The Accra Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has arrested and detained five police officers following a complaint of alleged extortion in two separate cases on 25th May 2021 during patrol duties. This was made known by the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, DSP Effia Tenge on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. According to her, the Service will not shield any officer found guilty. DSP Effia Tenge further disclosed that the suspects are currently in police custody assisting with investigations. She thus assured the public that the Command will provide further updates on the matter…
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The acute water shortage that has bedevilled Dzodze should be blamed squarely on the Nana Addo led government which has failed to pay the Community Water Management Board despite the huge financial support and loans they have received to combat the covid-19 pandemic. The government owes the Water Board an amount of Ghc 425,000 for three months of free water supplied per an independent audit. Consequently, the bill has piled up for a year running into millions of Ghana Cedis owed by the government to the Community Water Board. This has made it difficult for the company to maintain its…
I couldn’t believe my ears when I chanced upon the comment made by President Akufo-Addo at the sword cutting ceremony of the Law Village Project, basically endorsing the act of lawlessness by armed military officers leading the operation halt galamsey in the forest zones. This justification by a sitting President who claim to be a lawyer is not only outrageous but criminal. Listen, section 99 of the Minerals and Mining (Amended) Act, 2019 provides enough penalties to offences perpetuated by these illegal miners and one would expect the President who has touted much about due process whenever he is questioned…
The acute water shortage that has bedevilled Dzodze should be blamed squarely on the Nana Addo led government which has failed to pay the Community Water Management Board despite the huge financial support and loans they have received to combat the covid-19 pandemic. The government owes the Water Board an amount of Ghc 425,000 for three months of free water supplied per an independent audit. Consequently, the bill has piled up for a year running into millions of Ghana Cedis owed by the government to the Community Water Board. This has made it difficult for the company to maintain its…
Reference to the Award of an honorary doctorate conferred on Dr.Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, the Energy Minister, we are quite shocked that the University would throw such a huge blast on the faces of Ghanaians without considering the optics and the general sensibilities of the populace. How can any serious University decide to confer honors on an Energy Minister in the midst of a major power crisis that has thrown the entire Country into total darkness?? What sort of consideration went into the Award of such honors?It’s not as if the Energy Minister performed outstandingly in his previous position as an Education…
The Member of Parliament for Tain Constituency has pledged his support for the educational activities and teachers as a whole at his district. The Former District Chief Executive under the erstwhile Mahama administration and a former tutor at Seikwa Nursing Training College, made this promise on Wednesday, at the Annual GNAT District delegates conference at the Tain/Banda District. Though, Parliament resumed its setting on Tuesday, the Member of Parliament for Tain, Hon Adama Sulemana, decided to attend this Annual Delegates conference because he considered it to be as a medium to hear them and act on their concerns at the…
The alarming rate of teenage pregnancies in the Techiman municipality in the Bono East Region has moved stakeholders in adolescent reproductive health to combine their forces to hit the grounds in combating the menace. At a community outreach and sensitization program at Asantanso, Miss Millicent Ocloo, the Bono East Regional Project Coordinator of Purim African Youth Development Platform (PAYDP), a non governmental organization leading the campaign called on stakeholders to join fight against fighting teenage pregnancies in order to safeguard the future of our girls. In addition, Julian Harrison Mutar UNFPA focal person pleaded with parents to live up to…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K Bagbin, has assured the business community of Parliaments commitment to extensively engage them on proposed amendments of laws that stifle the growth of local businesses. He said Parliament will directly engage them on the drafting of amendments to laws that affect their operations to ensure that their concerns were fully addressed. The Speaker gave the assurance at a meeting with the Private Enterprises Federation (PEF) in Parliament. He was addressing concerns raised by the Federation on some compelling issues affecting the growth of the private sector including laws bothering on taxes. “One of…
The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has stated that President Akufo-Addo’s administration is currently on the verge of multiple crises. During an interview with Evans Mensah on PM:Express, he explained further that these crises are in the economy, the energy sector and the reeling effect of Covid-19 on the country. “Nana Addo Dankwah is supervising an economy or a country that is at the precipice of multiple crises; an economic crisis, a Covid crisis and an energy ‘dumsor’ crisis. “An economic crisis because if you listen to the World Bank, the IMF, Fitch and Moody this is the highest…
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has cautioned Deputy Minister nominees to desist from holding themselves as if they have been approved to function. According to him, the practice is illegal and unwarranted. The Appointments Committee of Parliament is set to commence vetting of the nominees on June 2, 2021, but even before the process starts, the Minority Leader insists some nominees are already engaging in activities pre-empting the work of the committee. Mr. Haruna Iddrisu spoke on the floor of Parliament at the resumption of its second meeting of the first session of the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic.…