PROTECT ACTIVITIES THROUGH INSURANCE COVERAGE (PAGE 36)

THE Volta Regional Manager of the State Insurance Company (SIC), Mr Richard Finuku-Doamekpor, has urged organised groups to consider insurance coverage of their activities as the surest means of protecting and sustaining their businesses to ensure their growth.
He, however, stated that the company would not compromise groups that would engage in drugs to enhance their trade, since that might eventually mar the reputation of the company in the insurance business.
Mr Finuku-Doamekpor made the call when he received 20 members from the Volta Body Building Association who visited the company to show appreciation for sponsorship of their event during the just ended Asogli Yam Festival and the fifth anniversary of the coronation of the Agbogbomefia, Togbe Afede XIV.
He urged them to compete with their counterparts in other parts of the region to enable them to realise their strengths and weaknesses.
The chairman of the association, Mr Kingsley Ledo, praised the SIC for the sponsorship, which covered awards like wall clocks, T-shirts and souvenirs.
He expressed the hope that other organisations would emulate the gesture.
Mr Ledo gave the assurance that they would sustain their discipline and remain focused and steadfast to bring glory and honour to the region.
He allayed the fears of the public that weightlifters were a threat to the society due to their weight and size compared to the ordinary citizens.
Mr Ledo said they were not “machomen” who would cause riot or mayhem, but disciplined people in society whose objective was to win laurels for the nation through weightlifting.
The weightlifting contest comprising bench, squatting, dead lifting in the heavy, middle and lightweights divisions, attracted a large crowd to the palace of the Agbogbomefia.
In the heavyweight division of the bench, Emmanuel Tsey was the winner with Michael de-Souza as the runner-up while Cephas Klu won the squatting with Michael de-Souza as the runner-up. The dead lifting division was won by George Megbenu with Cephas Klu as the runner-up.
In the middleweight division, Cornelius Ankrah won the bench, squatting and dead lifting events while Joseph Opoku was the first runner-up in the squatting event.
Winfred Sitso won all the lightweight divisions in benching, squatting and dead lifting while Raphael de-Souza was the first runner-up in the squatting and dead lifting competition.
A three-member executive committee of the association was inaugurated with Kingsley Ledo as Chairman, Joseph Opoku as Secretary and Michael de-Souza as Organiser.