According
to the project, the devil will be depicted in the form of Baphomet - a winged
creature with goat's head and a long beard. In addition, the sculpture will
have figures of smiling children. As planned, passers-by will be able to sit on
the lap of Satan "for inspiration and contemplation."
A
spokesperson for the satanic temple said that the monument is to reflect the views
of Satanists inside and outside Oklahoma City.
Editorial
FREEDOM OF WORSHIP
The
intolerance of some religious leaders is shocking.
They
claim that anybody who fails to accept their doctrine is less than human and
ought be burnt in what they call hell fire.
Interestingly,
these same religious leaders insist on their right to be blazing bigots.
Some of them look up to Western countries such
as the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Germany as their
models.
We
are sure, that these religious bigots will be surprised at the fact that in
those western countries, Satan worshipers have the same rights as their own
religious adherents.
Can you imagine Satan worshipers in Ghana
insisting on their rights to erect a monument to the devil in front of the
Black Star Square?
The
right to worship or not to worship is a fundamental right which must be
guaranteed by and every democracy .
All
religions deserve the same level of respect.
This
is our position.
PC Attacks Kyeremateng
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| Mr. P.C Appiah Ofori |
He says that if Mr Kyeremateng, Mr Kofi Konadu
Appreku or Mr Isaac Osei is elected as the presidential candidate the party
would lose the 2016 elections.
According to him, the only candidate capable
of winning the 2016 election is Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo.
In
an interview with Radio Gold, Mr Appiah- Ofori repeated his warning that he
would resign from the party if Nana- Addo is not given the nod.
He
claimed that presidential aspirants of the party who served as Ministers in the
Kufuor administration have skeletons in their cupboards and the NDC will
capitalise on them.
“They
are human beings and they made mistakes as Ministers” he said.
On
Mr Kyeremateng, he said he failed when Mr Kufuor put him in charge of the
presidential special initiative.
“The
cassava project was a failure and the NDC will use it against him.
“If he couldn’t grow cassava how can he be
president? He asked.
Mr
Appiah Ofori claimed that Nana Akufo-Addo had an unblemished record both as
Attorney- General and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He claimed that Mr Kyeremateng would win a
presidential election only when he becomes a candidate when the NPP is in
power.
This
is because, the party will use the Government machinery to protect him.
Battle Over Koala
One
of the two parties serving as joint administrators who leased the landing
property currently occupied by Koala Shopping Centre located at Osu in Accra
has appealed against a court ruling that has declared, Raphael Wuta-Ofei as the
sole owner of the said property.
The
court also decided that Wuta-Ofei has the capacity as administrator to sell the
disputed property belonging to the family to the second defendant, Mohammed
Wolley, operator of the shopping mall.
Robert
Odamtten and four others who are dissatisfied with the court’s decision have
filed a suit at the Court of Appeal against the High Court’s ruling.
The
High Court was presided over by His Lordship Gyaesayor J.A.
The
grounds of the appeal are that, the judge, Justice Gyaesayor erred when he
ruled that, the first defendant, Raphael Wuta-Ofei was the rightful owner of
the disputed property according to Osu tradition on the basis that the interest
of a female child in the intestate estate of her father extinguished upon the
death of her father.
The petitioners revealed that there is no
record of any Osu tradition or custom that denies females any inheritance as
claimed by the trial Judge.
Again,
there was no evidence before the judge to establish that the first and second
defendants gave notice to the plaintiff before engaging themselves in the sale
and purchase of the property.
This
was against the fact that all 3 parties including the plaintiffs, the 1st ad
2nd defendants in their capacities as leasers and lessee were signatories to a
seal of an Oath of proof before the Commissioner for Oaths on how to handle
issues relating to the lease of the property.
The
Plaintiffs also held that the judge was wrong in his conclusion that the
plaintiff lacked the capacity to maintain the court action because he was not a
member of the Wuta-Ofei family.
This according to the plaintiff is
inconsistence with the judges own subsequent claim that the plaintiff has a
right to the property as a beneficiary of his mother Roberta Odamtten (Nee
Wuta-Ofori).
Per
the terms of the agreement signed by the feuding factions, each party must be
present either by themselves or by counsels before making decisions concerning
the property.
The
plaintiff by this appeal is asking the court of Appeal to reverse the dismissal
of the claim against the sale of the property by the 1st defendant to the 2nd
defendant and return it to the family.
Hilda Against Sir John
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| Madam Hilda Addo |
She says the re-election of Sir John and
others would not be in the interest of the party.
Madam
Hilda Addo said “Sir John is a fine lawyer, perhaps one of the best lawyers in
Ghana but as a politician he had failed”.
She
said she still has a lot of respect for Sir John but he has to make way for a
more competent General Secretary.
She
advised people like P.C Appiah Ofori to stop openly campaigning for some
presidential aspirant of the party.
“
The party has so many competent people and I will support any one of them who
is elected as presidential candidate” she said
She
said there is no truth in the allegation that Mr Alan Kyeremateng failed as a
Minister in Charge of the Presidential special Initiative.
“Mr
Kyeremateng introduced the ‘Friday Wear” which has become very successful” she
claimed.
Madam
Hilda Addo said she is keeping a low profile for now.
Palestine Rejects Move
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| Ghana Foreign Minister, Hannah Tetteh |
The
People of Palestine have rejected attempts by Israel to impose a Jewish status
on the territories of Palestinian that Israel has been occupying unlawfully for
years.
In
a strongly worded document addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Regional Integration, Diplomatic Missions and International Organizations in
Ghana, the Palestine Embassy in Ghana kicked against Israeli proclamation of
Palestinian territories as a ``Jewish
State’’ stating that the move is intended to achieve political and colonial
goals by the Israeli government.
The
statement suggests that, the attempt by Israel is to generally conceal its
unlawful occupation of Palestine territories and achieve hegemonic goals.
The
imposition of a Jewish state is also aimed at facilitating the eventual
expulsion of the Palestinian inhabitants from Israel and falsely reclaim the
cultural Jewish and Torrah narrative.
According
to the Embassy, the so-called erroneous Jewish nature of the state should be
refuted by all because; Israeli passports and Identity cards refer to the
nationality as Israeli and that references to religion has been abolished from
such documents.
It
also argues that no reference is made to religion as the main headings in
passports and other official documents is ``State of Israel’’.
The
release also contends that no reference has since been made to Israel as a
Jewish state since the Truman Document of 1948 and that, the 1993 Mutual
Recognition Document between Palestine and Israel made no reference to Israel
as a Jewish state.
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