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The EU is expected to
launch legal action
against the UK government
this week
over its decision to
scrap some post-Brexit trade
arrangements.
Ministers insist current
checks on some goods travelling
from Great Britain to Northern
Ireland must end to avoid harm
to the peace process.
They published a parliamentary
bill on Monday aimed
at overriding parts of the deal
signed with the EU in 2020.
But Brussels says going back
on the arrangement breaks
international law.
The Northern Ireland Protocol
is the part of the Brexit deal
which keeps Northern Ireland
in the EU's single market for
goods.
This prevents a hard border
with the Republic of Ireland
- including checks there on
the movement of people and
goods - which both the UK and
EU want to avoid in order to
ensure peace is maintained.
But instead it means checks
on some goods arriving into
Northern Ireland from other
parts of the UK.
That is opposed by unionists
in Northern Ireland who
argue it creates a trade border
in the Irish Sea and could lead
to the break-up of the UK.
Following elections in
Northern Ireland last month,
the Democratic Unionist
Party is refusing to serve in a
power-sharing executive with
Sinn Fein until the protocol is
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changed.
But other parties in Northern
Ireland - including Sinn
Fein, the Alliance Party and
the SDLP - accept the deal as it
stands.
'Dead end'
The UK government says it
would prefer to agree changes
with the EU, rather than act
alone in making changes to the
protocol.
UK Foreign Secretary Liz
Truss told BBC Radio 4's Today
programme: "We've been acting
in good faith in these negotiations,
but the fundamental issues
that are affecting political
stability in Northern Ireland
are in the text of the protocol
and what we need is the EU to
agree to change the text of the
protocol.
"Otherwise the negotiations
won't succeed. We've reached
a dead end, because we can't
change those core issues around
customs and around VAT that
are losing us the consent of the
unionist community in Northern
Ireland."
At the centre of the UK government's
plan are measures
they say would ease the impact
on businesses - set out in the
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill -
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EU set to take legal action against
UK over post-Brexit deal changes
including the concept of "green
lanes" and "red lanes" for trade.
This would involve:
• Goods coming from
Great Britain (England, Scotland
and Wales) into Northern
Ireland and which are staying
there using the green lane -
meaning no checks and minimal
paperwork
• Goods moving from
Great Britain through Northern
into Ireland or the wider European
Union would using the
red lane - that is, continuing to
be checked at ports in Northern
Ireland.
But the EU has indicated it
will restart legal action it began
in March last year, when it accused
the UK of delaying, without
consultation, the enforcement
of parts of the protocol
relating to customs checks.
It could go further by taking
the UK to the European Court of
Justice over claims it did too little
to set up border control posts
and share data with the EU.
The European Commission
is expected to sign off the next
legal steps at its meeting on
Wednesday, while many senior
EU figures have spoken out
against the UK's plan to rewrite
parts of the protocol.
"Britain has taken a very
regrettable decision that goes
against all the agreements
between the EU and Britain,"
German Chancellor Olaf Sholz
said.
"It is also unjustified
because the European Commission
made many pragmatic
proposals."
Italy's Europe Minister Enzo
Amendola said the UK's proposal
was worrying and "would
violate their international legal
obligations".
Meanwhile, US Secretary
of State Antony Blinken urged
Boris Johnson's government to
"continue negotiations with the
EU in good faith".
Businesses which import
Great Britain goods to Northern
Ireland have experienced
difficulties with the protocol as
the checks and controls add cost
and complexity.
Food and horticulture importers
have faced the greatest
problems, as those goods face
the most onerous controls.
However, exporters have
benefited because unlike other
parts of the UK they have maintained
frictionless access to EU
markets.
Henan: China Covid app restricts
residents after banking protests
Authorities in the
Chinese province of
Henan are suspected
to be restricting
some residents'
movements using a Covid app,
following rare protests.
Multiple people say they
are being forced to quarantine,
blocked from public transport
or entering buildings.
Most appear to be customers
of rural banks which had run
into issues providing cash withdrawals,
report Chinese media
outlets.
The banks froze deposits,
prompting angry demonstrations
last month.
China's banking and insurance
regulator has since
ordered an investigation into
the banks.
More than 39 billion yuan
(£5bn; $6bn) is believed to have
been frozen, affecting hundreds
of thousands of customers.
Turning red
In many Chinese cities, residents
use a "health code" app
to enter buildings and shops,
use public transport, or leave
the city. Users must scan a QR
code and show a colour-coded
"health status" on their phone
before entering.
If this status turns red, it
indicates the person has tested
positive for Covid recently or
is suspected to have Covid, and
must be quarantined for 14
days.
On Tuesday, some residents
found their status had turned
red when they tried to enter
train stations, buildings, or
hotels.
It is not known how many
have been affected, but Chinese
reports indicate that the issue
has occurred in several towns
and villages in Henan.
Customers of the four
banks who travelled from other
provinces to Henan's capital
city Zhengzhou have also encountered
the same issue.
One bank customer in
Zhengzhou told BBC Chinese
her status was red even though
she had never been in contact
with a confirmed case, and her
most recent tests showed she
was negative.
She added that she was
visited by health officials who
asked her to stay at home and
refused to explain why her status
had suddenly turned red.
Some of those affected
appear to be relatives of customers.
One woman who lives
in Zhumadian, a town 200km
(124 miles) from Zhengzhou,
said she was taken to a hotel
for mandatory quarantine once
her status turned red.
"I am not a customer, it's
my dad who deposited money
in one of the banks and now he
can't get it out," she told BBC
Chinese.
"He recently went to
Zhengzhou to understand the
situation. Once he came back,
his health status turned red. My
whole family is now in quarantine
after our statuses turned
red."
A staff member at the
Zhengzhou health commission
confirmed with BBC Chinese
that many of the banks' customers
had run into the same
problem.
"There is such a situation. At
the moment, they can only contact
their community managers
to apply (to change their status).
After they do two Covid tests
within three days, their status
can be changed back," the staff
member said.
'Breach of laws'
The move has raised questions
on Chinese social media
where many have pointed out
that this was a possible abuse of
power by officials.
Popular Chinese commentator
and former newspaper
editor Hu Xijin said that "health
codes" should "only be used
purely for pandemic prevention
purposes".
"If any area uses health
codes to restrict people's movements
for other purposes, this
is clearly a breach of pandemic
prevention laws... and damages
the support of the people for
our fight against the virus," he
said.
In April, the New Oriental
Country Bank of Kaifeng,
Zhecheng Huanghuai Community
Bank, Shangcai Huimin
County Bank, and Yuzhou Xin
Min Sheng Village Bank froze
their customers' deposits.
Since then, thousands of
customers have been travelling
to Zhengzhou to attempt to
withdraw their money. Small
protests then erupted, culminating
in a large demonstration
on 23 May where thousands
took to the streets, before police
shut it down.
The China Banking and
Insurance Regulatory Commission
said last month that the
major shareholder of the village
banks, a company called Henan
New Fortune, used third-party
platforms or a money broker to
take public funds. The company
is suspected of financial crimes
and authorities are currently
investigating.

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Akufo-Addo launches $750M
Development Bank Ghana
President Nana Akufo-
Addo yesterday
launched the $750
million Development
Bank Ghana.
According to the president,
“the event is the culmination
of years of painstaking efforts
undertaken by the Akufo-Addo
Government to strengthen
the infrastructure for the
transformation of the Ghanaian
economy for private sector-led
growth”
“This launch comes on the
heels of some unfortunate, but
forgettable commentary that
accompanied the processes
leading to the establishment of
the bank. A year on, I am delighted
the Development Bank Ghana
has seen the light of day, as its
Marwako,
FDA clash
The Public Relations
Officer for Marwako
restaurant, Mohammed
Amin Lamptey,
is calling for an
independent probe into the
allegations of food poisoning at
the East Legon Branch.
According to him, such a
probe will give a fair hearing to
the company.
Ghana’s Food and Drugs
Authority (FDA) shut down
the East Legon, Abelenpe, and
Teshie branches of Marwako
restaurant over allegations of
food poisoning.
This was after scores of
persons took to Twitter to
complain about food poisoning
after eating food from the East
Legon branch of Marwako
restaurant.
Some of the victims received
treatment at the Accra Ridge
Hospital and the Korle-Bu
Hospital.
In a statement issued on
Monday, June 13, the FDA said
that based on its findings,
Marwako failed to observe the
appropriate sanitary practices
leading to widespread food
poisoning.
“Analyses of samples of food,
some juice drinks, and swaps
taken from the environment
at the East Legon branch of
Mawarko Fast Food Limited
indicate that there was heavy
microbial load (pathogens)
foundation will help spearhead
the vision of moving our nation
to a situation beyond aid, which
involves positioning the private
sector to take the lead in the
socio-economic transformation
of our country and create quality
jobs for our young people,” the
president said.
According to him, the
Development Bank Ghana will
support all banks in the economy
to have access to long-term
funds, including the National
Investment Bank, the Agricultural
Development Bank, and the
Ghana Exim Bank.
“It will also support private
equity funds, and other capital
market firms to have access to our
bond market, and facilitate equity
financing for SMEs. Additionally,
which may be linked to the food
borne disease reported. Samples
collected from the Abelenkpe
and La branches were also found
to be contaminated. The levels
of sanitation and hygiene in the
food preparation areas in all three
facilities were poor”, excerpts of
the statement from the FDA said.
However, speaking on Accrabased
Atinka News yesterday,
Mohammed Amin Lamptey said
the company has suffered a fine
of ¢750,000.
“We have been operating for
the past 19 years and this is the
first time anything like this is
happening. As we agree with the
FDA with regards to what they
have done so far, we have suffered
some fines, a very huge amount
of money. We have already paid
¢750,000. With this release, we
will see what we can do with this
and see how best we will follow
what FDA has asked us to do so
that we will be on the same page
with the FDA.”
“We may need an
independent investigation on
what they have also done, and
as I have said earlier when it
comes to the restaurant business,
anybody that understands that
business knows that there are
certain items or ingredients that
when you use them in a day, you
cannot use them the next day,”
Mohammed Amin Lamptey told
Atinka News.
it will partner research
institutions to undertake sector
research, support innovation
centres, and business accelerators.
It will ensure that the requisite
capital is directed towards
business ideas with the most
potential for growth and job
creation, under the financial
services ecosystem,” President
Akufo -Addo said.
Frontpage Stories
'Govt Must Ban Shisha Now!'
The Alternative
Development (VALD
Ghana), Ghana NCD
Alliance, and other Civil
Society Organisation
(CSO) Actors have called on
the Government of Ghana to
immediately place a ban on
Shisha.
According to the CSO actors,
Shisha was a threat to the
Ghanaian youth, calling on the
government to regulate it now.
He stressed that an outright
ban of Shisha was urgently
required.
This was contained in a
statement issued by the Vision for
Alternative Development (VALD
Ghana), Ghana NCD Alliance, and
other CSO actors.
According to the statement,
the attention of Vision for
Alternative Development (VALD
Ghana), Ghana NCD Alliance, and
other CSO Actors have been drawn
to a viral video in which some
students from the Sunyani Senior
High School were seen smoking
shisha, one of the tobacco
industry deadliest products.
"As civil society actors
working in the tobacco control
and the NCD space, we are
concerned about the dangers this
act will have on the health of
these young girls involved.
"We are even more disturbed
about the action taken by the
authorities of the school to
suspend these girls. The school
authorities and the Ghana
Education Service must be more
concerned about the effects
the product has had on these
young girls and provide them
some medical and counseling
attention,' the statement noted.
The statement asserted that
there was the need for intensive
investigation by the Food and
Drugs Authority to attain further
information about the facility
where the shisha was being
offered, whether it meets the
regulatory standards.
According to the statement,
this was a clear violation of the
Tobacco Control Measures of
the Ghana Public Health Act
(Act 851) of 2012 which seeks to
protect children from the use and
exposure to tobacco smoke.
The statement recalled that
the CSO actors in health led by
VALD-Ghana have in the past
called on the FDA and MoH to
use either an administrative fiat
or guidelines to ban this deadly
product in Ghana, but no action
was taken.
The statement noted that
shisha over the years has become
a fashionable product among the
second cycle institution and at the
tertiary levels and more common
in many communities of Ghana.
The statement said regulating
shisha by the FDA given the
recent increase in consumption,
especially among the youth, was
certainly not deterrent enough,
putting the future of our children
at risk.
"Additionally, considering the
health implications of smoking
shisha as research reveals that
a session of shisha is equivalent
to smoking over 100 sticks of
cigarettes, thus it has become
more expedient to ban it rather
than regulating it. Many of the
shisha products are also illegally
sold as they do not meet the
required standards," it said.
It indicated that research
by the Ghana Health Service
indicates that most of the
country’s youth have ditched the
smoking of traditional tobacco
cigarettes for e-cigarettes and
shisha. Revealing that the rate of
smoking shisha and e-cigarettes
among young people has shot up
to 5.3 percent, higher than the
traditional use of tobacco which
stands at 2.8 ppercent
Despite the ban on tobaccorelated
advertisements and the
law against smoking in public
places, the statement pointed out
that the consumption of tobacco
and its related products was still
on the rise in Ghana.
"A study on "The Economics
of Tobacco Control/Taxation
in Ghana” facilitated by
VVLADGhana revealed that the
youth and women, especially are
now getting hooked on flavoured
tobacco/cigarettes and shisha
because of its appealing fragrance.
"There is a misconception
held by many people that shisha
is safer than cigarettes because of
its contact with water, however,
according to the American Lung
Association, at least 82 toxic
chemicals and carcinogens have
been identified in hookah/shisha
smoke,' the statement said.
Additionally, it indicated
that although the smoke passes
through water, this does not
eliminate the hazardous, addictive
chemicals released from tobacco.
According to the statement,
smoking shisha increases the
risk of oral cancer, lung cancer,
and heart diseases among
others; moreover, the body fluids
exchanged with multiple people
sharing one pipe which is not
cleaned properly or at all present
another avenue for the spread of
infectious diseases.
It added that the tobacco
industry knows that an
overwhelming majority of
smokers first begin to smoke
while still in their teens as
they are highly vulnerable
to the effects of the powerful
addictive nicotine, hence their
intentional and deliberate
trend of strategically recruiting
“replacement smokers” so as to
continuously stay in business.
The statement said the
VALD Ghana and its partners
acknowledged the efforts of
the Food and Drugs Authority
in promoting education and
awareness creation on the
harmful effects of tobacco use,
however, we believe it is time we
take giant steps which go beyond
education and sensitization.
The statement, therefore,
called on the Ministry of Health
and the FDA to as a matter of
urgency begin the process of
outlawing the products in Ghana.
It explained that many
countries including, Rwanda,
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania,
Cameroon, etc. have taken bold
steps in banning shisha in their
countries, because of the public
health threat it will have on their
children and their youth.
It maintained that there
must be a deliberate plan to
rollout education in our schools
especially the second cycle and
tertiary institutions on the
negative effects of tobacco use on
their health.
The writer’s email is
koryekporfreeman@yahoo.com

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Ghana Card
can’t be used
as E-passport
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration,
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has debunked
reports that the Ghana Card can be accepted as a
traveling document in place of a passport.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament yesterday,
the Foreign Affairs Minister pointed out that even though the
Ghana card has the potential of becoming an e-passport, it
has not been accepted outside the ECOWAS sub-region yet.
“To conclude Mr. Speaker, I wish to reiterate that even
though the Ghana Card bears the technical features of an
E-passport and has the potential to be used as an E-passport
there is still a long way to go for it to be recognized as such,”
the Minister added.
Chief shot by
unknown assailants
at Gyengyen in Krachi
West Municipality
The Chief of Gyengyen, a community in the Krachi
West Municipality of the Volta Region, has been
shot by unknown assailants at his residence.
It is reported that the incident occurred on the
night of Monday, June 13, 2022 during a short period
of power outage in the community.
Nana Quansah Kpebu II was initially rushed to the Krachi
West Municipal Hospital for treatment but was transferred
later to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra for further medical
examination.
JoyNews’ sources say he was hit by a bullet in his groin
and would require a secondary medical treatment.
The Krachi West Police Command has since deployed police
personnel to the town to maintain order and ensure calm.
Supreme Court dismisses Gyakye
Quayson’s review application
The Supreme Court has
dismissed a review
application filed by
restrained Assin North
Member of Parliament
James Gyakye Quayson.
The 7-member ordinary
bench of the Court had, in a 5-2
majority decision in April 2022,
restrained the Member of Parliament
from holding himself
out as the Assin North representative.
The Court in its reasoning,
said, among other things, that
it had the duty to uphold the
constitution and to stop any
aberrations of same.
Mr. Quayson, however, not
satisfied with the decision,
instructed his lawyers to seek a
review of that decision.
His lead counsel, Tsatsu
Tsikata told the review panel
that the bench went against
a long line of precedents in
granting the order to restrain
Mr. Quayson from acting as a
Member of Parliament.
This, Mr. Tsikata said, was
notwithstanding that the Court
did not also have jurisdiction
in the injunction application
matter.
A deputy Attorney General,
Diana Asonaba Dapaah, in
opposing the review application,
said the applicant “failed woefully”
to meet the requirements
under the rules of the Court.
Lawyer for Michael An-
National Chairman
hopeful for the New
Patriotic Party, Stephen
Ayensu Ntim,
has assured the party
faithful that he will resolve all
internal party conflicts within
100 days in office when elected.
According to him, this will
empower party supporters to
continuously love and support
the party to achieve its “breaking
the 8 agenda”.
Mr. Stephen Ntim made the
promise when he addressed the
media after filing his nomination
forms at the Party’s headquarters
in Accra.
He observed that the NPP can
only win the 2024 elections if its
members remain focused and
united.
“Breaking the 8 hinges on a
number of ingredients but key
amongst them is unity. Until we
present a united front, Breaking
the 8 would be a mantra, a
mirage” he said.
Mr.Stephen Ntim was emphatic
on the fact that it is by
getting everyone onboard that
the Breaking the 8 agenda would
be a reality.
“Internal elections bring
their own issues. There are oftentimes,
acrimonious exchanges
amongst aspirants and their
supporters. If these are not addressed
after internal elections,
komah-Nimfah, the plaintiff in
the original matter, Frank Davis,
agreed with the Deputy Attorney
General.
He insisted that “no case at
all has been made by the applicant
to necessitate a review of
this court’s decision”.
The court in its decision read
by its President, His Lordship
Jones Dotse, held that Mr. James
Gyakye Quayson “has not met
the unity we so desire to win the
next elections would elude us,”
he said.
Pledging to unite the party
when elected, Stephen Ntim
said,”I am ready to resolve all
disputes that will arise out of
our internal contests. As humans,
as we are, we may go
wrong at one time or the other
the threshold to review the
decision of this court. The application
fails and accordingly
dismissed.”
The other members of the
9-member review panel are
Justices Agnes Dordzie, Nene
Amegatcher, Prof. Nii Ashie
Kotey, Mariama Owusu, Gertrude
Torkornoo, Amadu Tanko, Prof.
Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu and
Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi.
“I’ll resolve all internal
disputes within 100 days”
during the campaign period.
There is, therefore, the need to
look at all these and address
them so that in unison, we can
defeat the ‘enemy’,” he stated.
He was accompanied by
scores of his supporters and
campaign team members to submit
his filled nomination forms.

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Perspective
Smart strategies to
promote and grow
your small business
It is widely believed
that small businesses
have a one
in 10 chance of
survival, and ineffective
marketing makes
your odds far less than that.
Your foray into any business
endeavour is an arduous
enough step to take, and a
lack of knowledge on how
to effectively promote your
enterprise exacerbates your
fear and uncertainty about
the future.
It makes failure the likelier
outcome of what could
otherwise be the beginnings
of an impactful success
story. While marketing costs
could suck up the initial
capital of a small business,
there are relatively inexpensive
modes of getting word
out about your business in a
manner that generates the
desired response from your
target audiences.
I enumerate below a few
of such strategies that could
catalyse your attempts at
reaching the right people
and progressively build a
growing base of customers
whose patronage would
be vital to sustaining your
enterprise.
Leverage the internet.
This may seem an obvious
thing to do, but very few
small businesses have properly
harnessed the power of
the internet in advancing
their businesses. Leveraging
the internet would include
all such things as E-mail
marketing, social media advertising,
creating a website
or a blog. E-mail marketing
involves collecting the
e-mail addresses of as many
potential customers as
you can and sending them
commercial messages in
the form of advertisements,
requests for business and
sales solicitation for your
products and services.
Social media advertising
utilises social networks
such as WhatsApp broadcast
lists, Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, Snap-Chat to deliver
paid ads (often starting
from a minimum of $1.00)
to specific target audiences
using their demographic
information. It is also possible
to create a good but
inexpensive website that
showcases your range of
products and services, and
this website could be using
Google Ads for greater
online visibility. Small food
businesses could easily increase
their reach and scope
of operations by leveraging
platforms such as Bolt Food
and Glovo; Professional educators
or trainers could easily
reach wider audience or
sell the materials remotely
via zoom, Microsoft Teams
and other such platforms.
Engage in Thought Leadership.
Thought leadership
is the expression of ideas or
thoughts that demonstrate
your knowledge or expertise
in a particular field,
area or topic. This requires
the disciplined pursuit of
knowledge and information
regarding the sector
your business of concerned
with. This would enable you
to speak authoritatively on
issues that relate directly to
your business on a variety of
public and non-commercial
platforms (like a television
program, a social or community
event or even on social
media), naturally positing
you as an individual or business
who possesses expert
knowledge on what you are
doing.
Indeed, professional
services providers such as
Auditors, Lawyers, Architects,
etc, who are ethically
restrained from publicly
advertising their services
engage in a lot of thought
leadership activities and
that inevitably serves to
increase their stature and
public reputation for mastery
in their fields. Similarly,
food business owners
could speak on the nutrition
needs of a variety of age
groups, while educational
entrepreneurs could offer
knowledge and information
on trends in education
of effective child learning
methods.
Partner Other Businesses.
This involves leveraging
the strengths other
businesses who operations
offer the relevant complements
to advancing your
small business’ objectives.
It includes placing your
products on the shelves of
a supermarket or in local
stores who sell for you at a
commission. Such partnerships
do not only help you
sell your products but also
generates visibility and gets
your products exposed to
a wide array of audiences.
It is also beneficial to align
your business with other
entities that are amenable
to outsourcing some business
to you or joining forces
with you to execute projects
in a mutually beneficial
manner. Closely related to
this is the creation of Affiliate
Marketing programs, a
type of performance based
marketing that rewards
allied businesses who bring
in customers into your
business through their own
marketing efforts.
Customer Referral Programs.
A referral program is
a word-of-mouth marketing
tactic that encourages and
rewards existing customers
to advocate on behalf
of your brand. This would
invariably motivate customers
who are minded to
rope in people from their
spheres of influence in
anticipation of whatever
rewards they might get. An
additional measure is to
offer incentives to your staff
(otherwise known as internal
customers) since they
could also be worthy advocates
of your brand and its
products. Given that small
businesses seldom offer appreciable
wages or salaries;
this is one cogent avenue to
incentivise employees while
simultaneously getting
them to be more productive.
Offer a Unique Selling
Proposition. Many small
businesses start on the
hinges of merely joining the
bandwagon of what appears
to be the hot passion of the
day. Others offer fantastic
and unrealistic incentives
just to draw in customers.
These only make your
business journey transient;
significantly diminishing
your chances of growth
and market impact. The
odds of your success are
often better served by your
disciplined pursuit of your
uniquely honed idea targeted
at particular audiences.
Your difference becomes
another line of attraction to
customers and essentially
precludes you from being
perceived as just another
version, all others in the
marketplace.
Joining Local business
Groups and Associations.
Such local business groups
are places where small business
owners share ideas
and draw lessons from each
other’s experiences in a
manner that advances their
mutual interests. It is also
an avenue for small business
owners to collectively
achieve a measure of control
over market forces and in
unison negotiate favourable
terms of engagement with
statutory bodies on a wide
range of mutually relevant
concerns principally among
these being the issues of
taxes, levies and concessionary
funding for their
activities.
These strategies though
not completely exhaustive
are strong marketing building
blocks to give your small
business a solid foundation
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DAILY ANALYST Wednesday, 15th June, 2022
The Planned Parenthood
Association of
Ghana (PPAG), a
Non Governmental
Organisation, has
reiterated calls on traditional
authorities to support efforts and
campaigns to end child marriage
and promote girl-child education
and empowerment.
Ms Fatima Ayamga, Field
Officer, PPAG, who made the
call noted that child marriage
continued to be inimical to the
growth and development of
young people particularly girls
and said the situation required
urgent collective efforts from
all stakeholders to address it
for accelerated sustainable
development.
“These teenagers are our
future and we cannot afford to
allow them to get married at
tender ages and start having
children. Their education would
be truncated and they will not
be prepared mentally for such a
task,” she stressed.
This, she called on all
traditional leaders including the
chiefs and queen mothers to join
the fight against the menace
by educating their subjects
on the adverse effects of child
marriage on the development
of the community and enforce
community regulations that
would deter people from
indulging in the practice.
Ms Ayamga was speaking at
Yorogo, a suburb of Bolgatanga
Municipality of the Upper East
Region on the re-launch of a
child marriage campaign dubbed,
“End Child Marriage” by PPAG.
It was part of the United
Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) project with funding
support from the Global Affairs
Canada, aimed at empowering
community stakeholders to help
Fight against child
marriage must be collective
– Traditional leaders told
end child marriage menace in the
Municipality.
Ms Ayamga noted that
the achievement of the
United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals remained
unrealistic when urgent action
was not taken to address teenage
pregnancy and child marriage
among children.
She advised parents against
pushing their teenage pregnant
girls into early marriage and
noted that in as much as they
were disappointed in their
wards, compelling them to marry
without considering the welfare
of the child could be detrimental.
Instead, she said, parents
should support their wards to
return to school after birth or
learn a trade to ensure that they
had viable economic adventures
to ensure financial independence
and help them to live dignified
lives.
Mr Jonathan Atsu Dordor, an
Investigator, Upper East Regional
Domestic Violence and Victim
Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the
Ghana Police Service, noted that
child marriage was a criminal
offence and an affront to the
Children’s Act of 1998, Act 560.
Mr Dordor noted that poverty
had been identified as a major
driver compelling parents to
give their children who were
under 18 years into marriage and
warned such parents to desist
from the act as they risked being
prosecuted.
“Even though as poor as we
maybe, we have so many ways
of making money or solving
issues, marriage should not be
the last resort and it is also not
wise. So, any parent who pushes
the child into marriage, the law
will also deal with such a person
because the law is no respecter of
anybody,” he said.
Mr Akengo Aziire, an Elder
of the Yorogo Community,
noted that unlike before, due to
education and enlightenment
child marriage had reduced
drastically in the community.
He commended PPAG and its
partners and noted that girl child
education was paramount to
the community and pledged the
support of the traditional leaders
and other opinion leaders in the
community to support all efforts
to totally eliminate the issues.
Education Minister advises
students to take advantage
of opportunities offered
them at school
Bagbin gives Defence & Interior C’ttee one
week to probe Islamic SHS disturbance
The Speaker of
Parliament, Alban
Bagbin, has handed
down a one-week
ultimatum to the
Defence and Interior Committee
to embark on a fact-finding
mission to Kumasi over the
incidence of alleged police
brutality at the Islamic Senior
High School (SHS).
A protest in the school
turned chaotic when police met
students with force, leading
to several persons sustaining
injuries.
Member of Parliament for
Asawase, Muntaka Mubarak,
raised the matter on the floor of
Parliament on Tuesday, June 14,
2022.
The Speaker, in giving the
directive, said: “I will direct
the committee on Defence and
Interior to take this matter up
and report next week. In other
words, the committee members
should visit the IGP to the
regional police commander and
the school in question, visit the
injured persons and report by
Tuesday with the findings and
await the final investigations
and if there is the need for us to
take any further action, we will
do that.”
Some students of the Islamic
Senior High School, Abrepo,
Kumasi, took to the streets on
Monday and blocked sections of
the road to demonstrate against
frequent motor traffic accidents
in front of their school.
In a bid to help open the road
to normal traffic flow, police
responded by firing warning
shots and opening tear gas and
pepper spray on the students.
“The students pelted the
police with stones and the police
used pepper spray and fired
warning shots in an attempt to
disperse them,” police said in a
statement.
Some students were injured
following the disturbances and
were rushed to the hospital for
treatment.
According to the police
service, although nobody died
during the disturbances, the way
its officers handled the situation
was poor and fell short of
standard operating procedures
on crowd control.
Police clinical psychologists
were subsequently deployed
to visit the school to offer
psychosocial support to the
student body.
The Ghana Police Service
has removed its Deputy Ashanti
Regional Commander, DCOP
Kwasi Akomeah Apraku and has
also interdicted two other senior
officers over the incident.
The Ministry of Education
says calm has returned to the
school.
Deputy Education Minister,
John Ntim Fordjour, after a visit
to the school on Monday night,
said all the injured students are
currently safe and responding to
medical treatment.
He also said: “Out of the
thirty-eight (38) students
hospitalised, twenty-two (22)
have been discharged and have
joined their colleagues on
campus.”
Dr. Yaw Osei
Adutwum, Minister
of Education, has
advised students to
take advantage of the
opportunities offered to them at
school so that the Government’s
investment does not go waste.
He explained that the
huge investment made by the
Government was geared toward
preparing them to become
economically empowered after
school to support the nation’s
transformation agenda.
Addressing students and
staff of the Suame Technical
Institute in Kumasi, Dr Adutwum
stated that, “do not be left out of
the ongoing transformation in
the education sector which is a
catalyst to transform the nation’s
economy”.
He charged the students
especially the girls to take their
lessons serious and should not
allow their peers to divert their
focus from their studies.
“Work hard to shape your
future dreams and aspirations so
you can get a job or create a job
yourself after your education and
also employ others after school”.
He said.
Dr Adutwum urged the
students to respect their teachers
and appreciate their work since
that was what would help shape
their future.
The Education Minister
hinted at plans to establish
Diploma awarding Technical
Colleges where after Technical
Vocation Education and Training
(TVET) courses, one can pursue
tertiary education.
Mr. Richard Addo-Gyamfi,
the Principal of the Suame
Technical Institute, commended
the Education Minister for the
visit which would help boost the
morale of the students.
He appealed to the
Government to expand
infrastructure in the school to
increase the school’s enrolment.
The Minister used the
unannounced visit to inspect
equipment at the school’s
workshop, and computer centres
and visited classrooms to interact
with students.
The unannounced visit to
schools by the Minister helps
him to access the true state
of affairs in the school for the
appropriate interventions.

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Wednesday, 15th June, 2022 Page 7
Hajia Azara Abukari-
Haroun, the Chief
Executive Officer
Zakat and Sadaqa
Trust Fund of Ghana,
has urged Muslim women to
work hard and strive to attain the
attributes of great Islamic leaders
when given the opportunity to
serve in leadership positions.
She said, “as Muslim women
in leadership position, our goal
must be to work hard and serve
the Muslim community with
good leadership skills, humility,
piety, truthfulness, simplicity in
lifestyles, in accordance with the
laid down rules by Allah.”
Hajia Abukari-Haroun said
this at the swearing in ceremony
every association there were
challenges, however as newly
elected leaders it was important
not to focus on the challenges
but rather on the opportunities
ahead in order to be able to
protect and project the cause of
the Muslim woman and Islam in
general.
Hajia Abukari-Haroun
congratulated the newly elected
executives and urged them to be
united and have one formidable
force in order to be able to
continue the good work of their
predecessors.
Hajia Alisatu Wamdaogo,
the Newly Elected President, in
her acceptance speech, said the
GMLA since its inception had
helped in propagating Islam
and Muslim women, Hajia
Abukari-Haroun through such
platforms had been empowered
to seek higher education both
in academia and religion and
were contributing to the socioeconomic
development of our
country.
She said as newly elected
leaders their vision for their
three-year term would be to
project the Association and
'Ignorant' Oti Regional Minister doesn’t
deserve to be Minister – Asiedu Nketia
The General Secretary
of the opposition
National Democratic
Congress(NDC)
Johnson Asiedu Nketia
has lashed out at the Oti Regional
Minister describing him as unfit
to occupy a Ministerial position.
He’s described the Minister,
Joshua Makubu’s ordering
the removal of trees planted
by the leadership of the NDC
to commemorate the June
4 anniversary this year as
“ignorant action”.
The Oti Regional Minister
gave the order insisting that
the use of school premises for
the planting of the trees was
inappropriate, considering
the history behind the June 4
uprising.
Mr. Makubu wants the NDC to
rather buy a piece of land for the
intended purpose.
Addressing the media at the
Kpasa Senior High Technical
School to mark this year’s ‘Green
Ghana Day,’ the Minister noted
that the June 4 uprising “was a
day people’s parents and loved
ones were killed and many have
lost their livelihood.”
“People are still crying over
it. For this reason, it is not an
occasion to plant trees that will
keep hurting such families as the
NDC did.
“We cannot sit down as
a country, as a Municipality,
as a Region or a School and
allow trees to be planted on a
compound to signify this day
where people lost their lives.
“We are indirectly saying
that, if your grandfather was
General F.A. Akuffo, Ignatius Kutu
Acheampong, and General Afrifa,
then it means that you shouldn’t
of newly elected executive for the
Ghana Muslim Ladies Association
(GMLA) on the theme:
“The Muslim woman and
effective leadership”, in Accra.
She said an Islamic leader is a
person who must lead and people
along the straight path laid by
Allah (SWT) and must possess
all the qualities to manage the
people or followers impeccably.
“As leaders of this noble
Muslim women organisation,
you have a daunting task on
you, especially because you are
women, and as such you must
render your services diligently
in order for the Association to
achieve its goals and objectives.”
She noted that with
come to Nkwanta Community
Senior High School because if you
come there, you will see the trees
there and you will remember
June 4 and you will remember
the death of your father and
other loved ones,” the Minister
explained.
He, however, stressed that he
has no problem with the National
Democratic Congress planting
the trees but the context and
rationale behind the exercise are
wrong.
But commenting on the
issue on Ghana Kasa show on
Kasapa 102.5FM/Agoo TV Tuesday,
Johnson Asiedu Nketia urged
members of the NDC to “ignore
the Minister with contempt.”
He urged NDC members to be
unfazed by the Minister’s action
and continue to plant trees as
they contribute to the Greening
Ghana project.
“NDC members should turn
a blind eye to the Minister’s
action and continue to plant
Muslim Women urged to strive
for high leadership positions
trees as our founder, late
President Rawlings encouraged
us to do. He is the only one who
while serving as President gave
deliberate command that no
tree should be cut down during
road construction works at the
Ridge and 37 hospitals. He always
loved to preserve trees and he
introduced tree planting on a
large scale across the country
during the revolution days which
has gone on until now that the
latter-day saint (Akufo-Addo
government) is also doing same.
He added: “So the action
of one ignorant minister
cannot undermine our belief in
greening Ghana and our resolve
to take part in the exercise
of tree planting. This is why
we are strongly against the
declassification of the Achimota
Forest as a forest reserve. If the
NPP pretend to be what they are
not, these are some of the things
that will happen.”
collaborate with other Muslim
women organizations to advance
the work of Islam, raise funds
to support the Association’s
activities, prepare annual action
plans, encouraged payment of
dues and strengthen the youth
wing.
Hajia Wamdaogo noted
that the Islamic principles of
leadership were based on values
like honesty, transparency,
accountability, sincerity,
humility among others and they
would ensure to be guided by
these values in the cause of our
duties to the Association.
“We are ready to move GMLA
to the next level, especially using
the virtual platforms for most
of our activities since that is
the current trend to propagate
the vision, mission, aims and
objectives of the Association and
we will need the support and
prayers of our Patrons, members
and stakeholders to achieve the
Body of suspected
illegal miner who went
missing retrieved
The body of a suspected
illegal artisanal miner
who went missing has
been retrieved from
Newmont Ghana’s
Ahafo mine’s operational area
with the assistance of local
police.
The body was located,
identified and retrieved from an
illegal mining pit dug within the
Ahafo mine’s Apensu pit area on
Friday, June 10, 2022,
This was after the company
granted access to the police and
the traditional authorities from
Hwidiem in the Asutifi North
district in the Ahafo region.
The deceased, a resident
of Hwediem, was left behind
when they were chased away
by Newmont security following
their unlawful entry into their
mining concession site at
Kampisigo.
The deceased, identified as
Emmanuel Kwabena Atikum,
was among four persons doing
their illegal activities at night on
Tuesday, June 7, 2022.
In a statement issued by
the management of Newmont
Ghana’s Ahafo Mine on Monday,
mandate we have been entrusted
with.”
Other members of the
executive include Hajia Hafsa
Mohammed Salisu, First Vice
President, Hajia Adiza Baba
Issah, Second Vice President,
Hajia Muniratu Lamptey, Welfare
Officer, Hajia Ramatu Ben Salifu,
Deputy Welfare Officer, Nahaja
Rahma Adam, Legal Research
Officer, Hajia Hamida Shiraz,
Hajia Ahlam Yunus Ibrahim,
Hajia Ummu Khair Umar Larry
and Salima Salifu, Da’awah
Officers.
The rest are Sekinatu
Wottuomo Dapko, Secretary,
Fathiya Abdulllahi and Rashida
Zanga Eliasu, Assistant
Secretaries, Takiya Yussif,
Treasurer, Sabeena Abdul Raheem
PRO, Abirat Zakariah, Assistant
PRO, Hajia Ayishatu Issah
Akwetey and Hajia Rahma Umar-
Sanda Organising Secretaries.
June 13, 2022, the company
denied being responsible for his
death.
The statement signed by the
Acting General Managing, Alex
Kofi Annin, said per the laws of
Ghana, their security contractors
are unarmed, and have no
weapons to apply to them.
“Over the weekend, there
have been media reports, (based
on an erroneous social media
post) alleging the victim had
been shot and linking the
company to the illegal miner’s
death," the statement said.
We vehemently denied it
because “Newmont Ghana’s
private security contractors are
unarmed as per Ghanaian law,”
Mr Kofi Annin explained.
“The Police are investigating
and we are fully cooperating with
them to establish the cause of the
death,” he added.
“Despite Newmont Ghana’s
work to prevent these illegal
mining activities, the Company
expresses its condolences to
the family and community of
the deceased,” the statement
concluded.

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The World Bank on
Friday June 10, 2022
approved financing
of $300 million for
Ghana. According to
the Bank, the funds would go to
support two programmes – $150
million for the Public Financial
Management (PFM) for Service
Delivery Programme and the
other half would support the
Primary Health Care Investment
Program to help Ghana improve
public resource mobilization and
accountability for better service
delivery and the quality and equity
of primary health care.
The Primary Health Care
Health
Investment Programme is co-financed
by $31 million in grants
by the Global Financing Facility
(GFF), including $16 million to
restore and protect essential
health services amid multiple
crises, including COVID-19, the
Bank indicated.
It explained that the Primary
Health Care Investment programme
will support Ghana’s
strategy for strengthening
primary health care at the
sub-district level and improving
the accessibility and quality of
essential health services. It will
also support networking of primary
health care services, and
DAILY ANALYST Wednesday, 15th June, 2022
World Bank approves
$300m for Ghana to improve
Primary Health Care
strengthen key management
and financing systems, closely
coordinated with the PFM
Programme, as well as support
improvements in coverage of
the National Health Insurance
Scheme, including for poor and
vulnerable groups, and in its
financing of primary health care
services, the Bank said.
The Bank stated further that
the PFM for Service Delivery
Programme will support the
government in improving public
resource mobilization, allowing
for increased fiscal space and
greater resource allocation for
public investment, and mitigation
of Ghana’s debt situation.
It will also support the
government’s programme in
improving resource allocation
consistent with government
priorities by managing subsidies
and transfers to state owned
enterprises towards improving
Cuban Medical Brigade holds free
health screening in North Tongu
Members of the
Cuban Medical
Brigade in Ghana
have provided
a free health
screening service to the people of
the North Tongu District in the
Volta region.
The exercise, which was held
within the Mepe community,
attracted hundreds of people,
who took the opportunity to
seek medical attention for their
various health problems.
The initiative was put
together through a collaboration
between the office of the
Member of Parliament (MP) for
the area and the Cuban Embassy
as part of efforts to promote
the health and wellbeing of the
people.
Mr Samuel Okudzeto
Ablakwa, the MP, commended
the high attendance and said
health was among top priorities
within the developmental needs
of a people.
He enumerated various
interventions he was
championing to promote good
health, which included major
facility upgrades at hospitals and
health centres across the district,
as well as free healthcare for the
aged and the vulnerable.
The MP promised that the
collaboration with stakeholders,
including the Cuban Embassy
and traditional leaders, would be
sustained towards the well-being
of all.
Mr Ablakwa, who chairs the
Committee of Ghana-Cuban
relations in Parliament, said
the work of the medical brigade
in the community would
strengthen the bonds of bilateral
relationships, noting “it is a
very powerful example of the
friendship between Ghana and
Cuba.”
Annette Chao Garcia, the
Cuban Ambassador, said the
passionate commitment of the
MP had attracted the attention of
her office as well as the support
of the medical brigade, adding
that the medical outreach, for
them, formed part of activities
to mark the anniversary of
Cuban revolutionary leader Che
Guevara.
Ghana currently has more
than 2,000 Cuban-trained
professionals supporting
technology, education and
health.
The Ambassador told the
Ghana News Agency of efforts
between the two countries
to increase the number of
professionals.
About 15 members of the
Medical Brigade supported the
programme, which was highly
patronised by the community
members, who benefited from
the screening, including Malaria,
consultation, and medication.
their performance, transparency,
disclosure, and accountability
through effective oversight.
“The two programmes
support important government
priorities in improving service
delivery and accountability and
are even more relevant as Ghana
begins recovering from the
COVID-19 context.
Supporting the Government
of Ghana to raise additional
budgetary resources, control
spending, and ensure that spending
efficiency is maximized for
health and education services,
as well as other sectors, will be
an invaluable for investment in
the human capital of Ghana’s
population,” said Pierre Laporte,
Mr Henry Asoma,
the Deputy
Director at the
La Dade-Kotopon
Municipal
Assembly, has called on
environmental officers to utilize
waste-management capacitybuilding
programmes to update
their skills on new trends in the
sector.
He said with the evolving
challenges in the sector, it is
pertinent that attention is paid
to best practices being done as
we target to achieve a zero-waste
situation in the Greater Accra
Region.
Mr Asoma was speaking at
a workshop organized by Green
Africa Youth Organization
(GAYO), in partnership with
La Dade-Kotopon Municipal
Assembly, SESA Recycling
Limited, and the Small Grants
Programme (SGP).
“As an assembly, our core
mandate is to ensure the total
development of the municipality,
especially sanitation and
general health. So, the training
for the environmental officers
is a way of equipping them
with what they need to know
while undertaking their duties
to safeguard the people of the
community.
“There are many programmes
by the Accra Metropolitan
Assembly to ensure a clean Accra
and I think this fits into that
objective, especially with the
‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’
programme,” he said.
He said the training would
also equip the environmental
officers with knowledge of the
legalities and bye-laws of zerowaste
so that they can punish
offenders who litter around the
communities so as to reach the
zero-waste target.
In an interview with the
Ghana News Agency, Madam
Betty Osei Bonsu, the Project
the World Bank Ghana Country
Director for Ghana, Liberia, and
Sierra Leone.
Monique Vledder, Head of
Secretariat The Global Fund,
commenting, said: “The Global
Financing Facility (GFF) is
proud to support the Government
of Ghana’s leadership and
commitment to strengthening
health systems while ensuring
access to essential health services,
especially for women and
children in the most vulnerable
communities. By enhancing the
quality of primary care services
in communities and promoting
sustainable financing, Ghana
can drive a more equitable and
resilient recovery.”
Workshop held for
environmental health officers
on waste management
Coordinator at GAYO, said the
training formed part of the Zero
Waste Accra project and the
Sustainable Plastic Management
project, which seek to build
the capacity of environmental
officers so as to enable them
to undertake their duties
efficiently.
She noted that said
environmental officers do face
challenges in undertaking their
duties because of the need to
refresh their minds on what is
expected of them on the field.
“This programme is geared
toward waste management
and we are looking to build the
capacity of communities to
effectively collect waste. This
can be achieved through our
environmental health officers,
who are mandated by law to
undertake such duties.
“By doing so, we are targeting
a zero-waste objective in
our communities, especially
limiting the waste that goes into
our drains and preventing the
flooding situation that has been
a perennial challenge in the
country,” she said.

DAILY ANALYST
Wednesday, 15th June, 2022 Page 9
The successful story of the
Sinohydro deal and the
Bawumia factor
For the four successive
times the president of
the Republic of Ghana,
Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo nominated
the current vice president
of Ghana, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu
Bawumia as his running mate,
he was categorical that his
resolved decision to pick him as
his partner in the elections was
premised on the fact that Alhaji
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is an
astute economist who will bring
his economic prowess to bear to
solve the major systemic problems
of the nation.
Almost all or many of the
top-notch members of the
NPP touted Dr. Bawumia as a
seasoned economist. His deep
knowledge of the subject matter
of economics, predictions of the
economy, and solutions he proffered
to the economic challenges
of Ghana earned him the title "
The Economic Messiah".
Indeed, Dr. Mahamudu
Bawumia since becoming the
vice president of Ghana has
proved right all the accolades
accorded him in the field of
economics. Realistically, he has
brought to bear his in-depth
knowledge in the area of economics
to solve major problems
bedeviling Ghana. To admit,
one area among others that he
has been sterling in applying
his economic ability to solving
Ghana's systemic problems is the
game-changing deal, The Sinohydro
arrangement he sealed
for Ghana. Undoubtedly, the
Sinohydro arrangement which is
the brainchild of Dr. Bawumia is
innovative and outside-the-box
thinking.
The deal deviates from the
traditional mode of African
countries securing direct foreign
currency loans to fuel their
developmental projects which
come with strict and draco-
nian conditionalities that are
detrimental to their fiscal and
economic management.
The Sinohydro deal is a new
arrangement that comes with
many infrastructural developments
without adding a dime to
the debt stock of Ghana. With the
arrangement or deal, Ghana will
leverage a fraction of her bauxite
for a worth of 2 billion dollars in
infrastructural development.
This ingenuity of Dr.
Bawumia dazed many Ghanaians
who were used to the usual practice
of successive governments
before the Nana Addo government
contract loans with high
interest and conditionalities
from foreign countries and the
Bretton Wood institutions to undertake
developmental projects.
The minority caucus in Ghana's
seventh parliament led by their
leader, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, had to
write a letter on 10th August 2018
to the International Monetary
Fund( IMF) to seek clarification
on the Sinohydro arrangement
between Ghana and China as to
whether it was a loan and will
add up to the debt stock of Ghana
or not and that the IMF should
intervene in stopping the deal
to become a reality. They took
to this step despite the riched
explanation of the arrangement
offered to them by the
ingenious and game-changing
Dr. Bawumia. They simply have
not ever heard about such an
arrangement before or know that
such an arrangement can exist.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DEAL
The Sinohydro Master
arrangement which is novel in
Ghana's politics and governance
system has helped the government
to undertake a massive
infrastructural development in
almost all the sixteen administrative
regions in Ghana. The
arrangement is divided into
phases and each phase comprises
many lots. The first phase of the
deal comprises ten Engineering,
procurement, and construction
contracts for 442km of roads and
two interchanges.
The Northern part of Ghana
and Western part of Ghana have
had their first-ever interchange
located precisely in Tamale and
Takoradi respectively with that
of Tamale fully completed and
in use while that of Takoradi is
currently under construction.
The following feeder roads in
the Ashanti region, Mpatasia-
Abompe- 10km, Kwanfinfin- Apenemade-
14.2km, the Nyinahin-
Sreso- 14.5km, Nyinahin town
roads- 7.6km, the Adobewora-
Ntoboso- 4km and the Tanodumase-
Anansu road is constructed
and commissioned.
The construction and rehabilitation
of the 88km Hohoe-
Jasikan-Dode Pepesu road which
has been on the drawing board
of successive governments since
the day Ghana attained independence
has gained some life and
is almost completed. The Kumasi
Inner City Road Project, a 100km
road project has seen the upgrading
and construction of town
roads within Kumasi, Kwadaso,
Bantama, Suame, Tafo- Pankrano,
Asokwa, Oforikrom, Subin,
Nyiaeso, Manhyia, Effiduase, and
Asokore.
The construction of the 29km
Sunyani inner city and 10km
Berekum township roads, the
22km Cape Coast township road
and 10km Prestea township
roads are under construction and
the rehabilitation of the 38km
New Abirem- Ofoasekuma roads
are ongoing. The second phase is
made up of more roads, bridges,
interchanges, district hospitals,
and infrastructural support to
industry, schools, rural electrification,
sanitation, and the
judiciary.
ROLE OF BAWUMIA IN THE
Opinion
DEAL
Faced with a debilitated economy
inherited from the NDC in
2017, the Nana Addo/ Bawumia
government looked for other
means to propel development
aside from the usuals of successive
governments in Ghana. The
Vice President as the head of the
Economic Management Team
was innovative in his thinking
and came out with a plan which
got the endorsement of the president
of Ghana. He(Bawumia)
led a high-powered government
delegation to China and reached
the deal.
This is evidenced in a remark
by the Chinese Ambassador to
Ghana H. E. Madam Sun Baohong
at the National Day Reception in
Celebration of the 68th anniversary
of the Founding of the
People's Republic of China on
27/20/2017 in Accra. She started
inter alia "The office of H. E Vice
President Dr. Bawumia coordinates
China- Ghana economic
cooperation which provides
political guarantee at a very high
level.
In June, Vice President Dr.
Bawumia led a large declaration
or Binjo, having orientation,
disease, mental imbalance, or
the devil's intrigues, as reported
in the news?
In both industrialized and
emerging countries, crime
against children has become a
national phenomenon. Despite
the fact that laws have been
created to make rapists who
commit crimes against children
face harsher penalties, many
psychiatrists feel that pedophilia
is a sort of paraphilia or a mental
condition.
Child abuse is one of society's
most heinous crimes. Such
tragedies often elicit outrage and
calls for the harshest punishments
for rapists, but how effecto
visit China and held fruitful
talks and meetings with Chinese
national leaders. The two sides
reached several consensuses on
cooperation in the area of investment,
financing, infrastructure,
and energy". The Vice President
since broking the deal in 2017 has
successfully coordinated it that
saw its success.
On Thursday, 21st November
2019, Dr. Bawumia cut sod for the
construction of the Cape Coast
township roads. He did the same
for the Sunyani and Berekum
township roads on Thursday,
September 24, 2020. On Friday,
March 25, 2022, he commissioned
the first Sinohydro roads
in Ashanti and Western region
and cut sod for the construction
of the Kumasi Inner City roads
project under the deal. The sod
cutting for the Hohoe- Jasikan-
Dode Pepesu road was done by
the Vice President.
The office of the Vice President
explained and cleared all
lies that the adversaries of the
Nana Addo/ Bawumia government
attempted to smear on the
deal.
In Ghana, the number of
pedophiles is on the rise
The news that the wife
discovers her husband
having sex with her
9-year-old daughter,
which was published
on the ModernGhana news site,
was highly upsetting. There have
been countless examples of incest,
but a father having sexual
relations with his nine-year-old
daughter is something that every
parent should be concerned
about.
How can a father have a
sexual attraction to his own
daughter at such a young age
without comprehending that
what he is doing will have longterm
consequences for the child?
Is the father, Nana Yaw Bingo
tive is this in preventing crimes?
People with a paedophilic condition
can become criminals, but
data show that four out of five
occurrences of sexualized child
abuse occur at home.
When it comes to pedophiles,
how do parents feel? People who
are sexually attracted to youngsters,
in my opinion, are dangerous
to society and should be
thrown behind bars. According
to records, pedophiles who serve
time in prison frequently commit
the same crime and then
return to prison.
Due to a lack of investigation
in criminal cases in Ghana,
severe situations that require
rapid and appropriate attention
die quickly or become cold cases.
This is one of the reasons why
crime has become one of the
most difficult problems for the
police to deal with.
Fathers committing sexual
crimes against their children
are becoming widely reported
in Ghanaian newspapers. Nana
Yaw, the perpetrator, is still on
the loose. If a father can do such
a thing to his daughter, he can be
a danger to someone else's child.
As a result, the police must make
every attempt to apprehend him.

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The Bank of Ghana
(BoG) has by the
end of the year 2021
secured monetary
compensations and
refunds totalling about GH72.9
million for complainants.
Regulated Financial
Institutions (RFI) paid
complainants whose complaints
were lodged, investigated, and
found justifiable based on the
The implementation
of trade facilitation
measures under the
African Continental
Free Trade Agreement
(AfCFTA) as well as reductions in
intra-AfCFTA tariffs and nontariff
barriers (NTBs) in goods
and services can boost Ghana’s
real income by 5.7 per cent,
relative to baseline.
By the year 2035, about four
per cent, representing two
third of the country’s AfCFTA
income boost will come from
trade facilitation measures,
while reductions in NTBs is set
to account for 1.7 per cent with
reduction of tariffs accounting
for only 0.2 per cent increase.
Also, about 0.2 million people
will be lifted out of extreme
poverty and 1.8 million from
moderate poverty with gains in
poverty reduction attributed to
faster growth in the wages of
unskilled workers than of skilled
workers coupled with rapid
increase in wages for women
than men.
The findings were
highlighted in the World Bank’s
Ghana Trade Competitiveness
Diagnostic report under the
theme, “Strengthening Ghana’s
Trade Competitiveness in the
Context of AfCFTA.”
The findings were based
on a simulation model study,
which uses a global Computable
General Equilibrium (CGE)
model and a microsimulation
framework to quantify the
agreement’s impact.
In line with ongoing
negotiations, the model assumes
there are reductions in trade
facilitation bottlenecks as well
as tariff and NTB.
So far, the AfCFTA Treaty only
contains the legal framework for
trade in goods, trade in services,
Business
BoG market conduct rules for its
regulated entities.
A breakdown of the total
amount, which was captured
in the annual Report on
Complaints Management
Function released by the
Financial Stability Department
of the BoG showed that
£20,414.37, USD$250,000.00 and
GH¢5,738,484.42 were paid.
In all, 857 complaints against
DAILY ANALYST Wednesday, 15th June, 2022
876 recorded in 2020 were
received where there were 265
credit reports complaints, 207
cases on matured investment,
134 complaints on unfair
practices, 139 reports on credit
facility and 112 complaints
relating to Automated Teller
Machine (ATM).
Most of the complaints
were made through phone
calls, emails, social media posts,
WhatsApp messages, and walkins.
“The 2.17 per cent decline
in total complaints lodged
may be attributed to the strict
enforcement of the first level
complaint handling by Financial
Institutions based on the
guidelines coupled with the
successful resolution of most of
the complaints by the RFIs” the
report stated.
The Bank of Ghana also noted
65 per cent of total complaints
recorded were resolved as at the
end of 2021 compared with 79 per
cent resolutions in the year 2020.
World Bank projects 5.7% income
boost for Ghana under AfCFTA
institutional set up and Stateto-State
dispute settlement
provisions, while the specific
terms of trade liberalisation in
both goods and services are still
being negotiated.
Substantial aspects of the
AfCFTA remain to be negotiated,
including the investment,
competition, and intellectual
property rights schedules that
make up Phase II.
The implementation of
AfCFTA tariff liberalisation,
according to the report, would
help Ghana from 2020 to 2035
see a three percentage points
decrease of the average tradeweighted
tariff imposed by
Ghana on imports from AfCFTA
partners from around 3 percent
to almost zero per cent.
It is assumed that the NTBs
imposed by Ghana are to fall by
50 per cent, while NTBs faced
by Ghana are assumed to see a
reduction of almost 30 percent,
the report further highlighted.
“Meanwhile, tariffs faced by
Ghana could decrease by seven
percentage points over 2020-
BoG oversees GH¢7.9 million
refund, compensation payments
2035 from eight percent to one
percent. Ghana initial NTBs are
estimated at around 38 percent
in 2020,” it noted.
It also projected Ghana’s
share of exports to the region
to increase from nine percent
in 2020 to 16 percent in 2035,
while without the Free Trade
Agreement (FTA), the increase
was expected to be only one
percentage point to 10 percent.
“Imports are characterised
by the same pattern, with the
share of imports increasing from
17 percent in 2020 to 40 percent
due to the FTA, while growth
relative to the baseline would be
only 11 percentage points."
“Regarding Ghana exports
within Africa, manufacturing
would gain the most, with a 219
per cent (US$ 5 billion) increase
relative to the baseline. This
would result from expansion
in sectors such as textiles and
wearing apparel (with a 644 per
cent increase relative to the
baseline), the diagnostic report
stated.
It was also revealed that 373
complaints were received from
customers of banks representing
44 per cent of total complaints
received by the Bank in the year
under review.
“87 per cent of these
complaints were resolved
compared with the previous
year’s position of 96 per cent
resolved complaints, thus
resulting in marginal drop of 9
per cent,” the report noted.
Within the year under
review, the Bank had made 50
referrals to other entities such as
a receiver, which had 19 referrals,
Securities and Exchange
Commission with 26 complaints,
Credit Union Association with
three complaints referred and
the Ghana National Fire Service
and the Teachers Fund receiving
a complaint each.
Due to the COVID-19
pandemic, the Bank suspended
in-person mediation meetings
and resorted to virtual meetings
and the creation of WhatsApp
platforms to facilitate the
Newmont Ghana has
successfully sold
3,500 Koz of gold to
the Bank of Ghana,
the nation’s central
bank, in the first domestic gold
purchasing programme.
“We are very excited to be
part of this historic transaction
and to be able to contribute our
quota yet again towards the
economic development of this
country. This is a great example
of how mining is critical to
national development and we
are happy to be blazing the
trail as the country’s leading
gold producer,” Dave Thornton,
Regional Senior Vice President,
Newmont Africa said.
Launched in June 2021, the
Bank of Ghana (BOG) domestic
gold purchasing programme
intends to increase the nation’s
gold reserves as means of
maintaining economic stability
in the country, with the
intention to purchase refined
gold from mining firms within
the country.
complaint handling process.
The central bank also
indicated that it was in advance
preparation to improve
complaint lodging convenience
with the implementation of
a full-fledged contact centre,
the deployment of the new
complaint management
software and a ChatBot solution
to augment the channels of
complaints.
“Additionally, the Bank
of Ghana will continue to
organise regular workshops for
consumer reporting officers
and compliance officers of
regulated institutions tailored
on the feedback obtained, among
others, in bid to permanently
address the issues as they
emerge," the central bank said.
“The Bank of Ghana
will continue to sensitise
consumers on their rights and
responsibilities to promote
financial literacy and capability
and reduce complaints,” the
report indicated.
Newmont Ghana
made first gold sale
to Central Bank
Newmont Ghana anticipates
that its leadership in the gold
sale agreement will be emulated
by other mining firms in
the country, as the company
continues its commitment to
value creation and contributing
toward maintaining the fiscal
stability of the country.
In 2021, the Company paid
GHc1.86M in taxes and royalties
to the government of Ghana
and paid GHc574M in similar
taxes in the first quarter of 2022.
Newmont Ghana’s community
foundations in its Ahafo and
Akyem mines’ host communities
have accrued over $54.2m and
made notable contributions in
the areas of human resource
development, infrastructure
development and micro-credit
financing support.
“We will continue to partner
with all stakeholders to create
more value for our communities
and the Region through
sustainable and responsible
mining,” Mr. Thornton added.

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Kirin Cup:
Manaf Nurudeen’s
penalty heroics
secure 9-man Ghana
victory over Chile
Goalkeeper Manaf
Nurudeen was the
hero for the Black
Stars on Tuesday,
saving two penalties
as Ghana beat Chile 3-1 in the
shootout to secure 3rd place in
the Kirin Cup.
Alidu Seidu and Mubarak
Wakaso were both sent off in the
second half as Otto Addo’s men
were reduced to nine players, but
they held on for a 0-0 draw to
take the game into the penalty
shootout.
After Chile scored their
opening kick and Jordan Ayew
levelled, Manaf Nurudeen saved
back-to-back kicks from the
Chileans before Gary Medel
blasted his kick over the bar to
give Ghana the victory.
The win is a slight redemption
for the Black Stars who were
thrashed 4-1 in their opening
game of the competition by
hosts Japan.
Addo made five changes to
the lineup that lost the opening
game, with KAS Eupen goalkeeper,
Nurudeen Manaf handed only
his second start for the Black
Stars.
The first half started and
ended slowly for the Black Stars
who struggled to create decent
chances.
But they emerged for the
second half with more urgency
– Benjamin Tetteh was denied
twice by the upright while the
Chile goalkeeper was forced into
a great save by captain Andre
Ayew.
But when it looked like
Ghana were likely to get a goal,
a setback emerged, with Seidu
Alidu was originally booked for a
dangerous challenge, which was
upgraded to a straight red card
after a VAR review.
Moments later, Mubarak
Wakaso also received his marching
orders, copping a second yellow
for persistently complaining
to the referee.
But there was still time for
Ghana to force a save from the
Chilean goalkeeper – Kudus
Mohammed’s powerful longrange
drive was tipped over the
crossbar.
That was the last significant
piece of the action as the game
headed for the penalty shoot-out
to determine who would take
the 3rd place prize.
After Jordan Ayew levelled
for Ghana, Nurudeen saved from
Tomas Alarcon and Ben Brereton
Diaz, while Kudus Mohammed
and Abdul Fatawu Issahaku both
scored for Ghana.
The win was sealed when
Gary Medel blasted his kick over
the bar.
The Black Stars will be back
in action in the September international
break when they face
Angola in back-to-back AFCON
2023 qualifying games.
The International
Sports Press
Association (AIPS)
crowned the 2022
edition of the AIPS
Media Awards by honouring
Sports Writers Association of
Ghana’s (SWAG) first President,
Mr Joachim Awuley Lartey, who
is also known as “Over to you Joe
Lartey”.
Joe Lartey as he is
affectionately called in the
sports media circles was present
in Doha, Qatar to receive his
honour in the company of
current president, Kwabena
Yeboah and Secretary General,
Charles Osei Asibey.
Joe Lartey, who turned
95 years on June 6 was full
of emotions as he was being
decorated by AIPS President
Gianni Merlo in a colorful
ceremony at the Khalifa
International Stadium, one of
the host stadia for the 2022 FIFA
World Cup.
In response to the honour
done him, Joe Lartey reiterated
his relationship with AIPS
dating back to 1971 and praised
AIPS for such a recognition
at his age. He confirmed and
praised SWAG for the rapid
growth and development of the
sports journalists.
SWAG’s first president
started his education at Accra
Royal School and before moving
to Tamale with his parents. In
1938, he returned to Accra and
was enrolled in Government
Black Stars coach, Otto
Addo has spoken
about the reported
nationality switch
of some players born
abroad by Ghanaian parents.
Tariq Lamptey, Callum
Hudson-Odoi, Eddie Nketaih,
Inaki Williams, and others have
been reported to have completed
their nationality switch from
England and Spain to represent
Ghana on the international
stage.
As speculations surrounding
the futures of these players
continue to grow in the media
Sports
Lartey receives Global Award
Senior Boys School in Kinbu. After
completing his middle education
in 1943, he got admission into
Accra Academy in 1944.
In 1961, he joined the Ghana
Broadcasting Cooperation (GBC)
after a recommendation from
Boso Kpohonu, an old mate of his
in Accra Academy.
Moved from the Talks
and Features Department to
the Sports Department, Joe
Lartey would later write the
script of professional sports
journalism fused with a politics.
He flourished as a football
commentator and brewed a
partnership and friendship with
Festus Addae who would make
the phrase “Over To You Joe
Lartey” become popular.
Joe Lartey was the Chief
Three players to complete
nationality switches by next
week
space, Otto Addo who admitted
that is an open secret that
they have approached the
aforementioned players stated
that he expects to hear some good
news next week.
“It’s an open secret that we
have talked to a lot of players and
I think latest by next week, we
would know who would like to
join us”, Otto Addo said ahead of
the Ghana versus Chile match
He added that they want the
process to be quick because the
players who switch nationalities
to come and play for Ghana must
be ready before the September
commentator of Ghana’s first
Africa Cup of Nations in 1963
and the second in 1965 and a
countless number of matches in
the Ghana Premier League. After
over a decade, he joined Radio
Nigeria where he stayed until
1990.
With his iconic voice and
descriptive tone of events, the
Ghanaian sports journalism
fraternity was redefined courtesy
of his professionalism. Many
Ghanaian football commentators
today cannot talk about the game
without paying tribute to the
95-year-old.
Joe Lartey who still enjoys
his popularity says “good name is
better than riches”.
Source : www.swagghana.
com
window.
“Surely, we would have to be
very fast now because we have
set a limit, if someone wants to
join us he must be ready for the
September window, and for that,
we will need answers now."
“Hopefully we will know
more by next week and we will
see if we can get one or two
players to try out during the
September international break.”
The Black Stars ended their
2020 Kirin Cup campaign with a
bronze medal after beating Chile
3-1 on penalties in the thirdplaced
game.