order at Leicester after
injuries ruled him out of action
for the greater part of the premier
league season.
He has since recovered but
Chibsah, who manages the
player, insists they are looking to
get a new club for the former
Copenhagen midfielder.
“Amartey has recovered and
we are trying to find new opportunities
for him. He’s been out
of favour under the new gaffer
so we will see how best we can
solve that issue,” Chibsah told
Starr Sports.
Chibsah added, “He is still
with the Foxes but he’s not been
getting more playing time due to
the fact that he got injured but
after his injury, they consider
him as surplus so there should
be a way out,” he added.
Athletics:
Prof Dodoo has failed Ghana
A FORMER national athletics
coach, Albert Nukpezah, has
lashed out at Professor Francis
Doodo’s administration, describing
it as a failure.
Over the years, Ghana has
failed to produce international
standard athletes after the likes of
Margaret Simpson, Ignatius
Gaisah, Vida Anim, Aziz Zakari,
and Leo Myles Mills left the scene.
Nukpezah, who coached most
of the Ghanaian athletes that won
medals for Ghana at the global
stage, in an interview with Starr
Kofi Amoah’s
parting message
to football
• Coach Nukpezah says
BY BETTY YAWSON
• Professor Francis Doodo
Sports, said Francis Doodo’s administration
had added nothing
good to the growth of athletics
since he came into power in October
2011.
“They have really failed us, as a
country, because those days we
used to get coaches from all the
regions to get quality talents in
athletics to pick some for national
assignments but that’s not the case
since he took over from BT
Baba’s administration in 2011,” a
disappointed Nkupezah said.
“Now we are only relying on
already made athletes which is not
the best for us, as a nation,” he
added.