GRi Newsreel 02 - 09 - 2003
Asuogyaman NPP elects parliamentary candidate
Second Mfantseman District STME ends at Saltpond
Membership of Okwahuman Health Insurance Scheme increases
Communities urged to base HIV/AIDS education on local setting
Thirty-six undergo puberty rites at Ekumfi Abor
Rev Mensah chairs Assoc. of Charismatic Churches
Stop constructing unauthorised speed ramps - Civilians urged
Judge calls for simplification of land registry
Father and son steal goat for soup
SDA church to form virgins clubs
Peace Seekers seek reconciliation with Rawlings
UN to pass resolution for international force on 1 Oct
GES Director General bemoans exams leakages
DCE decries poor results of BECE in district
Court grants chief ¢100m bail

Asuogyaman NPP elects parliamentary candidate

Akosombo (E/R), Sept. 2, GNA - Mr Kofi Osei-Ameyaw, 43, Ghana's Consular-General for Australia, was on Sunday elected the parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Asuogyaman constituency for the 2004 Elections at a special constituency congress held at Akosombo.

Mr Osei-Ameyaw polled 72 votes to beat the District Chief Executive of Asuogyaman and former NPP parliamentary candidate for the constituency for the year 2000, Dr Godfried Kofi Siaw, who polled 37 votes.

Earlier two other contestants, Mr Thompson Kumi and Mr Emmanuel Wellington Ntow-Bediako stepped down in favour of Mr Osei-Ameyaw.

Mr Osei-Ameyaw said his victory was for the NPP and thanked Dr Siaw and the constituency executive members of the party for the efforts they put in to build the party.

He urged party members to bury the differences that came up prior to the special constituency congress and to unite to ensure that the party wins the constituency elections in 2004.

Dr Siaw said the strategy towards the 2004 elections should focus on the NPP and not individuals. He, therefore, called on members of the party to join hands to ensure that the party wins the constituency seat come next year.

He donated an NPP flag to each of the party's 108 polling stations in the constituency to signify the beginning of the campaign towards next year's elections.

Addressing the delegates, Mr Dan Botwe, NPP General Secretary, said the Asuogyaman constituency was one of the 140 Parliamentary seats that the NPP had planned to win at the 2004 elections and pledged that the party would do all that it takes to take the seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Mr Botwe warned that in its bid to win the constituency, the NPP would "crush anybody who would stand in its way whether within the party or outside the party".

Dr Francis Osafo-Mensah, Eastern Regional Minister, called for unity among all factions within the party in the constituency and urged them to make efforts to win over functionaries of other political parties.

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Second Mfantseman District STME ends at Saltpond

Saltpond (Central Region), Sept. 2, GNA - A week-long Science Technology and Mathematics Education (STME) clinic organised for 100 students selected from Junior and Senior Secondary schools in the Mfantseman District has ended at Saltpond.

It as the second to be held in the district and was sponsored by the District Assembly.
Activities were centred around lectures on science, moral education and career guidance.

Participants also solved simple mathematical problems, underwent some Computer training and Batik production.

They went on field trips to the Cape Coast Technical School where they were assisted to produce some simple household tools and the Food and Flavour Factory at Asebu, where citrus is processed into jam.

Giving her impressions about the clinic, Maame Ekua Tawiah Croffie, of the Nfantseman Girls Secondary School appealed to the District Education Directorate to organise future clinics in rural institutions to expose the students to science.

She also appealed to the directorate to procure adequate funds to enable the clinic to be organised twice in a year.

Mr Frank Neequaye, Presiding Member exhorted students to take their studies seriously and set achievable goals for themselves.

He urged them to share the knowledge they acquired at the clinic with their mates who could not attend.

Mr Isaac Bart-Addison, District Director of Education advised teachers to adopt practical and simpler methods of teaching science subjects to make them easier and more attractive to students.

Miss Vivian Etroo, District STME Co-ordinator, expressed gratitude to the assembly for funding the programme and commended the participants and the resource persons for their hard work and dedication.

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Membership of Okwahuman Health Insurance Scheme increases

Nkawkaw (Eastern Region), Sept. 2, GNA - The Okwahuman Health Insurance Scheme formed two years ago in the Kwahu South District has registered 18,958 members as against 8,000 the previous year and collected 1.3 billion cedis to cater for the health needs of members.

The membership is made up of 11,793 newly registered and 7,165 old ones who renewed their registration, an increase of more than 100 percent.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nana Adarkwa Boadi Yiadom II announced this at the second annual general meeting of the scheme at Nkawkaw on Saturday.

He said 244.6 million cedis was spent on the health bills of 600 members at the Kwahu Government and the Holy Family hospitals at Atibie and Nkawkaw respectively.

The Board Chairman, who is also Kwahu Prasohene commended the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), sponsors, for donating 10 bicycles, two motorbikes, a computer and 80.8 million cedis to the scheme to enhance its operations.

He said only eight percent of the district's population of 230,000 have registered and appealed to all residents to enrol to supplement government's efforts to provide quality and affordable health care service to the people.

Nana Yiadom appealed to the government, NGOs and other development partners for assistance in the form of vehicles and other logistics to facilitate education on the scheme.

The Eastern Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira in an address read on his behalf attributed the increase in the membership within two years to the efficient management of the scheme.

He said the Ministry of Health has initiated a number of activities in all the 15 districts in the region to implement the scheme and called for effective collaboration from all stakeholders to ensure its success.

Ms Helen Dzikunu, a Senior Programme Officer of the DANIDA thanked all the major players in the scheme for their contribution and co-operation, which had sustained the programme in the district.

She advised the management of scheme to increase enrolment from the present level to improve its financial status and to sustain it when donor support is withdrawn.

Ms Dzikunu advised them to consider the poor and disadvantaged population who may not afford the payment of their premiums and liaise with relevant bodies for assistance to enable them to benefit from the scheme.

The District Chief Executive, Mr Raymond Osafo Djan said with the passing of the National Health Insurance Bill, more people would register with the scheme to enhance its financial position.

He advised members who quit the scheme after benefiting from it to put a stop to the practice in order not to make it collapse and announced that the government had donated 100 million cedis to support it.

The District Director of Health Services, Dr Joseph Larbi Opare in a welcoming address said the objective of the Ghana Health Service is to change the public health idea to community health service where communities will adopt hygienic practices to help eradicate diseases associated with unhealthy environment.

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Communities urged to base HIV/AIDS education on local setting

Gomoa Ankamu (Central Region), Sept.2, GNA - The Gomoa District HIV/AIDS Focal Person, Mr Eric Akobeng on Sunday urged community based organisations (CBOs) engaged in the fight against the spread of the disease to base their education campaign on conditions prevailing in the communities.

Mr Akobeng said CBOs are best suited to accomplish the task because they are familiar with conditions that promote sexual promiscuity in their communities.

"If, for instance, it is funeral wake keepings that are encouraging the spread of the disease, find ways of getting the opinion leaders to do something about it," he advised.

He gave the advice at a workshop organised by the Progressive Club, a Gomoa Ankamu based CBO for church leaders and hairdressers at Gomoa Ankamu with sponsorship from the Ghana AIDS Response Fund (GARFund).

Mr Akobeng urged church leaders to use part of their time to sensitise their congregation on the HIV/AIDS pandemic noting that, "If sex accounts for 80 per cent of HIV/AIDS infections and Ghana is predominantly a Christian country then they would have failed in their preaching against immorality."

Alhaji Osman Moro Fukuyama, a member of the Gomoa District AIDS Committee who took the participants through the mode of infection prevention and management of the disease said the lifespan of people living with the virus decreases as they engage more in sex.

Mr Kingsley Halm, a National Service Personnel exhorted parents to ensure that their children are asleep before they themselves retire to bed.

Mr John Kobina Yamoah, chairman of the CBO urged religious leaders to get more actively involved in the campaign through sermons and other retreats.

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Thirty-six undergo puberty rites at Ekumfi Abor

Ekumfi Abor (Central Region), Sept. 2, GNA - Thirty six girls between the ages of 15 and 18 have undergone puberty rites "Bra gor" and were out-doored at a durbar at Ekumfi Abor in the Central Region at the weekend.

The customary rite practised by their ancestors was discarded but was re-introduced and refined to conform to modern cultural practices.

Mr Kwamina Amoasi-Andoh, Chairman of the Unit Committee and a member of the Mfantseman District Assembly said the re-introduction of the rite seven years ago was to instil moral discipline in the youth and also to curb teenage pregnancy.

Mr Amoasi-Andoh said the re-introduction of the rite has helped to reduce the incidence of teenage pregnancies, adding that only four girls had become pregnant without going through the mill.

He said young girls in school who were found to have began experiencing their menstrual periods are made to wait until they complete the Junior Secondary School.

This, he said is to instil fear into them to abstain from early sex to ensure that they complete at least the JSS since any girl who becomes pregnant without going through the rite is sanctioned along with her partner.

Mr Amoasi-Andoh said after going through the rites the girls are encouraged to further their education and those who cannot be supported are made to learn trades under a special scholarship package instituted by the community.

He said the practice has become an annual affair, which precedes the Akwanbo festival.

Mr Amoasi-Andoh said widows and widowers who lost their spouses during the year are also cleansed of evil spirits, a practice to get them out of the hardship they are often subjected to, adding that, this year 10 widows and a widower underwent the practice.

Nana Amoasi VI, chief of the town urged Ghanaians not to discard all old cultural practices, stressing that some are still relevant to our everyday lives and can help in curbing indiscipline in the society.

Miss Christine Antor, Principal Nursing Officer (Public Health) and Mfantseman District Co-ordinator of HIV/AIDS who spoke about the disease advised the girls who have undergone the rites not to regard it as a freedom to indulge in sex.

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Rev Mensah chairs Assoc of Charismatic Churches

Accra, Sept. 2, GNA - The Reverend Steve Mensah of Christian Evangelistic Ministry (CEM) was at the weekend elected Chairman of the National Association Charismatic Christian Churches (NACCC).

Rev Mensah, who replaces Bishop Dag Heward Mills of Lighthouse Cathedral, was elected at the end of the four-day annual Conference of the NACCC held at the Lighthouse Cathedral in Accra. He is to serve a two-year term.

He beat three other nominees, the Reverend Dennis Osei-Manu of the Soul Clinic International Church (SCIC) and the Reverend Robert Ampiah-Kwofie of the Charismatic Christian Evangelistic Ministry.

NACCC is an Association of over 200 charismatic churches across the country.

In an interview with Journalists, Rev Mensah said it was time to bring order into the church, saying, "currently there are a number of persons who have established churches and are acting contrary to Christian teachings."

He said such churches must be under the NACCC to ensure that their activities did not impinge on the rights and ignorance of their membership.

Rev. Mensah, a founding member of NACCC, said it would go out to bring all charismatic churches under its umbrella to help to bring their operations in line with societal norms.

Rev. Mensah said NACCC would also begin to play greater role in shaping national development and thought.

He said NACC's yearly national inter-denominational church service would continue to be the highlight on its calendar at which the Association would seek to reconcile the nation.

Rev. Mensah said the nation had reached a stage where every Ghanaian must contribute to its development.

A citation read by the Reverend Emmanuel Kwabena Ansah, Senior Associate Pastor of the SCIC, said Rev. Mensah was elected due to his passion for the development of souls in the remotest parts of the country.

"Since the formation of the NACCC in 1999, you have faithfully performed your role as National Co-ordinator par excellence. Your election onto the NACCC Board confirms the confidence and trust in you as an effective net-worker in the body of Christ."

This years' Conference was presided over by the Reverend Eastwood Anaba of the Fountain Gate Chapel.

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Stop constructing unauthorised speed ramps - Civilians urged

Accra, Sept. 2, GNA - The Ga District Assembly and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) have started removing unauthorized speed ramps on urban roads in and around the Metropolis.

Mr Abass M. Awutu, Transport Planner of the Department of Urban Roads told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Monday.

He said other safety measures apart from the speed ramp could be used to check road accidents since a ramp is needed mostly in a local settlement area, school or hospitals where pedestrian activities go on.

Mr Awutu said the Department had come out with a procedure, which allowed people, who expressed the need for a speed ramp in their area to apply from their assemblies.

He said the request would be assessed to determine whether there is need for a ramp or other safety measures and asked people to follow the procedure.

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Judge calls for simplification of land registry

Ho (Volta Region), Sept 2, GNA - Mr. Justice Paul Gyaesayor, the Volta Regional Supervising High Court Judge, on Monday called on stakeholders in land administration to make land title registration easy and affordable.

He blamed the cumbersome processes and the expensive nature of land registration procedures for the myriad of problems, disputes and litigations bedevilling the sector.

Mr Justice Gyaesayor was speaking at the Volta Regional Consultative Outreach Programme on Land Administration Project (LAP) for land sector agencies.

He said parties to land litigations failed to respect the laws on landand courts' decisions giving rise to the high incidence of disputes and loss of lives and property.

Mr Gyaesayor said the courts are inundated with land cases, some as far back 34 years and more are filed on a daily basis.

He called for the modernisation and simplification of the language used in land indentures for easy administration and understanding.

"Even members of the Bench and Bar sometimes find problems in the interpretation of indentures to their clients," he said.

Mr Kwasi Owusu-Yeboa, Volta Regional Minister, in a speech read for him, appealed to the government to restore confidence in the land market as a development strategy towards alleviating poverty in the long term.

He called on land sector agencies to shun their parochial and selfish interests and work in a coordinated and concerted professional manner to promote efficiency and dispatch in land administration in the country.

Madam Theresa Tagoe, Deputy Minister of Lands and Forestry, said the LAP is a long-term commitment by the government to enhance socio-economic growth by improving security of tenure, simplify the process of acquiring land, developing land markets and fostering prudent land management to be achieved in 15 years time.

She said these would be based on coherent and consistent policies and laws supported by appropriate institutional structures.

Madam Tagoe appealed to public land agencies, chiefs, family landowners and civil society to co-operate and collaborate to make the project successful.

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Father and son steal goat for soup

Asamankese (Eastern Region), Sept. 2, GNA - The Asamankese Circuit court has fined a young man 400,000 cedis for stealing a goat and slaughtering it for "pepper soup" at Asuokaw near Asamankese.

Prosper Zilevu and his father, named only as Agbeko, who is on the run, stole the animal valued at 300,000 cedis. He pleaded guilty and will go to jail for three months if he fails to pay the fine.

In addition, Zilevu has been ordered to compensate the owner of the goat, one Alhassan Adams with 350,000 cedis or serve additional three months in jail with hard labour.

Detective Police Inspector J.F. Idan, prosecuting, told the court that the owner of the goat, Alhassan Adams, lived in the same community with Zilevu and his father.

He said Adams had been losing his goats from his pen to thieves and had all along suspected Zilevu and his father as the culprits but could not confront them because he had no evidence.

Inspector Idan said on August 7, at about 1930 hrs, Adams' animals returned from grazing without one of the female goats.

According to the prosecution, Adams became suspicious and immediately informed the village's unit Committee leaders who sent some of their members to accompany Adams to the house of the accused.

At the house, they met Zilevu and his father getting ready to enjoy a meal of goat pepper soup.

The court heard that on seeing the complainant and members of the Unit Committee, Agbeko abandoned the food and took to his heels leaving behind his son.

The Committee members took Zilevu to the Police station together with the rest of some left over of the uncooked meat, the prosecutor said.

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SDA church to form virgins clubs

Akumsa-Domase (B/A), Sept. 2, GNA - The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church is to form virgin clubs in its branches to enable young female members to lead morally upright life.

Pastor Israel Nana Tuffour, President of the South Central Ghana Conference of the Church announced this at the weekend at a five-day annual camp meeting of the Nkoranza South District branch of the Church at Akumsa-Domase.

He said the programme was launched recently at the Church at Asokore in Ashanti Region when 100 young girls offered to join the club and carry out educational campaign against sexual promiscuity at all branches.

Out of the 100 girls examined by doctors, 94 of them proved negative to any form of sexual practice and have been registered as the pioneers of the SDA church virgins club, the Pastor added.

Pastor Tuffour said the clubs would also help the youth to guard themselves against HIV/AIDS or to drop out of school as a result of pregnancy.

He disclosed that the Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) had decided to assist the youth in the Church to go into the cultivation of psychic nuts towards a bi-chemical diesel project.

ADRA will provide the seedlings of the nuts, popularly known as 'nkrangyedua' to enable interested youth and farmers to undertake the project, the pastor added.

He appealed to traditional leaders and landowners to release enough plots of land to the youth to undertake the project.

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Peace Seekers seek reconciliation with Rawlings

Accra (Greater Accra) 2 September 2003 - Peace Seekers International, a non-governmental organisation, on Tuesday said it has initiated moves to meet and reconcile with former President Jerry John Rawlings.

"We are ready to stretch our hands of friendship to him as his former boys, we believe there must be an end to hostilities in the interest of nation building," the Coordinator of Peace Seekers, Alhaji Abubakar Daanaa, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview in Accra.

The group comprising former Military, Police and Intelligence personnel is led by Group Captain Thomas T. Kutin, a former Commissioner of Transport and Communications under the Acheampong Regime.

Alhaji Daanaa said Ghanaians must begin to think about national interest and be prepared to sacrifice personal interest for the benefit of future generations.

"Hostilities, cold war, rancour and bitterness retard progress and we are prepared to bury the past and focus on the future in unity." He said Peace Seekers would also initiate moves to reconcile President John Kufuor and former President Rawlings. The two men are prominent personalities and Ghanaians stood to gain from if they co-operated, Alhaji Daanaa said.

Alhaji Daanaa said as a first step towards reconciliation, Peace Seekers organised a get-together at the weekend for some victims and perpetrators of atrocities to strengthen the reconciliation.

He said the media hold the key to true reconciliation and they should be held accountable for any derailment. Alhaji Daanaa expressed regret that as victims and perpetrators try to reconcile some media practitioners continued to read unjustifiable and unnecessary meaning to it.

"Some of them behave as if they stand to benefit from a divided, troubled and tension packed society. This must stop." Group Capt. Kutin said: "It is only when peace has been made among the living that the dead, who have been wronged will smile for peace on earth and, indeed, rest in peace."

He said members of the group have opted for reconciliation and were prepared to forget the past and to focus on the present and look forward to the future.
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UN to pass resolution for international force on 1 Oct

Accra (Greater Accra) 2 September 2003 - The United Nations Security Council is expected to pass a resolution on 1 October, to give legal backing for an International Stabilization Force in war-torn Liberia.

The UN Peacekeeping Force would take over from the Nigerian-led Vanguard Force to enforce the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by the stakeholders in Accra on August 19.

Ghana's Foreign Minister, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who led a five-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) team to brief the Council on the outcome of the Peace Agreement, said on Tuesday that the resolution would give the peace initiative the needed momentum.

"We should be careful not to allow the peace process in Liberia to slack," he told a press conference in Accra. He said his team and Council members had fruitful discussions that lasted about three hours. "We believe we made an impact to have a resolution in place on 1 October," he said.

The team, comprising ECOWAS Executive Secretary, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas and Foreign Ministers of Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria, also met with US government officials.

Nana Akufo-Addo, who described the meeting as successful, said it focused mainly on demobilization and disarmament of combatants. "Essentially, the combatants are mostly young people, who should be in school," he intimated. The meeting also focused on restructuring of the Liberian Army.

The Foreign Minister said ECOWAS lost a unique opportunity in 1997 to disarm combatants and that this time round care was being taken not to repeat that mistake. He said the US committed itself to the provision of logistics to facilitate the peacekeeping efforts in Liberia amidst other competing demands.

Nana Akufo-Addo said logistics had been the bane of the peace mission adding, "the same problem is affecting the deployment of Ghanaian troops". However, he said, the problems were being resolved to enable the Ghanaian troops to be deployed as soon as possible.

Answering questions from Reporters, Nana Akuffo-Addo said there were no discussions about former President Charles Taylor and his indictment during their deliberations in the United States. Later in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Nana Akuffo-Addo said, besides the Reconciliation Commission provided in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, ECOWAS negotiators had no intention of setting up a war crime tribunal to try those who committed atrocities during the prolonged conflict in Liberia.

"The issue of a war crime tribunal is not in the agreement and we do not intend to do anything else apart from what the Comprehensive Peace Agreement provides," he stressed.
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GES Director General bemoans exams leakages

Aburi (Eastern Region) 2 September 2003 - The Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Rev Ama Afo Blay has expressed regret about the involvement of parents in the leakage of examination papers of both Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE).

She said she was surprised to see some parents moving heaven and earth to pay huge sums of money for examination questions as well as pay to gain admission for their children but refuse to accept increase in school fees.

Rev Afo Blay was speaking at the second Annual Delegates' Congress of the Eastern Regional Students Representative Council (SRC) at Aburi on Monday.

She noted the instances where Headmasters and Policemen were assaulted by some students because they refused to allow them to cheat in the examination hall and described the situation as unfortunate and pledged that the GES would do all it could to remove this canker from the system.

She advised school authorities to constantly conduct internal examinations to build up student's confidence so that they would not be scared and or become nervous during the final examinations conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

She stressed the need for the SRC to be used to instil peace and discipline in second cycle institutions to facilitate blossoming of academic excellence.

Rev. Afo Blay asked class representatives and the SRCs to regularly hold consultations with their class and student body to ensure that all potential causes of riots and misunderstanding are identified and dealt with at the initial stage rather than when it had gone out of hand.

She advised students not to abuse their youthful age so that they would be able to face the challenges of adulthood and urged them to start developing definite goals for themselves for the future.

The Regional President of the Council, Master Salifu Suleman appealed to the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports to replace guidance and counselling tutors since they were old and their techniques and methods were not suitable for the present day youths.

The Eastern Regional Director of Education, Mrs Awurabena Ahwoi, who chaired the function, advised the students to set targets for themselves and to strive to acquire skills that would useful to them in the future.

She advised them to abstain from early sex in order not to contract the deadly disease HIV/AIDS.
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DCE decries poor results of BECE in district

Adwuman (Ashanti Region) 2 September 2003 - Bright Addai-Mununkum, Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District Chief Executive, has decried the poor results of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the District.

Even though, he did not give any statistics, he said for three consecutive years, the BECE results in the District had not been encouraging.

Addai-Mununkum said the District Assembly would, therefore, do everything possible to change this trend for the better. These were contained in a speech read on his behalf at the fund-raising harvest at Adwuman in aid of the Catholic Primary and Junior Secondary School on Sunday.

The DCE cautioned parents not to turn their children into breadwinners but should send them to school to acquire knowledge in their formative years.

He suggested to the assembly to enact a byelaw that would make it an offence for a parent to refuse to send his child to school and instead engage him in child labour. Osei Boateng, Chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of the schools, called on the people to continue to contribute towards raising the standard of education in the town. The fund-raising yielded ¢2.1m.
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Court grants chief ¢100m bail

Nkawie (Ashanti Region) 2 September 2003 - The Atwima District Court on Monday, granted Nana Kusi Amankwaa Marfo, Chief of Nkawie-Panin standing trial for manslaughter, ¢100m bail with two sureties to be justified.

The court barred Nana Marfo from entering Nkawie-Panin until further notice and is to deposit his passport at the Nkawie Police Station and report to the Nkawie Police every Wednesday.

Nana Marfo is standing trial for allegedly beating Opanin Kwadwo Manu, aged 70, severely leading to his death. The deceased lived with Nana Marfo in the same house at Nkawie-Panin. Then sometime in July this year, Nana Marfo gave the deceased three-month's notice to quit the house.

However, when the accused met the deceased on the night of 23 August, he allegedly beat him up. Good Samaritans took Opanin Manu to the Nkawie Police.

The Police gave him a medical form and he was then rushed to the Nkawie Government Hospital where he was admitted but died the next morning.
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