A German Naval Ship, Brandenburg-Class Frigate, which berthed at the Tema Port on Thursday for a three-day visit has departed for Funchal, Portugal.
The ship is a member of the task force operating to further NATO’s active endeavour to strengthen international security and relationship
The ship, which has visited Simon’s Town and Cape Town ports in South Africa, Egypt, Valencia, Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain as part of its 2010 programme launch aimed at improving the training standards of its personnel, is also set to visit selected ports in Europe and the Middle East. Briefing newsmen on board the vessel at the Tema Port, Commanding Officer Marco von Kolln said countries the world over were recording changing patterns in terms of politics, social and economic migration, thereby intensifying high economic possibilities, as well as soaring crime rates.
‘It is for these reasons that the German Military Services were developing approaches known as the “Ambassadors in Blue’, aimed at intensifying friendship and cooperation with the countries visited”, Mr Kolln said.
The vessel, which is on a five-month voyage across 11 countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, would also provide training for four African navies from South Africa, Egypt, Namibia and Ghana.
The training, which combines the use of state-of-the-art equipment with special emphasis on classical seafaring and technical module, according to Mr Kolln, was to equip personnel with exquisite knowledge on the different types of maritime operations.
It would provide logistic support and refurbishment for the Ghanaian Navy ships which were built in Germany.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
COC-COLA MONTHLY MDEAL AT TEMA TODAY (PAGE 31, MARCH 27, 2010)
CELEBRITY Golf Club will host its anchor Coca-Cola Monthly Medal tournament today.
The event is a must-play on the club’s golf calendar which attracts golfers from the Tema and Accra Metropolis. The competition is also open to visiting players with genuine handicaps.
Club spokesman, Mr Pierre Coussey, noted that although the previous matches were won by visitors outside the host club, recent changes on the conditions on the course would make it more challenging for such persons to defend their medals, with the new course master altering the layout positions on the course.
Today’s event will also mark the re-establishment of presenting golf medals for monthly medals as a tradition.
Players such as Akwasi Poku, Joe Ampofo, Martin Osei, Ebo da Costa, Ashish Gajar and Joe Molapo have targeted the medals as their next acquisition to their list of golf memorabilia in today’s event which promises to be exciting.
The event is a must-play on the club’s golf calendar which attracts golfers from the Tema and Accra Metropolis. The competition is also open to visiting players with genuine handicaps.
Club spokesman, Mr Pierre Coussey, noted that although the previous matches were won by visitors outside the host club, recent changes on the conditions on the course would make it more challenging for such persons to defend their medals, with the new course master altering the layout positions on the course.
Today’s event will also mark the re-establishment of presenting golf medals for monthly medals as a tradition.
Players such as Akwasi Poku, Joe Ampofo, Martin Osei, Ebo da Costa, Ashish Gajar and Joe Molapo have targeted the medals as their next acquisition to their list of golf memorabilia in today’s event which promises to be exciting.
MDPI TO RECLAIM LANDS AT BAATSONA (PAGE 29, MARCH 29, 2010)
THE Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA) is set to partner the Management Development and Productivity Institute to reclaim portions of its land located at Batsoona on the Spintex Road which have been massively encroached on.
The over 150 acres were acquired by the government in 1974 through an executive instrument (EI 112) for the construction of a West African Sub-regional Management Development and Productivity Institute to train students in management, development and other disciplines during the formation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The project stalled over the years and various construction works by individual developers continue to spring up on the land.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Daniel Amartey Mensah, disclosed this at a community programme organised by the assembly at Teshie, a suburb of Accra.
The programme, which is part of the decentralisation process, was aimed at interacting and dialoguing with the local authorities on key issues that directly affect the social and economic activities of the people.
Over 70 participants from the Association of Persons with Disability, artisans, fishermen and fishmongers and personnel from the municipal health directorate and other governmental agencies participated in the one-day forum.
Mr Mensah indicated that the municipal assembly was in the process of preparing its 2010-2013 medium-term development plan, hence the need to consult the electorate, who were the recipients, at the various stages of its development.
“This was to ensure the electorate’s engagement in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the projects and its related activities,” he said.
He said the area annually faced life threatening situations such as floods, acute water shortage, decaying environment, in which 50 per cent of residents in the municipality were affected.
“The inadequate classroom infrastructure which has compelled various basic schools in the municipality to run shift systems and the high unemployment rate are some immediate problems the assembly is committed to addressing,” Mr Mensah stated.
He charged members of the assembly to involve their electorate in the planning processes to help the assembly prioritise its project implementation.
The chief executive also tasked residents to support the assembly to reclaim portions of the 158.184 acres belonging to the MDPI as the school faced eviction from its present location at the old ministries in Accra.
The planning officer of the assembly, Mr Phillip Ampadu-Oppong, told participants in the forum that the dialogue with communities in the municipality was aimed at incorporating residents’ inputs in the assembly’s development programmes.
According to him, gender and vulnerability was one key element identified by officials in a household research conducted by the assembly, and charged them not to be apathetic towards the assembly’s initiated programmes aimed at improving livelihood and economic status of the community.
The over 150 acres were acquired by the government in 1974 through an executive instrument (EI 112) for the construction of a West African Sub-regional Management Development and Productivity Institute to train students in management, development and other disciplines during the formation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The project stalled over the years and various construction works by individual developers continue to spring up on the land.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Daniel Amartey Mensah, disclosed this at a community programme organised by the assembly at Teshie, a suburb of Accra.
The programme, which is part of the decentralisation process, was aimed at interacting and dialoguing with the local authorities on key issues that directly affect the social and economic activities of the people.
Over 70 participants from the Association of Persons with Disability, artisans, fishermen and fishmongers and personnel from the municipal health directorate and other governmental agencies participated in the one-day forum.
Mr Mensah indicated that the municipal assembly was in the process of preparing its 2010-2013 medium-term development plan, hence the need to consult the electorate, who were the recipients, at the various stages of its development.
“This was to ensure the electorate’s engagement in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the projects and its related activities,” he said.
He said the area annually faced life threatening situations such as floods, acute water shortage, decaying environment, in which 50 per cent of residents in the municipality were affected.
“The inadequate classroom infrastructure which has compelled various basic schools in the municipality to run shift systems and the high unemployment rate are some immediate problems the assembly is committed to addressing,” Mr Mensah stated.
He charged members of the assembly to involve their electorate in the planning processes to help the assembly prioritise its project implementation.
The chief executive also tasked residents to support the assembly to reclaim portions of the 158.184 acres belonging to the MDPI as the school faced eviction from its present location at the old ministries in Accra.
The planning officer of the assembly, Mr Phillip Ampadu-Oppong, told participants in the forum that the dialogue with communities in the municipality was aimed at incorporating residents’ inputs in the assembly’s development programmes.
According to him, gender and vulnerability was one key element identified by officials in a household research conducted by the assembly, and charged them not to be apathetic towards the assembly’s initiated programmes aimed at improving livelihood and economic status of the community.
60-YEAR-OLD MAN DIES IN POLICE CELL (PAGE 28, MARCH 29, 2010)
A 60-year-old man, Alfred Chukuma, who was in custody at the Community 22 Police cells on an alleged charge of defilement is reported dead.
The deceased died at dawn on Tuesday.
Chukuma, who was arrested for defiling an 11– year–old girl at Mexico, a suburb of Ashaiman, is said to have fallen ill in the cell for about two weeks following excessive heat in the cell.
The deceased, according to the source, was arrested on February 15 and put before the Ashaiman Circuit Court.
Reports, however, suggest he might have died out of suffocation owing to poor ventilation in the cells, which has seen other inmates developing skin diseases.
The Divisional Co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Christine Yevunoo, who confirmed the incident to the Daily Graphic, said the deceased was remanded in police custody on the March 1 and was scheduled to make a second appearance on March 22.
She, however, ruled out rumours suggesting suffocation as a result of congestion, saying “the Community 22 cell is one of the properly ventilated cells in the region”.
“The deceased was very healthy and did not show any sign of sickness until that dawn when the counter officer on duty at the station informed the station officer of complaints by other inmates that Chukuma was behaving strangely,” she said.
According to ASP Yevunoo, the station officer immediately moved out to arrange a taxi to enable them to send the deceased to hospital when he later went into unconsciousness minutes after he was brought out of the cell to the back of the counter.
“He, however, gave up the ghost when the station officer returned with the taxi meant to convey him to the Tema General Hospital for treatment,” she said.
The body has since been deposited at the police hospital mortuary pending autopsy.
The closure of the Ashaiman Police cell for renovation and expansion has seen about 32 inmates being transferred to the community 22 cell and others sent to Nsawam amidst protests from the inmates, who resisted their transfer by smearing themselves with human excreta.
The deceased died at dawn on Tuesday.
Chukuma, who was arrested for defiling an 11– year–old girl at Mexico, a suburb of Ashaiman, is said to have fallen ill in the cell for about two weeks following excessive heat in the cell.
The deceased, according to the source, was arrested on February 15 and put before the Ashaiman Circuit Court.
Reports, however, suggest he might have died out of suffocation owing to poor ventilation in the cells, which has seen other inmates developing skin diseases.
The Divisional Co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Christine Yevunoo, who confirmed the incident to the Daily Graphic, said the deceased was remanded in police custody on the March 1 and was scheduled to make a second appearance on March 22.
She, however, ruled out rumours suggesting suffocation as a result of congestion, saying “the Community 22 cell is one of the properly ventilated cells in the region”.
“The deceased was very healthy and did not show any sign of sickness until that dawn when the counter officer on duty at the station informed the station officer of complaints by other inmates that Chukuma was behaving strangely,” she said.
According to ASP Yevunoo, the station officer immediately moved out to arrange a taxi to enable them to send the deceased to hospital when he later went into unconsciousness minutes after he was brought out of the cell to the back of the counter.
“He, however, gave up the ghost when the station officer returned with the taxi meant to convey him to the Tema General Hospital for treatment,” she said.
The body has since been deposited at the police hospital mortuary pending autopsy.
The closure of the Ashaiman Police cell for renovation and expansion has seen about 32 inmates being transferred to the community 22 cell and others sent to Nsawam amidst protests from the inmates, who resisted their transfer by smearing themselves with human excreta.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
TWO HELD OVER CHILD TRAFFICKING (PAGE 14, MARCH 25, 2010)
TWO persons suspected to be involved in human trafficking have been arrested by the Tema Police.
The two were arrested at about 11:30 a.m. yesterday at the Kpone Police checkpoint on the Tema-Aflao road in the company of three persons, two of them children, on thier way to Lagos, Nigeria.
The suspects are, Ayeshetu Musah, a 38-year-old trader, and Masawudu Mohammed, 31, who is the driver of a BMW saloon vehicle, with registration number CG-984-LCD, on which they were travelling.
According to the regional co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rebecca Nyamah, the suspects were intercepted by police personnel on duty at the checkpoint on suspicion that the three were being trafficked out of the country.
ASP Nyamah told the Daily Graphic that the three — Comfort Yeboah, 20, Comfort Arthur, 10, both residents of Tsereso-Odom, a suburb of Abandzie in the Central Region, and Linda Bosomtwi, 13, a pupil of Kormantse DA Primary also in the Central Region — could not give any tangible reasons when quizzed by the officers on duty.
“The shabby nature in which the children were dressed aroused the suspicion of the officers, leading to their arrest when they could not give any tangible reasons,” she said.
The driver of the vehicle, however, told the police in his caution statement that Comfort Yeboah and Comfort Arthur were put into his car when he loaded from the co-operative station at Tudu, a suburb of Accra, by a woman known only as ‘Hajia’ for onward transportation to her sister, who is resident in Lagos.
Ayeshetu, however, denied the offence in her caution statement insisting that Linda was her daughter.
The girl, on the other hand, told this reporter that she was handed over to the woman by her father to be sent to Lagos to enable her to continue her education owing to financial difficulties.
ASP Nyamah said the two would be put before court immediately investigation revealed they tried to smugge the children out of the country.
She appealed to the general public and parents whose children were missing to report to the unit in order to be reunited with them.
The two were arrested at about 11:30 a.m. yesterday at the Kpone Police checkpoint on the Tema-Aflao road in the company of three persons, two of them children, on thier way to Lagos, Nigeria.
The suspects are, Ayeshetu Musah, a 38-year-old trader, and Masawudu Mohammed, 31, who is the driver of a BMW saloon vehicle, with registration number CG-984-LCD, on which they were travelling.
According to the regional co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rebecca Nyamah, the suspects were intercepted by police personnel on duty at the checkpoint on suspicion that the three were being trafficked out of the country.
ASP Nyamah told the Daily Graphic that the three — Comfort Yeboah, 20, Comfort Arthur, 10, both residents of Tsereso-Odom, a suburb of Abandzie in the Central Region, and Linda Bosomtwi, 13, a pupil of Kormantse DA Primary also in the Central Region — could not give any tangible reasons when quizzed by the officers on duty.
“The shabby nature in which the children were dressed aroused the suspicion of the officers, leading to their arrest when they could not give any tangible reasons,” she said.
The driver of the vehicle, however, told the police in his caution statement that Comfort Yeboah and Comfort Arthur were put into his car when he loaded from the co-operative station at Tudu, a suburb of Accra, by a woman known only as ‘Hajia’ for onward transportation to her sister, who is resident in Lagos.
Ayeshetu, however, denied the offence in her caution statement insisting that Linda was her daughter.
The girl, on the other hand, told this reporter that she was handed over to the woman by her father to be sent to Lagos to enable her to continue her education owing to financial difficulties.
ASP Nyamah said the two would be put before court immediately investigation revealed they tried to smugge the children out of the country.
She appealed to the general public and parents whose children were missing to report to the unit in order to be reunited with them.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
THE JOURNEY HAS NOT BEEN EASY...Says Mrs Leticia Osafo-Addo, CEO of Samba Foods (PAGE 20, GRAPHIC BUSINESS, MARCH 23, 2010)
THE immediate past Vice President of the Association of Ghana Industries and Chief Executive Officer of SAMBA Foods, Mrs Leticia Osafo-Addo, has been adjudged the overall winner of the 2009 edition of the ‘Builders of the African Economy’ and presented her prize in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
She becomes the first Ghanaian to join the likes of Sudanese business mogul, Mo Ibrahim, Globacom Chief Executive, Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr, former Chief Executive Officer of MTN group, Phuthuma Nhleko, and Malian born Cheick Modibo Diarra, current chairman of Microsoft Africa, who have all won the award in the past since its inception.
The yearly award, instituted in 2006 by Colombe Marketing and Communication, an Abidjan–based communication and advertising consultancy, is an event which celebrates excellence and contributions made by Africa’s top businessmen and business women in their chosen fields aimed at improving their economy.
This year’s edition also saw the organisers profiling personalities, institutions, business and their owners, as well as award winners in English and French magazines.
The new addition, according to the organising committee, was to promote African businesses beyond the borders of the continent.
The award, which was in recognition of her continued promotion of agri-business and food packaging to meet international acceptance, according to the committee, was a test case for small and medium scale enterprises across the continent.
Mr Russel Lohore, a panel judge on the committee, indicated that although agri-business under the SMEs on the continent had witnessed setbacks owing to inadequate support from financial institutions, leading to the closure of several firms, which have now turned to trade and commerce, the case of SAMBA foods went to reiterate a point that investing in the sector would enhance African countries’ quest towards achieving a middle income status.
Sharing her thoughts on the award, Mrs Osafo-Addo told the Graphic Business that the government and policy makers should develop clear policies and programmes that would boost agri–business in the country.
SAMBA, which, according to her started as a small initiative, had grown into a medium-scale enterprise, and “this is a clear case that if a holistic support were extended to small scale enterprises, the country would make major inroads towards the attainment of the middle income status leaders are striving to achieve,” she said.
She regretted that successive governments had paid lip service to the sector, although the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and its stakeholders had in the past advocated that policy makers identified measures on how they wanted to develop the sector.
She admitted the journey had not been rosy, as recouping investment from manufacturing took more time than in trade and commerce.
“There were times when I thought of folding up and going into commerce, but determination to achieve my ultimate objective of making a case for the country’s agri-business sub-sector has kept me going, although monetary rewards were minimal,” she stated.
Mrs Osafo-Addo, who has in the past won the Danish Concept Award for SME Development, was also a winner of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIMG) awards in 2001, the coveted African Business Woman of the year award in 2005, as well as the Dutch Fellowship Award for quality assurance in the food processing enterprise in The Netherlands, among several other international awards.
The “tough–talking” woman, who is referred to as ‘Auntie Samba’ by most people, has also featured in business advocacy programmes in several media aimed at promoting agri-business and entrepreneurial development among the youth.
The professionally trained nurse turned entrepreneur, who was educated in Germany, holds a Master of Business Administration in Management Technology and Innovation from the Wangeningen Agricultural University in The Netherlands.
She also holds a diploma in assurance and marketing in food processing from the same university.
The one time board member of the Social Investment Fund currently serves as a member of the Advisory Panel of the African Guarantee Fund, the African Development Bank (ADB) and the International Finance Corporation based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mrs Osafo-Addo, a former student of the Technology Secondary School, now (KNUST SHS), has over the years mentored young women in tertiary institutions and training colleges across the country in food processing and preservation.
Her resolve to make a case for food processing and agri-business saw her serving as an immediate past vice president of the AGI, where she also spent time and resource trying to promote the growth of the industry through advocacy and the formulation of flexible policies aimed at improving growth in the small and medium-scale business sub-sector.
Recounting her challenging moments to the GRAPHIC BUSINESS, she indicated that the lack of finance, subversion and diversion of loans, inadequate managerial skills and the lack of ready market for locally made products were some of the challenges that impeded the growth of local industries.
She noted that in spite of those challenges, the company rose above the storm and expanded until insufficient cash flow hit it following the failure of a government agency, their major client, to pay for goods supplied to it for almost two years, leading to a partial closure of the factory.
Mrs Osafo-Addo regretted that although successive administrations preached the gospel of private-public sector partnership, the same entities were doing very little to rescue agro-based companies that ran into problems.
The SAMBA CEO noted that the resuscitation of her factory from a long slumber should serve as a test case for small-scale businesses, and challenged managers of such entities to stand firm as they made strides to promote the economic development of agri-business.
She appealed to the government to provide regulations at the macro-level that would motivate financial institutions, which are the major financiers of business projects, to develop better relationships with the SMEs, thereby complementing their efforts at developing the country.
She also called for an intervention by the Ghana Standards Board, the Food and Drugs Board, the food science departments of universities and other stakeholders in order to make ‘Shito’, a pepper sauce, a national product that could be identified with Ghana when it was mentioned, just as Mercedes Benz is linked to Germany.
She paid glowing tributes to her staff, whose encouragement and selfless attitudes contributed to the company’s success since its rebound.
Mrs Osafo-Addo also dedicated the awards to the several women who had dominated the SME’s in the informal economy.
With the assistance of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, she said, the award would be presented to the First Lady, Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, hoping that the award wolud serve as a motivation for other women entrepreneurs. GB
She becomes the first Ghanaian to join the likes of Sudanese business mogul, Mo Ibrahim, Globacom Chief Executive, Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr, former Chief Executive Officer of MTN group, Phuthuma Nhleko, and Malian born Cheick Modibo Diarra, current chairman of Microsoft Africa, who have all won the award in the past since its inception.
The yearly award, instituted in 2006 by Colombe Marketing and Communication, an Abidjan–based communication and advertising consultancy, is an event which celebrates excellence and contributions made by Africa’s top businessmen and business women in their chosen fields aimed at improving their economy.
This year’s edition also saw the organisers profiling personalities, institutions, business and their owners, as well as award winners in English and French magazines.
The new addition, according to the organising committee, was to promote African businesses beyond the borders of the continent.
The award, which was in recognition of her continued promotion of agri-business and food packaging to meet international acceptance, according to the committee, was a test case for small and medium scale enterprises across the continent.
Mr Russel Lohore, a panel judge on the committee, indicated that although agri-business under the SMEs on the continent had witnessed setbacks owing to inadequate support from financial institutions, leading to the closure of several firms, which have now turned to trade and commerce, the case of SAMBA foods went to reiterate a point that investing in the sector would enhance African countries’ quest towards achieving a middle income status.
Sharing her thoughts on the award, Mrs Osafo-Addo told the Graphic Business that the government and policy makers should develop clear policies and programmes that would boost agri–business in the country.
SAMBA, which, according to her started as a small initiative, had grown into a medium-scale enterprise, and “this is a clear case that if a holistic support were extended to small scale enterprises, the country would make major inroads towards the attainment of the middle income status leaders are striving to achieve,” she said.
She regretted that successive governments had paid lip service to the sector, although the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and its stakeholders had in the past advocated that policy makers identified measures on how they wanted to develop the sector.
She admitted the journey had not been rosy, as recouping investment from manufacturing took more time than in trade and commerce.
“There were times when I thought of folding up and going into commerce, but determination to achieve my ultimate objective of making a case for the country’s agri-business sub-sector has kept me going, although monetary rewards were minimal,” she stated.
Mrs Osafo-Addo, who has in the past won the Danish Concept Award for SME Development, was also a winner of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIMG) awards in 2001, the coveted African Business Woman of the year award in 2005, as well as the Dutch Fellowship Award for quality assurance in the food processing enterprise in The Netherlands, among several other international awards.
The “tough–talking” woman, who is referred to as ‘Auntie Samba’ by most people, has also featured in business advocacy programmes in several media aimed at promoting agri-business and entrepreneurial development among the youth.
The professionally trained nurse turned entrepreneur, who was educated in Germany, holds a Master of Business Administration in Management Technology and Innovation from the Wangeningen Agricultural University in The Netherlands.
She also holds a diploma in assurance and marketing in food processing from the same university.
The one time board member of the Social Investment Fund currently serves as a member of the Advisory Panel of the African Guarantee Fund, the African Development Bank (ADB) and the International Finance Corporation based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mrs Osafo-Addo, a former student of the Technology Secondary School, now (KNUST SHS), has over the years mentored young women in tertiary institutions and training colleges across the country in food processing and preservation.
Her resolve to make a case for food processing and agri-business saw her serving as an immediate past vice president of the AGI, where she also spent time and resource trying to promote the growth of the industry through advocacy and the formulation of flexible policies aimed at improving growth in the small and medium-scale business sub-sector.
Recounting her challenging moments to the GRAPHIC BUSINESS, she indicated that the lack of finance, subversion and diversion of loans, inadequate managerial skills and the lack of ready market for locally made products were some of the challenges that impeded the growth of local industries.
She noted that in spite of those challenges, the company rose above the storm and expanded until insufficient cash flow hit it following the failure of a government agency, their major client, to pay for goods supplied to it for almost two years, leading to a partial closure of the factory.
Mrs Osafo-Addo regretted that although successive administrations preached the gospel of private-public sector partnership, the same entities were doing very little to rescue agro-based companies that ran into problems.
The SAMBA CEO noted that the resuscitation of her factory from a long slumber should serve as a test case for small-scale businesses, and challenged managers of such entities to stand firm as they made strides to promote the economic development of agri-business.
She appealed to the government to provide regulations at the macro-level that would motivate financial institutions, which are the major financiers of business projects, to develop better relationships with the SMEs, thereby complementing their efforts at developing the country.
She also called for an intervention by the Ghana Standards Board, the Food and Drugs Board, the food science departments of universities and other stakeholders in order to make ‘Shito’, a pepper sauce, a national product that could be identified with Ghana when it was mentioned, just as Mercedes Benz is linked to Germany.
She paid glowing tributes to her staff, whose encouragement and selfless attitudes contributed to the company’s success since its rebound.
Mrs Osafo-Addo also dedicated the awards to the several women who had dominated the SME’s in the informal economy.
With the assistance of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, she said, the award would be presented to the First Lady, Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, hoping that the award wolud serve as a motivation for other women entrepreneurs. GB
Friday, March 19, 2010
13 TEST POSITIVE FOR SWINE FLU AT TEMA PARENTS SCHOOL (DAILY GRAPHIC, PAGE 11, FRI, MARCH 19, 2010)
THIRTEEN pupils of Tema Parents Association School have tested positive to the HINI influenza (swine flu).
As a result, the school has been closed down.
The decision was taken on Wednesday at an emergency meeting by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the school, the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), the Tema Metropolitan Directorate of Education and the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate.
A letter signed by the Assistant Headmaster of the school, Mr Abraham Afer, to parents on Wednesday indicated that the school would remain closed until May 5, 2010, when the next academic term begins.
In view of the closure, the pupils will miss out the rest of their classes for the term and their second terminal examinations.
When the Daily Graphic visited the school at about 9a.m. on Thursday morning, the entire environment looked deserted while staff and management engaged in a serious prayer session with a few of the staff assisting the final-year students, who would be taking part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in April this year.
Management and staff were, however, tight-lipped over the new development. A staff member who gave his name only as PAX walked this reporter out of the school premises amidst insinuations.
Two levels of the school which were initially affected, suspended classes earlier in the week but examinations conducted on the children and later revelations had compelled the authorities to get the children to go home.
Daily Graphic sources confirmed that the 13 pupils tested positive following preliminary tests conducted on them at the Tema Polyclinic.
The source said the school’s management had tasked parents to take measures to vaccinate their children as they awaited the certified results from the Noguchi Memorial Centre.
The unfortunate incident is believed to have spread in the school through a child who was sent outside the country on vacation by the parents and might have been infected there.
According to the Tema Metro Health Director, Dr Ernestina Quainoo, specimen of phlegm’s of 150 children from the school who were coughing had been forwarded to the Noguchi Memorial Centre for analysis after parents of the affected children had taken them to hospital at the weekend with symptoms of fever and cold.
It would be recalled that two levels of the school which were initially affected suspended classes earlier in the week, but examinations conducted on the children and later revelations compelled the authorities to close down the school and get the children examined and where necessary treated.
As a result, the school has been closed down.
The decision was taken on Wednesday at an emergency meeting by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the school, the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), the Tema Metropolitan Directorate of Education and the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate.
A letter signed by the Assistant Headmaster of the school, Mr Abraham Afer, to parents on Wednesday indicated that the school would remain closed until May 5, 2010, when the next academic term begins.
In view of the closure, the pupils will miss out the rest of their classes for the term and their second terminal examinations.
When the Daily Graphic visited the school at about 9a.m. on Thursday morning, the entire environment looked deserted while staff and management engaged in a serious prayer session with a few of the staff assisting the final-year students, who would be taking part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in April this year.
Management and staff were, however, tight-lipped over the new development. A staff member who gave his name only as PAX walked this reporter out of the school premises amidst insinuations.
Two levels of the school which were initially affected, suspended classes earlier in the week but examinations conducted on the children and later revelations had compelled the authorities to get the children to go home.
Daily Graphic sources confirmed that the 13 pupils tested positive following preliminary tests conducted on them at the Tema Polyclinic.
The source said the school’s management had tasked parents to take measures to vaccinate their children as they awaited the certified results from the Noguchi Memorial Centre.
The unfortunate incident is believed to have spread in the school through a child who was sent outside the country on vacation by the parents and might have been infected there.
According to the Tema Metro Health Director, Dr Ernestina Quainoo, specimen of phlegm’s of 150 children from the school who were coughing had been forwarded to the Noguchi Memorial Centre for analysis after parents of the affected children had taken them to hospital at the weekend with symptoms of fever and cold.
It would be recalled that two levels of the school which were initially affected suspended classes earlier in the week, but examinations conducted on the children and later revelations compelled the authorities to close down the school and get the children examined and where necessary treated.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
ILLEGAL SAND WINNING DESTROYING FARMLANDS IN APPOLONIA (DAILY GRAPHIC, THUR MARCH 4, 2010) PAGE 30
Story: Della Russel Ocloo, Appolonia
RENEWED tension is brewing in Appolonia, a farming community in the Tema Metropolitan Assembly following disagreement between the Chief of the town, Nii Tei Adumuah II and his Kingmakers over the activities of illegal sand winning in the community.
Sand winning, including the illegal cutting down of trees has led to serious environmental degradation and subsequent destruction of the community’s farmlands.
The over 20,000 acres of land which was formally used for pepper plantation and cattle rearing was now at the mercy of individuals who operates various pits for the purposes of sand wining.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic during a tour of the farmlands, secretary to the kingmakers, Mr Divine Abladey Dortey indicated, the illegal activities which started several years ago reached a crescendo where the livelihood means of indigenes suffered greatly leading to majority of the youth migrating to Ashaiman and Tema in search of alternative livelihood means while the rest of the populace live in abject poverty.
He indicated the kingmakers in their quest to seek redress and reclaim the land to forestall the illegal activities, in 1994 filed for a perpetual injunction at the Tema High Court seeking among other reliefs a declaration to stop the alienating of lands by the chief, to any individual or companies without recourse to Alhaji Tettey-Kwao, Seth Gblie Nartey and Joseph Mensah Akpeng, his Kingmakers who were the plaintiffs in the case.
Mr Dortey also accused the Assembly member of the area, Mr Timothy Mensah Tetteh and the Member of Parliament for the area, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo of teaming up with the chief and his cohorts to violate the court order thereby encouraging the youth to go back and continue their activities at the pits.
A visit to the site revealed deep trenches filled with water at the sites as a result several years of sand wining activities.
Workers at the site who were busily seen loading sands into tipper trucks took to their heels upon seing the press leaving behind their tools.
Although the road network connecting the various puts were in deplorable conditions, drivers as well as the youth who operates at the site often manoeuvre their way to the pit to cart away the cargo which they pay as little as GHC35 for, but sells to the public at a cost of GHC250 depending on the axle of the loading truck.
Ebenezer Tetteh Noi, a native of the town told the Daily Graphic, that they were very much aware of the court injunction which prohibits all forms of activities on the land.
‘We only commenced work some three days ago following a directive from the chief, Nii Tei Adumuah that we can go back to the pits’, he said.
Armed guards position at the entrance of the site who had in their possession waybills from the finance department of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Ministry of Lands and the Lands Commission told this reporter that they were representatives from the above mentioned institutions as well as the traditional council who has been tasked to issue receipt to the drivers after payments are effected for the carting of the cargo.
The Chief’s representative, who earlier refused to make any comment during an interrogation with the media, later confessed that he was authorized by the Chief of the area to collect waybills.
Attempts to check the veracity of the waybills from the TMA officials were futile as officials were tight-lipped as to whether, the said documents emanated from their outfit.
Nii Laryea Afortey Agbo and Mr Mensah denied the assertions that the said injunction was placed on the land where the sand wining activities were being carried out.
According to Mr Mensah, the injunction was placed on the boundaries of Kubekro and Oyibi, all adjourning communities surrounding Appolonia, whose indigenes have over the years encroached into their lands.
The MP on the other hand questioned why he would involved himself into matters that do not concern him as an outsider who does not even come from the town.
Mr Divine Dortey regretted that this illegal activity apart from denying the farmers of their source of revenue was also damaging the top soil which goes to deprive the soil of its nutrients.
RENEWED tension is brewing in Appolonia, a farming community in the Tema Metropolitan Assembly following disagreement between the Chief of the town, Nii Tei Adumuah II and his Kingmakers over the activities of illegal sand winning in the community.
Sand winning, including the illegal cutting down of trees has led to serious environmental degradation and subsequent destruction of the community’s farmlands.
The over 20,000 acres of land which was formally used for pepper plantation and cattle rearing was now at the mercy of individuals who operates various pits for the purposes of sand wining.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic during a tour of the farmlands, secretary to the kingmakers, Mr Divine Abladey Dortey indicated, the illegal activities which started several years ago reached a crescendo where the livelihood means of indigenes suffered greatly leading to majority of the youth migrating to Ashaiman and Tema in search of alternative livelihood means while the rest of the populace live in abject poverty.
He indicated the kingmakers in their quest to seek redress and reclaim the land to forestall the illegal activities, in 1994 filed for a perpetual injunction at the Tema High Court seeking among other reliefs a declaration to stop the alienating of lands by the chief, to any individual or companies without recourse to Alhaji Tettey-Kwao, Seth Gblie Nartey and Joseph Mensah Akpeng, his Kingmakers who were the plaintiffs in the case.
Mr Dortey also accused the Assembly member of the area, Mr Timothy Mensah Tetteh and the Member of Parliament for the area, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo of teaming up with the chief and his cohorts to violate the court order thereby encouraging the youth to go back and continue their activities at the pits.
A visit to the site revealed deep trenches filled with water at the sites as a result several years of sand wining activities.
Workers at the site who were busily seen loading sands into tipper trucks took to their heels upon seing the press leaving behind their tools.
Although the road network connecting the various puts were in deplorable conditions, drivers as well as the youth who operates at the site often manoeuvre their way to the pit to cart away the cargo which they pay as little as GHC35 for, but sells to the public at a cost of GHC250 depending on the axle of the loading truck.
Ebenezer Tetteh Noi, a native of the town told the Daily Graphic, that they were very much aware of the court injunction which prohibits all forms of activities on the land.
‘We only commenced work some three days ago following a directive from the chief, Nii Tei Adumuah that we can go back to the pits’, he said.
Armed guards position at the entrance of the site who had in their possession waybills from the finance department of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Ministry of Lands and the Lands Commission told this reporter that they were representatives from the above mentioned institutions as well as the traditional council who has been tasked to issue receipt to the drivers after payments are effected for the carting of the cargo.
The Chief’s representative, who earlier refused to make any comment during an interrogation with the media, later confessed that he was authorized by the Chief of the area to collect waybills.
Attempts to check the veracity of the waybills from the TMA officials were futile as officials were tight-lipped as to whether, the said documents emanated from their outfit.
Nii Laryea Afortey Agbo and Mr Mensah denied the assertions that the said injunction was placed on the land where the sand wining activities were being carried out.
According to Mr Mensah, the injunction was placed on the boundaries of Kubekro and Oyibi, all adjourning communities surrounding Appolonia, whose indigenes have over the years encroached into their lands.
The MP on the other hand questioned why he would involved himself into matters that do not concern him as an outsider who does not even come from the town.
Mr Divine Dortey regretted that this illegal activity apart from denying the farmers of their source of revenue was also damaging the top soil which goes to deprive the soil of its nutrients.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
APPOLONIA CHIEF DENIES STORY (PAGE 30, MARCH 9, 2010)
Story: Della Russel Ocloo, Tema
THE Chief and people of Appolonia, a farming community in the Tema Metropolitan Assembly has in a sharp rebuttal denied assertions that illegal sand wining activities has rendered the community’s lands infertile for farming activities.
Speaking at counter press conference on allegations by the kingmakers on their involvement in the activities, Secretary of the Appolonia Youth Development Association, Mr Joseph Tettey described the allegations as fabrications, mischievous and ill-motivated pieces which were carefully calculated to dent the hard-earned reputation of the chief, Nii Tei Adumuah II, Member of Parliament, Nii Laryea Afortey Agbo and the Assemblyman for the area, Mr Timothy Tetteh Mensah.
According to the youth, Mr Divine Ablade Dortey, who described himself as the secretary to the kingmakers of the community was using the current situation to pursue his personal agenda.
Mr Tettey indicated that Mr Dortey, contrary to customs and usages of the land created the said position, which he referred to as the office of kingmakers and made himself secretary, although he was aware the community has only one stool secretary, in the person of Elisha Dortey who happens to be his grandfather.
Continuing, he said, Mr Dortey in his quest to malign the leaders of the community failed to inform the general public as well as the pressmen he took to the side, that he had previously prepared survey plans of the said lands to the Minerals Commission where he put in an application for a permit to win sand without any recourse to the chiefs and elders of the community.
“In January 2009, Mr Dortey illegally hired surveyor who prepare a site plan for 10.48 acres of land in his name for the purposes of sand winning, of which a caveat was later issued by the chief when the matter was brought to his knowledge, Mr Tettey said.
He also claimed that Mr Dortey and the three family heads had over the years disregard a court orders which debars the chief and his elders from carrying out any activity on the community’s stool lands.
He charged Mr Dortey to stop the misrepresentation of the true nature and import of the court ruling for his own egocentric purposes, adding that the court stated that the Chief must before alienating any of Appolonia stool lands secure the consent of the three ruling clans of Appolonia that went to court on that matter, namely; Bediako We, Kojo We and Sanchie We.
Mr Tettey alluded that, concerns were raised by the leadership of the community of indiscriminate wining of sands across the farmlands by the youth of which the leaders raised various concerns resulting in a series of meetings among the youth front.
“After a series of meetings with representatives from the three ruling clans, it was decided that the youth should move to a pit which was legally obtained from the Minerals Commission and was being operated by a contractor in the traditional council’s quest to create jobs for the youth’, he indicated.
“It is on record that Divine Dortey has over the years tried to torpedo these peace meetings but sanity prevailed among the leaders of the Bediako We clan and the people of Appolonia.
Mr Tettey on behalf of the youth expressed confidence in the chief, the MP and the Assemblyman, adding “We want Appolonia to be an example of modern community where all will live in peace and harmonious development”.
He assured the general public especially the business community that Appolonia is peaceful and residents would not hesitate welcome investors who may want to transact business in the community.
THE Chief and people of Appolonia, a farming community in the Tema Metropolitan Assembly has in a sharp rebuttal denied assertions that illegal sand wining activities has rendered the community’s lands infertile for farming activities.
Speaking at counter press conference on allegations by the kingmakers on their involvement in the activities, Secretary of the Appolonia Youth Development Association, Mr Joseph Tettey described the allegations as fabrications, mischievous and ill-motivated pieces which were carefully calculated to dent the hard-earned reputation of the chief, Nii Tei Adumuah II, Member of Parliament, Nii Laryea Afortey Agbo and the Assemblyman for the area, Mr Timothy Tetteh Mensah.
According to the youth, Mr Divine Ablade Dortey, who described himself as the secretary to the kingmakers of the community was using the current situation to pursue his personal agenda.
Mr Tettey indicated that Mr Dortey, contrary to customs and usages of the land created the said position, which he referred to as the office of kingmakers and made himself secretary, although he was aware the community has only one stool secretary, in the person of Elisha Dortey who happens to be his grandfather.
Continuing, he said, Mr Dortey in his quest to malign the leaders of the community failed to inform the general public as well as the pressmen he took to the side, that he had previously prepared survey plans of the said lands to the Minerals Commission where he put in an application for a permit to win sand without any recourse to the chiefs and elders of the community.
“In January 2009, Mr Dortey illegally hired surveyor who prepare a site plan for 10.48 acres of land in his name for the purposes of sand winning, of which a caveat was later issued by the chief when the matter was brought to his knowledge, Mr Tettey said.
He also claimed that Mr Dortey and the three family heads had over the years disregard a court orders which debars the chief and his elders from carrying out any activity on the community’s stool lands.
He charged Mr Dortey to stop the misrepresentation of the true nature and import of the court ruling for his own egocentric purposes, adding that the court stated that the Chief must before alienating any of Appolonia stool lands secure the consent of the three ruling clans of Appolonia that went to court on that matter, namely; Bediako We, Kojo We and Sanchie We.
Mr Tettey alluded that, concerns were raised by the leadership of the community of indiscriminate wining of sands across the farmlands by the youth of which the leaders raised various concerns resulting in a series of meetings among the youth front.
“After a series of meetings with representatives from the three ruling clans, it was decided that the youth should move to a pit which was legally obtained from the Minerals Commission and was being operated by a contractor in the traditional council’s quest to create jobs for the youth’, he indicated.
“It is on record that Divine Dortey has over the years tried to torpedo these peace meetings but sanity prevailed among the leaders of the Bediako We clan and the people of Appolonia.
Mr Tettey on behalf of the youth expressed confidence in the chief, the MP and the Assemblyman, adding “We want Appolonia to be an example of modern community where all will live in peace and harmonious development”.
He assured the general public especially the business community that Appolonia is peaceful and residents would not hesitate welcome investors who may want to transact business in the community.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
ALUWORKS GETS ISO CERTIFICATE (DAILY GRAPHIC, PAGE 28, MARCH 1, 2010)
THE MANAGING Director of Aluworks Limited, Mr Kwesi Okoh, has indicated that the company would not compromise on the quality of its products following growing demand for quality goods both locally and internationally.
Mr Okoh said this at the factory when officials of Societe General Surveillance (SGS) Ghana presented a higher version of the International Standardisation Certification (ISO 9001:2008) to the company.
He indicated that the factory said this in response to the increased demand for higher quality products and service delivery to meet the statutory and regulatory requirement, saw the need to migrate to a higher version of the ISO certification.
Mr Okoh continued that, Aluworks’s compliance with the International Quality Standards of aluminium flat rolled products was a test case of the maintenance of standards they possed.
According to him, the quality management systems were made up of methodologies that drive a company to strategic goal achievements through perpetual quality development procedures.
The Systems and Services Certification Manager at SGS, Mrs Gauri Bhagwat, who presented the certificate on behalf SGS Ghana and ISO International, paid glowing tribute to Aluworks for successfully evolving from the lower version of the certification to a higher one.
She indicated the strides made by the company made her a convinced that, the company had great potential.
The Quality Systems Manager of Aluworks, Mr Emmanuel Martin Sarkodie indicated that the development of quality systems by the company began in 1990 as parts of efforts made towards addressing the issues of customer needs and satisfying their requests.
Mr Okoh said this at the factory when officials of Societe General Surveillance (SGS) Ghana presented a higher version of the International Standardisation Certification (ISO 9001:2008) to the company.
He indicated that the factory said this in response to the increased demand for higher quality products and service delivery to meet the statutory and regulatory requirement, saw the need to migrate to a higher version of the ISO certification.
Mr Okoh continued that, Aluworks’s compliance with the International Quality Standards of aluminium flat rolled products was a test case of the maintenance of standards they possed.
According to him, the quality management systems were made up of methodologies that drive a company to strategic goal achievements through perpetual quality development procedures.
The Systems and Services Certification Manager at SGS, Mrs Gauri Bhagwat, who presented the certificate on behalf SGS Ghana and ISO International, paid glowing tribute to Aluworks for successfully evolving from the lower version of the certification to a higher one.
She indicated the strides made by the company made her a convinced that, the company had great potential.
The Quality Systems Manager of Aluworks, Mr Emmanuel Martin Sarkodie indicated that the development of quality systems by the company began in 1990 as parts of efforts made towards addressing the issues of customer needs and satisfying their requests.
NHIA TO INTRODUCE ONE-TIME PAYMENT DEC (DAILY GRAPHIC, PAGE 3, MARCH 1, 2010)
THE National Health Insurance Authority has indicated that it is set to introduce the one-time health insurance premium by December this year.
This follows successful actuarial studies which support the feasibility of the one-time premium concept.
A programme to outline the commencement of the new scheme will soon be made public.
The Chief Executive of the NHIA, Mr Sylvester Mensah, disclosed this in Tema after a clean-up exercise organised by the authority at the Tema General Hospital.
He indicated that although the service was confronted by numerous challenges such as corruption and fraudulent claims, as well as falsification of claims by various service providers, which were hindering a smooth implementation of targeted projects, the authority was determined to overcome them, since it had developed measures to solve them.
According to Mr Mensah, countries the world over were still struggling to design models for health insurance schemes. Ghana’s system had, therefore, been adopted as a guiding model by various countries seeking integrated health insurance schemes for their citizens.
He said the NHIA was considering the development of alternative payment models to reduce incidents of fraud and abuse and expressed optimism that when implemented, these approaches would address the challenges.
The Deputy Director in charge of Corporate Affairs, Mr Eric Ametor Quamye, said the 2009 audit report on the scheme’s utilisation showed a vast ascendancy, a situation he described as reducing incidents of self-medication.
He said the authority’s outflow exceeded its inflows, thereby stretching the scheme but assured subscribers that the authority would continue to develop positive approaches that would ensure that the health needs of the citizenry were protected.
Mr Quamye indicated that the NHIA, as a corporate institution, sought to have a better working relationship with people; as a result, the authority had decided to change the face of its social responsibility programme by embarking on a nation-wide clean-up campaign aimed at reaching out to the people.
He said the campaign, which would be considered as a community outreach programme in various health centres, was aimed at reducing the occurrence of communicable diseases.
He charged service providers not to take advantage of the prompt payment of claims to indulge in overbilling.
The authority also presented assorted items, including baby foods, napkins and towels costing GH¢400, to the children’s ward of the hospital.
The administrator, Ms Patience Amey Mamatta, who received the items on behalf of the hospital, expressed profound appreciation to the staff and management of NHIA for the gesture.
She said the hospital was facing a myriad of problems as a result of the government’s neglect over the years.
She indicated that the construction of a new theatre block and pharmacy from the hospital’s internally generated funds had been stalled for over a year now because of non-availability of funds.
“These projects were aimed at easing congestion and overcrowding at the existing facilities, which have not witnessed any expansion since 1952, although patient ratios in these departments have been on the ascendancy,” Ms Mamatta lamented.
The hospital also experienced severe water shortages, resulting in its management spending GH¢1,350 daily on the purchase of water from tankers that supplied the facility.
She, therefore, appealed for the government’s intervention to help construct an underground tanker system costing GH¢3million to ease the pressure on the hospital’s finances.
This follows successful actuarial studies which support the feasibility of the one-time premium concept.
A programme to outline the commencement of the new scheme will soon be made public.
The Chief Executive of the NHIA, Mr Sylvester Mensah, disclosed this in Tema after a clean-up exercise organised by the authority at the Tema General Hospital.
He indicated that although the service was confronted by numerous challenges such as corruption and fraudulent claims, as well as falsification of claims by various service providers, which were hindering a smooth implementation of targeted projects, the authority was determined to overcome them, since it had developed measures to solve them.
According to Mr Mensah, countries the world over were still struggling to design models for health insurance schemes. Ghana’s system had, therefore, been adopted as a guiding model by various countries seeking integrated health insurance schemes for their citizens.
He said the NHIA was considering the development of alternative payment models to reduce incidents of fraud and abuse and expressed optimism that when implemented, these approaches would address the challenges.
The Deputy Director in charge of Corporate Affairs, Mr Eric Ametor Quamye, said the 2009 audit report on the scheme’s utilisation showed a vast ascendancy, a situation he described as reducing incidents of self-medication.
He said the authority’s outflow exceeded its inflows, thereby stretching the scheme but assured subscribers that the authority would continue to develop positive approaches that would ensure that the health needs of the citizenry were protected.
Mr Quamye indicated that the NHIA, as a corporate institution, sought to have a better working relationship with people; as a result, the authority had decided to change the face of its social responsibility programme by embarking on a nation-wide clean-up campaign aimed at reaching out to the people.
He said the campaign, which would be considered as a community outreach programme in various health centres, was aimed at reducing the occurrence of communicable diseases.
He charged service providers not to take advantage of the prompt payment of claims to indulge in overbilling.
The authority also presented assorted items, including baby foods, napkins and towels costing GH¢400, to the children’s ward of the hospital.
The administrator, Ms Patience Amey Mamatta, who received the items on behalf of the hospital, expressed profound appreciation to the staff and management of NHIA for the gesture.
She said the hospital was facing a myriad of problems as a result of the government’s neglect over the years.
She indicated that the construction of a new theatre block and pharmacy from the hospital’s internally generated funds had been stalled for over a year now because of non-availability of funds.
“These projects were aimed at easing congestion and overcrowding at the existing facilities, which have not witnessed any expansion since 1952, although patient ratios in these departments have been on the ascendancy,” Ms Mamatta lamented.
The hospital also experienced severe water shortages, resulting in its management spending GH¢1,350 daily on the purchase of water from tankers that supplied the facility.
She, therefore, appealed for the government’s intervention to help construct an underground tanker system costing GH¢3million to ease the pressure on the hospital’s finances.
Monday, March 1, 2010
MENSAH, GRACE AMOAH WIN LIPTON GOLF (PAGE 47, FEB 24, 2010)
HOST Club’s Ebenezer Tetteh Mensah and Grace Amoah have won the maiden edition of the Lipton Monthly medal played at the Tema Country Golf Club over the weekend.
Ebenezer, playing on handicap 6 returned a score of 71 net while Grace with handicap 27 returned score of 66 in the ladies category to win the topmost prize.
Young Ernest Opoku netted 73 to place second as Theodore Asampong came third with a score of 74.
Veteran Esther Antwi returned 68 to clinch the second position in the ladies event while Helen Appah scored 73 to beat Lady Scientific, Florence Etwi-Barima on count-back for the third position.
The competition also witnessed the signing of a new sponsorship deal between the club and the beverage company.
The new sponsorship of GH¢20, 000 according to the Category Manager of Lipton, Ms Sylvia Acquah, was in support of the club’s greening project initiated last year.
Club Captain Leonard Kwaku Okyere expressed profound appreciation to Unilever for the partnership and called on other corporate institutions operating in the metropolis to come on board to help promote the sport.
Meanwhile, a release issued by the club manager, Ebenezer Adablanu, indicated that the club’s Annual General Meeting would come off at the course on February 27th with an 18 holes tournament christened ‘AGM Special tourney’.
Ebenezer, playing on handicap 6 returned a score of 71 net while Grace with handicap 27 returned score of 66 in the ladies category to win the topmost prize.
Young Ernest Opoku netted 73 to place second as Theodore Asampong came third with a score of 74.
Veteran Esther Antwi returned 68 to clinch the second position in the ladies event while Helen Appah scored 73 to beat Lady Scientific, Florence Etwi-Barima on count-back for the third position.
The competition also witnessed the signing of a new sponsorship deal between the club and the beverage company.
The new sponsorship of GH¢20, 000 according to the Category Manager of Lipton, Ms Sylvia Acquah, was in support of the club’s greening project initiated last year.
Club Captain Leonard Kwaku Okyere expressed profound appreciation to Unilever for the partnership and called on other corporate institutions operating in the metropolis to come on board to help promote the sport.
Meanwhile, a release issued by the club manager, Ebenezer Adablanu, indicated that the club’s Annual General Meeting would come off at the course on February 27th with an 18 holes tournament christened ‘AGM Special tourney’.
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