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Akufo-Addo’s incorruptible tag has been eroded – UG Lecturer

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Akufo-Addo’s incorruptible tag has been eroded – UG Lecturer

A Political Marketing Expert and Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Kobby Mensah has said the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has eroded the perception that he’s incorruptible.

According to him, the President’s action against the Auditor-General has made the citizenry aware of the fact that claims that he is not corrupt are fallacious.

Dr. Kobby Mensah made this known when he appeared on the Analyses show which airs on Accra-based Starr FM.

He said “You can’t go to the people and say you’re the incorruptible man because you have actually eroded that perception. If you can easily dismiss your auditor general, what you have done is to erode that gain that you had”.

The Auditor-General was asked by the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to proceed on his accumulated leave on June 29.

However, the Auditor-General in a letter asked the President to reconsider his decision but the Presidency rather extended the days for his leave.

Although CSOs across the country wrote to the President on the need to recall Daniel Yao Dumelevo back to his post, the President said that was impossible and that the Auditor-General was expected to be on leave.

This week, the Auditor General visited his office but to his amazement, he was locked out because the locks to his office were changed.

Source: My News GH

Two die, several injured in fatal accident on Adeiso-Asamankese road

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Two die, several injured in fatal accident on Adeiso-Asamankese road

 

Two persons have been confirmed dead while five (5) others seriously injured in a fatal accident on Adeiso to Asamankese highway in the Eastern Region.

The deceased persons have been identified as Kofi Oduro and Yaw Aduamoah, 55 and 62-years-old respectively.

The accident occurred Saturday August 1, 2020 at about 2:30pm.

Starr News has gathered that, the suspect driver Kwani Richard, 30, was driving Toyota Fortuner 4×4 with registration number GE 2097-19 from Accra heading towards Akim Oda with seven persons on board.

However, on reaching a section of the road at Mepom on the Adieso – Asamankese stretch of the highway, the driver lost control of the steering wheel of the speeding vehicle causing it somersault and crashed on its roof in the middle of the road.

All the persons onboard sustained serious injuries and they were extricated and rushed to the Asamankese Government Hospital for treatment.

However, the two – Kofi Oduro and Yaw Aduamoah were pronounced dead shortly on arrival at the Hospital.

Their bodies have been deposited at same hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy whilst the rest are also receiving treatment

The Acting Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command, Sargeant Francis Gomado told Starr News police is investigating the accident adding that the accident Vehicle has been towed to the Police station for testing to help establish the exact cause of the crash.

Source: Starr FM

Police arrest two TV station managers for promoting fraudsters

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Police arrest two TV station managers for promoting fraudsters

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested the general managers of Accra-based free-to-air (FTA) television stations, AB TV and Amen TV, for promoting the activities of fraudsters on their TV stations.

The police arrested the managers in an operation aimed at clamping down on persons behind advertisements on television stations who are engaged in money doubling and fraud.

The Cyber Crime Unit said the suspects would be charged and arraigned for promoting charlatanic advertisements “because these are adverts they knew at the time of promoting that what the adverts purported to do was not true.”

According to the police, preliminary investigation showed that the suspects used their free-to-air channels to allow placement of advertisement of nefarious activities in the media and the suspected fraudsters end up duping unsuspecting people who either send money to the fraudsters through mobile money transfers or meet them personally at agreed locations to present the cash.

The Director of the Cyber Crime Unit of the CID, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Dr. Gustav Herbert Yankson, told the Daily Graphic that the Unit had observed that there were many television stations promoting the services of such fraudsters, while the police had received numerous complaints against the fraud and extortions of the ‘money doublers’.

“A number of fraudsters have succeeded in duping their victims under the guise of doubling monies for them,” he said.

He stated that for the first phase of the operation, “we have started with the television stations which advertise or have programmes that promote the activities of these fraudsters who claim they can double the money but end up duping people.”

Dr. Yankson said: “They claim they are able to hack into systems of some international money transfer services and multiply the money they receive from people. For example, they claim within five minutes, anyone who sends a minimum amount of GHc100 will get CHc1,000 in return and if they send GHc200 they will get GHc2,000 and it goes on and on.”

He added that the police suspected several persons might have fallen victim to the nefarious activities of the suspects and urged the public to volunteer information.

Source: Pulse Ghana

Businesses must adapt to change in coronavirus era – CLET Ghana

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Businesses must adapt to change in coronavirus era – CLET Ghana

Mr Yemmanuel Angmortey, Executive Director of Centre for Leadership and Executive Training Ghana (CLET Ghana), has said businesses need to be adaptable to change in order to survive and be relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic era.

He said times were changing and required businesses to adapt to the changing times to be able to meet the needs of consumers and the ‘ever-evolving’ world market.

“If you are a production company and you want to make profits, you need to take advantage of emerging Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) market and produce nose masks and face shields which are in high demand now.

“So as a business, you need to shift to that line of production to keep going in the pandemic,” he said.

He made these remarks at a CLET Ghana and Yemmanuel Angmortey Worldwide Leadership summit on the theme: “The Science of Startup Leadership”.

He said managing a successful enterprise required effective leadership,that included; making the right decisions even in times of challenges and reiterated that in evolving to meet the needs of the consumer market, businesses should not compromise on their values.

Mr Angmortey said businesses needed to have short, medium, and long term goals, adding that, business goals should not always be in the long term.

“Most businesses only have long term goals, neglecting short and medium terms. However, you need all the three in order to be successful.

“You need to have goals that give you short term results, as well as medium term and long-term results,” he said.

He advised entrepreneurs to be resilient and have passion in everything they did, saying, with passion and perseverance they were bound to succeed.

Source: GNA

Comparing my administration with that of Mahama is like comparing ‘chalk and cheese’ – Akufo-Addo

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Comparing my administration with that of Mahama is like comparing ‘chalk and cheese’ – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has touted his administration as far better than that of his predecessor, John Dramani Mahama, asking journalists not to bother him with his predecessor’s innuendos.

Speaking in an exclusive interview on Wontumi TV and Wontumi Radio in the Ashanti Region, the president said that his predecessor and a main contender in the 2020 elections, John Mahama is only desperate for attention.

“Comparing my administration to that of Mahama is like chalk and cheese, there’s no semblance…You shouldn’t worry me with things that will disturb my peace. His administration is the worst government the country has ever experienced in the last thirty years.

Leave him. We are in an election year so he needs to say something and that’s what he is doing…I am confident that on December 7, the verdict will vindicate my hard work and the good works of this administration”.

President Akufo-Addo also thanked the people of Kumasi for their support for him and his government, urging them to go out and register in their numbers.

Source: Peace FM

Akufo-Addo using soldiers to stop Ewes, non-Akans from registering – Mahama

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Akufo-Addo using soldiers to stop Ewes, non-Akans from registering – Mahama

Former President John Mahama has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of using the military to frustrate people of the Volta region and non-Akans from registering in the ongoing voter registration exercise.

In a statement on Saturday, 1 August 2020, Mr Mahama said: “This is not the Ghana our forebears toiled for and built!”

“Each and every successive President”, he noted, “left a peaceful, stable and united country”.

However, he observed, “The road President Akufo-Addo is taking our beautiful country through, using the military and party thugs to stop people from exercising their right to register and vote in the upcoming December elections, is dangerous and unacceptable”.

He alleged: ‘There have been many reports and video evidence, like the one in this post, of the President’s deployment and discriminatory use of soldiers to target our brothers and sisters in the Volta Region and wherever there are settlements of Voltarians and non-Akans”.

The flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said: “Executive power must not be used to foment ethnic discrimination and abuse as is happening under Nana Akufo-Addo”.

“These calculated acts of ‘dehumanisation, disenfranchising Ghanaians and stripping them of their citizenship’ must end”, he insisted.

He promised: “They will surely never happen under a new NDC administration because we will foster a spirit of peace and unity in our nation”.

As Commander-in-Chief, Mr Mahama pledged, “I will not use our military in such a partisan manner to terrorise our own people, and in matters that are purely civil and dwell in the very heart of our constitutional democracy”.

Source: Class FM

Mahama accuses Akufo-Addo of ‘ethnic discrimination’ in voter registration

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Mahama accuses Akufo-Addo of ‘ethnic discrimination’ in voter registration

The National Democratic Congress Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has condemned what he calls the “discriminatory” use of military personnel by President Akufo-Addo to disenfranchise Ewes and other non-Akans.

His statement comes on the back of a report in which some military personnel are accused of preventing Ewes in Banda from taking part in the ongoing voter registration exercise.

In a post on his Facebook page, Mr Mahama described the actions of the government as dangerous.

“The road President Akufo-Addo is taking our beautiful country through, using the military and party thugs to stop people from exercising their right to register and vote in the upcoming December elections, is dangerous and unacceptable.”

“There have been many reports and video evidence, like the one in this post, of the President’s deployment and discriminatory use of soldiers to target our brothers and sisters in the Volta Region and wherever there are settlements of Voltarians and non-Akans,” he added.

The former president also indicated that such acts will not be permitted should he be voted into power.

“Executive power must not be used to foment ethnic discrimination and abuse as is happening under Nana Akufo-Addo. These calculated acts of “dehumanisation, disenfranchising Ghanaians and stripping them of their citizenship” must end. They will surely never happen under a new NDC administration because we will foster a spirit of peace and unity in our nation.”

“As Commander-in-Chief, I will not use our military in such a partisan manner to terrorise our own people, and in matters that are purely civil and dwell in the very heart of our constitutional democracy.”

Nana Addo justifies military deployment

President Akufo-Addo, in an address to the nation on Monday, June 29, 2020, justified the deployment of military personnel along the country’s borders saying it was in the best interest of the country.

He said the deployment was to save the country against the intrusion of foreign nationals who have the potential of jeopardising Ghana’s democracy and health efforts in these crucial moments.

“The longstanding deployment of security personnel, especially the military, along our borders is another dimension of this process of guaranteeing the peace of the nation.”

Ghana’s Minister for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul also assured Ghanaians of the Ghana Armed Forces’ unalloyed allegiance and service.

According to him, the military will not compromise the safety of Ghanaians for the interest of any individual, political party or tribe.

Forget Ghana, Bafana are Zimbabwe’s toughest World Cup foe – Karuru

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Forget Ghana, Bafana are Zimbabwe’s toughest World Cup foe – Karuru

Zimbabwe midfielder Ovidy Karuru believes South Africa will be the Warriors’ ‘toughest’ opponent in the 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifiers, while dismissing Ghana from providing a stern challenge in the same group.

Group G of the road to Qatar contains Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana and Ethiopia with the qualifiers having been initially scheduled to kick off in September 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic struck.

It is the Zimbabwe-South Africa home and away fixtures, dubbed ‘The Battle of Limpopo’, which are eagerly anticipated by Stellenbosch midfielder Karuru in this group.

“We have been waiting to play Bafana Bafana,” Karuru told Cosafa TV. “We always want to play against South Africa, because when we are here [in the Premier Soccer League] at our clubs, we always talk about it.

“We have missed the Battle of Limpopo,” he added. “I think that one is going to be out toughest game, because South Africa do not want to lose against Zimbabwe and we do not want to lose to South Africa.

“When it comes to Ghana and the other team [Ethiopia], I think we just have to go there and come out with a result, then we take them on in the reverse fixture at our home ground.”

History favours Zimbabwe, who have won seven matches, while Bafana Bafana have recorded six wins, with two games between the neighbours ending in draws.

It is now seven years since the rivals last met when the Warriors edged South Africa 2-1 in an international friendly match at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in September 2013, with Knowledge Musona and Cuthbert Malajila scoring for the visitors, while Bernard Parker pulled one goal back for Bafana.

In the Battle of Limpopo, Peter Ndlovu and Musona are the highest scorers with three goals each, while Delron Buckley and Lucas Thwala follow with each having struck twice.

In this group, only Ghana and South Africa have featured at the World Cup before, while Zimbabwe and Ethiopia are seeking their maiden qualification.

Karuru, who has previously played for French Ligue 1 side US Boulogne, has vowed that the Warriors won’t be on the losing side when they face their near neighbours.

“Against South Africa, there is no home, there is no away for us especially guys playing here in South Africa,” he added. “It’s going to be a tough one. All I can promise is that I don’t see us losing that game.”

The last time the two neighbours met in a World Cup qualifier, South Africa edged Zimbabwe 2-1 at FNB Stadium in May 2001 and Bafana Bafana proceeded to the 2002 tournament in Korea/Japan.

The first leg of that qualifying campaign ended disastrously in July 2000 after 13 fans perished at Harare’s National Sports Stadium in a stampede and the match was abandoned with eight minutes to go as the visitors led 2-0 courtesy of a Buckley brace.

Source: goal.com

Mahama presided over the worst statistics in our economic history – Akufo-Addo

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Mahama presided over the worst statistics in our economic history – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the leader of the opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama as one that presided over what he calls the worst statistics of Ghana’s economic history.

This follows various calls by the opposition NDC describing the almost four-year tenure of the ruling party as a socio-economic failure.

According to the president, the John Mahama led administration during its tenure picked the economy with an inflow of oil revenue and then sunk it into some 3.4 percent rate of growth when the ruling New Patriotic Party took office in 2017.

Speaking on Ashanti regional-based Wontumi TV on Saturday, August 1, President Akufo-Addo said; “This is the man who presided over the worst statistics in the economic history of our country, who also picked an economy and oil company and then sunk it into a 3.4 percent rate of growth”

“Virtually, every single indices of his management of the economy was the worst performance over the last 30 years in Ghanaian history and so when they speak of my failure I’m not so concerned because it really does not bother my mind and I have to be honest with you about it,” President Akufo-Addo told the host of the show in Kumasi.

President Akufo-Addo added the records of good governance set out by his party [NPP] in a short space of time towers over that of the opposition [NDC].

“Our records and his is definitely chalk and cheese and there’s no comparison between theirs and ours whatsoever so their claims don’t bother me at all. It’s all a part of the politics and I think on the 7th of December 2020, the Ghanaian people will speak and I am confident with the support of the Almighty, the Ghanaian people will speak well”

Meanwhile, Ghanaians will on December 7, 2020, go to the polls to elect a President as part of four-year constitutional mandate in a general election.

The contest will see John Dramani Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress contend against Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the current President of the Republic and flag-bearer for the New Patriotic Party.

Watch Akufo-Addo’s interview on Wontumi TV below:

My mum did not give me her blessings to play football – Richard Attah

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My mum did not give me her blessings to play football – Richard Attah

Accra Hearts of Oak S.C goalkeeper, Richard Attah has revealed that his mother did not give him her blessings before he started playing football professionally.

The shot stopper revealed that his mother used to beat him a lot when he decided to play football but it did not stop him from playing.

“My mum used to beat me always because of my love for football. Anytime she beats me, I go and play football the next day. She never gave me her blessings to play football.”

He added that his mother congratulated him after his maiden call-up to the Black Stars by head coach Charles Akonnor.

“When I told my mother about the callup to the Black Stars, she said ‘you are finally realizing your dreams.”Richard Attah concluded.

Source: footballghana.com
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