Accra Community Magazine Digital Edit ion THE COMMUNITY ADMAN COMMUNITY Magazine ACCRA DIGITAL EDITION May, 2019/ISSUE 2 BUILDING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS >>Pg. 22 1 https://www.facebook.com/communityadman https://www.twitter.com/communityadman LOCAL NEWS,BUSINESS, WHAT’S ON, WHAT’S UP DOC?, ENTERTAINMENT, ESSENTIAL INFO. Accra Community Magazine May, 2019/Issue 2 12 Inside this issue: LOCAL NEWS 4 BUSINESS BEAT 8 14 PARENTS CORNER 12 16 KITCHEN SHUFFLE 14 WHAT’S UP DOC? 16 20 LAUGH OUT LOUD 20 22 BUILDING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS 22 ENTERTAINMENT 24 WHAT’S ON 26 ESSENTIAL INFO. 30 I LOVE MY MUM 34 ACCRA COMMUNITY MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED BY THE COMMUNITY ADMAN 24 26 TELEPHONE: 0573568118 EMAIL: [email protected] Send articles, area news, essential infor- mation, events, and other relevant infor- mation on Accra to the Editor. 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Help us to see: We may not know the industry that you work in so we don’t know the faux pas’ and clichés. Best to give us a heads up. We don’t know you: You have your own personal preferences for things like colour and imagery so don’t keep it to yourself. It saves everyone’s time if you just let us know. Thank You. -Editor, Moses Wilberforce Nti-Asare 3 https://www.facebook.com/communityadman https://www.twitter.com/communityadman Accra Community Magazine Local News May, 2019/Issue 2 SILT IN ODAW RIVER IS BEING REMOVED. OUTSOURCING MANAGEMENT OF KIA UNTRUE Work is on-going on the Mr. Adiepena revealed Odaw river to remove silt that over 1 million cubic The Aviation Ministry in- According to the Minority, from it to ensure the meters of dredged materi- sists that claims made by the Aviation Ministry re- smooth flow of rainwater als had been removed the Minority to outsource ceived the proposal “to to prevent the perennial from the Odaw drain management of the Ko- help bring about the flooding in the capital since the company was toka International Airport physical development of city, Accra. awarded a two-year con- (KIA) are untrue. the airport enclave.” tract in 2016 to dredge The 80-meter-deep storm the drain and the lagoon In a press statement re- And on Tuesday, a Minis- drain has been heavily and also re-construct an leased to the media try spokesperson said choked by sand, debris interceptor to treat pollut- Wednesday evening, the “the participation of the and largely plastic waste ant water. Public Affairs Unit of the private sector will bring blocking the flow of rain- Ministry confirmed that about the needed equity water which causes floods He said despite the chal- the Government of Ghana investment for the trans- in Accra. lenge of little re-occurring will maintain ownership formation of the sector silt finding its way back of the airport, although thereby making the KIA Dredge Masters, a leading into the drains as a result there have been talks to achieve competitive provider of modern tech- of unpaved banks along partner with another op- status within the West nological dredging ser- the storm drain, the erator to provide African Sub-Region and vices, is on site busily de- company will management the continent as a whole.” silting and dredging the continue the and financial Odaw drain and the Korle dredging support. Two days later, a press Lagoon with its heavy exercise as TIP statement from the same duty machines and 70% of silt “Cabinet Ministry notes that the equipment. materials Keep plastic has not Sector Minister has not have al- waste away from been re- yet been advised on what The team is also carting ready quested, the best available options heaps of silt piled along been col- drainages; Pro- neither are in regards to owner- the banks of the two ma- lected. tect the environ- has the ship of KIA. jor drains to a final dis- ment! Ministry of posal site. In June Aviation sub- “A broader consultation 2016, a two- mitted a Cabi- with key stakeholders in The Operations Manager year contract was net Memorandum the sector will be part of of Dredge Masters Ghana awarded to Dredge Mas- recommending approval the internal considera- Limited, Mr. Sena ters Ghana Limited to de- for the privatization or tions in due course if an Adiepena in an interview silt and dredge the Odaw sale of the Kotoka Inter- appropriate option is explained that the com- drain and restore the national Airport,” the agreed,” the statement pany is working day and Korle Lagoon to avert the statement reads. continues night to restore the drain- perennial flooding in Ac- age efficiency and holding cra under the Accra Sani- “The general public is “The general public is capacity of the two major tary Sewer Storm Drain- hereby entreated to disre- hereby entreated to disre- drains to avert any flood- age Alleviation Project. gard news of privatization gard news of privatization ing as the rains set in. or sale of the Kotoka In- or sale of the Kotoka In- The initial agreement was ternational Airport.” ternational Airport.” He said the scope of work extended in February starts from the Odaw On- 2019 for maintenance Earlier this week, multi- In 2016, KIA underwent a yasia confluence at Car- dredging of the Odaw ple reports surfaced re- massive overhaul includ- price in Accra, through drain and the Korle La- vealing that there had ing the construction of the Avenor, Kwame goon under the same been a proposal to sell Terminal 3, a five-level Nkrumah interchange, scope KIA to Tav Airport Hold- spread stretching across Agbogbloshie, South ing Company Limited, a 45,000 metres of land.