Tsatsu Tsikata denies Kan Dapaah’s charges
Low grade cocoa from Cote d'Ivoire intercepted
Prof. Mills denied access to Radio
NDC lodges complaint against NPP chairman
Foodstuff getting rotten in Coaltar area
President Kufuor consoles widow of late Sergeant Owusu
NDC optimistic of victory in 2004 elections
Edumadze urges envoys to market nation's tourism potentials
Amanafo Poku elected President of C/R House of Chiefs
Funding of political parties good but.... Chigabatia
Ablemkuma claims ownership area around Weija Lake
Ghana to participate prison Fellowship meeting in Johannesburg
Police warn motorist against careless driving on Nsawam Bridge
Kufuor stresses need to fight against breakdown of law and order
Thieves making wake-keeping unpopular
Journalists Association welcomes investigation into blackmail claim
Brigadier Gbedemah retires voluntarily
House endorses standing committee findings
Accra (Greater Accra) 06 September 2001 - The former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr Tsatsu Tsikata on Thursday denied various allegations of financial impropriety, which the government said had resulted in huge financial loss to the state.
He told a press conference that the allegations were of no merit and were unfounded. The Energy Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah at a Press Conference on August 8 made various allegations of impropriety against Mr Tsikata, especially his dealings with Societe Generale (SG), a French commodities bank.
The Minister had alleged that Mr Tsikata misrepresented himself to SG as a financial expert in derivatives and recklessly hedged the country's allocation of crude oil, which resulted in the loss of 47 million dollars to the state.
The former GNPC Chief Executive was also said to have mortgaged the corporation's drill ship for 32 million dollars and received a net premium of eight million dollars.
Mr Tsikata, however, said the hedging transactions were part of normal industry practice in the commodity world and were a regular feature of commodity financing transactions.
He said the corporation's dealing with SG was purely in the development of the Tano Oil Fields and not in the sale of oil on the international market.
Mr Tsikata explained that SG's proposal of derivatives was undertaken because of the long term financing requirements of the corporation and to ensure that future oil price movements did not adversely affect the corporation's ability to repay debts incurred on the project.
"The basic strategy for the derivative transactions was recommended by Societe Generale and they provided the credit lines for the transactions and controlled what transactions were acceptable throughout the period."
Mr Tsikata said SG expressed its satisfaction with GNPC's compliance to the recommended strategy and increased its credit to the corporation to continue with the transaction. "These are complex transactions, but it is wrong to regard them as gambling," he emphasised.
He said it was in this direction that when SG presented a standard form agreement, in which it included a clause stating that GNPC had not depended on their advice, they rejected it and it was removed before the agreement was signed.
Mr Tsikata also denied allegations of selling crude oil in the international market instead of making the allocation available to Ghanaians, explaining that when the crude oil import process was liberalised in 1996 and a bidding process was introduced, the winning bidder was in no way dependent on GNPC’s standing agreement with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which it renewed on an annual basis.
He said GNPC's contract with NNPC was still standing although the tender board could select another entity to supply crude to the refinery. In such circumstances, Mr Tsikata said, "the commercially responsible thing for GNPC to do was to sell the crude on the international market just as it sold such crude during the periods when the refinery did not require the cargo or was shut down for maintenance".
Mr Tsikata also declared that he had not been paid any money as was alleged, indicating that all payments made were to the corporation.
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Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 06 September 2001 - The Quality Control Division (QCD) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has intercepted 240 bags of poor quality cocoa suspected to have been bought into the country from Cote d'Ivoire by some Licensed Purchasing Companies (LPCs).
Mr Emmanuel Antwi-Donkor, Ashanti Regional Manager of the Division, who announced this, said 120 bags of the cocoa seized at Sefwi-Debiso, a border town, had already been evacuated to Kumasi.
He said at a two-day seminar organised by the Adwumapa Buyers Limited for its Purchasing Clerks (PCs), area and district managers at the Teachers' Hall in Kumasi on Tuesday, and reminded the LPCs that the only way Ghana could maintain the premium on its cocoa was to ensure the high quality beans that the country has been noted for over the years.
He warned that QCD, which is vested with the power to confiscate for destruction bad cocoa beans, would not hesitate to exercise its power.
To assist purchasing clerks of the companies to identify the different grades of cocoa and distinguish quality beans from slate and mouldy ones, he said, it was imperative for them to arrange for QCD to train them.
Mr Antwi-Donkor expressed concern about the intense competition among LPCs that has led to a situation where cocoa beans were not allowed to dry properly before they were bought.
The Executive Director of Adwumapa Buyers, Mr Abdallah Salia said the Board of Directors has put in place measures to improve the monitoring and evacuation of cocoa to reduce losses.
This, he noted, has paid off with significant improvement in its purchases over the last two years. A total of 28,400 tonnes was bought in the 1999/2000-crop season while that for the 2000/2001 was 33,700 tonnes.
The company had earlier in the day honoured 10 of its dedicated farmers, 10 area and district managers, 52 PCs and some drivers. They were given household items ranging from 20-inch colour television sets, wax prints, 52 bicycles and radio cassette recorders.
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Ho (Volta Region) 06 September 2001 - Professor John Evans Atta Mills, former Vice President was denied access to speak on Volta Star Radio (VSR) at Ho, on Tuesday as part of his one-day visit to the Volta Region.
According to Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Chairman of the Media Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), when he contacted the Director of Radio about the programme, he said GBC was designing guidelines for political programmes before allowing such programmes.
He said in April, GBC refused Prof. Mills access to their network even when the party was ready to pay. Spio-Garbrah said as a state institution, GBC's facilities should be accessible to every citizen at any time, especially for the discussions of issues of national interest.
When contacted, Yaw Owusu Addo, Director of GBC Radio, said GBC has a policy to cover every newsmaker but does not allow its studios to be used for political propaganda.
"If Prof Mills had gone to the Ho Community Centre to hold a function or address party members, we could have covered him. It could even be live because he is an important newsmaker. But for him to ask us to stop our programme so that he could use our studio to address the people was unacceptable.
"This is not election period. During elections we draw programmes for all candidates to come to our studios to address the nation.
"We can also arrange for him to appear on any of our discussion programmes but he should not ask that we allow him to use our studio to do propaganda."
He said if such a precedent were set, any politician could then just walk to any of the GBC's studio and demand that programmes should be suspended to enable him to speak to the people.
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Sunyani (Brong Ahafo) 06 September 2001 - The Brong Ahafo Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress has written to the hierarchy of the New Patriotic Party complaining about an alleged violent behaviour of the party's Regional Chairman towards Mr Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah, MP for Wenchi West.
The alleged incident happened during a discussion on Sunyani Sky FM radio last Friday. In a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the NPP, the regional branch of the NDC said it had taken strong exception to Mr Kwadwo Yeboah Fordjour's behaviour, "because this is the second time that he has reacted violently towards our activists".
The letter, signed by the Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr Oppong Nkrumah, said Mr Fordjour's behaviour during the programme had made "a mockery of democracy where opposing views must be tolerated as a matter of course".
"The NDC was given eight years of hot criticisms and at times, unnecessary accusations but never did our executives react in such an angry and violent manner as your Regional Chairman did".
The letter said had members of the NDC not exercised maximum restraint, the behaviour of the NPP Regional Chairman would have sparked off a clash between supporters of the two parties.
The letter appealed to the National Chairman of the NPP to prevail on Mr
Fordjour to be tolerant of criticisms and use "civilised" means in responding to criticisms against his party.
"I am sorry to say that some of your supporters have come to know zero tolerance for corruption but are thousands of miles away from understanding zero tolerance of political criticisms".
The letter also refuted media reports that Mr Asiedu-Nketiah was rescued by the police, stressing that it was rather the regional executive of the NDC who went to his aid following a distress phone call made to the regional office of the party.
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Coaltar (Eastern Region) 06 September 2001 - The bad state of the 14-kilometre Yaw Duodo/Wurudu-Wurudu feeder road in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District is hindering the conveyance of farm produce from outlying villages to the market centres.
As a result foodstuff, including tomatoes packed at the farm gates awaiting transportation are getting rotten. The assemblyman for the area, Isaac Ayisi Darko, speaking at a farmers' forum at Yaw Duodo near Coaltar on Tuesday, appealed for urgent assistance to make the road motorable.
Farmers from Yaw Duodo and surrounding villages organised the forum to discuss the problem.
Mr Darko said the previous government voted 45 million cedis towards the rehabilitation of the road but only five of the 11 culverts could be constructed. Nana Odei Kwabena, Odikro of Yaw Duodo, who chaired the function appealed to the government to come to their aid to complete the repair of the road.
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President Kufuor consoles widow of late
Sergeant Owusu
Accra (Greater Accra) 06 September 2001 - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday said security personnel who sacrificed their lives in the interest of the nation did not die in vain.
"They sacrificed for the nation and their toil would never be in vain, death is the will of God." President Kufour said when he consoled Miss Leticia Afriyie, widow of the late Sergeant Emmanuel K. Owusu, one of the dispatch riders of the Presidential Convoy who died in a motor accident in Accra last Friday.
He said the government would cater for the widow and children. Victor Owusu, Senior brother of the deceased said the one-week celebrations would be observed next Friday during which the date for the final funeral rites would be announced.
The children of the deceased, relatives and sympathisers in the neighbourhood, who gathered at the Security flats opposite the Flagstaff House, wailed and shed tears when the sound of the siren of the motorcade heralding the arrival of President Kufuor reached the residence of the deceased.
The late Sergeant Owusu, 50, was one of the most experienced dispatch riders in the country for the past 30 years.
First Lady Theresa, Miss Elizabeth Ohene, Minister of Media Relations, Mr Ernest Owusu Poku, Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other officials from the President's Office accompanied President Kufuor.
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Ho (Volta Region) 06 September 2001 - Professor John Evans Atta Mills, Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2000 elections on Wednesday said the party was undergoing a serious reorganisation programme that would secure victory for it in the 2004 elections.
Addressing the chiefs and people of Asogli Traditional Council (ATC) at Ho, he said the party was still on the ground and would implement the directives and suggestions of supporters to move it forward.
Prof Mills, who was the former Vice-President, said he was in the region to thank the people for voting massively for him in the last Presidential elections.
He urged supporters of the party to remain united as "a loving family" notwithstanding, disagreements, which might emerge at certain stages in the reorganisation process.
Prof Mills said party officials would be visiting the region to solicit for support in tackling the task ahead.
Mistakes and experiences were learning processes in life, he observed and said they are meant to encourage and develop the individual.
Mr Steve Akorli, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ho-East and former Acting Minister for Roads and Transport, said the contract for the Ho town roads were properly designed and documented which did not require any modifications.
He said the government's claim that the roads were being redesigned was, therefore, a ploy to abandon the project for political reasons.
Mr Akorli said the NDC government had paid the contractors executing the projects two out of the three instalments and that the work had stopped because the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government failed to honour the payment of the third instalment.
He said the portion of the project being executed by Messrs Bilfinger Berger cost 3.3 billion cedis while that of Messrs Wayss and Freytag cost 5.5 billion cedis and 1.4 million Euros and were approved by Parliament and awarded in March 2000.
Mr Akorli stated his preparedness for a public debate with the Minister of Roads and Highways on the Ho Township and other roads to enable the people know what the situation was really like.
Togbe Afele II, a Senior Divisional Chief, on behalf of his colleagues advised political parties not to engage in conflicts, which might destabilise the peace, unity and progress of the country.
He thanked Prof Mills and his entourage for the visit and requested for the designs of the Ho roads for their study.
In another development, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Chairman of the Media Committee of the NDC on Wednesday said the party would remain formidable inspite of the intimidation and harassment of its members by agents of the government.
Addressing a public forum at Ho, he said nothing could destroy the party since its strength resides with the electorate and quoted an Akan proverb that translates as "if you kill a thousand, a thousand will come."
Spio-Garbrah called on the National Media Commission, the Ghana Journalists Association, the Diplomatic Corps and all democratic forces in the country to investigate attempts to gag the NDC by denying it access to the Volta Star Radio (VSR) at Ho.
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Cape Coast (Central Region) 06 September 2001 - The Central Regional Minister, Mr Isaac Edumadze on Tuesday said Ghana could earn more foreign exchange if more attention were given to the development of the nation's tourism potential.
Addressing 18 Ambassadors and High Commissioners-designate in Cape Coast, he asked them to make the promotion of the industry, particularly in the region, one of their priorities when they assume duty.
The envoys were on a visit as part of their nationwide tour to acquaint themselves with the potentials of the regions.
He urged them to strive to gain international recognition and support for the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST), which has the potential of attracting tourists to the region.
Edumadze also asked them to attract investment into the agro-based industries, especially in the fruits and fish-processing sector and the re-activation of the Komenda Sugar Factory.
"These projects, if realised will certainly offer jobs to our people and raise their standard of living," he said.
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Cape Coast (Central Region) 06 September 2001 - Nana Atta Amanafo Poku II, Paramount Chief of the Breman Essiem Traditional Area, was on Tuesday elected President of the Central Region House of Chiefs.
Nana Poku, who was the former Vice President, polled 14 votes to beat Nana Amoakwa Buadu of the Breman Asikuma Traditional Area, who had 10 votes.
He takes over from Odeefuo Boa Amponsem III, Denkyirahene.
Nana Kwamena Ansah II of Eguafo Traditional Area, polled 11 votes to beat
Otumfuo Amoa Sasraku of the Twifo-Hemang Traditional Area and Neenyi Ghartey of Effutu Traditional Area, who polled 2 and 9 votes respectively for the position of vice-president.
Barima Tsibu Asare II of Assin-Atandanso, Barima Kwame Nkyi XII of Assin-Apimanim and Otumfuo Amoa Sasraku were elected unopposed to join the new President and the Vice- President to represent the House at the National House of Chiefs.
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Funding of political parties good
but.... Chigabatia
Accra (Greater Accra) 06 September 2001 - Mr Smart Chigabatia, Executive Secretary of the Civil Servants Association said on Wednesday that funding of political parties proposed by the government was in the right direction but the modalities should be spelt out.
He said the inter party committee should meet to establish the modalities and criteria which should make parties focus more on their responsibilities to the people.
He said in an interview in Accra that for a party to qualify for instance there should be adequate evidence that it has a following nation-wide, using the results of the recent elections as basis.
"The mere registration of a political party should not be a determinant because some may have just one or two branches formed for personality pursuit".
He said the modalities could lead to the merger of parties whose manifestoes were similar in content but only different by the personalities who led them, adding that mergers could be a great saving to the nation.
Mr Chigabatia said funding would also minimise the tendency of people, who by virtue of their contributions, would like to exert undue influence on the party.
By this, he said, individual financiers would not see their contribution as an investment to be recouped when the party won power. "If all of us realise that being in government is not for selfish motives but for the benefit of the people then it would end the era of dishing money out and distributing commodities to influence votes", Mr Chigabatia said.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 06 September 2001 - The chiefs and people of Ablekuma are laying claim to the entire area around the Weija Lake, saying the other four villages of
Afuaman, Joma, Manhia and Gonsei were squatters.
"We the Ablekuma people gave the land to the Ghana Water Company (GWC) so many years ago when there was no village around for Construction Pioneers (CP) to plant tress for the protection of the Weija Lake," Nii Kwaku Fosu III, the Ablekumamantse said.
He was speaking to Mrs Theresa Tagoe, Deputy Minister of Works and Housing (MOWH) and officials of the Ghana Water Company (GWC), who visited areas that would be affected by the government's programme to protect the lake.
Nii Fosu said before the commencement of work by CP, a number of houses were demolished with the promise that compensation would be paid but this was not fulfilled.
He attributed the claims and counter claims of ownership of the land to the failure of the government to consult the chiefs when it decided to acquire the land.
Mrs Tagoe, however, said the tour was not to find solution to the land disputes among the chiefs and villages, but rather, to survey the Lake and identify villages that fall within the new demarcated zone so that compensation could be paid to those who deserved it.
She said the government was committed to protecting the Lake that was being polluted through human activities along its banks.
Mr Jonathan Ahele, Managing Director of the GWC, said the government paid compensation for the first acquisition that was made in 1928 but not second that took place in 1977.
He said the re-demarcation became necessary because of the need to protect the Lake from pollution.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 06 September 2001 - Three Members of the Ghana chapter of Prison Fellowship would join 180 delegates from 95 countries in Johannesburg, South Africa for its International Council Meeting.
A statement issued in Accra said Mr Joe Hyde, Chairman of the Ghana Chapter, Peter Aryee, Board Member and Mrs Irene Kujoe, a Volunteer would represent Ghana at the three-day session which would discuss issues related to criminal justice reform, including the plight of children in prison.
It said the Fellowship's key concern was juvenile offenders, who were frequently incarcerated in the same cells with adult prisoners and children imprisoned with their parents.
"Both groups are at great risk of physical and sexual abuse in the general prison population. Amid the growing challenges being faced in criminal justice systems throughout Africa and the world, we look to South Africa for church and community participation in caring for prisoners, ex-prisoners, families and victims, Ron Nikkel, International Fellowship President said.
The Fellowship has taken a leading role in mobilising and training community volunteers and implementing victim-offender reconciliation project.
With more than 100,000 volunteers worldwide working through 88 national ministries, the fellowship is the largest criminal justice ministry movement in the world.
Its global mission is to serve and provide spiritual care for prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims and their families.
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Nsawam (Eastern Region) 06 September 2001 - The police have cautioned motorist against careless overtaking on the narrow bridge over the Densu River at Nsawam.
Speaking during a visit to traffic policemen on duty at the bridge on Wednesday, Nsawam District Police Commander, Superintendent James Bruce said some of the motorists who indulge in such reckless driving do so under the influence of alcohol.
He said such drivers attempt to overtake long vehicles on the bridge thereby creating avoidable traffic jam and warned that the police would not spare any driver arrested for careless overtaking or for drunk driving.
This is to curb the rampant accidents and reduce traffic congestion on the bridge especially on Fridays and Saturdays when most travellers to and from upcountry. The bridge is currently being rehabilitated to widen it into a two-way traffic.
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Accra (Greater Region) 06 September 2001 - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday said the citizenry should be part of the government's efforts at fighting against the breakdown of law and order in the country.
The church should also be in the forefront in the fight for morality and self-discipline in society, President Kufuor said when the Standing Committee of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) called on him at the State House in Accra.
He urged the church to encourage Ghanaians to sustain constitutional rule in the country since the society was now in transition after 20 years of unconstitutional rule out of its 44 years of Independence.
President Kufuor stressed the need to keep the country under constitutional rule for the people to retain their power through the ballot box.
The Right Reverend Sam Prempeh, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church, said positive change has both spiritual and political dimensions and to complement each other there was the need to resuscitate the Presbyterian discipline, which should not be the monopoly of the church.
Rev Prempeh said the visit was to congratulate President Kufuor on his assumption of office to give him the assurance of their moral and spiritual support and present him with a copy of the Church's Communique at this year's General Assembly meeting held in Navrongo last month.
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Dordoekope (Volta Region) 06 September 2001 - Wake-keepings are losing their attraction in parts of the South-Tongu and Dangbe-East Districts in the Volta and Greater-Accra Regions, where thieves have of late been taking advantage of such occasions to raid villages.
Young men, who make such wake-keepings lively through drumming and dancing now stay back in their various villages to keep watch to avert raids by robbers.
Items stolen in the raids so far included clothing, beads, jewellery some of which had been handed over from generation to generation.
Last year, robbers looted Dordoekope, a village in the South-Tongu District, of valuables worth millions of cedis while the inhabitants were away at a wake-keeping in a nearby village. Akanyikope in the Dangme-East District was also raided in similar circumstances.
Mr Simon Korletey, the former Assembly Member of the Dikato Electoral Area in the South-Tongu District, said the situation was creating undue anxiety and pain to the already overburdened people in the communities whose only sources of wealth were valuables bequeathed to them by relatives.
As a result only close family members of the deceased now attend wake-keepings.
Burial ceremonies are however still being heavily patronised.
Mr Korletey said the robberies were aggravating poverty in some homes as some domestic animals bred for commercial purposes were also stolen in the raids. He, therefore, appealed to the government to strengthen measures aimed at curbing armed robberies, which were now being extended to the rural areas.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 06 September 2001 - The Ethics Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association on Wednesday said it welcomes the decision of the management of New Times Corporation to investigate allegations of blackmail made against William Fayorsey of the "Ghanaian Times" by Jakdish Lakhani, a Director of
Blowplast Industries limited.
A statement issued in Accra said the committee has had many enquiries about the allegations in which Lakhani said Fayorsey demanded five million cedis from him to stop the publication of a story.
"The committee is in touch with the editor of the paper, Tom Dorkenoo and looks forward to receiving a copy of the final report when their investigations are completed," it added.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 06 September 2001 - Brigadier W. A. Gbedemah, Director General of Personnel and Administration of the Ghana Armed Forces has voluntarily retired.
A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday said President J. A. Kufuor has on the advice of the Armed Forces Council accepted his voluntary retirement.
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Kumasi (Ashnati Region) 06 September 2001 - The National House of Chiefs has endorsed and ratified its standing committee's decision to grant paramount status to the Aduana Stool of Sefwi-Chirano to be known as Aduana Traditional Area.
The House unanimously endorsed the report at its meeting in Kumasi last weekend during which it also approved the elevation of Konkoma in the Yeji area of Brong Ahafo into paramountcy.
Na Dr Puore Puobee Chiir VII, Nandom Na and Acting President of the House recalled that in April 1992, Nana Kwaku Gyamprah III, Aduanahene of Sefwi Chirano petitioned the then Secretary for Chieftaincy Affairs, which was referred to the House for advice.
The Western Region House of Chiefs was asked to investigate and report, but the committee suffered a set back as a result of the refusal of the paramount chief of Sefwi Anhwiaso to appear before it and the death of the committee's chairman, Awulae Amankra Panin IV.
Na Chiir said another fact-finding committee of enquiry was appointed whose recommendations were discussed last July.
He said the National House of Chiefs accepted the findings by the committee that by custom and tradition the Aduanahene of Aduana Stool was autonomous and did not owe any allegiance to the paramount chief of Sefwi-Anhwiaso or any other superior chief.
It was established that the chiefs and people of the Aduana were never conquered by any person or group of persons and had never been held as slaves or subjects to any other stool including the paramount stool of Sefwi-Anhwiaso.
Na Chiir said the findings showed that the Aduanahene by tradition and custom neither swore the oath of allegiance on his installation to any other superior chief nor to the paramount chief of Sefwi-Anhwiaso.
He said owing to the inherent enmity between the Aduanahene and the Omanhene of Sefwi-Anhwiaso, which had its origin from the formative periods of the two states, the Aduanahene and the Omanhene of Sefwi-Anhwiaso could not co-exist under the umbrella of one traditional council.
Na Chiir commended the standing committee for the careful and painstaking manner it conducted the enquiry.
He said it should be noted that the committee placed reliance on available documentary and historical evidence, backed by unimpeachable and relevant archival materials.
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