Ghanaian Ministers Pray for Akuffo Addo,National peace and Unity

As the nation draws close to the 2016 Elections Ghanaian Ministers in the Washington Metro Area of the United States came together to pray for Gods hand and will to prevail in the electioneering process. 

The October 23rd event was held at the premises of the Action Chapel International Church in Alexandria, Virginia. The Ghanaian ministers Fellowship and other ministers from the entire Washington Metro Area at the event included Rev. Kwasi Gyimah, Rev. Yaw Nkansah, Rev. Lamptey, Rev. Nana Sarfo, Apostle Emmanuel Nkum, Apostle Evan Ahmed Nyarko, Rev. Nkrumah, Rev. Seth Akyea, Rev. Edwin Otabil and the host Bishop Kibby Otoo. 

Speaking at the gathering, the host and Bishop of Action Chapel International Church in Alexandria, Virginia, Bishop Kibby Otoo said, ‘ Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: ” He therefore reminded his fellow men of God about the role ministers of God have to play by seeking God’s spiritual protection and direction for the nation 
Rev. Edwin Otabil, President of the Ghanaian Ministers fellowship encouraged his fellow ministers to seek Gods intervention continuously before and even after the elections. 

Rev. Kwasi Gyimah of the Church of the Living God on the other hand advised the ministers to pray to allow the will of God to prevail as the Choice of leadership remains the prerogative of God. 

As the Prayer session was going on, the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo who happened to be in the area for an NPP fundraising ceremony nearby joined the ministers and humbly submitted himself to be prayed for.

The entire gathering of ministers stretched forth their hands towards him and prayed for God’s wisdom and strength upon his life. . After the prayer session Nana Ado who was accompanied by his Wife, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Nana Kwaku Agyei Yeboah , the NPP-USA Chairman and also his personal assistant Ms. Saratu Atta expressed his profound gratitude to the ministers for the opportunity and also for their thoughtfulness. He felt elated to crown his visit to the United States with a prayer session after addressing the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC and also meeting various United States Government Officials and visiting many Institutions. He however bemoaned the current state of the nation and its mounting indebtedness under the NDC government. While in the USA, Nana Akufo-Addo held meetings with the NPP USA executives and members, and also held a press conference with the Ghanaian media in the USA organized by the NPP USA communication director Kwaku Kyei Ofori. Nana also had a live interview with Bloomberg in New York. 
A fund raising event organized by the Washington Metro Area Chapter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) gave the Ghanaian Community the opportunity to interact one on one with Nana Akufo-Addo. Nana mingled with everyone and listened to their concerns

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was on the second leg of his three nation tour after attending an NPP International Conference in Amsterdam. He was in the United States from October 18 to October 25, 2015, and he will finish his North American tour with a two-day visit to Canada.

22 Traders faces prosecution over ' fake' palm oil

The Drug Law Enforcement Unit (DLEU) of the Ghana Police Service will, in the ensuing days, put before court the 22 traders arrested in connection with large quantities of adulterated palm oil confiscated by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) over the weekend. 

Already, officials of the FDA have been invited to submit a written statement to the police on the laboratory analysis on the products which have so far tested positive for 98 per cent of active Sudan III and Sudan IV, also known as ‘sudee’, a potential cancer-causing chemical. 

The FDA, in collaboration with the police, confiscated the adulterated palm oil from the Mallam Atta, Dome, Dansoman, Agbogbloshie and Kaneshie markets, all in Accra. 

A number of containers of the product were also seized from the Madina, Makola No 2, Tema Community One and Ashaiman markets. 

Officials say the ‘sudee’ dye, which is not listed among the colours in food production, is also prohibited under Ghana’s Public Health Safety laws. 

According to the Commander in charge of the DLEU, Deputy Superintendent of Police Mr David Selorm Hukportie, preliminary investigations revealed that the adulteration of the products was done at the insistence of the traders. 

“Our investigations have so far established a well-organised plan by the traders and processors of the commodity to ensure it is mixed with the ‘sudee’ dye to make the product more appealing in colour,” he told the Daily Graphic in Accra. 

The culprits, he said, would be charged under the Public Health Act 851 of 2012 which prohibits adulteration of food items for retailing, since the act had the potential of endangering public health and safety. 

“We are treating this as an organised crime, since our investigations so far showed that there were many players involved in all processes of adulterating the product,” he stressed.

Mr Hukportie indicated that during the swoop, the police also confiscated an articulated truck which had carted the product from one of the processing points to the Mallam Atta and the Makola markets. 

“We are determined to follow up with the prosecution to serve as a deterrent to people engaged in acts that have the tendency of endangering food and drugs security,” he said. 

The Deputy Chief Executive in charge of the Food Division at the FDA, Mr Odame Darkwah, for his part, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that officials were determined to see through the prosecution of the 22 traders arrested so far to serve as a deterrent. 

He expressed worry that while the FDA had, on an annual basis, organised sensitisation programmes for commodity traders on the trade, criminal and public health implications the presence of banned chemicals in food and drugs posed to the country, they went back to do the contrary. 

“Since 2003, we have been holding these dialogue and sensitisation forums with market women and traders of these commodities and it is surprising that soon after these engagements, the traders go back to do some of these things,” he said. 

He hinted that the FDA had held meetings, during which the adulteration of items such as groundnut paste and other edible products had come up strongly. 

“A second phase of our strategies will be to conduct post-market surveillance to ensure that adulterated products that might have entered the market are immediately withdrawn to protect public health and safety,” Mr Darkwah reiterated.

Nana Aba Anamoah breaks silence

TV Presenter, Nana Aba Anamoah has broken her silence days after she was suspended by TV3 for her alleged online information theft and other unprofessional misrepresentations that flooded social and other media in the past few weeks. 

She did this on Micro blogging site by thanking all who have supported her “in the most trying time of my professional life.” 

Before that she had retweeted and replied to a BBC Twitter post about the suspension of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini “Wow October. Month of suspensions and bans”. 

Our work is being threatened by Protitutes - Taxi drvers cry

Some Taxi drivers who work during the night have complained that prostitutes are making their work difficult. 

They claim the prostitutes prefer to offer them sex rather than pay them the charged fares after driving them to their destinations. 

According to most of the drivers who spoke with Adom News’ reporter Shine Acquah, majority of them have fallen victim to these prostitutes. 

One of the taxi drivers, Kweku Atta, who switched to night driving to avoid the frequent traffic jam in the capital said: “Most prostitutes forcefully demand that we sleep with them instead of paying us, telling us that those who slept with them during the night did not pay them”. 

Some of the drivers said they have been wrongly accused of all manner of offences after they resisted the attempt to lure them to bed and demanded their money.

Other taxi drivers also complained of armed men who snatch their cars when working in the night. 

“A guy and a lady boarded my car with the lady sitting in the front seat while the guy jumped into the back. 

“When we got to Zongo Junction (a suburb in Accra close to Madina in Accra) which they claimed was their destination, the guy covered my face with a piece of cloth soaked with powdered pepper, dragged me out of the car and took the vehicle away...,” he lamented.