Entries from August 2007
Gone are the days in Accra where people, particularly children, had to shine their own shoes. Street shoeshiners, mostly impoverished young teens migrating from the countryside, are everywhere on the streets of Accra. They seem to lead a quiet but hard life. But as Nana Ofe-Brobet Konadu finds out in this report, shoeshiners face constant threats and live in a hostile environment most people are unaware of and with little protection from society or government.
Tags: Uncategorized
By Sammy Darko (Producer: Darrell Harvey)
Accra psychiatric hospital continues to deteriorate despite alarm bells raised by mental health advocates last year about the appalling conditions there. Hundreds of patients squeeze into wards meant for a couple of dozen, leaving many to sleep on the bare concrete floors, beside the stench of open sewers. Water is scarce. Overcrowding and other problems are compounded by a lack of vehicles to transport recovered patients back to their homes around the country. And as Sammy Darko reports, all this means it’s taking longer for patients to get better.
Air date: August 16, 2007
Tags: Ghana
By Sammy Darko (Producer: Darrell Harvey)
A 47-year-old woman is proving you’re never too old learn. After years of learning how to read and write on her own, Victoria Atistsobui sat for a class six entrance exam and enrolled in a Junior Secondary School. She is studying at the Salem Presbyterian School in Akropon in the Eastern Region. The mother of six has dreams of becoming a teacher. Sammy Darko reports.
Air date: August 5, 2007
Tags: Ghana
By Sammy Darko (Producer: Darrell Harvey)
On the sidelines of yesterday’s mammoth rally for the governing New Patriotic Party in Tema, reporter Sammy Darko found more than party favours and flags. He found people dishing out money to men and women to cheer for their leadership candidate.
Air date: August 6, 2007
Tags: Ghana
By Nana Konadu with files from Hicham Safieddine
There is little love lost between Tro Tro mates, the young men, and very few women, who collect money and passengers on the jammed streets of Accra and the rest of the population. The mate’s attitude and passengers impatience are both to blame. Reporter Nana Konadu and myself decided to tell the story and struggle of mates, mostly from their point of view. This is the report aired on Citi about it.
Tags: Ghana
Authorities Struggle to Stop Residents from Dumping
By Alex Kobina Mensah (Producer: Darrell Harvey)
Take a stroll on the beaches around Accra these days looking for sand and surf and you might rather find a pile of rubbish. Many of Ghana’s beaches are engulfed in filth. That’s because people are dumping their garbage there. Joy News reporter Alex Kobina Mensah has been visiting Accra’s beaches to find out why residents are turning a place meant for swimming and relaxing into a rubbish dump.
Air date: July 19 2007
Tags: Ghana
A pastor who was cleared of a defilement charges by the court is now making moves to adopt the child the teenage mother claims resulted from the alleged act.Pastor Renald Yeboah will not admit to having sex with the girl but says he wants to take care of the baby on humanitarian grounds.
He now has to contend with the anger of 16 year-old Matina Afriyie and her relatives.
The girl says the incident, which happened about a year ago, has ruined her life.
Afia Akyere reports.
This is the voice of Matina Afriyie who was 15 years old when she says a pastor forcibly had sex with her resulting in pregnancy. Now she is 16 and the mother of a four month old baby girl.
Pastor Yeboah was charged with defilement and the case was heard at HIgh court one in Kumasi.
He was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
He appealed against the ruling and won.
Madam Sarah Oduro, the mother of the teenager, was not happy about the ruling.
When Luv news interviewed Pastor Yeboah he said he sent a delegation comprising his father and some church members to try and resolve issues with the girl’s mother. This out of court settlement did not work.
I asked him if he accepts the baby as his own and this is the explanation he gave.
Pastor Yeboah told Luv News he wants to meet with the girl’s family to resolve the issue.
Madam Oduro has agreed to meet with the pastor for redress.
She wants re-imbursement of the money she has spent on her daughter’s upkeep before and after she gave birth.
She also wants to see her back in school.
Meanwhile, Matina Afriyie continues to take care of her baby.
Tags: Ghana
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