THE THOUGHTS ROOM

Mrs Theodosia Okoh National hockey star, Mrs Theodosia Okoh has spoken vehemently against the re-naming of the hockey stadium in Accra after the late President John Evans Atta Mills. According her, the name change was not right and that it has 'annoyed' her greatly. “It is annoying me at the moment. When I was lobbying for the construction of the pitch he was then in class three. When I have gone ahead to do something which can be named after me when I pass on, now you say you want to name it after him because he has taken lead (dead). Is that how it is done?”, Mrs Okoh who spoke in the Fante language told Accra-based Peace FM, Thursday morning. The 91-year-old is a hockey star who once chaired the National Hockey Association and also designed the Ghana national flag. She was instrumental in securing the present site for the hockey stadium at a time the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) tried to take over the land for an expanded lorry station. ...

President John Dramani Mahama has called on Ghanaians to rededicate themselves to the principles that his predecessor, the late President John Evans Atta Mills stood for. He said at the wreath-laying ceremony in honour of the late president that the occasion should be used to relive the nature of the late professor who was an epitome of peace and social justice. He said although the sudden death of the late president left Ghanaians humbled and speechless, it caused us to re-evaluate the harshness, the scorn and cynicism with which he was often treated in his attempt to recapture the fellow-feeling and ethical values that had kept Ghana united for generations. Irrespective of the treatment which was meted to him, President Mahama recalled that the late President Mills stood by his vision to build a country of a united people devoid of deep-seated partisan interest, while being a father for all and developing Ghana into a country of equal opportunities without reg...

Editor of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, Mr Ken Kuranchie Editor of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, Ken Kuranchie who was released from prison Thursday morning says he would have preferred paying money to avoid his 10-day prison experience. Nonetheless, he says the experience was worthy, as it has given him the opportunity to experience the “other side of Ghana.” “If I was asked to pay to avoid experiencing this, I would have begged for money to avoid that experience,” he said in an interview on Accra-based radio station, Peace FM. Mr Kuranchie gained his freedom after being found guilty of criminal contempt by the Supreme Court hearing the ongoing election petition. His imprisonment witnessed outcries by his family and some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who accused the Prisons Service of denying them the opportunity to visit him and shuffling him in and  out of one prison to the other. Public Relations Officer of the Prisons Ser...