Trade Union Congress gives
ultimatum on retirement benefit
NPP
race, Cann throws weight behind Esseku
‘I will
prepare NPP for next polls’
Vice-President
of IFC to visit Ghana
Confusion
in police
Two
NDC activists convicted for electoral offences
Couple arrested for selling weapons
Two
hundred pick-ups missing?
Homecoming
murder; Police arrest 2 suspects
Ghanaian
to hang in Malaysia
Kofi
Wayo still mad – I wanna buy TOR!
At
last, Queenmother in freezer for seven years to be buried
Whistle
blower bill
Nduom
fires back form U.S.
Minority
and Media must co-exist for common good
Students
kick against Union’s praises for gov’t
Don't
blame us - NDC
Hearts
of oak acquire new secretariat
Michael
Osei returns
Aziz,
7 others for Afro-Asian games
New
twist in Agbeko's fight
Weekend
Statesman
Harona
Esseku, the Senya Breku born veteran politician is set to receive the
endorsement of the 490 delegates participating in tomorrow's NPP National
Delegates Conference at the University of Ghana, Legon for the chairmanship
position.
Esseku, who is to take over from another
veteran politician and Ambassador-designate, Samuel Odoi Sykes after the
election, is in the race with Mohammed Musah, 28-year old Central Regional
Youth Organiser and Col. (Rtd) Samuel Addai-Duah, Greater Accra Regional First
Vice Chairman.
The fourth contestant, Robert
Quainoo-Arthur also from the Central Region, withdrew his candidacy on
Wednesday evening, citing personal reasons.
The withdrawal syndrome seems to have the center stage of discussions within party circles, depriving the congress of its usual pomp and pageantry, according to the Weekend Statesman.
Prof. Mike Ocquaye, a Lawyer and
Political Scientist who was widely tipped to succeed Odoi-Sykes, was first to
announce his withdrawal even before the filing of nominations began.
However, this development threw up new
challengers with Musah, who incidentally comes from the same constituency with
Esseku pledging to cause a stir.
The withdrawal syndrome also affected
the vice-chairmanship. Less than 24 hours after clearing the 12 final
contestants for three vice-chairmanship positions, four people have stepped
down leaving eight contestants to vie for three slots.
Those left in the race are Yaw Albert
Osebre, Stephen Ayesu Ntim, Dr Kwesi Adjepong, Herman Seshie, Nana Afum
Boateng, Edmund Annan and Agnes Adzo Okudzeto and Catherine K. Tedam.
Three people will be selected in the
order of votes received to fill the vacant positions of National First, Second
and Third Vice Chair-persons.
From all indications Eddie Annan, the
former boss of the Ghana Tennis Association, will clinch one of the three slots
leaving out Herman Seshie, a veteran politician and management consultant,
Stephen Ayesu Ntim, a bilingual computer expert from Dormaa in the Brong Ahafo
Region but based in Accra and the two women in the hot chase for the other two
slots.
The National Organiser is expected to
generate a lot of excitement. Aboagye
Johnson Cliff from Korle Klotty has stepped down leaving the race to three
people, Alhaji Sulemana Yirimea, a Bawku-based politician, Mustapha
Abdul-Hamid, a 30-year old graduate from the University of Cape Coast, and an
Advertising agent and Lord Enoch Commey, Greater Accra Regional Assistance
Secretary.
The race for the National Treasurer
position where four people have lined up should be a straight fight between
Kwesi Arthur, a 51-year old accountant and 69-year old Michael Dugan, the
oldest candidate in the contest.
Also in that race are, Samuel James Nii
Adjei Tawiah, Osu-born London branch organiser and Dr Brandford Ekow Ansah.
Dan Botwe is the only candidate returned
unopposed, following the disqualification of his challenger, Rams
Agyeman-Prempeh, a 30-year-old Teacher at Tema Secondary School.
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Trade
Union Congress gives ultimatum on retirement benefit
The
Daily Graphic reports that the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has given the
government an ultimatum to restore the End-of-Service Benefits (ESB) by the end
of next month or face the wrath of workers.
Urging the government to defreeze the ESB as early
as possible, it said the patience of workers is running out.
The Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Council
of Labour of the TUC, Wilson K. Agana, issued the ultimatum in an interview
after the opening of a workshop of the regional Executive Committee of the TUC
in Accra on Thursday.
According to him, the union has
documentary evidence, including confidential letters circulated by the Ghana
Employers Association (GEA), to its members and other bodies, to formulate
strategies to thwart attempts to reinstate the benefits.
He advised the “government to be very careful with
the GEA, whose members have adopted a delaying tactics approach since the
inception of talks on the ESB over the years.”
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NPP
race, Cann throws weight behind Esseku
Peter
Perkin Cann, who is vying for the position of the National Chairman of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP), has withdrawn from the race and rallied behind Harona Esseku, who
is also bidding for the same position, at the party’s national delegates
congress, which takes place on Saturday at the University of Ghana, Legon.
“After carefully reexamining the
situation on the ground and interacting with my numerous supporters throughout
the regions, I have stepped down from the contest and I am offering my fullest
support for Esseku to become the national chairman of the party,” he said.
Cann is reported as having told the
Graphic that he sincerely believes that Esseku has the requisite experience and
excellent human relations to overhaul the party’s structures in his bid to
transform the NPP into the most formidable political machinery, which will
manage the affairs of the country into the foreseeable future.
“I have no doubt in my mind that Esseku,
who has been a loyal activist of the Danquah-Busia tradition since the last
four decades, has the vision and foresight to lead the party successfully in
its bid to retain political power in the next parliamentary and presidential
elections,” he said.
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‘I
will prepare NPP for next polls’
Dr
Kojo Appiah-Kubi, one of the contestants bidding for the position of national
Vice-Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at its national delegates
congress, which comes off tomorrow has pledged to put the party in a state of
adequate preparedness for the 2004 general elections.
He said the next general elections pose
more serious challenges for the party than previous polls, since “the broad
masses of the party would have assessed our performance and decided whether or
not to return the NPP to power,”
Dr Appiah-Kubi, who said this in an
interview in Accra on Thursday, pointed out that, “since the next polls would
be an uphill task, the party should do everything within our power to fulfill
the promises it made to the electorate to ensure that the NPP maintains its
firm grip on political power in the country.”
According to him, the assumption of
political power by the NPP has made it necessary for the national leadership to
restructure the party’s structures, from the national to the constituency
levels, and stressed that the party needs people with ideas, dynamism and
organisational talents to undertake massive reactivation of such structures.
“I possess all those qualities and
characteristics needed of a vice-chairman to move the party to greater
heights,” Dr Appiah-Kubi said.
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Vice-President
of IFC to visit Ghana
The
Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Peter
Woicke will pay a working visit to Ghana, ahead of a three-member delegation
from August 28 to 29, 2001.
The members of his delegation are Haydee
Celaya, Director, Africa Department, Saran Kebet-Koulibaly, Regional Manager,
West and Central Africa and Antoine Courcelle-Labraousse, Resident
Representative in Ghana.
During his visit, Woicke who is also the
Managing Director of the World Bank Group will pay a courtesy call on President
J.A. Kufuor and later hold discussions with other government officials and
representatives of the private sector to discuss IFC’s role in promoting and
supporting the private sector in Ghana.
The discussions will also include what
IFC can do to assist the government in designing and implementing its
privatisation strategy and programme.
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Confusion
in police
The
Accra Mail says as the Ghana Police Service continue to struggle for an image
face-lift in this era of “positive change”, so do aspects of its past keep
cropping up to haunt it.
According to the paper, a three-day
interchange between civil society and the Police Service at the British Council
last Wednesday opened a can of worms, which suggests that among other lapses,
there was no mechanism for periodic monitoring of the service.
For the past twenty years, the
institution has not presented any annual reports of its performance to any
oversight body for scrutiny and follow-up action.
The issue came up when Emile Short,
Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), during a
presentation asked whether the Service presented annual reports to Parliament.
“The responses from the senior police
officers present revealed a service in serious confusion. They took turns in
contradicting one another in their attempt to answer the question while bemused
participants looked from one officer to the other not knowing who to believe,”
says the paper.
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One
of the Volta regional contestants for the posts of vice chairs of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) reported to have stepped down for the 58-year old Agnes
Adzo Okudzeto says he is still in the race.
According to The Ghanaian Chronicle, Albert Yaw
Osebre, a graduate of one of Britain’s Ivy League universities and a former NPP
Volta Regional Chairman told the paper on Thursday that contrary to the press
statement by his colleague contestant, Ken Gag Senaya that, all four male
contestants from the Volta have thrown their support behind Ms Okudzeto, he would contest tomorrow’s polls.
Osebre, a native of the northern Volta,
said he hoped to bring to bear his rich experience as a former chairman of the
party and former Ghana Ambassador to Algeria, on the party.
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Two
NDC activists convicted for electoral offences
Two
Activists of the National Democratic Congress who assaulted a lawyer and a
lecturer of the University of Cape Coast during the December 28, 2000
Presidential run-off were on August 13, fined 300,000 cedis each by the Bibiani
Circuit Court.
The suspects are, Kofi Kumah, alias
J.J., a 26-year-old “Akpeteshie” dealer and Stephen Appiah also known as
Akuoku, 36.
The court, presided over by Justice
Benjamin Osei, however, adjourned the case to August 24, to enable it decide on
the fate of the first accused, William Yaw Yankey, 24, an unemployed.
Yankey could not appear before the court
on the last adjourned date, August 13, because he had contracted malaria and,
therefore, was undergoing medical treatment.
Kumah and Appiah (second and third
accused) who had earlier pleaded not guilty changed their plea to guilty and
were, accordingly fined. In default of payment of the fine, the accused would
serve a three-month imprisonment term.
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Couple
arrested for selling weapons
The
Ghanaian Times reports that a couple were arrested on Wednesday by the Unit Committee
of Manso-Takorase in Ashanti, and handed over to the Police for allegedly
dealing in locally manufactured pistols.
Kwasi Oteng, 45, a second-hand shoe
dealer, and his wife, Afua Nyarko, a used clothing dealer, at the time of their
arrest, were offering eight locally manufactured pistols for sale. Each of the
weapons was priced at 40,000 cedis.
A police spokesman told newsmen in
Kumasi that five cartridges found on the couple were also seized.
According to the spokesman, Nana Osei
Kwaku, chairman of the Manso-Takorase Unit Committee, last Wednesday had a
tip-off that some people were illegally selling some locally manufactured,
pistols. He, therefore, asked all members of the committee to be on the alert.
A few minutes after receiving the information,
a member of the committee spotted the couple and feigned interest in buying a
pistol.
While bargaining over the price of the
weapon, the other members of the committee who had been alerted by their
colleague, arrested the couple and handed them over to the police.
When they were searched at the local
police station, two pistols were found on the man and six on his wife. Three
cartridges were also found on the man and two on the woman.
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Two
hundred pick-ups missing?
The
Evening News reports that about 200 Mitsubishi pick-ups said to have been
imported by the former Chief of Staff, Nana Ato Dadzie before the 2000 elections
cannot be traced.
The customs duties on the 200 pick-ups
were not paid at the ports, thereby resulting in the loss of billions of cedis
to the state.
The paper says its investigations
revealed that the vehicles were brought into the country through the Japan
Motors with Baba Kamara, NDC national treasurer acting as agent for the office
of the Chief of Staff.
Efforts by the security agencies to
trace the whereabouts of the 200 vehicles seem to make no headway.
It said under normal circumstances vehicles
imported by the government do not attract duties but the 200 vehicles imported
by the former Chief of Staff did not go to any government agencies, ministries
or departments, a situation which has become a source of worry to the security
agencies.
Further investigations have revealed
that the pick-ups were those used by the NDC in their campaign for the 2000
elections.
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Homecoming
murder; Police arrest 2 suspects
The
Accra Regional Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the
murder of the late Charles Opoku Mensah, the man who took part in the July 23
to 26 'Homecoming Summit and was murdered at Anwomaso near Kumasi on July 26,
2001.
The suspects are Mallam Ibrahim 23, a
butcher from Navrongo and Emmanuel Vanderpuye 20, a fisherman/boxer from
James-Town, Accra.
The arrests followed a tip-off that the
gang, which conducted the robbery and murder of the late Opoku Mensah was in
Accra.
A statement issued by the Accra Regional
Police Commander, Dr K.K. Manfo, said the police arrested four members of the
gang.
They all denied knowledge of the offence
but in the process of sending the suspects to Kumasi where the offence occurred
to be identified the police learnt that the members of the family of the victim
who witnessed the robbery were in the Accra.
Consequently, an identification parade
was held and out of 12 persons, one was identified by one of the children, of
the deceased and another by a 12-year old boy.
Both were subsequently identified by the widow aged
36.
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Ghanaian
to hang in Malaysia
A
Malaysian High Court has sentenced a Ghanaian trader to death by hanging after
being found guilty of trafficking in half a kilo of heroin in Kedah four years
ago, reports the Free Press.
Emmanuel Yaw Tieku, 41, was arrested
with 515.7g of heroin at about 11.30 am on December 13, 1997.
The Free Press story culled from the
July 25, 2001 edition of The Sun, a Malaysian newspaper, said the offence as
charge, under Malaysia's Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 carries the mandatory death
sentence upon conviction.
Tieku was detained when he entered
Malaysia through the Customs and Immigration Complex at Bukit Kayu Hitam
bordering Thailand on December 13, 1997.
Malaysian Customs were suspicious of
Tieku when they found four Imodium and 10 Motillium pills, used to prevent or
enable one to clean the bowels in his trouser pockets. Tieku was taken to Jitra
Hospital and 84 capsules of heroine were recovered from his stool.
During the trial, he claimed that he
thought the contents of the capsules were gold dust.
The trial judge Datuk Alauddin Mohammed Sheriff
said Tieku's reluctance to have an x-ray at the hospital clearly showed that he
was aware of the contents in the capsules.
"If the accused had previously
brought in gold dust, he would surely know the difference in weight between
gold dust and that of other items", he said.
Before his arrest, Tieku had entered
Malaysia on September 4, 1997 and October 23, 1997 also via Kayu Hitam carrying
with him what he claimed was gold dust.
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Kofi
Wayo still mad – I wanna buy TOR!
The
Daily Guide reports that there has been a fierce bidding and counter-bidding to
own shares in the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Ghana's only oil refinery, following
a recent announcement by the government to off-load its shares in it.
The paper says its investigations show
that while two foreign companies are strenuously bidding to buy majority shares
to run the TOR, an indigenous Ghanaian, Charles Kofi Wayo, a self-proclaimed
oil-expert, has also put in bids to buy shares to enable him to run the
refinery efficiently and profitably.
Guides reports that investigations conducted to solicit views
from gurus in the petro-chemical business both in Ghana, Libya, USA and South
Korea show that while it would be ideal to let a Ghanaian (an indigene) to run
the TOR, bids being put in by Kofi Wayo may not qualify him as an investor to
take-over the management of the refinery.
Kofi Wayo, and his Oil Producers Association
(OPA) Refinery and Marketing Incorporated based in Springfield Illinois, and
Samsung Company of South Korea, are at the moment engaged in a fierce battle
for the management of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) on behalf of Ghanaians, according
to the paper.
The Daily Guide says upon Kofi Wayo’s continued
quest to acquire shares in TOR, it investigated his Oil Producers Association
(OPA) Refinery and Marketing Incorporated based in Springfield, Illinois, USA.
The paper says a Christopher Homeir, the
President of OPA, said in a telephone interview that their company, an
internationally acclaimed oil company operating in the Middle East, Nigeria,
China, Egypt, Indonesia and the USA, after an inspection of facilities at TOR,
saw that the refinery has the potential to be the leading refinery in Africa,
but for bad management which has left
it in serious crisis.
He stated that his company is interested
in TOR because Kofi Wayo, the Vice-President of OPA and owning a substantial
equity in the company, is also a Ghanaian.
According to Homeir, Wayo is being
patriotic by investing in TOR, and also the potential of OPA to make TOR the
leading petrol chemical industry not only in Africa but the whole world.
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At
last, Queenmother in freezer for seven years to be buried
The
Guide says at long last, the mortal remains of the late Queenmother of the
Agona Royal family of Old Tafo in Kumasi, Nana Konadu Yadom will be laid to
rest.
The Queenmother died at a ripe age of 80
but has been lying in the mortuary for the past seven years because of a
protracted chieftaincy dispute between two rival factions in the town.
However, on Thursday, the Otumfuo Osei
Tutu II, the Asantehene accepted the nomination of Dr James K. Frimpong as the
new chief of the town.
The announcement made people to
recollect the harm that had been done to Tafo in the past seven years, as lives
and property were lost in the process.
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Whistle
blower bill
A
private Member's Bills entitled 'Whistle Blower Bill', currently being drafted
by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), will be presented to Parliament
when the House resumes sitting in October, reports The Dispatch.
The object of the Bill, according to a
Senior Fellow of IEA, Dr George Apenteng, is to grant protection to members of
civil society on exposing criminal acts perpetrated by members of the arms of
government to the security agencies.
In an exclusive interview with The
Dispatch, Dr Apenteng stressed the need for civil society to act as watchdogs
over the arms of government, adding that the 'Whistle Blower Bill' is to
support this expected role.
The interview followed a presentation by
Dr Apenteng on Strategies for Promoting National Integration and Ethnic
Harmony: The Role of Civil Society, at a two-day seminar organised by the
Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), which ended in
Accra last Wednesday.
The seminar, dubbed 'National
Consultation on Racism, Tribalism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance' and
sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), was a
prelude to an international conference with the same theme to be held in
Durban, South Africa, from August 31 - September 7.
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Nduom
fires back form U.S.
The
Independent reports that Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, the Minister of Economic Planning
and Economic Cooperation, currently holidaying in the United States, has fired
back at his adversaries who claim his short vacation is a subtle way of saying
goodbye to the Kufuor government.
In an interview with the paper, Dr
Nduom, who was traced to his vacation address in the US said "I am still
committed to the job entrusted to me by the President and I will do it
diligently for the improvement of lives of the Ghanaian people within the end
of term of the current administration".
He disclosed that he is due in the
country on Saturday to prove to his critics that he is not a coward to resign
in that manner.
Perhaps, as the first in its kind for a
Minister of State to publicly ask permission from his boss, the President, to grant
him a few days rest, Nduom's vacation had been misconstrued in some quarters as
a way of quitting government on the quiet.
An Accra private radio station fuelled
the suspicion last Monday when it reported that, the Economic Planning Minister
was not at post when it inquired from the Ministry of Economic Planning and
Regional Cooperation.
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Minority
and Media must co-exist for common good
The
Ghana Palaver carries that its editor, Jojo Bruce Quansah, has indicated that
for the democratic process to succeed in Ghana, the minority and the media must
co-exist as two sides of the same coin meant for one good purpose.
He asked the NDC, as the precursor of
the present liberalised and pluralised media landscape, to shed its lukewarm
attitude towards the private media with whom it stands a great chance of
forging a very good working relations.
Most critics of the NDC, according to
Quansah, faulted it on its relationship with the private media as was evidenced
by the many court cases against some editors and newspapers by government
functionaries.
The Ghana Palaver editor, at a days
seminar organised by the NDC Youth at a forum in Legon, Accra on the theme:
"The media and the minority, partners in the development of
democracy", stressed that what is required to cement this kind of relationship, is good journalism from the
private media, which must prove more credible, factual and objective than
before.
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Students
kick against Union’s praises for gov’t
A
section of students at the University of Ghana, Legon, have described as empty,
the recent praises said to have been "showered" on the NPP Government
for absorbing the increases on the University academic and residential facility
user fees.
According to the students, the NPP
Government is merely implementing an NDC Government policy, which the latter,
while in opposition, attempted to nip in the bud. For, the ¢15 billion, which
the Government is proudly releasing to cushion off costs, is actually from the
revenue accrued from the special 2½ percent VAT, levied for the purpose of
building up the Educational Trust Fund.
The Palaver recalls that the NPP
"raised hell", when the NDC Government made the proposal. The party's
parliamentary group at that time moved "heaven and earth" to sabotage
the parliamentary process. Strangely enough, they were supported by the then
leadership of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), says the paper.
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Don't
blame us - NDC
The
Public Agenda quotes the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress
as saying that the party cannot be blamed for the pile up of debts and the
consequent economic hardship facing the country.
In an exclusive interview, Alhaji Yahaya
said the trillions of debts that the Kufuor administration has bandied about in
a frantic attempt to hang the Rawlings administration, was the legacy of all
the Government since independence.
"The debt is the total debt since
independence, not debt contracted by NDC alone" Yahaya said.
"When we talk about debts, we must
also talk of infrastructure development. When the NPP were traveling to regions
to campaign, they used tarred roads. Now we have Internet through which people
have quick communication. All these infrastructure were made with money,"
he said.
"Most of the loans we contracted were long term
concessional loans, payable as long as forty years with 10 years
moratorium," adds the NDC scribe.
He challenged the NPP to tell Ghanaians
how much of the loan, they have to pay within the four years that they will be
in office.
"Within the seven months that the NPP have been
in office, they have contracted half the loan we contracted throughout our
reign. They have contracted millions of dollars. When you convert that into
cedis it would be in trillions," reveals Alhaji Yahaya.
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Hearts
of oak acquire new secretariat
Accra
Hearts of Oak Sporting Club Limited has finally purchased a building to be
refurnished and redesigned to serve as the administrative seat and official
secretariat of the club, reports the club’s mouthpiece, Hearts News.
The building which is situated on the
ring road near Trust Towers at Asylum Down in Accra, cost the club
$140,000.
In an interview with the paper, Board Secretary,
Ernest Thompson, revealed however that only an initial deposit of $100,000 has
been made to the vendors for the building, with the remaining $40,000 to be
paid when the club gets vacant possession.
He went on to explain that the contract,
which is in an outright sale agreement has been successfully renegotiated and
it is expected that total handover would be in December.
The contract of sale expected to be
executed between the two parties followed by a conveyance, will be concluded
and signed by the end of next week.
The building which is a 10-room, storey, with a
separate out house is expected to be redesigned to cater for all departments
available, which would broaden the professional outlook of the club.
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Michael
Osei returns
The
Asante Kotoko controversial striker, Michael Osei, is back from Spain where he
had trials with First Division side, Deportivo de Tenerife.
According to the Asante Kotoko Express,
‘Ember’ touched down on Friday and left immediately to Kumasi to join his colleagues.
He surfaced at the training session last
Wednesday, but Coach Middendorp is reported to be unamused that Michael or his
manager has failed to file a report on his performance while in Spain.
Middendorp has reportedly requested for
that report which is said to be in the pipeline.
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Aziz,
7 others for Afro-Asian games
The
Graphic Sports carries that the Africa Athletics Confederation (AAC) has
selected eight Ghanaian athletes to participate in this year's Afro-Asian Games
in India in November.
The athletes were selected based on
their performances at the just-ended World Athletics, Championships and other
competitions they participated in.
They include Aziz Zakari, Mark Awere,
Margaret Simpson, Vida Anim, Vida Nsiah, Osei Ernest, and Monica Twum.
This will be the first time Ghana would
be participating in the annual games, which bring together first class athletes
from the African and Asian continents to vie for hours.
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New
twist in Agbeko's fight
A
rare twist in fortunes last Tuesday has enriched the September 7 World boxing
showdown in Accra where King Kong, Joseph Agbeko, will attempt to become the
sixth Ghanaian to win a world boxing title.
The dream follows what Agbeko's original
opponent, Louis Mambo of Zambia, thought was going to be his final warm-up
fight before descending on Agbeko in Accra. Instead, he got knocked out in the
ninth of a 10-round fight by Mike Kizza of Uganda.
Immediately after the shocking upset,
the sanctioning body, the World Boxing Federation, named the Ugandan as the
replacement and the mandatory opponent for Joseph Agbeko's world title
aspiration.
Kizza, who is the East and Central
Africa bantamweight and super bantamweight champion, improved his record to an
impressive 16-1 with seven knockouts.
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