Author: Kwaku GhanaMPs

Member of Parliament (MP) for Krachi West, Adjoa Helen Ntoso has drawn the attention of Parliament to a practice where toilet rolls are vanishing from washrooms of lawmakers’ offices at Job 600 few hours after they are placed in the wash room by the cleaners.

According to her she was embarrassed last week Thursday, June, 29, 2023 when she had an important visitor who wanted to use the MPs washroom and there was no toilet roll in the washroom.

She drew the attention of leadership of the House of the development on Friday, June 30, 2023 after the Business statement for the week was presented.

Madam Helen Ntoso in an interview with Ghanamps.com pointed out that after the Thursday incident the following day being Friday, she visited the washroom just to be sure of what she witnessed the previous day, “unfortunately there was no toilet rolls in the washrooms”, she said.

She emphasized that the day in question was not the first time that has happened since it has been raised at joint caucus meetings of the House. “We should not only appear nice but our washrooms and environment should also be on point”.

The MP said she met with the cleaners just after raising the issue on the floor of the House and they informed her that they placed toilet rolls at the washroom but within a short time they noticed that they have been picked.

And it further came out that it’s not only the toilet rolls that they have issues with, there are same problems with tissues that are used in wiping hands, as cleaners express surprise themselves at the development.

The Krachi West lawmaker recounted that in 2018 someone was arrested for collecting toilet rolls in the Parliament washrooms.

She has urged leadership to take the issue up to ensure that when visitors to the MPs come they will use the wash room comfortably and if leadership does not address the matter she will be compelled to move a step further by writing to the House committee, as was advised by the First Deputy Speaker who presided last week Friday.

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The Minority chief whip Kwame Governs Agbodza in a statement on the floor of the House has appealed to the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, for the Works and Housing Minister, Francis Asenso-Boakye to be hauled before the House to brief it on plans to contain flooding ahead of the rains.

According to him reports in the media suggest that the Wednesday, June 14, 2023 down pour affected Bortianor –Ngleshie Amanfro and other parts of Accra and sympathizes with his colleagues Matthew Sylvester Tetteh who he believed was at his constituency with his constituents as he made the statement on the floor of the House.

He further told the House that as a result of the heavy down pour, a lady with her two kids are still not found yet. He commended government agency working to find and further pointed out that, some people had been injured whiles a lot of properties have been damaged.

He urged Parliament to help the relevant agencies in getting funds needed to address the problem particularly to desilt major drains.

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The Member of Parliament for Upper Manya Krobo Constituency, Bismark Tetteh Nyarko has called on the electorates in the area particularly the Elected Assembly Members to put aside the interest of NDC and NPP and work together for the establishment of the One District One Factory at Sekesua.

He said the factory, when completed would help minimise the numerous criminal activities most of the youth involve themselves in as a result of the high unemployment rate ratio in the area.

The MP believes if members of the two major political parties put forces together to ensure that the factory come to reality, less crime would be recorded in the district.

Hon Nyarko was speaking at the Assembly Meeting of the Upper Manya Krobo District at Asesewa. He said the people of district have not been lucky enough because they lag behind when it comes to development especially about their road projects.

According to him, the assembly cannot continue to depend on the central government for every funding because for some years back Common Fund has not been coming regularly so the Internal Generated Funds (IGF) should be something they must together think about seriously.

On his part, the District Chief Executive, Joe Sam said revenue mobilisation is a collective duty and responsibility for everyone who needs development and urged all stakeholders concerned to help collect revenue and also honour their levy obligations. It is only by this that the assembly can execute projects.

The DCE said two hundred and thirty – nine thousand, two hundred and forty-three Ghana Cedis, sixty-three pesewas (GHC 239, 243. 63) representing 28 point two eight percent of revenue collected as at May this year. This amount is against the targeted eight hundred and forty-six thousand, three Ghana Cedis, thirty-nine pesewas being IGF for the 2023 fiscal year.

He said to achieve the revenue projection, management is aggressively embarking on an exercise dubbed “Management Time Out” on Wednesdays and Fridays at Akateng and Asesewa markets to augment and also supervise the activities of the revenue officers.

On health, Mr Joe Sam bemoaned the high prevalence of HIV infections in the district especially among the youth and urged the general public to continue to adhere strictly to the preventive measures to help halt further spread of the disease.

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After pains taking effort by the Member of Parliament for Akyem Oda Alexander Akwasi Acquah, together with the District Chief Executive, work is progressing on the burnt Akyem Oda Central Market.

According to the MP there were a lot of agitation and demonstration by the market women when re-construction work had not started, but two months down the line when Ghanamps.com visited the place work is progressing steadily.

The District Common Fund Administrator, Irene Naa Torshie visited Akyem Oda to encourage market women not to give up hope on the reconstruction of the market place since the President Nana Akufo-Addo himself has visited the place, and that presents a lot of hope.

She further pointed out that the MP has to intervene on several occasions to ensure some variations in the plan because the original plan for the reconstruction of the burnt market was small and not all the market women would have the opportunity to occupy the place when work is completed, but the new plan gives room for more people to be accommodated.

Mrs. Irene Naa Torshie asked the constituents of Akyem Oda to appreciate the work their MP is doing because he has been playing a major role in ensuring that the Central market is re-built.

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Ranking member on Finance Isaac Adongo has taken a swipe at the President and his vice for signing onto the International Monetary fund (IMF) programme which will result in heap of miseries on the already suffering Ghanaians.

According to him after years of economic mismanagement leading to untold hardship, massive job losses and unemployment, government is not coming clean or apologising to Ghanaians but rather resorting to self-denial and cooking up economic and financial data.

By 2019, Ghana’s debt burden was already hurting the economy so badly. Ghana was reeling under a burden of over 91% of debt service to tax revenue accompanied by high external vulnerability.

At the same time, the government was visibly struggling to generate net international reserves to cover massive offshore debt service obligations that were due.

The true deficit of Ghana’s primary balance, debt position, and net international reserves were being consistently cooked to show unrealistic economic indicators.

While this charade was on government, was in difficulties in raising money domestically or in the Capital market to refinance maturing debts amidst unsustainable gross financing needs in excess of 20% of GDP. This invariably created fear and panic across global capital markets about the eminent insolvency, bankruptcy, and the palpable collapse of the Ghanaian bubble.

This led to the unanimity among rating agencies about Ghana’s grim economic outlook and dire reality.
And signs were very clear on the wall that Ghana’s economy was in trouble from economic mismanagement. At some point, the government was seen picking up excessive printed money from the BoG.

The unfolding scenarios led to non-resident investors aggressively selling off their domestic bonds and repatriating the foreign currency, leading to dwindling foreign reserves.

President Nana Addo had told Ghanaians that he was relying on the intellectual capacity of Dr Bawumia to transform Ghana. Was Dr Bawumia not the head of the Economic Management Team that created this mess? Which vision is left to be talked about?

Check the NPP manifesto for the 2016 elections and compare with Dr Bawumia’s propaganda but naive experimental lecture notes from 2014 to 2015 and you will see that was his vision that metamorphosed into Ghana’s Vision and Economic Policies since 2017 to date:

• Moving the economy from taxation to production. This is one of the fanciful visions of Dr. Bawumia that led to the collapse of production after they somersaulted and introduced over 24 taxes.

• I village 1 dam is yet another vision Dr Bawumia espoused while in opposition. It was subsequently implemented in government. Dr. Bawumia should speak to this and tell us what this vision has brought to the economy of Ghana. We can only remember these dugouts as one of wasteful ventures that had become death-traps, killing people in rural areas.

• Dr. Bawumia’s naive 1$million per constituency a year has rather led to massive arrears and commitments.

• Has Dr. Bawumia ‘s Establishment of development authorities not become a conduit for siphoning and the looting of public funds? He should speak to it and tell us what the achievements are.

• 1 district 1 factory became a source of fleecing the public purse through the granting of ridiculous tax waivers and painting and co-opting of factories that could be “colonial era” factories as 1D1F factories.

• tolling the toads without borrowing led to bankrupt and insolvent Ghana.

• Naive benchmark regimes and frivolous discounts to ignorantly drive container volumes at the port from Togo has led to a collapse of imports with empty terminals in Tema and Takoradi.

• A policy to clean up and strengthen the financial sector rather led to the collapse of about 422 financial institutions with the remaining ones extremely malnourished waiting to be crashed under the IMF program with a planned Ghc30 billion.

• IPEP. What has this policy espoused by Dr. Mahmoud Bawumia brought?

• By the end of Nana Addo’s first four years, there shall be no community with toilet problems? When all the man can think of, is toilets, which he couldn’t even execute, who takes such a person seriously.

Dr Bawumia is the first economist in Ghana with the most venomous vision that has landed all of us on life support. He now wants to be president with a vision to discount us from the last support to kill us completely.

If Dr. Bawumia had any iota of credibility, a modicum of shame in the eye, and respect for Ghanaians, he would have stayed away from contemplating to be president.

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Over 20 Akim Oda Government Hospital’s non- Mechanized staff earlier today visited the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda constituency, Mr. Alexander Akwasi Acquah for his effort to make them permanent staff.

The beneficiaries expressed appreciation to the Member of Parliament for his enthusiastic work.

The convener for the beneficiaries Mr. Alex Attafuah said, some of his colleagues worked for over seventeen years as casual workers so if the MP has put smile on their faces, they have to show appreciation.

The MP together with his health committee chairman in the person of Mr. Benjamin Kuuku Baiden and the MPs Personal Assistant, Mr. Maxwell Kofi Anti were presented with citation and smock dress (fugu),

The MP tasked them to keep encouraging their colleagues to keep their hope alive and also campaign for him wherever they find themselves.

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