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Rotary is not occultist club - Prof
Asiamah
Kumasi, July 30, Ghanadot/GNA - Professor
Seth Opuni Asiamah, former president of the Kumasi East
Rotary Club, has debunked the notion that Rotarians practise
occultism.
He said unlike occultist groups, rotary was a benevolent
club, which existed to support the society as well as
respect other religions.
Prof Asiamah, who is a senior lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology (KNUST), was speaking
at the induction of a new president for the club in Kumasi
at the weekend.
He mentioned some of the communities in the Ashanti region,
which had benefited from the club's services since its
introduction in 1990 as Wadie-Adwumakase, Krakosua,
Patriensa, Kwanfifi in the areas of health care, education,
provision of good drinking water and sanitation.
He said apart from the villages, Komfo Anokye Teaching
Hospital (KATH) had also benefited from a 950,000
dollar-project supported by Rotary International through
which some 300 children with clubfoot, had been cured while
some three deaf were supported with hearing aids.
Prof Asiamah, who is currently the treasurer, encouraged the
public to join the Rotary club, saying, "a life given to
others is a life that never dies" and asked the members not
to relent in changing people's lives through their services.
Mr Charles Amoako, president of the club, explained that in
line with its objective of improving health facilities,
human lives and eradicating hunger, the club would fumigate
the Kumasi Central Prisons and embark upon an anti-malaria
campaign through the distribution of bed nets.
It will also a library named after the wife of the
Asantehene, Julia Osei Tutu, for the Bantama cluster of
schools.
GNA
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