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•Brig. Gen Nsiah urged Ghanaians
to have confidence in the Military
•The dangerous
bridge on the
Adeiso River
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WORLD
Cyril Ramaphosa to
succeed Zuma as
South African
president
POLITICS
Ghana retires @60
BUSINESS
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CDD’s maiden report
on implementation
of IPEP
SPORTS
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Frimpong fails to
impress
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Death trap at Obom
BY PHILIP ANTOH
Philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
RESIDENTS OF
Obom, Kwasinyarko
and other
surrounding
communities in
the Ga South
Municipality of the Greater
Accra Region are living dangerously
following the nearcollapse
of the bridge on the
Adeiso River.
A major bridge that serves
as an access route linking
Nsawam and Obom to Kasoa
has witnessed five vehicles
falling into the river within a
space of two years.
The residents complained
that due to the bad nature of
the bridge they are unable to
transport their farm produce
to Nsawam and other markets.
In an interview with the
DAILY HERITAGE, the
Assemblyman for the Oduman
Asuaba Electoral area, Mr
Jacob Nii Moilai Allotey said
the problem had been there
since 2016 after a heavy downpour
washed away half of the
bridge.
He said last year, schools
around the Domiabra-Obom
•Cracks developed under the
the bridge. INSET: A tipper
truck which fell into the river
constituency lost textbooks
and other educational materials
when the vehicle belonging to
Write To Play, a non-governmental
organisation overturned
when the driver tried to
cross it to supply the materials
to the community.
“The situation is such that
all first time users of the road
risk the tendency of falling
into the river because there is
no warning sign or any indication
at the point to suggest the
bad nature of the bridge,” he
stated.
The Assemblyman said the
most recent accident
on the
bridge happened
on January 2,
2018 when a tipper
truck
full of sand fell
into the river injuring
the driver
and his mate
who are currently
receiving
treatment.
He revealed
that the residents
are apprehensive
because
the rains would soon set in.
He said upon many letters
written to the Ministry of
Roads and Highways, the Director
of Feeder Roads visited
the bridge and promised that
the government would act
promptly, but nothing has
since been done.
A visit by the DAILY
HERITAGE to Kwesinyarko
revealed that the bridge
on the Adeiso River may collapse
any time soon because
the whole structure had developed
cracks.
The iron rods used for the
construction were exposed
making it a death trap.
Motorists and road users
offload the content of their
vehicles before crossing the
bridge for fear that the weight
of the vehicle might cause the
collapse of the bridge.
Another
abandoned bridge
He said the construction of
a bridge on a 30 kilometer
stretch of road from Nsawam
to link Bawjiase, at Danso
which was started in 2006 during
President John Agyekum
Kufuor era, has been abandoned
with the metal bridge
gradually rusting.

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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2018
To accomplish great things, we
must not only act, but also dream,
not only plan, but also believe.
—Anatole France
Soldiers battle ready
BY BENJAMIN TANDOH
THE CHIEF
STAFF Officer
of the Ghana
Armed Forces
(GAF), Brigadier
General A.Y.
Nsiah has assured Ghanaians
that the Military is committed
to protect the citizenry.
According to him, Ghana
has been blessed with a welltrained
and resourced army,
which is ready for any eventuality
should they be called upon.
The assurance comes in the
wake of recent international
threats of possible terror attacks
in Ghana and attendant
uneasiness about security in the
country.
It would be recalled that
Turkish Parliament's Deputy
Speaker, Alhassan Dandawa recently
warned that the dreaded
Fetullah Terrorist Organisation
(FETO)-linked schools were
not only a threat to the security
of Turkey, but also for other
countries such as Ghana.
In a meeting with the head
of the Ghana-Turkey Inter-parliamentary
Friendship Group,
he drew attention towards the
presence of FETO-linked
schools in Ghana.
“Our President takes this
issue very seriously he is also
working on it. We are also
ready to give the proper response
to you. Turkey is
Ghana, Ghana is Turkey. Anything
that affects Turkey affects
Ghana as well. If Turkey is not
happy, Ghana is also not
happy,” he stated.
Addressing the media at the
end of the 2018 Inter-Unit
March and Shoot competition
code- named Kullum Shirri
2018 by the Headquarters
Southern Command of GAF
in Accra on Wednesday, Brig.
Gen. Nsiah urged Ghanaians to
• To protect citizenry,
urge all to sleep soundly
• Brig. Gen Nsiah urged Ghanaians to have confidence in the Military
have confidence in the military
and support them in protecting
the country.
He further indicated that,
“the exercise is a clear indication
of how prepared we are.
When Ghanaians go to bed
they should sleep because their
backs are being watched.
“The exercise also sends out
a clear message to the general
public that GAF is well poised
to respond and deal appropriately
to any situation that poses
as a potential threat to the
peace and stability of our country
Ghana,” he added.
Brig. Gen. Nsiah, however,
entreated personnel of the
army to strive and maintain
their physical fitness.
This, he explained, will help
them discharge their duties
without difficulties and urged
them to remain disciplined,
adding that, “an unfit soldier is
a liability to the profession.
“We must undertake regular
individual exercises, as well as
actively participate in all unit
activities. An Armed Force
without discipline and training
is akin to a mob.
“Discipline is the bedrock of
success. Discipline is the moral,
mental, and physical state in
which all ranks respond to the
will of their Commander,
whether he is there or not,” he
said.
Brig Gen Thomas Oppong-
Peprah, General Office Commander,
Southern Command,
reiterated their support to the
civil authorities to defend the
country when called upon.
“I have realised that most
people are asking why the military
is not all over the country
to help with the battling of
crime, but I can assure you
that we are deployed.
“We are helping with operation
vanguard and carry out
operation cow leg, but we have
to wait to be called by the civil
authorities to support,” he
mentioned.
Kullum Shirri 2018
Eight units from the Southern
Command participated in
this year’s inter-unit march and
shoot competition which was
held in Accra.
The units were: 66 Artillery
Regiment, 1st Infantry Battalions,
2nd Infantry Battalions,
5th Infantry Battalions, 64 Infantry
Battalions, 48 Regiments,
Recce Regiments, and the
Southern Command.
Out of the 36 personnel for
each team (35 members and a
team commander), four were
expected to be females.
The exercise was to improve
the physical condition of the
personnel, as well as, to
sharpen their skills.
As part of the competition,
each team was tasked to cover a
distance of 10 kilometers, carrying
a 25 kilogramme of load.
The team was further tasked
to overcome eight obstacles before
being made to shoot from
a range.
The Southern Command
Unit was adjudged the overall
winners, followed by Recce
Regiment, and 2nd Infantry
Command respectively.
Lance Corporal Eugenia
Adjei was adjudged the best
female personnel, while Gunner
Emmanuel Kwarteng won
the male category. Both officers
received a certificate, and
a cash prize of GH¢ 250.00
Brig. Gen. Nsiah commended
the Southern Command
Headquarters for their
initiative to improve the physical
fitness of the military personnel.
He also congratulated the
participants for their displaying,
adding that, “they have all
demonstrated various capabilities
in the disciplines of the
competition.”

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•Several pizza delivery firms received
internet •Thousands orders of in Ms the Zia's name supporters of Mr Grollehave taken to the streets
German lawyer cheesed off with endless pizza deliveries
A GERMAN lawyer is
cheesed off after receiving
more than 100 unwanted
pizzas delivered to his office
- and now police are investigating
the mystery.
After all those pizzas in
just over a fortnight, Guido
Grolle is now receiving unwanted
Currywurst and
sushi, German media report.
The lawyer, in the western
city of Dortmund, says
he has been pestered by
multiple calls about pizza
orders.
If stalking were proven,
the sentence could be up to
three years in jail.
Ordering goods for
someone by misusing their
personal data is a form of
harassment under German
law.
One theory is that the
internet orders come from a
disgruntled client. Other
lawyers work at the same
address as Mr Grolle. BBC
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World news in 4 stories
Cyril Ramaphosa to
succeed Zuma as South
African President
CYRIL
RAMAPHOSA is
due to become
South Africa's President
after embattled
leader Jacob
Zuma resigned.
The new president is chosen by
parliament, where the ANC, now
led by Mr Ramaphosa, has an overwhelming
majority.
The ANC had told Mr Zuma to
step down or face a vote of no-confidence
in parliament.
In a televised statement he said
he was quitting with immediate effect
but said he disagreed with the
party's decision.
Mr Zuma faces numerous corruption
allegations but denies any
wrongdoing.
One opposition party, the Economic
Freedom Fighters, has
walked out of the parliamentary debate.
It wants new elections, rather
than the ANC deciding on the identity
of the new president.
It is often said that Mr
Ramaphosa has had his eye on the
position of president since the
ANC came to power in 1994.
The story goes that he was so
upset at not having been chosen by
•Cyril Ramaphosa, left, was the deputy President to Jacob Zuma
Nelson Mandela as his successor
that he left politics and went into
business.
But Mr Ramaphosa is now on
the cusp of finally realising that
dream.
He has said his priority is reviving
South Africa's battered economy.
But it won't be easy:
Unemployment is currently at almost
30%, a rate which rises to
nearly 40% for young people.
Low growth rates and dwindling
investor confidence were compounded
by two credit agencies
downgrading the economy to junk
status.
One of the first steps in improving
that investor confidence is addressing
the persistent claims of
corruption at the heart of government.
BBC
Zimbabwe opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai
dies aged 65
ZIMBABWE'S MAIN opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai
has died in South Africa,
a senior official in his MDC
party has said.
Mr Tsvangirai, 65, a former
prime minister, had reportedly
been suffering from
colon cancer.
"He died this evening.
The family communicated
this to me," MDC vice president
Elias Mudzuri told
Reuters.
Mr Tsvangirai's career was
marked by a long political
struggle against former President
Robert Mugabe.
He had been beaten and
imprisoned numerous times.
Announcing Mr Tsvangirai's
death, Mr Mudzuri said
on Twitter that the MDC had
"lost our icon and fighter for
democracy".
Mr Tsvangirai founded
the MDC (Movement for
Democratic Change) in 2000,
repeatedly challenging Mr
Mugabe during the ex-president's
long grip on power.
Morgan Tsvangirai was an
incredibly brave man who
risked his life to stand up to
the authoritarian rule of
Robert Mugabe.BBC
•Morgan Tsvangirai was best known for challenging
Robert Mugabe
Ethiopia PM Hailemariam Desalegn in surprise resignation
•Hailemariam Desalegn had been Ethiopia's Prime Minister since 2012
THE PRIME Minister of
Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn,
has resigned, the country's state
TV reported.
No reason has yet been given
for the decision. Mr Desalegn also
stepped down as chairman of the
country's ruling coalition.
His departure comes amid
months of anti-government
protests in Ethiopia's largest regions,
Oromia and Amhara.
In the latest violence, 10 people
were killed and dozens more injured
following an opposition
protest.
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza,
in the capital Addis Ababa, says
the government has released thousands
of opposition supporters
from jail in recent weeks, but still
the protests continued.
Ethiopia has witnessed repeated
violent demonstrations
since 2015, with protesters calling
for political and economic reform,
and an end to state corruption.
The ongoing disturbances have
led to deep divisions in the governing
coalition, says Mary
Harper, Africa Editor for the BBC
World Service.
Some of Ethiopia's powerful
elites have come to see the prime
minister as weak and lacking in direction,
she says.
A weak and turbulent Ethiopia
is risky for the entire Horn of
Africa, our correspondent adds, as
this normally stable state is seen as
key to holding the region together.
BBC

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HIV/AIDS statistics from K’dua worrying
DESPITE EFFORTS by the
Ghana Health Service and Ghana
AIDS Commission to educate
Ghanaians, particularly, the youth
about the devastating effects of
HIV/AIDS and preventive measures
to stay safe, recent reports indicate
that we appear to be losing
the fight.
Aside mother-to-child transmission,
most of the statistics have focused
on the voting age bracket of
18 years and above. They were said
to be sexually active during the initial
campaign against the disease.
The trend is now very disquieting,
in that students as young as 14
years are testing positive for HIV.
That is clearly unacceptable.
Reports from Koforidua, the
Eastern Regional capital indicates
that HIV/AIDS was the second
highest cause of death at the Koforidua
Government Hospital in
2017.
According to the hospital authorities,
HIV/AIDS killed 139
people in 2017 compared to 134,
recorded in 2016. The figures are
indeed worrying.
Due to the total misuse of social
and new media, a lot of adolescents
have become sexually active.
In fact, some as young as nine and
10 are already mothers in some villages
in the country.
This calls for increased efforts to
get to the new breed of young, but
sexually active children to educate
them about sex and its implications.
We need to take advantage
of the religious inclinations of
these students in school to get
them to stay away from sex
until marriage. For the recalcitrant
ones, we need to drum
home preventive measures to
avoid not just HIV/AIDS, but
teenage pregnancies and their
attendant illegal abortions.
The family unit must also sit
up and imbibe in the children
good morals and sex education
even at home. This way, we can
together win the fight against
the deadly HIV/AIDS by
bringing the figures down drastically.
No lawyer for Major Mahama ‘killers’
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THERE WAS an instance
crunch conference
in the courtroom
yesterday by the 14 accused
persons standing
trial for the
murder of military officer Major
Maxwell Adams Mahama over
lawyers they need to represent
them.
In court yesterday, when they
made their first appearance, some
of them who had no legal representation
were asked by the court to
ensure that they engage counsel for
the hearing to commence.
Justice Mariama Owusu of the
Criminal Division of the Accra
High Court adjourned the case to
March 5, 2018 and directed all parties
to put their house in order for
the jury to be empanelled.
The accused persons were on
January 11 this year charged with
murder and the case was transferred
to the High Court after their
committal proceedings.
Mrs Evelyn Keelson, a Chief
State Attorney led a team of
lawyers from the Attorney Generals
Department, while Bernard Shaw,
counsel for four of the accused
persons, also held brief for the others.
The Court Magistrate, His Worship
Mr Ebenezer Kweku Ansah
• The suspects in
court
said after the committal that per the
evidence before the court, the accused
persons had issues to answer.
They are facing three charges including
murder. The State would
present 52 exhibits to the High
Court and 15 witnesses.
Who are they?
The 14 accused persons expected
to stand trial are William
Baah, the assemblyman, Bernard
Asamoah, Kofi Nyame, Akwasi
Baah, Kwame Tuffuor, Joseph Appiah
and Michael Annin.
The rest are Bismark Donkor,
John Bosie, Akwasi Asante, Charles
Kwaning, Emmanuel Badu, Bismark
Abanga and Kwadwo Nimah
Evidence
State prosecutors earlier presented
52 pieces of evidence to incriminate
the accused persons,
including a recorded video and pictures
of crime scene.
In the Bill of Indictment,
there were enough
evidence including pellets,
empty cartridges,
pictures from the crime
scene, two guns, partly
burnt shirt, a cell phone
belonging to Major
Maxwell Mahama, cement
blocks, stick, metal
bar, and stones among
others against them.
Mr Kweku-Ansah
after perusing the evidence
was convinced and
committed the 14 accused
persons to trial at
the High Court.
Accused persons to
rely on Diaso Police
Defense counsel, Mr
George Bernard Shaw
told the court at the last
court day that though
they had witnesses to
call, they preferred to
withhold the names and
only bring them to court when the
need arises.
He, however, indicated to the
court that, some police officers at
Diaso would be part of the witnesses
they intended to call in the
course of the trial at the High
Court.
Explaining why his clients declined
to comment when offered
the opportunity by the court he
said per the instructions he had received,
they had nothing to do with
the crime.
“It is their right to comment or
not on the prosecutions’ evidence...we
have made known to the
court that they do not agree with
some of the things that the prosecutions
are alleging,” Mr Shaw
added.
Background
Then Capt. Maxwell Mahama of
the 5 Battalion of Infantry was
lynched while he was on his early
morning jogging Monday, May 29,
2017.
In a video shot of the incident
and circulated on social media, the
officer was seen surrendering his
weapon before the mob carried out
their dastardly act. The mob later
claimed they mistook him for an
armed robber because he carried a
weapon.
The fallen officer, whom many
have described as decent and gentle,
died on Monday, May 29, after
he was beaten, stoned and burnt by
residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in
the Central Region.
Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama
was posthumously promoted to the
rank of Major on June 5, by President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo.
Parliament in November 2017
approved a Bill that will make the
spouse and children of Major Mahama
the State’s responsibility. The
Bill was in fulfillment of the President's
promise to the family of
Major Mahama.

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KIDDIES Corner
Short stories for kids
How the Moon was
kind to her Mother
ONCE UPON
a time, the
Sun, the
Wind, and
the Moon
were three
sisters, and their mother was a
pale, lovely Star that shone, far
away, in the dark evening sky.
One day their uncle and
aunt, who were no more or less
than the Thunder and Lightning,
asked the three sisters to
have supper with them, and
their mother told them to honour
the invitation. She would
wait for them, she said, and
would not set until all three had
returned and told her about
their pleasant visit.
So the Sun, in her dress of
gold, the Wind, in a trailing
dress that rustled as she passed,
and the Moon, in a wonderful
gown of silver, started out for
the party with Thunder and
Lightning. Oh, it was a supper
to remember! The table was
spread with a cloth of rainbow.
There were ice like the snow on
the mountain tops, and cakes as
soft and white as clouds, and
fruits from every quarter of the
earth.
The three sisters ate their fill,
especially the Sun and the
Wind, who were very greedy,
and left not so much as a crumb
on their plates. But the Moon
was kind and remembered her
mother. She hid a part of her
supper in her long, white fingers
to take home and share with her
mother, the Star.
Then the three sisters said
good-bye to Thunder and
Lightning and went home.
When they reached there, they
found their mother, the Star,
waiting and shining for them as
she had said she would.
"What did you bring me
from the supper?" she
asked.
The Sun tossed her head
with all its yellow hair in
disdain as she answered her
mother.
"Why should I bring you
anything?" she asked. "I
went out for my own pleasure
and not to think of you.
It was the same with the
Wind. She wrapped her
flowing robes about her and
turned away from her
mother.
"I, too, went out for my
own entertainment," she said,
"and why should I think of you,
mother, when you were not
with me?"
But it was very different with
the Moon, who was not greedy
and selfish as her two sisters,
the Sun and the Wind, were.
She turned her pale sweet face
toward her mother, the Star, and
held out her slender hands.
"See, mother," cried the
Moon, "I have brought you part
of everything that was on my
plate. I ate only half of the feast
for I wanted to share it with
you."
Time with Auntie Akuorkor
in the kitchen
How to make Popsicles:
Note: To be supervised by parents in the kitchen:
All hands should be washed well
Ingredients:
Milk
Water
Flour
Sugar
Mango puree
Cocoa powder
Method
Dilute a tin of
milk with water in a
medium-sized pan
and heat about three
quarters of this quantity
till it boils.
• Mix corn flour with the remaining quarter of the diluted milk.
• Mix a little of boiling milk with corn flour mixture, and add this to
the bulk of the boiling milk whilst stirring to prevent a lumpy mixture.
• Cook for few minutes and take off the fire.
• Mix the other tin of milk with sugar and stir into the hot mixture and
cool quickly.
• Divide mixture into two parts, keep one as it is.
• Divide other part into two again; add mango puree to one, cocoa
powder to the other.
• Fill small plastic cups with mango mixture until half full, do same
with cocoa mixture for the remaining cups.
• Put Popsicle sticks in the half filled cups and freeze.
• Remove half-full frozen Popsicle cup from freezer; fill all the cups
with plain milk mixture. Freeze again.
• When ready to serve, dip the cups into hot water and take out Popsicles
quickly.
How to prevent
cold and flu in kids
Keep germs away
HANDS DOWN, the best way to
prevent a cold or the flu is to keep
your hands clean! The viruses that
cause colds and flu are typically
transferred from one's hand to the
nose or mouth, where the viruses
multiply and make you sick.
Boosting your child's
immune system
Aside from keeping clean or
getting the flu vaccine, having a
healthy immune system is your
kid's best bet in fighting off a cold
or the seasonal flu. Kids can get an
immunity boost from practicing
basic healthy habits: eating well,
staying active and getting enough
sleep.
Eating well
For a healthy diet, it is recommended
giving kids foods packed
with phyto nutrients. Look for the
deepest-colored fruits and veggies
you can find: blueberries, tomatoes,
spinach, sweet potatoes…the
more color in the food, the more
phytos - and immune-boosting
power it has.
Stay active
It's well known that regular exercise
is beneficial; it can also help
prevent catching a cold or the flu.
"It's probably the single best way
to keep your energy up and your
stress level down, which is doubly
important during cold and flu season."
Exercising outside will also expose
kids to sunlight, which, during
rainy season is important, for
physical and mental health.
Sleep Time
Having a sleep, deprived kid on
your hands isn't just frustrating, it
can also be unhealthy: Make sure
your child gets the recommended
amount of sleep; normally, babies
need approximately 14 hours,
while toddlers require around 13.

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Food that hepatitis patients must avoid
• Dairy products
Dairy foods are extremely hard to digest.
Learn the link between liver disease and dairy
products.
• Fruit juices
These beverages are high in concentrated
sugar. Sugar is a shock to the liver, stresses the
digestive process, stresses the pancreas, and it
feeds the Hepatitis C virus.
• Artificial sweeteners
The first word gives you the first clue: artificial.
These sweeteners are extremely hard for
the liver to process.
•BProcessed foods
We all know processed foods contain unnatural
substances, preservatives, fillers and
chemically treated substances.
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Perfect Hands Healthcare
Service opens medical centre
HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT DESK
PERFECT HANDS
Healthcare Services,
a private healthcare
provider at Tema
Mitchell Camp, has
officially opened its
first ultra-modern medical centre
to cater for the health needs
of the people in the area.
The state of the art facility
comprises emergency room, antenatal
unit, laboratory department,
pharmacy, visitor's lounge,
massage parlour and conference
room among others.
The Executive Director of
Perfect Hands Healthcare Services,
Mrs Grace Abigail Amissah
speaking at the inauguration ceremony,
said the ultra-modern
health facility would help facilitate
health delivery to its clients.
Mrs Amissah said the facility
has also employed dedicated and
professional staff to help provide
quality healthcare to all.
Noted for providing home
care health service, Mrs Amissah
• Mrs Grace Abigail Amissah, the Executive Director (inset) the
ultra-modern medical centre
promised to continue providing
such service, while attending to
those who would visit the facility.
She urged Ghanaians to
adopt home care health services,
as it is one of the best ways of
preventing disease.
On his part, the Registrar at
the Health Facilities Regulation
Agency, (HEFRA), of the
Ministry of Health, Mr
Matthew Kyeremeh is
warning unregistered
health institutions to regularise
their activities, or
face sanctions.
Mr Kyeremeh said,
HEFRA has been backed
by law to register, regulate
and monitor all health institutions
in the country
and it is committed to ensure
sanity in the sector.
He said, the situation
where anyone can just set
up health facility without any
certification or regulation is
over, assuring that HEFRA
would ensure full compliance
from management of health
centres.
Mr Kyeremeh said the agency
has embarked on sensitisation
and education programme to get
unregistered health centres on
board to streamline the sector.
This, he said, is a first step to
get all health facilities registered
and their activities regulated,
adding that any facility that
failed to take advantage of the
sensitisation programme to
regularise their activities
would face sanctions.
He appealed to government
to help provide
HEFRA with logistics and
other working tools to be
able to carry its mandate effectively.
Mr Kyeremah commended
management of
Perfect Hands Healthcare
services for regularising
their activities in the country
and urged all to emulate.
Faith healers should not disrupt mental health patients’ medication
FAITH-BASED AND traditional
or herbal healers have
been cautioned against preventing
mental health patients from
following their orthodox medications
prescribed for them by
health workers.
A Senior Staff Nurse incharge
of the Community Psychiatry
Unit, Tema Manhean
Health Centre, Mr Pious Tay,
who gave the caution, said the
practice could lead to a relapse in
the treatment.
Mr Tay in an interview with
the media noted that activities of
these religious and herbal healers
could also lead to drug interactions
as some of them stop the
patients from following their
treatment and rather give them
herbal concoctions to drink.
He added that their visits to
some of these centres revealed
that apart from the numerous
herbal mixtures given to such patients,
they bathed and performed
rituals for them mostly
at midnight, and resorted to
prayers to heal their clients.
Mr Tay pleaded with them to
always refer all mental health patients
to the Community Psychiatry
Unit in the various public
health institutions for medical
examination and care.
The Senior Staff Nurse also
urged these centres to encourage
patients to return to their families
when their situation improve
as according to him, the practice
of camping healed patients at
their centres could lead to family
break-ups.
Mr Tay, touching on the availability
of mental health medications,
lamented that the three
community psychiatric units in
the Tema Metropolis in 2017 did
not receive all the needed drugs
for their patients, this he said,
caused a lot of relapses in treatment.
He also revealed that the
drugs had not been captured
under National Health Insurance
Scheme making it expensive for
patients to purchase, therefore,
resorting to the use of prayers
and herbal medications.
He called for the building of
a safe and privacy enabled buildings
for the unit to prevent stigmatisation
of patients, as well as
to enable them detain or admit
aggressive patients when needed.
Meanwhile, the Tema Metropolitan
Health Directorate in
2017 recorded a total of 157
schizophrenia and delusional
conditions, 51 depression cases,
25, 20, and 72 bipolar disorders,
organic mental disorders, and
epilepsy/seizures respectively
among others. GNA

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Veep calls for
partnership to dev.
Zongo communities
Mineworkers, Goldfields
case adjourned to Feb 20
BY KOJO ANSAH
THE VICE President, Dr
Mahamadu Bawumia has
said considering the
enormity of challenges
facing Zongo
communities in Ghana,
the government would require the
partnership of Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs), civil society
organisations and international support
to help government alleviate poverty in
Zongos.
“The government recognises the
enormity of the task in dealing with
this situation and therefore as part of
the strategy, the government intends to
partner civil society groups, NGOs,
development partners and diplomatic
missions to implement government
projects and programmes to alleviate
poverty in the Zongos.”
The Vice President said this in a
speech read on his behalf by the
Minister of Inner Cities and Zongo
Development, Alhaji
Abubakar Saddique Boniface last
Saturday during the 5th Annual
Conference of National Association of
Zongo Chiefs held in Koforidua, the
Eastern Regional Capital.
The Vice President stated that the
establishment of the Zongo Ministry
and the passage of the Zongo
Development Fund Law (Act 964 of
2017) showed the government’s
commitment to fulfilling its promise to
urgently tackle the poor living
conditions of people in Zongo
communities.
He said this could not be done by
the government alone hence,
“government’s doors are wide opened
for further discussions on the way
forward to actualise this partnership.”
The conference, attended by all
Zongo chiefs in Ghana, was on the
theme ‘Education, the Bedrock of
Poverty Alleviation in the Zongo
communities.’
Also in attendance was the Second
Lady, Mrs Samira Bawumia.
The Zongo chiefs criticised the
construction of Astroturf Parks in
Zongo communities across the
country.
According to them, it was not a
priority to the Zongo leadership
considering the pressing challenges
confronting Zongo communities in
Ghana.
But, the Minister of Inner Cities
and Zongo Development explained
that the project is multipurpose which
seeks to develop football talents,
promote health and recreational
activities ,improve infrastructure and
provide venue for mass gathering for
the Zongo communities.
“The government
recognises the enormity
of the task in dealing
with this situation and
therefore as part of the
strategy, the government
intends to partner civil
society groups, NGOs,
development partners
and diplomatic missions
to implement
government projects and
programmes to alleviate
poverty in the Zongos.”
•A cross-section of chiefs at the conference
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THERE WAS no show at
the hearing of the case
involving the Ghana
Mine Workers Union
and Goldfields Ghana
Limited because the
presiding judge, Justice Laurenda
Owusu was on a different assignment.
The case has, thus, been adjourned
to Tuesday, February 20.
At the last adjourned date, a
motion filed by the Attorney
Generals Department for an order of
the court to compel the Ghana
Mineworkers Union to comply with
Section 10 of the State Proceedings
Act, 1998 Act 555 was struck out for
want of prosecution.
The Mineworkers are seeking to
stop Goldfields Ghana Limited from
implementing an intended ‘Contract
Mining,’ option.
Per Section 10 of the State
Proceedings Act, “a person who
intends to institute civil action against
the Republic shall serve on the
Attorney General a written notice of
that intention at least 30 days before
A WOMAN, believed to be in her
late thirties, on Tuesday morning
drove into a shop at Taifa-Bankyease,
destroying property worth thousands
of Cedis.
According to witnesses, the driver
of the Hyundai vehicle with
registration number GS 3152-16, lost
control, veered off the road and run
into a store containing paints, wooden
doors, polytanks, plumbing
accessories and buildings materials.
The incident, which happened
around 11:15 am, created a chaotic
scene where the shop attendants had
to run for their lives.
One of the shop attendants,
known as Nyamekye who spoke to
the DAILY HERITAGE said “I
would have been a dead woman if I
had not moved from where I was
sitting. Within minutes the accident
the commencement of the action,”
but the plaintiff failed to comply with
the requirement.
happened.
“I was sitting at the far end of the
store where the car entered. I am in
shock and I thank God for saving
me.”
Information gathered indicated
that the driver was a learner without a
license or a learner sign on her car.
No casualties were recorded, but
items worth millions of Cedis were
destroyed.
The driver later reported herself at
the nearby Kwabenya Police Station.
The court said per Section 20 of
Act 555, the court is enjoined to
adjourn the suit titled ‘Ghana
Woman drives car into shop
BY ABIGAIL ASARE
According to witnesses, the
driver of the Hyundai vehicle
with registration number GS
3152-16, lost control, veered
off the road and run into a
store containing paints,
wooden doors, polytanks,
plumbing accessories and
buildings materials.
•The leadership of Mineworkers raising red flags
Mineworkers Union vs. Goldfields
Ghana Limited and the Attorney
General.’
• .At Taifa-Bankyease
•The vehicle after the accident
Background
Per the writ filed on behalf of the
workers by their lawyer, Mr Charles
Bawa Duah, a former Executive
Secretary of the National Labour
Commission, the workers are urging
the court to restrain Goldfields from
going ahead with the intended
redundancy exercise until all the
stakeholders involved “have
concluded or negotiated on whether
the exercise can be averted, and if
not, the category of workers to be
affected and measures to minimise
the impact on workers.”
They are also seeking a declaration
from the court that the redundancy
exercise is “unlawful” because the
reasons given by the mining giant to
lay them off did not meet the
“requirements, conditions or grounds
for redundancy, as provided by
Section 65 of the Labour Act, 2013,
act 651.”
The workers further want the
court to declare that the purported
authorisation of the redundancy
exercise by the Chief Labour Officer
is “illegal, unlawful and null and
void.”
•The hospital meets annually to appraise itself
Stroke, HIV,
pneumonia kill
413 in K’dua
BY KOJO ANSAH
MEDICAL DOCTORS at the
Eastern Regional Hospital,
Koforidua are alarmed at the
increasing death cases related to
stroke, HIV, pneumonia, premature
births, kidney diseases and
hypertension.
These diseases have been
identified as part of the top 10
most leading causes of deaths
recorded at the region's premier
health facility in 2017.
Stroke, HIV and pneumonia
alone killed a total of 413 people in
2017. Out of the number, 201
patients died of stroke in 2017, an
increase of 10% compared to 181
deaths recorded in 2016 which was
also an increase from 163 recorded
in 2015, making stroke the leading
cause of deaths at the hospital in
the last three years.
The medical director at the
regional hospital, Dr Kwame Anim
Boamah said the reason why
people with hypertension and
diabetes die is they fail to adhere
strictly to medication and other
management plans as directed by
their doctors.
He also attributed severe stroke
to ignorance on the part of
persons with such a condition.
HIV/AIDS, which is the
second cause of deaths at the
hospital with increase of 3.6%,
killed 139 people in 2017
compared to 134 , 167 deaths
recorded in 2016 and 2015
respectively.
Pneumonia, also killed 73
patients at the facility in 2017, a
reduction by three compared to 76
cases recorded in 2016.
The medical director said this
during an open day cerebration
observed annually to review
performance of the hospital and
provide opportunity to the general
public to interact with management
on operations of the facility, solicit
their concerns and inputs in
improving quality healthcare
service.
Feats by the hospital
The hospital over the past four
years has undergone
transformation through prudent
financial management and has
seen facelift of its facilities and
wards, as well as roads and
landscape executed mainly
through its own internally
generated funds.
These projects executed were
the brain child of the hospital
welfare committee under the
leadership of Dr Boateng.
The hospital through
its internally generated funds
installed an oxygen plant last year
and currently does not only
produce oxygen for use in the
hospital but supplies oxygen to
neighboring hospitals at a fee.
Other modern biomedical
equipment are being procured for
installation to improve quality
healthcare delivery.
Management’s vision to upgrade
the heath facility to a teaching
hospital status is also on course.
In line with this, some doctors
have been sponsored to be trained
as specialists to enable the hospital
fully role out Post Graduate
Training of Specialist
Doctors from 2020. Already, it
offers six months training to
gynecologists and obstetricians.
Currently the hospital has
signed partnership agreements with
a number of educational
institutions including Koforidua
Technical University to offer
tertiary and post - graduate
programme training for laboratory,
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CDD’s maiden report on implementation of IPEP
THE GHANA Centre
for Domestic Development
(CDD-Ghana) has
initiated a project to
track the implementation
of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) government’s
flagship Infrastructure for Poverty
Eradication Programme (IPEP).
According to CDD, the IPEP
dubbed the one million one constituency
programme predicated on
the government’s economic vision
that systematically decentralising infrastructure
development would spur
economic growth, create jobs, and reduce
poverty, and would see government
allocate US$ 1million for each of
the 275 constituencies annually.
Prof H. K. Prempeh, Executive
Director, CDD-Ghana, explained that
IPEP does not depart too far from
several other development initiatives
over the years.
He said experience from past and
current development projects of such
nature showed that IPEP management
record was extremely poor,
owing to the very nature of their
stakeholder consultation processes,
planning, design, and implementation
as they are often mismanaged, unaccountable,
and lack transparency.
“To protect IPEP from a false
start, ensure transparency and accountability
of its implementation,
and strengthen the framework and
performance of institutions set up to
govern the programme, as well as ensure
an efficient and good corporate
management of public funds allocated
to 1PEP, CDD-Ghana is implementing
the project ‘IPEP Tracker’ to
monitor implementation.
Prof Prempeh highlighted the key
findings and gave some recommendations
to the projects as follows;
•Prof. H.K. Prempeh, (R) Executive Director, CDD-Ghana with other discussants
Activities of the 10-member
regional ad-hoc committees:
In general, majority of informants
said they heard about the inauguration
of the regional ad-hoc committees.
However, we observed that, many
were either unaware or had very little
knowledge and/or involvement in the
activities undertaken by the committees.
CDD observed also that the composition
of the committees was dominated
by partisans of NPP than
technocrats, and information about
the membership and how they were
selected was limited to only a few people
(Regional Minister and Regional
and Constituency NPP Party Executives).
Further, majority of
district/constituency level stakeholders
(particularly district coordinators,
planning officers, decentralized department
heads and CSOs/Media) reported
that, they were not aware or
not much involved in the communitylevel
stakeholder consultations undertaken
by the committees. This strikes
a sense of a disorganized and inadequate
stakeholder consultation
processes by the committees.
Validation and reporting of
district/constituency
infrastructure needs assessment
The group also observed very limited
knowledge among key informants
about the criteria the Committees
used for selecting and prioritizing infrastructure
needs. Knowledge of the
criteria was concentrated within the
circle of a few stakeholders (ad-hoc
committee members, regional ministers,
and district chief executives).
Further, we observed a limited or no
validation of the committees’ assessments,
and their completed reports
were made available only to the regional
ministers.
In the light of the findings, the following
recommendations are offered
to help improve the politics, governance
and institutional management
of the IPEP policy intervention.
Policy recommendation
The following are CDD conclusions
based on their analysis of the institutional
and policy context for the
implementation of IPEP and findings
from our monitoring of the work of
the 10-member regional ad-hoc committees.
The lack of a coordinated policy
framework spelling out the IPEP policy
intervention and the restriction of
information to only a selected few political
actors has the potential to create
an institutionalized information asymmetry
for the principal actors required
to successfully implement the program.
This has the potential to distort
the necessary enabling power relations
as well as the prevailing transparency
and accountability structures. Already
there is evidence that it has created
tension between key bureaucrats and
politicians at the regional and district
levels. It is not clear if these actions
are borne out of deliberate policy, expediency
or implementation choices.
This will not bode well for the success
of IPEP
The prospect for partisan political
capture of the IPEP program particularly
at the regional and district/constituency
level by political party actors
and their bureaucratic supporters is
high. The instinct for political capture
appears to originate from two sources.
First, there is a strong believe that
these flagship projects like IPEP is a
manifesto promise which must be
guarded by the party to ensure its success.
It flows from this orientation a
belief that bureaucrats are not directly
invested in the party’s objectives and
therefore cannot be trusted to deliver
success. The second source is that
party faithful see IPEP as a reward for
their hard work and therefore controlling
the process will be to ensure material
dividends
Politics, governance and
institutional fit
There is an urgent need to ensure
that, the DAs are not used as a political
party vehicle to dispense patronage
to individual party financiers, communities
and organizations in a manner
that distracts it from its mandate and
sets it up to fail
There is need to define clearly the
mandate/role of the DAs. Clarifying
the role of the DAs is useful for interinstitutional
settlement (i.e., who does
what?) at the regional and district levels
with actors/institutions who have
similar responsibilities in the provision
and management of public infrastructure
at the local level
Create institutional relationship
formally by strengthening linkages and
partnership between the Development
Authorities and the National Development
Planning Commission (NDPC),
Regional Coordinating Councils
(RCCs) and the Metropolitan, Municipal
and District Assemblies
(MMDAs). This relationship has to be
properly defined and institutionalized
within appropriate legal instruments
or policy
Integration within sector
planning and national
development vision
Government should endeavor to
align the IPEP policy focus, as well as
interventions that are new or that are
undergoing re-evaluation with key national,
regional, district and sector
policies, programmes and priorities
Resource allocation,
transparency and accountability
As part of efforts to increase
transparency and accountability, there
should be strict adherence to the Public
Financial Management Act. This
will ensure that the allocation, disbursement
and usage of the funds will
be done effectively and efficiently
Effective information dissemination
about IPEP and the work package
of the DAs to the public would
aid in demanding greater scrutiny of
its budget and accountability through
a systematic monitoring and evaluation
of the IPEP policy outcomes.
The restriction of relevant information
on IPEP to only a selected few is
a key enabler/promoter of corruption
and self-dealing
Project management and
implementation
Focus on implementation at pace
and scale to aggregate value: the project
interventions under IPEP when
implemented in the timely manner
and scale needed can have greater impact
on the local economy in a meaningful
time frame
Ensure proper value for money
through transparent procurement
processes and in the award of contracts
for projects listed under the
IPEP intervention
Establish stronger accountability
mechanism that ensures citizens oversight
in the implementation of all the
development interventions under the
IPEP policy at the regional and district/constituency
levels
Institute regular performance reviews
of the Development Authorities:
developing a framework to assess
the outcomes of the investments
under each development authority will
be essential to the successful outcome
of the policy focus of poverty reduction
through improved social and
human development under the IPEP
Improve the communication of
IPEP’s success stories, impact and
spending to stakeholders and the
wider public in order to be more accountable

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Politics
“There are greater things to be achieved in
every new year, and each and everyone must
prepare themselves to be great, not by words of
the mouth, but by a lot of sacrifices.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Ghana retires @60
GHANA IS now
60 and attained
its own retirement
age on
March 6, 2017.
She would have
received a letter indicating she
was to retire about six months
ago and would have gone
through Social Security and National
Insurance Trust (SSNIT)
processes to begin the working
out of Ghana's Pension.
We are by this assuming that
Ghana@60 worked for the Civil
Service or Public Service or for a
dutifully respectful private company
that paid its employees
contributions.
If Ghana@60 was self-employed
and did not make contributions
for pension then it will
be assumed she has saved
enough to look after herself or
still has a profitable business that
will continue to look after her.
Anecdotal evidence points to
the fact that many persons who
have served their country diligently
for between 35 and 40
years and therefore eligible for
full pension have obtained sums
of money that cannot look after
them for more than a week. For
some others, it can only serve
them for a few days.
Social Security and
National Insurance Trust
All that period however, they
diligently paid into Social Security
and National Insurance
Trust their contributions or it
was the responsibility of their
employer in most instances the
Ghana government to do that.
How faithfully that was done will
forever be one of the internal
wranglings between SSNIT and
Government but that is not the
basis of this article.
One is even assuming that
some way somehow, Ghana@60
managed to acquire land and
struggled over the better part of
20 years to put up a three- bedroom
house still not fully completed
to taste but habitable. The
struggle had not only been in
looking for money but also dealing
with itinerant artisans who
inflate prices at will and buy
cheaper products but at the same
prices as good and durable materials.
If Ghana@60 was still in
rentable accommodation then
the situation will be worse.
The amount of money paid
to pensioners is so pathetic.
Anywhere else the Government
who decides on how much to
pay workers, the salaries, on
which pensions are calculated
will take responsibility and make
an effort to address the poverty
among pensioners. Yet through a
liberal, free market driven economy,
Government has taken the
decision, not to influence prices
of goods and services and leave
pensioners to be hanged out dry.
A double whammy against the
Ghanaian pensioner.
There has been no study assessing
how much it costs for
any Ghanaian adult to live in
Ghana but a back of the envelope
calculation for a single adult
will require GH¢20.00 per day
just for basic upkeep, food and
water only. It does not include
rent, clothing, paying for utilities,
cost of healthcare and even the
most basic social activity.
Minimum daily wage
How is it that the Tripartite
Committee of Government,
Employers and Workers represented
by the Trades Union
Congress can agree on the minimum
daily wage of GH¢8.00
equivalent to GH¢1.00 per hour
for the eight-hour day. A Ghanaian
works under the blazing hot
sun for an hour and can only
buy a small ball of kenkey with
the earned wage. What happened
to a living wage? Ghanaian
workers are made to suffer
throughout their lives and yet
this sacrifice is not universal.
Others have made it their prerogative
to feed fat on the national
cake and get away with it.
The National Service Scheme
scam is all but forgotten. The
national cake or pie which represents
the Ghanaian economy is
not being grown with any degree
of seriousness to ensure that
everyone gets enough to keep
body and soul together.
Life after pension
Many Ghanaian pensioners
do not survive more than five
•Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa, author
years post-retirement. Many are
dead from poverty and misery
and this includes middle class
persons, yet elsewhere pensioners
have become the new group
to be wooed.
Most of them through flexible
home mortgages are able to
acquire their homes early in their
careers and finish paying for the
house before they are 55 or 60
years old. By the time they retire
Backyard farming or gardening of organically grown vegetables
is a good start, rearing chickens for eggs and poultry meat,
ducks, turkey and keeping small ruminants of goats and sheep,
and free range pigs can create an integrated farm. The goats,
sheep, pigs and poultry manure will help to fertilise the soil for
the organically grown vegetables.
they would have finished educating
their children who are ready
to leave the house to start their
own lives.
The parents downsize their
home from a three or four-bedroom
to a two-bedroom house
when their children fly the nest
and invest the remainder of the
equity from which they can get
another income in addition to
their work and state pensions.
They have spare cash and many
live a content life.
Sadly this cannot be said of
the Ghanaian worker. Welcome
to mother Ghana on your sixtieth
birthday. How long you will
survive depends on what new
strategies are put in place for
your benefit?
Ghanaian senior citizen
Who speaks for the Ghanaian
senior citizen? Being invited to a
lunch on Independence Day is
not enough. Pensioners in
Ghana must have a loud single
voice to articulate their concerns
but most especially each must
adopt a hobby which can be
translated into a business to earn
extra money post-retirement.
Many have taken this up to their
eternal happiness. Many can also
jump into the fray.
Backyard farming or gardening
of organically grown vegetables
is a good start, rearing
chickens for eggs and poultry
meat, ducks, turkey and keeping
small ruminants of goats and
sheep, and free range pigs can
create an integrated farm. The
goats, sheep, pigs and poultry
manure will help to fertilise the
soil for the organically grown
vegetables.
What is troubling is that lawmakers,
parliamentarians in
Ghana and the political appointees,
do not pay SSNIT contributions
and yet are the ones
who together with the Board of
SSNIT decide on how much
pensioners must be paid. SSNIT
pays its staff very well but are
unable to invest pension funds
in such a way as to create an
equalisation with the cost of living
in Ghana. Why should politicians
not contribute to the
nation's pension fund? Celebrations
of Ghana's diamond jubilee
must attempt to answer.

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Amidu should have apologised
to Ablakwa – Anyenini
BY KWAME ACHEAMPONG
PRIVATE LEGAL
practitioner and broadcaster
Samson Lardy
Anyenini says Special
Prosecutor nominee
Martin Amidu should
have apologised to North Tongu
Member of Parliament (MP)
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa after
he wrongly accused him of authoring
an article he found offensive.
According to the Multimedia
broadcaster, the refusal of Mr
Amidu to apologise over the impasse
takes a lot from him.
The former attorney general at
his vetting on Tuesday insisted Mr
Okudzeto wrote the said article despite
the persistent denial by the
North Tongu MP.
Speaking to Bola Ray on Starr
Chat Wednesday, Mr Lardy
Anyenini said the anti-corruption
campaigner was wrong with his approach
to the matter.
“I think it was so wrong for
•Samson Lardy Anyenini
him to insist that as far as he is
concerned he believes that it was
Okudzeto, and he keeps that believe,
that’s so wrong. He knows
that he is dealing with legal
processes, and that is what he is
good at. And in legal process, you
can’t prove that he is the one
when someone else has come and
said I’m the one who did it. He
absolutely does not have any
prove, and he didn’t give any.
“My expectation was that at
that point he would show the
whole world that I’m not as difficult
as you think. I expected him
to say that having come to that
knowledge, I regret I didn’t apologise
early enough but it is never
late to apologise; Okudzeto I’m
sorry,” Anyenini stressed.
Meanwhile, the National Democratic
Congress MP who threatened
to weigh his options in the
matter during the vetting, is reported
to have said he forgives his
party fellow over the attacks.
Ayine’s suit could scuttle Amidu’s appointment – NDC MP
BY MOHAMMED AWAL
A MEMBER of the Appointments
Committee of Parliament,
Eric Opoku, has warned the suit
challenging the eligibility of Martin
Amidu’s nomination as Special
Prosecutor due to his age
could scuttle his appointment,
despite receiving unanimous approval
from the Committee.
A former deputy Attorney
General Dr Dominic Ayine on
February 12 sued the State challenging
the eligibility of Mr.
Amidu’s nomination.
Dr Ayine, who is the National
Democratic Congress (NDC)
MP for Bolgatanga East, prayed
the Supreme Court to declare as
null and void the nomination because
66-year-old Mr. Amidu is
gone past the retirement age for
public office holders.
This was contained in a sevenpointer
reliefs in which he further
prayed the Court among
other things: “In the event Martin
Amidu has already been vetted
and approved by Parliament
and /or appointed by His Excellency
the President of the Republic
as the Special Prosecutor
under Section 13(3) of the Office
of the Special Prosecutor Act
2018 (Act 959) prior to the final
determination of this suit, an
order annulling such nomination,
approval and appointment.”
Mr Amidu has already been
approved unanimously by the
Appointments Committee of
Parliament, Starr News has
learnt.
The approval, according to
credible sources, was made hours
after the almost nine-hour
grilling of the former attorney
general.
Speaking Wednesday in an interview
with Starr News’ Parliamentary
Correspondent Ibrahim
Alhassan, Mr Opoku said despite
the committee’s unanimous approval
of Mr. Amidu’s nomination,
the suit by Dr Ayine could
hamper his appointment.
“But whatever it is having
gone through the process a decision
must be made. We have
done that. But there is a matter
pending before court. It is up to
the court to make a determination
and the outcome of that
case will have some consequences
on whatever happens,”
said the Member of Parliament
for Asunafo South.
Dr Ayine, who is
the National Democratic
Congress
(NDC) MP for Bolgatanga
East,
prayed the
Supreme Court to
declare as null
and void the nomination
because
66-year-old Mr.
Amidu is gone
past the retirement
age for public
office holders.
•Martin Amidu

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BY ABIGAIL ASARE
Managers need to date
their female artistes
– Mark Okraku-Mantey
MUSIC PRODUCER Mark
Okraku-Mantey is of the opinion
that artiste managers need
to date their female clients to
have a successful working relationship.
He believes that it is about
the only way a manager can
safeguard his investments.
“I’m talking based on the environment
as in Ghana. Some
man will sit in his house and
take decisions for you because
you have invested in his wife
and he will call the shots…”explained
Okraku-Mantey to Andy
Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on
Hitz FM.
“And because your money is
in there, you will conform
whether it will help your investment
or not or else the man will
say she won’t work with the
manager anymore.”
The head of the Creative
Arts Council claims, however, in
his two decades of working in
the Ghanaian music industry, he
has never been involved in a romantic
relationship with any of
the female artistes he has
worked with.
In December 2017, artiste
Manager, BullDog was at the receiving
end of stinging criticism
for making just about the same
comments.
“Primarily, if you want to
manage a female artiste successfully,
you have to be in a relationship,
an emotional
relationship and a sexual relationship
with the artiste.” explained
BullDog to Andy Dosty
on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM.
He claimed that being in relationship
with a female artiste as
a male manager creates a bond,
making work easier. “You won’t
succeed if you don’t do that,”
adds BullDog.
He advised married men
against managing female artistes
because it might destroy their
marriage: “I won’t encourage a
married man to be managing a
female artiste because he might
ruin his marriage.”
Songstress Efya slammed the
statement calling it ridiculous.
“I think it’s ridiculous for an
artiste manager to say that. It is
ridiculous for him to suggest
this,” said the ‘Until The Dawn’
crooner on A1 radio in Bolgatanga.
“We are here to make money
not boyfriends so we at all times
separate business from relationship
because it’s the business
that has to be sustained. Relationships
can break anytime so
the perception that you need to
date your manager before you
can be successful in music is
ridiculous.”
• Mark Okraku-Mantey, Music Producer
•Vendy Asamoah,
movie producer
Vendy produces
movie ‘Hours
to Graduate’
BY ERICA ARTHUR
VENDY
ASAMOAH, a
nineteen-yearold
level 200
student of the
Ghana Institute
of Journalism has produced
her first movie titled
‘Hours to Graduate’.
In an interview with the
DAILY HERITAGE, she
said she was inspired by her
mother to write the movie
and she looks up to Shirley
Frimpong Manso because
of how she carries herself
in the movie industry and
how good her movies are.
The budding movie producer
and script writer said,
“I wrote this movie when I
completed Senior High
School at Methodist Girls,
Mamfe. I was encouraged to
write this by my mother
since I used to write for the
school’s magazine. I love
this movie, it talks about
everything on our campuses,
and the movie is for
everyone not only students.”
Vendy also said the main
I am not bothered — Sarkodie
RAPPER SARKODIE says he is
not bothered about claims that
his success is as a result of he
being a member of the secret
group, the Illuminati.
He, however, thinks it is a
good situation to be in, when
people assume there is more to
his success than just his talent.
“That was the only reason why
I did the song. But personally, I
don’t care. I think it is a good situation
to be in when people feel
like there is something more than
just talent that can make you who
you are,” explained Sarkodie to
Akosua Konadu, host of Talk
show ‘The Hard Truth.’
reason why most Ghanaians
like telenovelas is that most
of local movies lack creativity
and the language use is
sometimes too strong, “I
think Ghanaians should be
smart enough to double our
creativity when it comes to
movies and we should
check the language use in
movies in order to control
our own movie market and
the love for telenovelas will
reduce. As a new producer
my style will be different.”
The movie, which talks
about what happens on tertiary
campus, captures the
life of a final year student
who is just about wrapping
up the four year academic.
The movie is yet to be
shown in various campuses
across the country. Vendy
entreats all students to go
and watch when it is being
premiered on their various
campuses.
The movie featured
some great talents like Jess
Haddarah of Bambini show,
Michelle and Ishmael
among others. It was directed
by Kwabena Nyadu.
“I take it in a positive way…
For people to make that comparison
then it should tell you where
you are. I am worried more about
people who care about me, not
what is said about me…I am
more worried about family members
who broke down over the Illuminati
tag and it got to them.”
In 2013, he released a song titled
‘Illuminati’ aimed at dispelling
rumours making the
rounds that he was a part of the
secret society.
The visuals of the song were
shot in Dubai by Phamous
Philms. It had the phrase ‘don’t
judge a man negatively by his success;
we all have 24 hours in a
day’ written at the end.
The rapper wondered why
people swear he is a member of
the secret society when he openly
praises God, and was raised in a
Christian home.
The Illuminati is a name given
to several groups, both real and
fictitious. Historically, the name
usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati,
an Enlightenment-era secret
society founded on 1 May
1776. The society’s goals were to
oppose superstition, obscurantism,
religious influence over public
life, and abuses of state power.

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Ages
Africa ft
Tiyumba
drops
‘Hold Me’
GHANAIAN REG-
GAE and Afrobeat
artiste, Ages Africa
has dropped a
new song, ‘Hold
Me’ which featured
musician, philanthropist and Radio
personality, Tiyumba previously
known as Trigmatic.
The new classic afropop, which
was produced by Hasty Baba, tells a
love story everybody can relate to.
The two crafted their lyrics carefully
to enable them get to the heart of
all music lovers.
Ages Africa is known for his
good music with countless collaboration
he has done over the years.
He is currently trading his music as
an independent artiste who is passionate
and hopeful of getting a
major breakthrough soon.
Hold me’ is officially out now
and available for downloads.
•Reggae, Afrobeat
artiste Ages Africa
I was not part of ‘By The
Fire Side’ – Shatta Wale
A CLAIM by Veteran actress
Grace Omaboe (Maame
Dokono) that Dancehall artiste
Shatta Wale was a part of television
programme ‘By The Fire
Side’ is false.
Omaboe recently claimed on
‘After Hours‘ on TV3 that the
‘Taking Over‘ artiste was the
gong gong beater on the show.
“Shatta Wale was beating the
gong gong on ‘By The Fire
Side,” stated the veteran actress.
A post by Wale on March 25,
2016 disputes the claim. It states
that he couldn’t get a role on the
show because he wasn’t fluent in
Twi.
“You wanted me to play a
role in your by the fireside series
as a gong gong beater, In fact I
trust if my Twi was good at that
time I would have been in it but
you said one thing which
touched my heart at that tender
age that ‘wow boy, you are very
good and will go far just learn
the Twi for me ok’,” reads part
of the post on Facebook.
‘By The Fireside’ aired on
Ghana Television in the late 90s.
It chronicled the numerous misadventures
of Kwaku Ananse
and other characters in the animal
kingdom. It was acted out
by persons representing the
characters.
•Shatta Wale,
artiste
Meek Mill’s lawyer questions legitimacy of Cop’s testimony
MEEK MILL’S legal team is
doing everything in its power
to get the rapper released as
soon as possible. On Wednesday,
his lawyer filed an appeal
in the form of the Post-Conviction
Relief Act petition. It
questions the legitimacy of his
original 2007 arrest after the
Philadelphia Inquirer ran a report
revealing that the
Philadelphia District Attorney’s
Office put together a
“secret list” of suspect cops
last year.
The main officer spotlighted
is Reginald Graham,
who arrested Mill in 2007. His
testimony as the sole witness
during the rapper’s 2008 trial
is now being called not credible
as the petition documents
cites former Philadelphia Police
Officer Jerold Gibson,
who provided a sworn affidavit
to Licensed Private Investigator
Cliff Goldsmith
stating that Gibson was present
during Meek’s arrest. According
to Gibson, officer
Graham’s testimony contradicts
what actually occurred
that day.
Gibson states Mill never
pointed a gun at Graham or
anyone else; the officer only
claimed that detail once he
was in custody. Gibson also
•Meek Mill, American artiste
points out Mill took his gun
out of his waistband to discard
it, so the officers did not
yell at him to “drop the gun.”
Graham never took cover behind
a parked van and Mill
never tried to escape. Former
officer Jeffrey Walker (who
worked in the narcotics field
unit with Graham from 2003
to 2005 or 2006 and again in
2012) was also cited in the petition,
and his affidavit is different
from Graham’s.
During Mill’s 2008 trial,
Graham testified to recovering
two packets of alleged crack
cocaine from a criminal informant
who allegedly purchased
them from Mill, but
the officer never offered a
property receipt or lab report
for those packets, or even the
packets themselves, as evidence.
According to the documents,
Graham frequently
stole and kept money that
was recovered during searches
and arrests, beat people who
were considered suspects, and
even admitted to Walker that
he beat Meek in 2007 or
2008.
On Tuesday, Mill’s attorney
Joe Tacopina told Complex
all legal avenues would be
pursued. complex.com

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2018 Winter Olympics
Frimpong fails
to impress
AKWASI FRIM-
PONG, Ghana’s
sole representative
at the ongoing 2018
Winter Olympics in
Pyeongchang, South
Korea failed to make a better running
time in the men’s skeleton
competition early yesterday
morning as he played 30th in
heat one and heat two respectively.
The Ghanaian finished
his first heat with a time
of 53.97 seconds and the
second run in a time of
54.46 seconds finishing
30th out of 30 athletes.
The 32-year-old will
be hoping for a better
outing today when the
competition concludes
with two further runs.
South Korea’s Yun
Sung-Bin leads by 0.74
seconds with a total
time of 1 minute 40.35
seconds after two
runs. However, Frimpong
has caught the eye
for his colourful helmet
which has won rave reviews
as the best in the
skeleton competition.
His helmet has an illustration
of a rabbit
inside the mouth of a
lion.
“My former sprint
• Akwasi
Frimpong
coach Sammy
Monsels talks
about the
analogy of a
rabbit in a
cage, ready
to escape
from a
lion,”
Frimpong said in an email Monday.
“I am that rabbit, and I have escaped
the lions [of my past]. I am
no longer being eaten by all the
things around my life.”
The former track athlete was
raised in Ghana but moved to the
Netherlands at the age of eight. He
caught up with Ghana born United
States (US) speed skate Maame
Biney during the games.
Frimpong made history by becoming
Ghana’s first skeleton athlete
to qualify for a Winter
Olympic event while Maame on
the other hand, is the first
African-American woman to
qualify for the United States
Olympic speed skating team
and the second speed skater to
ever qualify for the Winter
Olympics.
Maame, 18 years of age, was
also born in Ghana but migrated
to the US at a young age.
Eight basketball
teams set for
Battle Ground
Tourney
EIGHT TEAMS will compete
in the Battle Ground
Tournament scheduled to
commence at the Tema
Community 4 Court.
The competition is the
latest warm up tournament
ahead of the 2018 Tema
Basketball League season
due to start in late March.
Headlining the list of
teams is league champions
Tema Community 4. The
team will be competing for
the first time since clinching
the title last year.
Ashaiman Lions is listed
among the teams competing
for the next three
weeks; lions head to the
competition with their tails
up after winning the preseason
competition in December
2017.
Former league winners
Nungua Coldstore have
been included after skipping
the previous warm up
competition due to internal
reasons.
Akatsi Rifles, Teshie
Rangers, Tema Heat, Tema
Community 2 and Ghana
Police are part of the eight
team roster for the competition.
All teams competing in
the tournament have featured
in at least one of the
past two league campaigns
and are likely to compete
in the upcoming season.
Ghana Amputee Football team in Turkey calls for Minister’s attention
BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH
PLAYERS OF the Ghana Amputee
Football national team, the Black
Challenge based in Turkey has
called on the authority of the country’s
sports, the Ministry of Youth
and Sports to pay critical attention
to amputee sports.
A letter copied to the DAILY
HERITAGE in Accra and signed
by the captain of the national team,
Richard Arthur Opentil, said there
were attempts by some individuals
and groups of people to create confusion
in the amputee football sector
for reasons best known to them.
According to him, they have also
observed certain negative trends
anytime the team is scheduled to
participate in the amputee football
world cup.
The captain said due to the obstructive
actions, the team missed
the opportunity to play in Mexico
due to late arrival.
“We would not sit down for any
person or group of persons to play
with our destiny since the game of
amputee football means a lot to us.
We, therefore, want to state that,
anybody wishing to play a role in
amputee football should join the
current leadership to help the team
participate in the World Cup to
bring glory to the nation,” he said.
Captain Opentil noted that those
with leadership ambitions should
hold on with their plans till “we finish
with the World Cup this year
since we have a very short time
ahead of us; so we can’t afford to
waste time on leadership struggles.”
He urged people with good intentions
to support the sport.

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I regret
returning to
Man Utd— Pogba
PPAUL POGBA
reportedly has
‘some regrets’ over
rejoining
Manchester United
and feels he should
have signed for Real Madrid
instead.
The France international
returned to Old Trafford last
summer after four years at
Juventus for a then worldrecord
fee of £89m.
The 24-year-old established
himself as a key part of Jose
Mourinho’s side and enjoyed
a successful first campaign
back at the club, winning the
Community Shield, EFL Cup
and Europa League.
But despite starting this
season strongly, Pogba has
fallen out of favour under
Mourinho and was recently
dropped, with the Portuguese
unhappy with his levels of
performance since the arrival
of Alexis Sanchez
from Arsenal last month.
Pogba is reportedly
unhappy about the role he is
being asked to play in a
midfield two and wants more
attacking freedom.
And according
to L’Equipe, he is having
second thoughts about his
decision to return to the
Premier League.
The French paper claim
there have been ‘some regrets’
over the decision, stating that
Pogba has ‘never hidden his
initial attraction to Real
Madrid’.
The La Liga giants were
also linked with him before
United secured his signature.
The report claims that
Pogba was so excited about a
return to United that he
attempted to convince his
France team-mates to join
him, most notably Atletico
Madrid striker Antoine
Griezmann. Dailystar
• Paul Pogba
reportedly has
'some regrets'
about rejoining
Man Utd
• Jordan
Henderson
Europe is scared
of Liverpool
—Jordan Henderson
JORDAN HENDERSON
reckons Liverpool were
feared in Europe even before
they put five past Porto on
Wednesday night.
The Reds put one foot
firmly in the Champions
League quarter-finals with a
stunning display to become
the first English team to ever
score five away goals in a
European Cup knockout tie.
And Kop skipper
Henderson believes Europe’s
big guns were hoping to
avoid Jurgen Klopp’s men
even before the record
breaking night at Estadio do
Dragao in Portugal.
He said: “I think before
this game, I am not sure how
many teams would have
wanted to play us anyway.
“Because when we are on
it, like we were here, we are
very hard to play.
“That has to be our norm
and we have to be consistent
with the performances and to
get results like this.”
Liverpool raced into a
two-goal lead thanks to
strikes from Sadio Mane and
Mohamed Salah before the
Senegal ace got two more
after the break to complete
his hat-trick and Roberto
Firmino also got in on the
act. Mirror.co.uk
Zinedine Zidane
makes big promise to fans
THE CHAMPIONS League will have it all to do in the
holders will take a healthy 3-1 return tie.
lead to the Parc des Princes But Madrid coach Zidane
on March 6.
has told them to forget about
Adrien Rabiot opened the the next round as he expects
scoring for the visitors but more of the same from his
Los Blancos hit back with a Galacticos.
Cristiano Ronaldo brace and a He said: “This has been a
late goal from Marcelo. great night. We can be
In what proved a
satisfied with how the game
fascinating Champions went.
League game, Real showed “We played well from start
why they are 12-time
till finish. We kept
European
hold of the
champions
ball and
against a team
pressed
looking to
them
make history
well.
of their own.
“It
PSG have
was a
been touted
great
as one of the
result
favourites to
and we're
win the
happy.”
competition but
Dailystar
• Zidane
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