Month: March 2012

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mike Hammah, has distributed 19 desk top computers to some Senior High Schools in Winneba to improve the knowlege of the students in the use of computers.

The Minister who is also the Member of Parliament for Effutu, procured the computers with his personal monies.

Schools that benefited from the MP’s kind gesture include A.M.E Zion Girls’ School , Winneba Senior High School, Nananom Senior School, H.S. Amissah Memorial Institute, Uncle Rich Senior High and Winneba School of Business.

Presenting the items, Mr Hammah noted that providing quality education is a huge task which cannot be done soley by the government and urged other stakeholders to partner and support the government in this regard.

Mrs Cecilia Coffie, the Head Mistress of Winneba Senior High School and Rev Mrs Helena S. Essien, the Head Mistress of Zion Girls, while receiving the equipments expressed their gratitude to the MP for the donation.

Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh

Dr. Joseph S. Annan, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industries, has appealed to inhabitants of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) constituency to take advantage of the on-going biometric registration exercise in order not to be disenfranchised.

Dr. Annan who is also the Member of Parliament for KEEA made the appeal when he toured a number of registration centres in his constituency to see how the exercise was going.

The MP said failure to register will deny them of their right to vote during the December general election and called on his constituents to register massively to enable them to elect the right leader for the country.

He appealed to the electorate to co-operate with the registration officers to ensure a successful exercise.

Dr. Annan later registered at the Amotoe Roman Catholic registration centre at Komenda.

GNA

Former Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Osei Bounsu Amoah’s hope of never to appear before the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO)for investigation into his role in the infamous Woyome saga has been dashed following a Fast Track High Court dismissing his application.

The court on Wednesday threw out the application filed by Hon. O.B Amoah who was praying the court to restrain the EOCO from inviting him to assist its investigations into the controversial judgment debt paid to NDC financier Alfred Woyome.

The court ruled that it had no jurisdiction to restrain the EOCO from inviting Mr Amoah, but could only do so if the body had abused its statutory jurisdiction.

Mr O.B Amoah who is also the Member of Parliament for Aburi/Nsawam was arrested a month ago for questioning in connection with the controversial GH¢51 million judgment debt award to businessman Alfred Woyome.

His lawyers after his arrested told the media that the Police was to charge him corruption and willfully causing financial loss to the state

He was deputy sports minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration when contracts awarded for the construction of stadia ahead of the CAN 2008 tournament were canceled and re-awarded.

Mr Amoah is saod to have instructed construction firm Waterville Holdings to move to site ahead of a formal contract for the rehabilitation of the Accra, Kumasi and Elwak sports stadia for CAN 2008.

It has subsequently been explained that a Memorandum of Understanding between Waterville and the Government of Ghana formed the basis for his letter.

Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Asokwa Maxwell Kofi Jumah says the Electoral Commission (EC) is to blame for the apathetic behavior by some people who are yet to register in the ongoing national biometric registration exercise especially in Accra

According to him, the EC should have ensured the creation of more registration centers at polling stations with high number of voters to ensure that the registration process which drags a bit is made much faster.

A visit by ghanamps.gov.gh to some registration centers in the Okaikoi North constituency revealed that since the registration exercise started on Saturday 24th March 2012, potential voters come to the centers at dawn to enable them register early so they can attend to their own businesses, but the slow pace of the registration exercise has discouraged a lot of people from waiting in those long queue for hours.

However speaking to ghanamps.gov.gh on his assessment of the ongoing exercise in his constituency, Hon. Maxwell Kofi Jumah stated that the exercise has been generally smooth apart from some hitches in the first two days of the exercise.

He said he has been moving round his constituency to educate people belonging on both sides of the political divide to ensure a successful exercise.

“Even though I’ll not be contesting in the upcoming parliamentary election, I’m doing my work as an MP for the love of my party and the fact that I want to see the NPP party being voted back into power to continue with the development of Ghana’’ Kofi Jumah said.

Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Kpone-Katamanso Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, has presented motorbikes, bicycles and megaphones worth GHs 50,000 to the NDC foot soldiers in the constituency to mark the launch of his campaign towards the 2012 general election.

He said the motorbikes and the bicycles would help the recipients to move into the campaign zeal.

Nii Afotey Agbo noted that the gesture was also to show appreciation to them for working hard to help him retain the seat again as the Member of Parliament for the area.
The MP, who is also the Greater Accra Regional Minister, is of the view that this step will enable him to concentrate on the ministerial duties which covered the entire region, while the party office handled his campaign at the grass root level.

He stressed the need for his campaign team to move into the constituency, ignoring all temptations from who would want to intrude and urged them to concentrate on the purpose for which the bikes were given and charged them to entice over 80 per cent of the voters in the constituency to the party.

He advised them to use tact and respect in their approach to work to manifest the Better Ghana Agenda.
Nii Afotey Agbo gave the assurance that with their support and hard work which helped him gain the unopposed status during the primaries, he was convinced that success would come their way in the next elections.

He urged them to be disciplined in all their endeavors to give the party the good name that it deserved.
Nii Agotey Agbo, promised to bring together all people including the youth, traditional rulers, elders and development partners to build the region.

Nii Afotey Agbo disclosed his intention to devote the period by working hand-in-hand with the people and assured them of greater collaboration.

He also gave the assurance that he would work as a leader and bring everybody’s ideas together for development.

He appealed for co-operation from the people to enable him to achieve his target.

The Kpone-Katamanso Constituency Organizer, Mr. Emmanuel Nagadzi, who received the items was appreciative of the gesture and said it would go a long way in their campaign.

He said the party in the constituency was united and would use that objective to work hard to ‘win more souils’ for the party.

Daily Graphic