Ghana Life Pays Cargo Plane Crash Claims

Source: Daily Guide / 17 July 2012

Ghana Life Insurance Company Limited, the longest existing indigenous life insurance company in Ghana, has presented a cheque for GHC1,400 to the beneficiary of a fallen hero and policyholder, L/Cpl. Castro Abuchow, who met his untimely death during the recent Allied Airline Cargo plane crash.

The short ceremony, held at the premises of the 48 Engineers Regiment, Teshie, was attended by the high hierarchy of the unit and management of Ghana Life Insurance, led by the Managing Director, Mr. Ivan Avereyireh.

Presenting the cheque to Bismark Abuchow, the junior brother of the victim, Mr. Ivan Avereyireh said, “We, at Ghana Life took the news of L/Cpl. Castro Abuchow’s demise on the 2nd June, 2012 in the national disaster of the Allied Airlines Cargo plane crash with a heavy heart.

“The country has lost a budding and courageous solder in this tragic accident. But this young and forward looking man knew that his life was not entirely under his control. Therefore, while under training he took out a Ghana Life six-year Master Plan Policy on 1st June, 2011, and made his junior brother, Bismark Abuchow, the beneficiary,” Mr. Avereyireh added.

Mr. Avereyireh however stated that the payment does not prevent the family of the late Castro from pursuing claims against the owners of the Allied Airlines Cargo plane.

The uncle of the deceased, Lt. Col. Buntuguh, who spoke on behalf of the family, expressed their profound gratitude to Ghana Life for their prompt payment of the claims and assured the gathering that the purpose of the policy by the policyholder will be put to good use. In fact, the late Abuchow was the one who was caring for the education of his brother, so it came to them as no surprise that he undertook such a brilliant policy to support his brother’s education.

The Commanding Officer of the 48 Engineers Regiment, Lt/Col. M. Mustapha also commended Ghana Life Insurance for their quick response to the payment of claims and urged all officers to also take up a policy that will provide similar support to their beneficiaries.

Ghana Life has paid a total of GHC1,395,270 claims for the first half of 2012.

Similarly, in 2011, total claims paid amounted to GHC3,710,000. By the end of 2012, Ghana Life will be able to give SMS alerts to their policyholders when payments are received in their various accounts.

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Taxpayers demand Mills’s medical bills
* Source: Economy Times    (Wednesday, 11.07.2012)

Ghanaian taxpayers are asking government to disclose how much it had spent on President John Evans Atta- Mills’s recent medical trip to the United States of America.

The taxpayers believe they deserve to know how their monies are spent. Apart from concern that he is wasting so much state money on his trips abroad for medical reasons, there is also concern about his long absence from work because of the frequently recurring medical check-ups.

The BBC last week reported that President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe draws $3 million from the treasury each time he travels to Singapore for medical check-ups, a statement that was confirmed by the Zimbabwean Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, of the coalition partner, the Movement for Democratic Change.

“Ghanaians deserve to know how their money is being spent. President Mills did not spend his personal money. Ghanaian taxpayers’ money or the oil money would have been used to offset the medical bills,” Justice Boateng, who works with Ghana Revenue Authority has stated.

“Remember, the President went with his entourage, and they all were in the US for the number of days he spent there,” he added.

Joyce Bubuame, a Nurse at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, stated: “Who knows, the money spent in US might have been enough to equip at least one hospital in Ghana. It was the biggest embarrassment that our President went to the State for his medical treatment. We must be told how much it cost the Ghanaian taxpayer.”

She added “government should either send every sick Ghanaian overseas for treatment or completely ban overseas medical treatment for government officials, and properly equip our hospitals.”

On her part, the Chief Executive Officer of Mandoh Group, Grace Mandoh, stated: "It is worth reminding everyone that this is the people's money that is being spent. Surely, he can cut costs by seeking local treatment. We don’t have to be spending so much money on foreign doctors. Is he saying the local doctors are not good enough for him? Or this is the price we are paying for his obsession to keep his medical condition secret. Government must tell us the cost of his medical bill.”

Many other taxpayers were of the view that in the interest of accountability, relevant committees in parliament or civil society watchdogs should request the government to disclose all funds spent to pay medical bills for state officers.

The policy advisor of the minority New Patriotic Party, Kweku Kwarteng, however thinks otherwise.

“The President is not under any obligation to disclose his medical bills but he can do so in the name of accountability and transparency,” he told Economy Times.

He added: “Ghanaians should be concerned with the unemployment issue in the country, and provision of basic services to the people instead of the President’s health issue.”

In a related development, reports say that after the terminal illness of some Kenyan cabinet ministers and state officials, the citizens of Kenya are asking their government to tell the public how much it costs the taxpayer to cater for the medical bills of those officials.

Recently, the Kenyan Minister for Public Health, Beth Mugo, flew to USA to get treatment for cancer, and according to media reports, the cost of treatment will be 27 million Kenyan shillings which will be paid by the state.

 

 

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""" Election """ in Libya... (Saturday, 7th July 2012)

Renewed violence in Libya. Electoral worker was killed on Friday. Rebells or Green resistans firing at a helicopter carrying voting material for the ""elections"" ...the helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing outside the eastern town of Benghazi. It is not yet clear who is responsible.
Tensions have been brewing as many in Libya's oil-rich east have express anger at the NTC-issued election laws.
Eastern Libya pressing for a boycott.
"We don't want Tripoli to rule all of Libya," said Fadlallah Haroun, a former rebel commander in the east's regional capital, Benghazi.
Friday's helicopter attack was the latest in a string of violence in the run-up to the vote.
On Thursday, Rebels or Green resistance shut down three eastern oil refineries - in Ras Lanouf, Brega and Sidr - to press the transitional government to cancel the vote.They also have cut the country's main coastal highway linking east to west.
Earlier this week, ex-rebel fighters and Green resistance in Benghazi and in the nearby town of Ajdabiya attacked elections offices, setting fire to ballot papers.
NTC is claiming that about 2.8 million voters, out of more than three million eligible, have registered for the ""election"".

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04.07.2012 - Source: AFP/Yahoo

There are no mermaids and no zombies: US government

The United States government has assured its citizens that, much like zombies, mermaids probably do not exist, saying in an official post: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found."

"Mermaids -- those half-human, half-fish sirens of the sea -- are legendary sea creatures," read the online statement from the National Ocean Service (NOS).

The agency, charged with responding to natural hazards, received letters inquiring about the existence of the sea maidens after the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network broadcast "Mermaids: The Body Found" in May.

The show "paints a wildly convincing picture of the existence of mermaids, what they may look like, and why they've stayed hidden... until now," a Discovery Channel press release says.

Conversely, the US government declaration offered no conclusive proof to deny the existence of mermaids.

The statement comes after another government agency, this time the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), declared there was no conclusive evidence for the existence of zombies.

The CDC had published instructional materials on how to survive a "zombie apocalypse," in what the agency now calls "a tongue in cheek campaign to engage new audiences with messages of preparedness messages."

The campaign was followed by a series of cannibalistic attacks in North America.

In one such attack on May 26, a 31-year-old Miami man stripped naked and chewed off most of a homeless man's face.

The Twittersphere was suddenly alive with people talking about the real and present danger of a zombie apocalypse.

The CDC was quick to respond to allegations of corpses rising from the dead to eat the living.

"CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead," a government spokesperson wrote in an email to The Huffington Post.

While zombies would be a big problem, popular folklore holds that mermaids are relatively benign creatures.

But the NOS statement associated the finned friends with more threatening mythological beasts.

"Half-human creatures, called chimeras, also abound in mythology -- in addition to mermaids, there were wise centaurs, wild satyrs, and frightful minotaurs, to name but a few," it said.

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Seven arrested over renewed Gushegu clashes

* Source: CitifmOnline / 03.07.2012

Seven suspects are in the grips of the Yendi Divisional Police Command over renewed communal clash between two Konkomba clans in Berib and Yiyamba in the Gushegu district.

The police have confirmed that six houses were burnt down as a result of the enskinment of two rival chiefs for the Berib community.

An eyewitness, Adam Shaibu claimed some locally manufactured weapons were retrieved from the combatants.

According to him, the Berib chief (name withheld) who was arrested together with the other suspects was detained at the Gushegu district police command.

The Yendi Police Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Joseph Allottey, confirmed the incident to Citi News.

“It is chieftaincy related, the information we had was that the Gushegu Naa gave kola to somebody to be enskinned as the Chief of Berib and another sub-chief also presented kola to someone at Yiyamba without the consent of the Gushegu Naa for the same skin and this prompted the attack,” Allotey explained.

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Include Zongo Chiefs In Traditional Councils
* Source: Daily Grapic - 18.06.2012

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