Month: June 2013

MP for Jaman South Constituency, Hon. Yaw Afful has called for licenses of small scale miners to be revoked with immediate effect.

He said if the government wishes to really stop the influx of galamsey activities within the country, the above directive should be adhered to.

According to the legislator, Chinese miners usually use the small scale mining as a camouflage to commit heinous activities in mining centres including destruction of water bodies, farms and other properties and go scot free without being caught up by law.

“Some of these Chines miners because the law does not permit them to operate alone, join forces with indigenes to commit atrocities which endanger the lives of residents in the catchment areas in which they operate,” he affirmed.

Hon. Afful who made the call on Adom Fm’s Morning show programme dubbed ‘Dwaso Nsem’ today suggested that after revoking licenses of small scale miners, their concessions should also be seized by government.

The MP however commended the Government’s inter-ministerial task force against galamsey, for their role in helping to clamp down illegal mining activities within the country.

Hon. Yaw Afful some few weeks ago revealed his intentions of stopping any illegal mining activity within his constituency.

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The Member of Parliament for Juaboso, Kwabena Akandoh Minta has sworn to stop doing politics entirely if the ruling NDC loses the 2012 election petition case in court.

According to him he does not fear the consequences of his utterance and he is confident that President John Mahama will be adjudged by the Supreme Court as the legitimate winner.

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party Nana Akufu Addo and his running mate Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and the party chairman Jake Obestebi Lamtey are in court challenging the outcome of the 2012 election.

However speaking on Asempa FM Ekosii Sen show on Thursday, Hon. Minta asserted that one does not need to be oxford caller to know that the petitioner’s case is crumbling by each day in court. He accused the NPP hierarchy of giving it supporters false hopes of the winning the ongoing case only to prevent them from vesting their spleen on the leadership.

Meanwhile, after 33 days of sitting the Supreme Court today adjourned the case to 24th June 13, 2013 to allow accounting firm KPMG to conclude auditing on the pink sheet which in evidence.

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Two schools in the Twifo Hermang Lower Denkyira Constiuency in the central region have received donations of 10 packets of roofing sheets and packets of nails from the Member of Parliament for the
area, Foster Joseph Andoh.

The two schools, Jukwa Catholic Primary and Armah Kwamano DA Primary both have their roofing ripped off by heavy rainstorms with Armah Kwamano having some damages to the school structure.

The items worth over forty-five thousand Ghana cedis will be used to put the structure of the two schools back in shape to enable the students get back to school to continue their studies.

The MP is aggrieved that over twenty schools have already been reported to have suffered similar ordeals, and the cost in repairing these structures will be very huge.

He raised concerns about the quality of work by contractors, adding that most of the affected schools were constructed less than five years ago. He thus called for technical officers at the various assemblies to do better quality check of projects to ensure contractors do not short change the government. Another solution to the problem is for school heads or the assemblies to plant trees around school buildings to protect them from storms.

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The Member of Parliament for Dormaa East, William Kwasi Sabi has successfully secured the construction of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) office for his constituency.

The project to be financed by the National Health Insurance Authority is currently at the advanced stage with site plan and other paper work completed. According to him, he has received assurance that the project will commence somewhere in August.

Dormaa East at present is without its own health insurance office and residents have to travel to other areas outside the constituency to register for the service. This was due to the fact that until the creation of the Dormaa East District, which was cut from Dormaa Municipal they had one NHIS administrative office. Unfortunately, the creation of the new district has rendered it without one.

Mr. Sabi said the effort is aimed at bringing NHIS services to the door steps of residents to give room to more people to register for the scheme. He thus called on residents to exercise restraints while things are put in place to offer them quality services.

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Mr Benjamin Kpodo, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ho Central Constituency on Monday procured 2,339 pens for distribution to Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in the Municipal area.

The gesture is to motivate candidates in public and private schools to excel at the examinations scheduled to start next week, June 17, this year.Mr Kpodo told the GNA, “I am not happy about previous results. They are not inspiring so this is a little motivation for the candidates to know that we are behind them and interested in their education.”

The Municipal area recorded 53 per cent and 51 per cent passes in the 2011 and 2012 BECEs respectively.

Mr Kpodo said his ultimate plan was to help improve academic performance in the Region and that plans were far advanced to motivate both teachers and students to improve standards in education.

He said he expected the 2013 year group to record a pass mark of 70 per cent and urged the candidates to go all out.

Mr Kpodo earlier sent the Municipal Education Directorate to visit the schools to ascertain the level of preparedness of the candidates for the examinations.

Mr Kpodo, a professional Accountant, also instituted a Best Performing Accounting Student’s award to motivate accounting students in Senior High Schools in the Constituency to perform better.

Mrs Dora Humado, Ho Municipal Director of Education, who led a team to visit the schools, told the candidates that, the impending examination was the “most crucial exams of their lives” because it would determine how they would progress academically.

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Afram Plains South Member of Parliament, Joseph Appiah Boateng has denied beating a young man to a pulp over a young girl.

Some Newspapers, including the Chronicle, published on Tuesday that the MP, in his attempt to scare off a young man from a young girl he was also interested in having an affair with, beat up the boy mercilessly until he went into coma.

The MP however denies any such incident and accuses his detractors of seeking to blackmail him with what he describes as a “cooked” story.

“…It’s not true; it’s a cooked story…They want to blackmail me”.

He says the young man in question has conspired with the young girl and some Constituency Executives of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, including the Constituency Women Organiser, to tarnish his image.

The Legislator claimed: “The guy wasn’t in coma; he walked to the hospital saying that I’ve hit his head to the wall and the medical assistant gave him some medication and he was discharged the same night”.

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