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We’ve already given customers’ personal
information to Kelni GVG – Vodafone
VODAFONE
GHANA has admitted
having already
given the
personal information
of its
over 10 million subscribers to
Kelni GVG.
The personal information includes
(but not limited to) subscribers’
names, mobile phone
numbers, call records, call locations
and addresses and mobile
money transaction details.
The admission came out at the
hearing of a case which was
brought by a private legal practitioner,
Mr Francis Kwarteng
Arthur, to challenge the constitutionality
of the President’s Executive
Instrument No. 63 (EI 63).
The President issued EI 63
which asked all telecommunication
companies to forward all subscribers’
personal information to
him for Covid-19 contact-tracing
purposes.
According to EI 63, the personal
information is to help “trace
all contacts of persons suspected
or actually affected by a public
health emergency and identify the
places visited by persons suspected
of or actually affected by a
public health emergency.”
However, the lawyers for Mr
Francis Arthur have argued in
their written address to the
Human Rights Court that “ per
the EI 63, the President’s directive
in it and its implementation by the
Respondents have violated, are violating
or are likely to violate my
fundamental human rights to administrative
justice, privacy; and
equality or non-discrimination.”
Meanwhile, MTN, which has
sternly refused to release the personal
information of their subscribers,
has argued in their
affidavit that the request for subscribers’
personal information
“constituted a disproportionate
invasion of privacy” and that “the
request had absolutely no nexus
with the purpose” of Covid-19
contact-tracing.
The Acting CEO of Kelni
GVG, Ms Rouba Habboushi, has
since denied ever making a request
for the personal details from
Vodafone or any other telecommunication
company.
“ Kelni GVG has made no
such demand on the 1st and 2nd
Respondent or any other communication
network operator or service
provider,” she deposed in her
Affidavit to the court.
The National Communication
Authority, the regulatory agency
charged with the mandate to supervise
the implementation of EI
63 and which is a defendant in the
suit, has failed to file a defence in
the matter.
The trial judge, Mr. Justice
Stephen Oppong, has fixed June
23, 2020 for his ruling on Mr
Francis Kwarteng’s application for
an order of interlocutory injunction.
Mr Justice Oppong was appointed
by the President earlier
this year.
The case was transferred from
the Human Rights Court division
to him in General Jurisdiction division
of the High Court.
Prof. Mills’s cousin dashes govt children’s ward
BY KWEKU GYASI ESSEL,
AJUMAKO/ ENYAN DENKYIRA
A BUSINESSMAN has handed over a children’s
ward to the management of Ajumako
District Hospital at Ajumako, the
capital of the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam
(AEE) District.
A short ceremony was held at Ajumako
on Friday, June 5, 2020, to open the ward
and subsequently hand it over to
the hospital management
and, for that matter, the
government.
Narrating what
motivated him to
build the children’s
ward,
Ebusuapanyin
Kwesi
Tweiku,
known in
private life
and the
Ghanaian
business circles
as Uncle
Siisi Crentsil,
said he once
learnt of water
problems at the
hospital and so provided
boreholes there.
The citizen of Enyan
Denkyira and cousin of Prof
John Evans Atta Mills, the late President
of Ghana, said during his visits to the hospital
while providing the boreholes, he
learnt again that the health facility did not
have a children’s ward and that “the situation
undermined healthcare for sick children
who needed to be detained for thorough
care.”
“I took it upon myself to build one for
the hospital because it may delay to come
even if the government would provide it
because the government had so much to
provide.
“My over-riding motivation to build the
ward is that my mother loved children such
that even though she herself gave birth to
15 children, she always sought opportunity
to care for other children and that spirit has
grown in me, hence my enthusiasm
to build this ultramodern
edifice,
which I dedicate
to
our
late
mother,
Efua
Crentsil,” Siisi
Crentsil said.
He added that, “My mother always
advised me that good name is better
than riches and so I should pursue good
name in all my endeavours. I am hopeful
she would be very glad today resting in the
•Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi (left) being assisted by Osabarima Otsibu
and Ebusuapanyin Kwesi Tweiku (Sisi Crentsil) to open the Etsifi
Asona Palace at Enyan Denkyira
bosom of our father Abraham, witnessing
and admiring this special occasion on
which the a children’s ward is being dedicated
to her.”
Before he ended his speech, he appealed
to people with financial strength to
provide social amenities in their communities
to support the government’s efforts in
improving the lives of the people.
Siisi Crentsil said it cost him GHc600,
000 to build the ward and provide the facilities
in it, including beds, babies’ cots and
television sets, with the block itself having
such physical facilities as the main ward,
Paediatric Emergency Area, a Nurses’
Room, washrooms and an open space for
general but important routines.
Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII, the Paramount
Chief of the Abeadze Traditional
Area in the Central Region and Vice President
of National House of Chiefs cut the
tape to mark the opening of the edifice, assisted
by Osabarima Otsibu VII, the Paramount
Chief of Enyan Denkyira
Traditional Area.
He also unveiled a plaque and a picture
of Siisi Crentsil’s mother , Efua Crentsil, to
whom the ward has been dedicated.
Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi appealed to
citizens of the various communities to contribute
to development in their traditional
areas to help develop the entire nation.
Other speakers at the ceremony were
Cassiel Ato Forson, Member of Parliament
for AEE Constituency; Rev Ransford
Kwesi Nyarkoh, the District Chief Executive
for the area; and Mr Emmanuel Taadi,
the Deputy Director (Administration) of
the Central Regional Directorate of the
Ghana Health Service.
All of them, as well as Daasebre
Kwebu Ewusi, commended Siisi Crentsil
for his love to see improved healthcare,
with Ato Forson making a commitment
that “I also will see what I can provide”
and Rev Nyarkoh saying, “I am operating
an open-door administration so far as development
is concerned. I don’t see party
colours once you are in to help develop our
district.”
Mr Taadi appealed to the management
of the Ajumako hospital to take good care
of the ward and also appealed to the people
in the area to take their children’s education
seriously so that “one day, we can get
some of these children trained as health
professionals to take care of health issues
of their own people.”
Dignitaries at the ceremony were Mr
Samuel Atta Mills, the MP for Komenda
Edina Eguafo Abrem constituency; the
hospital management, including Madam
Priscilla Darko-Yawson; the district police
commander; and traditional leaders such as
Adontsenhen Okumanyi Eduah I, Ebusuapanyin
Atta Dennison, Ebusuapanyin Yaw
Eduah, and Ebusuapanyin Kwame Aidoo,
all of Enyan Denkyira. Others included
Obahemaa Adwoa Beduwa Anaafua I,
Nana Danfo Anaful I, and Augustine
Arhinful, an ex-Black Stars player, as well as
Dr George Jojo Crentsil and David
Crentsil, both siblings of Siisi Crentsil and
retired top public servants.
After the Ajumako ceremony, the dignitaries
and others like the media personnel
left for another ceremony for the opening
of a palace built for the Etsifi Asona clan
of Enyan Denkyira by the same Uncle Siisi
Crentsil, who is the leader of the clan with
the name Ebusuapanyin Kwesi Tweiku.
The palace was also opened by Daasebre
Kwebu Ewusi.

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DAILY HERITAGE TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020
Akufo-Addo fingered
in uniBank takeover
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
IT IS recalled that Dr Kwabena
Duffuor’s uniBank made an announcement
on March 7, 2018 to
the effect that a consortium of financial
institutions had pledged
their shares, proceeds, entitlements
and voting rights to uniBank to
make it the majority shareholder in
ADB.
These financial institutions included:
Belstar Capital, a turnkey project finance
implementation institution, Starmount
Development Company Limited,
EDC Investments Limited and SIC-Financial
Services.
Interestingly, in just a few hours, on
the same day, Wednesday 7, 2018, the
Bank of Ghana (BoG), in a rather swift
response to this announcement, denounced
as null and void the purported
takeover of ADB. The BoG further explained
that the decision by these shareholders
leading to the alleged takeover
was not sanctioned by the BoG. Therefore,
the takeover was null and void.
On March 20, 2018, the BoG, in a
press release, announced the takeover of
uniBank and immediately appointed
KPMG as the official administrator of
the bank. The regulator quoted sections
107 and 108 of the Banks and Specialized
Deposit-Taking Institutions Act,
2016 (Act 930) to back its decision.
In our June/July 2020 Edition, the
AfricaWatch Magazine has done a comprehensive
special report on uniBank and its
takeover by the BoG. We have found, among
other things, that uniBank was deliberately
destroyed on political grounds, knowing that
Dr Kwabena Duffuor, a National Democratic
Congress member, needed to be
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Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s
Minister of Finance and
cousin of President Akufo-
Addo, Dr Ernest Addison,
Governor of BoG and Nii
Amanor Dodoo, the appointed
Administrator on behalf
of the receiver (KPMG),
colluded to collapse one of
Ghana’s successful indigenous
banks (uniBank).
The report also notes,
among other points, the coordinated
decisions from the
Ministry of Finance to BoG
and finally the Receiver,
KPMG, to get what it describes
as political deal executed
according to plan. All of
these decisions meant to frustrate
the board of directors
and shareholders of uniBank.
For instance, it says that
the BoG acted against the rule
of thumb in Ghana’s banking
industry by singling out uni-
Bank to carry out unannounced
and unplanned
monthly
audit. Meanwhile the
law allows the BoG to
carry out planned auditing
of banks once
every year, a duty the
central had a timetable
for and had judiciously
carried out for years.
The international
Magazine stumbled
upon audit reports
that revealed that between
May and October
2017, the BoG,
through its Banking
Supervision Department,
sent four audit
teams to uniBank,
three of these visits
unannounced.
They teams in
turns audited and
downgraded uniBank’s
loan books, making its
Capital Adequacy
Ratio worse.
Curiously, the
fourth audit team
downgraded even the
government and its
agencies indebtedness
to uniBank. This gave the impression
that the government
could not be trusted and not
solvent enough to pay its
debts to uniBank.
Ghana Government and
its allied agencies’ indebtedness
to uniBank amounted to
about GHc1 billion, an
amount, when paid to the
bank, will raise its Capital Adequacy
Ratio, to make it solvent
to escape the BoG
hunting.
programs
* Campaign Trail- 15th June,
2020
* Constituency Watch- 22nd
June, 2020
Note: The following
government institutions
owe uniBank the attached
respective amounts:
Cocobod…
GHc137,499,785.98,
Ministry of Finance…
GHc 223,049,720,
Road Fund…GHc
229,434,748.82,
GETFund…GHc
2,023,981.10,
Bank of Ghana…GHc
19,781,376.00,
BOST…GHc
105,741,493.33,
Qausi-government entities…GHc98,553,636.86
and
Other government contractors…GHc
52,889,558.49.
A total of about
GHc868.974m, which is two
times the required amount
uniBank needed to recapitalize.
So, if the government and
its quasi-bodies had paid their
indebtedness to uniBank, the
bank would not have needed
any capital injection from the
BoG to remain solvent, the
report said.
Africawatch notes that the
decision by the BoG to swiftly
announce the takeover of uni-
Bank due to its insolvency
when the BoG itself owes the
bank a whopping
GHc19,781,376.00 is curious,
if not ironical.
The magazine can claim
that this is why the BoG and
its appointing authorities
would not take the request
made by uniBank to pay its indebtedness
and make it
stronger because the decision
to bring Dr Duffuor down
was planned.
* Hotseat- 23rd June, 2020
* Starr FM Fact Checker- 2nd
July, 2020
* Analyses- 4th July, 2020

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Lawyer petitions Vodafone Group UK
Over claims of privacy breaches by
Vodafone Ghana
MR FRANCIS
Kwarteng
Arthur, the
lawyer who has
dragged the
President, the
National Communication Authority,
Kelni GVG, Vodafone Ghana
and MTN to court over alleged privacy
right violations, has petitioned
Vodafone Ghana’s mother company
– the Vodafone Group UK –
over such violations.
According to Mr Arthur’s solicitors,
Archbridge Solicitors, the petition
was necessitated by the
“nonchalant posturing” of Vodafone
Ghana in the middle of the
most extensive threat to privacy
rights in Ghana’s history and one
of the most extensive in the world.
“While other telecommunication
networks or service providers,
like MTN, have vehemently contested
the request as overly disproportionate
or even irrelevant to the
stated purpose and, thereby, a
threat to subscribers’ right to privacy,
your Ghana office has, at
best, remained completely silent
and unconcerned about the issue,”
the petition states in its paragraph
2(e).
It may be recalled that the President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo issued an Executive
Instrument (EI 63) in March 2020,
in which he directed all telecommunication
networks or service
providers (including Vodafone
Ghana) to supply the personal information
of subscribers to him
through Kelni GVG, a private
company.
According to the preamble of
EI 63, the personal information
It may be recalled
that the President
Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo issued an
Executive Instrument
(EI 63) in March
2020, in which he directed
all telecommunication
networks or
service providers (including
Vodafone
Ghana) to supply the
personal information
of subscribers to him
through Kelni GVG, a
private company.
will be used to “trace all contacts
of persons suspected or actually affected
by a public health emergency
and identify the places
visited by persons suspected of or
actually affected by a public health
emergency”.
However, Mr Arthur has challenged
the President’s order in the
EI as a violation of the rights of
subscribers to privacy since “the
President’s choice of such a disproportionate
measure to address the
purpose of contact tracing is, with
the greatest respect, unreasonable.”
This was contained in the suit he
brought to the Human Rights
Court, Accra, in April, 2020.
Similarly, the telecommunication
giant, MTN, holds the view that
the request that was made on them
“constituted a disproportionate invasion
of privacy” as the request
has “absolutely no nexus with the
purpose” of Covid-19 contacttracing.
The lawyers have given an ultimatum
to Vodafone Group UK to
get Vodafone Ghana to not only
speak to the allegation or address
the issues.
“We wish to notify you (and notice
is hereby given) that should
you, within 14 days of receiving
this letter, fail to commit, unequivocally,
to meeting all the above demands,
we shall, without further
recourse to you, proceed and resort
to other lawful avenues for resolving
this matter with the aim, among
others, of remedying any injuries
that the conduct of Vodafone may
cause to our Client,” the lawyers
advised.
&Env.
Panic at Ogbojo Polyclinic
• As six senior staff members contract Covid-19
FEAR HAS gripped
nurses and other workers
at the Ogbojo Polyclinic
at East Legon in
Accra because some
senior staff members
who have tested positive for
Covid-19 at the facility are reportedly
still reporting for duty.
According to Starrfm.com.gh
sources, six senior staff members
who have contracted the virus
have not self-isolated or been directed
to do so by the hospital.
Multiple sources told
Starrfm.com.gh that a medical officer,
a midwife, the supply officer
and a nursing officer are among
those hit by the virus.
A management member at the
hospital who spoke to
Starrfm.com.gh on condition of
anonymity on Monday (yesterday)
confirmed the cases but said he
was unable to offer details.
Meanwhile, President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has
confirmed that Ghana’s Health
Minister, Mr KwakuAgyeman-
Manu, has contracted Coronavirus.
Media reports on Saturday
noted the minister had contracted
the virus and was being treated at
the University of Ghana Medical
Centre in Accra.
Addressing Ghanaians in his
11th national address since the
Covid-19 pandemic, the President
said the minister was in a stable
condition.
“Let us also wish our hardworking
Minister of Health, Mr
Agyemang-Manu, a speedy recovery
from the virus which he contracted
in the line of duty. And he
is in a stable condition,” President
Akufo-Addo disclosed.
Starrfm.com.gh

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DAILY HERITAGE DIGITAL TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020
Pay attention to your health
• Prez tells Ghanaians
IN THE midst of exponential
increase in the number
of Covid-19 cases in the
country, President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
has encouraged Ghanaians
to pay critical attention to their
health.
The President urged all and
sundry to seek immediate medical
attention if they start to experience
certain health conditions, including
cold, high temperature, as
well as sore throat.
In his 11th televised address to
the nation, Nana Akufo-Addo
said there is nothing shameful
about testing positive.
“We do not have to lose our
sense of community because of
this pandemic," he said.
Nana Akufo-Addo said,
“When you begin to experience
symptoms such as fever, persistent
cough, bodily pains, loss of taste
and smell, and difficulty in breathing,
seek immediate medical attention
at the nearest health facility."
He condemned those who
keep shunning people who have
recovered from Covid-19 because,
as he explained, their actions undermined
the country's effort to
fight Covid-19.
The President noted, "Government,
through the Ghana Health
Service, continues to monitor, on
a daily basis, the spread of the
•Mr Godwin Edudzi Yao Effah, MCE Keta
virus, and has benchmarks of
health outcomes, which define
the mitigation measures that must
be pursued to curb the spread of
the disease, and enable us to reassess
the easing of restrictions."
He reminded residents of the
Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions,
where the majority of cases
have been recorded, and in the
Western and Central Regions,
where there are increasing infections,
"to continue to adhere
strictly to the social distancing
and enhanced hygiene protocols
announced”.
“Our survival is in our own
hands,” Akufo-Addo said.
We are still marrying Volta - Keta MCE
THE MUNICIPAL Chief Executive
(MCE) for Keta, Mr Godwin
Edudzi Yao Effah, has said the
New Patriotic Party (NPP) government
“is still marrying Volta
Region," with "development
reaching every corner," including
hard-to-reach areas.
He said the Assembly made
great strides in sectors such as education,
health, trade, agriculture
and roads with remote communities
having their fair share of the
projects, indicating the party's
'love' for the region.
Mr Effah, at a press soiree
held at the Keta Municipal Assembly
Hall, showcased the Assembly’s
performance in
implementing government’s policies
and programmes.
“We have as our $1 million per
Constituency, the District Performance
Assessment (DPAT)
and the District Assembly Common
Fund (DACF) targets for
2020 the rehabilitation at
Asadame Health Centre, construction
of a six-seater water
closet at Tsiame E.P. Basic
School, construction of 22m concrete
bridge at Agorvinu and construction
of a three-unit
classroom block each at Sasieme,
Aborlove-Nolopi and Lawoshime
among other projects,” he said.
The MCE said, “These are
some communities you must park
cars and walk for about two hours
to reach and that tells you our
government is committed to
reaching every part of the municipality
and the region with development
to impact people’s lives.”
He also mentioned the completion
of hostel facility for Keta
•Mr Godwin Edudzi Yao Effah, MCE Keta
Nursing and Midwifery Training
College, 3-unit classroom block at
Horvi, a market shed at Anlo-Afiadenyigba,
supply of furniture to
selected schools, donation of
fishing nets to fishermen, 12-unit
classroom block at KETASCO,
construction of culvert at
Havedzi and rehabilitation of old
PWD yard at Keta to house some
departments in the Municipality
among other projects done within
the period.
Mr Effah touched on some social
intervention programmes,
saying, “a few weeks ago, we had
the privilege to distribute working
tools/items, including irrigation
machines, industrial, knitting and
hand sewing machines, wheelbarrows
and cash, all totalling over
GH 30,000.00 to a number of
persons with disabilities.”
On the Assembly’s management
of the Covid-19 pandemic,
the MCE said it undertook activities,
including mounting barriers
at Abor, Havedzi and
KETABUSCO Junction to check
travellers.
He said the Assembly was running
public education campaign
on radio and distribution of various
Covid-19 personal protective
equipment and hand-washing stations.
The MCE said some of the interventions
were financed from
the GH 50,000.00 released from
the Ministry of Local Government
and Rural Development and
said the Assembly was expecting
some GH 166,000.00 for Covid-
19-related infrastructure to contain
the spread of the disease.
Parliament sending
wrong signals — ACEPA
•Prof. Aaron Mike Ocquaye Junior,
Speaker of Parliament
THE AFRICA Centre for Parliamentary
Affairs (ACEPA) says Parliament
has failed to provide
leadership in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
This comes on the back of the
revelation by Majority leader Osei
Kyei Mensah Bonsu that some MPs,
staff and journalists who have tested
positive for the virus are still reporting
to work. This is in defiance of
the safety protocols which require
them to self-isolate.
Speaker of Parliament, Professor
Aaron Mike Ocquaye, has consequently
ordered another round of
mandatory Covid-19 testing for
those who could not be captured by
the first two exercises. He stated that
whoever fails to get tested will not
be admitted to the premises of Parliament.
Speaking on Starr Today on Friday
June 12, 2020, Executive Director
of the Africa Centre for
Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), Dr
Rasheed Draman said the latest development
in Parliament sent the
wrong communication to the populace.
“It sends all the wrong signals.
You tell us, citizens, ‘observe social
distancing; when you have the virus
self-isolate’. People are coming into
the country that are infected and are
quarantined, so on and so forth.
And then we have Members of Parliament
who have the virus and they
are not self-isolating, they are not
being quarantined just so as to avoid
the spread of the virus. I mean it’s
sad…”
Dr Draman reminded the legislators
of the havoc Covid-19 is wreaking
in Burundi, East Africa, where
its president Pierre Nkurunziza is
rumoured to have died after contracting
coronavirus but the rumours
have not been confirmed as
government officials there emphasize
that Mr. Nkurunziza died of
cardiac arrest.
“Look at what is happening in
Burundi right now. They were joking
with the virus and their president is
gone. We understand a lot of the
leadership (has been affected). There
are rumours and, of course, we are
going to know that very soon. This
is a very serious virus and I think if
our leaders think it’s something to
joke about, well…,” Dr Draman
told Starr News Naa Dedei Tettey.
He added that the house should
consider holding virtual meetings or
running shifts as it’s happening in
other parts of the world to contain
the spread, warning that an increase
in cases in the legislature could spell
doom for the country’s democracy.
A plethora of reactions from
various interest groups, including
the Ghana Medical Association,
have been pouring in since the Minister
for Parliamentary Affairs made
the disclosure.

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DAILY HERITAGE TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020
Editorial
Communal spirit brings development
COMMUNAL LIVING has been a
feature of the Ghanaian culture for
time immemorial.
In its true sense, communal living
is the situation where members of
the community are each other’s
keeper such that others, for example,
provide for relatives and other people,
including even strangers living
among the natives.
It could be recalled that in times
past some would build and everyone
having the opportunity to live in that
house called it “our house” without
any reference to the one who used
his or her money to put up the house
and without the builder getting hurt
at all.
By that practice, those who did
not have the financial muscle to put
up a house or take care of certain
things did not worry much because
nobody looked down upon them. In
situations where certain individuals
were sick, for example, relatives and
other members of the community
gave help in seeing to the persons’
healthcare or healing.
It was the time natives loved
going back home occasionally to see
their loved ones and share moments
of joy with them.
Those who grew up in the rural
areas, for instance, would recall moments
of relatives or mere community
members living in big towns and
elsewhere, upon their occasional visits,
going from home to home greeting
especially elderly members of
the community and giving them gifts
and money.
It was the time the community
practised the norm that only a
woman carries a pregnancy, but her
child, once born, was everyone’s
child and relative. Therefore, all adult
members must help to bring the
child up to be a good member of the
community.
The narrative can go on and on
but the truth is that the communal
spirit has almost died and given way
to individualism, which is why the
DAILY HERITAGE is impressed
that the cousin of Prof JEA Mills,
Uncle Siisi Crentsil, also known as
Ebusuapanyin Kwesi Tweiku, has
done the unexpected by building a
children’s ward for the Ajumako
District Hospital and also a whole
palace for his Etsifi Asona clan of
Enyan Denkyira (See story on front
page).
Uncle Siisi Crentsil and others like
him give us hope that the communal
spirit has not completely died and
that where it has even died, it can be
resurrected.
This is because since it is now
public knowledge and touted by
even the politicians, development
agents, that the government cannot
develop communities all alone, it
would take the communal spirit of
particularly those who hail from the
rural areas to assess and deliver
amenities that can improve the lives
of their compatriots.
Let us all be influenced by the
communal spirit of examplars like
Siisi Crentsil to bring some joy to
those who have lost hope because
they have no one in particular to
turn to when in need. Bravo,
Ebusuapanyin, for your selflessness!
Fight Covid-19 as war
Kumasi Technical Uni. Registrar to Ghanaians
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com
THE REGIS-
TRAR of Kumasi
Technical University,
Mr Ebenezer
Kofi Boakye, has
stated that his institution
sees Covid-19 as a war
and therefore is marshaling all arsenals
to fight the pandemic.
According to him, management
of the university has set up Covid-
19 Management Team to monitor
the situation when school reopens
for the final-year students, adding
that the institution was procuring
being temperature guns or infrared
thermometers to test the temperatures
of students before they can
enter the school.
Mr Boakye made this known
when Zoomlion Ghana Limited
last Thursday embarked on the
second phase of the exercise to
disinfect the educational institution,
including students’ hostels,
ahead of reopening of schools for
final students, starting June 15.
•Mr Ebenezer Kofi Boakye, Registrar, Kumasi Technical University,
speaking to newsmen at the entrance to the university
He said measures such as provision
of Veronica buckets, installation
of automatic sanitizers by
all doors, online programmes and
asking all final-year students
whose exams does not need practical
work to stay at home as some
of the safety protocols initiated by
the school.
The registrar said the first exercise
by Zoomlion cleared the
school of all rodents, reptiles and
insects “so this second one is
going to make the place safe for
living.”
“If we go by the safety protocols
instituted by the government,
we can now live normal in what
we call a new normal situation
with Covid-19 until we get vaccines
to fight it,” he stated.
Mr Boakye implored the students
to be disciplined, respect
each other and also follow all the
safety protocols because “we
know how the youth behave and
in this new normal situation, their
behaviour must change.”
He thanked Zoomlion Ghana
Limited for taking up the challenge
of fumigating and disinfecting
to protect the lives of Ghanaians
through the nationwide exercise.
The Relations Officer of the
university, Dr Charles Obeng Sarpong,
said the management was
expecting over 3000 final-year students
on reopening day, June 15,
2020.
He said measures were in place
to ensure that students would sit,
at least, one meter apart, adding
that the school would manufacture
a hand sanitizer for use by the
school and its immediate community;
education materials would be
manufactured and strict enforcement
of wearing of nose mask
without which no entry would be
granted anyone.
The General Manager of
Zoomlion, Ashanti East, Mr
Franklin Ofori Akuffo, said the
exercise was taking place in 20 tertiary
institutions in the Ashanti
Region.
Mr Akuffo said the exercise in
Kumasi Techincal University
would cover over 100 classrooms
at the main campus before extending
it to students hostels.
In related development, the
disinfection exercise was extended
to the campuses of the Kwame
Nkrumah University where facilities
such as Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Pharmacy, Law School and hostels
were all disinfected to ensure the
safety of the students.
The University Relations Officer,
Dr Daniel Morris Tetteh, said
the institution was expecting over
1500 final-year medical, nursing
and veterinary students while the
rest would continue using the online
platforms.
The Health and Safety Officer
of Zoomlion, Northern Sector,
Mr Wilson Appianti, said the objective
of the company was to disinfect
various halls of residency
for students, lecture halls, offices
and other facilities to pave the way
for the reopening of the school
for final-year students.

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Politics
DAILY HERITAGE TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020
NPP Primaries
I haven’t endorsed Okyere
Baafi – Daasebre Oti Boateng
THE PARAMOUNT
Chief of New
Juaben Traditional
Area, Daasebre
Prof. Emiretus Oti
Boateng, has debunked
rumours that he has endorsed
Micheal Okyere Baafi,
Chief Executive Officer of Ghana
Free Zones Authority, in the upcoming
Parliamentary Primaries of
the ruling New Patriotic
Party(NPP).
Kasapa News has gathered that
some Chiefs in the traditional area
were influenced to convince some
delegates to vote for Micheal
Okyere Baafi at the blind side of
the Omanhene, who is currently
outside the country.
Upon hearing the information,
Daasebre Oti Boateng instructed
his sub-chiefs to hold a presser to
• Daasebre Prof Emiretus Oti Boateng (L), Paramount Chief of New Juaben and Micheal Okyere
Baafi, CEO of Ghana Free Zones Authority
denounce the claims.
At a press conference held on
Saturday, June 13, 2020, addressed
by the Gyaasehene of New
Juaben, Nana Twumasi Darkwa,
on behalf of the Omanhene,
stated that these claims were “unfounded
and without merit”.
“Firstly, it is against the tenet of
the constitution for Chiefs to
openly endorse, identify with political
parties, and by extension endorse
a candidate to an election on
the platform of political parties.
Second, the Omanhene’s Palace is
open to all and so by just entering
the palace cannot be construed as
an endorsement by the Omanhene.”
He added that “as a Paramount
Chief, it is my responsibility not
only to safeguard the dignity and
sanctity of the institution of
Chieftaincy, but also to ensure that
Chieftaincy become the rallying
point of leadership for all, irrespective
of one’s cultural, religious,
and political differences”.
The Traditional Council stated
that it would welcome and support
all shades of political leadership
with the mandate of the
citizens to govern this country.
The incumbent Member of
Parliament for New Juaben South,
Mark Assibey Yeboah, who is a
member of the Economic Management
Team of Government
and Chairman of the Finance
Committee of Parliament, is
keenly being contested by the
CEO of GFZA, Okyere Baafi, for
the second time, having been defeated
in 2015.
Highlife legend Nana Tuffour dies
Legendary Highlife musician
Nana Tuffour
has died, Starr News
has learnt.
The ‘Abeiku’ singer reportedly
died yesterday morning at his
home in Kumasi. He was 66.
A source close to the 66-yearold,
confirming the death, said the
musician popularly known as 9-9-
2-4 (the corrupted sound of the
name Nana Tuffour), died at
home in the early hours of Monday,
having been sick for an undisclosed
period this year, adding
that his body had been deposited
at the Komfo Anokye Teaching
Hospital Mortuary, Kumasi.
Biography
Nana Tuffour, who also answered
the name James, was born
on Valentine’s Day in 1954 in Kumasi.
He grew up in Kumasi surrounded
by well-to-do relatives
who played all manner of songs
from around the world and that
•Nana Tuffour
that opportunity to
enjoy music might
have ignited in him
the desire to take up
music as an occupation
However, people
who believe in the
metaphysical are giving
the impression
that his birth date,
February 14, might
have been the secret
behind his early rise to
stardom.
Nana, as he is affectionately
called,
kicked off his musical
journey with one of
the axes, keyboardist
Alex Konadu, popularly
known as “One
Man Thousand”.
He later joined the
Wanto Wazuri Band
as a pianist. Due to
his good voice and
unique style of vocalizing,
Nana later became the front
man of the WazaAfrico Band.
Envisioning a solo album,
Nana left for Nigeria, to become
the keyboardist to famous Nigerian
musician King Sunny Ade.
In 1979, he released his first
album, ‘Highlife Romance’ followed
by many other hit albums,
including
‘Abeiku’, ‘Tontonte’, ‘Genesis’, ‘T
he Best of Nana Tuffour’, ‘Daasebre’,
‘Hilife –
Storm’, ‘Sankofa’, ‘Mega
Vibes’, and ‘Highlife Classics’.
The singer had over 15 albums
to his credit.
His record labels were James
Kwaku Tuffour, Aka Nana
Tuffour, Owusek
Productions, and Black ‘M’
Sounds.
A countless number of Nana
Tuffour’s songs were recorded at
Bodo Staiger’s Rheinklang studio
in Duesseldorf, where many other
Ghanaian highlife stars had produced
their hits.

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Otumfuo’s ban on player recruitment will
bring out the best in Maxwell Konadu
•J.E Sarpong observes
FORMER KOTOKO
Coach, Josef Emmanuel
(JE) Sarpong, has applauded
Asantehene for
banning player transfer at
Kotoko, insisting it will
bring the best out of Coach Maxwell
Konadu.
“The good thing about this whole
decision too is that it will always
bring out the experience in Coach
Maxwell Konadu and it’s time for
him to show the world what he is
made of ”, he added.
The Asantehene, who is the
owner and life patron of the club, has
instructed the new board not to sign
new players for a year, a decision that
former coach of the club sees as a
good one, for which he has highly
•Coach J.E. Sarpong
commended Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
“Kotoko registered more than
necessary players; I don’t know the
figure though, but I learnt it is
around 50 players or something and
how many are selected for a game?
“It’s only 18 and the rest from the
rest, what are they doing? That’s why
in Europe they register not more
than 25 players.
“Every year they buy so many
players and they are all on salary but
they won’t even use them, so it all
comes at a huge disadvantage to the
club financially. So, for me, I support
the call by Otumfuo to place a ban
on player recruitment for, at least,
one season,” Sarpong told Starr
Sports .
Meanwhile the former spokesperson
for Asante Kotoko, Kennedy
Boakye Ansah, has revealed that the
great work done by Dr. Kwame Kyei
at the club contributed to Otumfuo’s
decision to extend his mandate.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu this month
entrusted Asante Kotoko into the
hands of Dr Kwame Kyei for a second
time after retaining him as Executive
Chairman of the club.
Dr Kyei’s three-year mandate
ended in December 2019, but he has
been retained after a three-member
committee concluded their investigation
into the club’s affairs under his
tenure. Speaking on Extra Time over
the weekend, Boakye Ansah insisted
the man did a good job [for him] to
be retained.
“If I should review the past
three years, the mandate of Dr.
Kwame Kyei as the Executive Chairman
then, I will say that the man did
a great job.
“ At least, almost every trophy at
hand then that Kotoko competed for,
they won it -- that’s, the FA Cup [and]
the NC cup -- so I am saying that on
the field of play, Kotoko was extremely
competitive,” Boakye Ansah
told Starr Sports .
“Off the field, we are talking
about the corporate structure of the
club; yes, people had fault here and
there but if you have a huge brand
like MTN as your headline sponsor
and they felt the need to renew their
relationship with you, that means
you were doing something good,” he
added
US Open:
Serena Williams would 'love to play'
in New York-----Coach
SERENA WILLIAMS "would
love to play" at the US Open,
says her coach Patrick
Mouratoglou.
Williams, 38, had an injurystrewn
2019 but recovered to
reach the final of last year's
tournament in New York.
The 2020 US Open is due to
start on August 31 with strict
restrictions in place because of
coronavirus.
"She's definitely come back
to tennis to win Grand Slams,
that's her goal," Mouratoglou
told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
"For a player to be out of
competition is extremely difficult.
So, the US Open will be a
first opportunity to win one.
There'll be a lot of restrictions
and I have to speak with her to
see if she will be able to accept
and manage those expectations."
The former world number
one and six-time US Open
champion, who went out of the
Australian Open in the third
round in January, started the
year by winning the Auckland
Open -- her first singles title
since becoming a mother in
September 2017.
Players, including Novak
Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Nick
Kyrgios and Simona Halep,
•Serena Williams
have voiced their reservations
about staging this year's event at
Flushing Meadows, which could
run without supporters or the
media.
World number one
Djokovic called the proposed
protocols "extreme", while
Nadal said he had "little desire"
to travel to New York.
It is expected that players
will only be permitted to have
one person to accompany them
throughout the tournament,
which Mouratoglou says could
be an issue for Williams, who
prefers to travel with her
daughter, Alexis.
"I don't imagine her being
three weeks without her daughter,"
he said.
He jokingly added: "So, she
might have a new coach for the
US Open, a bit younger. Considering
our record in the last
seven finals, her daughter might
be more successful than me."
WTA and ATP Tour events
are suspended until the end of
July, at the earliest.
Naa Odofoley, Habiba Attah
appointed to re-brand
women's football
A MEMBER of the erstwhile
Normalisation Committee, Naa
Odofoley Nortey (Esq), and Executive
Council member, Madam
Habiba Attah Forson, have been
tasked to come up with a comprehensive
policy document on
women's football.
The decision was taken on Friday,
June 12, 2020, during a meeting
of the national teams
department led by Deputy General
Secretary Alex Asante; the
Black Queens Management Committee
member; and GFA President
Kurt E.S. Okraku.
They have two weeks to come
up with a draft that will be considered
and approved by the Executive
Council.
This is part of the GFA’s efforts
to put in place a detailed
plan to change the narrative on
women's football by making it attractive
to the corporate world
and to draw eyeballs to the brand.
The policy is to also focus on
improving visibility, packaging
and branding. The document,
when delivered, will go a long way
to change the existing narrative
and mindset about women’s football
in Ghana.
Okraku says he believes these
vital areas need to be looked at
holistically to serve as a policy
guideline for women’s football
when adopted. He opines its implementation
must start from the
grass-roots level, club level, and
transcend to the various women
national teams.
•Naa Odofoley and Habiba Attah Forson