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New executive for Abbosey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association
● Some of the new executives
A 14- member executive of Abbosey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association in Accra has been sworn into office with a call on members to rally behind the officials to enable the association to succeed.
The new executives who are mandated to serve a four-year- tenure, pledged to uphold the ideals of the association and promote the interest of all.
Addressing the gathering, the immediate past Co-Chairman of the association, Mr Ampadu Siaw, asked members to create a conducive working environment in order to remain in business.
He said his administration had established a complaint centre to help resolve concerns of customers. “ Let’s, therefore, allow the system to work for the mutual benefit of all,” he said.
He thanked the District Police Command and the Municipal Authority for their respective assistance to the association and its members. He added that it was refreshing to note that theft cases had subsided in the area.
Mr Siaw called on members who had not registered with the association to do so in order to get a sound revenue base to operate effectively.
He was not happy with the manner in which valuable spare parts were carried on motorcycles and delivered to customers, stressing that the new administration should work hard in curbing the practice.
He bemoaned the gross indiscipline of members who traded on the streets resulting in the congestion of the area as well as those who repaired cars on the streets.
He said the executive had realised and invested GHC 37,000.00 in the association and called on the new executive to work hard and move the association forward.
The Chairman of the new executive, Mr Henry Okyere Juniour also thanked the members for the confidence reposed in his team and promised to give Abbosey Okai a “new look and assured all that he would work hard in promoting the interest of members.
The Chief of Abbosey Okai, Nii Abbosey ll, appealed to the executive to consider the creation of an ultramodern car park and asked members to support the new executive to succeed.
Responding to a request made by the District Command of Police for logistics to facilitate its operations, a patron of the executive, Mr Kofata, promised to donate a motorbike.
By Raymond Kyekye
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Swallowed by the Sea! …Keta’s coastal lines, landmarks, efforts to preserve heritage
The Atlantic Ocean is no longer a distant blue horizon for the people of Keta.
It now circles around their doorsteps, uninvited, unrelenting, pulling down walls and other structures, erasing memories, and threatening lives.
Hovering precariously between the restless sea and the Keta Lagoon, this once-thriving coastal town is slowly being obliterated.
Salt water has become both a physical and metaphorical threat, dissolving the town’s past as fast as it claims its future.
Madam Aku Atitso, 62, lives in a crumbling former Prisons Service quarters – one of the few structures still standing on the eroded stretch of Queen Street.
She sits quietly at the entrance, preparing a modest breakfast for herself and her granddaughter.
The air is thick with salt and silence. “The sea took everything,” she says softly. “My husband’s nets, our mattress, our memories all gone overnight.” Her voice trembles. “This place too is dying. But it’s the last place with a roof over my head.”
A few metres away, Aunty Esinam, 79, watches the sea from a low stool beside a wooden shelter. Her eyes do not blink. “That spot,” she points, “used to be someone’s living room, a whole family lived there”.
It’s not just homes that are vanishing. Landmarks that anchored Keta’s cultural identity are disappearing one after another. The once-imposing Fort Prinzenstein, a haunting relic of the transatlantic slave trade is now more of a ruin than a monument.
the encroaching waters along Keta’s
coast.
encroaching waters along Keta’s coast
The colonial-era Bremen factory, the old cinema where generations of children once laughed at flickering black-and-white films is also gone.
Queen Street, once the town’s bustling backbone, is now a watery corridor choked with debris.
Standing atop a section of the sea defence wall, 69-year-old retired teacher Efo Kwasi Agbeko surveys what remains.
“The first police station is mostly gone,” he says, gesturing part of the building stuck in the sea sand, only ruins and a few rooms remain.
“This town is fighting, but the sea is winning,” he said.
Even the Cape St. Paul Lighthouse, Keta’s historic sentinel, leans perilously toward the water, and fishermen say holes in the shore are opening more frequently, sometimes every week.
That leaves a thick cloud of uncertainty hanging around the historic town of Keta.
Once upon a time, it was a vibrant town noted for business but currently left with ruins with a few of the residents watching in awe the sea’s devastation.
From: Geoffrey Kwame Buta, Keta, Volta Region
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Ghanaians climax Easter with fun-filled activities
Christians around the world and other faith based groups last Monday climaxed the Easter celebration with a number of fun-filled outdoor and indoor activities.
With streets empty, fun seekers stormed church premises where picnics were held while others partied in many ways.
Others spent the day at the various beaches and music and film shows occupying the others.
velleyball competition
at the Laboma Beach
Church in Tema Community 8 engaged
in a number of activities including the
popular draught competition
At the churches, participants engaged in bible reading, football, volleyball, playing cards, table tennis, horse racing, bouncing castles, swimming and oware.
one of the picnic venues
Others played ludo, tag of war, lime and spoon, draught, music competitions among others.
The Spectator captured some of the exciting scenes around Accra-Tema for the benefit of readers.
Story & pictures by Victor A. Buxton
