Joy News Today (10-8-21)

[Music] now some residents living in and around the song lagoon in the great aquarium region have fled the town following what is alleged to be a police raid there some of them who spoke to join usain about 20 people including some chiefs were picked up by the police during the raid they also claimed four persons have been shot last week a group calling itself concerned residents in and around the sungo lagoon called for a halt in the alleged police and military brutalities they claimed the military was intimidating them because they opposed the government handover of the lagoon to electrochem ghana to win salt in that lagoon their lawyers at a news conference catalogued a number of assaults on residents and called for a ceasefire on the 5th of february 2021 police raided our community in a show of force and arrested nine of us in which five sustained various degrees of body harm for daring to go to the lagoon to win salt and if i say we it means that communities affected two on 16 may 2021 the police arrested and handcuffed benjamin and nim to his bed in jose hospital for several days three on the 21st of may 2021 ebenezer anem brother of benjamin anem of salem were also arrested at cassette ada for defying the moratorium burning community members from winning salt in the songo lagoon 4. on 14th of june 2021 the police arrested the following people from media and lufina peter ali ha-ho calling joshua colling ivan scully and abraham k ayanu as well as godwin ayonew now on monday some residents expressed worry that they were being maltreated oh [Music] now the district chief executive of adar west adjote lawyer akrofi joins us on phone now as uh with what has been reported to your office what have you been told about the incident coffee can you hear me hello great you're live on joy news today sir what have you been told about this morning's incident this morning okay as far as i know there have been series of disturbances i would call from some members of the community which seemed not to support the electrochem project they have not resorted to any legal means but rather they've resorted to taking the law into their own hand some of the incidences are recalled which came before us as die said whether somebody had reported an incident to them that somebody had destroyed his pants in the song lagoon what they called the artisanal assault wing he reported to the police when the police went to arrest they attacked the police and that brought about the juji incident that you were talking about they attacked the police and then somebody got to want another result of that that is what we know officially you can verify this fact for my either the divisional police commander or for my district place commander right the incident you were talking about last thursday again they did the same thing and ben's motorbikes of workers of electoral care without any provocation right again yesterday again yesterday which is the most recent incident the person was talking about even though i wasn't in the district at that time i was for a medical review they called to tell me the police and then some members like that electrochem were doing a communication as part of their social responsibilities at matcha copy a village near tofloku and then people attacked them from [Music] lithuania callicope luho salon and to global these were the people who are opposed to the project they attacked and banned the offices earlier on they have a series of this where they see the equipment of electrochem the matter is with the police they haven't surrendered them yet and then on thursday again they burnt motorbikes and all their equipment over there and then again yesterday they did the same thing at my jacoby they had to bleed not the people who attacked them and that was where the police went in to restore law and order during the course of this they had arrested about 23 people and they have been processed and they are in camera at the moment so for details of that you can obtain from either the original place command in tema or my place commands here at the district level or the uh divisional level well you you are the head of the security council are you not hello you are the head of the district security council are you not yes i am okay are you aware that persons were shot in the incidents that you described yesterday yesterday no the police never told me that and nobody also reported that so you have not heard that report but but you were not there as you mentioned yes the commander who came to me about an hour ago to brief me never mentioned anything like that great um have any persons been wounded in these disturbances that you have described since last week yes the boy they attacked at my chakra for instance has been badly wounded and receiving medical attention and who is this boy mr coffee hello who is this boy who has been badly wounded yes and his name is kevon from my chakra and he's a member of the community he's one of these people who is opposed to the setup of this industrial um company no he's one of the um security people at the matcha copy site right so what what i would also like to understand is that beyond this boy you describe has anyone else been reported to any hospital with any wounds with any um with any offensive injuries or assault injuries no as far as i'm concerned no right these persons who are being held as the tema region office on what charges or not grounds are they being held of course i will not load that because they attacked and bent bases so i think that's a violation of the law going to attack some people in their premises and banning writing premises i believe that so so even if those are not the charges they are being arrested because of that incident um so mr coffee what i want to understand now is that this young man this employee of the company you are referring to um what kind of wounds did he sustain yes the one according to the police and the medical one because i saw him also they used sticks to hit the head very badly the best and then the ice also and then he has something like a dislocation in the air so it's not working properly enough that was what i saw i had a police station thank you very much sir for joining us at jyotay lawyer akrofy's dce for dar west let's move on to other stories and the teacher unions ghana national association of teachers nat national association of graduate teachers nagarat and the coalition of consent teachers cct say there are challenges facing pre-tertiary education in the country some of the issues raised are teaching and learning materials contact us upgrade of teachers promotion crisis some allowances transfer of teachers in special schools and others thomas musa is general secretary of nat shari education unions we have not nagrat and cct ghana in spite of the progress ghana has made in improving access to education for all there are two challenges inhibiting thousands of children the authorities have failed to provide teachers and peoples with modern aids to teaching and learning we the teacher unions are hereby serving notice that if by the close of september 2021 and we repeat if by the close of september 2021 and we repeat for the 10th time if by the close of september 2021 all these issues are not resolved in full by the employer then we will have no option done to advance ourselves in the best interest of our members within the framework of our collective agreement and applicable laws of ghana we by this same conference by this same conference are pricing the national labour commission that's the nlc of the development and intent in case of failure of the ges to address our consent ours is a noble task which which must be done and that is what we are just doing let's move on to other stories and greater crowd regional security council has resumed enforcement of the law criminalizing non-adherence of the covert 19 safety protocols heads of the 29 municipal and district assemblies together with their divisional commanders have been taxed to conduct inspections at the beaches markets and even trotters to ensure that the strict compliance of the covet-19 protocols is kept the move according to the greater acquire regional minister henry corte is aimed at containing the spread of the pandemic in the region mr cote speaking to journeys observed that the security personnel would not hesitate to arrest and prosecute persons in breach of the protocols uh we are aware that there's a third variance and uh we only have to uh kind of activate the existing protocols now we we have directed that um the security and intelligence agencies uh uh begin to enforce or to ensure strict compliance of these coverage safety protocols well if you recall the last time we did it all the assemblies were taxed to hold if you like music and dissect meetings and these bodies represent uh the the security uh structure of the local governance at the district and the municipal assemblies um once they do that they educate the people they bring the awareness they sensitize the place and they ensure that enforcements are done so all we are saying is that what we did some months ago that the beaches and all that were closed we want to revisit that mr president has given clear directives as to how things should go open area strict compliance through the safety protocols i.e washing hands wearing face masks and all that and that is what we are saying we are not uh reinventing the wheel so we see the policemen on the streets we see the security and intelligence agencies working together with the assemblies i see but i i want to understand this the conversation about those who are in reach of the protocol wasn't what happened to them when their people need them every act law in this world has areas of penalties and we all know the penalties when one breaches recovered safety protocols that will be applied and indeed it should be in conformity uh or guided by what the the law prescribes when uh one offense there is an offence but as much as possible the assemblies have been encouraged to try and educate the people more than using the brute force yeah so when we see any form of arrest going forward rather a lot of education from the assembly i am not saying that we will not see any form of arrests we are saying that it's a combination of how to ensure compliance and intervention meanwhile the minister also indicated that rexeko soon prohibits the use of tricycles popularly known as abuboya on highways and principal streets of accra we are saying that the abujas cannot fly they cannot use the principal streets and highways in accra however an alternative measure or has been put in place for them i.e we are saying that going forward all the abubayas should operate within their catchment areas fortunately catchment areas in this case is defined as the municipal or district assembly areas so so abubuya registers with the dvla and then registers with their respective assemblies to be given the business operating permits once that is given they are expected to operate within the assemblies now the question arises oh so if they lift a rubbish from circle and they want to take it to ajinko toku what do they do we are saying that the waste management companies are supposed to provide transfer sites in all the 29 assemblies and that is a must they have to do it we are also after further consultations and stakeholder engagements we'll be launching these bylaws on the 24th of august this year at the rollins park after the lunch there will be a grace period a moratorium maybe a month maybe two that will be agreed upon by the committee during this time the waste management companies would have to as quickly as possible ensure that there are lands transfer sites in all the 29 assemblies and then the assemblies are also going to be taxed to educate the people back to education now and the ministry is championing an initiative to promote stem education in ghana's high schools and tertiary institutions at a stakeholder consultation meeting minister for education dr yao usai edutum expressed the need to introduce biomedical sciences as part of course's study that both the high school and tertiary levels in order to promote science technology engineering and mathematics education in the country the minister also expressed or stressed the need to open our education systems to also benefit children from rural areas who do not have the means to afford quality education citing the free shs policy as a means to achieve this stakeholders at the meeting including officials from the university of cape coast highlighted major interventions which they are ready to adopt to promote stem education in ghana my colleague judith architando is at the event and joins us via zoom judith what are some of the major proposals being made by stakeholders as interventions to promote stem education in ghana okay thank you very much danielle so we have the provost for the college of education and ucc prof ernest davis who explained uh the need for the university to begin a three credit hour course for students to take stem related programs now um he also said that this would be compulsory for all undergraduates so it's something that we are starting as a now now he also explained the need for schools uh especially primary schools to create clubs that will make stem education more interesting and fun especially to the youth in primary schools and in high schools uh we also had the ceo for silicon valley explaining the importance of drone technology to agricultural and health security and security systems he has created a team which uses drones in the distribution of water on a farmlands using the sprinkling method here so the drones also distribute food resources onto these farmlands for them for the plants to grow properly now he also made a mention of the drones that are currently being used for distribution of pps especially in the covered era in some parts of the country and he explained that these interventions are stepping stones and ways in which stem education can be utilized so these are some of the major proposals that were highlighted at the event now i noticed you talked about officials of the university of cape coast introducing courses for their students is there any indication from the ministry itself that programs like this will be rolled out across the country to other universities okay so for now uh the the provost of ucc the college of education of ucc was just uh proposing these things to the ministry so uh we are just waiting on the ministry to tell us whether they would take this into consideration and want to make it a general thing in all the investors yes julie thank you very much for those updates let's move to other stories especially in agriculture where governments are deferred full operationalization of the waliwali watermelon factory in the north east region to march 2022 marking the third major deadline to elapse since the construction of the project began in december 2019. the west mountain municipal chief executive aruma somolocki who disclosed to join you said the delay was as a result of procurement challenges the mta was speaking after watermelon farmers in the region blamed government as chunks of the produce lie rotten on farms due to a lack of ready market chunks of watermelon fruit in parts of the region are going bad and farmers are crying over their loss investment the farmers said they had banked their hopes on the government what abilene juicy production company hudi had been promised would have been completed before this farming season the factory was a campaign promised by the government upon realizing the plight of watermelon farmers in the region however it's been three years since the ground for the construction of the factory was broken by the vice president at logari the factory is yet to be completed the pharmaceutical pleading with the government to speed up work to complete the factory and put it into use you know because we in care depth all the time i have to plead on the government that if the factory is on process they should try as much as possible to do it first for us so that we're suffering now that we were not having factories and they were telling us it was buying somehow but now we are having factories oh we are going to be having a factory and the watermelon is not buying not only farmers beer this perennial branch but other players in the watermelon follow change including sellers like these women and teenage girls who have peach camps on the nasir waliwali stretch of the tamale balkan highway to sell the fruit which is financing the project had promised to complete it within nine months the factory is situated in westbound proceed municipality and the mc for the area has been explaining the reasons for the delay it is a concern for the government and the government is aware we have continuously informed the government about what is happening in the west memphis municipality uh is a very big help for production of watermelon and that is why we are happy that the president is and has given us the watermelon factory it has been i mean constructed the problem of the factory was not because there was no money but because of the process of procurement unfortunately and finally it has been done money has been released to them x-men has supported them they have also informed me accordingly that they have received funds to work on so there's nothing to keep them so molaki also said the factory upon completion will create direct employment opportunities for the youth adding that the factory will be completed and utilized so i know and i sympathize with the people who have their products being rotten at the farm i want to tell them that the government knows much about their problems their municipality of executive and their member of parliament knows about their their problems and challenges and insha allah together we shall work it out for our critics they always criticize because that is how what they are meant for but the reality is that the government is working the reality is that the municipality is working and this should tell us in western prison if they have ever brought one single project that was aimed of ammunition people from poverty you can only criticize but you have no solution to the problem of ghana for joy news ilyasu tanko reporting the kumasa now and the national ambulance service says the abuse of cyrene's by section of the motrin public is affecting its smooth operations yashanti regional manager sonic dude millen indicates that some drivers fail to heed and pave way for ambulances on their sirens due to the abuse in the system the service has efficiently responded to over 4 000 cases in the ashanti region since the beginning of this year the use of sirens in vehicles is legally reserved for specific institutions especially for emergency and security purposes these include the ghana national fire service the ambulance service and the police service ashanti regional director for the ambulance service somic dutch milan observed an increase in patronage of its services as public confidence source but there are challenges with human resources and abuse of these irenes now people don't know the difference between the ambulance and then ordinary cars you know normally on weak as you see a whole lot of v8 on sarin and i mean the drivers are fed up with the sarin and even when they hear the siren they don't know that now it's an emergency or somebody is using the siren for the personal gains and all that so it's really a challenge when you're even on sarin it becomes difficult for the drivers to open and pave way for you some drivers and pedestrians complain about the sarin news signs they want enforcement of loss on the use of sirens i am so much displeased when i see these things i even feel less important because some supposed rich men would try to avoid the traffic by turning on their sirens from observation they are just ordinary people are president and i'll be a speaker of parliament vice president it's reasonable if it's the president or any notable government official but now even ordinary people driving suvs will turn on their sirens and try to avoid traffic will be coming up in the country there are no emergencies but these people will still force their way through if it's an ambulance fair enough aside that those using sirens create confusion the ashanti region commander of the police motor traffic and transport unit chief superintendent emanuel dubois says the police are keen on dealing with the situation if you disobey the law then it means that and you are arrested let me read it a person who contravenes this regulation commits an offense and is liable on family conversion to a fine of not more than 20 financial units or to a term of imprisonment of not more than um 30 days or to both so if you use the siren and you are not permitted this is what this is the penalty thereof if you are sent to court but don't forget it is not only the use of the siren which is dangerous if you are driving and you are facing oncoming vehicles and you are not permitted by allah to use the siren and you are facing oncoming vehicles and your police arrest you you can also charge you for dangerous driving because you know that what you are doing can cause danger to any other road user reporting from kumasi this is your news today with me daniel dazzie now tourism is a key economic driver in ghana the sector is currently the fourth largest source of foreign exchange earnings creating jobs and stimulating other sectors of the economy more on this in business [Music] [Music] hi good afternoon welcome to business my name is daryl khal tourism is a key economic driver in ghana the sector is currently the fourth largest source of foreign exchange earnings creating jobs and stimulating other sectors of the economy however the existing tourism potential in the ashanti region is yet to be fully tapped the afghan travel and tourism association has begun mobilizing resources to enhance the economic fortunes of toy science in that region there is more in this report annually visit the ashanti region founding member and chair of the association ahmed naman has therefore reiterated the need for more investment in tourist sites in the region he believes this will make the region attractive we need to really revive the cycle of tourism industrial terrorism nobody can tell our story more than us because we are the ones on the on the ground we are the professionals we are the tour operators and we want uh we partnered with them with the media people like you merci has a lot of attractions to visit this morning we started from the zoo to the cultural center to prepare the second museum we went all the way to kung fu we are now at the military museum notable tourist site in komasi include the premper the second museum the kumasi zoological gardens the armed forces military museum the oconfornote sword site and the mensia palace in 2018 the kumasi zoo recorded 60 000 vistas around the world though the covet 19 pandemic affected patronage the zoo estimated 100 000 tourists this year their ongoing enhancement projects are the zoological gardens to make it attractive these include a canopy walkway and addition of more exotic animals zeka meu is resident wildlife veterinarian and zoo manager currently you can see there's a lot of renovation works ongoing and this is to lift the zoo to a very high level we are in researching to making commercial one of the best zoos in west africa so we can attract more visitors not just only for the revenue but for people to learn the conservation of our wildlife species our employer naman has however observed funding of tourist attractions has been a major challenge he is hoping the sector will receive support under the covet 19 alleviation grant our measure of securing promoting the season is funds you know because because our members are out of business or some of them are really doing some of us are really doing very little business it is not enough for us to to extend our support to the association so and then you know we are we we have tried as much as we can to set up the definition and put it on the track but it takes also funds for randomization recently the government have initiated the copy delegation fund which some members are benefited from we have a grant that the government is also offering to the ministry of tourism most our members have registered for this is a very good initiative because it will help us get back those who have lost their jobs to come back on board the association as part of its one-year anniversary took a three-day tour of selected tourist sites in the ashanti region mona lisa from pond reporting another story we are keenly following for you the ghana institute of freight forwarders has reached out to national security to intervene in what attempts unlawful blacklisting of its members and some exporters from transporting goods globally now some exporters have reported to join business that they have been blocked and denied access their goods unlawfully by a mess shipping line for known reasons according to the president of the institute eddie akron the behavior of the shipping line towards ghanaian businesses has been of course worry at the port hands immediate action is needed to bring them to book how do you resolve it and then so this was friday some of these have been going on for about two weeks so as a friday these have not been resolved today we are told that shippers authority has been there and then we're yet to you know get to shippers authority to find out how this was resolved what is the resolution so we need to know that now if nothing is done about it because we can't keep our members up from sitting you know and then because they're just sitting there they are also accountable to their clients the mortgage is involved and they are not going to stop the demolish the portfolio involved they are not going to stop the portrait and then somebody has to pay but we can't let this continue what's the next line of action i'll tell you what so this is what this is what we're doing we want to do the proper thing so we gathered all the information from all these members and i just said 12 from the last count that 12 members that i'm saying if you put us all together i'm sure there will be way more than that so what we're doing that we're properly telling them please stop this one now and then try and do your investigations so secondly we have gone to the national security coordinator here today we are writing officially to the minister of you know the national security minister that this is a clear and present danger this is a threat to the youth of the country in our businesses okay and should be taken care of if we we do that these we we believe that these issues should be resolved asap and they shouldn't take on radios we still have the legal option we'll go there but then we'll take any action we can to make sure this is resolved trust me we would have to shake them down to make sure this is resolved it cannot happen in our country more business news at the top of the hour on the marketplace meantime you can check out our website my jawline dot com forward slash business up next mufta will have some news on the ghana premier league in sports don't go anywhere good afternoon welcome to sports enjoy news today with me move to nabila avla let's start with stories on the new ghana premier league season where the ghana football association have announced that the lake will kick off on the weekend of october 29 to monday november 1 across all league centers this follows approval of the plan for a 2021-2022 football season by the executive council charles macarius of joyce boss has the rest of the story the process towards the kickoff of the new season begins with the opening of registration window of players and officials on monday 9th august 2021 which will close on saturday october 9 2021 champions across to folk sc will defend the title as the competition welcomes three new promoted sites realtimely united fc bbna gold stars sc and acro lions fc to the top flight the premier league will run until sunday june 19 2022 as the association takes steps to realign its football calendar after the disruptions caused by covert nine the women's premier league will start on friday december 10 2021 and end on sunday may 29 2022 followed by the women's fa cup final on sunday june 5 2022 whilst the division one league will start on november 12 2021 and end on sunday june 12 2022 as usual the mtn fa cup final will close the season on sunday june 25 2022 as stipulated by the gfa statutes the association will go to its annual congress before the kickoff of the competitions now let's talk about mercedes ellie who has been praising the new leadership of the ghana football association for coming up with an initiative called bring back the love campaign according to him this initiative has the potential of getting corporate institutions to invest in the game of football however he believes there's a lot of work to be done the new leadership of the ghana football association in the ability to revive interest in the local game started a slogan dubbed bring back the love an initiative many believe is gradually winning the interests of the football community mercedes ellie a former france international euroz the football governing body for the initiative they are trying they are trying i mean i'll talk about jamil who is one of the marketing you know it's like a chain you need to organize uh the interest i like the idea of what they say bringing back love you know into into the stadiums it's good it's a good idea you need to bring back the people into the stadiums the local matches have to be followed by our local people to bring more crowd to bring more interest about the sponsors once the sponsors come and the crowd the broadcast comes also you generate a little bit more money you try and structure also each club to make sure they respect the players the payments they have also facilities so it's a whole lot of work for us to be able to develop you know our local football despite an idea he says has the potential of winning the interest of the people and the corporate society to invest in the ghanaian game he insisted there's still a lot of work to be done we have we have a hard work to do because all the players also are leaving the country too early because they are attracted by by interest by money and so if you structure very well your league you are able to keep some of the players and develop them on ground to make sure they are ready to go abroad and and now start to perform that just ended ghana football season is the first to be completed since 2017 that is your spot for now however we've got a lot of sports stories to share with you on my joy online.com as you can see lionel mercy is close to joining paris and german after barcelona exit that's according to spanish journalist yolon ballege and the national record related team was not a surprise that's according to benjamin azamatti reports also have suggested that london mercy is currently airbound to paris unfortunate news also hit us earlier today that the former manager of aberdeen pele jones abu al-assan has passed on thanks very much for your company [Music] good afternoon and welcome to show this here on your news today now actress beverly alfaglow says a fire started by her mother could be the cause of the complete bend down of her house in terma here is the actress recounting on daybreak this morning how the unfortunate incident happened my mom has gotten at the back of the house so i mean a woman who is almost 80. she's always bored she wants to do gardening so she always goes to her farm that's what she calls it every morning so apparently she went to do her regular farming and she gathered some weed weeds and she bent it so according to where the the the fire had gone down and she left and she went to relax so my household made lunch and went to give her her food so when she was going back to my side of the apartment then she could perceive smoke so she went to the corridor and um she realized that the smoke is coming from the back so my room faces the back itself so she said she went to open my door and the room the the smoke had engulfed the whole room so she shouted back and quickly ran to grandma's place and said grandma are you burning something at the back of the house i just said yeah so they both of them walked to the back of the house and saw that fire was raised in the whole place by then my cousin had gone to take my first daughter from school so he got back and came to meet the fire and um they went to open the polar tank and my cousin and my household started pouring water on the fire so when they were pouring water the smoke was coming so they decided that they should take grandma and the kids out of the house so the two grandma and the kids out and drove the two cars out of the house and when they tried coming back to save whatever the smoke had engulfed the whole house so they started calling fire service so i was in town in tema all right not too far then um a neighbor called me that and um beverly your house is on fire for more news log on to my jaw online.com that's where you find all the news danielle that's it for this bulletin of joy news today my name is daddy up next is the marketplace with charles item you scared me [Music] [Music]

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