Bank of Ghana to
sack 1,000 workers
NDC opens
nominations for selection of candidates for 2004 polls
Prayers alone would
not be enough to bring progress
Dr Mahama renews appeal for peace in Dagbon
Court
awards costs against Ho NPP Executive
Nsawam Prisons appeal for working tools
NPP executives
suspend party member
Give statement on
FBI, Scotland Yard Investigations-NDC
Government would
ensure peace - Effah-Dartey
Government
committed to good governance - Aliu
Constitutionalism,
guarantee for democratic governance
Prof. Akosa saves hospital from being vandalised
Bank of
The ICU,
had in a letter to the management of the Bank of Ghana requested it to hold
onto the announcement of the redundancy till 25 June, for negotiations on the
matter to open.
Investigations conducted by the
''Independent'' revealed that Dr Paul Acquah, the
Governor of the Central Bank summoned the workers to a meeting at the Bank’s
auditorium last Wednesday to inform them about the development.
The workers who were not happy
with the announcement drew the attention of Dr Paul Acquah
to the demands of the ICU but the Governor is reported to have told them that
he does not take instructions from the ICU. Dr Paul Acquah
told the workers that the redundancy is being carried out in line with the
bank’s new mission as envisaged under the new Bank of Ghana Act 2002.
As an indication of the
seriousness of the management of the Bank about the redundancy, a notice has
already been issued to heads of departments of the banks in the aftermath of
the Governor’s announcement, to explain the rationale of the redundancy
exercise to staff.
The notice requested interested
staff to apply for voluntary redundancy between now and the end of August. Dr Acquah is reported to have told the workers at the meeting
that any worker who fails to take advantage of the voluntary offer and rather
ends up being pushed out by the bank will not get any severance pay.
However the workers are not
interested in voluntary redundancy because, in their words, ''it is not
attractive at all''.
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NDC opens
nominations for selection of candidates for 2004 polls
Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 23 June 2003 -
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has opened nominations for the selection
of its parliamentary candidates to contest the 2004 general election in all the
33 constituencies in the Ashanti Region.
Emmanuel Nti-Fordjour,
NDC Regional Chairman, said the party would ensure that the selection process
was made transparent and democratic.
Addressing a Regional Executive
meeting with Constituency Chairmen of the Party in
"We are not going to impose
candidates on the constituencies and we would respect the choice made by our
people at the primaries." He called for hard work, total commitment,
sacrifice and loyalty from members and supporters of the party.
"This is necessary to help
the party make a strong showing in the next general election in the region,
which is noted to be the stronghold of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), he
said".
He said for the NDC to win back
political power it was important to capture an appreciable percentage of the votes
in the Ashanti Region. "This is the more reason why we should ensure that
our campaign machinery operates at the optimum level."
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Prayers
alone would not be enough to bring progress
Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 23 June 2003 -
A Pastor has appealed to Christians to critically examine their economic
situation and determine if it were enough for them to just pray without working
hard and planning for the future.
The Reverend Raymond Antwi Fredua of the
He was speaking at the
inauguration of the Young Men's Fellowship of the
''You can hope for a better
future only if you judiciously applied the gifts the Creator has endowed you
with, adopt positive attitudes to life and lead honest and disciplined lives.''
The Reverend Joshua Kas Voster of the Resurrection
Faith Ministry appealed to Christians to help turn people away from outmoded
cultural practices that were holding back progress in the society.
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Dr Mahama renews appeal for peace in Dagbon
He said the
conflict had become a major drawback to the development of the area and said
everything possible should be done to end it.
Dr Mahama was speaking on the topic, "Peace in the North,
the responsibility of all Northerners" at the Northern Students Day
celebration in
The PNC Leader said
persistent conflicts and violent clashes in the north should be a source of
worry to all in view of their negative impact on the socio-economic progress of
the people.
He called on people
in the three northern regions to denounce conflicts and stop the killings and
destruction of properties that often go with them.
Dr Mahama also asked the security agencies to act more swiftly
to avert clashes whenever there were signals about looming outbreak of
violence.
Alban Bagbin, the Minority Leader in Parliament, reminded the
people in the three regions about the need to bury their differences so as to
enable them to stand up for a just and equitable distribution of the nation's
resources.
''Rise above
ethnic, religious, political and chieftaincy divisions'', he said. Bagbin, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nadowli North, proposed the formation of a Northern Peace
Committee to help resolve all disputes in the north.
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Court
awards costs against Ho NPP Executive
Ho (Volta Region)
23 June 2003 - Justice Paul Gyaesayor, a High Court
Judge at Ho, on Monday awarded 400,000 cedis costs
against Van Seshie Torblu
and eight others in a case in which the New Patriotic Party (NPP) executive at
Ho Central Constituency and Seth Anyadi and another
eight others as plaintiffs.
The costs were
awarded against the defendants because of the late filing of their affidavit in
opposition to a motion asking for an order of interlocutory injunction to
restrain the defendants against holding themselves out as newly elected NPP
Executive at the Constituency.
The case was
adjourned to Thursday 26 June for hearing. On 12 April, a constituency
delegates' conference elected a nine-member Executive under the chairmanship of
Anyadi to replace the old executive headed by Torblu.
The election of Anyadi's group was nullified by the Regional Executive of
the Party who alleged that the election was procedurally and constitutionally
wrong.
It organised a new
election on 31 May, which re-elected Torblu as
chairman together with eight others despite of an attempt by the Anyadi faction to restrain the Regional Executive through a
Court injunction from conducting the second election.
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Nsawam Prisons
appeal for working tools
Nsawam (Greater Accra)
He said the Prisons
needed tools, teaching manuals including computers to be able to teach the
inmates vocational skills. Yeboah, an Assistant
Director of Prisons in-charge of the Nsawam Medium
Security Prisons, made the appeal when members of the Koforidua
Diocesan branch of the St Anthony's Guild presented food items and soap to inmates
of the Nsawam Prisons on Sunday.
Preaching at a
Thanksgiving Mass later at the Nsawam St John's
Catholic Church, the Vicar General of the Koforidua
Diocese, Monsignor Joseph Afrifah-Agyekum, appealed
to members of the Guild to emulate the pious and selfless life of their Patron
Saint and contribute to the needy.
The National
Spiritual Director of the Guild, Very Rev Fr Theresa Paul Amoako,
asked Christians to remain steadfast in their faith in God and never resort to
fetishes for the solution to their problems.
Fifty-five new
members were initiated into the Guild while over four million cedis was realised in aid of charitable works during an
appeal for funds.
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NPP
executives suspend party member
Ejura (Ashanti Region)
Dr Ayarkwa's
suspension was contained in a resolution passed at the constituency delegates congress held at Ejura
at the weekend. It was attended by 350 delegates from all the 98 polling
stations in the constituency.
Assigning reasons, the
resolution stated that the decision to suspend Dr Ayarkwa
was based on findings and recommendations of the constituency's disciplinary
committee, which was tasked to look into his recent actions, and utterances,
which the executives perceived to be in contravention of the party's
constitution.
The resolution, which was copied
to the National Party Chairman, General Secretary, National Disciplinary
Committee and other related bodies of the party, accused Dr Ayarkwa
of masterminding a recent assault of Samuel Abagna,
the NPP constituency chairman.
The assault, the resolution
said, took place during the Ashanti Regional Delegates Congress of the NPP at
the Centre for National Culture in
Dr Ayarkwa
was also accused of clandestinely convening meetings and instigating some
polling agents to pass a vote of no confidence in the constituency executives.
"This act contradicts Article 6, sub-section 7 (1) of the party's
constitution", the resolution noted.
The resolution said the
executives were forced to take such a harsh decision because Dr Ayarkwa refused to appear before the disciplinary committee
to answer charges levelled against him in spite of several reminders.
In a related development, NPP
polling agents in the constituency have vehemently denied appending their
signatures to a purported letter that sought to pass a vote of no confidence in
Abagna and the constituency executives and which was
published in the 'Pioneer' and 'The Independent' news papers recently.
The polling agents contended
that the names and signatures were forged and called on the constituency
disciplinary committee to investigate to expose those behind it.
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statement on FBI, Scotland Yard Investigations-NDC
Takoradi (Western Region)
He made the call at a forum
organised by the Takoradi Polytechnic Chapter of the Tertiary
Education Institutional Network (TEIN) of the NDC in Takoradi.
Dr Ayeh
said he did not understand why the government was dragging its feet in
releasing the report of the investigations by the two bodies.
According to Dr Ayeh, it was the NPP government, which first imputed
political motives to the murder of the women and for that reason was
responsible to make the report known to the public.
Dr Ayeh
alleged that the government was practising nepotism in the appointment of top
government officials and said if they were not checked could result in
widespread corruption, adding that, they must be frowned upon if the country's
democracy was to thrive.
Dr Ayeh
said the appointment of Justice Acquah, as the Chief
Justice was politically motivated because Mrs Justice Cecilia Bamford-Addo, who is the most senior of the Supreme Court
judges, should occupy the position.
Haruna Iddrisu,
NDC National Youth Organiser, said the party believed in National
Reconciliation but was not happy about the way the National Reconciliation
Commission was going about its work.
He said the procedures adopted
by the Commission was dividing rather than uniting Ghanaians. The NDC
government deconfistication of assets was a gesture
of national reconciliation, he noted.
He said the government should
not look for scapegoats for the events of the 31st December Revolution and the
June 4 uprising, which were national in character and are now part of the
country's history.
Dr Ben Kumbuor,
MP for Lawra Nandom, said
no member of the NDC had any personal agenda against the NPP, adding that, the
NDC was democratic and intends to win the 2004 elections through democratic
process to continue its social agenda.
Madam Tabitha Quaye, Western Regional Vice-Chairperson of the NDC, said
the government had to explain to Ghanaian women why it sidestepped Mrs Bamford-Addo in the appointment of a Chief Justice.
She said the President's action
showed that he was paying lip service to gender issues and that the Ministry of
Women and Children Affairs was established to destroy the 31st December Women
Movement.
Madam Quaye
urged the Federation of Women Lawyers to take up the matter and ensure that the
right thing was done.
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Sekondi (Western Region)
He said this accounted for
"the string of defeat of the NDC" in the recent by-elections.
Addressing the regional executive committee meeting at Sekondi
on Saturday, Manu predicted a landslide victory for the party 2004 elections
and said the party would capture not less than 140 parliamentary seats.
The meeting, which was attended
by constituency chairmen, some parliamentarians and regional executive members
took stock of the party's performance in the region and discussed strategies to
enhance its chances in the next elections.
The NPP Regional Chairman called
for a vigorous campaign and membership devoid of insults, personal attacks and
character assassination.
"We shall campaign on our
laudable policies and achievements in infrastructure development and good
governance, peace and higher productivity". Manu said primaries for the
selection of parliamentary candidates in the region would begin soon.
Papa Owusu
Ankomah, Attorney General and Minister of Justice,
stressed the need for co-ordination between the various structures of the party
to strengthen its position on the ground.
"From their recent
pronouncements it is clear that NDG leaders are doing everything possible to
undermine the government since they have now recognised that their second
defeat will send the party into the wilderness for a very long time".
Papa Owusu
Ankomah, who is the MP for Sekondi,
said the NPP would appeal to the electorate to give it the mandate to rule
since no government could deliver without solid support.
He admitted that the government
had not found things easy due to the situation it inherited but said it had
done better than the opposition. The Attorney General advised against petty
squabbles among party members, adding that, the government's attention would
not be diverted from the goals it had set itself.
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Government
would ensure peace - Effah-Dartey
Hohoe (Volta Region)
Captain Nkrabea
Effah-Dartey (RTD), Deputy Minister for Local
Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), said this at a durbar of the Chiefs
and people of the Hohoe District at Hohoe.
It formed part of the opening
ceremony of the southern sector mid-year review conference of District Chief
Executives (DCEs) and Presiding Members (PMs) from the
He said peace was needed for the
good governance of the country to ensure prosperity and progress. "If we
want peace we cannot get it on a silver platter, we must be vigilant, we must
be bold to expose any person who tries to foment trouble to divide the
society," he said.
The Deputy Minister asked chiefs
and the people to rally behind the government to enable it carry out its
development programmes by assisting the District Assemblies to mobilise
revenue.
Capt. Effah-Dartey
urged estate developers and the hospitality industry to put up quality hotels
and guesthouses in rural areas to promote tourism and urged communities to
observe environmental sanitation.
The Volta Regional Minister, Kwasi Owusu-Yeboa, called on the
MLGRD to spell out the roles of DCEs and PMs to curtail rampant misunderstanding between them.
He said the government needed
peace to develop the country and described those who overthrow constitutional
governments as "political armed robbers who must be dealt with according
to the laws of the land".
James Komla
Dogbe, District Chief Executive, expressed concern
about the state of roads in the district and appealed to the government to
rehabilitate them.
The DCEs
and PMs on Saturday visited the Wli
Waterfalls and Mountain Afadjato, the highest
waterfall in
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committed to good governance - Aliu
"Every objective observer
would admit that government had done a lot of work in these last two and half
years," he said at a dinner dance organised by the Central Region branch
of the Tertiary Education Student Confederacy (TESCON) of the NPP at
Alhaji Mahama
said
He said while education at the
basic level had improved, the President's Special Initiatives were providing
many jobs for the people and infrastructure at the district level, getting
better.
"Even our opponents in
their sober moments give us credit for the good work we are doing though they
would not admit this in public". The Vic-President said that the situation
in the country may not be the best, "but one thing we are sure of is that
the vast majority of our people dread the prospect of going back to the dark
days of our immediate past".
Alhaji Mahama
noted that many were waiting for the government to improve their lot and the
youth looking for gainful employment.
He said, however, "The old
formal channels for engagement can no longer meet our needs. The situation
calls for some re-focusing and greater commitment from all of us, and this
bring to the fore the need to do things differently". The stressed the need
for a self-confident youth ready to move the nation forward with the active
support of the government.
He said probity, accountability
and integrity had assumed their proper meaning, adding that, development
projects were now practical and tangible and could be easily identified in
communities.
Alhaji Mahama
said the most difficult challenge of the country was that "there is less
money than what we need to do things we want" including the provision of
free education at all level, good drinking water and building and equipping
hospitals.
The Central Regional Minister,
Isaac Edumadze, thanked the students for their good
work during the elections and urged them to continue their membership and
support for the party.
He advised them to lead decent
lives and to desist from negative tendencies that could undermine their future
progress. Among the speakers at the ceremony who called for hard work by the
students and other supporters to enable the party re-gain power in the 2004
elections were Professor Dominic Fobih, Minister for
Lands and Forestry and Andrew Abambile Awuni, Deputy Minister for Information.
Ministers of State, MPs and
other top functionaries of the party attended the dinner dance.
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Constitutionalism,
guarantee for democratic governance
"Any act, policy or
directive by both political and religious leaders considered to be unconstitutional
offers the necessary breeding ground for discontent, agitations and
rebellion," he said.
Rev Mohenu
said the country's democracy would thrive on the understanding of rules and
regulations and the awareness of the people to their civic responsibilities as
enshrined in the 1992 Constitutions and urged all especially Christians to
study it along side the Bible.
He was speaking at the
inauguration of eight-member National Executives of the Association of
Fundamental Baptist Churches (AFBC) in
Rev Mohenu
also charges leaders to be strong, courageous and bold to defend the truth, and
avoid being used by self-seekers to perpetuate their social-political agendas
to the detriment of the general public.
He reminded leaders not to allow
prestige to make them alienated from the people they serve but to depend on God
for direction. The Outgoing President of the association, Rev. Alfred Ofosu-Asante of
He also asked religious bodies to
contribute to national development saying "we have a responsibility for
both the spiritual and physical well being of our congregation and the society
we operate from."
Rev. Kofi
Yeboah-Gaisie of
He said the church was obliged
to improve the members' standards of living, although the society and
government were also responsibility for the same duty.
Rev Yeboah-Gaisie
said, "Some people only require the creation of a conducive
atmosphere for them to take off; others like many school leavers need only to
be given skills and directed to productive activities."
He said the Baptist Churches
would continue to offer opportunities for the development of its members and
the larger community.
Rev Yeboah-Gaisie
said the Association would guide against exploitation and would uphold the
truth. A team of Pastors and Church leaders prayed for the new executives of
the association and ushered them into office for the next three years. Rev.
John Abedu-Kennedy of
Other officers were Pastor
Benjamin K. Arthur of
The rest were Pastor Josiah Abedu-Kennedy and Rev Frank Twum-Mensah
Organising Secretary and Vice Organising Secretary respectively.
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Prof. Akosa saves hospital from being vandalised
Sunyani (Brong
Ahafo)
The Director General shed his
official garb to conduct autopsy on the deceased to save the situation in the
absence of a resident pathologist at the hospital.
When asked by Ghana News Agency
in an interview what motivated him to intervene, Prof. Akosa
replied: "I am a pathologist and the problem required the service of a
pathologist to solve, so my arrival there at that material moment was a divine
intervention for the hospital authorities."
"I had to assist the
hospital authorities in that regard because apart from all other official
duties, the basic function of any medical practitioner is to apply one's
professional expertise in the supreme interest of the people."
Prof. Akosa
explained at the end of his three-day working visit to the region that but for
his timely arrival at the hospital, the emotionally charged youth would have
vandalized and caused havoc at the hospital.
He said as at 1230 hours that day
when he and his entourage of health personnel arrived at the hospital, the
youth had barricaded the area and poured heaps of rubbish at the main entrance
of the hospital.
The Director General told GNA
that according to the people, the man's death was due to a curse on him and
they therefore wanted the body to be released to them immediately for certain
rituals and pacification rites to be performed at a shrine before burial.
He explained that the hospital
authorities had refused to release the body "since the death occurred at
Prof. Akosa
said the autopsy had not been performed as at Friday "because the hospital
has no resident pathologist and the one who was to come from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
(KATH) in
The family had prepared for wake
keeping and burial for the deceased the following day. The youth, clad in red
clothes and with red bands on their heads and hands and singing war songs,
however felt the only alternative through which they could get the body was to
resort to the intimidating tactics to compel and coerce the hospital
authorities to release it to them, Prof. Akosa added.
He said after his rounds,
including addressing a durbar of the hospital staff at
Dr. Anthony Ofosu,
Berekum District Director of Health Services had earlier
explained that the deceased was brought to hospital on the morning of Monday 16
June, complaining of abdominal pains.
He said the doctor on duty
suspected typhoid perforation, which would have required surgery but whilst
attending to him in the evening the patient died unexpectedly.
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Sunyani (Brong
Ahafo) 23 June 2003 - Two students of the Sunyani Polytechnic were on Sunday admitted to the Sunyani Government Hospital, one with bullet wounds and the
other hit with a truncheon following a battle with helmet-wearing armed
policemen deployed to dismantle a roadblock mounted by the students on the main
Sunyani-Kumasi road.
Opoku Adjei
King, 22, a final year student in Furniture Craft was hit by a stray bullet
while Sarfo Eric, was allegedly hit with a truncheon.
The students' action followed
the death of Mark Yaw Mensah, a 23-year-old final
year student in Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic after allegedly being
knocked down by a vehicle on Saturday night at a roundabout near the
The late Mensah,
a boarding student, was said to be returning to campus with colleagues from a
dinner at Marriot Hotel as part of the National Week celebration of the
Polytechnic Electrical Students' Association of Ghana (PESAG) when the incident
occurred.
His body has been deposited at
the Sunyani Government Hospital Mortuary. For more
than four hours traffic on the road came to a halt as no vehicle could cross to
the other side.
A police source told newsmen
that before the arrival of the police at the scene the students were alleged to
have smashed the windscreen of an Isuzu vehicle with registration number GT
4829 S while a driver of a
Meanwhile, 23 students made up
of 15 males and eight females have been arrested by the police and are helping
in investigations.
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Assin Foso
(Central Region)
James Mensah,
Principal of the Foso Training College, noted that
the inability of the authorities to sustain professional and social support for
teachers during the early stages of their career, created stressful and
frustrating conditions for them.
The principal was speaking at
the graduation and commendation service for 165 final year students of the
college, at Foso. Mensah
said the lack of accommodation and the delay in payment of salaries among other
setbacks affected the morale of newly trained teachers.
He expressed satisfaction at the
results of the 'in-in-out programme' for training colleges, introduced two
years ago to facilitate the production of competent teachers for basic schools.
Mensah said: ''The programme has shown
a lot of promise and most of the communities that have benefited from it, have
commended my students, because it has greatly improved upon school attendance
and whipped up enthusiasm among school children.'' He hinted that plans were
far advanced to up-grade the college to a diploma awarding institution.
Mensah said positive steps were being
taken to improve the institution's computer and resource centres and the
electricity and water supply systems. He appealed to individuals, organisations
and the government to assist the college to repair its roads,
provide accommodation for the staff and refurbish the library.
He advised the newly trained
teachers to abide by their professional code of conduct, and to upgrade their
skills to enhance teaching and learning.
The Assin
District Chief Executive (DCE), Kwabena Karikari-Apau, in a speech read for him, advised students
against the destruction of school property. The DCE said the assembly would
ensure the development of education, and said part of the HIPC Relief Fund and GETfund were used to construct blocks of classrooms and to
rehabilitate the existing educational facilities in the area.
He also said about 30 brilliant
but poor teacher trainees were being sponsored to complete their education. The
Reverend Isaac Quansah, Bishop of the Cape Coast
Diocese of the
He also advised them to avail
themselves of the opportunities being offered by the distance education
programme of the University of Cape Coast to acquire
more skills and knowledge to facilitate their work.
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The appeal was contained in
separate resolutions adopted at end of meetings the councils had with the
Integrated Social Development Centre and Trades Union Congress, regional
secretaries from
They, therefore called on the
government to give the needed financial and logistical support to the Ghana
Water Company Limited to enable it provide good drinking water at affordable
cost. The councils stated that: "Water is not and should not be a common
commodity to be bought and sold in the market place as an economic good."
They said access to potable
water was a basic right and a necessity to every individual regardless of his
or her social, economic or political status and should, therefore, be made
available to all by the government.
The councils further advised the
government not to privatise the Ghana Commercial Bank, since such a decision
would have serious consequences on workers, especially those in the rural
areas.
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One out of the nine people
pulled out of the debris was found dead while the remaining were in critical
condition and had to be rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) for emergency medical
attention.
None of them could be
immediately identified. It was believed that some others were still buried
under the huge pile of broken cement blocks, iron rods and wood.
At the time the Ghana News
Agency (GNA) visited the scene, Willie Halm, Regional
Fire Officer, was supervising a rescue operation to reach those believed to be
trapped.
They were using a bulldozer to
remove the debris. Sampson
Boafo, who could not hide his disgust
at the poor quality materials used for the construction of the building, was
heard make the remark, "this is all part of the indiscipline we have been
talking about."
The GNA gathered that the workers
were normally engaged to work on the project during the night and on weekends
possibly to escape the notice of the Building Inspection Unit of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
This is the second time in less
than one month that a building under construction in the metropolis had come
tumbling down. The first, also a three-storey building, occurred at Adum.
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Aweregya-Kwahu (Eastern Region) 23 June 2003 -
The Deputy Director of the Global Hunger Project (THP), Dr Fitigu
Tadeese has said the hunger project would co-operate
and supplement government's efforts to eradicate hunger, poverty, and diseases
in the country.
This, he said, would enhance the
living standard and health needs of the people to enable them contribute
towards national development. Dr Tadeese was speaking
at the commissioning of a ˘500m Nsuta-Aweregya
Epicentre Hunger building project in the Kwahu South
District for ten communities in the area.
The building comprises a clinic,
a library, a conference hall, a bank and a food bank for the storage of
agricultural produce.
Dr Tadeese
who is also the African Director of the THP said a number of systems of
development had been initiated for the past 30 years without success but the
THP would give the needed financial and material support to the communities to
achieve their vision to defeat hunger, poverty and diseases.
He advised the beneficiary
communities to make effective use of the centre to upgrade their knowledge and
adopt improved farming methods to produce abundant food to feed the people.
The Deputy THP Director advised
them to make the Epicentre a peaceful and save place for their health needs as
well as to acquire the requisite knowledge to increase food production to feed
the population.
The Country Director of THP,
Nana Agyemang-Mensah said the centre would assist the
over 10,000 people in the ten communities to free themselves from being
marginalised by hunger, poverty and diseases to enable them provide their
essential needs to improve their living standards.
She said the THP did not assist
individuals but group of people who came together to share ideas and initiate
development programmes to improve production.
The Country Director advised
school children especially the girl-child to visit the library regularly to acquire
the needed knowledge and also urged the Ghana Health Service to provide the
needed Health personnel to man the clinic to provide quality health service to
the rural communities.
The Eastern Regional Minister,
Dr Francis Osafo-Mensah commended the THP for its
programmes to assist the rural population to improve food production and
security, health, education, nutrition.
He advised the beneficiary
communities to make effective use of the facilities at the centre since the
assistance for its construction were sacrifice from
people of the donor countries.
The Regional Minister said the
country was presently at the crossroads where a war was being waged against
poverty, diseases, illiteracy, shelter and dwindling economy and welcomed the
assistance from THP and other NGOs to reconstruct the country.
The Obohene, Nana Yeboah Afari Buagyan, II, appealed for
the rehabilitation of the Fodoa-Aweregya-Nsuta feeder
roads and extension of electricity to the area to enable them to process some
of the agricultural produce in the area.
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The Managing Director of ECG,
Fred Asante says this notwithstanding,
the company has put in place measures to ensure that it provides efficient
services to customers. According to him, the ECG is perceived as not caring
about faults, issuing out inaccurate bills and not informing customers about
power outages.
To mitigate these perceptions,
the company has installed a new mechanism known as SCADA that would enable the
company to detect faults automatically. The system will start operation within
the
He therefore urged the Power
Queens to be customer oriented with a culture that addresses the very needs of
customers and to go the extra mile to help improve their revenue mobilization
tactics.
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As a result of the recent low
level of water in the Akosombo Dam, the Volta River
Authority (VRA) was forced to rely on the Aboadze
Thermal Plant, which increased the cost of producing electricity. The Volta
Aluminium Company (VALCO) was also forced to close down some of its pot lines,
resulting in retrenchment of some of its workers.
Explaining the rain pattern for
this year, Narh said southern
He said the Northern parts of
the country would pick up in July and reach its peak in August.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 23 June
2003 - Former President Flt. Lt J. J. Rawlings has travelled to London on his
way to Moscow to participate in a High-Level Expert Group Meeting and Plenary
of the Inter Action Council, from 19th – 23rd June 2003.
The Inter Action Council is an
independent international organization set up in 1983 to mobilize the
experience, energy and international contacts of a group of statesmen who have
held the highest office in their own countries. Council members jointly develop
recommendations on, and practical solutions for the political, economic and
social problems confronting humanity.
Members of the council include
President Rawlings of
The theme for the meeting is
“Unilateralism and Collective Responsibility” and will look into the ‘War Against Terrorism’ Rawlings will be away for two weeks.
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