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GENIUS Creative Media, Micjoy Advertising and the Africa Media Consult, a media consultancy based in Kumasi have in collaboration honoured some personalities for their meritorious work by contributing to the development of the country. Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffour; former Chief Executive of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) now Central Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Sarpong; the Sekyere South District Chief Executive, Mr Edward Kusi Ayarkwa and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of First Class Hospital at Konongo, Dr Steve Ogbordjor were honoured at a ceremony in Kumasi. Speaking on the theme: �Giving Flower to the Living not the Dead�, the President of the African Media Consult, Michael Nana Ampong noted that many times society say good things and honoured people only when they are dead, a phenomenon he deemed unfortunate. He said it was necessary to honour people when they were alive for their sterling performances for others to emulate but not when they were dead and called for a reversal of the trend. He said Dr Duffour as former Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), former Minister has helped in the contribution of socio-economic development in the country. He said as Entrepreneur, he has employed a number of people, particularly the Ghanaian youth through the establishment of banks, and other businesses in the country, saying that his glowing testimony must be acknowledged for society to learn from it. For Mr Sarpong, he said while he (Sarpong) was the KMA Boss, he worked hard to win the support of his assembly members where he helped initiated a number of projects in the Kumasi metropolis, though the KMA is the hottest seat of government in the Ashanti Region. He said Mr Sarpong while in office also sought for a decongestion exercise towards proper management of the Kumasi city, supported sanitation and education development in the KMA and that his contribution needs to be acknowledged. Mr Ayarkwa as DCE, he said had been accessible to the people who have branded him a servant-leader for his down-to-earth qualities, a character mostly uncommon among government officials. His quest to improve on national development, he said had been exemplified in a project of projects he had initiated across the district more his colleague DCEs in the Ashanti Region and even beyond and that he works call for his honour. Nana Ampong said Dr Ogbordjor, a medical doctor has instituted free extra and vacation classes for schoolchildren in the deprived community of Donkorkrom in the Afram Plains area. He further said that he had also instituted scholarship for students and same free classes for brilliant schoolchildren the Asante Akyem Central Municipal capital of Konongo to promote quality and affordable education. He said Dr Ogbordjor has also built an ultra-modern science laboratory for the Konongo MA Junior High and Primary Schools and an ultra-modern library staffing the library with contemporary books. Apart from the he said Dr Ogbordjor had due to the perennial water shortage in some parts of Konongo built two mechanised boreholes for the Konongo Zongo, adding that he owns a football academy where over 70 amateur footballers had been trained.