Once again the Star of Africa, Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo has added unto his manufacturing brands of car a new model.
The chairman calls this one “Kantanka Okatakyie”. The car is a sport utility type with amazing and unique designs.
The new G Wagon like Kantanka “Okatakyie” has a bright headlight with a boldly inscribed Kantanka “Okatakyie”, embedded with the Kantanka crown.
Source:Kantanka.net
The Procurement Minister says queries about a GH¢28.8 million contract awarded by Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) through sole sourcing must be directed to the Finance Ministry and not her.
Sarah Adwoa Safo said, her office is only responsible for advising the government on procurement policies and strategies.
She told the Speaker on the floor of Parliament Wednesday that the Finance Ministry is in a better position to speak on the matter.
The Deputy Majority Leader said the term Minister as stated in the amended Public Procurement Authority Act 914, was in reference to the Finance Minister and not the Procurement Minister.
“Again, the legal framework currently does not authorize my office or any other office to conduct centralised procurement,” she added.
Adwoa Safo was answering questions filed by the Ashaiman legislator, Ernest Norgbey, who claims a contract awarded to a private firm, Dextro-Impex Company Limited, did not go through competitive bidding.
Related: Adwoa Safo to answer for ¢28.8m MASLOC sole-sourced contract
He alleges that there were no grounds to have sole-sourced a contract for the supply of 1800 second-hand vehicles for the government, describing the deal as illegal.
Mr Norgbey also alleges that the decision by the MASLOC CEO, Stephen Amoah, to give the supplying company a letter of comfort to allow them to raise funds to execute the contract, was out of place.
“At the time that these contracts were signed there was no board in place but the CEO took it upon himself to do all these things.
“We keep talking about sole sourcing and fighting corruption but if one CEO can take the decision to award a contract worth GH¢28.8 million, then there is every cause to worry,” he said.
Mr Norgbey said although Section 40 of the PPA Act allows for such a transaction, the said contract does not qualify.
According to him, the Act is against public officers procuring second-hand vehicles for any state entity.
But the Proceument Minister said, “every Ministry/Agency has the mandate to undertake its procurement,” and she does not have the mandate and locus to answer questions on procurement.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
First published by Amara Jali
Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo and his son Safo Junior have come up with the greatest modern invention in the 21st century. They have created an engineless car that is strictly electric and solar powered.
Safo Junior said about the car: “The non-engine vehicle does not rely on a combustion engine to move, but an electric motor powered by rechargeable batteries. The batteries can be recharged with solar energy or electricity. As you drive the car on the road, it converts the energy from the sun into mechanical energy which powers the car.”
Cars have become so fundamental to our everyday lives, how horse travel transformed physical mobility in everyday societies. The only concern with previous cars is their immense damage to the environment. Car pollution through the burning of fossil fuels has adverse effects on the earth’s atmosphere, including perpetuating the problem of global warming. Kantanka’s electric and solar powered cars achieve the goal of being a useful form of transportation without devastating the environment.
The cars have other benefits to Ghanaians and the local community. Safo Junior said. “We do everything here. For the engineless car it is only the lights and the tire that were bought. Everything else from molding, among others, was done by our local people.”
Indeed the Kantanka is the first car to be completely designed and manufactured in Ghana. Some cars currently available on the commercial market include 4×4 pickup Kantanka Onatafuo, Otumfo SUV, and the Nkunimdie V8 SUV. Reminiscent of the Black stars, the Kantanka models have front grilles headlined with a star symbol. The people of Ghana nickname Apostle Dr Safo, the “Star of Africa.”
Multinational companies anxiously watch Kantanka’s progress. Safo Junior said: “We have had several offers from Asia and Europe, but we turn them down because we just want to stay in Africa and make sure that whatever we are doing here we’ll be able to achieve our dreams.”
The desire is similar to that of other nations that desire to wean their citizenry off of western consumption. Brazil makes and assembles Macropolo buses. India makes Mahindra vehicles. Now Kantanka brings a local brand to African car manufacturing.
The father-son team is certain of the safety, reliability, durability, and overall appeals of the vehicles. Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo made and tested the cars for years before going commercial. Safo also drives his own vehicles, which cannot be said of all car manufacturers.
The Kantanka company is devoted to keeping African families employed. At his massive complex at Gomoa Mpota in Ghana’s central region, more than 300 workers make more than one hundred cars per month. Young men between between the ages of 16 and 25 years assemble more than 1,500 parts for the car and spray the exterior. Employment will only increase as more cars are made and as Safo opens plants in other regions of Ghana, as well as in other African countries. Still other African industries can develop around making specialized parts, such as headlights, for Kantanka cars.
The company is also keen on having cars that are specially catered to serve the African market. This means at low, affordable prices that undercut the prices of imported vehicles, which are overpriced to begin with and also have a hefty duty attached at the port.
Moreover, Kantanka cars are acclimatized to the conditions of an African environment. The range of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks are especially made for the warm temperatures and rugged terrain, so there is no question of whether the cars can navigate the local roads–they are built for them.
The state and the Ghanaian public are eager to buy products made from Ghana. Police are already driving Kantanka cars. The carmakers expect more Kantanka’s to join the roads with the release of commercial vehicles.
Safo and son, and other men, young and old, who work for the company prove that your brains can be well exercised without ever stepping foot in a colonial classroom. They have never been to school and still manage to build a dream car.
Using ones brains, talent, and hard work can lead to ingenuity. For Kantanka, this creativity cannot be imported, but only kindled from the mores of African lifestyle and culture.
Source: www.grandmotherafrica.comm
First publish by Amenuti Narmer-Aug 9, 2016
“When an American B29 bomber crash landed in the Soviet Union during World War 2. The legendary Soviet aircraft designer Tupolev took apart the plane bolt by bolt, part by part. Soviet industry at that time in 1947 did not have the machine tool industry to make many of the parts. So Tupolev had many of the parts made by hand in simple machine shops. His bomber flew although it was heavier than the B29. Less than two decades later, Tupolev was making some of the best long range bombers and passenger jets in the world.” ~ Gbemela Kobla.
NTOABOMA — One must admire Kantanka’s efforts in Ghana, especially over the short period of three decades. One must also admire the enthusiasm with which the vast majority of Ghanaians and, in fact, Africans have received the first made-in-Ghana cars – or so Kantanka’s cars are branded.
At the same time, one can appreciate the skeptics who have railed against Kantanka’s claims, particularly in the face of a recent article, which raised concerns about the validity of Kantanka’s assertions that his cars are actually made in Ghana. This “hit job” was penned by Jalopnik, a failing Gawker Media blog. (Just this year, Gawker filed for United States Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection after being ordered to pay former wrestler Hulk Hogan a 140-million-dollar settlement in a privacy invasion judgment.) In this light, many see the Kantanka hit job article as an over-exuberant attempt to save the US Media giant, by putting out controversial stories in order to garner wide readership.
Ordinarily I would not give voice to such skepticism, coming from a failed US media giant, but it seems to me that a sincere attempt to deal with the gray areas would clarify some key points and perhaps draw the attention of the Ghanaian government—an attention needed to resolve concerns and foster a vibrant environment for new technology in Ghana to thrive. Therefore, accusations about Kantanka must be carefully examined.
Made-in-Ghana or Made-in-China?
This assertion of made-in-Ghana is not without a peculiar history. Ghana used to make, or rather assemble, cars. One such endeavor in recent memory is the Boafo pickup truck from the early 1970s, which garnered much public disdain and provoked a similar international reaction – that the trucks were not made in Ghana – albeit Boafo was never branded as a made-in-Ghana vehicle.
Criticisms about originalism are lethal in Ghana. Consumers in Ghana, as opposed to those in China perhaps, conflate ideas about originalism, patriotism and economic value. This is unfortunate since ideas about originalism in Ghana are deadly for new industries.
Allegations that Kantanka’s cars are not made in Ghana – that they are made in China and that the parts of the cars can be purchased online; or that, at best, they are knockoffs of Chinese engineering—is the primary matter at hand. The feat is not impossible but it is a formidable task given that Ghana is not even a semi-industrial nation. Bold criticisms have called Kwadwo Sarfo Kantanka, the founder, a false prophet who is basically providing a conduit for a Chinese company to get access to cheap local labor and dodge import duties.
Much of the debate about Boafo then and Kantanka now concerns intellectual property. Who owns the designs and blueprints for the various key components of Kantanka vehicles—the Chinese company cited on Alibaba or Kantanka? Slapping the Kantanka logo on a Chinese design will not be the first such commercial practice. Moreover, it is not illegal to sell another brand under a new one; in fact, this is common. But if this is the case, then obviously Kantanka cannot brand the vehicles as made-in-Ghana.
To this point, Kantanka only has itself to blame. Kantanka Automobile Company claims to be Ghana’s first carmaker. The company has branded and marketed the Kantanka as a Made-in-Ghana product, so at this juncture it will either survive the discomfiture by showing the evidence for its Made-in-Ghana brand or fall on its own sword.
Over much of the past year Kantanka has made not only local news but also has raised some international eyebrows within the purview of an industrialized world ever afraid of the threat of an Nkrumahist Africa. The notion of a mature industrial product emerging fully realized from a not particularly industrial nation is a patriotic idea for Ghanaians and a frustration for competitors that sell cars in Ghana. More than 50,000 foreign made and assembled cars enter Ghana yearly from abroad. Hence all admiration and skepticism of Kantanka must therefore be funneled through this unsettling filter.
The pharisaism of originalism in ideas and technological transfer often conflate pragmatic economic ideas with nation building. Of course, there’s a powerful historical context at work: Nkrumahism – the idea that Ghana and, indeed, Africa are capable of doing all things for themselves. Although this is true and sovereignty (of which a couple of African nations can barely boast) is important, it has little relevance for a changing car manufacturing industry in the twenty-first century.
Counting every part down to the smallest screws, a single car has about 30,000 components designed, developed, manufactured, and sold through at least some 3,000 different industries The 30,000 or so parts use different raw materials and different manufacturing processes. Making good parts requires a lot of research and development.
Having the parts made by companies, at home and abroad, with diverse fields of expertise allows any car manufacturer to obtain high-quality parts. For example, Toyota’s suppliers make seats, wheels, steering wheels, windshields, headlights, and meters. Only a super-cluster of industries in any given country can facilitate all-inclusive locally-made cars on a sustainable and profitable basis. That is done nowhere. The reality that all industry uses horizontal supply lines renders any criticism of Kantanka along these lines a mere sign of economic illiteracy.
While designed and built in Ghana, the Boafo truck used outsourced significant parts like the engine. For those reasons it did not claim to be a made-in-Ghana machine. Although some Nissans, Subarus and Toyotas, including the Tacoma and Tundra trucks, are designed and assembled in the United States where they are sold, they are still designated as imports.
Hence, it is not unfathomable that in the twenty-first century a Kantanka manufacturing operation would have some Chinese dimension.
No matter the motivation, it is difficult to build a car industry anywhere. The first Japanese cars were knockdown copies of American cars. The first American rockets were knockdown copies of German V2 rockets. If Kantanka serves an African market with knockdown versions of foreign cars, the idea would not be new under the sun. Truth be told, it would be a smart move.
If the parts are manufactured using Kantanka designs at a Chinese manufacturing firm, this is a rational business decision. On the contrary if the parts come from China, are designed and built in China by a Chinese company, and are only assembled in Ghana, that becomes a serious indictment on the character of Kantanka Companies.
Criticize the Ghana Government, Not Kantanka
Besides the made-in-Ghana debate, the second, and perhaps graver, issue arises if Kantanka is abusing import laws by helping a Chinese firm evade import duties, though this indictment would fall squarely on the government of Ghana. Kantanka has been in “business” for almost a year – providing Ghana Police and other such public outfits with test vehicles. The Vice President of Ghana himself has two orders of Kantanka’s machines in hand.
Any serious government would have already investigated and issued a report on the nature of Kantanka’s manufacturing in order to adequately schedule the company and its products within the appropriate tax and import duty brackets. For any competent government, an allegation of this nature so late in pipeline of production should be a non-issue.
he serious take home point lies in how Ghana achieves technological advancement. The question of whether Kantanka is truly manufacturing his own cars or whether the company is merely a conduit for Chinese industry is an important one.
If our government chooses to invest in Kantanka, which it should, every doubt that the company is being used to evade import duties must be cleared. Or if our government ascertains that Kantanka is being used, then the government must collect the appropriate import duties.
These are government decisions. Any criticism of Kantanka without criticism of the government of Ghana is propaganda meant to undermine the brand without providing long-term solutions to resolve outstanding problems.
The Boafo manufacturing effort of the 1970s was short-lived, not that it should have survived necessarily, but one can only imagine where Ghana’s automobile and allied industries would be in the twenty-first century if Boafo, or any one of the several others before it, had been adequately monitored by a respectable government agency to stay its course.
There remains no doubt that Kwadwo Sarfo Kantanka began building from scratch a new line of “vehicles.” It is, however, fair to assume that the economics were never in his favor. A lack of government or private sector support could have only led to a Chinese option.
Now our government of Ghana must make sure that the bulk of our investments are not paying for Chinese SKDs (kits containing semi-parts needed to assemble a product) and CKDs (complete kits needed to assemble a product), because solely the made-in-Ghana label deserves the privilege to accord the company all the IP rights and designs as required by law.
In a part of the world where leaders have often failed (and failed terribly), perhaps it has become fashionable to habitually ignore, spare, or degrade uncomfortable questions. Our government has to wake up and take Kantanka seriously, so that its growth and success will benefit the people of Ghana.
Will Kantanka Lead An Industrial Revolution?
Some purported technological moralists insist that Kantanka should have started more humbly with the manufacture of simple machines like motorbikes, tricycles or simple farm machines – tractors and combine harvesters – the blueprints of which undoubtedly the Kantanka Company would have built upon and owned. This approach, they claim, would have been more feasible since the capital and technology involved isn’t the hurdle that a sustainable and profitable car manufacturing plant ought to muster.
Arguments like this are particularly unconstructive.
Dilettantism—or propaganda masquerading as critique—as a leading principle in the advancement of technologies and economic policies of pragmatic importance to people will mark the end of valuable debate. Nothing will be further from a thoroughly serious analysis than such an attitude.
Almost all debates owe something to dilettantes, often very valuable viewpoints. For that reason, all dilettantism, local or foreign, is not necessarily bad – not all forms of it are tolerable either. To this point, what interests do non-African critics have in the politics of Kantanka or Ghanaian government affairs
The irony, of course, stands that the recent criticism against a Ghanaian auto manufacturer, Kantanka, on the grounds of originalism stems from a society and political ecology that is comfortable with skirting its own originalism for economic value; native production, design, and manufacturing in America are vanishing as most of American manufacturing is found in China. Rather than call Kantanka a foe, if anything, these faultfinders should fall in love with Kantanka – if they believe Kwadwo Sarfo is doing what America does best.
In any case, every time consumers are confronted with a counter narrative such as that of a Not-Made-In-Ghana product, they are more likely to opt against cars assembled in Ghana in favor of those assembled abroad, even if the former were to launch their own country into an industrial age.
Already Ghana imports some 50,000 vehicles yearly, which come at a dire expense to the everyday Ghanaian. Frankly, the details of where Kantanka cars are designed, built, and assembled are of little relevance to the average consumer who can now afford a vehicle for work.
It is comforting that the Ghanaian business class, much like the average consumer, is excited about this new company and has hailed Kantanka’s commercial exploits as an exemplary and important component in the quest to establish an industrial base in Ghana. At the very least, they see Kantanka as a first step in reengineering most of the technologies in current use in the country. Kantanka provides a much-needed template to ignite an industrial revolution from out of Ghana, out of West Africa and, perhaps, out of Africa.
If we should invest in Kantanka, we must be clear that the technology is here in Ghana to stay, that it is not a fleeting trifle and that it also adds value through local contribution.
Source: www.grandmotherafrica.com
Tropical fruits provide some of the best nutrition and disease-fighting power of any foods on Earth, but if you live in the Midwestern part of the United States or other less-than-tropical areas, you probably have only eaten them through shipments from out-of-state.
But there’s at least one lesser known tropical-style fruit that may be growing in your backyard right now, even if you live in a traditionally colder climate.
The Paw Paw fruit is not very well known among the mainstream, but people have enjoyed it, and the myriad health benefits it provides, for many decades.
Also called the “Hoosier banana (when found in Indiana), “Michigan banana (same concept),” “poor man’s banana” or many other names, the Paw Paw has a smooth, custard-like texture and a subtle but excellent strawberry-banana type flavor according to many who’ve tried it.
Some get it in its fruit form while others get it in a Paw Paw supplement form. Either way, it has been said to provide incredible health benefits.
Health Benefits of the Paw Paw Fruit
The Paw Paw fruit is not only the largest fruit native to North America, it also brings with it a wide range of unbelievable health benefits.
Paw Paw fruits provide the following benefits, which has some hailing them as a “newly discovered superfood” despite its long history of use:
–High levels of antioxidants, says one Ohio State University study- similar to cranberries, cherries
-20 times the Magnesium of apples, bananas and oranges
-As much as 70 times the Iron as the above fruits
-More Vitamin C than Oranges
-Excellent Source of Amino Acids
-Very Easy to grow Without Chemicals as opposed to many other fruits
-Strong Anti-Parasitic Properties
Paw Paw- The Strongest Anti-Cancer Plant?
As if those aren’t enough, Paw Paw bark may be of the strongest anti-cancer substances out there, sharing similar traits to the now-famous, exotic South American Graviola tree leaves and twigs (the tree that produces the Soursop fruit). In fact, a large-scale Purdue University study found that it had the strongest anti-cancer abilities of any such fruit/plant on the North and South American continents, even more than soursop/graviola in vitro.
wo studies published in 1997 by a Purdue University researcher Dr. Jerry McLaughlin, who has published more than 330 scientific papers and secured several patents for his work, and a doctoral student, and found that compounds in the bark of the tree showed preliminary success in fighting against drug-resistant cancers.
“The Paw Paw compounds are not only effective in killing tumors that have proven resistant to anti-cancer agents, but they also seem to have a special affinity for such resistant cells,” an article on the Purdue News website noted.
Over 40 anti-cancer compounds were found in Paw Paw bark, although McLaughlin noted that cancer cells are very complex and difficult to kill in humans. A follow-up study was undertaken, but not enough has been done as of yet to determine the ultimate effects in humans.
The findings were published in the journal Cancer Letters and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
Where to Find Paw Paws and Paw Paw Supplements
Paw Paw trees and fruits can be found growing in otherwise humble Midwestern forests, and are most often found in shady areas on trees near riverbanks.
They typically ripen in late August and stay ripe all the way through October. Some farmers have taken to growing them experimentally or as a unique addition to their own personal gardens and orchards.
If you don’t have access to Paw Paw fruits or live outside of the Midwest, you also have the option of buying Paw Paw in supplement form to enjoy its many amazing benefits, but be careful as it is strong natural medicine that some people have experienced side effects with. Therefore you should consult your doctor first
Note: This article and the articles on this site are for informational purposes only and are not intended to cure, treat, prevent or diagnose any disease. Consult your doctor before making any changes.
Source: www.match-against-monsanto.com
By Tami Canal On September 25, 2017
This is my third article in the Daily Graphic on Apostle Kwadwo Safo and his engineering feats. I watched his exhibition on December 31, 2017, at Awoshie in Accra on television, his 37th annual exhibition. I have personally attended one of them.
Among the dignitaries at the exhibition was the President, the first time a sitting president had attended. Apostle Safo exhibited a machine that identifies and names leaves, a television operated through a musical conductor’s conducting skills, a tricar limousine and others.
Speeches showered praises on him and made promises of help. Notably, there has been no help for this great man all along. Elsewhere he would have been a national asset.
Are we going to sit by for Apostle Safo to pass on only to realise that we have lost a gem? It happened to Nana Drobo in the 1990s when he found a cure for HIV and AIDS at a time the western world could not even control the weight loss and diarrhoea of AIDS patients And by our scepticism he died with his knowledge. Apostle Safo should not go that way.
At the latest exhibition, the Minister of Science, Environment, Technology and Innovation gave his prepared speech on behalf of the government while the President himself gave an extempore speech. In both speeches, there was no promise of intended concrete support by the government beyond the fact that the government was creating an enabling environment to allow all such endeavours to flourish. That is a general approach and not good enough to support a particular local ingenuity.
We have had Adom and Boafo vehicles in the 1970s but we did not support them. That was when Tata had not even started manufacturing. Toyota and Nissan (called Datsun then) had just started manufacturing. We could have been miles ahead by now if we had supported the effort.
Our universities have been disappointing in this matter. Apostle Safo has received honorary doctorates from at least the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Ghana, Legon, yet the recognition was not for his engineering feats, rather for his philanthropic deeds. Yes, he is a philanthropist, but more importantly, he is an engineering wonder and that is what I expected the universities to recognise and award him for. By now one of our universities should have established a chair for him, a chair for Apostle Safo Engineering Studies.
An engineer in one of our universities once said Apostle Safo’s manufactured aeroplane would never fly because it did not conform to the laws of aeronautical metallurgy in welding the joints of the plane. I asked, “Why don’t you assist him?” He answered: “We invited him but he would not come.” I asked: “Why do you not go to him?” No tangible answer was given. Are we developing our local initiative?
What are our Institute of Engineering, entrepreneurs, individuals and civil society, on the whole, doing to support?
At the said exhibition, Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso, who also attended, gave suggestions for concrete support: By an administrative fiat the government can direct all ministries, departments and agencies procuring vehicles to include at least one Kantanka vehicle; the government should include a Kantanka vehicle in its fleet of state protocol vehicles and any foreign diplomat or president coming to Ghana will be picked from the airport in that vehicle; the President on national occasions could ride in that vehicle, not just for national pride but to support and showcase what we have. That is a concrete support which would be a good example for others to follow.
We add other suggestions that the government, when buying vehicles for chiefs, for example, could buy Kantanka vehicles. The government or the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation should invite Apostle Safo, sit down with him and discuss where he can be supported. The government can also waive taxes for the parts it imports for its industries in order to make his final products relatively cheap. The 275 parliamentarians can be encouraged to use his vehicles. It is not a good reflection that Madam Adwoa Safo, Minister of State in charge of Procurement and MP for Dome Kwabenya is not using her father’s vehicle. The impression out there is that if the vehicle was strong enough she would have been the first person to use one to advertise for her father.
It is my hope that Apostle Safo has catalogued all these inventions such that in his absence, even if a new invention cannot be made, others can replicate what he has already catalogued. It is my aspiration that come the next exhibition in December 2018 the invited guests would all be attending the exhibition in Kantanka vehicles and the state would be picking officials at the airport in a Kantanka vehicle.
Source: Columnist Dr Akwesi Osei
We welcome you on all aspects of the Allies services. We particularly appreciate your views on the content of the information provided, and welcome any suggestions to enhance our Kantanka promotion and education packages.
Because of the volume of comments received we deem it privileged to make available the prices of all the Kantanka cars.
Below is the current price list of all Kantanka cars.
| Kantanka Vehicle Model | Prices (GHS) |
| Onantefo | 150, 000 |
| Omama Luxury | 130, 000 |
| Omama Ordinary (4×4) | 95, 000 |
| K71 | 65,000 and 70, 000 |
| Amoanimaah | 70, 000 |
| Mensah | 130, 000 |
Kantanka Onantefo – Has a comforting and relaxing interiors differentiated with supportive seats with unique layouts, effective climate control system to breeze out your stress. The car has an engine capacity of 2.4 Multi Point Injector (MPI), with an affordable fuel consumption of 10.3litres covering 100km per hour.
Omama Luxury – The car has a spectacular human-machine interface with unique classic style. Built to reduce frequency of maintenance and operational cost. It comes with an engine capacity of 1.9 Turbo-Charge Direct Injector (TDI) with fuel consumption of 7.8 liters covering 100km per hour.
Omama Hard Body – The vehicle has an all-new turbo diesel engine with the capacity of 2.2cc and a fuel consumption of 7.8 liters per 100 km road cover. The vehicle also has a very tough body with a breeze luxury view and offers a wide range of choice with a wheelbase of 3025mm and a loading mass of 500kg.
K71 – A luxurious high-performance vehicle with an ultra-modern standard technical features that guarantees the safety, comfort, and the general satisfaction of the customer. The car comes with a driver front airbag, ABS/EBD system, Rear Camera View, the energy absorbing steering column with a unique 1.5 cc engine capacity and a fuel consumption of 5.8litres covering 100km per hour.
Amoanimaah – A salon car powered by a 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine that produces 102 horsepower. A five -speed Automatic Transmission Standard with a handsome dark interior styling fitted with soft-touch surfaces with better front seats and spacious at the back, and a low running costs of 6.4 liters per 100 km fuel consumption.
Mensah – An automatic salon car which has 4866mm long body and 2775mm long wheel base. It has an inductive ease open trunk with trunk size 510 L large. The car offers a 2.4cc engine size with a four-wheel independent suspension system.
Source: Kantanka.net
Ghanaians both home and abroad have started to accept and patronize the Kantanka brand of vehicles in a grand style. A lot of them are now riding in proudly built car made by the genius technologist of our time popularly known as Apostle Dr. Ing. Kwadwo Safo and his entire Kantanka Automobile workers.
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Bekwai Constituency Hon. Joseph Osei Owusu has followed the suite to purchase himself a classic Kantanka K71 which was outdoored officially at Kristo Asafo 37th Annual Technology Exhibition which was held at Awoshie few days ago.
The occasion was graced by Ghana's President Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo and Minister’s of State including the first Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
Hon. Joseph Osei Owusu was enthused with the technological display of Apostle Safo and his team. He later pledged to buy one of the cars which was outdoored at the occasion ranging from the latest Kantanka K71(Mini-SUV), Omama (Pickup), Amoanimaa and Mensah (Sedan).
The latest Kantanka K71 which he pledged and purchased after the occasion was delivered to him on Friday, 5th of January 2018 in his office at the Office of Parliament House in Accra, by the Kantanka delivery team led by the marketing executive Mr. Ebo Safo.
Source: Kantankaautomobile.com
President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has said 2018 will witness drastic transformation as his government changes gear to deliver more campaign promises.
According to him, the problems facing Ghana requires a great deal of speed to deal with them and his government is poised to leave a legacy.
"2017 I said I was a man in a hurry. But in 2018, we are coming with supersonic speed," Akufo-Addo stated when he took part in a technology exhibition organised by Kristo Asafo - manufacturers of the kantanka brand of vehicles.
President Akufo-Addo reiterated that his government is going to position Ghana beyond aid.
"The way we move about begging for money in other countries is not nice. that is not how God created us", he said.
He therefore commended Apostle Kwadwo Safo for his achievements in the technology sector, adding that is another possible means to attain self-sufficiency.
Items manufactured by the Founder and Leader of the Kristo Asafo Mission, Apostle Dr Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, and his team of engineers from the Kantanka Technological Centre of Excellence (KTCE) at Gomoa Mpota in the Central Region were displayed at the exhibition.
Source: Starrfmonline.com
The Akufo-Addo administration is set to follow through plans to allocate one percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to fund research in the short term.
This, according to Minister of Environment Science and Technology, Professor Frimpong Boateng, will come alongside the development of a Science, Technology and Innovation Fund.
Speaking at a technology exhibition of the Kristo Asafo Church in Awoshie-Accra, Professor Frimpong Boateng assured that the government was putting in a lot of effort to develop research in the country.
He, however, noted the need for administrative structures to ensure prudent use of prospective funds.
"We have been complaining that we don't have enough money for research and development. In Ghana, we talk a lot without thinking about the administrative financial framework and so on. So if someone is given 1 billion dollars now, we would not know how to administer it, he stated.
Thus, Professor Frimpong Boateng added that this was the reason a Science, Technology and Innovation fund was needed "so that when we get the money, we would be able to know how to administer it."
"This policy document is before Cabinet and when this is approved, our President has promised that in the short term, we would devote one percent of GDP to that fund so that we would have money for research."
Ghana's GDP is currently around $45.5 billion.
Professor Frimpong Boateng had previously lamented the allocation of 0.025% of GDP to his ministry for research purposes.
According to him, more is needed in the government's quest to address the country's challenges through research and innovation.
In line with its support for research, the Minister recently took receipt of a $100,000 donation from Ghana Chamber of Mines towards empowering the next generation of researchers, priblem solvers and leaders.
The support was also towards an initiative on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) training programs.
Source: Citifmonline.com
