The Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Abla Dzifa Gomashie in a short ceremony held on Saturday, 25th September 2021 at Avoeme launched her Skills Development Project, and revealed that over 2000 people have so far applied or registered to learn various skills under the Project.
She indicated that the success of the project she believes will make participants self-employed, earn a living through decent work, become self-reliant, help reduce poverty, hunger, and promote good health and general well-being.
Additionally, the skills training would help boost economic growth, reduce gender disparity in making a living, promote education and above all lead to the growth of the Municipality.
The reality, she recounted was that a lot of youth with great talents, potentials, and qualifications are searching and are interested in getting themselves employed, but the job market is so chocked and limited, hence making it practically impossible for them to make headway in the job market.
Citing the growth of the nation in terms of population, but with limited resources, the many copies of recruitment forms she received from the recently held recruitment exercises held by the security services of the country as examples, she admonished that; acquisition of skills should become a priority in the life of all individuals.
The scope of training and skills to acquire under this project are sewing/fashion designing, hairdressing/beautician, shoemaking, phone repairing, plumbing, ICT, photography, decoration, bead making, baking, and soap making.
She however, made a passionate appeal to all well-meaning Ghanaians in and outside of her constituency, home, and abroad to support her to successfully roll out this project and make it sustainable.
She announced that she already procured 500 sewing machines, 300 handheld hair dryers, some computers, a leather shoemaking machine, and other important equipment to start the project with but a lot more is needed to look at the number of people who applied to be part of the project.
Dr. Cogan Senanu Agumenu, a special guest at the function from the Akatsi North Constituency gifted five sewing machines to support the project.
She indicated that whiles waiting and hoping for some social intervention from the state to alleviate the sufferings of her constituents because of the closure of the border due to the political decision of the NPP government on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic, she will be doing her best to help her constituents in her small way and promised to add more fields/domain of skills training to the project in the years to come such as upholstery, electricals, carpentry, driving, welding, vulcanizing, painting, spraying, among others.
She then used the opportunity to advise applicants to stay away from pride, arrogance and be disciplined and urged the trainers to treat applicants with love and mutual respect.
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“It requires international collaboration; cooperation and it means member states should be able to draw one another’s attention to things happening within their territories that may be creating vulnerability for the sub-region”.
The Rapporteur of ECOWAS Parliament’s Committee on Political Affairs, Peace, Security and African Peer Review Mechanisms (APRM), Mahama Ayariga has opined that the military takeover in Guinea Conakry, has been useful to send signals that democratically elected leaders in West Africa should not seek to manipulate their constitution to give themselves third term and perpetuate their stay in office against the will of the people.
Commenting on the happenings in Guinea Conakry in an interview, he said “I am not surprised that the military junta in Guinea Conakry is widely popular in the whole of West Africa and has the sympathy of the general population of Guinea Conakry and beyond.” Hon Mahama Ayariga opined that the absence of military interventions to restore proper constitutional order was beginning to generate a tendency for West African leaders to develop an appetite to hang on to power by hook or crook.
The Authority of Heads of States of ECOWAS can only restore that moral authority, if they stand firm at all times against tendencies to perpetuate stay in power by their peers.
Mr. Ayariga also pointed out that, what the international community can do now is to, “respect the military junta and guide them towards restoring an enduring constitutional order based on term limits and respect for the international protocols on democracy and human rights.”
And with that the Community Parliament can send copies of its reports and recommendations straight to the Authority of Heads of States.
Mr. Humado further noted that now the Rt. Hon Sidie Mohammed Tunis is the speaker, with ECOWAS citizens feeling discontented, as the dynamics on the ground are changing, over the governance style, “if he did not plan it, I think it is something that has emerged and he has to take it on board, work it out with the SG, Bureau as well as with the support of the Parliament”.
Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Rt. Hon Dr. Sidie Mohammed Tunis said his fact-finding team that visited Cape Verde in view of their upcoming October 17, 2021 presidential election is satisfied with preparations so far, having met with most of the major stakeholders.
At a press conference on Friday, September 24, 2021 as part of concluding their mission, the speaker indicated that the team learnt that but for challenges in their registration process, more citizens in the diaspora would have been registered, “what one of the presidential candidates was saying was that they had challenges in their registration process, we as ECOWAS would now take that on board because we did not know about it”.
He further explained that the team was able to interact with three of the presidential candidates who gave assurance of supporting the democratic process lose or win to ensure peaceful transfer of power, stating that they are “ready to accept the will of the people of Cape Verde as they very much believe in peace and security of the country”.
He noted that it was on the basis of these that the team is confident and concluded that there would be free, fair and transparent elections that would be followed by a smooth democratic transition.
Rt. Hon Speaker Tunis noted further that since Cape Verde is part of ECOWAS, there would be observers from the institution to observe the election thoroughly through the Island. “We had a lengthy discussion, we met with the justice of the constitutional court and we are encouraged by what we heard from them at the institution, they are much on alert and very ready for the election”, he said.
In an interview with Ghanamps.com, she said, there must be strict identification process, and specific areas allocated for them to move in and out. This, she indicated would bring checks and balance in the activities of these nomadic herdsmen.
“If you have paid attention to some of the statistics, there has been a rise in kidnapping in Ghana, and a lot of the kidnapping are happening within the Fulani communities and a lot of huge ransom has been paid out there, a lot of violence between the herdsmen and the indigenes where they find themselves; the issue of nomadic people is nothing new”.
The NGO which also aims at preventing gender-based violence and the promotion of education in deprived communities has offices in all the former ten regions of Ghana.
She challenged young people to brighten the little corners in which they live through what she described as ‘little little service’ to humanity to make the world a better place for all.
