Category: HEADLINES

School children at the Danase D/A Basic school in Afigya Kwabre North District of the Ashanti Region, went home hungry on Thursday, 14, 2019, following the destruction of their food and cooking utensils by the constituency NPP chairman.

The population of 423 school children who were ready to be severed with the food of the school feeding programme had to go home in vain in the afternoon as the NPP chairman who also doubles as the branch Elder of The Church Of Pentecost at Denase, Elder Charles Amaniampong a.k.a “Enye mahuoden” destroyed their food.

The Caterers alleged that the NPP’s chairman is not in support of the school feeding contract given to one Mr Ofori therefore, decided to turndown the contract since it was not through his endorsement that the contract were awarded.

Some eyewitnesses who were around when the incident happened were shocked at the Elder   for such action on what they described as shameful act which brought stop the preparation of the student’s lunch.

Speaking to A.S Osei Yaw, who is the the School Management Chairman confirmed the incident to  Kaakyire Kwasi Afari at the scene, and threatened law suit against the chairman.

But to Mr Ofori who claims is been awarded the contract lamented on the issue and has cautioned the NPP chairman to refund the cost of the food.

He said he passed all requisite processes to win the contract of the school feeding in the district.

Story by Emmanuel koranteng. 

Association of quarry drivers in the Afigya Kwabre district of the Ashanti region has expressed dissatisfaction and disappointment in the Afigya Kwabre district assembly over what the drivers suspect to be smart theft, forged receipt, and deception in its highest order, as they call for immediate reform.

According to the aggrieved drivers, an amount of Gh¢5.00 which was paid by each truck driver per day has risen to Gh¢5.00 per cubic (trip) instead.

Meaning, drivers have to pay Gh¢50.00 to Gh¢100.00 for the day based on the number of moves you make per the day.

Speaking to the Chairman of the association, Mr. Kwadwo Kusi, he said the assembly just stood up one day to change the payment decision with the explanation that the assembly had wanted to get more revenue to construct deplorable roads within the area for the quarry drivers and other road users of which he says has yielded nothing.

“We the quarry drivers are very much suffering since we are not getting anything, but only work and end up giving our monies to the assembly. The consolation which we had that roads were going to be constructed from such huge money charging has yielded no results”, he cried out.

Other truck drivers expressing disappointment and pointing fingers at the DCE, Hon Christian Adu Poku (APC) and the entire Afigya Kwabre district assembly said even the current receipt issued to them after they have made payment is fake as compared to the old genuine receipt which has a Coat of Arms inscription on it.

They continued by arguing that instead of the real revenue collectors from the assembly, the DCE has rather deployed some known vigilante group members and serial callers who rather come around to collect the money and then issue such fake receipt (ticket).

“Every government in power take drivers for granted considers us as fools, but we want to tell them we are not fools.

We are going to show them how intelligent we are”, they said.

Story by Emmanuel koranteng.

Celebrity Lawyer, Maurice Ampaw has descended heavily on former President Jerry John Rawlings over attack on the Ghana Legal Council (GLC) with regard to the mass failure in the 2019 Ghana Law School entrance examination.

This year, only 128 students out of the 1,820 candidates who sat for entrance exams passed. The GLC revealed that students performed poorly, although calls for them to release students’ scripts have been ignored.

Criticising the GLC during an interaction with executives of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) on Thursday, former president Rawlings revealed that one of his daughters fell victim to what many describe as a crude pruning of law students wishing to enter the law school due to a lack of space.

“Ninety-three per cent failure and you [GLC] think you can get away with blaming the students? You don’t blame the establishment, the institution? Rawlings fumed.

The former President also took a swipe at the security agencies for applying ferine force during a demonstration by the National Association of Law Students.

Expressing his view on the former President’s scathing attack on the GLC in an interview with Boamah Darko, host of ‘Maakye’ on Accra-based Hot 93.9FM, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw indicated angrily that the former President should shut up from criticising the General Legal Council because the students are not learning.

”Most of the students because of social media they don’t learn… look at the time they sleep… most of them don’t learn because of broken heart; some are married and don’t get time to learn, most of them are commercially stressed so they can’t learn… most of them are doing the courses part-time and learning is difficult for them,” Mr Ampaw told Boamah.

He angrily added, “Rawlings should shut up… Yes, Rawlings should shut up for attacking the Ghana Legal Council… he is being unfair to them, he is making serious allegations against them that they should be held responsible and then the failure of the students is a fraud being committed against the students… my brother, leave the Ghana Legal Council and the Chief Justice alone… nobody can intimidate the Ghana Legal council and the Chief Justice.”

Touching on the ferine force the security agencies applied on the National Association of Law students during the demonstration, the outspoken Lawyer astonishingly indicated that he would’ve disqualified all the students who went on the demonstration if he was the head of the Ghana Legal Council because they (Students) lack integrity.

Source: hotfmghana.com

Mr Eric Asiedu  Techiman municipal NADMO BOSS together with his staff, assembly Members and opinion leaders of Anyinabrim a suburb of Techiman in the Bono East Regional capital have pulled down a public toilet which has been a death trap in the area for long  time.

  In an interview with journalists after the exercise ,Mr Eric Asiedu said his office will embark on a tour to monitor and access various public toilet facilities in the area to pull down similar ones which can cause havoc by collapsing on children and other people which he said won’t look unconcern  for it to happen .

 He again charged various officers to emulate his steps in order to curb any future disaster since NADMO’s  core mandate is to prevent and sensitize people on bad practices that can cause disaster.

Finally Mr Asiedu said his office would embark on routine risk assessment to access various public toilet facilities in the Techiman Municipality immediately  in order to prevent any looming danger.

Story by Emmanuel koranteng.