Eighty
per cent students go ‘boozing’ – Studies
Seven
Juveniles released from Ho prisons
Two
Ministers act to stall teachers’ strike
Stars’
camping in danger
George
Yankey reacts to ‘Coco palm story’
Fraud in Aluminium Industry-fake stamps in use
Alert! Expired food on the market
Selormey begs judge -'I have no one to stand
surety for me'
Another Ghanaian grabs top UN post
Addo-Kufuor
initiative takes off
Plot
to kill Ghana Telecom hatched - VODACOM to take over
I
shall be back - Mills
Cape
Coast varsity modifies grading system
Anlo
NDC closes ranks
President
orders investigations into use of state vehicles at party congress
Why
Gov't treasury was closed down
I
am no stomach politician
Fire
guts Kejetia shops
Ex-President
Rawlings is back
Tension
mounts at Ho
Vote
new COSGA President
Vandal
welcome for Pusher Obuor
Fisherman
sets himself and lover ablaze
Eighty
per cent students go ‘boozing’ – Studies
Recent
studies have revealed that about 80 percent of students in second-cycle schools
in some Africa countries take alcohol, The Ghanaian Times reports.
This,
according to the Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Moses Dani Baah, might have
accounted for the recent unimaginable incidents of individuals of school-going
age engaging in delinquency of the highest form to the level of car hijacking,
ammunition thefts and armed robbery.
He
said at the national launching of the Drug Safety and HIV/AIDS campaign week,
organised by the Ghana Pharmaceutical Students Association (GPSA) of the Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) that the incidents of drug
abuse and other social ills among students and second-cycle institutions in
particular, were “very alarming”.
He
said the situation is not only detestable to parents but also of grave concern
to the government.
It
is important to recognize the unique position that university peer educators
occupy in the campaign against the dreadful menace threatening the youthful
populace, he noted.
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Seven
Juveniles released from Ho prisons
The
Ghana Prisons Service on August 23 released seven juveniles from the Ho
prisons.
Aged
between 15 and 17 years, the children were convicted for stealing, unlawful
entry and assault.
Superintendent
Solomon Atwi, Public Relations Officer, of the Prisons Service, told the
‘Times’ in Accra on Thursday, that at the moment, there were no records of other
juveniles in prison, but the Service would act as soon as such a situation was
brought to its notice.
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Two
Ministers act to stall teachers’ strike
The
Ministers of Education and Finance have reached an agreement to resolve the
grievances of teachers by the end of September to forestall the threat of a
strike action by teachers issued by the Ghana National Association of Teachers
(GNAT).
The
strike action is to take effect from October 1, if their demands were not met.
Confirming
this in an interview in Accra on Wednesday, Professor Christopher
Ameyaw-Akumfi, Minister of Education said that a letter to that effect was
expected from the Ministry of Finance by the end of the week for circulars to
be sent out to Regional Directorates of the Ghana Education Service (GES) on
the implementation of the conditions of service.
Last
Friday, GNAT gave the GES an ultimatum to either implement the revised
conditions and terms of service agreed upon with the GES on November 1, 2000 or
its members would embark on a nationwide industrial action from October 1.
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Stars’
camping in danger
Fred
Osam Duodu’s plans of putting into gear preparations for the African Nations
Cup (CAN) 2002 may be derailed, according to the Ghanaian Times.
This
follows the competitive nature of the league that has thrown wide-open chances
of clubs snatching the championship trophy. Similarly, life at the bottom rungs
of the league table has become competitive in nature.
Times
says its investigations revealed that Ghana’s most glamorous clubs Accra Hearts
of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko may lead a “rebellion”.
With
the two in hot pursuit for the league title, information has it that, they are
unwilling to cooperate with arrangements by Osam-Duodu, the Head-coach of the
senior national soccer team, the Black Stars.
According
to the Star’s coach, invited players were to assemble on Mondays at the
National Sports College for training and rejoin their clubs on Thursday
afternoons to prepare for their weekend league matches.
Contact
with the Stars’ camp on Wednesday indicated the presence of only eight out of
22 invitees. Apart from goalkeeper James Nanor of Hearts of Oak, no other
player from Hearts or Kotoko is in camp.
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George
Yankey reacts to ‘Coco palm story’
The
Crusading Guide publishes unedited on its front-page a reaction by Dr George
Sipa Yankey to the paper’s story in which he denies any linkage to the Coco
Palm Limited, as had been portrayed by the paper.
Dr
Yankey, who until recently, headed the ECOWAS Bank in Togo was reported in the
September 13, 2001 edition of the paper to have been in a transaction with Mr
Kwame Peprah, former Finance Minister, involving the Coco Palm in which they
granted the firm sovereign guarantees to secure certain loan facilities.
“I
state here unequivocally that I do not own, neither have I owned any land or
property within or around the Coco Palm Apartment complex, and I suggest that
next time, kindly ask your reporter to quote the name of the ‘source’ as boldly
as he had mentioned my name, otherwise he could lead your paper into a
situation in which someone can waste
your time and resources by going to court.
I
was not “instrumental in persuading Mr. Peprah in signing a sovereign
guarantees”. In fact I do not know of any sovereign guarantees in respect of
the Ghana Commercial Bank loan to Coco Palm Ltd. What I know of is a Bank of
Ghana guarantee concerning the transaction, which is entirely different from a
sovereign guarantee.
As
the chief legal adviser at the Ministry of Finance, I offer advice on all
matters referred to me for advice, which can either be taken or rejected, by my
superiors or anybody above me.
I
do not make decisions; neither do I have powers on all matters referred to me
including loans. Please put that in perspective, and remember that I was only a
public servant”, Dr Yankey wrote in a rejoinder.
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Fraud in Aluminium Industry-fake stamps in use
The Independent says emerging details, which it
has uncovered link some employees of the Custom, Excise and Preventive Service
(CEPS) and some of these nation wreckers in the Alluminum hollow-ware industry.
The modus operandi is that some of the Alluminum
hollow-ware manufactures and distributors connive and package large volumes of
the products for export and manage to obtain CEPS stamps for the 'export.'
These Aluminum ware, however do not find their
way across the nation’s borders but are rather pushed on to the local market.
Under the export regulations of Ghana, all
goods due for export do not attract VAT, whereas those due for local use
attract VAT.
The paper says investigations it undertook over
the past weeks have revealed a grand scheme, which has led to the loss of
billions of cedis in VAT returns.
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Alert! Expired food on the market
The general public especially consumers of
Americana 3 Mini Rolls and Americana Chocolate Rolls are at great risk,
according to the Independent.
The products, which expired on September 14,
2001 were manufactured on September 15, 2000. Credible sources have linked the
import of the products to some Lebanese and American companies.
A hawker who was carrying a large number of the
products had carefully rubbed off the expiry dates on all the products in order
to make her own gains at the expense of unsuspecting Ghanaian populace.
A worker at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly who
had fallen victim after consuming a number of the product alerted the Head of
Department of the Ministry of Health at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly.
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Selormey begs judge -'I have no one to stand
surety for me'
The former Deputy Minister of Finance, Victor
Selormey, on Wednesday passionately begged an Accra Circuit Tribunal to grant
him a self recognisant bail since, in his own words, it would be very difficult
for him to secure a surety, reports The Chronicle.
"I beg you, I have nobody to stand surety
for me, I am just coming from the Fast Track Court on another case", he
pleaded.
Selormey told the court that his lawyer, Mr. Johnny
Quarshie-Idun, was not aware that he was appearing before the Circuit Tribunal
on another case.
Selormey is charged on two accounts of causing
loss by carelessness to public property.
The accused, who was in the dock, had to beg
the court, when the Chairman of the tribunal, His Honour Justice Imoro Ziblim,
after hearing the facts of the case granted him bail in the sum of 200 million
cedis with a surety to justified.
The judge told the accused that the court had
heard his plea and would consider the bail conditions on the next adjourned day
because the court had already made its orders.
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Another Ghanaian grabs top UN post
Ghana's permanent representative to the United
Nations, Nana Effah-Appenteng, has been elected Chairman of the fifth committee
(Administrative and Budgetary) of the General Assembly.
He is the only African out of five other
nationals to be elected. His election was by acclamation.
Prior to his appointment as Permanent
Representative on May 2000, Effah-Appenteng served as the Supervising Director
of Administration in Ghana's Foreign Ministry. Before that, he was the Deputy
Chief of Mission (1993 to 1997) in the Ghana Embassy in Washington, United
States.
He joined the Ghana Foreign Service in 1970,
and has also served as Charge d'affairs and later as Counsellor/Minister
Counsellor in the Ghana Mission in Moscow from 1986 to 1998, and as Deputy
Chief of Mission in the Ghana Mission in Rome from 1988 to 1990.
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Addo-Kufuor
initiative takes off
An
Armed Forces agro-forest project, a brainchild of the Minister of Defence, Dr Addo-Kufuor,
took off on Tuesday at Michel Camp, Accra.
It
is intended to serve as a model agro-forestry project using modern technology.
It is hoped that the project will eventually prove that the Accra plains could
be developed into the food basket of the country.
According
to The Accra Mail, the Defence Minister picked up the idea of the armed forces
involvement in agro-forestry during his recent visit to Lebanon, where even
under harsh weather conditions the people there have been able to turn a bad situation
around.
In
Lebanon, vegetables are cultivated around the military camps using drip
irrigation method, which allows for small quantities of water use on large
farms.
The
Minister was of the view that Ghanaian soldiers apart from the gains they make
in peacekeeping missions should also learn effective technology from the
Lebanese.
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Plot
to kill Ghana Telecom hatched - VODACOM to take over
The
problems confronting Ghana Telecom is politically motivated, according to The
Ghanaian Democrat, which says it has uncovered covert activities to plunge the
company into serious financial crisis to quicken the NPP’s plot of taking away
the monopoly and giving it to their preferred business allies, VODACOM, a
subsidiary of Siemens Telecommunications.
Siemens
Information and Communications (I and C) in South Africa reportedly, has been
monitoring the fast and growing telecommunication industry in Ghana for some
time now and its interest to enter the market has been maturing over the years.
Their
intentions were, however, snuffed out in the past because of the fastness of
the Malaysian consortium in grabbing the opportunities presented by the former
NDC government for private participation in the industry, claims the Paper.
With
the coming into power of the NPP, Siemens’ subsidiary, VODACOM, has intensified
its lobby, according to the Democrat, which also says VODACOM has big ‘guns’ in
the present government including Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, the Minister for Trade
and Industry, Mr Herbert Mensah, the son of B.A. Mensah of International
Tobacco fame, a top guru in the NPP, and a key factor in the dealings to
push VODACOM’s bid for control of the
local telecommunication industry.
The
Democrat alleges that Herbert Mensah, who has been appointed as a member of the
Telecom Board, is known to have gone very deep into negotiations with VODACOM
to get a foothold in Ghana.
The
paper further alleges that in order to boost VODACOM’s chances of grabbing a
big chunk of Ghana Government shares in Ghana Telecom, Mr Mensah, also the
Board Chairman of Asante Kotoko, tactically employed a public relations gimmick
to promote VODACOM’s image in Ghana, by lobbying Hearts of Oak management to
participate in a charity match in South
Africa to be sponsored by VODACOM.
The
idea, the paper claims was to boost VODACOM’s sponsorship prowess in the game
in the eyes of Ghanaian soccer fans.
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I
shall be back - Mills
The
appointment of Professor John Evans Atta Mills as a Visiting Scholar at the
University of British Columbia, coming immediately after his four-year tenure
as Vice President, is a living testimony to the performance of the NDC whilst
in office, writes the Ghanaian Democrat.
“I
see my appointment as a tribute to the tremendous progress Ghana has made on
the path to democracy and progress”, said Professor Mills in a statement on his
departure for British Columbia, Canada, where he will be Senior Associate at
the Liu Centre for the Study of Global issues.
The
Democrat says Prof Mills, aware of the fact that he took up the appointment at
a time the party was undergoing a reorganisation exercise, said he would be
back not only to participate in the Party’s Biennial Congress tentatively
scheduled for December 2001, but to come and complete the nationwide programme
of thanking the millions of party supporters, chiefs, opinion leaders and
Ghanaians for the trust and unflinching support they gave the NDC in the December elections.
According
to the Professor, his stay in the North America will offer him the opportunity
to meet and explain the new direction and agenda of the NDC to members there,
adding that he would take the opportunity to broaden it even further.
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Cape
Coast varsity modifies grading system
The
University of Cape Coast (UCC) has modified its grading system, according to
state paper, the Daily Graphic.
The
pass level of degree classification, which was 1.5 - 1.9 (55 per cent and
above), has been modified to include a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of
1.0 to 1.9 (50 per cent and above). Prior to this, the CGPA of 1.0-1.44 was a
failure.
The
Minister of Education, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, who disclosed this
in an interview in Accra, said the move forms part of short-term measures to
address the agitations of students about the grading system at the university.
He
said hitherto, students who obtained marks below 55 per cent in each subject
were denied degrees but with the modification, the minimum mark for the award of
a degree has been reduced to 50 per cent.
Consequently,
Professor Ameyaw-Akumfi said, all students who have been refused degrees since
1996 when the grading system was introduced will be awarded accordingly.
Professor
Ameyaw-Akumfi described the move as a major break through in a bid to address
the concerns of students of the university and expressed the hope that the
students and alumni will embrace it.
He
said a three-member committee has also been appointed by the University Council
to present a comprehensive paper which will explain in detail to students and
the general public the rationale behind the grading system.
Professor
Ameyaw-Akumfi also said the committee will educate students and newly appointed
lectures on the grading system when the university re-opens by the end of this
month.
The
students, however, says the reduction did not meet their expectations. The
students have been protesting the new grading system since it was introduced
five years ago.
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Anlo
NDC closes ranks
Supporters
of both the former National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Anlo, Sqd Ldr
Clend Sowu, and Mr James Victor Gbeho, Independent MP for Anlo, have pledged
their commitment to working together for the development of the constituency.
They
intimated that in order for the NDC to wrest power from the NPP in the 2004
elections and keep development projects on track, there is the need for
cooperation among the people.
They
made the pledge when a team of NDC National Reorganisation Committee, led by
Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, former Defence Minister, and Mr E.T. Mensah, the
National Youth Organiser, visited Anloga in the Keta District of the Volta
Region on Tuesday.
The
team was in the constituency to help resolve the differences among members of
the two groups to create a healthy political environment towards the 2004
elections.
Alhaji
Iddrisu said the constituency is one of the strongholds of the NDC but noted
that differences among members were thwarting efforts at developing it.
He
mentioned the low turnout of voters during the December 2000 elections as a
resolve by some aggrieved members of the party to absent themselves from
voting.
"This
affected the character of the national results, and we want to avoid the
recurrence of such things in the 2004 elections," he stressed.
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President
orders investigations into use of state vehicles at party congress
The
President, Mr. J.A. Kufuor has ordered investigations into the circumstances
that led to the use of government vehicles by some party members, attended the
party's congress at the University of Ghana last month, writes The Evening
News.
Mr
Harona Esseku, National Chairman of the NPP, said in an interview in Accra,
that the President was shocked to read from a section of the media that some
delegates used state vehicles to attend the congress.
According
to Mr Esseku, the President sent directives to all the secretariats of the
party long before the congress that no state facility should be used by party
members during the congress.
This,
he said, was circulated to all constituencies and wards of the party and
wondered why some people decided to go contrary to the directive.
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Why
Gov't treasury was closed down
The
recent closure of the government treasury was not intended to sabotage the
payment of contractors who have executed work for Ministries, Departments and
Agencies (MDAs), according to the Evening News.
It
is a routine schedule carried out by the Controller and Accountant General in
every August and it is known as the "reporting months" to the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
During
the month of August, the Controller and Accountant-General Department collate
figures and submit them to the IMF and the World Bank in Washington, to enable
them to assess how the government manages the economy.
Mr
Eugene Ofosuhene, Deputy Controller and Accountant-General, gave the
explanation in an interview with The Evening News in Accra on recent
speculation that the government treasury has been closed, hence payments to
people who have executed work for MDAs have been suspended.
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I
am no stomach politician
The
Daily Guide carries that the Western Regional Chairman of the NDC, Mr Archibald
Asamoah, has denied that he has any intentions to defect from the party adding
that, "I am not a stomach politician."
Asamoah,
also known as Goil Asamoah, was reacting to a front-page story carried by The
paper in its Tuesday, September 18, 2001, issue which suggested that there was
a vacuum in the NDC and that the party had virtually broken-up on four fronts
with each faction vehemently campaigning to take-over the affairs of the
party's campaign for the next
Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
He
however, stoutly denied that with the existence of the factions, it meant that
the NDC was breaking up.
Mr.
Asamoah admitted that the factions, also known as caucuses, said to weave
around personalities such as Dr Obed Asamoah, Nana Konadu, the Ahwoi brothers
and Mr J.H. Owusu Acheampong, have by no means shaken the foundation, unity,
and cohesion of the party hierarchy.
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Fire
guts Kejetia shops
A
blazing hail of fire gutted the over 150 stores at Kejetia, the hub of
commercial activity in the Kumasi Metropolis on Monday and Wednesday, this
week.
In
both fire outbreaks, it took the intervention of the Kumasi City Fire Service,
to fight the fire from engulfing or spreading to other stores. The cost of
items destroyed was not readily assessed.
Mr
Kwame Afriyie, spokesman for the Kejetia Store Owners Association, attributed
the cause of the fire to illegal electrical connections performed by workers of
a private developer (name withheld).
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Ex-President
Rawlings is back
The
Ghanaian Voice reports that ex-President J.J. Rawlings who had his plane
diverted to Halifex in Nova Scotia Canada flew back into the country from
London on Thursday last week.
The
President who was three hours away from Boston in America when the terrorists
struck the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
was due to address a conference at the University of Boston. The ex-President
was going to be the keynote speaker at the African Growth and Opportunities Act
platform.
The
Voice says with the closure of all the airports in the USA, ex-president
Rawlings could not honour his engagements. His special aide Mr Victor Smith had
a meeting with the President of the Boston University Mr. John Westling and
both of them agreed to cancel the engagement.
The
paper recalls that following a front-page story by the Voice titled
"Rawlings stranded in Canada", Hon. Hackman Owusu Agyeman, the
Foreign Minister, directed Ghana’s Mission in Canada to give the ex-president
protection and comfort.
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Tension
mounts at Ho
Tension
is mounting at the Ho District Assembly over the award of contract for the
renovation of the District Chief Executive's (DCE) bungalow which is estimated
at a cost of ¢200 million.
Angry
assembly members have reportedly threatened to vote the DCE Mawutor Goh out of
office for his unilateral decision to award the contract to Smile Investment
Limited, owned and directed by Messrs Tommy Amenatekpor, Special Assistant to
the President.
They
accused the DCE of being biased and had betrayed the trust reposed in him for
this singular act, because the district assembly concept is non-partisan as
such, they least expected him to compromise his office.
The
situation, The Ghanaian Voice says, prompted the postponement of the first
sessional meeting of the assembly, which was supposed to have taken place on 20th
August 2001.
The
Voice says some assembly members told its reporter at Ho that in July this
year, the executive committee of the assembly mandated the works sub committee
to select three contractors who have applied for the job out of tender.
Whilst
waiting for a report to be submitted by the works sub committee, the DCE
Mawutor Goh allegedly contacted the contractor Smile/Investment Limited and
recommended that the contract be awarded to him, though he knew that he never
applied for the job. He has not even registered with the Assembly as a
contractor.
When
contacted for his comments, the DCE Mawutor Goh expressed disgust about the
behaviour of the assembly members but admitted he awarded the contract to Smile
Investment Limited, and expressed indignation, saying he does not see anything
wrong with that because for the past eight years, contracts were awarded only
to sympathisers and activists of the NDC, claims The Voice.
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Vote
new COSGA President
The
Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has
advised the Copyright Society of Ghana (COSGA) to go to the polls within the
next 28 days to elect a President and Board to oversee the affairs of the
Society, reports the Graphic Showbiz.
Nana
Akufo-Addo gave the advice at a meeting held in Accra last Tuesday to consider
the report of a Committee he had set up earlier to reconstitute the Board of
COSGA.
Following
loud and sometimes rancorous debate among members of COSGA and other creative
persons in the music industry, the Attorney-General set up a three-member
committee to reconstitute the COSGA Board.
At
last Tuesday's meeting to consider the report, the consensus was arrived at
that despite its flaws, the law regarding the composition of the COSGA Board be
upheld and implemented.
The
meeting agreed that it is when a COSGA Board is in place that the Board can
initiate changes to make the law address the concerns of stakeholder.
To
this end it was agreed by the meeting that as a first step, the names of all
members be published next week to enable members to check on their names and
others who have not registered to do so.
By
October 5, all amendments to the list of members and fresh registration would
have been completed and ready for the filing of nominations on October 9. One
week after, on October 16, the election will be held.
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Vandal
welcome for Pusher Obuor
The
lead actor in GTV's youth drama ‘Things We Do For Love’, George Adjetey Anang
a.k.a. Pusher had one of his scariest moments last Monday at the Commonwealth
Hall of the University of Ghana when a number of young men in the hall went for
the actor for ‘ponding’, singing 'war' songs as they approached his room.
“They
got hold of him and although he had long surrendered to their taunting, Pusher
was taken to the pond for the usual Vandal welcoming rituals reserved for
freshmen of the hall.”
As
they kept shouting and singing, more people poured in to witness the ‘ponding’
of the biggest 'fish' this semester. He was taken to the pond alright, but when
they were about to pond him, Pusher said he had a boil on his stomach and so
could not do the rolling on the grass as requested of him.
But
the guys up the hill would not relent, they asked Pusher, who, by this time,
was shaking like a leaf, to compensate them with his characteristic walking.
He
tried some of his gimmicks to the cheers of the thick crowd but still the squad
would not leave him to go scot-free. He was made to make seven press-ups in the
pond for a good measure.
All
this while, Abeiku Acquah who plays the role of "Killer" in ‘Things
We Do For Love’ was looking on, worried about his friend and roommate. He also
was ponded last year when he enrolled at the university as freshman.
Last
week the scary rapper Obuor had his turn when he was also ponded by the
vandals, sending him into hiding for sometime.
Last
month, the Dean of Students Dr. K.A. Bilson issued a statement warning students
not to throw people into ponds. However, the inmates of Commonwealth Hall have
the view that ‘ponding’ is the only means by which they initiate freshmen into
the hall thereby creating solidarity between all members of he hall.
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Fisherman
sets himself and lover ablaze
Late
evening commuters and workers at the Tema Fishing Harbour, recently witnessed a
horrific spectacle when a fisherman, Olive Lamptey, allegedly poured petrol on
his girlfriend and set her ablaze.
His
reason? He suspected that Adzele Odua had been sleeping around with other men
in the harbour area.
According
to The P & P., its investigations revealed that the once cordial
relationship between the lovers recently turned sour when Lamptey began
suspecting Adzele of moving with another man, thus bringing frequent quarrels
between them.
On
the day of the incident, Lamptey, who had allegedly seen his girlfriend earlier
with a man, went to her make-shift abode while she was busily preparing kenkey
and confronted her. However, before Adzele could explain herself, he allegedly
poured a container of petrol on her and threw a lit candle at her.
Her
screams of pain attracted the attention of neighbours who rushed to her rescue
and managed to put off the raging fire. She was immediately rushed to the Tema
Port Clinic from where she was referred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital due
to the severe nature of her injuries.
Knowing
the consequences of what he had done, Lamptey reportedly set himself ablaze,
but quickly jumped into water when he could not bear the pains of the burns.
However,
he later came out of the water and realizing how his body had burnt, he quickly
hired a taxi to convey him to the hospital, but the driver is said to have
dumped him on the way and left.
Residents
of the area woke up early the next morning, found a badly burnt Lamptey, lying
beside the road and crying in pain, so they called in the police who conveyed
him to the Tema General Hospital where he is still receiving treatment.
A
police source confirmed the incident and reiterated that the incident is being
investigated.
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Asanteman Congress congratulates Kotoko
The Governing Council of the Asanteman
Congress, under the distinguished patronage of Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11, has sent a
congratulatory message to Kumasi Asante Kotoko football club on their wonderful
soccer performance, which won them a very convincing victory over their soccer
arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak, reports sports bi-weekly, the Africa Sports.
The message, signed by the Executive Secretary
of the Congress on behalf of Otumfuo, said it is the hope of the Council that
the club will keep this winning spirit throughout the Star Premier League.
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Accra Hearts of Oak Chief Executive, Mr Harry
Zakkour is still convinced that the defending league champions will retain
their trophy in spite of the setback they suffered at the hands of Kotoko in
Kumasi last Sunday.
Harry who accepted that his team lost to a
better and more motivated side said the defeat in Kumasi will only ginger his
team up into action.
"I have to admit we lost on the day.
Nothing went for us but this is not the end of the world for us. Kotoko played
well. I have not seen them like that in several years and clearly their coach
Middendorp is having an influence on them”, Harry indicated.
He stated that Hearts is however, the team to
beat and he is convinced the club will retain the league title.
He acknowledged that there are difficult games
ahead of the Phobians but assured all that they would win their remaining
matches beginning from Sunyani.
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