Month: November 2017

Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu Alhassan Bashir Fuseini has taken a swipe at the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and urged him to use edifying language which befit a person of his stature.

He noted that the Vice President should come to the realization that the 2016 Presidential election campaign is over.

“The Vice President called former President Mahama fraud and was attacking him when he was a President, today you are a Vice President we fire one salvo that the APPS is 419 and you have sleepless night, look at his body language he answers with rage” he said.

He is the Vice President of the Republic and behaving like this, he has to “grow up and stop behaving as if he is on the campaign platform or running mate”.
According to A. B Fuseini, the Vice

President’s response to the former President shows how intolerant politician he is and thinking he can throw rocks at people and nobody should throw pebbles at him?
“Can we have something with us sold to Ghanaians for 2.5million dollars and you think Ghanaians should not question this?”

He further revealed that the Minority will haul the Communication Minister before the House to answer for the 2.5million dollars which they believe is a stolen money, supervised by the Vice President.

Again you have the Vice President moving around and urging Muslims to pray for the President Nana Akufo-Addo things are not going well, “did he not know things were not going well for former President Mahama and kept attacking him”?

We should blame the Vice President he is in charge of the economic management team of government, as for criticism he has not seen anything yet he should wait for more, he said.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said government is aware of the challenges the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) is facing across the country, as everything is being done to address the problems.

n an interview after answering some questions on the floor of the House, he noted that emergency interventions are ongoing to fix the challenges.

As to whether resources have been allocated to address this problems, he affirmed that 80 million dollars has been allocated to address issues of lack of desk.

“When you look at the Free SHS document you will find out that it talks about four issues;equity, skills, infrastructure development, and quality issues” he said.

He took a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) under the leadership of former President John Mahama, “they talked about putting up 200 secondary school buildings were they able to build even 15”?

“Let us talk about relevant issues, do you build a house before you marry, again do you wait to give birth to your children before you marry your partner?”,he queried.

According to the Minister of Education, President Nana Akufo-Addo in his first state of the Nation address said, “Free SHS will come with its challenges and they will be addressed”.

Mr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh said, he can confirm that 100 thousand students of Senior High Schools never benefited from even one scholarship during the 2016/2017 academic year the former President John Mahama administration promise, “we spoke to heads of the various institutions who have confirmed”.

By:  Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Minister of the Interior, Ambrose Dery has revealed that with the ongoing Fulani Herdsmen menace in the country, it requires a multi sectorial intervention to deal with the situation.

He further noted that the menace is across the Sub-Region, what is needed to be done in this case is to come out with a permanent solution and to ask for all stakeholders to play their part.

For instance grazing grounds where the Fulani herdsmen with their cattle can graze containing them is a trans- human and does not pertain to only Ghana.

Again with the same Fulani menace we have sent a number of police to Abetifi to bring things under control, as I speak to you now calm has returned to the place, the three communities in which we had the disturbances, police have been stationed there for teachers and students to move around normally.

In addition, on the order paper of the House, you can see the report of the Defence and interior has to be adopted for discussion on the Fulani Herdsmen to be discussed, he said.

Mr. Ambrose Dery further made known that the security forces cannot do much without the involvement of media providing information and revealed that the National Peace Council has also played very important role.

And urge Ghanaians to come forward and give out information even if the person is his or her relative because tomorrow, “other persons relative will attack you and so until we make the commitment we are going to fight together to ensure that Ghana is safe for us”.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery said there has been several deportation done by his Ministry and the deportation of the Indian businessman Mr. Ashok Kumar Sivaram   was based on security grounds.
He further pointed out in an interview that he respect the judgement of the court,“If the India man thinks his deportation was wrong and he want to court “so be it and if he has gotten judgement so be it”.

In a ruling presided by Mr. Justice Kweku T Ackah-Boafo held that the Interior Minister exceeded his jurisdiction when he determined that the Indian had engaged in fraud and subsequently deported him.

The right to remain in this country or be deported, remains the right of the Ministry of Interior no judgment can take that away and I am retreating, I respect the judgement.

And revealed that he was out of Accra when the judgement was given, the Ministry will study the court decision, our own people are being deported from other countries back home they are not deported because they are economic liabilities.

“The miss information that went out there about this deportation of this India man is so laughable”, he said.

As to whether the Minister had a personal interest in the case he responded by saying, “I do not know the man from Adam, and I have never met any deportee there are institution that worked on this case and came out with recommendation”, he lamented.

“Now that there is judgement I can make some statements, because initially I am a lawyer when something is going in the court I do not make comments, some of the things I heard is ridiculous, the man is employing drug barons is that not a security consideration”.

He noted that he is not praying that anything will happen, I am playing my part if anything happens I will be able to come forward and say I played my part, he said.

Mr. Dery told ghanamps.com if he had personal interest in the case, he has a law firm he would have engaged lawyers from his law firm to go after the case.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Minister of Interior and Member of Parliament (MP) for Nandom, Ambrose Dery has indicated that “no true member” of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will want to sabotage President Nana Akufo-Addo’s promise of  creating a peaceful environment.

“A true NPP person should make it possible for the president to deliver his promise to Ghanaians, if you are a true NPP person you will not work against the president to make true his promise period”.

He made this comments in an interview when ghanamps.com want to know what his Ministry is doing to clampdown on pro-NPP vigilante groups, causing chaos around the country.

According to Mr. Dery the police are doing their job, they need no telling, the President has set the standard Ghanaians must feel safe.

And indicated that he has visited the Western and Central Regions in both places the statistics show that robbery and murder has reduced,“we need the cooperation of the media and security for the Presidents flagship programme”.

He further explained that it will be wrong for anyone to be under impression that nothing is being done to check the youth causing commotion, “as I talk to you there has been arrest at Golu, arrest of NPP party executives in Karagah in the case of Techiman it was a hoax”.

What is the talk about, we are not about getting ourselves in a league of mediocrity we have been in this system and we know what is happening, he said.
He further explained that the security of this country was put on the back burner, now the security of this Nation is working.

The President is facing illegal mining “galamsey” head on, delta force our activist have been charged with a fine which belong to a group of charges misdemeanor, even if you do not agree with the judgement you have to respect it, he lamented.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Minister in charge of the Zongos’ and Inner Cities, Abu-Bakar Saddique Boniface has revealed that $60 million funds had been secured by his Ministry for developmental projects in the Inner Cities.

He further explained that the funds that had been secured is to upgrade settlement of the people staying along the Odorna drain.

Mr. Boniface Saddiquein an interview questioned why the media has not given much publication on the funds secured for the Inner city, “is it because I have not pushed for it to be made Inner City Development Fund Bill”?.

His comments come in the wake of ghanamps.com wanting to know if an Inner City Development Fund Bill should be expected. “We promised a Zongo Development Fund we are in the process of achieving that”.

He said on the floor of this same House in 2006 he introduced the Youth and Employment initiative, and the same Minority said it was “job for the boys”, but it has become a major component of solving our unemployment problem especially with the youth segment, he said.

According to him, there are two schools of taught here, “we have those who are optimistic about the Zongo and Inner Cities, whiles those who are skeptical about it”. At the beginning you face challenges, if you do not face risk you do not gain, you take a risk for a greater rate of a return and that is how life must be”.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Chairman of the Government Assurance Committee, Yaw Frimpong Addo has said three Ministries will be invited to appear before the committee’s first public hearing of the seventh Parliament of the fourth Republic.

He noted, middle of this month the Ministry of Agriculture, Health and Education will be the first Ministers to appear before the committee.

The Committee has developed a manual for its members and took them through a training workshop four months ago in the Western Region, to enhance their capacity to ensure they play their oversight responsibility properly.

According to the chairman, the Ministry of Agriculture will be assessed on planting for food and jobs initiative which has been rolled out to ascertain its successes and challenges.

Likewise assessment of the fight against the fall army warm invasion would be a field trip Organised in that regards since there has been some promises made on the floor of the House.

Mr. Frimpong Addo further noted that the committee will invite the Minister of Health, to ascertain the number of nurses enjoying, the restoration of the nurses’ allowance; its success and challenges.

In addition next to be invited by the Committee will be the Minister of Education to ascertain, the challenges and success chalked on the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS), he said.

And to abreast itself on how the Ministry has been able to manage the case of the numbers going to SHS ballooning.

The Manso-Adubia legislator further noted that October 2017 was an ample time to start assessing and checking on some promises made on the floor of the House with the reading budget and giving of the state of the Nation address.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Upper Denkyira West, Benjamin Ayeh, has questioned the usefulness of the Judgement Debt Commission set up to enquire into the payment of judgement debts in the country.

The Commission established by President John Mahama under Constitutional Instrument (CI) 79, last year, has a period of 12 months to submit its report to the Presidency.

The Sole Commissioner, Justice Yaw Appau, a Court of Appeal judge, is said to be making headway in unraveling the ‘mysteries’ surrounding the payments of dubious judgement debts since 1992 till date.

Its latest exposé is the sale of the drillship, Discoverer 511, belonging to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) by the Kufuor government.

The then Energy Minister, Kan Dapaah and his deputy, K.T. Hammond are yet to appear before the Commission to explain their side of the story.

But Benjamin Ayeh on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Thursday, was unequivocal in his claim that the Judgement Debt Commission is “a complete waste of public resources”.

According to him, their work “is job for the boys” and an attempt by the Mahama-led administration to do political equalization.

“There is nothing new; we are just wasting our time and resources on this so called Judgement Debt Commission”, he stressed.

The Upper Denkyira West MP stated that the Commission’s work will be an exercise in futility because its findings just like the Auditor General’s report and the Appointment Committee of Parliament will be a white elephant.

“Even when the Supreme Court ordered we retrieve dubious judgement debt paid to cronies, the government has not done that but has set up a Judgement Debt Commission. I personally believe it is not useful”.

The NPP MP bemoaned what he described as the misplaced priorities of government at the expense of the bread and butter issues confronting Ghanaians.

Benjamin Ayeh said “as a people we are only good at talking” without taking any actions.

In a rebuttal, the former MP for Adentan, Kojo Adu-Asare expressed disappointment in the comments of his colleague.

He stated that the Judgement Debt Commission has been very useful in exposing certain things which hitherto were hidden.

Adu-Asare commended the Commission for a good job done and hoped it would be able to retrieve all the judgement debts paid wrongly to people.

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