The Director of Public Affairs of Parliament, Kate Addo, says the backlash on Members of Parliament over a car loan agreement proposed for the purchase of vehicles for them is unfounded. The Minister for Finance, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, presented a loan agreement for $28 million to Parliament for the purchase of vehicles for Ghana’s legislators. Based on the amount, each of the 275 MPs is expected to receive over $100,000 for the purchase of a vehicle. The Finance Committee of the House is expected to consider the loan agreement and report to the House. Some Ghanaians are incensed over the…
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The Greater Accra Regional Communication Bureau is reliably informed that, barring any last minute change in plans, President Akufo Addo will commission yet again another giant infrastructural project started and completed by former President John Dramani Mahama and the NDC government tomorrow, July 8, 2021. The project in question is the Bank Hospital which was APPROVED BY A BOARD APPOINTED BY FORMER President John Mahama . We have legitimate reasons to foretell how President Akufo Addo have plans not to credit and acknowledge President Mahama for sowing seed for the birth of the hospital. Aside numerous Mahama-initiated projects the President…
Parliament has approved a request by the government for an additional $200million loan from the World Bank to fight Covid-19. According to a Finance Committee report sighted by JoyNews’ Joseph Opoku Gakpo, $137.15million out of the amount, will be spent on vaccine procurement. The Committee’s report stated that the vaccine to be procured, is expected to inoculate about 7.6 million people. Covid-19: Parliament approves additional $200m loan from World Bank“The committee was informed that each dose of the vaccine is estimated to cost US$10.55,” parts of the report reads. The report added that, “this financing would provide improved access to…
Haitian President Jovenel Moise has been assassinated at home, according to the country’s interim prime minister. A group of unidentified individuals attacked the private residence of Mr Moise overnight and shot him dead, Claude Joseph said in a statement. The first lady Martine Moïse is in hospital following the attack late on Tuesday, interim Premier Claude Joseph said. President of Haiti assassinated at homeThe first lady is said to be in hospitalJoseph called the killing a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act,” adding that Haiti’s National Police and other authorities had the situation in Haiti under control. The impoverished Caribbean country…
After requesting for the presence of the Military at a civil protest in Ejura as Chairman of the Ashanti Regional Security Council, Mr. Simon Osei-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister, says he does not know the identities of the soldiers who shot and killed two protesters and injured four others. According to him, a preliminary investigation conducted into the matter is yet to reveal the identities of the operatives. Two residents of Ejura, Nasir Yussif and Murtala Mohammed, were shot dead by soldiers during a protest against the killing of another native of the town, Ibrahim Mohammed alias Macho Kaaka. Out…
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, does not approve salaries and benefits for the Executive and, by extension, for the First Lady and wife of the Vice-President, the Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said. He has, therefore, described as misleading, information making the rounds that President Akufo-Addo had given approval for Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo and Mrs Samira Bawumia to receive same salaries as Cabinet ministers. While confirming that there had been an increment in allowances for the spouses of the President and the Vice-President, Mr Oppong Nkrumah emphasised that, that was an approval given by the Seventh…
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), says it cannot be blamed for the extent of destruction caused by the fire that ravaged a three-storey building at the Makola market on Monday, as claimed by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS). Officials of GNFS had blamed the GWCL for failing to supply them with water on time to fight the fire, saying, although there is an existing arrangement for the water company to supply water in cases of emergencies, the latter failed to do so even after several calls to them. This compelled fire tenders to go as far as Achimota,…
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, sees no point in the ‘March for justice’ demonstration embarked upon by the youth of the opposition National Democratic Congress on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. According to him, the concerns raised by the NDC youth wing which compelled them to demonstrate, were already being addressed by the government. “The substance of the issues they raised, economic hardships, security challenges, among others, are things that the government has already been speaking about. If you take economic challenges, in March 2020, the President forewarned us that despite the growth and gradual improvement that we were…
Ghana’s political class cannot, without a bill laid before parliament, use article 71 of the 1992 Constitution, to smuggle in the payment of salaries, allowances or emoluments to the spouses of the president and vice-president, Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Prof H. Kwasi Prempeh, has argued.It recently came to light, through anti-graft campaigner Vitus Azeem, that the Article 71 Emoluments Committee has recommended the payment of cabinet minister-equivalent salaries to the spouses of president and vice-president. Prof Prempeh, however, notes in a short write-up on social media that: “The mandate of an Article 71 Emoluments…
The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has charged President Akufo-Addo to remove vigilantes recruited into the country’s security agencies. Johnson Asiedu Nketia made the call when he addressed members of the party’s youth wing ahead of their ‘March for Justice’ protest on Tuesday. He accused the President of filling vacancies in the security agencies with members of various vigilante groups. Thus, damaging the reputation of, especially the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). “The protectors of the country are getting a bad name because of the actions of President Akufo-Addo’s vigilantes. It has…