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- Ga youth warned against enforcing ban

  on drumming

- Election 2012: Special training for 16,000

  policemen

- Cholera outbreak at Elubo kills two,

  33 hospitalised

- Why did NPP contract foreigners to build

  the presidential palace – ET Mensah

- Chinese ‘galamsey’ operator drowns

  with Ghanaian boy

- Election 2012 to be fought on achievements,

  not insults

- Nana Addo And Dr Bawumia Electrify

  Eastern Region

- Koforidua Court convicts 12 drivers

 

Ga youth warned agains enforcing ban on drumming


  • Source: JoyOnline - 14.05.2012

The Greater Accra Regional Security Council has cautioned youths in the Ga state against taking the law into their own hands in the enforcement of the ban on drumming and noise making.

The caution follows a recent clash between some Ga youth and a religious group in Accra over an alleged violation of the ban.

The ban which ends on the 7th of next month will pave way for the celebration of the Homowo festival by Gas across the Greater Accra Region.

The Deputy Greater Accra Regional Minister Nii Djangmah Vanderpuije told Joy News a special task force has been given that responsibility.

Mr. Vanderpuije is hopeful the task force comprising the police, the local assembly and representatives of the traditional council will effectively enforce the ban.

Election 2012: Special training for 16,000 policemen



  • Source: GNA - 16.05.2012

Sixteen thousand (16,000) Police officers will be receiving training on how to handle violent situations and crisis during the upcoming elections.

The training will be funded and conducted by the UK Aid from the Department for International Development. The Department in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service will provide a five-week training exercise for some police officers nationwide.

This is to ensure that the police are equipped and ready for any situation during the election.

The Director General of Operations of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP John Kudalor, told Citi News in an interview that “this training is unique because of the combatants and the determination by each party to win, so it's very useful to help us take decisions and also help us to be more professional.

“There is this perception, especially in this part of the world that any incumbent has an advantage.

"This police service was during the last elections and an opposition party came in so why can’t we do it again?

“Ours is to ensure that it is fair ground, do our job professionally. We are apolitical and that is the same thing that we’re going to do so this are perceptions, there are no concrete proof of the police taking sides," he said.

He added: “I think we’re well prepared, you can start with the biometric registration, the first two days the police was not there was nearly mayhem. We came in and everything stabilized. We’re going to be doing the same thing for the elections."

Cholera outbreak at Elubo kills two,

33 hospitalised

  • Source: GNA - 16.05.2012

A cholera outbreak at Elubo in the Jomoro district of the Western Region, since last Tuesday has claimed the lives of two persons, with 33 others battling for their lives.

The Medical Assistant In-charge of the Elubo Health Centre, Mr Thomas Kwesi Addai, made this known to a team of top officials from the Jomoro district who visited the Centre to assess the situation on Sunday.

The officials led by the District Chief Executive, Mr Sylvester Dadieh, included Mr Abudu Amadu, Jomoro District Coordinating Director, Mr Raymond Serwoh, Jomoro District Environmental Health officer and Mr Joseph Azabire, district disease Control Officer.

Mr Addai told the team that eight of the affected people were responding to treatment at the facility and the rest had been treated and discharged.

He said the dead, Mr Kwasi Nyameke, 57, and Madam Grace Taylor, 42, both residents of Elubo had been buried by officials of the Ministry of Health.

The medical Assistant said the cause of the cholera outbreak was the pollution of the Tano River that serves as the source of drinking water for over 10 communities along the river.

The DCE promised that the Assembly was going to assist in the setting up of a special camp for cholera cases to avoid the spread of the disease.

Mr Dadieh appealed to the people in the area to boil the water they collected from the Tano River before drinking.

Why did NPP contract foreigners to build the presidential palace – ET Mensah

  • Source: GNA - 14.05.2012

The Minister of Works and Housing, E.T Mensah, has fired salvos at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for jumping to the defense of local estate developers with regards to the provision of affordable housing units in Ghana.

The main opposition party has kicked against government’s partnership with GUMA of South Africa to provide 500 affordable housing units in the country.

Addressing the press in Accra on Monday, Hon. Mensah, who described the NPP as “opportunistic, hypocritical and farcical”, said the party’s record when it comes to solving the housing deficit of the country is the poorest as compared to past governments.

The emergence of GUMA, according to Nana Akomea, the Director of Communications of the NPP, came as a big surprise to the leading opposition party because Ghana can boast of qualified estate developers to oversee the project.

“Did the NPP forget that GREDA [Ghana Real Estate Developers Association] was in existence when it contracted foreigners to design and build the presidential palace for Ghana, that it is now appearing to jump to GREDA’s defense,” the Minister pointed out.

Also, Nana Akomea pointed out in his statement that: “Between 2006 and 2008, the government of the day partnered Ghanaian estate developers to deliver to near completion 4,700 units of affordable housing in Borteyman- Nungua, Asorkore- Mampong, Kpone, Koforidua and Tamale.”

However, Hon. Mensah replied: “The bare truth is that of all the governments that have ruled Ghana since independence, the NPP’s tradition and performance with respect to the provision of houses for middle and low income earners have been the poorest.”

The lawmaker added: “For six years, the NPP did not find it necessary to increase the housing stock of the nation, but rather concentrated its effort on selling the existing State houses including Ministerial Bungalows and Ghana Airways buildings to themselves and cronies.”

Hon. Mensah said the pact between the Mills-led administration and the GUMA group can be described as dawn of a new era aimed at addressing the housing deficit in Ghana.

Chinese ‘galamsey’ operator drowns with Ghanaian boy

  • Source: Joy Online- 14.05.2012

A 12 year old boy and a Chinese national described as a friend have drowned in a stream at Fahiakobo in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region.

The Class Five pupil, Yaw Boakye, and the 50 year old man, identified only as “JJ”, had gone fishing late afternoon last week Tuesday when the tragedy occurred.

Sources in the community tell Nhyira News the Chinese national picked the young boy as usual from his house in the afternoon on their expedition.

The boy reportedly slipped into the water, and in an apparent attempt to rescue him the Chinese also fell.

Local police have confirmed the incident which is still under investigation.

The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the Konfo Anokye Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Election 2012 to be fought on achievements, not insults

  • Source: GNA - 14.05.2012

Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, a Minister of State at the Presidency, said results of the December 7 polls would depend on the achievements of the various political parties, and not insults.

He said the Birim South District needed political leaders, who were committed to bringing development to the people.

Dr Apea-Kubi was speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony for the construction of Gh¢303,000 Community Information Centre at Achaise.

The centre would also have a post office, internet café, gift shop and facilities for the training of the youth in both hard and soft ware in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT).

Dr Apea-Kubi appealed to the District Director of Education to ensure that all the schools in the area benefit from the centre when completed.

He advised the youth to take ICT education seriously to enable them to compete in the labour market.

Dr Apea-Kubi said the district had benefited from government projects in the last three years.

He noted that Government had approved the construction of 200 community senior high schools in the country, and promised that he would ensure that the area benefited from the package.

The Eastern Regional Director of the Architectural and Engineering Services Limited, Mr. Patrick Adugu, said the project which was scheduled for completion in next October, would promote education in the area.

Mr. Kwasi Ahenkorang-Anti of the Birim South District Education Directorate, advised school children to use the centre for their studies, and not to use it for cyber fraud.

The District Chief Executive of Birim South, Mr. Baffour Mensah-Takyi, praised Dr Apea-Kubi for his contributions to the development of the area, and appealed to the people to support the construction of the centre.

Nana Addo And Dr Bawumia Electrify Eastern Region

  • Source: NPP Communications Directorate - 14.05.2012


The 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo and his running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Saturday, brought all commercial activities to a halt when they took the NPP’s ‘hope tour’ to the Eastern Region.

Touring the Abuakwa North constituency on their first day, Nana Addo and Dr Bawumia were mobbed by residents, traders and commercial drivers who abandoned everything to catch a glimpse of the pair that has been described by President Kufuor as “God sent”. The tour took Nana Addo and his running mate to Anyinasin, Aboabo, Old Tafo, Osiem, New Tafo, Sokode and Kukurantumi all in the Abuakwa North constituency.

They took time to shake and interact with as many people as possible in the various communities they visited.

Nana Addo in his address asked the people whether they’ve benefited from President Mills’ so-called unprecedented achievements to which they responded with a loud no.

He said “instead of putting money in our pockets as he promised, President Mills has rather created holes in our pockets and it is simply because of the hardships that his administration is visiting on the Ghanaian people.”

Nana Addo stressed the need for all registered voters who have been made poorer and helpless by the incompetent NDC administration to vote massively for the NPP in December to ensure that Ghana is put back on the pedestal of growth and development.

He said “we all have to vote massively to retire this incompetent NDC administration to make way for the NPP to come and make your lives better.

“I remain committed to providing free senior high school education for all our youth. I believe we cannot make that transformation if majority of our people remain illiterate.”

He said his focus will also be to expand and transform the Ghanaian economy to create and sustain jobs for the many unemployed in our country.

“If we do not make a conscious effort to reduce drastically the level of unemployment in our country, we will be building a pool of hopeless and helpless people, mainly young men and women who will be forced into acts that will haunt all of us in the end” Nana Addo noted.

On his part, Dr Bawumia said “the better Ghana that President Mills promised has now become a harder Ghana and the earlier the Ghanaians voted the NDC out, the better for the wellbeing of the Ghanaian people and the Ghanaian economy.

“It is obvious that President Mills and his team do not have the knowledge and expertise to manage the affairs of our country and that is why they have remained clueless for four years.”

He continued “the better Ghana has not come in three and half years and it will not come in six months, simply because they do not have the know-how and commitment to make the lives of the Ghanaian people better.”

He cautioned “if we do not vote them out now, hunger and poverty will start killing our people and that is surely not what we want for our country.”

He said Nana Akufo-Addo’s vision of creating a society of opportunities and aspirations is possible and all it requires is the right and experienced hands to do the job.

He observed “I have worked closely with him and I know he is committed to bringing about the economic transformation that will help create more decent and sustainable jobs for our people.

“I entreat all of you, to join Nana Akufo-Addo and vote massively for him and the NPP so that together we can restore hope and prosperity to our people".

Koforidua Court convicts 12 drivers

  • Source: GNA - 06.05.2012

A Koforidua Circuit Court, on Monday convicted 12 school bus drivers for flouting road traffic regulations.

The court convicted the drivers for overloading and in some cases, using expired road worthiness certificates, and were fined an amount of GH¢240 each and warned to desist from such acts.

The buses belonged to the Wesley International School, Frihans School, New Mowing International School, Pentecost schools, Universal school and the Golden Child School.

Police Chief Superintendent James Sarfo Peprah, Eastern Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) Commander, who led an operation code named “go all out to check school vehicles”, said his outfit would continue arresting such buses to ensure the safety of the school children.

He said the road traffic regulations were not different for any category of persons, adding that, being children or adults, the law frowned on overloading and using expired road worthiness certificate to operate.

The MTTU Commander hoped the fines would persuade the school authorities to abide by the traffic regulations as well as devising plans for picking the children at intervals without impeding traffic movements or flouting the rules.

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