Month: June 2013

The Member of Parliament for Yapei-Kusawgu Constituency, Alhaji Amadu Seidu said he will continue to offer assistance to children of school going age in his constituency to provide opportunity for them to access formal education to an appreciable level.

According to him, he has provided educational scholarship package to a number of students in the area at various level of education including tertiary, senior high schools as well as at the medical school.

He however indicated that the focus will be on brilliant but needy children who show promising signs of excelling who should not be allowed to go waist. Additionally, others will be assisted to acquire employable skills as part of efforts to develop human resource in the constituency.

He therefore called on beneficiaries of the scholarship package to make good use of the opportunity given them to give value for money used on them.

Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Bunkpurugu, Solomon Namliit Boar is making frantic efforts to improve potable water accessibility to his constituents.

The MP having realized the difficulty his people go through to get good water for domestic use has initiated moves to raise funds to mechanize a number of boreholes in the constituency. This will help more residents to benefit from available boreholes and save productive hours used in search of water.

He is particularly worried about the health implications of some of the sources from which some of the residents draw water and indicated that it is better to provide the people with good drinking water than allow them to use these unwholesome water and get infected with disease which also have financial implications for the people.

He mentioned particularly Nankpanduri which needs urgent intervention. He stated that test has been carried out on the various boreholes to ascertain their viability and good ones identified, adding that as soon as funds are made available work will commence.

Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.gov.gh

Honourable Dr Mark Assibey Yeboah, Membr of Parliament for New Juaben South in the Eastern Region has emphasized the need for neighborhood associations.

The MP who was speaking at the 10th anniversary celebration of Two Streams West Landlords at Koforidua noted that the national and local budget are scares and that government are faced with serious budgetary constraints. He said such associations will help in organizing communal self help activities that could help hasten the pace of development and bring much needed development to all communities.

He congratulated the association for how far they have come and all the successes they have chalked and admonished them to stay focused and united to bring more progress and development to the two streams in the electoral area.

Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.gov.gh

Two days of heavy rainfall has destroyed some houses in the Akin Oda Constituency.

The communities included Aboabo and Gyadem. Few houses in these two areas have their roofings ripped off destroying properties of residents and rendering them homeless.

The only road leading to the Gyadem has also been affected including the bridge linking the community.

However, the timely intervention by the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda,Quaittoo Agyapong William led to the filling of potholes and the surroundings of the bridge.

Meanwhile, the MP is also making efforts to provide 12 packets of roofing sheets to affected households to help them get back their buildings in shape for habitation.

Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.gov.gh

Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central, Hon. Henry Quartey has supported youth in vocational profession with equipment to boost their businesses.

He has so far donated a total of 25 sewing machines and 25 hair dryers to seamstresses and hair dressers in his constituency and will add another 50 of each equipment on monday.

Speaking to Ghanamps.gov.gh, Hon. Quartey disclosed that he secured the equipment with his own resources in fulfillment of his pledge during his electioneering campaign.

He said the distribution was done devoid of any partisanship as the beneficiaries are all his constituents and must seek their interest.

Hon. Quartey added that he liaises with enterpreneurship associations in selecting the beneficiaries.
He noted that his plan is to distribute a total of 300 each of the equipment by the end of the year.

Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Prestea- Huni- Valley, Hon. Francis Koffie Adu-Blay has called on government to register persons involved in galamsey activities as part of efforts to reduce illegal mining activities in the country.

According to the lawmaker, activities of these illegal miners could easily be monitored if their operations are completely legalised by registering them “under one umbrella”.

The MP, who was speaking in an interview with GhanaMPs.gov.gh, further asserted that, government revenue base will as well increase through payment of taxes from these operators if they were duly registered and recognized as a body in the country.

He added payment of levies to various Districts, Municipal and Metropolitan Assembly by these miners could also assist community development which will subsequently reduce burdens on central government.

Though the MP stated emphatically his support for galamsey activities, he however bemoaned the act of extracting mineral from various water bodies, adding that the most rivers in the country have been badly affected their actions.

He mentioned rivers Ankobra, Asesre, Pra Birem, among others as the most badly affected ones to the extensive mining activities from galamsey operators, reiterating that these actions could have been checked if they were legally registered as a body.

He also appealed to the Lands commission to beef-up their strategies in ensuring that reserved lands are not invaded by these illegal mining operators.

Hon. Adu-Blay also bemoaned the fact the Ghana had no state owned mining company to employ our trained youth into the mining sector.

Emmanuel Frimpong Mensah/GhanaMPs.gov.gh

The Member of Parliament for Assin North constituency, Hon. Ambre Samuel has added his voice to the need for government to take keen interest towards the eradication of child labour in every part of the country.

He said most children have had their education been jeopardized as a result of their exposure to various forms of child labour, adding that the trend could continue if measures are not taken into proper consideration.

The MP made this assertion when speaking in an interview with GhanaMPs.gov.gh’s Central Regional correspondent, Emmanuel Frimpong after marking the World Child Labour Day in Parliament yesterday.

He was of the view that instituting intervention programmes such as School Feeding programme, capitation grant and Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP) were not the only ways of tackling situation but rather strict child labour laws enforced.

“Laws made to ensure that people refrain from child labour act should be strictly enforced by the appropriate authorities in a way of ensuring that the practice is completely eradicated in the country” he added.

Hon. Ambre further disclosed that children in fishing and farming area are at greater risk of child labour, adding that children in communities such as Ngleshie Amanfro and Winneba and other typical farming communities are sometimes exposed to the act.

He urged us as a country to come together as one and help find solution to the menace so as to give children a brighter future.

Emmanuel Frimpong Mensah/GhanaMPs.gov.gh

Hon. Sulemana Alijata Gbentie, Member of Parliament for Sissala East, has assured to give momentum to improve the lots of women in her constituency, as a resolve to achieving women empowerment in the area.

She said in the foreseeable future, she would advance the course of women through the implementation of certain improvised economic activities as a rebase to support them in the socio-economic aspect of their lives in the district.

Speaking to ghanamps.gov.gh, Madam Sulemana Gbentie reiterated that she had in the past been at the forefront assisting women to benefit from various economic activities in the district whiles the DCE for the area, and therefore noted that she would continue to focus more on her agenda and ensure that efforts made in respect of economic empowerment of women yields good results.

According to her, she would put in place a monitoring mechanism to check and ascertain whether the projects and programmes like the credit facilities for women groups and other economic activities set for women in the district, were making any meaningful ends in their lives.

She said as part of this move she had even engaged the District Co-operative officer to form the women into groups and facilitate some workshop for them on how to manage every scarce resource they obtain.

Fashioning meaningful Political balance with women

Madam Sulemana however observed that there has been a significant milestone in resolving the under-representation of women in our politics, and lauded the efforts of President Mahama with the chance offered to women in engendering political balance with women at the fore.

She maintained that everybody should be allowed to contribute his or her quota in the growth and development of the country, adding that there should be equity in the system.

“I want women to be able to talk freely and contribute to any national discourse; there is something good in women but if you continue to shut them down you will not get the best in them” she asserted and thus pleaded that women be given the chance to prove themselves at every level in society so collectively we could help build a better Ghana.

Jonathan Jeffrey Adjei/Ghanamps.gov.gh