Month: June 2013

Member of Parliament for Salaga North, Alhassan Mumuni, has expressed his commitment to ensure that the constituency benefits from the 200 Senior High Schools (SHS) to be built across the country, promised by President John Mahama during his campaign in the 2012 election.

According to the MP, the area currently cannot currently boast of a single SHS, a situation that has had adverse effect on the education of some of the students in the locality.

Speaking to Ghanamps.gov.gh, Hon. Alhassan Mumuni stated that the absence of an SHS, has created room for school dropouts, as some of the students after J.H.S do not find themselves in boarding schools and so having to attend day schools in other places becomes difficult for them and rather resort to staying home instead.

He added that once the SHS is established in the area, there is there likelihood that officials who would work in the school would be indigenes, a development that would have a direct bearing on the people which would encourage others to continue their education.

Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Sissala East constituency, Madam Sulemana Alijata Gbentie has said that poor community-teacher relations forms part of realities that militates against the performance of teachers in societies.

She reiterated that goodwill between parents or community members and teachers counts in our quest to promote quality education in the communities. She thereby urged community members to be friendly towards teachers in their communities.

She made these claims in an interview with Ghanamps.gov.gh to discuss the way forward for education in the district.

She noted that in the case whereby community members are hostile to teachers in a particular town, such teachers would automatically decline to give off their best in respect of teaching activities in the classroom.

She said the last thing we could offer teachers in the deprived communities was the warm attitude and friendliness, as such teachers were practically not privileged like their counterparts in the major cities and towns.

She therefore encouraged traditional leaders, opinion leaders, parents and good spirited members of societies to take keen interest to occasionally visit schools located in their communities to meet authorities and find out what their problems were in the school.

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Honourable Eric Kwakye Darfour, Member of Parliament for Nkawkaw said the number of health facilities in the constituency is woefully inadequate to cater for the growing population of the area.

Worse of all, the whole constituency is without government hospital compelling the entire population to be dependent on a mission hospital and private one called Agyarkwa Hospital.

The constituency falls short of the ministry of health’s projection of about 30 CHPS compounds for the provision of primary health services especially in deprived areas. There are less than 10 of these CHPS compounds dotted around the constituency making health accessibility a daunting task for residents.

To bring some improvement to the sector, the Member of Parliament disclosed that he is in the process of completing a community health centre which was started by his predecessor but was abandoned at the roofing level.

Additionally, another health facility at Danteng Okerchire which has also stalled will be completed to make it more useful to the residents in those communities. The structure of the facility has been completed but has not been equipped for use hence his main focus as far as this particular project is concerned is to extend electricity and light to the facility and provide the necessary equipment and logistics for its proper functioning.

Documentations on the two projects have been worked on with assistance from the necessary stakeholders paving way for work to commence as soon as funds are secured.

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The Member of Parliament for Suhum, Frederick Opare –Ansah has equipped the district Directorate of education with various items to facilitate their delivery.

The items included desks, laptops computers, printers and other stationery.

The MP noted that improving education should not only be limited to the schools and teacher development but also seen from the managerial point as day to day administrative decisions emanate from there. So much as we seek improvement in school infrastructure and quality of delivery, the state has to attach equal measure of importance to other equally important contributors to education.

In a related development, every senior high school and junior high school in the area was presented with a set of computers to aid their administrative work.

Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is asking Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong to resign from her position as the Attorney General and Minister of Justice after a Supreme Court ruling for a refund of the 47 million Euros which was dubiously paid into Waterville Holdings account.

The Supreme Court by a unanimous decision ruled in favour of former Attorney General and Minister of Justices, Mr. Martin Amidu in his suit filed against Waterville Holdings for illegal payment of money into the company’s accounts.

Mr. Amidu however, prayed the court to order Waterville holdings to refund monies which were dubiously paid into the company’s accounts back into the Ghana’s consolidated funds.

Meanwhile Hon. Ken Agyapong who was speaking on Adom TV’s “Pampaso” programme called for heads to roll at the A-G’s department from a perspective that Ghana could never retrieve the money from Waterville holdings if some persons at the A-G’s department were still occupying their positions.

According to the Lawmaker, Mrs. Marietta Brew offered direct assistance to Waterville and Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome in duping the country and thus described no logic for her to have come out to declare that the A-G’s department was solely behind Mr. Amidu’s bid to retrieve Ghana’s money from Waterville.

He further descended heavily on Solicitor General and the Chief State Attorney at the Attorney Generals department, Mr. Nerquaye Tetteh as a potential threat in Ghana’s bid to retrieve the 47m Euro from Waterville after he (Nerquaye) suspiciously transferred an amount of about 400,000 dollars into his wife’s account after these dubious transactions were made.

The outspoken MP again called for the removal of the First deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Ebo Barton Oduro for spearheading the payment of the money into Waterville’s accounts, adding that his action does not abet his position into the high office as a First deputy Speaker.

Hon Agyapong however, called for the establishment of an independent commission to strictly ensure that Waterville refund all 47m Euros in the shortest possible time.

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An educational endowment fund is to be established at Salaga North constituency to cater for needy but hardworking students.

Plans to get the fund operational by September are far advanced as the MP for the area Hon. Alhassan Mumuni has engaged stakeholders to fashion out the modalities.

Speaking to Ghanamps.gov.gh, the MP disclosed that 30% of his share of the MPs Common Fund will be dedicated to the fund while other fund raising activities will be held to support it.

He expressed his commitment to ensuring that the quality of education in the area is improved.

Hon. Alhassan Mumuni added that as future leaders of the constituency and the country at large it is important that the student receive the best of education.

Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh

The widespread of snake bites in some hinterlands and villages under the Yunyoo constituency, is endangering the lives of inhabitants daily in the area.

As a result of lack of access roads in the remote villages and communities, as well as reliable means of transportation, inhabitants find it difficult dealing with this problem.

Following this, the Member of Parliament for the area, Joseph Bipoba Naabu in response to this threatening condition has intervened by providing some motor bikes to support communities deal with the menace.

He said about twenty communities in the Yunyoo constituency have been supplied with the facility to aid transport victims in the event of snake bites or any other health related emergencies.

Speaking to Ghanamps.gov.gh, Mr Bipoba noted that this move comes on the heels of the rapid snake bites that were recorded during his campaign time.

“At least 19 people were attacked by snake bites during my campaign in the area”, a critical condition that compelled him to donate his pick-up vehicle in transporting victims at midnight to Nalerigu hospital”.

“If a snake bites someone and there is no access road or vehicle to assist rescue him/her, the person would simply lose his life”, he noted.

Communities that received these motor bikes included Jagol, Jangandel, Tuna,Kufok,Nagban, and Nagyil amongst others.

Jonathan Jeffrey Adjei/Ghanamps.gov.gh