Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that
teachers in the country are planning a sit-down strike come Monday, May
27, 2013, to express their grievances over their unpaid allowances.
According to Norbert Gborgborji, spokesperson for Coalition of
Concerned Teachers Association (CCTA) who said he was speaking on behalf
of all the teacher associations in Ghana, they backed off their earlier
strike because the government promised to pay their allowances. They
also indicated that they had a change in their decision because of the
pleas from parents who were worried about their wards in the final year.
“After we resumed, the government promised to settle us but they haven’t done anything about it,” he added.
Mr Gborgborji mentioned that a meeting was scheduled between the
various teacher associations, Fair Wages and Salary Commission (FWSC)
and Finance Ministry, but the Finance Ministry refused to turn up for
the meeting.
He therefore called on parents whose children are in kindergarten to
senior high school to take care of their children from Monday because
teachers would not be at their various schools to take care of them.
The spokesperson said the teachers would rescind their decision when
the government and Fair Wages and Salary Commission settle all their
unpaid allowances due them.
From Vivianna Mensah, Sunyani
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
GHANA MUSIC AWARDS – KG’S CANDID REVIEW
Let me say right from now that I think the 2013 Ghana Music Awards
was better organised than most of what we have seen lately. Charterhouse
did a good job but even with the improved organisation, there were
still a lot more gaps that seem never to go away regardless of how old
the GMAs grow.
TIMING
So can we start this red carpet nonsense at say 7pm; it runs for say 1 hour and then the show starts at say 8pm so we don’t need to stay till half past 2 in the morning for the biggest award of the night to be given out?
Elsewhere in the world these sort of awards are timed and tied to TV hours. Organisers make money and gain sponsorships because of the eyeballs they get. I don’t recall the Oscars or Grammy going on for 7 hours. If we could have a better timing regime and stick to it perhaps it will help grow the awards.
I acknowledge that our sickening sense of time is still with us but really if we don’t have organisers of events like this work with time to instill some much needed discipline into government officials and ‘celebrities’ then we may never learn. Imagine red carpet starting at an advertised time of say 7pm and then our big stars stroll in at 9pm with no cameras there to capture them…these folks like attention so the lack of it like this will make them keep to time at the next event.
We should be able to finish the awards in 3 hours, tops, 4.
RED CARPET
We want to do red carpet so that is fine, let’s do it. But can we learn to do it right, and whiles at it be mindful of the time too? Confidence Haugen was a flop last year. This year, she was a mess. A complete disgrace. An absolute misfit who should not be tried again…EVER! Unless of course she proves that she has learned what she ought to have learned last year and proves it. No point giving people roles merely based on their names.
First of all for live red carpet interviews like this you will need a team of producers who identify guests and alert the interviewer about who is coming next. It seems we didn’t have producers or if they were there then they probably didn’t do their job well or didn’t even know what their jobs were. The onus was therefore on the interviewers to know these people or even if they didn’t, pretend they do and chit-chat for a awhile.
We had instances where Confidence would ask an artiste “are you a musician? What is your name? What song have you sung?”. I felt embarrassed listening to her. Awful. Even for those she knew, she had to ask silly questions as though she was not paying attention.
Charterhouse might have hoped that Ms. Haugen would learn a bit after her debacle from last year but obviously she’s been too busy to bother about learning anything. See, let’s get this straight: the act of interviewing is one which is taught and learned. If you don’t know how to do it, you can learn it. If you refuse to learn it, you will not know it. Confidence Haugen does not know it, she does not want to learn it, so don’t use her!
MCing
KOD is one of my favourite MCs. He did better with his opening act at the Ghana Music Week than he did at the Ghana Music GAwards though. He is nonetheless a fine chap but I think he gets too excited sometimes and it makes him seem all over the place when that happens.
What was that unnecessary bootlicking of the Ovation chap? I have nothing against the man but I don’t like it when he’s seemingly worshipped at literally every Charterhouse event especially by MCs. It is as if they have been ordered to mention his name and to talk to him. We all know about the “Nigerianess” of charterhouse. It is one we may not want to talk too much about but it sure gets irritating when we have Nigerians feeling bossy in Accra. This is not Lagos or Abuja or Warri or Ikeja. This is Accra.
Eazzy was good, I must add. KOD’s style with picking up from the audience was however very dry and predictable. I also feel they should have use Lilwin a little more than they did. Benny Blanco saved the red carpet a bit. My thoughts.
AWARDS
We all expected R2Bees to sweep the awards and they rightfully did. Odo, walahi, Bayla trap were all fantastic joints that most of us loved. However not everything was as predictable, and controversy reared its heard again. This time round, I sided with it.
Obviously one of the lowest point of this year is the Best Collaboration award given Trigmatic and Herty Borngreat. I hope Herty looks back at tonight’s video. Then she will realise “her fans” know she didn’t deserve this.
How does Herty Borngreat and Trigmatic win Best Collaboration when Asem and Kwabena Kwabena’s Bye Bye track was there? The Herty\Trig collabo was the weakest in the category in my opinion. No one should spew that ‘did you vote’ noise into my ear.
I have nothing against her but Herty in my opinion is just a secular artiste who has a cloak of a gospel artiste over her head. When I hear a gospel singer use the word ‘perform’ severally, then I know they are not Ministers of God’s word, but some secular acts camouflaging as gospel acts. Let’s leave that discussion for another day. I don’t think she deserved the gospel artiste of the year. Cwesi Oteng and Omane Acheampong were there you know.
Then there was Bandana apparently pulling a Kanye West with his own remix. First time I heard the expression Shata Wale was at the awards. I don’t know why he thought the award was his and he just had to show up to pick it. I have seen some screen shot that showed that he had the most votes. I can’t vouch for its veracity. But even if it were true do you pour ïnvectives on everyone because you didn’t win? He then takes his disgraceful act to his Twitter page (for a supposed big artiste as he sees himself having less than 2000 follows should be embarrassing) where he has dissed everyone he feels is making him not get awards. Funny thing is, dude says he doesn’t need the awards nor the cash, yet he is upset not to have gotten them.
Indeed awards may always come with controversies but I think some of them can be easily avoided. May be Herty did a lot of work to get her ‘fans’ to vote for her. She obviously ‘meant the awards paaa’ so if votes were all that mattered then may be we should not be too hard on her. I just don’t see how that joint with Trig beats Asem and Kwabena Kwabena’s Bye bye in content, popularity, delivery and all that technicalities you may wanna throw in.
EMPTY SEATS
First time I heard the term ‘seat filler’ was in a movie with same title starring Duane Martin and Kelly Rowland. Folks, in the. Oscars and things you don’t see empty seats because the organisers fill these seats with regular folks who are not stars. We did see a lot of empty seats last night and that doesn’t look good for TV nor for the image of the show.
I am sure those were reserved seats. Typical of us, some people have said they will come and have pretended they have lost their watches so Charterhouse have empty seats right in the middle and the show goes on.
PERFORMANCES
ECG took my lights when Amandzeba and Manifest were on stage. From what I picked up on social media, those two rocked. Same goes for the old hiplife folks. Kontihene in particular seemed to have received lots of plaudits from social media.
I know its a night to honour our musicians and all but were they not almost too many artistes on the bill? Methinks they were really a lot and that contributed to the show dragging. We didn’t need to have so many of them. The very biggest hits over the year were those we should have made room for.
I loved the opening act though. Chief Mommen and Efya and our sax dude rocked. It is really cool to embrace spoken word again. Who knows, I may be tempted to start doing poetry again.
Having said all this, we do accept the fact that our artistes have a lot to learn on how to truly perform. They generally suck. Truth be told. Yes, we have improved. Have we improved a lot? No. Can we improve some more? Absolutely.
LIGHTING
Did we not have too much disco lights on stage? Methinks we did. even watching from home I was tempted to waer sunglasses at midnight. I felt for those in the auditorium.
RIFF RAFFS ON STAGE
We still don’t have a way to control all these nuisances and rifraffs who follow award winners to the stage? They now even grab mics and spew rubbish too?
Come on! The GMAs is 14 years not 1 year old. It is about time we curbed that nonsense. It is totally disgraceful. We have allowed hangers on to now think it is okay to jump on stage when ‘their’ artistes win. They have gone further now to actually grab mic and spew nonsense? Why was Commotion, a self proclaimed manager and MC, doing telling us the life story on an act? And then Nana Yaw Boakye of Talk of GH, by virtue of being a TM boy also grabs a mic! Seriously??
Elsewhere….and I will keep going elsewhere cos we are not learning enough from what we see in the US and UK…I don’t recall ever hearing anyone aside an award winner even attempt to speak. The few cases crews like G-Unit and Young Money ‘invade’ stages, there’s even some organised twist to it. But down here, we behave like some uncivilised bunch who have just being thrown into town. The proverbial Johnny Just Come is actually better enlightened.
May be we should tell winning artistes that when their followers invade the stage they will lose their prize money. No one likes to lose things like money, especially for such frivolous acts by a bunch of people who actually depend on you for occasional 5 cedis.
CURTAINS DOWN
All in all I think it was a fun event. People like me and many others enjoyed ourselves on Facebook and Twitter and considering how the event dragged at some points, it was really cool watching from one’s bed or couch. Let’s get;
1. The awards start early so it can end early. It shouldn’t run for 7 hours.
2. Get the red carpet thingy on point by using trained, experienced people. Benny Blanco was okay. Confidence should never come back. There’s Caroline, Nana Aba, and tonnes of lady MCs that would have done a beautiful job.
3. Limit the number of performances. this is the case where too much meat spoils the soup. Get the truly outstanding songs in the year and not just names without hits.
4. If VIPs won’t come, their spaces should be filled. Its embarrassing having empty seats at a big gig like this. We could explore the idea of ‘seat fillers’ too.
5. If VIPs will come and sit in the front like someone forced them to be there, can we consider shipping them to the back, please?
6. Cut out riffraffs from invading the stage. Let artistes pay for the misbehaviour of their fans just as football teams suffer when their fans disrupt games.
TIMING
So can we start this red carpet nonsense at say 7pm; it runs for say 1 hour and then the show starts at say 8pm so we don’t need to stay till half past 2 in the morning for the biggest award of the night to be given out?
Elsewhere in the world these sort of awards are timed and tied to TV hours. Organisers make money and gain sponsorships because of the eyeballs they get. I don’t recall the Oscars or Grammy going on for 7 hours. If we could have a better timing regime and stick to it perhaps it will help grow the awards.
I acknowledge that our sickening sense of time is still with us but really if we don’t have organisers of events like this work with time to instill some much needed discipline into government officials and ‘celebrities’ then we may never learn. Imagine red carpet starting at an advertised time of say 7pm and then our big stars stroll in at 9pm with no cameras there to capture them…these folks like attention so the lack of it like this will make them keep to time at the next event.
We should be able to finish the awards in 3 hours, tops, 4.
RED CARPET
We want to do red carpet so that is fine, let’s do it. But can we learn to do it right, and whiles at it be mindful of the time too? Confidence Haugen was a flop last year. This year, she was a mess. A complete disgrace. An absolute misfit who should not be tried again…EVER! Unless of course she proves that she has learned what she ought to have learned last year and proves it. No point giving people roles merely based on their names.
First of all for live red carpet interviews like this you will need a team of producers who identify guests and alert the interviewer about who is coming next. It seems we didn’t have producers or if they were there then they probably didn’t do their job well or didn’t even know what their jobs were. The onus was therefore on the interviewers to know these people or even if they didn’t, pretend they do and chit-chat for a awhile.
We had instances where Confidence would ask an artiste “are you a musician? What is your name? What song have you sung?”. I felt embarrassed listening to her. Awful. Even for those she knew, she had to ask silly questions as though she was not paying attention.
Charterhouse might have hoped that Ms. Haugen would learn a bit after her debacle from last year but obviously she’s been too busy to bother about learning anything. See, let’s get this straight: the act of interviewing is one which is taught and learned. If you don’t know how to do it, you can learn it. If you refuse to learn it, you will not know it. Confidence Haugen does not know it, she does not want to learn it, so don’t use her!
MCing
KOD is one of my favourite MCs. He did better with his opening act at the Ghana Music Week than he did at the Ghana Music GAwards though. He is nonetheless a fine chap but I think he gets too excited sometimes and it makes him seem all over the place when that happens.
What was that unnecessary bootlicking of the Ovation chap? I have nothing against the man but I don’t like it when he’s seemingly worshipped at literally every Charterhouse event especially by MCs. It is as if they have been ordered to mention his name and to talk to him. We all know about the “Nigerianess” of charterhouse. It is one we may not want to talk too much about but it sure gets irritating when we have Nigerians feeling bossy in Accra. This is not Lagos or Abuja or Warri or Ikeja. This is Accra.
Eazzy was good, I must add. KOD’s style with picking up from the audience was however very dry and predictable. I also feel they should have use Lilwin a little more than they did. Benny Blanco saved the red carpet a bit. My thoughts.
AWARDS
We all expected R2Bees to sweep the awards and they rightfully did. Odo, walahi, Bayla trap were all fantastic joints that most of us loved. However not everything was as predictable, and controversy reared its heard again. This time round, I sided with it.
Obviously one of the lowest point of this year is the Best Collaboration award given Trigmatic and Herty Borngreat. I hope Herty looks back at tonight’s video. Then she will realise “her fans” know she didn’t deserve this.
How does Herty Borngreat and Trigmatic win Best Collaboration when Asem and Kwabena Kwabena’s Bye Bye track was there? The Herty\Trig collabo was the weakest in the category in my opinion. No one should spew that ‘did you vote’ noise into my ear.
I have nothing against her but Herty in my opinion is just a secular artiste who has a cloak of a gospel artiste over her head. When I hear a gospel singer use the word ‘perform’ severally, then I know they are not Ministers of God’s word, but some secular acts camouflaging as gospel acts. Let’s leave that discussion for another day. I don’t think she deserved the gospel artiste of the year. Cwesi Oteng and Omane Acheampong were there you know.
Then there was Bandana apparently pulling a Kanye West with his own remix. First time I heard the expression Shata Wale was at the awards. I don’t know why he thought the award was his and he just had to show up to pick it. I have seen some screen shot that showed that he had the most votes. I can’t vouch for its veracity. But even if it were true do you pour ïnvectives on everyone because you didn’t win? He then takes his disgraceful act to his Twitter page (for a supposed big artiste as he sees himself having less than 2000 follows should be embarrassing) where he has dissed everyone he feels is making him not get awards. Funny thing is, dude says he doesn’t need the awards nor the cash, yet he is upset not to have gotten them.
Indeed awards may always come with controversies but I think some of them can be easily avoided. May be Herty did a lot of work to get her ‘fans’ to vote for her. She obviously ‘meant the awards paaa’ so if votes were all that mattered then may be we should not be too hard on her. I just don’t see how that joint with Trig beats Asem and Kwabena Kwabena’s Bye bye in content, popularity, delivery and all that technicalities you may wanna throw in.
EMPTY SEATS
First time I heard the term ‘seat filler’ was in a movie with same title starring Duane Martin and Kelly Rowland. Folks, in the. Oscars and things you don’t see empty seats because the organisers fill these seats with regular folks who are not stars. We did see a lot of empty seats last night and that doesn’t look good for TV nor for the image of the show.
I am sure those were reserved seats. Typical of us, some people have said they will come and have pretended they have lost their watches so Charterhouse have empty seats right in the middle and the show goes on.
PERFORMANCES
ECG took my lights when Amandzeba and Manifest were on stage. From what I picked up on social media, those two rocked. Same goes for the old hiplife folks. Kontihene in particular seemed to have received lots of plaudits from social media.
I know its a night to honour our musicians and all but were they not almost too many artistes on the bill? Methinks they were really a lot and that contributed to the show dragging. We didn’t need to have so many of them. The very biggest hits over the year were those we should have made room for.
I loved the opening act though. Chief Mommen and Efya and our sax dude rocked. It is really cool to embrace spoken word again. Who knows, I may be tempted to start doing poetry again.
Having said all this, we do accept the fact that our artistes have a lot to learn on how to truly perform. They generally suck. Truth be told. Yes, we have improved. Have we improved a lot? No. Can we improve some more? Absolutely.
LIGHTING
Did we not have too much disco lights on stage? Methinks we did. even watching from home I was tempted to waer sunglasses at midnight. I felt for those in the auditorium.
RIFF RAFFS ON STAGE
We still don’t have a way to control all these nuisances and rifraffs who follow award winners to the stage? They now even grab mics and spew rubbish too?
Come on! The GMAs is 14 years not 1 year old. It is about time we curbed that nonsense. It is totally disgraceful. We have allowed hangers on to now think it is okay to jump on stage when ‘their’ artistes win. They have gone further now to actually grab mic and spew nonsense? Why was Commotion, a self proclaimed manager and MC, doing telling us the life story on an act? And then Nana Yaw Boakye of Talk of GH, by virtue of being a TM boy also grabs a mic! Seriously??
Elsewhere….and I will keep going elsewhere cos we are not learning enough from what we see in the US and UK…I don’t recall ever hearing anyone aside an award winner even attempt to speak. The few cases crews like G-Unit and Young Money ‘invade’ stages, there’s even some organised twist to it. But down here, we behave like some uncivilised bunch who have just being thrown into town. The proverbial Johnny Just Come is actually better enlightened.
May be we should tell winning artistes that when their followers invade the stage they will lose their prize money. No one likes to lose things like money, especially for such frivolous acts by a bunch of people who actually depend on you for occasional 5 cedis.
CURTAINS DOWN
All in all I think it was a fun event. People like me and many others enjoyed ourselves on Facebook and Twitter and considering how the event dragged at some points, it was really cool watching from one’s bed or couch. Let’s get;
1. The awards start early so it can end early. It shouldn’t run for 7 hours.
2. Get the red carpet thingy on point by using trained, experienced people. Benny Blanco was okay. Confidence should never come back. There’s Caroline, Nana Aba, and tonnes of lady MCs that would have done a beautiful job.
3. Limit the number of performances. this is the case where too much meat spoils the soup. Get the truly outstanding songs in the year and not just names without hits.
4. If VIPs won’t come, their spaces should be filled. Its embarrassing having empty seats at a big gig like this. We could explore the idea of ‘seat fillers’ too.
5. If VIPs will come and sit in the front like someone forced them to be there, can we consider shipping them to the back, please?
6. Cut out riffraffs from invading the stage. Let artistes pay for the misbehaviour of their fans just as football teams suffer when their fans disrupt games.
About Kwame Gyan
Kwame Gyan is a trained journalist who has taken a break to practice corporate communications but still has an eye on the profession he loves most. He started writing in junior secondary school whiles his broadcasting career started at Radio Univers whiles a student at the University of Ghana in 2001 and has gone on to have stints with Joy FM and CITI FM. He is currently a columnist in The Globe, an Accra-based freely-distributed newspaper. His articles cutting across entertainment, politics, sports and pure fiction are featured in some other newspapers and blogs. He may be reached via Kwame.Gyan@gmail.com.Owners of Information Centers Trained
Management of Moonlite FM, a
Sunyani based radio station has organised a day’s training seminar in Sunyani to
educate some owners of Information Centers in Brong Ahafo Region on basic
skills in news gathering and broadcasting.
The participants including
two females drawn from Afirisipa, Yamfo, Adrobaa, Yawhima, Subriso and Atronie
were also taken through ethics, code of conduct and other basic principles in
news reporting as well as guidelines for local language broadcasting.
Mr. Dennis Peprah, a Senior
Reporter at the Ghana News Agency (GNA) and a facilitator explained the core
journalistic principles underpinning local language broadcasting are accuracy,
objectivity, fairness and comprehensiveness.
He advised the participants
to strive at all times to present accurate and verifiable information to the
public.
Mr. Peprah cautioned the participants against
falsehood and asked them to be circumspect in their reportage and crosscheck
their facts well.
He told the participants that
as media practitioners, they were now regarded as role models in their
localities and advised them to live above reproach.
Wofa Asamoah Mensah, a
renowned radio broadcaster and a presenter at Moonlite FM entreated the
participants to always guard against sensationalism and ensure that their
reportage highlight on issues that would facilitate accelerated national
development.
He also advised them to also endeavour
to ensure they help unearth hidden natural resources in their localities which
could be tapped for development.
Wofa Mensah, who is the Brong
Ahafo Regional President of the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA),
expressed the optimism that the relationship between the participants and the
management of Moonlite radio would be strengthened for mutual benefit.
He gave the assurance that
management of the radio station would continue to support them to enable them
upgrade and polish their skills in news gathering and broadcasting.
Interest Rate Is Killing Private Business
A businessman in the Sunyani Municipality, Nana Osei, popularly known
as ‘Born to Win,’ has disclosed that most private businesses are
crumbling because of high interest rates charged by banks.
He therefore called on government to take measures to stop the collapse of private businesses in the country.
“Private businesses are the once helping the country’s economy move forward so if they die off the country will come to a standstill,” he opined.
Nana Osei, in an interview with CITY & BUSINESS GUIDE during the inauguration of his fuel station, Jusbro Petroleum Limited at Fiapre, near Sunyani, called on banks and government to provide private businesses with loans in order to employ more people.
He also asked government to encourage private operators in the country to develop the country.
Mr. Osei said his outfit will employ more youth in the Sunyani Municipality to create jobs in Sunyani, the Brong Ahafo regional capital.
He promised to offer quality services in the petroleum business in the region.
Born to win used the occasion to appeal to the newly appointed Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo and the Sunyani West District Chief Executive to remove the tollbooth at Fiapre to lessen the burden of drivers and passengers.
From Vivianna Mensah, Sunyani
He therefore called on government to take measures to stop the collapse of private businesses in the country.
“Private businesses are the once helping the country’s economy move forward so if they die off the country will come to a standstill,” he opined.
Nana Osei, in an interview with CITY & BUSINESS GUIDE during the inauguration of his fuel station, Jusbro Petroleum Limited at Fiapre, near Sunyani, called on banks and government to provide private businesses with loans in order to employ more people.
He also asked government to encourage private operators in the country to develop the country.
Mr. Osei said his outfit will employ more youth in the Sunyani Municipality to create jobs in Sunyani, the Brong Ahafo regional capital.
He promised to offer quality services in the petroleum business in the region.
Born to win used the occasion to appeal to the newly appointed Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo and the Sunyani West District Chief Executive to remove the tollbooth at Fiapre to lessen the burden of drivers and passengers.
From Vivianna Mensah, Sunyani
Naked Demo To Hit Kintampo Over Rape
Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that
hundreds of women in the Kintampo Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region
have threatened to stage a naked demonstration to protest against the
rampant rape cases in the area.
According to the women, Kintampo is gradually gaining a shameful reputation within the region over sexual abuse of innocent women by unknown men in the area.
“We haven’t done anything wrong against anyone in the municipality so why will they want to rape us every day?” one women queried.
Speaking to pressmen, one of the aggrieved women, Martha Tuah, whose daughter was raped recently, said the situation was causing fear and panic among the women as most of them could not even go out after 6:00pm.
She disclosed that a 40-year-old woman was currently receiving treatment at the Kintampo Municipal Hospital after she was raped by unknown people on Monday.
“She is not the only one they have raped. Girls who are 19 and old women as old as 50 years have also been victims,” she said.
Madam Tuah stated that several women including school girls have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of these heartless men on many occasions.
According to her, if nothing was done about it by the municipal Security Council they would hit the street on a naked demonstration to protest against the situation because they are living in fear.
She said the MCE and the security knew about the situation but nothing has been done about it and that was why they wanted to hit the streets for them to know the pain they were going through.
All efforts to reach the Kintampo Municipal Chief Executive, Seidu Harrison, to react to the matter proved futile.
From Vivianna Mensah, Sunyani
According to the women, Kintampo is gradually gaining a shameful reputation within the region over sexual abuse of innocent women by unknown men in the area.
“We haven’t done anything wrong against anyone in the municipality so why will they want to rape us every day?” one women queried.
Speaking to pressmen, one of the aggrieved women, Martha Tuah, whose daughter was raped recently, said the situation was causing fear and panic among the women as most of them could not even go out after 6:00pm.
She disclosed that a 40-year-old woman was currently receiving treatment at the Kintampo Municipal Hospital after she was raped by unknown people on Monday.
“She is not the only one they have raped. Girls who are 19 and old women as old as 50 years have also been victims,” she said.
Madam Tuah stated that several women including school girls have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of these heartless men on many occasions.
According to her, if nothing was done about it by the municipal Security Council they would hit the street on a naked demonstration to protest against the situation because they are living in fear.
She said the MCE and the security knew about the situation but nothing has been done about it and that was why they wanted to hit the streets for them to know the pain they were going through.
All efforts to reach the Kintampo Municipal Chief Executive, Seidu Harrison, to react to the matter proved futile.
From Vivianna Mensah, Sunyani
Monday, May 20, 2013
Sunyani Goes Dead
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NACOMP TRAINS TEAM LEADERS ON MOSQUITO CONTROL
The Nationwide Mosquito Control Programme (NACOMP),
under Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management and sanitation firm, has
trained it team leaders in the Northern Sector of the country on mosquito
control activities.
The participants drawn from Brong-Ahafo, Ashanti,
Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions were also trained on how to use the
phoenix mosquito spraying machine to control mosquito borne diseases during the
three day training programme held in Sunyani, Brong-Ahafo Regional Capital.
Addressing the 117 participants, a member of the
Technical Advisory Committee from Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research,
Dr. Samuel Kweku Dadzie explained the training is basically to equip the participants
on the idea of mosquito and the need to control the insects.
According to him, mosquitoes cause yellow fever,
malaria and elephantiasis, that is why he said it is necessary for the training
to help them identify areas suitable for breeding of the insects and for
spraying.
“The mosquito that cause malaria is the same insects
that gives elephantiasis so people need to be educated to be careful”, he
added.
Dr. Dadzie explained the training is also to educate
them on safety measures on proper handling of insecticides used in spraying the
insects as well as the maintenance of the spraying machines.
Mr. Alhaji Ziblim, an official of NACOMP who took
the participants through safety and spraying techniques, called on the team leaders
to avoid the intake of alcohol when mixing the chemicals or spraying.
He advised them to strictly adhere to all safety
measures during the spraying exercise.
The National Head of NACOMP, Ebenezer Kwame Addae, explained
it was set up in 2009 with the aim of controlling mosquito borne diseases.
He said the training is Ministry of Health and
NACOMP collaboration to control mosquitoes and other mosquito related diseases
Mr. Addae said the training would empower the participants
and build their capacities in mosquito control activities as well as improve
their efficiency in the control programme.
Welcoming the team leaders, the Brong Ahafo Regional
Manager of Zoomlion, Kofi Sekyere called on them to take the training serious
so as to enable them find effective ways of controlling the spread of
mosquitoes.
He was optimistic that participants will be well
abreast with issues concerning mosquito at the close of the programme
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