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THIS HAS JUST BEEN REPORTED BY THE GHANA PRESS. I SMELL REVIVAL! READ ON

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Commiserations to the people of Haiti. As we show solidarity with Haiti, my mind is immediately cast to my beloved Ghana. Natural disasters much as they are undesirable are also inevitable. Therefore, we should be thinking of how ready we are should a disaster strike. It is passive to always wait to respond to disasters rather than acting in readiness. Humanly speaking, it was impossible to avert the Haitian disaster in any way. Haiti sits in the middle of hurricane alley and lies next to a geological fault line. Ghana and in particular Accra is prone to earthquakes. Ghana is located well clear of the major earthquake zones of the earth but nonetheless earthquakes have been known to occur in the vicinity of Accra which has experienced major shocks in 1862, 1906 and 1939 (magnitude 6.4) and numerous smaller ones, the most recent in 1997, 2003 and 2006. Thus there is good evidence of current tectonic activity associated with the Akwapim fault zone and, to a lesser extent, with the great

Togo deserved better from CAF and the organizers (of the orange cup of nations) to afford them space to grieve and mourn their colleagues and also allow enough time to recover from the shock of the incident. Hence CAFs decision to disqualify Togo through no fault of theirs is tantamount to the popular adage in Africa 'cry your own cry,'or as they say in Britain, 'hung out to dry.'And rightly so Togo have been left to cry their own cry and why not? Virgilio Santos, an official with African Nations Cup local organizing committee COCAN told a newspaper "We asked that all delegations inform us when they would arrive and provide the passport number of their players. Togo was the only team not to respond and did not inform COCAN it was coming by bus,the rules are clear: no team should travel by bus. I don't know what led them to do this." Well, Mr Santos if Cabinda is that unsafe for teams to travel by bus, was that restricted only to the Togo national team?