Author: Kwaku GhanaMPs

The Member of Parliament for Tano North Constituency, Freda Prempeh has commended the Ministry of Agric on their innovative efforts of opening outlets where farm produce are cart farm the farming centres to the cities.

She said the initiative would help bring down prices of food products particularly those grown locally as people are taking undue advantage of the economic situation to make exorbitant returns by increasing prices astronomically.

Madam Freda Prempeh said it is about time something is done about the price control system in Ghana, and the tasked the Ministry of Trade and Industry to take that up to ensure people conform.

She believes what the Agric Ministry has started doing is healthy and would ensure there is some competition in pricing which would push prices downwards.

The Minister of State at the office of the president however called on the Ministry of Agric not to limit the initiative to Accra but extend it to all the regions for

She admitted things are tough at the moment but noted that it is a global phenomenon, and assured that the president has outlined some measures to deal with current economic meltdown and Ghanaians should rest assured that things would improve soon.

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Minister for the Interior Ambrose Dery has said the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) will continue to work assiduously to save properties and lives in times of flooding and other disasters. According to him NADMO is providing food and non food items to affected victims of flooding and hard work is going into saving life and property.

He further told parliament on Thursday, November 10, 2022 in recent times some districts in the Northern part of the country have experienced flooding due to the spillage of the Bagre dam by Burkina Faso and also in Ashanti and Eastern Region. In towns like Manso Nkwanta, Abuakwa, Koforidua, Kyebi, Suhum, among others being affected part of the Greater Accra Region, like Weija Gbawe Ga East and West as well as Buipe and its surroundings in the Savannah Region has also been affected.

And before the spillage intensive sensitization programme was carried out to educate the population and same is ongoing in the Akosombo and Kpong and its environment to prepare the community towards a probable spillage of the Akosombo and Kpong dames which are at their fullest peak.

Dr. Zanetor-Agyeman-Rawlings Member of Parliament for Klottey-Korle wanted to know measures being put in place to mitigate the devastating impact of the most recent floods on persons living in the affected areas. She further wanted to know the collaboration between the Interior Ministry and Works and Housing to create reservoirs downstream for excess waters to be stored for use given the erratic nature of our rains.

This, the Minister said the Ministry and NADMO take care of the impact on persons and property Works and this Housing has got plans to deal with the flooding and is working on some infrastructure which include creation of dams along the line of rivers and the details of that would be known by the Minister for Works and Housing.

But at their level they have to sometime use equipment to open up gutters and drains to let the water follow the more physical construction prgrammes are left for the Ministry of Works and Housing in some cases Roads and Housing.

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The Member of Parliament of Akyem Oda constituency, Hon. Alexander Akwasi Acquah has urged the Interior ministry to make a commitment towards the building of a befitting edifice to house the divisional command of the Ghana Police Service which is headquartered in Akyem Oda.

This call was made when the Minister of Interior, Hon. Ambrose Derry appeared before the house to answer questions from some MPs. The Akyem Oda MP had filed to ask the Minister, that what effort was his ministry making to accommodate the Oda divisional a police Command in a very appropriate premises as the command has been operating in a rented apartment since it was created. In the answer of the Minister, he recounted that the Police Administration was allocated an 89.81 acres of land in 1979 through an executive instrument.

However resource constants have been a major factor to the construction of both office accommodation and barracks for the Oda divisional command. The minister revealed that a group of oda citizens resident in the United States of America (USA) has proposed to construct the Divisional Police Headquarters on the allocated land.

The Minister said the Police Command is however yet to engage the leadership of the Association to discuss the way forward.

Hon. Alexander Akwasi Acquah said even though he has confidence in his constituents commitment to help the Police Administration in constructing the commands headquarters, the minister must give a firm commitment and assurances to his people on the construction of the edifice.

He also wanted to know if the Minister was aware that portions of the allocated land had been encroached upon and any further delays of the project could affect the size of the allocated lands.

The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumani Babgin, intervened and assured the MP that the assurance committee of parliament was available to ensure that the ministers promises are upheld.

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The Minister of the Interior Ambrose Dery has told Parliament the Police administration is yet to develop the eight-nine point eight one acre of land allocated to the Oda divisional police command in 1979 through an Executive Instrument.

According to the Minister, resources constraints have been a major factor to the construction of both office accommodation and barracks for Oda Divisional Command, but noted that some citizens have notice of willingness to help develop the land.

“Mr. Speaker, in spite of the setback, a group of citizens from Oda resident in the United States of America (USA) has proposed to construct the Divisional Police Headquarters on the allocated land for the Oda Divisional Police Command. The Police Command is yet to engage the leadership of the Association to discuss the way forward.

This came to light when the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, Alexander Akwasi Acquah wanted to know the effort being made to accommodate the Oda divisional police command as they are in a rented apartment.

The MP who disclosed that some portions of the land have already been encroached added that the continues wait would worsen the situation.

But the Minister calls for collaboration as to how to deal with the issue of encroachment of the land but promised to draw the attention of the police administration to the issue that the MP has put up.

He, however, admitted that the best way out of the situation is for the construction to be undertaken, and noted that his ministry would want to build a lot of police stations.

He assured that there is no lack of commitment from their side, just that they do not have resources, and that when resources are gotten, they would develop the facility very fast.

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The Member of Parliament for effiduase- Asokore,  Nana Ayew Afriye speaking on behalf of the Majority Caucus said they remain resolute for the Finance Minister to be relieved of his position as stated earlier.

He said even though they have initially agreed to heed the president’s suggestions to allow the Finance Minister present the budget, recent comments by the Finance Minister has given them reason to reverse back to their initial position.

That is to say the finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta must not be the one to present the budget, and must not be the one to present the appropriation.

This, he said would very soon be their position. “We are going to be positively defiant on that posture until that action is taken”.

The Majority however made it clear that they would not support the Minority in their vote of censure in the chamber.

Mr. Afriyie indicated that the course of the NDC is premised on falsehood, propaganda and reasons that are not justifiable.

According to him, the Minority’s position might look like theirs but it is not the same.

He asserts that they (Minority) cannot come to the chamber to level claims that border on criminality over a person that would not be able to come to the chamber to defend himself.

He said they don’t have any personal issues with the finance minister, but their confidence in him has dwindled and he must go and that is the general feeling.

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