Member of Parliament for Afram Plains North, Betty Nana Efua Krosbi Mensah has challenged young girls from Anfoega Senior High school to work hard to take up leadership position in the country.

She encouraged the young girls to take their studies seriously and urged them to be bold, “do not give in to young men who would only buy credit for you, this is not what you should be aspiring for you have to aspire for something better”, she said.

Miss Betty Krosbi Mensah, bemoaned the current situation in her constituency where in the Eastern Region, they come second when it comes to teenage pregnancy.

Students from Anfoega Senior High School in the North Dayi were is Parliament House to witness proceedings in the chamber.

She further told the students, their MP Joycelyn Tetteh made an inspiring statement on the floor of the House on teenage pregnancy, which was all over the media and lawmakers gave their opinion on how to combat the menace.

Again the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection is to work on the affirmative action bill, if that in place, when that is in place and my party is in power it is going to be easy for women to occupy leadership position.

“Sadly out of the 275 MPs in Parliament now, we have only 37 in Parliament, when we have the affirmative Act in place the trend would change we would have a lot of women in leadership position”, she said.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has said the “E-Block” at Apersua Community Senior High School funded by government through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) is sixty-eight (68) percent complete.

The ongoing project which is in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region is part of the 101 community school within the second phase.

According to the Deputy Minister, the contract was awarded to Messrs Antartic contract works Limited in August 2015, for a construction sum of Nine million, four hundred and twenty-nine thousand, eight hundred and seventy, and sixty-eight pesewa (GHC9,429, 870.68).

And added that, the project supervisor and consultant is Messrs Municipal Infrastructure Consult.
Dr. Adutwum further added that the Ministry is engaging the contractor and consultant so as to strategize for the early completion of the outstanding E-Block project.

Member of Parliament for Yilo Krobo, Magnus Kofi Amoatey wanted to know when the E-Block would be completed.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Member of Parliament for Adaklu, Governors Kwame Agbodza is calling on President Akufo-Addo’s government to ensure that independent audit body does value for money audit on all government projects.

According to Adaklu legislator, he is not calling on Crown Agent to be the sole source for conducting value for money.

He made this remarks in an interview, in the wake of the National Identification Authority’s (NIA) one billion four hundred thousand dollars project to capture Ghanaians with a National ID, which the Minority has boycotted.

Mr. Governors Kwame Agbodza further revealed that in the NIA exercise, government appointed its own to do value for money, “when you have a bad mind and you want to hid evidence and avoid transparency, you go the way the NIA is doing”, he lamented.

Government can develop a project send it to Public Procurement Authority (PPA), a   government appointee, which would be the one to determine value for money, “we believe this is wrong value for money should be carried out by an independent organization” he said.

“If I get to Adaklu my constituency, I get a text message from a network in Togo call move it then says, welcome to Togo now I am being told to produce my digital address, I cannot generate my digital address from home in Adaklu because we do not have telephone connectivity”.

This government is pulling through a project that can land this country in chaos, we are saying they must step back, this NIA exercise must cover all Ghanaians, he said.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Deputy Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Michael Yaw Gyato has said there is the need to trumpet Ghana as a beacon of religious tolerance in the world.

According to the Deputy Minister, a study in Germany indicates that religious conflict in the sub-Saharan Africa had risen in recent decades.

The German researcher Matthias Basedau noted that conflict thrives in African states and added that there is no conflict based on purely religion but people hide under religion to achieve their selfish motivation.

Mr. Michael Yaw Gyato made a statement on the floor of the House saluting Ghanaian Muslims and other religions for co-existing and tolerating each other in their diversity.

He further recalled the debate on the use of Hijab by pupils and students in schools, the tolerance of other religions in Ghana’s mission schools and the annual ban on noise making in the Ga state.

“Mr. Speaker, I suggest to Non-Governmental organizations and Think Tanks to consider rating countries based on their Religious tolerance levels, as this would shame countries and reduce the number of deaths under the pretext of fighting for religious freedom.”

He commended Ghanaian Muslims for their fasting which would be climax by Eid al-Fitr an important religious holiday celebration by Muslims worldwide.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius  Baffour Awuah, had indicated to Parliament he is unable to tell if those engaged in seed  and fertilizer distribution are still at post.

According to the Minister in charge of Employment, persons who were employed for the seed distribution under the, planting for food and job are different from those in charge of fertilizer distribution.

He further added that those who were engaged for the distribution were taken on at the “pick season” and could not tell if they were at post or not.

And define work by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as any activity which gives an income to a person whether engaged for an hour or a week.

Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey asked a follow-up question on how many jobs had been created under the planting for food and job.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com