Nelson Mandela ?Happy Birthday? Says Author Abdul Haye Amin

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San Francisco — Free-Press-Release.com– Jul 15, 2011 — The unknown bilingual?s author Abdul Haye Amin says ?Happy Birthday? to ?Nelson Mandela? At the most critical time in life age of ninety three years old South Africa, second to none most States criminal of all in the eyes of the British colony, probably, second to none after Prophet Ibrahim, who was prosecuted in the eyes of the Public Justice as Nelson Mandela, almost twenty seven years in public Jail in south Africa.

Author Abdul Haye Amin left empty handed as any orphanage child at the time of special occasion searching through the Internets and London Stock Exchange if there is any special gifts of token can be given to the street offender nation never dreamt from zero ever going to be known in the nation ?HERO?

Whose name discovered in most poems in the Book of poetry, in English, ?The Islands Historia de Amor? The only book of English Poems, the symbol of Love the Souvenir I can offer at the time of Birthday to the nation Hero ?Nelson Mandela? at the age of Ninety three years old to remain in our memory, as a street offender in the eyes of the Justice once was Guilty, Today in the nation other than deaf or blind will ever claim never heard of by name ?Nelson Mandela?

…It is extremely, difficult to digest in mathematically or to add up even by taking medication of tablet ?Seroxat? in our life how ?Nelson Mandela? driven through out his selfish life politically in the path of Journey other than Almighty Lord those who says other than [Prophet] but his son ?He-Sa-Ru-Hu-Lul-La-He? was also prosecuted by the blind Authority of the States.
Nelson Mandela In the eyes of the peoples may be was ordinary but in the name of Lord was some thing to be proud of today by all nationalities for liberating s his own peoples and by birth country south Africa to remain in history for peoples of Africa, the soil of Africa once regarded as Guilty today peoples of Africa may have forgotten many years and days in jail and prosecution struggles for freedom.

May My God bless the Statesman your sign shown as in Russia nine month old boy body name of Lord ?Allah? direct from sky medically known ?Laser Treatment? the ray of lights, or ?Visual hallucination? today I ask you nothing in gifts my Lord but your attention other than man power ?a military medical aircraft assistance?.

Toward ninety three year old hero ?Nelson Mandela? in his childhood Village of Qunu in the eastern Cape. In Africa. Your patients who was hospitalized for an acute respiratory infection. Therefore, he who require your medical attention as Mrs Amirun Nessa Aktar, in the selfish world.

Before Human Military Commander can say in bow, ?Sub-Hana-Rabi-Al-Alla? in word, l heard and read book of Holy Bible Quran your Military Commander, (Firista/Angel), will fulfill the human desires blinks of human eyes and will grand license to personal wishes, the wishes what ever may thought in mind may have with Nelson Mandela by looking at the scripture of Kalima.

And grand extra few second in his life, in the day of Judgment ninety three years is less than ?one minutes? my Lord.
At the time of special occasion I give nothing To ?Nelson Mandela? but my Lord your Verses the natural Quranic Verses [Kalima] which was discovered in the E.E.C. Forest to keep with him as a States gifts from Sylhet District Refugee whose great Grand Father Country was stolen 163 years in written history, therefore, I could not give nothing to Mandela to smiles age of ninety three years.

The Hero who achieved his final field of goals in life after many years struggles he who deserve right to be rest in loving environment as morning star arise thought out remaining life my Lord bless him and his families, friends and those who taken care of.

The bilingual?s author Abdul Haye Amin by birth born Sylhet district, Bangladesh, age of only ten who was emigrated in United kingdom hardly who can spell his own name in Language Bangla nor in English none university Graduates, secondary Holte School, Students, City of Birmingham, West Midland, united kingdom. Written poems about ?Nelson Mandela? in Africa. In his book of poems ?The Islands Historia de amor?.

Nelson Mandela, ?Happy Birthday? Says author Abdul Haye Amin.

The unknown bilingual?s author Abdul Haye Amin says ?Happy Birthday? to ?Nelson Mandela? At the most critical time in life age of ninety three years old South Africa, second to none most States criminal of all in the eyes of the British colony,

Comfort Ama Benyiwa Doe – v – Dennis Doe-Vemavor, A Vexatious Claim

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By Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK

I am sure that most legal brains and readers on Ghanweb will agree with me that, the claim by one Mr Dennis Doe-Vemavor, the so-called Chairman of Ghanaians Abroad Against Corruption and who also pretends to be the nephew of Mr Oscar Doe, the ex-husband of Comfort Ama Benyiwa Doe, the current Central Regional Minister of Ghana, is vexatious or frivolous. For those of us who are not lawyers or legal experts, vexatious claim or action simply means, a claim which is simply brought merely to annoy an opponent. All courts are empowered to stay such an action. That is, to suspend or dismiss the claim or action without due consideration. In most cases, cost is awarded against the vexatious litigant.

Mr Dennis Doe-Vemavor began his vexatious action against Ama Benyiwah Doe early this year with an article, which both Ama Benyiwa Doe and her (adopted) son responded to. He followed that with another article disputing the facts contained in the statement of Ama Benyiwa Doe and the son’s article on Ghanaweb. In late February 2011, I also posted an article on Ghanaweb challenging the claim by Mr Dennis Doe-Vemavor . In that article and among others, I identified a number of inconsistencies in his story and challenged him to respond to them. After he failed to respond to my challenge, I e-mailed him but he did not respond. I then followed my e-mail with a number of telephone calls to the mobile number he provided in his articles. Sadly, all the calls were interrupted. I also did a Google search on Ghanaians Abroad Against Corruption that he claims to chair but nothing came up. I never heard of him again until yesterday when he posted an alleged petition on Ghnaweb to the President of Ghana, copied to various organisations and VIPs. I telephoned him again, soon after I read his petition on Ghanaweb but gave up as the calls were interrupted continuously. From these, my own conclusion is that, either Mr Dennis Doe-Vemavor is a fake and does not exist or he is simply up to mischief, nothing more, nothing less.

Again, his petition to the President is not credible and full of inconsistencies. Now, he is even trying to suggest that the then Nigerian authorities were complicit in the alleged murder of his uncle by assisting Ama Benyiwa Doe to adopt the child of his deceased uncle. At the same time, he claimed in the petition, that the Nigerian Police could not interview her because she disappeared. It is not clear in the petition whether she disappeared prior to adopting the child and or disposing of Mr Oscar Doe’s assets. Someone who claims to have LLB could not even make an explicit and precise statement of fact in a Presidential Petition. He is a disgrace to the law profession, if indeed, he has an LLB. I know for a fact that he did not obtain his LLB in Ghana because the Ghana Law School is a reputable one that would not produce such a discredited graduate. I also believe that he is not a graduate of any of the UK bona fide and accredited educational institutions. Probably he bought his LLB.

Mr Dennis Doe-Vemavor, as someone with an LLB, did you know that, an extradition is a request from one sovereign state/government to another? If so, who is requesting Ama Benyiwa Doe’s extradition and to where, if the Nigerian government is not the requesting authority? Did you know that Amnesty International has an office in Ghana and if so, why did you not give them a copy of your petition but Amnesty, UK? Do you also know a human rights organisation in Africa called, African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights? What about the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice in Accra? Why did you not send copies of your petition to them? Last but not the least, what about the Ghana Police if you gave a copy to Nigerian Police? Did you really go to law school and if so which one and where?

The big question is, why is this person targeting Ama Benyiwa Doe and what is his or her objective? Is it politically motivated and if so, who is behind it? I am tempted to suspect that his or her aim is political but unfortunately, I am unable to consider who is behind it. There is no doubt that, Ama Benyiwa Doe has a lot of political enemies because of the high profile role she played when NDC was in opposition. She herself made a number of unsubstantiated and serious allegations against leading members of the then NPP government. It is therefore very tempting for some readers and her sympathisers to assume that the NPP could be behind this claim by Mr Dennis Doe-Vemavor. I totally disagree with any such assumption because in my opinion, the NPP could do a better job. There are very seasoned lawyers within the NPP and therefore, the NPP would not display such utter ignorance of the law and infantile behaviour. Again, this is the main opposition party in Ghana and a potential government in waiting (from previous elections in Ghana and since Ghana is a de facto two party state). In other words, this is an inferior tactics and I personally would be worried if a party that could form a government in Ghana as early as 2013 or 2017 could resort to such level.

As I said in my article in February, I am not here to defend Ama Bentiwah Doe and in fact, if it is true that she poisoned her ex-husband, then the law should take its course. However, because of the inconsistencies and the elementary mistakes and the naivety of the accuser especially, as an LLB graduate, which makes his frivolous claims more disconcerting I am concerned that, he is just up to damage the reputation and political career of Ama Benyiwa Doe. Often, Ghanaians have used the electronic media to throw horrible and unsubstantiated allegations against politicians, including the current and former Presidents, Nana Akufo Addo and many others. My concern is that, the electronic media is being used by political opponents to discredit Ghanaian politicians to the international community. These allegations are not only damaging to the individual politicians but the goodwill and reputation of the nation state and corporate Ghana.

Mr Dennis Doe-Vemavor, you are a fake and you have fabricated a story that does not make sense. Your actions are misguided and your petition is not worth consideration by the President. It should be treated with contempt that it deserves. It is vexatious and a waste of time, I advise you to take a better approach by doing your home work well, establish the facts and gather credible evidence before you act. What you are doing is dangerous. How do you feel about the negative comments on your petition from Ghanweb readers? A word to the wise is enough.

By Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK.

Naa Jemaa Matarah II

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There comes a time in the life of man when self fulfillment can only be attained by serving others in a less privileged position in life. For the likes of Naa Jemaa Matarah II, the word altruism best suits the above description.
Working for the comfort of his fellow men is a source he draws true happiness from. We are going to delve deep into his life and achievement and what he stands for, and for his people of Gbanko in the Kaleo traditional area of the Upper West Region.
WHO IS NAA JEMAA MATARAH II?
Naa Jemaa Matarah II was born on the 9th of December 1962 to Laadi Mwinnilayuori Dzamaa and Nomuna Ambarima in the small Gold Mining camp of Tamso in the Western Region of Ghana.
SCHOOL DAYS
The second of seven children, Naa Matarah started his elementary school education in 1969 in the Western Region. In the same year, his father decided to ‘ship’ him up North to continue his primary education. In 1970, he was enrolled at the St Louis Catholic Primary school under the watchful eyes of his maternal grandmother, Tirima in Kaleo. Naa Matarah’s leadership qualities were self evident when he got elected as the senior school prefect of St Louis primary in 1975.
In September 1975, as a class six pupil, he sat for and passed the Xavier entrance examination and was thus admitted into St Francis Xavier Junior Seminary, Wa. Here again Naa Matarah held several leadership positions from his early years until he was appointed the senior prefect in his senior years. After completing his O-level Exams with distinction in 1981,the young Naa Matarah had wanted to join the Holy priesthood, but destiny dictated otherwise, leading him on to his Sixth form education at St Peters Secondary School, Nkwatia Kwahu,(Eastern Region)between 1981 and 1983.Here again, Naa Matarah was elected to serve as House Prefect.
THE UNWILLING MINER
After qualifying to enter the university in 1983, Naa Matarah had to mark time for one full year, as the Universities had been closed down by the then Government. Not wanting to be a burden on his poor parents, Naa Matarah found himself working as an ‘unwilling miner’ in the State Gold Mines in Tarkwa. Fortune however smiled on him after three long months of grueling underground work. He was spotted, interviewed and appointed as a junior Manager at the nerve centre of the Mines-Monitoring Supervisory Services (MOSS)-where at his tender age he robbed shoulders with Senior Mining Executives on a daily basis
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
As exciting and rewarding as his job was, education was topmost on the mind of the budding Chief and when universities were reopened in 1984,Naa Matrah quickly resigned his job at the Mines and proceeded to the University of Ghana ,Legon,where he read the Liberal Arts and graduated with second class Honors Degree in English and French in 1988.After two years of National Service, one year at the Lawra Secondary School and the other with the All Africa Students Union at the State House in Accra, Naa Matarah’s search for more academic laurels saw   him return to the University of Ghana ,Legon,where under the tutelage of the famous and now late Professor P.A.V Ansah,he read his post Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies, scoring an enviable Grade A in Journalism in 1991.His project Work was on “URA-Radio as a tool for Rural Development”.
A SPELL IN EUROPE
Naa Matarah had earlier in 1990 undertaken a two month Journalism and Cultural Exchange Program in Finland, but disappointed many of his friends and colleagues by deciding to come back home, rather than stay in Europe. It was, and still is the dream of many young people, especially University Graduates to seek greener pastures after graduation.
STINT WITH LINTAS 
A fully confident and qualified Naa Matarah then entered the job market in late 1991 and worked for almost nine years with the largest advertising firm in Ghana (Lintas Ghana ),where he was mentored by the likes of Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey,Emmanuel Addo,Kwake Mensah Bonsu and Naorkor Duah.As Accounts/Client Services Director at his peak, he interfaced extensively with client and Agency partners in Lagos,Harare,London,Johannesburg,and Cape Town, working on famous brands like Guinnnese,Lux,Key Soap,Sunlight,Shell,and the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation.
HEART BEAT
From 1991, while he was still undergoing his post-graduate programme, he met the love of his life, Aimee Vida Quarshie, a law student then at the same university. They got married about three years into the relationship in 1993, and have since been blessed with two strong boys-Jemaa and Zintan
ORAKLE MULTIMEDIA/BAN-IIBO
In 1999, Naa Mataraa founded his own Advertising Firm, Orakle Multimedia Limited, Where he now works as the Managing Director in Accra. His highest career point was when he led his Advertising Agency to win a number of prestigious Awards at the 2006 Gong Gong Awards held in Accra. With his young team of creative people he has worked on the Public Relations and Marketing Communications Accounts of Business and clients as varied as Ghana Stock Exchange, Ghana Airways, Internal Revenue Service, Aluworks, JICA, DANIDA, IFAD, The Ministry of Health, UNICEF, Cargil, North America Airlines, Iburst Africa, including several nation-building media projects in the Upper West, East and Northern regions.
Ever on the lookout on how to impact his home region of Upper West Region, Naa Matarah, in collaboration with some friends in the United States of America, set up Ban-iibo, a local NGO based in Accra and in the Upper West Region (2002) and travelled in and out of the United States in search of collaboration and benefactors to help champion his vision.
ULTIMATE CALL TO SERVICE
After the death of Gbanko Naa, Naa Maree, Emmanuel Mwinila-Yuori was quite unexpectedly approached by the young men and elders of Dzamaayiri, to consider taking up the skin. A skin that belonged originally to his great-grand father, Matarah.Having no foreknowledge or any deliberate formation in traditional matters, it took him quite a while to make up his mind. He calls it “the Ultimate Call to Service”. As tradition demands, Naa Matarah was subsequently introduced to the King Makers of the Kaleo Traditional Council on the 1st of February, 2005, under the skin name of Naa Jemaa Matarah II.
Naa Matarah’s biggest professional passion today is to fill the media void in Northern Ghana, a Northern based television station which will reflect the life and culture of the people of the North is something in the offing. The license to do this has already been granted by the National Communication Authority (NCA), and the campaign is on to generate the needed funding to launch this TV channel.
Naa Matarah’s hobbies include Tennis, Sea/Savannah Gazing and an occasional indulgence in what he calls “the Purity of Solitude”.
GBANKO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
Led by a new chief, a first generation literate and a graduate of the University of Ghana, Gbankuola are hoping to break free from the stagnation of the past and into the promise of tomorrow. The following is an attempt to define the road map for the development of the village through the vision of the chief, Naa Jemaa Matarah.
VISION
To be a forward looking, development oriented model community worthy of emulation by all.
MISSION
To make education the primary responsibility of every parent and thus ensure that 100% of school going age are sent to school.
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
To build a better community for women and children and to tackle rural exclusion
To instill a sense of pride and belonging in every Gbanko resident
To build and sustain a high sense of communalism among the people, especially in the women and the youth (resident and nonresident)
To bring joy and happiness and personal fulfillment into every home in Gbanko
EDUCATION
Set up an educational endowment fund
Refurbish and furnish the existing school infrastructure to include a pre-school/Kindergarten and provide for both care and feeding
Build a library
Institute an award/scholarship scheme for best pupils and students
SAVANNAH CHILD EDUCATION TRUST (SACHET)
Naa Jemaa Matarah II has come out with an educational Project aimed at fully educating over 1,000 children within a decade. A foundation has been set up for this particular purpose of getting many people from the traditional area educated.
Savannah Child Education Trust (SACHET) is a Naa Jemaa Matarah educational initiative. It stems out of the new chief’s personal conviction that liberating the mind through formal education is the beginning of the solution to the endemic poverty of his home region. The trust is therefore intended to generate financial and material support on a scale which has never been experienced in the traditional area.
WHO WILL BENFIT FROM SACHET
The funds generated will over the next ten years (2011-2021) directly sponsor the education of 1,000 children from the Kaleo traditional area who are either orphaned or whose parents are simply too poor to get them into school. Other needy children from the Upper West Region also stand a chance of being sponsored. Funds will be raised through direct appeals and various tried and tested outreach and promotional activities both in and outside the home region.
Naa Jemaa Matarah II, known in private life as Emmanuel Mwinila-Yuori has decided that service to mankind is a service to the good Lord, as his entire being is geared towards the attainment of this life time project.
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Nigerian High Commissioner’s official response to allegations

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RESPONSE TO
ALLEGATIONS OF WIFE BATTERING AGAINST ME, DR
CHIJIOKE WIGWE, BY MRS TESS IYI WIGWE AS PUBLISHED BY
THE STAR NEWSPAPER ON 26TH MAY 2011

Background

I married Tess Iyi Wigwe (nee Oniga) under native law and
custom on 9th April 1978. The girl I married was famous for
her temper and fighting ability. With my gentle and
unassuming nature, I honestly believed that the sharp
contrast in our characters could neutralize and complement
each other. It was a grave error of judgment.

 

I joined the Nigerian Foreign Service in April 1984 after teaching at the University of Jos for some years.  My first posting in 1986 was to Tokyo, Japan. I was in charge of Commercial and Trade Matters. One night in July 1988, I took my female colleague from another Embassy out for dinner. It was actually the first outing.
After dinner, I took her in my car in order to drop her off at a train station.

 

As we drove through town, a car which I quickly recognised as mine (I owned 2 cars) and being driven by Mrs. Wigwe pulled up beside us at a traffic light. Mrs Wigwe hurled air freshener bottles and any other objects she could find in the car to hit us. I later came down from the vehicle and explained to her who the lady was. But she did not believe me and instead chased me through the city shouting abuses at us and throwing objects at us.

 

When I got to a train station, I opened the door and let the lady out. Mrs Wigwe abandoned her car in the middle of the road causing a big jam as she ran after the lady. She caught up with her and after interrogating her, seriously assaulted her, and beat her so mercilessly using the woman’s umbrella that the woman passed out.

 

Mrs. Wigwe fearing that the lady was dead fled the scene taking with her the woman’s hand bag. Good Samaritans took the lady to hospital where she spent one month in intensive care. I was made to pay the woman’s hospital bills. The morning after the attack, Mrs Wigwe traced me to the Embassy where I had taken shelter and took a huge stone and smashed the windscreen of the car to pieces. Mrs Wigwe never admitted to taking the handbag and its contents.

 

However, months later, the wife of a colleague with whom she had
left the handbag, confessed. This gross act of violence visited on an innocent woman, so angered the Nigerian Ambassador and the entire staff that it was decided that Mrs Wigwe should be punished severely to deter other wives with such inclinations. Accordingly, she was suspended from post for 3 months and repatriated to Nigeria by the Embassy in October 1988.

 

She spent a total of 6 months at home coming back only in April 1989 when my posting came to an abrupt end following the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to recall over 150 officers worldwide who had spent 24 months and above at post in the wake of the structural adjustment programme of the government of the day.

 

That premature recall had a serious psychological impact on my very young family of 4 and I decided to take a one year study leave at own expense ostensibly to pursue a post-graduate diploma in journalism in London, but strategically, to insulate our children from the disruptive effects of the unpredictable posting policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

I therefore took my family along with me at great cost. When I left England in February 1992, I left my family behind. In 1993 I was posted to Warsaw, Poland but my family remained in London for the sake of the children’s and Mrs Wigwe’s education. Having learnt a bitter lesson from Tokyo, I unilaterally decided that Mrs Wigwe must not live with me at post in Warsaw.

 

Instead, I encouraged her quest for higher education since she had only secondary education when I married her. She graduated from Middlesex University in July 1998. I paid her fees through university from 1993 and law school.  At the end of my posting in October 1998, I returned to Nigeria.  The family, now well established and
settled, remained in London. Between 1998 and 1999 I made regular visits to the family.

 

In November 1999, Mrs Wigwe visited me in Abuja and we travelled to her home town. We had a very serious misunderstanding.  We returned to Abuja and she travelled back to London. When she returned to London after two weeks, she informed me that she no longer wished for me to come to London as previously planned to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays. All my efforts to reach her by telephone, fax and mail were unsuccessful.

 

The situation continued until 2002 when on transiting London en route New York for an official assignment in
July 2002, I discovered that Mrs Wigwe had brought her male lover, a Nigerian of Yoruba tribe, to live with her and the children in the family house. The children told me how they had bitterly resented her and her lover. But she ignored the children and co-habited with her boyfriend in the family house for close to a year.

 

To all intents and purposes, we were still husband and wife; we were not even officially separated! It was then I knew the reason why I had been barred from visiting the family since 1999. Consequently, and bruising from the humiliation she had bestowed on me and the children in particular, I hastily remarried in December 2002.

 

I married my colleague in the service whom I had not actually known for more than six months. By mutual consent in December 2006, we decided to separate amicably and to remain friends which
we are to date. As the marriage had no children it was quite easy for us to part. I remained a bachelor.

 

Following my nomination as ambassador in September 2007, I called Mrs Wigwe on phone to offer her an olive branch and to ask her to join me, if she so wished, to associate with my new appointment. It was another grave error of judgment. Although I never intended that we should live together under the same roof
again as husband and wife given our antecedents and the coldness of feelings that mutually existed between us after many years of separate lives.

 

I was only prepared for her to have a sense of belonging and attachment to my new status considering also that we have 5 children together. I thought the honour was due to her. She accepted and travelled to see me in Abuja in April 2008. Our first encounter after many years, proved to me and I guess to her, that we could truly no longer call ourselves husband and wife.

 

Nevertheless and much to my shock and deep apprehension, she decided to take a leave of absence for 3 years from her employer in London to join me in residence in Nairobi. She insisted that I should take over her monthly expenditures in London including an ongoing mortgage for the family house I had myself helped her to buy in 2004 after she was on the verge of losing it due to lack of funds to meet her housing loan requirements.

 

I did this in spite of not being married to her. I did it for the sake of the children. I could not contest her decision to come and live with me in Nairobi thus I let her come. But, it was clear as crystal that
our differences and her mistrust of me and our mutual dislike for each other’s company were insoluble but above all that our long evaporated love would never come back.

 

Thus, we have been living in separate bedrooms connected by an inner door that is firmly and permanently locked from her side of the border. We decided to live with as minimal contact with each other as we could manage. Because she often refused to open her door, we developed the art of communication by notes pushed under the door. She liked it so much as it often allowed her to state her endless money requests without having to justify them.

 

We hardly engage in conversations except when she needs money. Our irregular engagements in the act of conversation often end up in a quarrel. In public we manage to present a united front but those who are close to us know that we were only putting up appearances. We did fairly well and were just longing for the end of my tenure as ambassador so that we could resume forever our separate lives.

 

That long hoped for time is nearly with us and hence the deep anxiety on the part of Mrs Wigwe who for 3 years has lived in reasonable comfort and financial security, with a Mercedes Benz car and a driver to complement her status.

 

The end of my tenure would mean a return to financial stress and anxiety for her. Mrs Wigwe is in a desperate mood. I am reliably informed that most of the GBP 1,700 mortgage (about $2,800) that I have to cough out every month from my meagre Foreign Service allowance and remit to her account in London through my Barclays account in Nairobi, was allegedly misappropriated by someone she trusted in London and that to date the mortgage in London is in tatters and Mrs Wigwe has suffered a loss of GBP 10,000.

 

Besides this loss, Mrs Wigwe claimed that she had lost $6,000 in cash from her bedroom in 2009 and most recently another $3,000. The houseboy then in 2009 was accused of stealing the money from Mrs Wigwe’s 24 hour locked bedroom. The servant pleaded his innocence and the money was never found and police
abandoned the matter and we sacked the servant. The latest theft of $3,000 again from her heavily locked bedroom sometime this year remains a mystery.

 

She did interrogate the new servant and even followed him
to his house to interrogate his wife, but nothing came of it. Mrs Wigwe is in a desperate state financially. This is the motive for the onslaught against me in a desperate attempt to tarnish my image and reputation and to get monetary compensation that will restore her big loss and sustain her for a long time. That is why she has
carefully chosen the words she used in the story that appeared in the Star where she was talking of spine and paralysis.

 

Mrs Wigwe is an avid watcher of the television channel Crime Investigation. She hardly watches anything else. She had obviously practised and rehearsed her lines and actions for months in her
premeditated assault on me on Wednesday 11th May 2011.

 

Concerning her wish for spine injury that would lead to paralysis, I can only pray God to please graciously grant her wish so that she may truly know what it is to have spine injury.

 

ALLEGATION OF WIFE BATTERING

On Thursday 26th May 2011, the Star, a Nairobi based tabloid, published a story in its front page with photographs showing a badly bruised face of Mrs Tess Wigwe and an allegation that I, her husband, had inflicted those injuries on her face. It was alleged that I had beaten my wife because she had responded to a “note” from me requesting to be served food. It was alleged that I had so beaten her that she suffered injuries to her spine and she was in danger of being paralysed.

 

Many other allegations dating back to many years then followed in her premeditated attempt to build a solid case against me, including the foolish allegation that I used to bring women to the Residence in 2008 and the blatantly false information that she left me in Nigeria in 1999 and went to England to study and live.

 

RESPONSE

In response to these allegations, I wish to state quite categorically that I did not beat my wife and that I did not ask for food either in writing or verbally. What happened that fateful Wednesday night was shocking to me and clearly fits into a pre-planned mould cast by the avid Crime TV watcher.. I had returned home late at night after attending the launch of a new product, Go Places, by Kenya Commercial Bank which was held at the Hilton Hotel.

 

As is my practice, I went straight to my room and began to take off my jacket. Mrs Wigwe matched into my room shouting on top of her voice (that is how she speaks to me) that if I knew I would not be eating at home, I should tell her so she does not have to prepare any meals for me. I was stunned as indeed I had been eating regularly every day when I come home from work.

 

I took it for a joke but I saw she was going on and on and would not let me put in a word. Her loud voice attracted my daughter Ada who came over to my room. Upon sighting my daughter I told her to please convince her mother that I had been eating food I met in the fridge every day at least for the past two weeks. Mrs Wigwe was taking none of that and insisted and before I knew it she was abusing me and calling me names.

 

I naturally got angry and told her that if she were indeed taking proper charge of her kitchen then she would have noticed that I do eat what has been prepared for me. She took offence with my comment and became agitated when I asked her when or what has prompted her sudden interest and care for my welfare.

 

In her characteristic manner, Mrs Wigwe lunged at me to slap me. I tried defending myself and indeed my daughter came in the way and as we tussled and jostled around the door to her own bedroom where a massive wooden shoe rack was standing, Mrs Wigwe received a cut. Once she felt blood on her right side of face, Mrs Wigwe used her right hand to rub the blood and smeared her entire face with it.

 

She ran into her bedroom and produced a camera and in the presence of my daughter and I, Mrs Wigwe photographed
herself, taking two to three shots. She was shouting that she had got me, and that the whole world was going to see her bloodied face; that she was going to send the picture to Abuja. As my daughter and I tried to push her into her room to prevent her from coming to fight me, my daughter’s hand was caught in the bedroom
door and she gasped in pain.

 

Mrs Wigwe also grabbed her phone and called her friend Yvonne to come and take her as she had been injured and bleeding. My son Nelson, who also joined in the effort to restrain Mrs Wigwe, offered to wipe the blood but Mrs Wigwe refused. With camera in hand, Mrs Wigwe ran downstairs and outside the building and for the next one hour was hurling abuses at me and shouting obscenities about
me and my family and friends.

 

It took the combined efforts of the Security Guard, the Cook and my son Nelson Ikenna to hold her back and prevent her from re-entering the house which I had now safely locked. In
frustration that she could not re-enter the house, Mrs Wigwe who claimed in her report to the Star that she had suffered spinal injury, managed to wrestle with three able men and finally broke loose to carry a flower pot to smash the big glass window of the room we use as gym.

 

She carried the flower pot and threw it at the glass window, shattering it. Not long after, her friend Yvonne arrived and together with my daughter they drove off. No ambulance was needed to convey Mrs Wigwe to hospital. Mrs Wigwe did not first rush to the
Police to report the incident and show her injuries to the police. Mrs Wigwe only reported to the police on 27th May! That speaks volumes. She went to the police after people had begun to doubt her story!

 

The first wave of shock when the story first hit the headlines had begun to give way to sombre reflection and analysis.  As the children and house staff began to contradict her story, she decided it was time to make a statement to the police. She began to focus on her dual citizenship and what the British government might do for her.

 

Yvonne later sent me a text message saying Mrs Wigwe and daughter had been admitted at Aga Khan Hospital. I sent Mrs Wigwe a text in the morning advising her to get much needed rest. I also wanted to go and see her but she bluntly told me to keep off and to await a letter from her lawyer and to watch the news
for what was going to happen to me.

 

I had advised her to take the period to rest properly in hospital having noticed that since January she had lacked proper sleep following the devastating news of the alleged misappropriation of GBP 10,000 by her trusted friend and the “theft” of $3,000 in-house. Of course, she was not aware that my son Nelson to whom she had confided about the loss in London had intimated me I had sworn to secrecy before not to divulge the information.

 

I continue to pretend ignorance of what has been ailing her and almost confining her to her bed for months. In addition, my son had also informed me that while I was away on consultation in Abuja, Mrs Wigwe had told him that somebody had hinted her that I might
have purchased a house in Nairobi. She had said that she was investigating it and if found to be true, will engage the services of a lawyer to ensure that her name was appended to the property. She thus began calling my staff in the Embassy but got no positive response.

 

She quizzed Nelson and found out he knew nothing of any such enterprise. She could be scheming to lay her hands on the property if it is indeed true. It is instructive that on the night when her spine was broken and she had severe waist pain, Mrs Wigwe
remembered to mention the house issue among the tirade of words that were flying out of her mouth like a practised actor. Her greed would not allow her to note that she alone owns the house in London and in her village which was built entirely with my money while serving in Tokyo.

 

Considering the odds staring her in the face as my tenure in Nairobi draws to a close, Mrs Wigwe is in dire need of a way out.  My daughter Ada was discharged from hospital after several x-rays revealed no damages to her bruised hand. Mrs Wigwe remained in hospital until Saturday 14th morning when Yvonne sent me a text to say that she had been discharged and I needed to pay the bills.

 

I was in church when the text came and I went straight to the hospital and paid the bill of ksh 27,800 (about $330) and even took her x-ray result. She had only taken the pain killer prescribed for her and had not taken the x-ray result. Her spinal injury was
miraculously healed within 3 days. From hospital she went straight to Yvonne’s home and remained there.

 

I travelled to Abuja on Wednesday 18th and came back on Wednesday 25th. When she heard news of my travel, she returned to the Residence as I was to learn later. As I had locked my bedroom from the front door, I was shocked to discover that my drawers had been ransacked and 1 (one) Rolex watch, 1(one)
Accurate gold watch and 1(one) gold ring with precious stone had been stolen with their cases.

 

Mrs Wigwe is the only one with a key to the connecting door to my room. She prevented me from keeping a spare. Only she has absolute access to my bedroom and she enters there at will including when am fast asleep. Why did she have to remove those items if not to sell them and make some extra cash from them?

 

Secondly, when I entered the pantry next to my bedroom, I noticed that 1 (one) trunk box and over 10 (ten) empty suitcases
belonging to me had disappeared and the room was desolate. The trunk box was full of my stuff but she had recklessly emptied them and forcefully repacked them into the other two boxes.

 

I asked the houseboy who confirmed that Mrs Wigwe had packed all her personal belongings into the suitcases and locked them in the store downstairs. I went downstairs and noticed that she had removed her pictures from the various room walls. In spite of all these, I found Mrs Wigwe very much living in the house, locked up as usual in her bedroom!

 

On the same day that I had returned to Nairobi having flown with the night flight from Lagos, I went to work and a little after 11 am I received a call from an unfamiliar number.  It was a man from Radio Africa, publishers of the Star. He mumbled something about a letter with very bad photographs of a woman sent in by a woman lawyer in respect to my wife. I was shocked but I told him that I recall that Mrs Wigwe had sent me a text on 12th May saying that I would soon hear from her lawyer.

 

She had also told me that she was going to send pictures around. I instantly denied inflicting any such injuries as he was describing and requested him to call me back so we could set up a meeting to discuss the letter since I who was supposed to be the accused
received no such letter from any lawyer. He hung up.

 

The following day, very early in the morning, I could hear movement from Mrs Wigwe’s room and I could hear that she had ran downstairs and back upstairs. As I went into the bathroom, a friend called me and advised me to check out the Star newspaper. I ran downstairs to pick up the newspapers of the day from the front door only to discover that Mrs Wigwe had earlier picked them and returned to her room.

 

When I finally saw a copy of the paper in my office, I was aghast at the strange photos of Mrs Wigwe and her “battered face” and worse still to read of severe injuries to her “spine” which according to the report could leave her paralysed!  I was also shocked that the story of how the argument started had been shamelessly
and fraudulently altered. I was shocked to read that my two children took her to hospital.

 

I was shocked to hear that I had beaten her up in 2008 because I had brought women to the Residence. And many other concoctions of our story over the years completed my day of mystery and entry into the world of absolute scandal and blackmail, with intent to extort money from me.

 

CONCLUSION

I affirm on my honour that I am not a wife beater. I affirm that in the many years that I have known and lived with Mrs Wigwe, she has always been the aggressor. That Mrs Wigwe is prone to using her fists first rather than engage in a debate or an argument to prove her case. If anyone is guilty of violence in my home, it is Mrs Wigwe.

 

If anyone is a victim of domestic violence it is I. I have lost many spectacles over the years following Mrs Wigwe’s direct hit on my face. I sleep every night afraid that she may enter my room and stab or strangle me in my sleep. I am for this reason half awake all night. I do not take phone calls when I enter the Residence. Every call I take is suspected to be from a woman who must also be my girlfriend.

 

So even for official calls from colleagues or from my host government or my own government, I have to go downstairs
where she cannot hear that I am making a call. On some occasion when I would have fallen asleep and had forgotten to turn the television set off, she had stormed into my bedroom with lights blazing, to accuse me of making a call.

 

On such occasions, I normally summon all the humility and composure in me to endure the unwarranted interruption of my sleep in order not to provoke an argument. Mrs Wigwe removes the photographs of people she does not like from the album of official events organised by the Embassy.

 

She had also asked that DVDs be edited to remove the people she no longer considered as friends or people she said did not greet her in a respectful way or people whose affinity to me could not be sufficiently established.

 

Most recently, she abused officials of the Association of Nigerian Women in Kenya (ANWIK) and prevented me from attending the Nigerian Family Fun Day on Easter Saturday 23rd April 2011, organized by the women because she was angry that ANWIK which is registered with the High Commission did not consult and get her approval before approaching the Embassy.

 

The women had apologised and pleaded and even bribed her with a free special dress which she had accepted, but in vain they pleaded. On the day of the event we were not there and my colleague from Ghana had to stand in for me!

 

On the level of public conduct, Mrs Wigwe has so intimidated and assaulted many people in Nairobi, men and women and staff of the High Commission alike that the High Commission no longer holds dinners, luncheons and other mandatory functions in the Residence. If in doubt, please ask around Nairobi. Mrs. Wigwe has assaulted and abused so many people at public gatherings in Nairobi that people fear to greet me when we meet at public functions. Mrs Wigwe hardly supports me in my work.

 

Although she struggles to have a copy my weekly programme and quarrels when my staffs forget to leave a copy for her, she often
criticises me for attending too many functions. When people commend me for the work that I do she feels offended and often complains that I am the reason why people don’t notice her. I have tried in vain to encourage her to do more social work or to consider doing a post graduate course in any of the universities in Nairobi, as a way of keeping her occupied and fulfilled.

 

But after three years living in Nairobi, she has not added any educational value to her degree.  On relations with staff of the Mission, Mrs Wigwe is a constant irritant. She considers herself as the ambassador and I her weak deputy. She calls staff and directs them on what to do. She intimidates the local staff and threatens to sack them and when I refuse to do so, we quarrel.

 

Mrs. Wigwe is in dire need of psychiatric examination or what religious persons may call spiritual deliverance, but over the many years and on each occasion when I or those close to us have advised her to do so, she had always ended up insulting us. But this woman needs help. Every woman who shakes hands with Dr
Wigwe is a threat to Mrs. Wigwe.

 

Even my female colleague ambassadors have not been spared. Mrs. Wigwe’s ten finger nails are painted and coloured differently ranging from blue, red, brown, and gold to yellow.  A different colour and pattern for each finger nail. Everybody sees something funny in that especially for a woman her age and status, but only Mrs Wigwe sees it as most fashionable and chic.

 

Mrs. Wigwe is desperate seeing that my posting is fast coming to an end. She badly needs money. She set me up and used me as a pawn by destroying me knowing that we were never going to be husband and wife again after Nairobi. Our coming together was only for the sake of sharing in the glamour and glory of high
office.

 

That was the motivating factor for her uncharacteristic concern for my welfare on that night of the 11th and that was why she refused to believe either I or her daughter and instead proceeded to generate an argument using provocative language. She had obviously concluded that Dr. Wigwe must not be allowed to leave Nairobi with honours on his back.

 

That was the plot and she found a willing accomplice who introduced her to a woman lawyer who is a friend to the Editor of the junk newspaper otherwise called the Star. That is how the Star has come to champion this fake and fraudulent story in an attempt to help the friend of a friend in her most difficult time of financial ruin and imminent suicide.

 

My daughter, Adanne and son Nelson Ikenna, had stormed the Star newspaper offices to protest the falsehood the Editor so shamelessly carried in her paper. The Editor had confessed to my children that she and the lawyer were actually friends. Two quality newspapers in Kenya namely the Nation and the Standard had refused to carry the junk story.

 

Nelson has further made a comprehensive statement to the Diplomatic Police, where he had met the Residence Security guard (name withheld) who had witnessed the actions of Mrs. Wigwe on the night of the event and had struggled in vain with the Cook and my son Nelson to restrain Mrs. Wigwe, with a “seriously damaged back and spine.”

 

Mrs Wigwe had coached, coaxed and incited him to misinform the police about what happened in order to make her story credible but fortunately for Truth and Justice and fortunately for the millions of men like me all over the world who are silently suffering and living under the Tyranny of a Woman, who are Living in Bondage, who are emotionally and physically abused and assaulted on a daily basis by their wives, who are forbidden to bring their relatives to the house, who are forbidden to bring visitors to the home, who are impoverished by gluttonous and greedy wives, the Christian
and God fearing Guard refused to be intimidated. May the Truth prevail.

 

Violence against Men is real and must be stopped. The stereotyping of men as being responsible for domestic violence has gone too far and has damaged permanently the reputation of so many good men.  Many men have lost their lives or have been forced to commit suicide because of over domineering and
manipulative women.

 

The female predators move on with glee to their next victim. Mrs Wigwe has proven beyond doubt my long held beliefs that “Truth is a lie repeated three times,” and another which says that “He
lies often who cries often.”

CWW
Dr Chijioke Wilcox Wigwe
Dated this 30th day of May 2011 at Nairobi, Republic of Kenya

Nigerian High Commissioner Battered Me – Wife

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NIGERIAN HIGN COMMISSIONER TO KENYA AND THE SEYCHELLES, CHIEF DR CHIJIOKE WILCOX.

THE wife of the Nigerian High Commissioner has written the Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere asking him to arrest the diplomat for assaulting her. Mrs Tess Iyi Wigwe accuses her husband Chief Dr Chijioke Wilcox Wigwe of  causing her serious bodily harm.

Wigwe is the High Commissioner to Kenya and the Seychelles. He is also the permanent representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Environmental Programme and the UN Habitat in Nairobi.

In a short biography Wigwe is described as a devoted lover of music of all kinds and genre ranging from Classical to New Age. “He enjoys singing and dancing, is an avid reader, writer of short poems, an art and opera lover with other interests including bird and aircraft- watching”.

Yesterday Wigwe denied battering his wife. He expressed shock that the police had been asked to arrest him. “I am shocked about her actions. They have not notified me of any plot against me. I have just arrived from a foreign trip,” he told the Star.
A letter from lawyer Judy Thongori to Iteere dated Monday (May 23) says Tess sustained injuries on the face, neck, fingers and spine after a quarrel which resulted in the beating on May 11.

In an exclusive interview with the Star yesterday, Tess said she was rescued by her 20-year-old son and 23-year-old daughter who rushed her to hospital while bleeding profusely.

The diplomat’s wife said she was admitted to the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi, on May 11, operated on and discharged on Sunday, May 15. “I am still living in the ambassador’s residence. I still feel a lot of pain from the injuries despite the ongoing medications,” she said, adding that she had been advised by her doctors to be careful as the injuries to her lower back might lead to paralysis.

Tess, herself a lawyer with dual British and Nigerian citizenships, said she had suffered previous beatings by her husband during their long marriage. The couple has five children — four boys and a girl aged between 32 and 20 years. They have five grandchildren.

Tess said she had in 1999 left her husband due to his womanising and frequent beatings and went to live in the UK where she got a job. She claimed that he had two traditional marriages with two women during their separation.
Tess said he pleaded with her to join him when he got his posting to Nairobi in 2008. “I thought he had changed his ways and l was prevailed upon by the community to join him,” she told the Star.

Wigwe reported to his new station in May 2008 but Tess only joined him months later because she had to get a leave of absence from her employer in the UK. Tess said he beat up her in October that year when she questioned him about bringing strange women to their matrimonial home.

She said she kept the matter quiet but the relationship has become so bad that they have reached a point where he communicates with her by writing and leaving her notes. “This time, he left a note about his dinner. I told him his dinner was ready and asked him not to be asking for dinner to be prepared if he was not going to eat it. He grabbed me by the hand and when l tried to pull away, he hurled me against the wall before he started punching me,” she said.

Tess said she has opted to come out and explain her situation to show that domestic violence cuts across cultures, education and social standing. “I cannot keep quiet. I have kept quiet long enough,” Tess said.

From today Wigwe is expected to play host to a four-day Nollywood roadshow and fair organised by the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, the Nigerian Guild of Actors and the Nigerian High Commission which is expected to culminate in a gala dinner at the Safari Park Hotel on Sunday night.

Yesterday lawyer Thongori who is acting on behalf of Tess said they would demand that Wigwe’s diplomatic immunity be lifted so that he could be prosecuted. “Though Dr Chijioke Wilcox Wigwe is a diplomat, we are of the considered view that any diplomatic immunity that he enjoys is subject to him upholding and respecting the fundamental rights of others as enshrined in the Constitution,” Thongori said in her letter to Iteere citing the rights which include freedom from torture, freedom from cruel and inhuman treatment.

Thongori told the Commissioner that her client wants her husband prosecuted. “We have instructions to demand the immediate prosecution of the husband in accordance with the law,” lawyer Thongori says in the letter.

No arrest can be made at the High Commission residence or offices of the embassy as they are considered the territory of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Nairobi Star.

GIS Unmasks Airport Security Gang

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Ghanaer34fffffw434An American businessman by name David K who arrived in Ghana in 2010 in the hope of retrieving a quantity of gold he had invested tens of thousands of dollars into, is at his wits’ end as to how he fell prey to a 419 gang and compelling him to lose the fortune in deliberations with the group.

However the emerging revelation at the Headquarters of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) points to the fact that David’s entry documents processed by Sohin Security Checks Ltd Director Solomon Adelequaye’s Charges John Mensah, and Aaron Tetteh were fake.

When the U.S. businessman arrived, in Ghana in early part of 2010, he was met at the Kotoka International Airport by Adelaquaye’s boys, Messrs. John Mensah and Aaron Tetteh who offered to process and legitimize his stay in Ghana. However it turned out that the documents processed by Adelaquaye’s charges were faked, whose discovery David soon found out when he went to GIS to regularize his stay in Ghana.

THE SUN gathered that upon investigations by GIS, a report was forwarded to the Police CID to alert them on the outcome of their investigations. What raised further eyebrows was where exactly Adelaquaye’s boys obtained the fake immigration documents to do David in.

All efforts to speak to Adelaquaye over this and other related issues which are the subject of THE SUN’S SPOTLIGHT TEAM’s investigation, including a visit to Sohin Security Offices proved futile.

At New Achimota, The Spotlight Team was directed to Big Mama Restaurant near Jesus & Mary School, but none of the staff would want to link the paper to their boss after initially failing to acknowledge that he was the Managing director of the Company.

The story so hot on the stove is that the American’s tribulation started in May 2010, when through the internet he hooked onto the website of All Star Associates Ltd for the special reason that the company claimed it was into gold business.

Mr. David K then developed interest and therefore made contact with the official of the said All Star Associates Ltd. His enquiry uncovered the fact that a certain Solomon Adelaquaye of Sohin Security Checks Ltd sat at the head of the company as CEO.

Having showed much interest in the deal, David approached a friend in the USA who has average knowledge about the Ghanaian business terrain. During the discussion, David’s friend contacted one of his local Ghanaian friends to dig into the background of All Star Associates Ltd.

While due diligence was on-going, Adelaquaye and his charges, namely John Mensah and Aaron Tetteh agreed to send samples of the gold product to David in the USA. Somehow, the deliberations reached a crescendo requiring a follow up by the American.

However THE SUN’s spotlight team investigations into the whole brouhaha indicates that, it was a strategy adopted by Adelaquaye and his two charges of Mensah and Tetteh in a desperate attempt to get David bundled out of Ghana, a situation that could have led to the ‘killing’ of his case against the CEO of Sohin Security Checks Ltd.

Having stood his grounds, THE SUN can now report that all efforts are being made by the CID to prosecute the Sohin Security chief or get him to come clean on the misgivings raised by the distraught American.

Another contentious issue is, how on earth did even the National Security come to be dribbled as regards the detailing of Sohin to do security works at the Kotoka International Airport, when the company is stewed deep in controversy, raising questions if background checks were left to the dogs. THE SUN’s investigations still continue. 

Source: The Sun

Kosmos Energy to list on Ghana Stock Exchange

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Kosmos Energy says it will list its common shares on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE).

Tullow Oil, another major oil producer in Ghana has also expressed its intentions to list on the GSE.

“We intend to apply to list our common shares on the Ghana Stock Exchange”, Kosmos said in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sell some of its shares on the world market adding “Shortly after the closing of this offering.”

However, the company says it does not know when the listing will be done or whether it would list at all.

“….although there can be no assurance that this listing will be completed in a timely manner, or at all”, Kosmos indicated.
By Ekow Quandzie/ghanabusinessnews.com

Foot-Soldiers seize Ashaiman lorry park

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A group of young men were reported to have seized the Ashaiman Lorry Park and allegedly taken away revenue tickets from operators of the facility on Tuesday morning April 7.

News of their action spread so fast in the municipality, compelling most residents who were on their way to the main lorry park to either board vehicles to Accra or Tema to discontinue their journey for fear of being caught in the crossfire.

The group, according to some residents around the lorry park, comprised members of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) who had embarked on a similar venture some time back, demanding the release of the facility to them when the NDC was voted into power.

They were alleged to have taken away some unspecified amount of money believed to be revenue from traders.

Even though DAILY GUIDE arrived at the park late, by which time the said foot-soldiers had left the scene, some of the residents narrated that the irate group stormed the park and demanded from revenue collectors, tickets and revenue for the morning.

The residents alleged that the refusal of the revenue collectors to yield to the demands of the foot-soldiers nearly created chaos, compelling some of them to call in the area?s police.

A revenue collector who refused to obey the orders of the group was said to have received serious beatings.

They were reported to have forcibly taken away the money and fled the scene in their numbers.

When DAILY GUIDE contacted Superintendent Peter Cobbina of the Ashaiman District Police over the issue, he said he was not aware of the situation, stressing that nothing of a sort was reported to his outfit.

He said his checks later revealed that the problem at the park was resolved, indicating that there was no arrest since no report was made to the police.

The same lorry park came under attack by some group of young men who identified themselves as members of the NDC in the area.

GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC POLICIES BREEDING CORRUPTION AND POVERTY IN GHANA

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Ghanaians Abroad Against Corruption is appealling to President Mills and his government to review economic decisions and policies that are creating extreme hardship and desperate poverty. There is more work to do as people and families struggle with their finances, struggle to get loans from banks and also not being able to save any money from their wages .

We believe that the hardship being faced by most Ghanaians is forcing individuals to live beyond their means and causing the kind of corruption going on at our market places, offices, ports, schools and in government departments.

We believe it is time the President and Ministers work to

1. Address serious gas and electricity shortages plaguing the capital, Accra and several towns in the outlying areas.

2. Reduce high taxes and tariffs which are weakening small businesses.

3.Stop the excessive harassment of our traders and market women by our metropolitan council authorities and exempt them from paying the basic rate of tax to boost business.

4. The price of food is also rising steadily on essential commodities such as rice, sugar, flour, yams, meat and fish. The President must reduce tariffs on inputs to make it easy for importers to support farmers and traders in these commodities.

450 billon Ghana cedis has been lost through our main ports, Tema and Takoradi and our inland ports in 2 years through the collusion of some government ministers ,officials at the office of the presidency and some corrupt customs officers. These corrupt acts are destabilising to the nation’s security and prosperity and heads must roll for this poor state of affairs.

We also call on the President to support the work The Commission of Human rights and Administrative justice to pursue corrupt public officials and address wrongdoing in our society to promote accountability.

Professor Mills must be careful in underestimating the intelligence of the Ghanaian people in not confronting these challenges and dealing with them. There is also a perception that he has yet to show any willingness to condemn or crack down on indiscipline within his government, He must stamp his authority and get them to refocus on rebuilding trust with the public and delivering the government agenda.

Mr President please its time to act now.

Dennis Doe- Vormavor Interim Chairman Ghanaians Abroad Against Corruption. Glasgow, Scotland

Kwaku Frimpong (Dr)

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“I’m a lovely guy. I love people and I love to chat with people”, are not quite what you will expect as the ideal phrases to describe the founder of one of Ghana’s most successful herbal-based medical facilities. Dr Kwaku Frimpong maintains that it is his love and empathy for others that have driven him this far in life.
Decisive, religious and philanthropic are the preeminent words that best describe Dr Kwaku Frimpong, Chief Executive Officer of Champion Divine Clinic. His rather huge sense of humour adds to his persona, a fascinating character on any ordinary day.
It’s intriguing to know however that, but for his one year training at a pharmaceutical facility in Pakistan, the founder of the multimillion herbal-based health delivery centre has had no formal education in medicine or health care delivery.
Born to a family of 6, this “suborn yet reasonably sympathetic” son of a Missionary father and clothes trading mother, left the country after his Secondary School education at Kumasi High for greener pastures in Switzerland then in Germany, plying his trade as a footballer.
After years of unsuccessful attempts at securing himself a team contract, Dr Kwaku Frimpong returned to Ghana to start a retail business in auto-mechanical spear parts. All this while, he had not taken particular interest in herbal medicine or any item involving medical treatments;  until he and his wife where diagnosed of medical complications which resulted in conception difficulties.
Already a father of two with his first wife whom he had divorced, Dr Kwaku Frimpong said he and his new wife, Mrs Esther Frimpong became disturbed by what appeared a hopeless situation. In their desperate period they tried various treatments till they achieved success, aided by a herbal fertility drug introduced to him by a Pakistani business partner and friend.
“I saw the potential in it, when I witnessed what the medicine could do,” Dr Kwaku Frimpong said. Months after confirmed conception, he made arrangements with his Pakistani friend to visit his country and the production source of the drug. Business minded as he is, he took even keener interest in the drugs and quickly made plans to train at the facility in herbal medicine for fertility while keeping tabs on his auto-mechanic spare parts business back home.
Dr Kwaku Frimpong, returned home to soon become the major supplier of Pakistani herbal drugs – mostly for fertility – to a number of pharmacies. This he did for not less than two years before conceiving the idea of converting some rooms in his house into a health facility specialised in infertility.
After engaging the services of some medical personnel, he registered the Champion Homeopathic Clinic in 2002. The clinic was devoted to the treatment of conceptual complications and general fertility problems in both sexes.
Two years of operation brought to light the need to expand to cater for the increasing numbers who were coming to seek medical attention at the facility. Dr Kwaku Frimpong also realised the need to diversify into areas which were not directly related to the fertility of a person as had been the practice at the clinic.
The name of the health post was changed to Champion Divine Clinic to better reflect the new direction taken, which was to be the most preferred health facility in the world; providing quality health care at the most affordable price with guarantee.
Champion Divine Clinic is well on its way to achieving its target, opening brunches in other parts of the country. “We want to build an ultramodern clinic, first of its kind in the world. In ten years from now, quality health delivery should be truly accessible to all in Ghana. No one has to die from a disease that can easily be cured or even prevented.”
Champion, as he is affectionately called by friends and family, gave a rather religious tale as to why he chose the name champion saying it stems from a church sermon, ‘raising the champions’, by Pastor Salifo Amoako at Suame back in the year 2002. “He was preaching and all of a sudden he called me out of the congregation and said this man is going to be one of the champions in Ghana.” Memories of this day serve as an inspiration to Dr Kwaku Frimpong.
Besides running the Champion Divine Clinic, Dr Kwaku Frimpong has listed among his assets the Champion Estate, the Champion Hotel and the Star Plush mineral water. He is also the majority shareholder of the Phoenix Insurance Company.
Dr Kwaku Frimpong is hopeful that this life story will serve as an inspiration to the youth to do something for themselves and not to depend on others to provide them a source of livelihood. “My family did not support me; it’s God who supported me,” he said.
“The youth want quick money. They don’t want to serve but they want to be Kings, it’s impossible. You have to serve to learn from others, the art of leadership.”
Dr Kwaku Frimpong takes delight in prayer and football.
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