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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
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Chief of Air Staff cited
for contempt
NEWS DESK REPORT
THE CHIEF of
Air Staff, Air
Vice Marshall
Frank Hanson,
and the Ghana
Air Force have
been cited for contempt of court
in a land litigation case.
The Commercial Division of
the Accra High Court was expected
to hear the contempt application
yesterday but rather
adjourned it to July 9, 2020.
The adjournment was to allow
the Attorney General’s Office to
respond to the plaintiff ’s affidavit
in support of the contempt application.
NASTEC Ghana Limited, in
May this year, filed a contempt application
against the respondents -
- Ghana Air Force and Chief of
Air Staff -- for defying a court
order which restrains them from
developing a parcel of land which
is a subject of litigation before the
court.
The one-acre land in question,
situated near the Ghana Free
Zones Authority Head Office at
Labone, was fully and dully acquired
by NASTEC Ghana Limited,
a private security company,
from the Lands Commission and
it shares a boundary with the
Chief of Air Staff ’s residence.
Restraining orders
Per the affidavit in support of
the contempt application, the
court on May 18, 2020, while considering
the application for contempt,
restrained all parties in the
suit -- NASTEC vs Chief of
Army Staff and Ghana Air Force
-- from interfering with the land,
the subject matter of the dispute,
until the final determination of
the case.
But the respondent has since
gone back to the land and is developing
it, a situation which compelled
the plaintiff to file a
contempt application against the
respondents.
Plaintiff ’s affidavit in support
1. That the restraining orders
are very clear and all the parties
and their representatives have actual
notice that they have all been
restrained from dealing with the
land in any way until the final determination
of the matter.
2. That whilst the matter is still
pending in the honourable court,
•The site in question
the 2nd Defendant (Ghana Air
Force) and 3rd Defendant
(Chief of Air Staff) have flouted
the Orders of the Court and
have sent workmen and building
materials to the land, the subject
matter of the dispute and carrying
out construction works at a
frenetic pace in clear violation
and disregard of the Orders of
the Honourable Court.
3. That the 2nd and 3rd Defendants
who have the penchant
for using armed soldiers to intimidate
the Plaintiff on the land
cannot be prevented from their
illegal acts in any other legitimate
way unless the coercive
powers of this honourable court
are invoked.
4. That the posture of the
2nd and 3rd Defendants is
aimed at nothing but to interfere
with the administration of justice.
5. That the 2nd and 3rd accused
Defendants have behaved
and acted and still behaving and
acting in such a manner to show
utter disrespect for this Honourable
court and so they deserve
to be committed for
contempt of court and sent to
prison
Focus on education policy
• And stop private teacher licensing
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE EXECUTIVE Director of
Ghana National Council of Private
Schools (GNACOPS), Mr
Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah, has called
on the Ministry of Education to
immediately stop the ongoing licensing
of private school teachers
and rather focus on educational
policy for private schools.
According to GNACOPS, until
the Ministry of Education and
Ghana Education Service (GES)
develop educational policy for private
schools which will regulate
their activities, licensing the teachers
will be a misplaced priority.
Mr Gyetuah said many private
schools operating in the country
had no Registrar General Department
certificate but rather holding
certificates given by GES with no
tin number, a situation he said was
worrisome.
“Until we establish an educational
policy for private schools to
regulate their activities and also
determine the kind of pay these
teachers must receive at the end
of the month, the licensing will be
useless,” he stated.
“In the absence of an education
policy for private schools, the
licensure of private teacher will
not yield any results because the
teacher will continue to earn
GH¢250.00 and GH¢300.00
monthly,” the Executive Director
stated.
This followed comments made
by the Executive Secretary of the
National Teaching Council, Mr
Christian Addai Poku, that the
council would not allow private
school teachers to teach if they
were not licensed.
Mr Poku was addressing the
media during the first batch of
teachers writing this year’s licen-
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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
NDC, EC D-day at
S/Court today
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
ASEVEN-MEMBER
panel of the Supreme
Court will deliver
judgement in a consolidated
application
where the National
Democratic Congress and Mark Takyi-
Banson are challenging the compilation
of the electoral register by the Electoral
Commission.
In court yesterday, Takyi-Banson and
his lawyers had 10 minutes to move the
application while the Attorney General’s
Department also had the same time to
respond.
The parties in the case that has been
consolidated are NDC and Mark Takyi-
Banson, an individual, against the EC
and AG.
• Franklin Cudjoe, IMANI
The panel chaired by Chief Justice,
Kwesi Anin Yeboah, after hearing the parties,
adjourned the case to today.
IMANI disappointed
Meanwhile, IMANI Ghana’s brief to the
apex court as a friend to the court was dismissed.
The court said they
had made public statements
showing their support to one
of the parties in the matter.
IMANI has expressed disappointment
in the decision
of the Supreme Court to dismiss
their amicus brief in the
case involving the Electoral
Commission and the opposition
National Democratic
Congress over the voter’s
register.
“On the onset (sic) of this
application, we did say we
were at the benevolence
more or less of the law, so
what they decide to do, we
will live with it. It’s just that
we’re disappointed though
that they didn’t even consider
the brief itself,” IMANI
president Franklin Cudjoe
said.
He explained: “We think
they would have benefitted
greatly from it but the laws
have spoken and we can’t
quarrel with that; we just
have to live with it but I
hope that the decision they
arrive at eventually would be
a decision everybody can live
with within this country, otherwise
I’m just disappointed
and I’m sure my colleagues
here are equally disappointed.
“This was an introduction
to how cases are determined
in court. I was quite awed.
Even at some point I was
laughing all through but I
guess lawyers know their
trade and the judges also
know their trade, so you can’t
fault them. They did what
they had to do but I think
that to suggest that the amicus
was just not neutral was a
bit far-fetched really”.
The parties which came
together to present the brief
were Alliance for Social Equity
and Public Accountability
(ASPEA), Conservative
Policy Research Center
(CPRC) and Institute for
Liberty and Policy Innovation
(ILAPI).
“This was an introduction
to how
cases are determined
in court. I
was quite awed.
Even at some
point I was laughing
all through but
I guess lawyers
know their trade
and the judges
also know their
trade, so you
can’t fault them.
They did what
they had to do but
I think that to suggest
that the amicus
was just not
neutral was a bit
far-fetched really”.
Focus on education policy
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sure exams at the St Louis
Teacher Training School in Kumasi
when he said the council
would soon phase out the situation
where teachers without professional
teaching licences teach
in private schools throughout the
country.
Collaboration
According to him, the teaching
council is collaborating with proprietors
of private schools on a
roadmap to dismiss unqualified
teachers whose names are on their
payrolls.
He further stated that it would
soon be impossible for private
schools to employ teachers who
had not written the compulsory licensure
exams.
However, GNACOPS has advised
the NTC, which is under the
auspices of the Ministry of Education,
to annul its decision to
suspend private school teachers
who have not been certified
through the licensure exam as
“they can’t roof a building with
no foundation.”
In another development, the
council has raised issues of personal
protection equipment not
supplied to various private
schools in the country, especially
in the Ashanti and the three Bono
regions, where authorities of GES
say they will supply the schools at
the end of this week.
Mr Gyetuah said out of the
365 private senior high schools in
the country, only 115 were reopened
because the rest of the
schools had no final students as a
result of the Free Senior High
School policy.
“We thank the President, Ministry
of Education and GES for
disinfecting all private schools in
the country against the spread of
Covid-19,” Mr Gyetuah stated.
He noted that their visit to private
schools in these four regions
indicated that the confidence level
of the students had dwindled and
it was difficult for even friends to
play with one another because of
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Sintex GH¢1.5b petroleum revenue not
accounted for since 2017
– PIAC chairman passes on
BY SENANU DAMILOLA WEMAKOR
AN AMOUNT of
GH 1.5 billion
petroleum revenue
cannot be accounted
for in the
2019 fiscal year,
the Public Interest and Accountability
Committee (PIAC) has disclosed.
According to the committee,
out of the GH 2.7 billion accrued
to the annual budget funding
amount, the state only used
GH 1.2 billion, with the remaining
GH 1.5 billion not utilized
and not accounted for.
Technical Manager for PIAC,
Mark Agyemang, told Starr News
“we do not actually have any clear
explanation on this. They asked
the ministry for an explanation,
and as at the time we were filing
the report, the ministry couldn’t
provide us with an explanation.”
He added, “And mind you, this
is not the first time; it started from
somewhere (sic) 2013. The annual
•Ken Ofori-Atta (L), Minister of Finance, and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of Ghana
budget funding amounts were
not utilized and were not accounted
for. But then, this is
not the first time consecutively;
it has been three years running.
“The first time was in 2017
and now it has grown to
GH¢1.5 billion and the question
one would ask is, where is the
money?”
“Because these monies were
actually programmed for certain
projects or activities to be undertaken.
Have they been taken,
and even if they are not taken,
where is the money programmed
for such activities?”
He concluded that “as we are
speaking, we have not had a
concrete explanation from the
Ministry of Finance. We’ve
pushed buttons, we are actually
trying to have a meeting with
them on Thursday, Probably at
that meeting, they would give us
some explanation. But as at the
time of completing this report,
we sent several letters but they
didn’t give us any explanation
and this is the third consecutive
year.”
&Env.
Two Mawuko Girls SHS students isolated
TWO STUDENTS of
the Mawuko Girls
High School in Ho
have reportedly been
isolated by school
authorities over fears
they have contracted coronavirus.
Sources at the school told Starr
News the Covid-19 response team
in the region was called in to assist
in isolating the students.
Meanwhile, Ho Central Member
of Parliament (MP), Mr Benjamin
Komla Kpodo, has
lamented over the unavailability of
personal protective equipment for
schools in the region.
On a tour of all seven public
schools within the Municipality,
the MP noted that no PPE had so
far been received from the government,
a situation he describes as
alarming.
He urged students to be very
critical of their own safety.
The MP donated Veronica
buckets, hand sanitizers and locally
manufactured nose masks to be
distributed to the students in all
seven senior high schools, namely
Mawuli Senior High School,
Mawuko and Ola Girls, Taviefe
Senior High School, Sokode Sec.
Tech, Shia Senior High School and
the Tanyigbe Senior High School.
Meanwhile, Ho Central Member
of Parliament (MP), Mr
Benjamin Komla Kpodo, has
lamented over the unavailability
of personal protective
equipment for schools in the
region.

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NEWS
DAILY HERITAGE DIGITAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
Robbers kill pregnant wife, stab
3-year-old daughter in Kumasi
APREGNANT
woman has died
after she suffered
knife wounds during
a robbery attack
at
Heman/Ampatia New-Site, an
urban community at Santasi in the
Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi.
The incident occurred on Saturday,
June 20, 2020 at about
1:30a.m., the police told Dailymailgh.com.
The deceased, Juliana
Adusei, 31, was declared dead by
the officers at the scene.
Police at Suntreso District,
which is investigating the case, are
appealing to residents in the area
to volunteer information as a serious
search for the three-member
gang has begun.
Attack
Surviving victim and husband,
Pastor Francis Adusei, had told
the police that the armed men invaded
their home while he was
asleep together with his wife and
his three-year-old daughter on
that fateful day.
“They were three young men,
two wielding kitchen knives and
the other holding a pistol. They
pushed him inside his bedroom
and demanded that he handed
over all the monies he recently
withdrew from the bank,” a family
member narrated to the media.
The family member further
said the attackers, who appeared
not satisfied, after they were
handed over a cedi equivalent of
$1,000 booty, stabbed the couple’s
three-year-old daughter in the abdomen
after they were told that
they had no money left in the
house.
“The poor little girl started
bleeding profusely and so the
mother, who could not withstand
her daughter’s ordeal, attempted
to overpower the robbers but unfortunately,
she was also stabbed
at the right side of her neck. She
fell unconscious and died minutes
later,” one of the family members
narrated as she shed tears.
The robbers had fled the scene
•The residence where the robbery took place
when the police arrived. The officers
examined and later conveyed
the body to the Komfo Anokye
Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.
The little girl who survived the
knife wounds was also rushed to
the same hospital and is responding
to treatment.
Family members and sympathizers
have been at the house to
console the grief-stricken Adusei,
who is the founder and leader of
Mountain Zion International
Church.
Residents want abandoned
police station operated
The community has over the
years been recording a number of
unresolved murder cases. The latest
incident brings the death toll
to four, after the bodies of three
others were discovered at separate
locations last year.
Residents are already worried
and fear they could be the next
victims if authorities in the
Atwima Kwanwoma District do
not step up security in the area.
“If we can revive the watchdog
committee that will be helpful because
where we are now, we are all
worried. The situation is very appalling
and I pray authorities to
come to our aid,” 67-year-old Victoria
Abareman said.
The Assembly member for the
area, James Sarfo, has appealed to
authorities to make an abandoned
police station operational.
“It appears our security can’t
be guaranteed. The community
has built a police station in this
town but personnel are yet to be
deployed to man it, and so as you
can see, it has been taken over by
weeds and reptiles. We pray that
one day this project will serve its
purpose,” the Assembly member
said.Dailymail
Two arrested over demolition at
Nigeria High Commission
THE CRIMINAL Investigations
Department (CID) of the
Ghana Police Service has arrested
two persons in relation
to the demolition of a building
on the premises of the Nigeria
High Commissioner in Accra.
The two, according to a
press release issued by the CID,
were arrested on Monday, June
22, 2020, and had been charged
with conspiracy to commit
crime, to wit: unlawful entry
and causing unlawful damage.
“The Criminal Investigations
Department, in the course of
investigation on Monday, June
22, 2020, arrested two persons
involved in the demolition of a
building on the premises of the
Nigerian High Commission in
Accra.”
The arrest comes after a
building under construction
which is said to belong to the
Nigeria High Commission in
Accra was reported to have
been demolished by some
armed men on Saturday, June
20, 2020.
•The scene after the demolition
The Paramount Chief of the
Osu Traditional Area, Nii
Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, refuted
the claim that a building
demolished at West Ridge in
Accra over the weekend was
situated in the Nigerian High
Commission.
According to him, it was on
a piece of land belonging to
the Osu stool, which the high
commission had trespassed
upon and that there had never
been a purchase of any tract of
land from it by the Commission.
“The said parcel of land belongs
to the Osu stool and is to
be used for purposes only
agreed upon by the stool and
its council of elders,” a statement
he issued in Accra last
Sunday said.

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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
Editorial
We need standardised education
THE GHANA Education Service
(GES), working under the Ministry
of Education, is an institution of
state charged with responsibilities including
providing and overseeing
Basic education, registering, supervising
and inspecting private pre-tertiary
educational institutions;
submitting recommendations to
the Minister of Education for educational
policies and programmes;
and registering teachers and updating
the register of all teachers in the
public system.
The functions of GES as stated
above include the authority to register,
supervise and inspect private
pre-tertiary educational institutions.
The actions to be taken to discharge
these duties are in the bosom of
GES itself but are definitely made
known to all stakeholders so that
there is sanity in the system.
The DAILY HERITAGE can
infer that, at least, actions involved
in “supervise and inspect private
schools” would include those that
would have to do with ensuring that
privates schools too have teachers
who do not only teach but also adhere
to demands of professionalism.
And this would include the GES ensuring
that the private school teachers
take the licensure examination,
having taken instruction from the
Ministry of Education.
Therefore, it becomes curious to
hear the Executive Director of
Ghana National Council of Private
Schools (GNACOPS), Mr Enoch
Kwasi Gyetuah, calling on the Ministry
of Education to immediately
stop the ongoing licensing of private
school teachers and rather focus on
educational policy for private
schools.
His comment is said to be in response
to one made by the Executive
Secretary of the National Teaching
Council, Mr Christian Addai
Poku, that the council would not
allow private school teachers to
teach if they were not licensed.
According to GNACOPS, until
the Ministry of Education and
Ghana Education Service (GES) develop
educational policy for private
schools which will regulate their activities,
licensing the teachers will be
a misplaced priority.
Mr Gyetuah says many private
schools operating in the country
have no Registrar General’s Department
certificate but rather certificates
given by GES with no tin
number, a situation he said was worrisome.
However, it is said that GNA-
COPS has advised the National
Teaching Council, which is under the
auspices of the Ministry of Education,
to annul its decision to suspend
private school teachers who have not
been certified through the licensure
examination.
There seems to be some misunderstanding
between GNACOPS
and the educational authorities and
that must be resolved. This is because
whether delivered in a public
or private school, education must be
of a standard set by the institutions
of state whose duty it is to safeguard
that standard.
Therefore, we wonder why GNA-
COPS wants to avoid the licensure
examination at a time that has become
of the criteria to assess teachers
in the country. There must be
harmony in the education system so
that we do not further undermine
the already questionable standard of
education in the country.
Covid-19 big blow to our activities
•Chairman of Ghana Electrical Dealers Association states
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE NATIONAL
Executive of
Ghana Electrical
Dealers Association
(GEDA) has
stated that Covid-
19 has impacted negatively on
their activities in the country.
Speaking to journalists in Accra,
the 2nd Vice-Chairman of
GEDA, Hajia Munia Buari, expressed
worry that the outbreak of
the Covid-19 pandemic had not
only slowed down their business
but dealt a devastating blow to
them.
"Honestly, business has been
very slow because a lot more people
now do not come to trade with
us due to Covid-19," she said.
In addition, Hajia Buari said
members of GEDA had not been
able to import electrical materials
from China either because of
travel restrictions brought about
•Worker of Zoomlion
disinfecting Opera Square
by the Covid-19 disease.
That, coupled with the low patronage
of their business, has dealt
a severe blow to GEDA members,
she stressed.
Hajia Buari made the observation
when her association engaged
Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL)
to disinfect its business space
around the Opera Square, Accra,
also known as Cowlane, on
Wednesday.
The exercise started around
7:00 a.m. and saw Zoomlion
Ghana Limited deploy one of its
boom atomisers and a disinfection
crew with knapsack spraying machines
to disinfect the area.
The crew disinfected the two
lorry terminals at the Opera
Square, and open spaces along the
Old AMA Traffic light, Judicial
Service, the Ghana Post Office,
and the Rawlings Park areas and
the Cowlane Central Mosque.
Also disinfected were about 400
shops and stores at Opera Square.
Hajia Buari explained that
GEDA engaged Zoomlion to undertake
the exercise to protect
their members and also keep their
customers who come there to
trade with them safe from the
pandemic.
“And even before the announcement
of the partial lockdown
in some parts of the
country, GEDA had ensured that
all its members religiously implemented
the Covid-19 preventive
protocols.
“All shops/stores under our
umbrella association were to have
Veronica buckets together with
liquid soaps and alcohol-based
sanitisers to be used by them and
their customers. And I must confess
that our members have fully
complied with these protocols,”
she said.
The 2nd vice-chair of GEDA,
however, indicated that effective
Thursday, June 25, the association
would enforce the wearing of
nose masks.
“In fact, any of our members
who fails to comply with this directive
would not be allowed to
trade in the area!” she cautioned.
She disclosed that the association
had also put in a request for
Covid-19 stimulus package for its
members.
“And if this package is made
available to us, we believe it will
cushion members of GEDA from
the harsh brunt of the Covid-19
pandemic on our business,” Hajia
Buari said.
In a brief remark, the General
Manager, Zoomlion Ghana Limited,
Greater Accra Region, Mr
Ernest Morgan Acquah, explained
that the essence of the exercise
was to keep the Opera Square,
which is the trading hub of
GEDA members, safe and clean
from the attack of the Covid-19
disease.
However, he contended that
the disinfection was only one of
the measures in the war against
Covid-19.
Against this backdrop, he entreated
members of GEDA to unfailingly
observe the other
Covid-19 safety protocols, which
include regular washing of hands
under a running water, practising
social/physical distancing and
using alcohol-based hand sanitisers.
“The adherence to these protocols,
together with the disinfection,
will help protect GEDA
members and its customers from
the virus attack,” he advised.

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Politics
DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
NPP Primaries
Another MP falls at Kwadaso
ANOTHER SIT-
TING Member of
Parliament (MP)
has lost his seat in
a delayed primary
of the ruling party
which was held yesterday in the
Ashanti region.
Dr Samiu Nuamah lost his slot
to Dr Kingsley Nyarko in the
Kwadaso primaries, which were
held Wednesday afternoon.
The incumbent garnered 158
votes as against the victor’s 172. A
third aspirant pulled 48 votes.
The MP’s defeat brings the
number of losing incumbents in
the NPP primaries to 42.
Meanwhile, Political Science
lecturer at the University of
Ghana, Prof. Ransford Gyampo,
has said the defeat of incumbent
MPs at the primaries of the ruling
New Patriotic Party is a good
omen for parliamentary representation.
According to him, the situation
will serve as a wake-up call to MPs
who neglect their representative
function.
He also noted that a number of
MPs who were protected by the
party to go unopposed would also
have lost if they were contested.
Prof Gyampo is of the view
that MPs must be able to combine
the responsibility towards their
constituents with their lawmaking
roles.
“But then, we are also saying
that what has happened in a way is
a good omen for parliamentary
representation as in those who refused
to protect the fiduciary trust
that was reposed in them by the
people. Those who refused to
provide adequate mechanisms to
boost representation have been
taught a certain lesson that, in my
view, is good,” he told host Regina
Borley Bortey on
Shaping the Nation
show on Starr FM.
He stressed: “And
I’m saying that if others
had not been protected
to go
unopposed, they
would have also
fallen. So I think this
is a lesson for the incoming
ones and then
those that have been
protected, they should
also sit up. And nothing,
in my view, is
going to be lost even
if we have new people,
nothing will be
lost.
‘If people are really
smart and they
want to learn, it’s a
matter of weeks. Parliamentary
practices can be
Google-searched and you will just
be able to be socialized and you
will be able to make your mark on
the floor of Parliament.”
About 40 MPs lost their seats
in the primaries of the ruling
party which were held on Saturday,
June 20.
“But then, we are
also saying that
what has happened
in a way is a good
omen for parliamentary
representation
as in those who refused
to protect the
fiduciary trust that
was reposed in them
by the people.
Music can pay well – Drizzy Bangz
BY ERICA ARTHUR
Growing Ghanaian
artiste
DrizzyBangz,
signed under
‘Camp What
Records’, says
the music industry can be very lucrative
here in Ghana, if the education
of the music business is
taught intensively by industry
players.
According to him, music in
other parts of the world is what
most of the artistes feed on, unlike
here in Ghana where some of
our artistes and industry players
do not see the business part of
the music, which is really disheartening.
He adds that this leads to the
high ratio of musicians depending
on the government in their old
age.
In an interview, he says, “Most
music records work with artists
based on their vocal strength or
their talent to sing with clean
voices without telling them about
the music business, and there is a
very simple answer to this. Many
• DrizzyBangz
artists fear business; there’s
music and there’s the music
business.
“To put it better, the business
of music. The two are not
the same. A person can be a
great musician but if they don’t
apply proven business strategies
to monetize their music, they
will never make it in the music
business. Many artists like to
make music for the love [of it]
and not for the money. You
can’t go far in the music business
if you don’t care about
money.
He added that some people
do break into the music business
but lack understanding of
the business, which in turn becomes
their downfall.
“The music industry is a billion-dollar
industry with investors,
shareholders, and
debtors. Labels need to pay all
of these people. Furthermore,
contracts aren’t written to be
fair; they are written for a zerosum
gain. New artists sign these
contracts without proper legal
representation and are trapped in
non-favourable deals. Labels have
the option to shelve (stop supporting)
these artists for various
reasons.”
Drizzy emphasized that in
order for today’s artists to make it,
they need to accept the fact that
they are entrepreneurs and
make a product (song) that
gains the attention of investors
(managers, publishers,
labels).
“The artist must find some
success on their own, so they
can increase their bargaining
power. When an artist understands
the business of music,
their chances of success increase,
and opportunities are
readily found.
“Why don’t talented musicians
ever become rich and famous?
It doesn’t matter how
good you are if people don’t
know you exist. It takes the
distributive and promotional
capability of large professional
organizations to make celebrity
artists. Until you get discovered
and work your way up
through the cracks, and perhaps
stepping on a few necks,
then you’ll remain a fly on
Youtube forever.”
Drizzy, who says he is inspired
by Chris Brown, developed
his music passion at a young
age and grew up with the aspiration
to be a musician. “I was
keenly inspired by the type of
music I grew up listening to. I do
Alternative RNB and sometimes
Afro-pop, depending on the
mood. When it comes to creating
music, I deal ideally with emotions.
So get me the beat I set the
mood. Then I am good to go. I
just have to get carried away by
the tempo”.
The artiste recently released a
single ‘I Lied’, on which he featured
Fayorsey and would like to
be on a musical project with A.I,
Show Dem Camp and other big
names in the musical scene worldwide
According to him, the music
journey has just started for him
and “I’ll urge music lovers to keep
their fingers crossed for more
thrilling jams from me”
Drizzy, who followed a threeyear
diploma course at the International
School of Aviation, has
other great tunes like ‘Boys Nda’,
which are all available on Spotify,
audiomacks, Soundcloud, and
other music streaming sites.
He advises his fellow artistes
to “never give up”, while his plan
is to impact the industry and to
put Ghana on the map.

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We’re struggling in Congo
• Black Stars player begs Prez for repatriation
FORMER HEARTS of
Oak midfielder Torric
Jibril is the latest
Ghanaian player to
share his ordeal on
how Ghanaian players
are suffering in Congo in the
wake of the Coronavirus pandemic.
According to him, the situation
in Congo has worsened due
to political unrest in the country
and for this reason, he is pleading
with the government to come to
their aid.
Borders of the country remain
closed and have, therefore, prevented
Ghanaians outside to
travel back home.
A number of Ghanaian players
in Ethiopia, including former
Black Stars defender Lee Addy
and other 22 other players,
were spotted in a viral video
pleading with the government
to come to their aid as they
had been left stranded.
Therefore, the call by Jibril,
who currently plays with TP
Mazembe, has come to confirm
the dire need for the President
of the country, Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
and, for that matter, the government,
to repatriate Ghanaians
stranded abroad.
“In fact, things are going
bad ever since the virus came.
The rent for our apartment has
expired so we don’t know what
to do now. We were waiting for
the President to lift the ban but
it did not happen, so I am
pleading with him to turn to
us.
“At a point in time there were
Ghanaians in Congo who are not
footballers but as I speak our
money has finished and that we
cannot support them anymore.
“When you come here there is
serious political unrest, so we
want the government to help us,”
he said.
According to him, the
situation in Congo has
worsened due to political
unrest in the country
and for this reason,
he is pleading with the
government to come to
their aid.
•Former Hearts of Oak midfielder Torric Jibril
Saha advises Partey
to join Man. United
FORMER MANCHESTER
United legend Louis Saha has
urged Ghana and Atlético
Madrid midfielder Thomas
Partey to join the club in the
summer.
The 26-year-old is enjoying
his best season in La Liga
with Atletico
Madrid and with his release
clause set at just €50million
(£43.5m), it is no surprise he
is on the radar of several
clubs.
Partey, who has three years
left on his contract, has made
28 league appearances and
scored twice in this campaign.
"He’s a top player. He’s a
defensive presence and a
tremendous prospect.
Whether he can make an impact
right away remains to be
seen, as we have McTominay,
Fred, and Matic," Saha told
Compare Bet.
"However, we have seen
the impact that someone like
Fabinho has had on Liverpool.
He has mastered that
position. Fabinho has improved
the players around
him.
"This guy is a rock, he defends
in such a way that allows
the Liverpool frontline
to play their game, knowing
he’s protecting the defence.
Perhaps a Fabinho-like player
is already at United, but if
not, then we need to find
someone, whether that’s
Thomas Partey or anyone
else."
Atlético Madrid, meanwhile,
are working on a new
deal to tie down the player
until 2026 (his current contract
runs until 2023) and
want to increase his clause to
a more prohibitive €100m
(£87m), according to reports
in Spain.
David Luiz signs new one-year
contract at Arsenal
•David Luiz, Arsenal Defender
ARSENAL DEFENDER David
Luiz has agreed a new one-year
contract with the club.
Defenders Pablo Mari and
Cedric Soares will also join the
Gunners permanently at the end
of their loan deals, from Flamengo
and Southampton respectively.
Meanwhile, midfielder Dani
Ceballos has extended his loan
deal from Real Madrid until the
end of this season.
"I am really happy that we will
have these players in our squad for
the future," said the Premier
League club's technical director
Edu.
"They have been part of the
long-term technical plan [manager]
Mikel [Arteta] and I have developed.
They bring the right balance
to our squad."
Brazil centre-back Luiz, 33,
joined the club from Chelsea last
year but was sent off during Arsenal's
return to Premier League action,
in a 3-0 defeat at Manchester
City, last week.
"David is a really important
player for us. He has played most
of our matches this season and
has been important for the team,"
added Edu.
"His passing, his communication
with the team on and off the
pitch - he helps everyone."
Spanish centre-back Mari, 26,
and Portugal right-back Soares, 28,
will complete their moves when
the transfer window opens next
month.
•Thomas Partey, Black Stars midfielder