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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020
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TUC fights Trade Fair
over ‘illegal’ mass lay-off
BY IBRAHIM ALHASSAN
LEADERSHIP OF
the Public Services
Workers’ Union
(PSWU) of the
Trades Union Congress
(TUC) has
locked horns with the Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) for the
Ghana Trade Fair Company
(GTFC), Dr Agnes Adu, over
what the Union terms “unconventional
mass termination of appointments
of some 23 staff
members of the company.
The workers have been laid
off, “terminated”, supposedly as a
result of the Ghana Trade Fair
Company redevelopment project.
In a termination letter, whose
copy is in the possession of Starr
News, the affected will be paid
only one month salary in lieu of
notice.
“This letter is to inform you
that your employment with GTFC
LTD as …… Department will
come to an end as of 31st May,
2020. The company would pay
you your salary for the month of
April 2020 and pay you one (1)
month’s salary in lieu of notice,”
the letter signed by Dr Adu said.
In a letter to management of
the Ghana Trade Fair Company,
General Secretary of the Public
Services Workers’ Union, Bernard
Adjei, accused the company of
sidelining the Union in the exercise,
which, he argues, is nothing
but a redundancy exercise.
“Unfortunately, management
has not officially informed the
PSWU of any challenge that may
warrant such an action, neither
has management consulted or
called for any Standing Negotiating
Committee meeting to address
the issues concerning termination
as per existing Collective Bargaining
Agreement and the Labour
Act, 2003 (Act 651). We believe
management has undertaken a redundancy
exercise without going
through the necessary processes
and failed to pay workers the required
benefits,” the letter said.
The Union, in the letter, demanded
a meeting with management
of the GTFC, which request
is yet to be granted by the management.
The PSWU, in a letter to the
TUC, described as shocking the
mass lay-off at the Trade Fair
Company. In the letter addressed
to the Secretary-General of TUC,
Dr. Yaw Baah, the General Secretary
for the PSWU stated that the
action by management of the
trade Fair Company (a whollyowned
state company) could embolden
private employers to arbitrarily
also lay off workers in this
period of Covid-19 crisis.
“We are clear in our minds that
the action taken by management
is due to the redevelopment of
the Trade Fair, which amounts to
redundancy. Our prevailing Collective
Bargaining Agreement has
adequate provisions covering redundancy
as per the Labour Act,
2003 (Act 651). However, it is obvious
that management is trying
to avoid the full implication of redundancy.”
“If the state does not handle
the matter well, it may suggest to
private employers that they
can equally terminate appointment
of employees, especially
during this pandemic,” the letter
added.
The TUC has consequently petitioned
the Ministers for Trade
and Industry, and Employment
and Labour Relations to intervene
in the matter. The Minister for
Employment and Labour Relations,
Ignatius Barfour Awuah,
has demanded answers from management
of the Trade Fair Company.
In response to the letter from
the minister, CEO for the GTFC
defended the dismissal of the
workers, arguing it was based on
clauses in their contracts. Dr. Adu
denied the exercise was as a result
of the Trade Fair Redevelopment
Project.
Mr Barfour Awuah has since
tasked the Chief Labour Officer
of the Labour Department to
prepare a report on the matter to
guide his next line of action.
The PSWU (made up of over
60 public sector institutions) has
hinted of series of massive
protests to draw the government’s
attention to the insensitive activities
of the Board and Management
of the Trade Fair Company
in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020
We’ll resist NIA
mob-up exercise
• John Boadu warns
BY MUSAH LANSAH
THE GENERAL Secretary
of the governing
New Patriotic Party
(NPP), Mr John Boadu,
has said the party will resist
any attempt by the
National Identification Authority (NIA)
to do a mop-up in areas they had challenges
during the registration.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines
of an Inter-Party Advisory Committee
meeting held at the Electoral
Commission yesterday, Mr Boadu said,
“I disagree with the position that they
will do a mop-up in some few areas they
think they were unable to do and if I
want to be political about it, if you consider
the number of people who have
not yet received their cards.”
He said the Central Region,
Ashanti Region, Eastern Region
and Greater
Accra alone constitute
about 68%
of those who have
not received their
cards yet.
“All the other
regions, the 12 regions
constitute
just around 32%.
So if you want to
talk about connivance
with the
NIA to disenfranchise
people we the NPP will
lose a lot.
“....So if you have four of
our strongholds constituting
68%, who should be complaining?
It is we the NPP who
“All the other regions, the 12 regions
constitute just around 32%. So if you
want to talk about connivance with
the NIA to disenfranchise people we
the NPP will lose a lot.
should be complaining."
Going further, the NPP
General Secretary hinted that
his party would resist any attempt
by the NIA to do a
mop-up without a mass registration
exercise.
"If you take these four regions
in question, we have
45% of the total population
having not yet been registered,
to the extent that about one
million people in Ashanti Region
have not been registered.
So any attempt by the NIA to
do a mop-up without doing a
mass registration will not sit
well with us," he said.
Taking a swipe at people
who say the governing NPP is
in connivance with the NIA to
disenfranchise people, Mr
Boadu said, "for anybody to
think that we are rather in connivance
with NIA begs the
question. I don't think that
they even understand what
they are talking about.”
Man jailed 10yrs for defiling 15-yr-old girl
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE CIRCUIT Court in Accra
has sentenced one Frederick
Laryea, unemployed, to 10 years’
hard for defiling a 15-year-old girl
(name withheld) after pleading
guilty to the offence.
The court, presided over by
Her Honour Mrs Christina Cann,
sentenced the accused person on
his own plea after admitting to the
offence when the charge was read
to him.
It was the case of the prosecution
led by DSP Agnes Boafo that
the complainant is a trader and resides
at Bubiashie (Orgle Road)
with the victim, who is her daughter.
The convict is an unemployed
man living in the same house as
both the complainant and the victim.
According to the prosecutor,
between the months of June and
August, 2018, the accused person
started luring the victim into his
room and having sexual intercourse
with her.
The prosecutor added that the
accused at a point stopped having
sexual intercourse with the victim
because he had been confronted
by the complainant to stay away
from her daughter.
“In March, 2019 accused
started having sexual intercourse
with the victim again in a bathroom
inside the house and sometimes
in his room despite
complainant’s warnings and impregnated
her in the month of
September, 2019.”
“The complainant”, according
to the prosecution, “detected that,
victim has impregnated and she
questioned the victim.”
According to DSP Boafo, the
victim narrated her ordeal to the
complainant (mother) and the
complainant confronted accused
person. The accused person since
then went into hiding until April
9, 2020 when he was spotted at
Dansoman Russia. He was subsequently
arrested with the assistance
of a police patrol team.
The prosecution said the complainant
reported the case at the
Kaneshie oofice of the Domestic
Violence and Victim Support
Unit (DOVVSU) and a police
medical form was issued to the
victim to be taken to the hospital
for examination and treatment.
“The medical officer, after examination,
confirmed that the victim
had been sexually abused and
impregnated,” the prosecutor told
the court.
DSP Boafo said during interrogations,
accused person admitted
to the offence and was subsequently
charged and put before
court.

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GCNet to shut down operations at
ports on June 1
• As ICUMS takes over
GHANA COM-
MUNITY Network
Service
Limited
(GCNet) will
cease operations
at the country’s ports on June 1,
2020 to pave the way for UNI-
PASS, now Integrated Customs
Management Systems (ICUMS),
to take over the single window
operations.
It will be the second time
ICUMS will be attempting to take
over the single window operations
at the country's ports.
The Acting Commissioner
General of the Ghana Revenue
Authority (GRA) has instructed
existing vendors that from Monday
June 1, 2020 all transactions,
without exception of import/export,
shall only be processed by
ICUMS.
According to sources at
GCNet, the company is in preparation
to shut down in accordance
with the government’s directive in
•Photo of Tema port
order to allow UNIPASS/ICUMS
to take over the single window
operations at the various ports, including
Tema and KIA.
Trade and Industry Minister,
Alan Kyerematen, has met freight
forwarders and other stakeholders
and assured them of a smooth
takeover by UNIPASS this time
around.
The Minister admitted that
there would be challenges moving
from one system to another but
said every effort must be put in to
make the new system work seamlessly.
All terminal operators have
also been tasked to generate reports
on the delivery order (DO)
for the period January 1 to May
31, 2020 to allow for the migration
of uncleared cargo details
into ICUMS to facilitate continuity
of clearance.
&Env.
Uneasiness calm hits K’dua
• As breastfeeding and pregnant nurses are exposed to Covid-19
BY KOJO ANSAH
THERE IS apprehension among
the staff at the Eastern Regional
Hospital in Koforidua, especially
pregnant and nursing mothers, as
more health workers test positive
for Coronavirus in the region.
The number of health workers
who tested positive for
Covid-19 in Eastern Region has
risen to 16.
The disquiet of the health
workers at the Eastern Regional
Hospital has been deepening
following Ghana Health Service
(GHS) report that Koforidua
has recorded two cases of coronavirus
but accessibility to Personal
Protective
Equipment(PPE) still remain a
chafe expedition.
The GHS has meanwhile
said it is evaluating why a lot
more health workers are testing
positive for Covid-19 in the
country.
Last week, for instance, it was
reported that 43 health workers
in Western Region had tested
positive for Covid-19 while 30
had also been infected in Ashanti
Region.
On March 31, 2020, the Director
General of GHS, Dr
Patrick Aboagye, issued a memo
to Health Directors at the national
level to the effect that
“National Service Personnel, interns,
pregnant women, nursing
mothers, and drivers without assigned
official vehicles are to be
excused from work with immediate
effect. Rotational Nurses and
officers in the residency program
are exempted.”
The Memo sighted by Starr
News explained that Management
of GHS took the decision
to reduce levels of staffing of
those operating at the national
level to avoid “non-essential”
commuting or travelling, overcrowding
and contacts with others
to enhance social distancing
as to prevent the spread of infections
at the workplace.
One may think that Management
of the Eastern Regional
Hospital will reduce working
hours for staff who are pregnant
and breastfeeding mothers, but
they are still on normal duty
schedule with some working six
days with just a day off amid
anxiety of endangering their
lives and those of their babies.

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NEWS
DAILY HERITAGE DIGITAL THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020
E/R Police have no Covid-19 case
•Regional Commander
EASTERN RE-
GIONAL Police Commander,
Deputy
Commissioner of Police
(DCOP) Afful
Boakye Yiadom, has
revealed that none of his officers
in the region has contracted the
novel coronavirus (Covid-19) disease.
"No infection has also been
recorded among the prisoners in
our custody," he added.
DCOP Boakye Yiadom was
speaking during the launch of the
exercise to disinfect and fumigate
police facilities in his region.
According to him, the command
has strictly adhered to all
the safety protocols since the outbreak
of Covid-19.
That, he said, was to ensure his
officers, their families and inmates
in the various cells throughout the
region were free from Covid-19.
•DCOP Afful Boakye Yiadom, Eastern Regional Police Commander
"I am, therefore, confident that
the fumigation and disinfection
exercise which is about to start in
all our facilities will further enhance
our protection against the
virus," he gladly expressed.
The exercise, he disclosed,
would be carried out in all the regional
headquarters, eight divisions,
35 districts and 106 police
stations, including various cells
across the region.
In this regard, DCOP Boakye
Yiadom said police officers in the
region had been directed to allow
Zoomlion Ghana Limited easy access
to their facilities.
For his part, the Eastern Regional
Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour,
whose speech was read on
his behalf by his Deputy, Samuel
Nuertey Ayertey, stressed the need
for residents in the region to take
the Covid-19 safety protocols seriously.
He said the Covid-19 disease
was real, adding that "the best way
to prevent and slow down transmission
is to be well informed
about the Covid-19 virus, its
causes and how it spreads."
According to him, the region
has recorded 118 cases with 88 recoveries
as of Wednesday, May 27,
2020.
He said the virus that causes
Covid-19 infects people of all
ages.
"However, evidence to date
suggests that two groups of people
are at a higher risk of getting
severe Covid-19 disease."
These, he said, were older people
(above age 60) and those with
underlying medical conditions.
Public Jobs Manager, Zoomlion
Ghana Limited, Eastern Region,
Faustina Shardey, explained
that the collaboration between the
Ghana Police Service and her outfit
was crucial, especially as the
police were among the frontline
workers in the Covid-19 fight.
She said the company would
use six days to disinfect police facilities
in the region.
Don’t be in a hurry to name
‘Covid-19 MPs’
• Speaker warns
BY KOBINA WELSING
THE SPEAKER of Parliament,
Professor Mike Oquaye, has
cautioned members of the
House not to be in a hurry to
name MPs who have contracted
the Covid-19.
According to the Speaker,
Parliamentarians should allow
MPs who have contracted the
deadly virus to put their status
out themselves.
“You cannot unilaterally put
into the public realm that a person
is positive, let everybody
know this, let every lady and
gentleman, every person know
this in this Republic, and it has
been well-stated in this Honourable
House. You cannot unilaterally
put in the public realm
that a person is positive,” the
Speaker said on the floor of Parliament.
He added, “It is only for an
individual to voluntarily put it in
the public realm and we are all
learning from this as decent and
honourable people and this Honourable
House will follow that
line of the example, that is our
public duty.
“If you allow me to quote
from what Honourable Dr Oko
Boye, he said: ‘We should show
that we are not in a hurry to disclose
names worthy of a headline
and it is my view that such
sensationalism, what is going on,
must stop because they rather
•Professor Mike Oquaye, Speaker of Parliament
encourage stigmatization. When
you sensationalise news, you encourage
stigmatization,” he
added.
The Speaker’s caution comes
after Starrfm.com.gh on Tuesday
reported that two MPs and
13 parliamentary staff members
had tested positive for Covid-19
after they underwent voluntary
testing.
The Director of Public Affairs,
Kate Addo, later denied
the reports that some MPs and
staff members had contracted
the virus.
However, on Wednesday
(yesterday), Asawase lawmaker
Muntaka Mubarak confirmed
the information, saying that two
of their MPs had tested positive.
KroMA MCE removal saga:
Police arrest one
Assembly member
BY PRINCE ESSIEN
THE KPESHIE Divisional Police
Command has arrested one
of the aggrieved assembly members
who have initiated a campaign
for the impeachment and
removal of the Krowor Municipal
Chief Executive (MCE),
Joshua Nii Bortey.
Mr Lawrence Bortey
Borquaye, the Assembly member
for the Nii Laweh Electoral
Area, is said to have posted inappropriate
words against the
MCE, who was said to have
fixed streetlights in some part of
the municipality.
Confirming the arrest of his
colleague assembly member, Sebastian
Ampah, the Assembly
member for Mukweidjor Electoral
Area, told Starr News that
police in Nungua had picked his
colleague for allegedly assaulting
the MCE verbally.
“The MCE was found fixing
streetlights in the arrested assemblyman’s
electoral area without
his knowledge, so the assemblyman
posted on his Facebook
page that the Jonky [junky] MCE
is fixing streetlights without the
assemblyman of the area.”
Mr Ampah added that the
MCE lodged a complaint at
Nungua police station for one
Lawrence Nii Bortey Borquaye
for using foul words against him.
“There are indications that he
will be charged and arraigned,”
he added
The arrested assembly member
has been charged with offensive
conduct conducive to
breaches of peace.
Confirming the
arrest of his colleague
assembly
member, Sebastian
Ampah, the
Assembly member
for Mukweidjor
Electoral Area,
told Starr News
that police in
Nungua had
picked his colleague
for allegedly
assaulting the
MCE verbally.

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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020
Editorial
National Identification Authority must come again
THE DAILY HERITAGE has learnt
with pleasure the stance taken by the
General Secretary of the governing
New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr John
Boadu, and for that matter the party,
that NPP will resist any attempt by the
National Identification Authority (NIA)
to do a mop-up in some selected areas,
referred to as places where the NIA
considers to have had challenges during
the mass registration.
We are happy that this position is not
taken by the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) for anyone to think that
because it is coming from an opposition
party, it should be discounted. We, as
Ghanaians, have the tendency to pass
that comment without thinking of the
repercussion(s).
It is very difficult to understand why
public institutions in this country do
things in haphazard ways and close their
eyes to the shortcomings and hence
make things appear as if they have done
their best.
Everyone in the country can say that
one of the institutions that have failed
Ghanaians is the NIA. About 10 years
ago, there was registration for Ghana
card but only a small number of Ghanaians
had their cards printed for them.
Some people asked questions about
that exercise in the public domain but
the powers that be did not act. The state
lost money but nobody was held to task.
The current exercise started last year
with no improvement. Ghanaians were
treated like orphans who did not have
parents to care for them. Those put in
charge of the registration mistreated
most applicants. Some of the people
put in charge of control of the queues
at certain registration, for instance, took
advantage to push applicants around,
denying some their turn to go through
the process.
Some of the Ghanaians who do not
have the Ghana card abandoned the
idea of having it because they slept at
the registration centres or went there at
dawn to join the queues a number of
times without having their turn.
The NIA officials deployed at some
centres were so arrogant that town folks
wondered what they would do to incur
their displeasure, so for them, especially
those citizens who did not have enough
information as to the importance of the
card, abandoned the idea.
Why should a registration official say,
for instance, at 2 p.m. that she was tired
and so had closed. Therefore, the applicants
should go home and return the
following day.
Professor Ken Attafuah should note,
if he does not know it already, that
some of his field officers did some
Ghanaians a great disservice, so if his
outfit is considering any plan of giving
another opportunity to those who could
not get the card, it should not be mopup
or limited registration; the exercise
should be organised across the country
as if it were a mass registration.
In any case, why do we continue to
stipulate periods for registering for
Ghana card and voter’s ID card? Can
we not adopt a system whereby citizens
could walk into designated offices or
other places to register for those cards,
so that avoidable challenges would not
be encountered?
Nose mask giving us headache
• Dambai residents complain
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE PEOPLE of
Dambai in the
newly-created Oti
Region generally
do not wear nose
masks, complaining
that they suffer constant
headache and pains in the ears
once they wear them in the wake
of Covid-19 pandemic.
However, a number of them
say they only wear the mask on
market days because those days
are busy because all manner of
people come to the town.
Those who do well to wear the
mask include drivers, but they
complain of additional problem of
difficulty in breathing.
A seller of 'Asana', popularly
known as 'Ayigbe Malt', at the
Dambai main station, Ms Esther
Denor, told the DAILY HER-
ITAGE any time she wore the
mask, she suffered headache,
hence her resolve not to wear it.
"Apart from the market days
which are busy days, we don't wear
the mask because the virus cannot
operate in less-crowded areas," Ms
Denor stated.
A driver who plies the Dambai-
Kpando road, Blessing Avoke, also
complained of difficulty in breathing
and pains in the year.
A close observation by the
DAILY HERITAGE indicated
that out of every 10 people on the
streets of Dambai or those boarding
vehicles to the adjoining communities,
a maximum of two
persons could be seen wearing the
mask.
A porter at the Dambai office
of the Ghana Private Road and
Transport Union, Seidu Fuseini,
said initially the union was checking
passengers and drivers before
allowing any vehicle to move but
for the past three days, we have relaxed,
hence the non-compliance.
My Fuseini said it was important
for the union to step up its
•Residents of Dambai riding motorbikes without nose masks
checking because the disease is still
spreading.
Meanwhile, the Muncipal Chief
Executive for Krachi East in the
Oti Region, Mr Patrick Gilimah,
has embarked on a campaign to
educate the people on the need to
wear the nose mask as one of the
protocols of fighting the Coronavirus
in Ghana.
He is, therefore, appealing to
the people to adhere to the safety
protocols as the diseases continue
to spread rapidly.

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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020
Have accurate channel of
distributing information to public
• ACPA tells Parliament
BY PRINCE ESSIEN
THE AFRICA CEN-
TRE for Parliamentary
Affairs says it is
deeply disturbing
the conflicting information
from the
Legislature over whether some
Members of Parliament have
tested positive for the Covid-19 or
not.
According to them, the situation
will cast credibility challenges
on the Legislature while underscoring
the need for parliament to
adopt virtual proceedings.
Speaking to Starr
News, the Executive
Director for
Africa Centre
for Parliamentary
Affairs,
Dr.
Rashid Draman,
said,
“We are
finding it difficult
to know
exactly what is
coming out of
Parliament and who
is telling us the truth and
who is not telling us the truth.”
He also said that it was important
that representatives of an institution
that seeks
to promote
transparency
and accountability
to have
a streamline
kind
of a
channel
of information
coming out
of it so that
whatever comes
out, at least, everybody
in the State could rally behind it
because they believed in it.
“I have seen many parliaments
adopting the virtual proceedings
or where it is not possible, they
find a way to rotate the numbers
of the members to come into the
house at a time,” he said.
He appealed to parliament to
control the number to ensure social
distancing protocol was observed.
It comes after Parliament’s Director
of Public Affairs, Kate
Addo, denied reports that two
MPs and 13 staff members had
tested positive for the viral disease.
Parliament has emphatically
stated that the results of the mass
testing currently going on are not
yet known.
However, some MPs have publicly
confirmed that some of their
colleagues have tested positive.
“I have seen many
parliaments adopting
the virtual proceedings
or where
it is not possible,
they find a way to
rotate the numbers
of the members to
come into the
house at a time,”
he said.
Womba Africa grabs first Ga-Dangme/Ewe
electronic music and film award
BARELY FIVE
months after showcasing
cultural dexterity
in the United
States of America,
cultural group
Womba Africa has been adjudged
winners of the Ga-
Dangmes/Ewes film awards organised
through electronic voting.
The awards scheme, according
to organisers, is to recognise Ga-
Dangme and Ewe musicians, actors
and actresses on a larger scale.
This, the organisers say, was the
third award ceremony and was
done through public voting using
shortcodes and apps, something
they described as historic.
According to them, it was the
first ever since Ga people migrated
to Ghana in the 17th Century.
Womba Africa was adjudged
the Ga-Dangme and Ewe cultural
group of the year 2020, after beating
off competitions from all the
other competitors.
The awards ceremony was organized
by Ojekoo Radio.
Ojekoo Radio
According to the organisers, in
• Members of the group
the history of Ghana, Ojekoo
radio station is the only music and
film award organisation that serves
as a link in projecting Ewes and
Ga-Dangmes through music and
films.
The Chief Executive Officer of
the awards, Mr Lawrence Nii Larte
Lartey, explained that the awards
scheme was initiated upon inspirations
he got from the then Ga
Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah I.
According to him, it has been
his aim to promote the Ga-Dangme,
Ewe musicians and film makers
by creating a scheme like this
to project these talented artistes to
the world.
"Our third edition for the year
2020 was supposed to have taken
place at Cocoloco Beach, Ada -
Foah, but it was cancelled due to
the Covid-19 crisis. We had no
other choice than to use our digital
platform for the main award night
ceremony.
The
CEO and
his team
expressed
commendation
to
all award
winners
for the maiden electronic voting
exercise, which led to Womba
Africa grabbing the ultimate prize.
The award was received by
• The award
Samuel Nii Noi Tetteh deputy director
of Womba Africa on behalf
of Frederick Quaye Odai, Leader
and Director of Womba Africa

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Sammy Kuffour regrets having
children with different women
FORMER BAYERN
Munich and Black
Stars defender Samuel
Osei Kuffour has revealed
that the two
most regrettable things
in his life are fathering children
with different women and piercing
his ears.
The defender had a great football
career with Bayern Munich
and the Black Stars. He won several
Bundesliga titles, German
Cups, UEFA Champions League
and Inter-Continental Cup with
the German side. He also represented
Ghana at the AFCON,
Olympic Games and the FIFA
World Cup.
He became rich as a footballer
and he has several properties at
•Samuel Osei Kuffour
home and
abroad and
lived his life
during his playing
days.
However, he
has regretted
not sticking to
one woman to
have all his children
with and
the fact that he
pierced his ears.
"As a former
footballer,
having kids
with different
women is
something I regret
because I
always wanted
to see my kids at one place," he
said in an interview with GTV
Sports+
"I have grown up to realize it
was a mistake because I wanted to
have kids growing up with one
woman but it did not happen as I
wished," he said.
Kuffour also revealed how his
mother yelled at him when he
pierced his ears.
"I remember I went to Kumasi
to see my mother and she shouted
at me and I was scared. I asked her
what was wrong and she asked
what I have done to myself?
"I thought every footballer is
piercing the ears so I can also do
the same thing but my mother was
not happy with that and I regret
that."
Ayew family believes more in
luck than talent - Sola Ayew
SOLA AYEW, uncle of Black
Stars players Andre Dede and
Jordan Morgan Ayew, has said
that luck plays a prominent role
in making a footballer’s career
flourish; and that’s the axiom of
the Ayew family.
The Ayews remain an enviable
football brand in Ghana due
to their immense contribution to
the game.
The legendary Abedi Ayew
‘Pele’ is the family’s trailblazer;
whereas the likes of Kwame
Ayew, Rahim Ayew, Andrew
Ayew and Jordan Ayew -- all
members of the family -- have
gone on to represent Ghana at
the international level.
It remains the family to have
contributed most players for
Ghana at the FIFA World Cup
since the Black Stars first qualified
to participate in 2006.
Speaking in an interview with
Light FM Sports, Sola Ayew
marvelled at how much esteem
football had brought the family
and expressed profound appreciation
to God.
“We don’t know how to thank
God. People travel from outside
just to see the house that we
were born in. The utmost moment
is when our family got represented
by three players at the
World Cup; it is something that
we cannot describe.”
•The Ayew brothers
Sola Ayew has remarked that
despite the abundance of football
talents in the family, their belief
is that luck plays a chief role
in deciding how one’s career
would pan out.
“Our understanding in football
as Ayew family [is that] we
believe luck plays 75% and 25%
with the person’s talent,” he remarked.
$1000 should be minimum
wage for Ghana league players
Kofi Amoah’s
parting message to
football people
• Felix Annan recommends
BLACK STARS and Asante Kotoko
goalkeeper Felix Annan has recommended
a minimum salary of one
thousand dollars ($1000) for players
in the Ghana Premier League.
Annan, who doubles as the captain
of Kotoko, in a chat with Sports
journalists, indicated that such a pay
structure policy would ensure the retention
of quality players in the
Ghana League and hence raise the
profile of the League and the teams.
Ghana Premier League clubs
have struggled to compete with their
compatriots on the African continent
in the CAF inter-club competitions
with the last Ghanaian club to
win a trophy being Hearts of Oak
over 15 years ago.
This phenomenon has existed
mainly because of the league’s inability
to retain quality players because
of low remuneration by the clubs in
Ghana.
It’s in this light that Annan, who
is himself on the radar of several
African teams, believes a wage policy
in the Ghana League will help save
the situation.
“For me, the way Ghana has lots
of great football talent, if there is a
policy that ensures a minimum salary
for football players in the Premier
League is $1000, we will have players
staying in Ghana to mature enough,”
Annan said.
The goalie, who was with the
Black Stars at the last AFCON in
Egypt, added that, “The policy will
enable our teams to compete with
other teams on the continent
favourably since players will stay and
mature well since they are paid well.”
Annan is one of the longestserving
players at Asante Kotoko, as
he has been with team since he
joined them in August, 2011 from
West African Football Academy.
•Felix Annan, Asante Kotoko goalkeeper