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  • Renowned Ghanaian surgeon, Dr Edward N. Gyader passes on

    Renowned Ghanaian surgeon, Dr Edward N. Gyader passes on

    Renowned medical surgeon and former Council of State member from the Upper West Region, Dr. Edward N. Gyader, has passed away.

    According to close family sources, the distinguished medical professional and former Dean of the University for Development Studies Medical School died on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.

    Details of the funeral arrangements will be announced later.

    Dr. Edward Gyader was born in Nandom in the Upper West Region and attended Tamale Secondary School. He qualified as a doctor at the University of Bologna and later as a surgeon at the University of Padova between 1966 and 1977.

    He returned to Ghana in 1978, where he was appointed Senior Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health and posted to Jirapa Hospital as Medical Superintendent and Surgeon in Charge. He dedicated his entire professional practice to Jirapa and Wa, with a brief period in Burkina Faso.

    Often, he was the only doctor and surgeon available at the Wa Regional Hospital and, at times, in the entire Upper West Region.

    Dr. Gyader made significant contributions to the health sector, holding various administrative positions in the hospitals where he worked while practicing as a surgeon. He also served on the Central Council of the Ghana Red Cross Society, chaired the Upper West Regional Consultative Council, and was the Presiding Member of the Lawra District Assembly from 1989 to 1992. Additionally, he was a member of the 1991/92 Consultative Assembly that drafted Ghana’s current constitution.

    From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Gyader served on the Medical and Dental Council and later became a Member of the Council of State. He also served as the Dean of the Medical School of UDS before retiring permanently.

    Dr. Gyader’s dedication, experience, and wisdom significantly impacted the health sector and various administrative bodies in Ghana. He will be remembered for his substantial contributions to the development of medical services and his unwavering commitment to his community.

  • ‘It’s been frustrating’ – NDC’s Grace Ayensu-Danquah explains why she abandoned election petition

    The Essikado-Ketan Parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 polls, Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has pulled out of her case against the New Patriotic Party’s Joe Ghartey, MP for the same constituency, who, she insists, was fraudulently declared the winner by the Electoral Commission.

    Dr Ayensu-Danquah’s decision, according to her, is because of disappointment and frustration, especially as the case, which has dragged on for close to two years, with no end in sight, continues to drain her time and commitment towards rejuvenating the party at the constituency level.

    Dr Ayensu-Danquah, who is an American-trained Burn Reconstructive Surgeon, has also debunked syndicated media reports suggesting she was fined for chickening out of the case.

    According to her, Counsel for the plaintiffs demanded GHC500,000 but the Judge, Justice Richmond Osei Hwere, declined the request and instead handed them (the 1st and 2nd respondents, i.e. the Electoral Commission and Joe Ghartey) the initial GHC20,000 deposited to settle administrative fees.

    The 2020 Essikado-Ketan NDC candidate in her petition to the Sekondi High Court, cited several infractions during the coalition of votes which changed the figures in favour of the incumbent MP, Joe Ghartey.

    She avers that illegality resulted in the EC declaring results based on the second respondent, Joe Ghartey’s own pink sheets, which gave him — 26,701 valid votes compared to the NDC candidate — 24,527, while Ghana Union Movement’s (GUM), Frank Cobbinah Parliamentary candidate polled just 629.

    The petitioner however insisted that her “own collated results from the figures declared after counting at polling stations were that the first respondent obtained 26,299 valid votes while the petitioner had 26,336 valid votes, making the petitioner the obvious winner, but the second respondent declared otherwise.”

    But Dr Grace Ayensu, in her termination plea before Court raised a number of concerns.

    That to date she and her lawyer, Daniel Ametepe, have complied fully with all orders of the High Court and have pursued the matter with the utmost zeal and diligence but the 1st Respondent has not yet complied with pre-trail orders of the Court by the failure to file his witness statement and pre-trial checklist.

    That 20 months after she first filed the action, a lot of water has gone under the bridge and upon serious reflection and consultation, “I have decided to let go and rather help my party focus on the future reorganisation as Election 2024 is not too far away,” she explained.

    She has since described twists on the development and the Court’s decision to fine her as mischievous and lacks appreciation of how the case travelled and her reason to move on.

    “It is left with just about two years to the next elections but because of this case, not much in terms of development is happening in Essikado-Ketan, but just confusion,” her lawyer, Mr Daniel Ametepe, explained to journalists, after the hearing.

    “We filed a witness statement for three witnesses to come before the court to narrate what happened on the 7th and 8th of December 2020 because we had a case,” he continued: “Joe Ghartey’s lawyer filed a motion for the case to be dismissed but he lost that case and still went ahead to file an appeal to that ruling.”

    “Even the appeal that Joe Ghartey made his lawyer file, he is not pursuing it,” Mr Ametepe noted, indicating: “This is all to create uncertainty in the High Court.”

    “So, the processes that we have taken to terminate the case [are] part of the rules of the court. That is why the judge granted our case of discontinuation,” he concluded.