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Methodist church praises

Zoomlion over Covid-19 fight

BY PHILIP ANTOH

philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh

THE

METHODIST

Church of

Ghana has commended

waste

management

company Zoomlion Ghana Limited

(ZGL), for a 'good job done'

for disinfecting over 4,000

churches planted across the country.

“We can say that Zoomlion

has done a very good job for us!

They have given us a certificate to

show to the medical team that will

be coming round for inspection

for which we are also very happy,”

said the Presiding Bishop of the

Methodist Church Ghana, The

Most Rev Dr Paul Kwabena

Boafo.

The Presiding Bishop of

Methodist Church Ghana was

briefing journalists at the

Church’s Conference Office in

Accra on Wednesday on his

church's nationwide disinfection

exercise in its 4,000

branches scattered across

the country,

To facilitate the

work for Zoomlion,

he said the

leadership of the

church deployed

all its Bishops,

Superintendent

Ministers, and

leaders throughout

the country

to make sure

their chapels,

washrooms, offices,

and all others facilities

were opened for

disinfection.

“…all the places that

were going to be used were

[also] opened for spraying, and

Zoomlion did a very good job.

We have pictures of what they

did, and the Bishops have furnished

us with them,” he said.

Most Rev. Dr Boafo explained

•Dr Paul Kwabena Boafo, Presiding Bishop

of the Methodist Church

that

the underlying

reason for the disinfection

was that it constituted one of

the protocols the President

charged churches to comply with

when he announced the easing of

some of the restrictions.

“And one of them was

to give the churches

some leeway to open.

That before we could

open, we had to go

through some protocols,”

he recounted.

One of them, he said,

was for churches to disinfect

their premises.

“And as a church whose

branches are scattered all over the

country, we decided that we

would not allow our individual societies

to go and look for companies/agencies

to come and do the

disinfection. So we contracted

Zoomlion, which is a renowned

agency that can do it and do it

right for us. So for all of our

churches (about 4,000 of them)

scattered throughout the country,

we asked them [Zoomlion] to go

round and disinfect them,” he

noted.

The Methodist Church Ghana,

he further explained, had to go

through all these to ensure that

people would not come in “with

any fears, with any anxieties that

they were coming to contract the

disease.”

“So it was done with the mindset

that people can come to the

chapel without any fears, without

any trepidation that they were

coming in and as a result of that

contract any disease,” he added.

Against this background, the

man of God affirmed that “for

the Methodist Church or what I

say the people called Methodist,

we have complied with all the

protocols that are needed for our

chapels to be reopened.”

“And we are following the protocol

of the cap of 100 people;

we are taking the data of our people;

they wear masks because it is

a “No Mask No Entry Policy” for

the church,” he affirmed.

He continued that branches of

the church also take the data of

their members and keep them,

adding that “we make sure that

whoever comes to do the inspection

would find out that the

Methodist Church has complied

with all the protocols.”

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Go ahead with

your plans

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH

muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh

S/Court tells EC, rejects use of old ID

cards for voters’ registration

THE SUPREME Court

has disallowed the use of

the old voter’s ID card as

a requirement for the upcoming

voters’ registration

exercise.

In a ruling on Thursday (yesterday)

morning, the seven-member Supreme

Court panel granted the third relief of

the suit, which agrees that a person’s

accrued right to vote cannot be divested

in an arbitrary and capricious manner.

Therefore, the prevailing C.I 126 prevents

the use of the existing voter’s card

as proof of identity in the compilation

of the new register.

The parties involved in the suit were

sharply divided over the Court’s decision.

The Court, upon dismissing some of the

reliefs sought by the NDC and Mark Takyi-

Banson, directed the EC to go ahead with

the voter registration exercise as scheduled.

The Court also said the registration should

be conducted in line with the Public Elections

(Registration of Voters) Regulations

2012 (C.I. 91) as amended into the newlypassed

Public Elections (Registration of Voters)

Regulations, 2020 (C.I. 126).

This left the parties involved divided over

whether the Court upheld the use of the existing

voter ID card as proof of identity for

the purposes of registration or not.

NDC reaction

Meanwhile, the NDC General Secretary,

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has told the media

the outcome is a vindication of their position.

“So we will get back to the office and we

will address a full-blown press conference on

the consequential matters arising. We feel vindicated

because the court itself, in an earlier

ruling, has clearly stated that the possession

of an existing voter’s ID means that the

holder is a citizen of Ghana

who is qualified to be registered

and to exercise his or her

powers and so the court couldn’t

go back on its own earlier

ruling,” he said.

The opposition NDC argued

that a new voter’s register

would deprive many Ghanaians

the right to vote in the

polls if the existing voter’s ID

card is rejected, a claim the EC

disagrees with.

The party has argued in its

suit that the EC lacks the

power to go ahead with its

plans because it can “compile a

register of voters only once,

and thereafter revise it periodically,

as may be determined by

law”.

Relief one (Withdrawn)

“A declaration that upon a

true and proper interpretation

of Article 45(a) of the 1992

Constitution, 2nd Defendant

has the constitutional power

to, and can, compile a register

of voters only once, and thereafter

revise it periodically, as

may be determined by law. Accordingly,

2nd Defendant can

only revise the existing register

of voters, and lacks the power

to prepare a fresh register of

voters, for the conduct of the

December 2020 Presidential

and Parliamentary Elections.

Relief two (Granted)

A declaration that upon a


of the provisions of the Constitution,

specifically article 51,

which reads conjointly with article

42, the power of the 2nd

Defendant to compile and review

the voters’ register must

be exercised subject to respect

for and the protection of the

right to vote.

•Asiedu Nketiah, NDC General Secretary

Relief three (Granted)




particularly article 42,

upon the registration of and

issuance of a voter identification

card to a person, that person

has an accrued right to

vote which cannot be divested

in an arbitrary and capricious

manner.

Relief four (Dismissed)




particularly Article 42

of the Constitution, all existing

voter identification cards duly

issued by the 2nd Defendant

to registered voters are valid

for purposes of identifying

such persons in the exercise of

their right to vote;

Relief five (Dismissed)



of the Constitution, specifically

Article 42, the 2nd Defendant’s

purported

amendment of Regulation 1

sub-regulation 3 of the Public

Elections (Registration of Voters)

Regulations, 2016 (C.I 91)

through the Public Elections

(Registration of

Voters)(Amendment) Regulations,

2020 to exclude existing

voter identification cards as

proof of identification to enable

a person to apply for registration

as a voter is

unconstitutional, null and void

and of no effect whatsoever;

Relief six (Dismissed)

A declaration that the 2nd

Defendant, in purporting to

exercise its powers pursuant to

article 51 of the 1992 Constitution

to exclude the existing

voter identification cards from

the documents required as

proof of identification to enable

a person to register as a

voter without any justification

is arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable

and contrary to article

296 of the 1992 Constitution;

Relief seven (Dismissed)



of the Constitution, specifically

Article 42 of the 1992

Constitution, proof of identification

for registration as a

voter should not be limited by

the provisions of Public Elections

(Registration of Voters)

(Amendment) Regulations,

2020;

Relief seven (Dismissed)

An order directed at the

2nd Defendant to include all

existing voter identification

cards duly issued by the 2nd

Defendant as one of the documents

serving as proof of

identification for registration

as a voter for the purposes of

public elections;

Orders

By this decision, the Electoral

Commission (2nd Defendant

in suit No. J1/9/2020 and

1st Defendants in suit

No.J1/12/2020) is hereby directed

to commence the compilation

of the voter

registration exercise as scheduled.

By this decision and , by

virtue of Article 130(2) of the

constitution, any court in

which same or similar action is

pending or yet to be filed shall

apply the decision rendered by

the Supreme Court in these

consolidated suits.


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No equity in collapsing Heritage Bank

and saving UMB – ASEPA

BY JONATHAN ADJEI

ACIVIL SOCIETY

group, Alliance

for Social Equity

and Public Accountability

(ASEPA), has

questioned the propriety of the

decision by Bank of Ghana to

save the Universal Merchant Bank

(UMB) in its banking clean-up

undertaken two years ago.

Executive Director of

ASEPA, Mensah Thompson, in

an interview with Kasapa 102.5

FM, said the decision by the Central

Bank to close down Heritage

Bank on the grounds of the

bank’s over-exposure to its majority

shareholders among others

was flawed.

“In 2016, BoG called the Heritage

Bank to dilute its 70% majority

shareholder, and were

subsequently collapsed, even

when they were in the process of

diluting the majority shares down

from 70%.

“There is principle of law. The

principle of law is that the rules

of the game must be applied

•Dr Ernest Addison, Governor, Back of Ghana

equally to everybody. You’re saying

that one shareholder owns

70% shares in a bank, so you

don’t understand and you’ve

closed the bank down. And another

bank, one shareholder owns

96% and the bank is still there.

What impression are you trying

to create?” Mensah Thompson

posed the question on Anopa

Kasapa on Kasapa 102.5 FM.

Thompson has described the

banking sector clean-up as an exercise

that was implemented by

the government with a tainted

motive.

According to the organisation,

the exercise was also criminal because

it was carried out in contravention

to Act 930, other banking

regulations and international

banking standards.

In 2018, a

financial sector

clean-up

undertaken

by the Bank

of Ghana resulted

in the

revocation of

the licences

of many financial

institutions,

including

banks and microfinance

companies.

Banks that

were collapsed

and officially

ceased

to be in existence

after

the clean-up

included Capital Bank and UT

Bank who were taken over by

GCB Bank in a purchase and assumption

agreement.

However, seven banks,

namely: The Royal Bank, Heritage

Bank, Construction Bank,

uniBank, Sovereign Bank, The

Beige Bank, and Premium Bank

had their licences revoked and

placed under the

Consolidated Bank of Ghana.

Six banks, having reached various

agreements, formed three

mergers as follows: First Atlantic

Merchant Bank Limited and Energy

Commercial Bank; Omni-

Bank Ghana Limited and Bank

Sahel Sahara Ghana; and First

National Bank and GHL Bank

Limited.

“In 2016, BoG called

the Heritage Bank to

dilute its 70% majority

shareholder, and

were subsequently

collapsed, even

when they were in

the process of diluting

the majority

shares down from

70%.

FROM, PATRICE SYLVESTER

SELORMEY, HO

GREENGLOBE

GHANA, a nongovernmental

organization

(NGO) located

in the Volta regional

capital of Ho, has advocated

the relocation of settlers in

the Kalakpa Resource Reserve.

The NGO was established to

conserve biodiversity and manage

natural resources to support nature-based

livelihood activities

sustainably and support climate

change mitigation and adaptation.

It urged the government and

its agencies, as a matter of urgency,

to implement the resettlement

action plan so that the Reserve

could be sustained.

The Kalakpa Resource Reserve,

established in 1975, is being

degraded very fast due to the refusal

of the government to relocate

people in the reserve and also

to improve their livelihoods and

halt its continued devastation.

The NGO, with a support

grant from Business Sector Advocacy

Challenge Fund ( BUSAC)

and its development partners, including

DANIDA, EU, and

USAID, awarded a project titled

"Saving Kalakpa Resource Reserve

and Decent Livelihood for

its Residents."

It said a survey it conducted

&Env.

REENGLOBE advocates resettlement

of Kalakpa Resource Reserve settlers

proved that the population in the

reserve has been increasing daily,

bringing with it unfortunate incident

of increasing degradation

due to more people adopting unapproved

farming methods, cutting

trees to burn for charcoal and

for fuel wood production, animal

rearing activities and unauthorized

hunting expedition by both settlers

and strangers.

The GREENGLOBE

GHANA, report furthermore indicated

that over 80 per cent of

the settlers in the Reserve have

willingly agreed to decent location

outside the reserve but no effort

was being made by the authorities

to take any peculiar action leading

to the wanton destruction of the

forest.

According to GREEN-

GLOBE GHANA, their overall

goal was to see the settlers of the

reserve decently relocated and

having decent and legitimate livelihoods.

"It is our intended motive to

providing social, economic and

environmental services to the settlers

to live in harmony with nature...

"We also seek to promote conservation,

afforestation and its

multiple benefit promote capacity

building and sensitization in sustainable

livelihood and living harmoniously

with nature ." It stated

in a release to the media.

The NGO, with a support

grant from Business

Sector

Advocacy Challenge

Fund ( BUSAC) and

its development partners,

including

DANIDA, EU, and

USAID, awarded a

project titled "Saving

Kalakpa Resource

Reserve and Decent

Livelihood for its

Residents."



NEWS

SOME PARTS of

Ghana, namely

Greater Accra, and

the Central Region on

Wednesday night

around 10:50 p.m. experienced

earth tremors.

The affected areas included

Dansoman, Oprah Square,

James Town, Dome, Ashorman,

Kasoa and Kwabenya.

Many residents said the earth

shook under them. Starr News

sources say similar incidents occurred

in countries such as the

United States of America, Japan

and New Zealand..

Speaking to the DAILY

HERITAGE, David Nana

Boakye, a resident of Dansoma-

Shiabu, said the shaking occurred

twice, causing him to

move quickly out of his room to

ask neighbours what was happening.

DAILY HERITAGE DIGITAL FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020

Earth tremors hit Ghana,

US, other parts of the world

BY PHILIP ANTOH


•Flashback: The impact of an earth tremor on a highway in Ghana

Mr Boakye said for the past

13 years of living in the area,

“this is the first time I am experiencing

such an event.”

“When I heard the noise, I

quickly came out to see what

was happening and we are still

outside trying to see what will

happen. When I came outside, I

went back to the room to check

on my machine and it came

again,” he added.

Another resident, Frank

Asare, said, “I was eating when I

felt the shaking, which moved

my plate of food placed on the

dining table.”

Information gathered indicates

that in some places the

earth tremor happened three

times, with the second one being

severe. Places such as Kasoa and

surrounding areas in the Central

Region also experienced the

tremors.

Mr Emmanuel Addison, a

resident of Kasoa, reported by

telephone that he and his neighbours

experienced two tremors.

"The first one came at

10:48p.m.and the second 10:55

p.m.

Tema Zoomlion manager urges

parents to support govt in Covid-19 fight

•Mr Seth Appiah Ocran, General Manager for Zoomlion Tema

PARENTS AND guardians have

been urged to provide their children

with nose masks and alcohol-based

hand sanitisers to

complement the central government's

efforts to curb the spread

of the novel coronavirus disease

(Covid-19)..

Giving the advice during a disinfection

exercise in St James International

School, Lashibi, in the

Tema West Constituency, the

Tema General Manager of Zoomlion

Ghana Limited, Mr Seth Appiah

Ocran, said the central

government alone could not fight

the virus.

"And so as parents, we must

support the government by ensuring

that our school-going children

have, at least, nose masks and

hand sanitisers to protect them

from the Covid-19 pandemic," he

said.

Again, he charged parents to

educate their children on the

Covid-19 safety protocols.

The exercise, which saw the

disinfection of about 17 basic

schools in the Tema West Constituency,

was part of the President’s

directives for all basic

schools in the county to be disinfected

before reopening date of

Monday, June 29.

Some of the schools that were

disinfected on the day were

Young Scholars International

School, Good Shepherd International

School, Azure International

School, and Apex Community

School.

According to Mr Appiah

Ocran, about 205 basic schools

(public and public) were targeted

for disinfection in the Tema West

Constituency.

"And many of these

schools have been disinfected

already, adding that we

are disinfecting 17 schools

today (Wednesday, June 25),

and also do a mop-up of the

schools whose heads were

not available during the early

days of the exercise," he said.

Mr Appiah

Ocran said one challenge

they encountered during the exercise

was the unavailability of

some of the school heads, even

though prior notice about the exercise

had been relayed to them.

"The unavailability of some of

the headmasters/mistresses sometimes

delayed the exercise, but I

must admit that generally, the

heads were cooperative," the

Tema Zoomlion GM said.

Mr Appiah Ocran went on to

disclose that his company had

already disinfected all the

public schools, adding that

"we are left with some

private schools. Then our

task would be complete."

"The public schools

in Tema are dotted in

Communities Two, Five,

Klagon, AdjeiKojo areas,

and they have all been disinfected,"

he stated.

The Headmistress of Azure

International School, Deborah

Okyere, commended the central

government and Zoomlion

Ghana Limited for including private

schools in the exercise.




Editorial

Which punishment is deterrent enough?

DURING THE week a private legal

practitioner, Martin Kpebu, said the

punishment for refusing to wear a

face mask in public is harsh and

called on President Nana Addo

Dankwa Akufo-Addo to take a second

look at the punishment.

An Executive Instrument (E.I.

164) signed by President Akufo-

Addo on June 15, 2020, as part of

measures to curb the spread of the

coronavirus disease (Covid -19) has

made it an offence for refusing to

wear a face mask in public, whose

punishment is a prison sentence of

four to 10 years or a fine of

GH¢12,000 to GH¢60,000 or both.

The E.I. was issued by the President

pursuant to the powers granted

him under the Imposition of Restrictions

Act, 2020 (Act 1012).and

gazetted on Monday, June 15, 2020,

and the caveat attached to it is that

the mandatory wearing of face

masks shall be in force for three

months and shall apply to all parts

of Ghana.

Mr Kpebu’s statement in a radio

interview on Accra-based Joy FM on

Friday,[June 19, 2020, stressed the

point that many Ghanaians earned

very low incomes and therefore, he

wondered why offenders should be

made to pay that much money.

"Failure to wear a mask cannot attract

a fine of GH¢4,000 in Ghana

here. What are their income levels?"

he asked, adding “Let’s do something

about this; otherwise it’s just

going to be a mockery and it will

bring chaos."

The above quote is attributed to

Mr Kpebu, who said further that the

whole thing is “a mockery" because

even some university graduates were

paid GH¢750 a month. That is to say

that others receive smaller wages

such that should any of the people

in these wage brackets infringe the

new law it would take eternity to

raise the fine. This means they would

be sent to the prisons that are already

congested.

The question now is what punishment

would be deterrent enough to

get recalcitrant Ghanaians to wear

the face or nose masks? The experts

are saying that wearing of the masks

would greatly help in fighting the

novel coronavirus.

The lawyer suggested enough education

and what he maens by

enough education is relative though.

The DAILY HERITAGE

thinks every Ghanaian has heard the

harm the virus can do and the protocols

to combat.

If the government would listen to

Mr Kpebu and bring out another

Executive Instrument to amend the

current one, then we would like to

suggest community service where

offenders would be taken to where

they live to sweep, weed, de-silt

drains and other such menial jobs in

the presence of the people who

know the offenders.

Also drivers must be asked not to

pick people who do not wear masks

as passengers, and that offending

drivers and the passengers must be

detained at police stations for a number

of hours from the time they arrive

at the police station.

Other such mild punishments

could be considered and we believe

they would be be workable and deterrent

enough.

Actionplus donates PPE to

Armed Forces SHS, others

BY MUNTALLA INUSAH


ACTIONPLUS

Foundation, a nongovernmental

organization

(NGO),

has donated Covid-

19 safety items to

some selected senior high schools

across the country.

The items the foundation donated

include Veronica buckets, hand sanitizer,

liquid soap, tissue papers, nose

mask, and personal protective equipment

(PPE) to support the fight

against the novel Covid-19 in some selected

second cycle institutions in

Greater Accra, Eastern and Volta regions

as they welcomed back students

to school this week.

Grace Afi Hadzor, the Public Relations

Officer of the foundation who

presented the items in behalf of the

foundation said, “As the current case

count in Ghana stands, I personally

believe if we continue to adhere to

health protocols outlined by WHO

and adopted and being implemented

strictly in Ghana, we shall in the short-

•Grace Afi Hadzor, PRO (M) of the foundation presenting the items to Lt. Col. Osman Zuneidu, the

headmaster of Armed Forces Senior High School.

est possible time defeat this pandemic

and restore activities back to normal

in our beloved dear Nation.”

In a speech read on behalf of

Apostle Annin, the president of the

foundation also commended Government

for its promptness in building of

a new Infectious Disease Centre in

Ghana to be conducting medical research.

“I wish to reiterate that

HIV/AIDS is real and as we adhere

to the health protocols for Covid-19,

we must also stay safe and protected

always,” she added.

Apostle Annin further called on

other NGOs, local and international,

to support the huge investment the

Government had made during this

Covid season to help consolidate the

significant gains Ghana had made in

its fight against Covid-19 in the

country.

Gratitude

The Headmaster of the School,

Lt. Col, Osman Zuneidu who received

the items expressed gratitude

to the foundation and asked for

God’s blessings for them

According to him, the donation

has come at the right time when final

year students have returned to school

to write their final examinations.

Lt.Col. Zuneidu therefore urged

the students to be circumspect with

all they do and observe the social distancing

protocols to ensure they do

not contract the covid-19 pandemic.

The items is estimated at

GH¢20,000.



Politics


I paid twice more than my

opponent but I lost – Mpohor MP

BY KWAME MALCOL

THE DEFEATED

Member of Parliament

(MP) for

Mpohor, Mr Alex

Agyekum, says despite

paying double

the amount his opponent, Mr

John Saanie, paid to delegates during

the recent New Patriotic Party

(NPP) primaries, he lost.

Speaking to Kwame Malcolm

host of Radio.360’s flagship

morning programme, ;Yensom; in

Takoradi, Mr Agyekum said some

delegates had begun calling him to

apologise.

“If it is development [in Mpohor]

that delegates stood on to

vote, then no one can fault me

and will not have any basis because

from Mpohor, Dominase,

Trebuom, Manso, Adansie Line,

Mampong, Abotare Yie to Edanwiredukrom,

I made an extension

of electricity to the places in

2014,” he said.

He said in about 12 communities,

where there are no lights, “I

have made them erect poles and

only left with the cables. It was

only one community that was inaccessible,

Angu Domeabra. I

used my share of the Common

Fund to hire a bulldozer to carve a

• Mr Alex Agyekum, MP for Mpohor

road that tricycles (aboboyaa),

taxis nand tipper trucks ply; so for

development, Kwame, delegates

cannot fault me.

“At Dominase, the town used

to be flooded. I collaborated with

Benso Oil Palm Plantation

(BOPP), using an excavator, to divert

Butre River and you are

aware…so for development, no

one can fault me,” the defeated

MP lamented.

The MP also stated that he had

helped in raising the morale of the

members of the NPP in Mpohor

during his tenure.

“No one can say as of Saturday,

June 20, the day of the elections,

the chances of the NPP as

against other political parties were

low. So if you sum up all these

and assess the voting direction of

the delegates, then it means they

voted for other issues apart from

development that they themselves

can pinpoint.

“Let me, however, say this,

though it is unofficial, that it is

glaring that when there is voting,

monies exchange hands; and when

it comes to that too, the delegates

themselves will bear me witness,

the motivation I gave them to use

to buy water”; what my opponent

(John Saanie) offered, I offered

twice that amount so what could

they have used to vote against

me?” he quizzed

The MP said maybe someone

would say such inducements are illegal

but nobody in Ghana should

act like an ostrich that [nothing is

happening because] any voting at

any level, from the national level

to the regional level to whatever;

parties like National Democratic

Congress, NPP; if you are vying

for a position, you cannot say you

will not pay something to delegates,

at least, something small for

water.”

The defeated Mpohor legislator,

who is also the Chairman of

the Parliamentary Select Committee

on Youth and Sports, denied

reports of he demanding refund

of monies he paid delegates on

voting day, saying he would not

have stooped that low and anyone

who may have acted in such manner

using his name was unauthorized

by him.

The incumbent Member of

Parliament polled 100 votes, losing

to Mr Saanie, who polled 192

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FRIDAY , JUNE 26, 2020

Asamoah Gyan leaves

door open for PSL switch

GHANA FOR-

WARD Asamoah

Gyan has left the

door open for

South African

clubs, insisting he

does not think about retirement.

Gyan, 33, is currently a free

agent after leaving Indian Super

League outfit North East United

FC early this year.

The Ghana's all-time leading

scorer has been linked with a

move to boyhood club Asante

Kotoko.

Having plied his trade in Italy,

France, England, United Arab

Emirates, China and Turkey, Gyan

says he is open to a swan song

move to the South African Premier

Soccer League.

“I still feel strong, I still feel

young. There is no day I have

thought about retiring,” Gyan told

Marawa Sports Worldwide on

Metro FM.

“Definitely yes, if a team from

South Africa are interested and

feel they need my services, why

not? We can negotiate and we can

have a deal.

“Yes [I don’t come cheap but]

it depends on the situation. I am a

professional football player and I

have to see a lot of things, I have

to value a lot of things before

making a move. But as I said, I

feel strong; I still have fire inside

me. Obviously, I am not in my 20s

but I feel I can prove myself once

again.”

The ex-Sunderland man has revealed

he was once approached by

a PSL club but the team did not

•Asamoah Gyan

show “seriousness” and no deal

materialised.

While declining to name the

club, he says talks were inconclusive

but he is still open to play in

South Africa.

“Yeah [I was approached by a

South African team] but it wasn’t

concrete. This agent thing like you

are here, you are going there, but

at the end of the day, I don’t see

anything concrete,” said Gyan.

“I like working with serious

people. When somebody wants to

make a move or when somebody

wants to approach you, the person

has to be serious.

“But I didn’t see any seriousness.

It was just talks, talks, talks

and I didn’t hear from anybody

again. Because it didn’t go

through, I don’t want to mention

the club but obviously yes, it was a

South African club.

“If it was a done deal that really

happened, then I would mention

the club. It was just talks,

talks and I didn’t see any paperwork,

I didn’t see anything. That is

why I don’t want to mention any

clubs.”

I want to play for Hearts of

Oak again —Prince Tagoe

• Prince Tagoe

FORMER BLACK and 1899

Hoffenheim striker Prince

Tagoe has said he would love

to play for Accra Hearts of

Oak again before he finally

hangs his boots.

Prince Tagoe joined the

Phobians on loan from Tudu

Mighty Jets in 2005 and went

on to become the top scorer

of the Ghana Premier League

with 18 goals.

He recently returned to

Ghana and was training before

the 2019/20 league season was

suspended due to coronavirus

pandemic.

"Hearts is my club. I want

to pay my respect to them.

The current players can learn a

few things from me," he explained.

Hearts of Oak have failed

to win any major silverware

since winning the league title

in 2009.

Many have attributed it to

poor management but Tagoe

claims the club has to properly

recruit talents in the coming

seasons.

"They should consider

dealing with real talents instead

of thinking that if a player’s

manager is financially okay,

they should help push him,"

he said.

"The scouting team needs

to really up their game because

a good player will come but

because they come with no

manager, even if he is good,

they will end up picking someone

else and leave him.”

He added, "Talent is being

overlooked, just look at

Charles Taylor’s story. We have

to go back to the days of recruiting

even at the colts level

and pick real talents."

Comparing Hearts of Oak

then and now, he said, "Most

of the players who have played

for Hearts of Oak loved the

team wholeheartedly."

"Previously, we travelled

across Africa to win titles but

the recent ones find it difficult

to do that. It is not because

they are not good but they

have to play as a team because

traditionally, Accra Hearts of

Oak is a family."

•Kurt Okraku, GFA President

SSNIT threatens legal actions

against Ghana FA

SOCIAL SECURITY and National

Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has

threatened legal actions against the

Ghana Football Association (GFA).

The leagues currently employ a

total of 70,672 players, giving the

breakdown as Premier League

(1,019), Division One League

(2,353), second and third division

league (43,700), Women’s Premier

League (600) and juvenile league

(23,000) but are not in the books os

SSNIT.

According to the National Coordinator

of the SSNIT Player Registration,

Nkoo Joseph, his outfit was

stunned by the numbers, hence the

suggestion they produce their

SSNIT numbers.

"We have written to the GFA to

demand the data of players of all

the Premier League clubs but there

was no response. We are happy

they have released the data themselves,

hence we will go there with

their own data to give us details for

us to register them," he told Kumasi

FM.

"We have registered only fifteen

out of the eighteen Premier League

clubs. We planned going to the Division

One League clubs afterwards.

"We had earlier taken legal action

against Ashantigold, which was

later settled out of court. It’s constant

we will take legal actions

against the GFA if they do not

heed our advice," he said.

JUNE 26

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