Category: Political News

Bawumia makes Central Region stand still

Yesterday the vice president of the republic of Ghana His Excellency Dr Mahamadu Bawumia continued his working tour at the central region, he commissioned some of the great projects of the the government.

Bawumia writes:

Day 2 of my tour of the Central region began in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam constituency where I joined Chiefs and People of Enyan Abasa traditional area for a durbar. I also commissioned the Ghana Education Service training centre and later participated in a Durbar of chiefs and people of Nkusukum in the Mfantseman constituency.

I ended the day with a Durbar of chiefs and people of Eguafo/Abirem Traditional area in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Constituency. My message to them was to give President Akufo-Addo another 4 years to continue with his impactful policies geared toward all-inclusive development.

We have less than two months to Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections in December. This year’s election is going to be one of the toughest elections to have ever happened in the history of Ghana as the immediate past president John Dramani Mahama contests the incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo.

Ghanaians will have to weigh the two parties with their various policies and vote on merit.

November 2, 2020
NPP, NDC Share Ideas On Financing Universal Health Care

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have expressed divergent positions on what they would do to ensure universal health coverage as well as increase budgetary allocation to the health sector if voted to power.

While the NPP touted revamping the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and making it more efficient through digitisation, the NDC believed its free primary health care for all proposal, was the panacea to ensuring universal health care for all in the country.

They expressed their positions at a forum dubbed: “Zonal Engagement Session with Stakeholders on Health Specific Commitments of Political Party Manifestos”, held in Tamale on Thursday.

The day’s event organised by SEND-GHANA, a civil society organisation, in collaboration with 123FM Constituency Connect programme with funding support from African Population and Health Research Centre, was to have a good appreciation of the health sector manifesto proposals of the two political parties.

Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, Presidential Advisor on Health, who represented the NPP during the event, said the government was working to make the NHIS more efficient while promoting preventive health and minimising fraud in health insurance claims to ensure more resources to fund the health sector.

Dr Asare said the government was already doing all what the NDC promised in its People’s Manifesto adding that there was no need to change the government at the polls in December.

He gave the assurance that the government would continue to prioritise the health sector and build hospitals in all districts that lacked one and regional hospitals in the new regions and equip them with full complement of health staff to provide quality health care to the people.

Dr Koma Jehu-Appiah, Spokesperson on Health, NDC Manifesto said if the NDC was voted into power in December, it would use resources from the country’s natural endowment sector, cut down on wastes and reduce the number of political appointees to free resources to fund the health sector.

Dr Jehu-Appiah said the NDC had done it before in the area of building magnificent health infrastructure across the country, adding if given the nod, it would do more to eliminate barriers to accessing health care in the country.

Mr Mumuni Mohammed, Regional Programme Manager for SEND-GHANA said political manifestos had become documents for governing the country, and urged political parties to commit to their promises to meet the aspirations of the people.

Peacefmonline

October 30, 2020
Mahama Has ‘Intense Hate’ For Ken Ofori-Atta – Kwamena Duncan

Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has vehemently scolded former President John Dramani Mahama over some recent comments he is purported to have made regarding Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.

Former President John Mahama is reported as saying the Akufo-Addo government has embarked on a borrowing spree to cushion Databank.

Mr. Mahama reportedly accused the government of using Databank, where the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is a co-founder, to collect the borrowed monies with an aim to keep the bank operational and prevent it from collapsing.

Kwamena Duncan has debunked the claims by Mr. Mahama.

According to him, the former President’s comments are born out of pure hatred for the Finance Minister.

Speaking on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’, Kwamena Duncan said ”former President Mahama has intense hate for especially the Finance Minister” and this is why he makes such statements about him.

The Regional Minister held that the Finance Minister is a man of integrity serving Ghana effectively.

”When you ask me about my number 1 Minister, I say it’s Ken Ofori-Atta.”

Peacefmonline

October 29, 2020
NDC Kicks Against Printing Of Ballots By Ghana Publishing

NDC Kicks Against Printing Of Ballots By Ghana Publishing

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October 29, 2020
NDC Will Open Ho Airport If Voted Into Power – Ofosu-Ampofo

The National Chairman of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has said the party’s next government, should it win the 7 December polls, will open the Ho airport to human traffic.

According to him, the NDC has promised and delivered development projects across the country, including the Ho airport, which was completed in 2016.

“When the NDC promises, we deliver.

“We promised that we will build a port in Tema, we delivered.

“We promised that we will build a new airport terminal three, President Mahama delivered.

“We promised that we will expand the Kumasi airport, we delivered.

“We promised that we’ll build an airport in Ho under the then-leadership of Madam Dzifa Ativor [former Roads and Transport Minister], we’ve put up a new airport in Ho,” he said.

The $25-million Ho airport has not officially been opened since its completion some four years ago.

According to the people of the region, especially residents in and around Ho, the inability to open the facility for use is affecting socio-economic activities and development in the area.

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo, who was speaking at a community engagement in Keta during the running mate, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang’s tour of the Volta Region, assured the people that should Ghanaians re-elect Mr Mahama into office, the facility will be opened for use.

“We want to assure the good people of the Volta region that when we come to power, we’re going to commission that airport and put planes there to serve the people of the Volta region,” he noted.

He, therefore, urged the people to vote for the NDC because “the NPP government and Nana Akufo-Addo have wasted the four years without doing anything. When it’s about two months to elections, they’re carrying shovels and axes and they’re doing sod-cutting”.

The Chairman emphasised the need to vote for NDC, saying “the voting that is going to take place on 7 December 2020 is going to be a vote of destiny, we’re going to declare the destiny of this country”.

Peaceonline

October 29, 2020
2020 polls: Say no to ‘dumsor wura’ Mahama – Bawumia

Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has urged Ghanaians to say no to former President John Mahama’s comeback attempt since, according to him, their lives will be full of difficulties and ‘dumsor’ should he succeed in his bid for a second term at the presidency.

Speaking at a durbar of chiefs and people of Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Constituency of the Central Region on Thursday, 29 October 2020, Dr Bawumia said Ghanaians have found a good and responsible husband in President Nana Akufo-Addo and are not prepared to go back to their ex, Mr. John Mahama.

He said under the Akufo-Addo government, Ghanaian students are enjoying free senior high school while the larger citizenry is benefitting from free electricity, free water, improved access to healthcare under the National Health Insurance Scheme and bumper harvests from the government’s Planting for Food & Jobs program.

According to him, the Akufo-Addo government ended dumsor the moment it took the reins of power, and, thus, rescued Ghanaians from the NDC-inflicted dark days of erratic power supply.

Dr. Bawumia, therefore, wondered why Ghanaians would want to ditch a good and responsible husband in the person of President Akufo-Addo for an ex who only gave them pain and misery.

Ghanaweb

October 29, 2020
Ododiodio clash: NPP, NDC peace walk was needless – NCCE

Principal Civic Education officer at the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Madam Rebecca Colecraft has chastised sympathizers of National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party for engaging in a peace walk in the Odododiodio constituency.

According to her, there was no need for the two groups to hold a peace walk as the NCCE has already educated the public on the subject ahead of the 2020 December polls.

Speaking on ‘Behind the Headlines’ programme on Radio Univers 105.7FM, Madam Rebecca Colecraft said that if indeed attitudes have changed as a result of peace campaigns undertaken by the Commission, then the two groups had no business hitting the street in the name of a peace walk.

“I understand that it was a peace march. If so, in the first place, where the NCCE has educated our citizenry to, if attitudes have changed, we don’t need a peace walk because, already we understand that; “it is my responsibility, it is your responsibility to live with each other in harmony,” she said.

Madam Rebecca Colecraft is hopeful that violent situations, such as what happened in the Odododiodio constituency, does not happen again.

She disclosed that the NCCE has constituted Inter-Party Dialogue Committees (IPDCs) in the various districts and constituencies.

“We have established IPDCs in all districts and constituencies. The IPDC is simply the Inter-Party Committee and it is made up of all political parties within that constituency, the security, religious bodies, media, the traditional authority, opinion leaders”, she stated.

She also spoke on the function and aim of the IGPCs.

“The main objective of the IPGCs is to name and shame, and also, to bring any of the divides whosoever would use intemperate language, language of insult, would not focus on issues to bring them to book,” she affirmed.

Universnewsroom

October 29, 2020
Angry Supporters of the Opposition NDC in the Suame Constituency seized property and locked out the Executives
Angry Supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Suame Constituency of the Ashanti Region have seized property in the constituency party office following a decision by the Ashanti regional executives to reinstate the Suame Constituency Chairman Umar Saeed

The supporters on Tuesday October 27, 2020 stormed the party office to seized a television set , Chairs, Tables, Party T-shirts and host of others in protest against the decision.

It would be recalled that, Mr Abubakari Yakubu petitioned the Ashanti Regional NDC Party executives to disqualify Umar Saeed from contesting Suame Constituency NDC chairmanship position during the party Constituency primaries in 2018, claiming he was not a member of NDC in the Suame Constituency.

Umar Saeed was cleared by the NDC regional executives and he was able to contest and won as Suame Constituency Chairman.

Abubakari Yakubu who petitioned the NDC Ashanti Regional executives to disqualify Umar Saeed, secured court a injunction on Umar Saeed after the Constituency primaries.

The case has been adjourned several times after court sitting and the ruling has been adjourned to November 10, 2020.

But a letter signed by Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NDC Augustus Nana Akwasi sighted by MyNewsgh reads in part “This is to inform you that you have been reinstated as the Chairman for the Suame Constituency, I entreat you to work hard to justify to this important decision”

The letter from NDC Ashanti Regional Chairman angered members of NDC in the Suame Constituency.

Speaking in an interview with Pure FM’s Osei Kwadwo, the angry NDC Suame Constituency supporters warned Ashanti Regional Chairman Augustus Nana Akwasi to rescind his decision and wait for the court’s ruling.

“We don’t want any monopoly leadership, since court has placed an injunction on Umar Saeed as Suame NDC Chairman, only the court can remove the injunction not regional or national executives” they said, threatening to attack anyone who will open NDC Suame party office.
Mynewsgh
October 28, 2020
NDC running mate asked North Tongu constituents to vote for party

Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the running mate of Mr John Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) has asked the people of the North Tongu Constituency to vote massively for the party.

She said the NDC had carried out lots of life-changing development projects, hence the need to bring the party back to power to continue with its good work.

Prof Opoku-Agyemang, who was speaking at Juapong at the start of her three-day campaign tour of the Volta Region, urged the party faithful to engage vigorously in the retail campaign, moving from house to house to sell the good message of the party to the people.

She said the NDC’s manifesto, which emanated from the people, resonated well with each and everyone, adding that NDC was a party that cares for the development of the country and the need to bring it back to accelerate its socio-economic agenda.

She urged the constituents not to engage in any activity that threatened the peace and stability of the country, stressing that politics was all about ideas, and hence every campaign must be conducted in an atmosphere of absolute peace.

The Running Mate also visited the Volta Star Textile Company Limited, where there was a breast cancer screening exercise for workers and women across the District, and urged women to regularly examine their breasts.

She said regular examinations of the breast would help them know if there was a problem so they could quickly visit health facilities to seek medical treatment to address the challenge.

Prof Opoku-Agyeman said though breast cancer affected men too, women were most affected, thus commended the women for availing themselves for the exercise and implored them to continue to pay serious attention to their breast as it was one important part of the body.

Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament (MP) of North Tongu said the party aimed to secure 98 per cent of the total valid votes cast to bring NDC back to power because the area had seen lots of progress under the NDC government.

He said the current administration starved the District of development and had not carried out any single projects to transform the lives of the people, and therefore urged the people to work hard for the NDC to secure victory come December 7.

The MP called on the people to avoid voter apathy, which occurred in 2016 and led to the party’s defeat, saying the 2020 election was a second Independence aimed to rescue the country from the New Patriotic Party (NPP), therefore they must come out to exercise their franchise for NDC to win.

Togbe Agbohla VI, Mankrado of Dorfor Traditional Area said the area had its fair share of development projects under the NDC-led administration and commended the running mate for the visit.

He said the people within the area were committed to peace and would not do anything to jeopardise the current prevailing peace and tranquility in the country.

Professor OpokuAgyeman was installed Mama Yingor I, to wit, Queen of progress.

GNA

October 28, 2020
NPP Members Withdrawn Contempt Suit Against Wontumi- Subin MP

Fifty-one members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Subin Constituency of the Ashanti Region have withdrawn a contempt suit against the Ashanti Regional NPP Chairman and their Member of Parliament after an out-of-court settlement agreement was reached.

The NPP members filed a contempt suit against the Electoral Commission and the party’s regional executives for going ahead to conduct a parliamentary primary to elect a candidate despite a court injunction.

Both the complainants and defendants in the matter have now agreed to settle the matter out of court.

The delegates claimed their names were removed from the party’s album and accused constituency executives and the Subin MP of plots to disenfranchise them.

After months of court proceedings, the court presided over by Justice Senyo Amedahe ruled on the matter after both parties in the case agreed on an out-of-court settlement.

One of the lawyers for the defendants, Frank Boakye Agyin in an interview with Citi News, said he hoped the party learned from this moment.

“My caution is that any act being done in the name of the party should strictly adhere to democratic principles to allow every person claiming to be a member to contest or speak about events.

The Member of Parliament for Subin, Eugene Boakye Antwi, also called on party members in the constituency to bury their differences and work to help the NPP to retain power in the December polls.

“After a torturous five months, with all these court cases hanging around necks, common sense has prevailed and the leadership of our party has intervened to withdraw the matter from court amongst other things,” he said.

October 28, 2020
Kennedy Agyapong alleges NDC and Fulanis have planned highway robberies ahead of December 7.

Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the MP for Assin Central has alleged that the opposition NDC is behind the recent highway robberies.

He claimed to have intercepted NDC documents that suggest the NDC will sponsor robberies to create tension, put fear in the people, attack the people of Ghana unnecessarily, beat the people of Ghana and organise demonstrations before, during and after the December 7 elections.

“A hardcore Fulani rebel called Jallo Nagyinam has been hired to attack and rob only on highways and to frustrate people on the road to push the lawlessness agenda so there will be frequent highway problems to create fear and panic on the roads,” Kennedy Agyepong purported to read from the alleged document when he spoke on Net 2 TV Monday evening. He did not give a copy to the host to read nor was the document shown on the screens.

He further alleged that a Fulani suspect accused of the murder of Ekow Quansah Hayford, the immediate past Mfantseman MP, had the cell phone of the murdered MP when he was arrested.

“When [the suspect was] asked where he got the phone from, [the suspect] said, he bought the phone from someone who is also a Fulani. A robbery that has occurred on Walewale Highway was orchestrated by the Fulani [people]…,” Agyapong alleged.

He urged his incumbent NPP to take him seriously because all the intelligence he is getting shows that “NDC is operating it ditto ditto and NPP are practising a democracy that Jesus and his disciples didn’t practice”.
He explained that under the current NPP administration, some NPP members in the Asunafo South constituency have been shot at and nothing has been done to the culprits.

“When we were in opposition, we were beaten, in government too we are being beaten…how can we get party members to be vigilant at the polling stations during election day?” he wondered. “No action has been taken and they are still in the constituency roaming around with impunity.”

Kennedy Agyapong observed that he had been propagating on his TV network the alleged plans of the NDC since April and whatever he has said is unfolding.

“The worst is yet to come in November… what kind of democracy are we practising, no arrest, nothing. If it was Kennedy Agyapong, you will get party members saying he should be arrested because they claim I want to be president…because it is not their children the party leadership and government do not care…” furious Kennedy Agyapong stated.

He warned that the NPP should forget about winning the elections if the members of the party are not assured of their safety and security.
“How can we be in power and be intimidated by a party in opposition?” he blurted out.

“They told us in 2008 that there [was] a breakdown in security and still you are relying on security, wow! You people don’t learn…NPP we don’t learn. They [NDC] control the security every minute,” the frustrated Kennedy Agyapong alleged.

October 27, 2020
Akuffo Addo campaign in Greater Accra and a lots of crowds seen at the back of his car.
Yesterday, Monday 25/10/2020, the president of the republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankanwah Akuffo Addo took his campaign tour to the Greater Accra region as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

On his arrival, the people warmly welcomed him to the region. There are many things that happened during the period when he toured the region.

See the crowd at the back that followed Nana Addo Dankanwah Akuffo Addo. This one was very huge. Despite the driveway by the Kpone chief, the sod cutting continued in the region whiles Nana Addo Dankanwah Akuffo Addo was followed by a huge crowd at the back.

The president of the in the photos below, you can see the crowd at the back of the car. They came out massively when Nana Addo Dankanwah Akuffo Addo was campaigning and cutting sods in the Greater Accra region.
October 27, 2020
Suspended fomena MP Holds Meeting with NDC Executives.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has alleged that the suspended Member of Parliament for Fomena, Andrews Amoako Asiamah, has caught holding series of meetings with some executives of the National Democratic Congress.

The NPP Chairman in an interview on the Wontumi Morning Show boldly stated that top executives from the NPP have spoken to the suspend MP to rescind his decision to contest as an independent candidate but it has not yielded any results because the NDC has been encouraging him.

In a video captured by Wontumionline.com, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi stated that “we have heard that Asiamah has been holding meetings with the NDC and we don’t want such people in the NPP.”

He therefore advised the people of Fomena to treat the suspended MP as an outcast and vote against him just like they will do against the flagbearer of the NDC, Mr. John Mahama.

October 27, 2020
Odododiodio will know no peace if MP is not removed – NPP Chairman

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for the Odododiodio Constituency of the Greater Accra Region has alluded that the constituency will never have peace if the current National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, continues as their Member of Parliament (MP).

Raymond Tettey alleged that ever since Nii Lantey Vanderpuije was elected as the parliamentary candidate for the NDC in 2012, the constituency has never known peace and that was what triggered events over the weekend.

Scores of people were wounded following a clash between supporters of the NPP and NDC at Jamestown in the Constituency on Sunday.

Videos circulating on social media show the supporters in party colours and holding party paraphernalia and throwing stones, bottles and other items at each other.

It is immediately not known what triggered the clash which occurred on the Atta Mills Highway.

Reacting to the incident on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa hosted by Anokyewaaba Serwaa, Mr Tettey alleged that it was the NDC members who started pelting broken bottles at NPP members while they were on their health walk.
He explained the NPP members were just observing the health walk from afar but the NDC member, who had broken bottles in one of the tricycles escorting the health walk, started pelting the bottles at the NPP supporters.

Mr. Tettey noted that “there wasn’t any clash because there were only three NPP people there. Can they fight the hundreds of NDC supporters?”

The chairman assured that “they were NDC people who came to attack the NPP and we will make sure they are arrested because we also had our walk on Saturday and nothing of that sort happened”.

Mr. Tettey noted that “they informed the police to give them protection so why did they go with broken bottles if they had no ulterior motive”.

“We want peace in Odododidodoo. These things started in 2012 when Nii Lante [Vanderpuye] became the candidate and if there would be peace in Odododiodio, we have to take out Nii Lante as an MP because the NPP had no hand in what happened yesterday”.

October 27, 2020
Reason why Nana Addo is scared to debate John Mahama

The CEO and Artiste Manager of Bullhaus Entertainment, Lawrence Asiamah Hanson known to people as Bulldog stated the reason why the current President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo is scared of having a presidential debate with the flagbearer of the NDC and former President John Dramani.

According to Bulldog, he has listened to John Dramani Mahama a lot of times and has seen that he is on top of all issues bothering Ghanaians.
Bulldog explain that looking at all that, he is sure and convinced that is the reason why president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo is scared of coming forward for a debate.

October 22, 2020