Cost recovery would create class society - PNC
Cost recovery would create class society - PNC
"Cost recovery will create class society in
Dr Mahama said, "I call it fragile
because in the midst of rising unemployment, poverty, unaffordable hospital and
school fees and helplessness and hopelessness there cannot be meaningful
stability". He said, "the helplessness and
hopelessness are measured by the risk the youth take in stowing away on air
crafts or in walking to
Dr Mahama said the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) government initiated the idea of cost sharing in
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Nsoatre (Brong Ahafo)
Speaking at the launch of new identity cards of the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) at Nsoatre in the Sunyani
West constituency, he stressed that "the progress of the country should be
the concern of all Ghanaians" and not to play "politics" with
the development of the nation.
Boakye-Boateng urged chiefs in the region to
mobilize communities to embark on activities that would help speed up national
development and asked them to ensure that partisan politics did not affect
development programmes.
The former Regional Secretary appealed to the NPP to honour the late
ex-Prime Minister Professor Kofi Abrefa
Busia with a school, airport or any other monumental
edifice at Wenchi, his hometown in Brong-Ahafo "as an advocate of democratic rule in
Collins Dauda, Regional Chairman of NDC,
accused a section of the media of unfair reportage, especially against
opposition parties. He urged such media organisations to change and be fair and
balanced in their work as expected of them as professionals.
It was the NDC government, which approved of the operations of Frequency
Modulation (FM) stations and the creation of more private newspapers in the
country, he said, but expressed regret that "some of these FM stations and
newspapers showed open bias, instead of operating within the confines of the
profession as educators and disseminators of information."
Mohammed Doku, Regional Secretary of the
Party, accused the NPP Government "for mismanaging the resources of the
nation, hence its inability to fulfil its election campaign promises."
No amount of trials and imprisonment of NDC functionaries could damage
the image of the party, he said and urged members not to be deterred but to
come together and fight for their rights.
Twenty of the identity cards were sold for ’200,000. John Barfour Diawuo, Sunyani West Constituency Chairman of NDC presided.
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The Commission represents the
The membership is made up of a Chairperson his deputy, eight
Commissioners each of whom would be responsible for a portfolio and staff.
Chairperson of the first Commission of the
Seven out of the eight other Commissioners who were elected and their
appointments confirmed by the Assembly included five women. They were, Said Djinnit from
The rest were Mrs Saida Agrebi
from
President Konare begins a four-year term at
the AU Secretariat in September.
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J. B. Salifu, Acting Ashanti Regional Deputy
Secretary, said it was crucial for the constituencies to ensure that only
registered members who meet all the requirements filed nomination for the
primaries.
He was interacting with the Asokwa-East
Constituency Executives and the Akorem Ward and
Branch Executives of the party in
Salifu, who is also the Asokwa-East
Constituency Secretary, said it was only when nominations were filed in a fair
and transparent manner that the right parliamentary candidate could be chosen
to guarantee victory in the parliamentary elections.
"Nominations for the parliamentary primaries of the NDC, opened two
weeks ago, and is scheduled to close by
He said NPP "kicked against the NDC for privatising some State
Enterprises, with the pledge that such things will cease when it assumes power,
but strangely, on assumption of power, it has adopted same policies, and has
even widened the scope of privatisation of the State Enterprises".
Umaro Farouk Gado,
the Deputy Asokwa-East Constituency Organiser, urged
the media to allow the expression of divergent views and dissenting opinions.
He said the tendency of some media houses always siding with the government
while downplaying the views of minority parties did not augur well for
nurturing of the country's democracy and should be discouraged.
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Konongo (Ashanti Region)
George Frimpong, Asante
Akim North District Chief Executive (DCE), announced
this on Friday, when the Ashanti Regional Minister, Sampson Kwaku
Boafo, the Deputy Director General of the Ghana
Education Service (GES) in-charge of Management Services, Miss Lydia Osei,
officials of the Regional Security Council, District Assembly and GES, visited
the school to acquaint themselves with the situation on campus after its re-opening.
The school was re-opened on 25 June after three weeks of closure
following students' riots, which destroyed several items including computers
and science equipment. Frimpong said apart from the
cost of the destruction being borne by the students, the disturbances had also
affected academic work of the students.
He urged the students to put the past behind and work hard to catch up
with their lost time. Miss Lydia Osei said the demonstration had affected the
image of the school, which could take many years to repair. She advised the
students to always submit to authority, discipline themselves and pursue
careers that could help build their future.
Miss Osei also appealed to the teachers to put the past behind and team
up with the headmaster to push the school forward. Boafo
called for discipline in all educational institutions in the country.
He said the demonstration had dented the image of the school and called
on the students to re-examine themselves and work hard to ensure the progress
of the school.
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He called for the intensification of technical and vocational education
to equip the youth with skills for accelerated socio-economic development. Boafo said these in an address read on his behalf at the
graduation of the Ramseyer Presbyterian Technical and
Vocational Institute, in
It was under the theme "The Role of Technical and Vocational
Education in the Golden Age of Business in
The Regional Minister indicated that
He said it was in recognition of the important role of technical
education in development that the current educational system was being
re-formed, to address the socio-economic challenges of the time. Emmanuel Appiah, Principal of the Institute, noted that apart from
training the youth to acquire practical skills for self-employment, the
institute also offered the opportunity for people to further their education.
It also encouraged them to write the NVTI Trade test examinations, to
enable them enter Polytechnics for advance courses.
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Buoku (Brong Ahafo)
The Regional Minister called on the District Assemblies to seek
consensus with the people on the location of particularly markets. Nana Seinti was speaking at Buoku in
the Wenchi District after inspecting a market project
as part of a two-day tour of the district.
The ’274m market has two open sheds, a revenue office and places of
convenience. The Village Infrastructure Project (VIP) under the Ministry of
Food and Agriculture and the District Assembly financed the project with 90 and
10 percent of the cost respectively.
However, the facility is not being used by the people as expected
because of the long distance from the town. Nana Seinti
noted that due to their location, the people had rejected about eight of such
markets in the region. Joe Danquah, District Chief
Executive, explained that the facility had not been abandoned and said it was
built to facilitate the maize business in the area on Fridays.
The Regional Minister later at a durbar with the chiefs and people of
the town urged them to give priority to the education of their children and
explained other Government policies.
Nana Addai Sekyere-Adu,
Odikro of the town said the community faced acute
water shortage, while school buildings had to be rehabilitated. He appealed for
high-tension poles for their electrification project, saying, the town was
sandwiched by forest reserves, which made it impossible for expansion and
appealed to the Government to release land to private developers.
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Aflao (Volta Region) 14 July 2003 - The
Police in Tadzewu, a farming community near Dzodze, in the Ketu District,
have mounted a search for the mother of a 10 month-old baby girl, whose body
was found floating in a dam on the outskirts of the town on 1 July.
Police Inspector Michael Torgbenu, Officer
in-charge of Tadzewu, said the mother was the prime
suspect in the crime. The dam is the source of water for the community. He said
school children found the body floating in the dam and informed the Police who
retrieved and sent it to the Saint Anthony's Hospital at Dzodze
for autopsy.
Torgbenu said the hospital report said the baby
died of suffocation from drowning. He said one had claimed to be the parents of
the baby, which was buried last Thursday.
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Esaase-Bontefufuo (Ashanti
Region)
The small mining community is now virtually deserted by the youth, most
of whom have sought refuge in the bush and the surrounding areas.
The police said to be acting on the instructions of Nana Serwaa Akenten, Queenmother, Nana Agyemang Badu Prempeh, Adotenhene,
Nana Kwame Acheampong, Regent and some elders of the
town continue to search for 13 suspects most of them members of the Unit
Committee and Kwame Acheampong, Assembly Member.
Osei Kwame and Kwabena
Fokuo, both Unit Committee members and Kwasi Agyemang are in cells at the
Kumasi Central Police station.
According to the Assembly Member and Kwabena Asante Kobea, Unit Committee
Member, the youth called on the town's financial committee led by Kofi Adjei to render accounts on
the sale of the community pipe-borne water for the past two years, fines from
communal labour defaulters, stray animals and donations from funerals at a
meeting.
They said the demand did not go down well with Adjei
and the financial committee who informed the Adontenhene
and the Queenmother resident in
Acheampong said the Queenmother and some
elders had earlier petitioned the Amansie West
District Chief Executive demanding his withdrawal from the District Assembly.
He appealed to the DCE,
Nana Prempeh, the Adontenhene
and Nana Amoako Atta, an
elder of the town when contacted confirmed the arrests and said the youth were
harassing the elders following the arrest of three of them.
He alleged that 16 identified suspects restrained the youth from
undertaking communal labour on a clinic initiated by the local Catholic Church
leading to the assault of Agyemang and Kwabena Kusi.
Kwame Afriyie
alias Kofi Manhunusa, an
elder of the town, however, refuted the allegation and attributed the arrests
of the youth to their demand for probity and accountability of the town's
financial management. The Kumasi Police have
confirmed the arrests and said investigations were being conducted into the
case.
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Suhum (Eastern Region) 14 July 2003 - Three
senior officials of the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District
Assembly suspected of embezzling ’180m have been handed over to the police,
Michael Mensah, District Chief Executive (DCE), has
announced.
Addressing a meeting of the Nankese Area
Council and revenue collectors at Nankese on
Saturday, the DCE warned revenue officers that they would be made to face the
full rigours of the law if caught engaging in financial malfeasance.
Mensah said though the Assembly was doing its
best to mobilise funds for development, revenue collectors continued to connive
with some people to evade tax. William Kwaku Ampong, District Finance Officer, noted that revenue
collection among assemblies and urban and area councils had become competitive.
He, therefore, urged revenue officers to work hard to enable the
Assembly increase revenue generation, thereby raising its share of the District
Assemblies' Common Fund. The Local Government Inspector, Elijah Acquah, advised revenue collectors to improve on their
output to win annual awards instituted by the Assembly.
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