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  • Haruna Iddrisu boycotts NDC Council meeting

    Haruna Iddrisu boycotts NDC Council meeting

    On February 6, the Council of Elders convened a crucial meeting with the Minority Caucus and the National Executive Committee (NEC), but former Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu was noticably absent.

    The meeting resolved to back the decision to select Dr Cassiel Ato Forson of Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Constituency as the Minority Leader with Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah of Ellembelle Constituency as the Deputy Minority Leader. Adaklu’s Governs Kwame Agbodza is replacing Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak as the Minority Chief Whip.

    The Asawase Member of Parliament was also missing at the meeting.

    But later writing to confirm the resolution by all at Monday’s meeting, former Deputy Minority Leader James Klutse Avedzi said he was sent to the meeting by the Tamale South MP.

    “We the former leaders made up of Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, the former Minority Leader, Hon. James Klutse Avedzi, Deputy Minority Leader and Hon. Muntaka Mubarak, Minority Chief Whip assured the Council of Elders of the Party when we met them on Tuesday 17th January 2023, that we will abide by their resolution of the challenges,” he wrote on Monday, February 6.

    “This assurance was disclosed to the Council when Hon. Haruna Iddrisu asked me to sum up our position on the matter.”

    He subsequently thanked the Council chaired by Alhaji Mahama Iddrissu and former President John Dramani Mahama for their intervention.

    The National Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, assured that all concerns that arose out of the announcement have been resolved.

    “You can see from the enthusiasm that the challenges that arose out of the announcement of the new leadership of our caucus in Parliament have all been resolved,” he said after the meeting.

    “All concerns have been addressed so we are just looking forward.”

    One of the Minority MPs who signed the petition to the Council, Cletus Apuul Avoka, on Ghana Tonight on TV3 on Monday pledged to work with the new leadership.

  • Free tablets: How will you fund this project? – Forson asks Bawumia

    Free tablets: How will you fund this project? – Forson asks Bawumia

    The effort to provide free tablets to all Senior High School (SHS) pupils has been challenged by Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson.

    The vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been asked to explain how government plans to finance it.

    In a tweet, which was retweeted by Former President John Dramani Mahama, Dr Ato Forson said “Dr Bawumia, your frivolous promises are largely responsible for Ghana;’s bankruptcy! Basic schools in the North East Region don’t have tables and chairs yet you are promising 1 student 1 tablet! How will you fund this? Borrow more? Where lies your priorities Mr. Veep?”

    Dr Bawumia promised that all SHS students are going to be given free laptops this year.

    These tables, he said are loaded with textbooks on them for their studies.

    This is a game-changing development, he said.

    “This year, we are on course to provide all Senior High School students in Ghana with tablets that are loaded with textbooks on them for their studies.

    “That’s a very game-changing development. We will have past questions preloaded on these tablets that will be distributed,” he said while speaking at this year’s New Year School at the University of Ghana, Legon on Tuesday, January 17.

  • Mentally ill woman dies near DCE’s residence

    In the Central Region, a mentally ill woman was discovered dead next to the home of the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District Chief Executive Officer.

    The body of the woman who died Sunday, December 18, 2022 morning was still lying at the spot as of Monday evening.

    Speaking in an interview with Kasapa News, Yaw Boagyan, residents said the deceased was earlier found sleeping opposite the District Chief Executive’s house during a downpour but was later found dead.

    They are sad nobody attended to the deceased when she was helplessly lying opposite DCE’s residence and near the office of the National Service Secretariat, Youths Employment Agency office.

    They are appealing to the police service, Environmental agency, and Social Welfare Director in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District to act now.

  • Mando SHT students to boycott school over ‘watery’ stew, ‘kenkey without fish’ meals

    Students of Mando Senior High Technical School in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region, have bemoaned the poor quality of meals served to them during dining sessions.

    According to the students, they used to be served quality meals in the past, however, things have changed now as they sometimes do not get served any meals during the weekends.

    Speaking in an interview with Class FM’s Central regional correspondent, Nana Tawiah, some of the students explained: “Our dining situation is bad. In the mornings, we are served tea, for lunch ‘Egbeme’ and for supper, rice water. You can see the rice under the water, no sugar, so you have to take your own sugar.

    “The tea is so light, if it pours in your uniform, you can use it to wash the uniform. The dining situation is very poor, so, we’re appealing to the government to come to our aid,” a female student explained.

    Another female student said: “We haven’t been served any good food since last month”.

    “The day we’ll get some solid food will be days they serve Kenkey, no fish; even if they add fish, the stew is more than water, one mackerel for two tables or 20 people. Even with that, it’s once in a while. The food is bad, and it’s insufficient.”

    “We’re served only liquid food thrice a day, they must at least serve solids.”

    Another female student indicated that due to the poor quality of meals served, the students fall sick frequently and have to go home.

    “Sometimes, they give us tea in the morning, in the afternoon, too, when you’re expecting solid food, you get there and they ask you to go for your cups, they serve you tea again. In the evening, too, you get there and they serve you Oblayo or rice water, the rice water too, you can pour the water away and add pepper to it to eat. The situation is bad”.

    “Mando Senior High Technical, we’re pleading with the government and the authorities, in the name of God to help our school. We’re suffering. There are some among us who do not have money, since morning they have been sitting around starving. The tea is so light, lots of people are falling sick and have to go home. We plead with the government to help us otherwise when school vacates and we go back home, we’ll not return to school again.”

    The students also bemoaned the inability of some of their parents to understand their plights, as it is believed that the government is catering for them under the current free Senior High School (SHS) programme.

    “Our mothers, too, think when you come to school, you eat well, so, when you call to ask them for money or bring you food, they’ll be saying, aren’t you the ones who are being catered for by the government, why again are you calling for food or money. They really do not understand our situation,” one of the students stated.

    Another student added: “When we came previously, they used to serve us Jollof and sausage”.

    “There’s no money; when you ask your mum for money, it takes about a week to arrive, when it comes too, you have a lot of bills to pay because you’re owing people and have to pay for the extra classes or that.”

  • 2020 polls: Government borrowed GH¢67bn ‘shared it like kelewele’ – Ato Forson claims

    Cassiel Ato Forson, Member of Parliament for Ajumako Enyan Essiam Constituency in the Central Region has alleged that government went on a borrowing spree in the lead up to the 2020 polls.

    At Forson, who is the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Finance Committee said a total of 67 billion cedis was borrowed, which amount the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government splurged on campaigning.

    He said, the amount was also shared among members of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, like kelewele – a local snack made of fried chopped plantain with pepper usually accompanied with groundnuts.

    “Because of the elections, they decided to borrow 67 billion Ghana cedis, and shared the money to their party supporters. They shared Ghana’s money like kelewele,” Ato Forson claimed in an interview with pro-National Democratic Congress channel, Woezor TV.

    The NPP government has serially been accused of overborrowing and reckless spending leading Ghana into financial difficulties.

    The government insists that the twin effects of the COVID-19 aftermath and the Russia-Ukraine war are to blame for the headwinds and that measures are being put in place to rectify the challenge.

    Ghana is hoping for an International Monetary Fund, IMF, programme to help stabilize the economy amid fears that it could collapse sooner or later.

    President Akufo-Addo in late October delivered an address on the economy, admitting that Ghana was in a crisis, whiles outlining measures being undertaken to reverse the tide and put the economy on a path of growth and prosperity.

     

    Source: Ghanaweb

  • Chief denies banishing woman found in pit latrine

    The Chief and Elders of Enyan Asempanyin in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam Central Region have disputed the assertion that the community expelled a woman who went missing and was later discovered in a pit latrine.

    Per the Chief and the Elders’ account, the woman was reportedly transferred from the Enyan Asempanyin Community by her own family in order to receive the proper medical attention.

    Also, in an interview with Kasapa News the Ebusuapanyin of Enyan Asempanyin, Buabeng Essel, explained that the victim’s landlord, Yaa Prah, rather ejected her from her residence, forcing her family to transport her to her homeland, and not the Chief, who expelled her from the village.

    He on behalf of the Chief and Elders of the town appealed to the general public to disregard the claim that they banished the woman for ‘drowning’ in a pit latrine.

    Background

    If will be recalled that Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan reported on August 31st, 2022 that a woman who had gone missing for three days had been found in a public pit latrine at Enyan Asempenyin in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region.

    She was rescued after a young man who had gone to use the public toilet heard the voice of a woman screaming for help.

    He’s said to have rushed and informed the community members about the incident following which a distress call was placed to the Breman Essiam Fire Station after which officers arrived at the scene, and broke the hole at the top to create a wider opening for her to come out.

    The woman who claims she was traveling was rescued with her bag containing money.

    The Fire Commander for Ajumako Enyan Essiam District, DO3 Augustine Cudjoe in an interview with Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan expressed on how it was possible for the woman to ‘drown’ in the 12-feet pit latrine since the hole is narrow for her to go through.

    She was given a good bath after she was removed as she was smeared with feces.

    The woman is currently receiving treatment at the Ajumako Government Hospital, while the Ajumako District Police Command commences an investigation.

     

     

  • Ato Forson retains Ajumako Enyan Essiam seat for a fourth term

    The incumbent Member of Parliament for Ajumako Enyan Essiam Constituency in the Central Region who also doubles as the Minority Ranking Member on Finance Hon. Cassiel Ato Forson has won the seat with a huge margin.

    He polled 39,229 to beat his closest contender Dr. Rashid Kwesi Etuaful who secured 28,669 votes.

    Before the 2020 poll, Hon. Ato Forson said 2020 parliamentary will be the easiest election he will ever contest since he became a Politician, adding that his opponent Dr. Rashid Kwesi Etuaful was very light hence he will win massively.

    “I have twenty years to spend on the Ajumako Enyan Essiam Constituency seat as a Member of Parliament before going on retirement, so I am not going to stop contesting the seat.

    According to Ato Forson, the NDC party has seized the Ajumako Enyan Essiam Constituency seat for 60 years so NPP should not attempt to wrestle it as they are bound to fail.

    “The people of Ajumako Enyan Essiam Constituency retained me due to my hard work in terms of developmental projects I have brought in my Constituency and I am promising my Constituents to watch out for more developmental projects coming year.”

    Source: Kasapa FM