Month: August 2011

Kennedy Akompreko Agyepong, NPP MP for Assin North, and an avowed critic of Ex President John Rawlingsthe most insulting politician in Ghana, has openly vowed not to hurl insults at former President Rawlings any longer.

In the wake of the rather scandalous story that hit the news stands last week about a certain Bishop(?) Obinim and his anti-Christian antics (especially his open confession that he used some supernatural powers to make a baby invalid), the insulting NPP MP was full of praise for President Rawlings because during his time, he dealt mercilessly with such charlatans masquerading as men of God. According to the abusive Assin North MP, he yearns for the days that the Rawlings Administration dealt mercilessly with such characters.

Speaking on Adom FM’s Edwasu Nsem last Thursday, Kennedy Agyepong said that there is no way the likes of Bishop (?) Obinim would be walking around as a free person if Rawlings were in-charge.

“Adakabre, I now understand the thinking behind what Rawlings did. In those days, some of us insulted him because we did not think far enough to understand that he was doing the right thing” Kennedy Agyepong said. “Apparently, Rawlings was doing the right thing because there is no way people like Obinim should be walking free” Kennedy Agyepong added. Sounding very livid Kennedy Agyepong swore that he will never insult President Rawlings because he was saving the nation from the hands of the likes of Obinim by cracking the whip.

“Adakabre, I will never insult Rawlings again” Kennedy Agyepong said.

It cannot be lost on those who were old enough at the time how Chairman Rawlings dealt mercilessly with a certain pastor in Kumasi who was working against the tenets of the Revolution with his anti-Ghana sermons.

In like manner, Chairman Rawlings dealt mercilessly with a certain lunatic who named himself Dzorwulu Jesus and was making his equally lunatic followers drink his urine.

It would be recalled that earlier on in the week and on the same Adom FM programme, the selfsame Kennedy Agyepong eulogised coup d’états; yearning for another “Rawlings”.

According to Kennedy Agyepong, after all the years of hurling insults at Rawlings, he now understands the motivating factor behind the 31st December uprising and is hoping that another “Rawlings” will emerge very soon because in his estimation, President Atta Mills and the NDC is deceiving and failing Ghanaians.

Source: Informer

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Member of Parliament (MP) for Avenor-Ave, Mr Doe Adjaho, has donated relief items to flood victims in some communities in his constituency.

Last month, owing to heavy rain fall, several communities in the Akatsi District of the Volta Region suffered destruction after the rainfall killed a number of people and destroyed farms and properties worth millions of Ghana Cedis.

As a result, some people in affected communities were rendered homeless and have to depend solely on relatives, government and the benevolence of well-wishers for survival.

To reduce the agony of the communities, the MP, accompanied by the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Akatsi, Mr Peter Nortu-Kotoe, visited and distributed large quantities of relief items to the affected people in the district.

The items which included maize, beans, oil, plastic cups and plates, used clothes and others were shared equally among all the communities.

The gesture was done in zones, and the first of the zones was Torve which comprised of communities such as Agordoe, Torve, Live, Moryi and Nugblebi.

In the Wute Zone, communities such as Adeheta, Logote-Wuive, Wute Logote, Ahlihadzi and Wuive benefited from the MP’s kindness.

At the Gornikope Zone, communities such as Avadre, Kpevi, Tsive, Kpotavi,Ablorkpo, Have, Kporwuvi,Gornikope,Kpevenu,Klokpe,Tetemale,Alorkpa,Sadame,Sremanu and Dzave were the beneficiaries. Affected communities in the Avenorpeme Zone were also not left out, as villages such as Xavi, Horti,Apeyime, Seshime Akeve did benefit.

Lastly, at the Ave-Dzalele Zone, communities such as Kpegbadza-Atanve, Atanve,Agbondo, Dzalele the same relief items were distributed to the people.

It will be recalled that last month, parts of the country, especially the Eastern Region and some communities in the Volta Region, unfortunately, experienced severe rainstorm which claimed lives and destroyed farms, buildingS and other properties worth millions of cedis.

Due to resource constraints although government, through the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), released several relief items to the affected communities, the communities needed more assistance, and it is anticipated that donations such Mr. Adjaho’s would go a long way to affect, positively, the lives of the communities.

Source: The Herald

The, NPP’s Director of Communications, Nana Akomea has expressed regret at the incident in which he and Deputy Minister of Tourism, James Agyenin-Boateng, exchanged insults during a Joy FM radio programme, a fortnight ago.

Nana Akomea expressed his remorse last weekend when he appeared on Metro TV Good Morning Ghana programme, explaining that he was unsuccessful in his attempt to avert the developing situation by calling the attention of the host of the programme and the deputy minister.

He said he realized that the use of the offensive language was deliberate and that this provoked his equally offensive response. He noted it was an unfortunate development and it was his hope that it would never happen again in the future.

The two politicians were engaged in a war of words when the Deputy Minister while analyzing an issue ,sort to question the intelligence of the MP, a statement that Nana Akomea took great exception to and demanded a withdrawal from the Deputy Minister which he declined.

Nana Akomea who was incensed by the deputy minister’s refusal immediately interrupted the deputy minister’s comments and said, “You are a stupid fool if you care’’, a statement that he repeated thrice.

The two respected politicians’ conduct on radio, was harshly criticized by the public who thought the two were young role models who should have shown decorum on such a public platform.

By : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh

Mr Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, Member of Parliament for the Mfantseman West has instituted vacation classes for Senior High School students in his constituency.

The classes, being held at Kwegyir Aggrey Senior High School at Anomabo, Mfantsiman Girls Senior High School at Saltpond and Mankessim Senior High/Technical School, cover six core subjects.

The MP who is a Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development said he had decided to make the classes an annual affair to support SHS students to pass the West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) well to enable them to get admissions into the universities.

He noted that admissions into the universities had become very competitive and students needed to score high marks in the WASSCE to be admitted.

Mr Quansah said he had provided free exercise books, transports to convey the students to and from the centres and had also provided some allowances for the tutors.

He urged the students to take the classes very seriously to make the month-long programme a success.

The Deputy Minister said science quiz would be organised between the centres at the end of the programme for which laptop computers would be awarded to those who would win.

He appealed to the students to offer maximum cooperation to the tutors to ensure a successful exercise.

Meanwhile, the issue of this particular vacation classes became very contentious when it emerged that the former MP for the area and former Minister of Information in the Kufuor administration, Stephen Asamoah Boateng had also decided to start a vacation classes for students in the arean just around the same time.

It was thought that both personalities were organizing the extra classes for the students mainly for political gains as the two politicians are expected to stage a show down come 2012 elections.

By : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Ahafo Ano South, Stephen Balado Manu has urged disgruntled members of the Ablekuma North Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to channel their grievances through the party structures.

Issues unsettled in the Ablekuma North Constituency of the NPP incensed some aggrieved members who demonstrated on Thursday when the Presidential candidate of the NPP Nana Akufo-Addo visited the constituency as part of his Listening Tour ahead of the 2012 general elections.

The group has called for the immediate removal of their Member of Parliament (MP), Justice Joe Appiah who according to them is ineffective and cannot retain the Ablekuma North seat for the NPP in 2012.

The polling station chairman for Odorkor Pentecost electoral area, Abubakari Brimah who led the group decided to demonstrate during Nana Akufo-Addo’s visit to the constituency to present a petition on the conduct of the MP.

According to him, he was shocked when some party executives prevented them from meeting the Nana Akufo Addo who was on a listening campaign tour since they had petitioned the national and regional executives, council of elders of the party about the conduct of the Member of Parliament to no avail.

He cautioned that the MP’s conduct would adversely affect Nana Akufo-Addo’s chances of becoming president and would also cause the NPP the Ablekuma North constituency seat to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) if immediate measures are not taken.

However speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Thursday 11th August 2011, Balado Manu cautioned members in Ablekuma North constituency about the consequences of internal party wrangling, a situation which he said cost the NPP dearly in the 2008 general elections.

He called for a concerted effort from all NPP members to support the flag-bearer and work hard to wrestle power from the NDC in 2012.

Hon. Balado Manu said the demonstration by the aggrieved members to present their petition to Nana Akufo-Addo was unacceptable and against the party’s rules and regulations and advised that they use the appropriate channels to get the concerns known, which he believed would be addressed.

By : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for the Adenta Constituency, Kojo Adu-Asare has described as unfortunate attempt by some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to denigrate the presidency.

According to him, for Kwabena Sarpong, a member of the NPP’s Communications team to say President J.E.A. Mills is ‘clueless’ on happenings around him is regrettable.

Kwabena Sarpong who appeared on MultiTV’s political show Minority Caucus on Wednesday August 10 said President Mills has no clue on the things going on in his administration.

He added that for President Mills who professes to be God fearing to allow his appointees to go on an insulting spree against their opponents and also lie to Ghanaians, is evidence enough of the president’s hold on governance in the country.

But speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Thursday, Kojo Adu-Asare said politics of insults is part of the campaign strategy of the NPP in their bid to unseat the NDC government.

He said according to the Oxford advance dictionary, clueless means ‘very stupid or not able to understand or do something’ which is usually used for people who are paralyzed and cannot do things on their own.

The NDC MP noted that, for a member of the NPP to use such a word to describe President Mills, calling the integrity of the president to question exposes the opposition party’s agenda to denigrate the presidency.

The Adenta MP observed that if the NPP decides to use idiomatic expressions to insults President Mills and members of his NDC, they would much them ‘boot for boot’.

Kojo Adu-Asare recounted some incidence where some members of the NPP members who have engaged in politics of insults against the President and his appointees to butress his claims.

“In just two weeks, John Kuma went berserk; just a week after, the Communications Director (Nana Akomea) also followed suit -‘ stupid fool’ – on a live programme both on TV and radio and then another – ‘very stupid’- to concretize the word stupid,” he added.

He took a swipe at the flag bearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo for not openly reprimanding members of his party who insult the presidency.

“We are getting to a very sour point in our body politics. We should not use the opportunity we have had to denigrate our own seat. The elections and its results will show what Ghanaians want”.

Source: myjoyonline.com

The Research and Advocacy Platform [RAP] of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] has petitioned the Parliament to sanction the Member of Parliament for Okaikoi South, Nana Akomea, over the insults he hurled at Deputy Tourism Minister, James Agyenim Boateng on Multi TV and Joy FM’s news analysis program Newsfile last Saturday.

According to the group, Nana Akomea by his actions has tarnished the image of Mr. Agyenim Boateng.

Spokesperson for the group, Mr. Kwakye Ofosu explained that the group is “appalled by the conduct of Nana Akomea, we do not believe that a man of his station must allow the kind of words that proceeded from his mouth to come out of his mouth. He should never have done that. Even what is worse, is that having done what he did, he was prevailed upon by the host of the show to withdraw and apologize and he refused. That again sets a very bad precedence.”

He also added that “we are extremely worried that Nana Akomea will engage in a conspiracy with other members of the NPP to deliberately undermine the integrity of James Agyenim Boateng. So what he has done has completely stripped him of any legitimacy to continue to represent the people of Okaikoi South in parliament.”

The Research and Advocacy Platform wants Parliament to “haul Nana Akomea before the Privileges Committee so that they will take him through disciplinary proceedings with the view to meting out severe sanctions out to him so it will serve as a deterrent to all those out there who want to engage in this kind of unethical behavior.”

But commenting on the issue on Joy FM’s Top Story, former Member of Parliament for Elembele and former Chairman of Parliament’s privileges committee, Freddy Blay said the Committee on its own cannot decide to handle the issue.

According to him, the Speaker of Parliament will have to refer the matter to the Privileges Committee before it can take action.

Source; Multi TV

The Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, Yaw Owusu Boateng, says he is becoming increasingly worried about the huge loans the ruling NDC government is contracting from foreign countries.

According to him, the NDC’s proclivity for securing huge loans which attract high interest will have dire consequences as the economy can easily be crippled as a result of these financial transactions.

The NDC government since its assumption of power in 2009 has contracted lots of loans from institutions like International Monitory Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, but most of the loans have been secured from China which has been met with some concerns from section of the public.

Parliamentarians are to reconvene from recess from 22nd to 25 August to approve a $3 billion loan from China for the construction of several developmental projects including the Western and Eastern corridors roads.

The eastern corridor project, stretching from Tema through Asikuma, Hohoe, Jasikan, Yendi and Nakpanduri to Kulungugu, serves as the main link between the southern and the northern parts of the country and between Ghana and neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.

Speaking to ghanamps.gov.gh, Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, Yaw Owusu Boateng described government’s penchant for loans as very awful as it has already contracted $8.5billion in less than 3 years in government.

He noted that the yet to be approved $3 billion plus the already secured $8.5 billion and $500 million is unacceptable as it will further increase Ghana’s debt stock.

“In less than 3 years in power the NDC government has contracted loans to the tune of $12 billion which is twice as much as Ghana’s debt from 1957 to 2000, this is serious, I’m sure if it had not been for the recent rebasing of the economy, Ghana would have gone back to HIPC. Hon. Owusu Boatend said.

By : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyepong has described the Founder of the International Gods Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, as a fake pastor who deserves to be publicly flogged as was done in the Rawlings PNDC era.

He said harsh punishment such as what prevailed in the military regimes must be reintroduced to deal with fake pastors who take advantage of unsuspecting followers.

The MP who in recent times has severally criticized pastors expressed his disgust over Bishop Obinim storming the studios of Hot FM in Accra on Monday in protest of a discussion on his infidelity with the wife of one of his associate pastors and in the process vandalizing property of the station.

He is said to have attacked a number of persons including host of the programme, Barimah Kwame Ntim and guests but was prevented from doing any more harm when the Adabraka Police was called in to maintain order.

Bishop Obinim has also publicly confessed to (spiritually) crippling and damaging the brains of the baby of the woman he had an affair with, when he used his hands to touch the head and legs of the baby who is a year and half old.

Speaking on Adom FM on Thursday, the Member of Parliament Assin North Kennedy Agyepong who condemned the conduct of Bishop Obinim, was beside himself with shock to hear a supposed man of God being so callous.

” What wrong has this innocent baby done to this pastor, if you have any issues deal with the baby’s mum who you believe is out there to tarnish your reputation and not the baby for christ sake”

Kennedy Agyepong noted that ruthless measures must be taken against such charlatans who take advantage of ordinary people all in the name of solving their problems for them spiritually.

“How on earth can such a person call himself a man of God when he can be this callous, because of democracy people like this can go about doing what they want, I sometimes wish we could revisit the Rawlings PNDC era where people were beaten for misbehaving, this man would have been severely dealt with’’ he fumed.

Hon. Kennedy Ayepong called for Bishop Obinim to be severely punished to serve as a deterrent to such criminals who under the guise of being pastors cheat people.

By: Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh