Friday, 20th May, 2022

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DAILY ANALYST Friday, 20th May, 2022
persons cause of police
brutalities – Prof Aning
Professor Kwesi Aning, Director of the Faculty
The Director of the
Faculty of Academic
Affairs and Research
at the Kofi Annan
International
Peacekeeping Training Centre
has attributed the recent
unprofessional behaviour of
police personnel in the country
to the recruitment of unqualified
persons into the service.
According to Professor Kwesi
Aning, some of these unqualified
police personnel often use
The Managing Director
of Consolidated
Bank Ghana (CBG)
Daniel Wilson Addo,
has paid a courtesy
call on the National Chief
Imam, His Eminence Sheikh
Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu at
his residence in New Fadama.
The visit is to congratulate the
Chief Imam on his charity work
and promotion of peace among
religious groups; the calm
celebration of Eid Ul Fitr; seek
prayers for CBG as a positive
business brand and to cement
the long-standing relationship
with the Muslim community.
Sharing the purpose of the
visit, the Managing Director
of CBG, Mr. Daniel Wilson
Addo said: “His eminence is
the spiritual head of a large
part of the population of this
country, and he has consistently
promoted the fact that we are
one people even if we belong
to different religions. We are
also very much aware of his
eminence’s works in feeding
the poor, and helping the
disadvantaged in society; we
strongly identify with those
principles. So, we are here today
to pay respect, and pledge our
assistance to him in all of his
humanitarian work. We also
do businesses in some of the
communities that have the
concentration of his people,
and we have consistently found
unnecessary excessive force
against civilians because nothing
will happen to them due to their
political connections.
He, however, added that these
unqualified policers officers who
often brutalize the citizenry
will eventually be found out and
booted out of the police force.
”I think we are reaping what
we have sown. People who would
ordinarily not qualified to be
part of the Police service who
have been brought in through
that the environment is very
conducive and we will like to
thank him and introduce the
Bank to him.”
According to Daniel Addo,
“CBG values the relationship
and impact of the Chief
Imam and the entire Muslim
community to the development
of the Bank. In line with our
brand promise, we pledge that
we will continuously stand with
you.”
The National Chief Imam, on
his part, expressed gratitude to
CBG and prayed for the success
of the Bank and its staff.
He said, “I am excited and
really happy about your visit.
I am praying to Allah that he
will shower his blessings into
the Bank and individually
as staff of this bank, and
political figures and who feel that
they have political god-fathers
outside the remit of the Police
Service and therefore, they can
misbehave and nothing would be
done to them.
“I am really sorry to say,
I have a message for them,
something will be done to [them],
[they] will be punished, [they]
will be found out and if it means
dismissal from the Police service
you will be dismissed,” he is
quoted to have said.
Prof Aning previously
bemoaned the recent increase
in the use of excessive force by
police officers on civilians.
He said that the most
worrying trend is that, police
officers in the country have
become “trigger happy” and
are shooting down civilians
haphazardly.
Prof Aning made these
remarks while reacting to
the police shooting of a mob
protesting the killing of a robbery
suspect, Albert Donkor, who they
claim was killed in the custody of
the policy.
The shooting of the mob
resulted in the killing of at least
one person and it also injured at
least 6 persons.
CBG calls on Chief Imam to deepen
ties with Muslim Community
collectively, I pray that God will
bless your lives and all your
endeavours. I am also praying
that God enhances the peace
of our country just like we are
living in a country of different
religions and yet we live in
peace, we pray that God will
enhance our peace.”
The other members of
the CBG delegation, Deputy
Managing Director (DMD) for
Corporate Resources, Nana Ama
Poku; Chief Financial Officer,
Charles Appiah; Director of
Operations, Samuel Chiatey
Barketey; General Manager,
Ahmed Ibrahim Tijani-
Tanko and other Heads of
Departments.
The delegation also
presented some items to the
Chief Imam.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
It’s time for Africa
to prosper; reduce
dependence on foreign
aid – Nana Addo
President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-
Addo has thrown
a challenge to
policymakers on the
African continent to reduce
their dependence on aid from
the west.
He maintains the reliance on
foreign aid is derailing socioeconomic
development in Africa.
He is therefore asking
policymakers to brace
themselves for the challenge and
develop policies that will make
this possible in the shortest time
for Africa to prosper.
While opening the 22nd
Academy of African Business
and Development (AABD)
Conference, President Akufo-
Addo said the “time to pursue
a path of prosperity and selfrespect
for the African Continent
is now.”
The 22nd AABD Conference,
being hosted by the University
of Professional Studies, Accra
(UPSA), is under the theme:
“Sustainable Development
beyond Aid: The focus for
Africa?” It will run till May 21,
2022.
The president has proposed a
Ghana Beyond Aid vision, urging
the creation of a Ghana that
is beyond dependence on the
charity of others to cater to the
needs of its people but instead
engages with other countries
competitively through trade
and investments and political
cooperation for enhanced
regional and global peace and
security.
“I am by no means saying
there is no longer a place
for aid in Africa or that we
should disregard what aid
has done for us in the past.
Neither am I saying that the
more advanced countries
should cease honouring their
aid commitments to African
countries; or that we should turn
our back on investments from
outside”, he said.
Africa has been and
continues to be reliant on
international aid for its
development.
Though the volume of
international aid received may
be relatively small compared to
its total annual expenditure, it
represents a substantial part of
the discretionary funds available
to governments once statutory
payments, wages, salaries, and
debt repayments have been set
aside.
This is what made
researchers, business
practitioners, consultants,
community leaders, and
policymakers submit full
papers, abstracts, and special
session proposals at the ongoing
conference.
“It is time to create
the future we want for our
continent, and it is time to start
building that future, inspired by
the imperative to transform our
economy from a raw material
producing and exporting
economies to value-adding
industrial economies.”
“We seem to have missed
out on many opportunities to
make Africa the continent she
deserves to be, rich and resilient.
But it is not too late to right the
wrongs, it is time to catch them
now”, the President added.