The attention of the Bawumia Campaign Team has been drawn to a post by one David Humdeyin, a journalist in Nigeria, that the Bawumia Campaign is being funded by some Islamic group in Nigeria called the ACF.
We notice that the same narrative has been copied by some persons and groups in Ghana on social media.
This narrative is obviously false, fabricated, and only serves the propaganda purposes of its promoters.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Bawumia Campaign has no funding or any linkage with any Islamic group in Nigeria or anywhere else.
Dr.Bawumia
We also note that the said David Humdeyin has demonstrated a penchant for making similar claims against some persons and groups in Nigeria without any basis whatsoever
The Bawumia Campaign is focused and will not be distracted by such vain untruths.
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been very diligent and transparent from his days as a scholar, banker, and politician throughout his life and will not depart from these now and forever.
When a candidate has a message which goes well with the delegates, cash and support from the landlords, and footsoliders with political maturity, it is difficult to beat him. Coka, l care.Source: Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah (COKA)
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is expected to hold its 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the 4th session of the 8TH Assembly on Wednesday July 26th and Thursday, July,2023 2023 respectively.
The above announcement was contained in an invitation letter addressed to all Assembly members and heads of various Departments, dated 6th July,2023 and signed by Hon.Patrick Kwame Frimpong ,the Presiding Member(PM) of KMA who doubles as Assembly member for Krofrom East Electoral area
The invitation letter entitled “SUMMONS TO 2ND ORDINARY MEETING OF THE 4TH SESSION OF THE 8TH KUMASI METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY” reads “you are humbly summoned to attend the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the 4th session of the 8th Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly to be held at the Prempeh Assembly Hall, Kumasi on Wednesday,26th and Thursday,27th July,2023 at 10:ooam each day,at which it is proposed to transact the business specified in the following agenda;
The invitation letter
AGENDA:
DAY:1 WEDNESDAY,26TH ,2023:
10:OOam:Opening
Welcome Remarks by Hon. Presiding Member
-Discussion and Adoption of Minutes of the Previous meeting
-Presentation of Authority (Executive Committee) Report
-Presentation of Public Relations and Complaints Committee(PRCC) Report
-Presentation of Special Investigation Committee on Krofrom Market Project Loan Report
-Adjournment
DAY:2 THURSDAY,,27TH JULY,2023
10:00am:Opening
-Opening Remarks by Hon. Presiding Member
-Discussion of Authority Report
-Discussion of PRCC Report
-Discussion of Special Investigation Committee Report
-Report from Assembly Members of the Assembly
-Question Time
-Announcement
-Closing.
Hon.Patrick Kwame Frimpong,KMA PM
By copies of this letter, all sub-Metro Council Chairpersons and sub-Metro Administrators are requested to attend this meeting as scheduled .
The Executive Director of Ghana’s National Service Scheme, Osei Assibey Antwi, has disclosed that, the 2023/2024 year batch of National Service Personnel who will be posted to various educational institutes across Ghana will go through a mandatory one-month training to equip them after they end their service period.
According to him, all tertiary graduates who are not from educational colleges or Universities but get posted to teach in schools will undergo a one-month training to equip them with the teaching skills to serve the nation and also add to their future skills after the one-year service period.
The 2022/2023 batch of tertiary graduates posted to serve in all spheres of the Country’s workspace is scheduled to come to an end in October 2023 for the next batch to commence.
Speaking in an interview with Thelma Tackie on the GTV Breakfast Show, Mr. Assibey Antwi mentioned that the scheme is expecting to post over sixty to seventy percent of the 2023/2024 batch to the private sector.
Hon.Osei Asibey Antwi-NSS Boss
Mr. Assibey Antwi further added that the directive is in collaboration with the National Teaching Council and other Educational and Teaching stakeholders in the country. He also mentioned that certificates are going to be awarded to the trainees.
He added that, the public sector is gradually becoming full and as per the core mandate of the Scheme, it is required to equip graduates with skills necessary for the future workspace and field adding that, it forms part of their plans to deploy a huge percentage of graduates with Science and Technology backgrounds to the private Sectors.
He explained that, the demands over the years by the private sector have been personnel who offered Science and technology-related courses in the university.
He further clarified all notions that the National Service Scheme owes the current batch of Service Personnel months of arrears. He explained that the Scheme owes only a month and not months as has been speculated.
He stressed that the payment format by the National Service Scheme varies from that of the normal payment plan known in the country and the confusion and miscalculation of it is what has resulted in such source: Nana Owusu Achiaw
The Director General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NACCA), Prof. Edward Appiah, has hinted that the nation’s Education Strategic Plan (ESP 2018-2030), is gradually transforming the nation’s education.
He stated that the ESP is not only leading to the training of 21st-century skills for students but also shaping the teaching and learning sectors at all levels of education in the country.
Briefing the media in Accra, Prof. Appiah mentioned one of the areas benefitting from the ESP 2018-2030 was the massive improvement in literacy which was two per cent in 2016 but has improved to 38 per cent proficient in 2022.
National Assessment
He explained that an Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) assessment conducted by the government in 2016 indicated that only 2 per cent of primary two pupils in the country could read and write but the National Standardized Test 2022 showed that the record had improved to 38 per cent.
This, he attributed to prudent initiatives put in place as part of the roadmap from the ESP 2018-2030 as a remedy to challenges confronting reading at the basic level of education in the country.
Prof. Appiah also mentioned that the ESP 2018-2030 led to reforms like the National Pre-tertiary Assessment Framework, National Pre-Tertiary Curriculum Framework that led to the development of the Standard Based Curriculum for Primary Schools, Common Core Curriculum for Junior High Schools and the introduction of National Standardized Test among others.
Dr.Ossi Yaw Adutwum, Education Minister
All these which are operationalized are leading to improvement in the education sector which in the long run improve the nation’s transformation.
Critical Collaboration
He was particularly happy with the collaboration between the various agencies and institutions supporting the Education Ministry to ensure that the nation’s education becomes the first port of call in the African continent.
Commendation
The Director General commended the President for his personal interest in the development of the education sector citing the huge investment being made by the government.
He also praised the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, for his effort and direction, and good leadership which has brought about a massive change in the sector and shaped the future fortunes of the nation.
Prof. Appiah appealed to players in the nation’s creative art sector to help ensure the proper transfer of moral values to the youth through their songs, movies and other literary works since such mediums help in the transmission of ideas to people easily.
Social media
He explained that the education sector keeps shaping the lives of pupils and students through schooling, that to him was not enough and called for all and sundry to contribute their quota towards the shaping of the minds of the people, especially the youth most of whom were learning many things from social media now.
The Director indicated that social media was not a bad platform but some of the things rotating there were not good towards national development and patriotism.
He appealed to the youth to desist from focusing on and making social media their source of information since there is not any good censorship on social media.
One of the leading Contenders in the Ahafo Ano South constituency in the Ashanti region on the ticket of New Patriotic Party (NPP),Mr.Elvis Osei Mensah Dapaah,has stated emphatically that he is more than qualified to contest and become the next Member of Parliament(MP) for the area.
According to him,“I’m more than Thirty (30) years and older than at least Four (4) incumbent Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Ashanti region alone so where from this propaganda that I’m too young to contest for the Ahafo Ano South West Seat.
I can tell you that I will be the first person in this constituency to pick my nomination forms if the Party officially opens nomination for the Parliamentary Primaries”, he added.
,Mr.Elvis Osei Mensah Dapaah
Mr.Dapaah,a young businessman affectionately called “Okumkom” was responding to a question from Journalists last Monday,16th July,2023 at Kunsu Roman Catholic Church after a campaign tour by Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia,the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana.
The Vice President was in the constituency to interact with the Party’s delegates ahead of Flagbearer race.
On the age factor, the 1992 Constitution precisely Article 94 spells out Qualification and Eligibility of who can become a Member of Parliament (MP) in Ghana
Mr.Elvis Osei Mensah Dapaah
Clauses (1) says “Subject to the previsions of this article, a person shall not be qualified to be a member of Parliament unless-(a) he is a citizen of Ghana, has attained the age of Twenty-One years and is a registered voter,
(b) he is resident in the constituency for which he stands as a candidate for election to Parliament or has resided there for a total period of not less than five years out of the ten years immediately preceding the election fir which he stands,or he hails from the constituency…
Mr.Elvis Dapaah is among more than five (5) leading members of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) who have so far declared their intention to contest the Party’s primaries.
Mr.Dapaah who is also the Financial Secretary for the constituency is said to be enjoying popularity across the length and breadth of the constituency because of his humanitarian support to hundreds of people in the area.He is currently putting up a constituency office for the party.
Mr Dapaah mobbed by his admirers at the event
He has also initiated some developmental projects which includes; construction of Girls dormitory expected to accommodate about three hundred(300) students of Mankraso Senior High School(SHS) to help decongest the dormitory.
According to him, the major challenged confronting the constituency or the District was poor road networks and expresses the confidence in the Nana Addo led administration to fix the roads before 2024 general elections to make their work easy.He added that when he is given the nod as Parliamentary candidate and subsequently become the next MP his top most priority would be to lobby hard for the improvement of road networks in the area to make easy for farmers to transport their produce to market centres.
The Ahafo Ano South West MP hopeful stressed the need for the rank and file of the party to unite devoid of division because of pending Flagbearer race and Parliamentary primaries.According to him,NPP believes in democracy so “we should all allow the processes to go on for the delegates to decide who they want to lead as our Flagbearer and Parliamentary candidate for 2024 general elections”he pleaded.
The list of NPP leading members expected to battle it out with the incumbent MP,Hon.Johnson Kwaku Adu include; Prof.Peter O.Twumasi,the Director General of National Sports Authority(NSA),Elvis Osei Mensah Dapaah,Businessman,Mad.Adwoa Adutwumwaa Boadi,a chartered Accountant who doubles as National Women’s Organizer for Friends of Dr.Bawumia(FOB),Lawyer K.K.Serbeh among others.
The MP for Efiduase and the leader of Dr. Bawumia’s camp, Nana Ayew Afriyie has said that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the wrong person for Kennedy Agyapong to attack when it comes to issues relating to Ghana’s return to the IMF.
The MP explained that anything concerning the IMF or the bad state of the economy should be addressed to the finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
He also added that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is a strategist because of how he was able to bounce back from cleaning dormitories, driving cabs and doing other menial jobs to become the person he is now.
“I will say that he should direct it to the Minister of Finance and when he (Bawumia) is in charge, he will take charge and take us to the promised land. We are going to the promised land. DMB is taking us there. …He (Agyapong) should attack the finance minister not him (Bawumia),” Nana Ayew Afriyie told TV3.
“He shared his experiences. When he used to clean to go to school to pay his fees; drive taxis, cabs. So, any person can be president one day. Any person’s child, regardless of where you are in this country, there is an opportunity for you to be where you have to be,” he added.
Dr.Nana Ayew Afriyie,MP for Effiduase Asokore
Hon.Kenddey Agyapong
Background:
An NPP flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Agyapong fired shots at the campaign team of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
Speaking to delegates of the NPP in the Kintampo East Constituency as part of an ongoing campaign, the Assin Central MP sent a strong warning to the camp of the vice president noting that he will go on full offensive if the personal attacks directed at him do not cease.
“If NPP people don’t engage in a clean campaign, they will be in trouble because I will reply when you say something.
“For someone who claims to be a strategist, the dollar was GHC4 equivalent when we took power. Today, the dollar is GHC12. Do you think you are a strategist? Excuse me, strategist! Please,” Kennedy said.
Mp for Effiduase Asokore and leader of the MP caucus for Dr. Bawumia, Dr. Ayew Afriyie has said his colleague lawmaker who is contesting for the NPP flagbearership slot, Kennedy Agyapong missed his “strategist” target.Source: Ghanaweb.com
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary hopeful for Ahafo Ano South West in the Ashanti region,Madam Adwoa Adutwumwaa Boadi has added her voice to the calls for the government to give an urgent attention to the poor road network in the area.
According to her, the nature of roads in the Ahafo Ano South West,a predominately farming district is nothing to write home about.”All our roads are in very bad or deplorable state and I’m humbly pleading with the government to come to our aid as soon as practicable to fix the roads for us”.
Madam Adwoa Adutwuwaa Boadi
Obaa Adwoaa Boadi as she is affectionately called by her admirers in the constituency made the call in an interview with Journalists on the sidelines of Dr.Bawumia’s recent campaign tour to the area ahead of NPP Flagbearership slot.
The Ahafo Ano South West MP hopeful is an Accountant by profession and National Women’s Organizer for Friends of Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia(FOB).She lamented that because of the poor nature of their roads,some residents recently demonstrated against the incumbent Member of Parliament(MP) for the area,Hon.Johnson Kwaku Adu.
Portion of the deplorable roads in the area
On what she intends to do should she become considered as NPP Parliamentary candidate and subsequently MP for the area,Obaa Adwoa Boadi said “my strategy is to push or lobby assiduously to ensure improvement of our bad roads. I will also help fight against teenage pregnancy by focusing on increasing girl-child education in the area”.
According to her, many school drops out would be empowered with the necessary vocational training to become responsible citizens to enable them also contribute their quota to the development of Ahafo Ano south west constituency or district and the nation as a whole.Adding that measures would also be taken to help improve education standard in the area.
Mad.Adwoa Adutwumwaa Boadi said she was confidence to win the party’s primaries because the delegates had already given her firm assurance that they will vote for her as only woman among about five(5) men who have all declared their intention to contest the primaries.Source:tntnewspapergh.com
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ahafo Ano south west constituency in the Ashanti region,Hon Johnson Kwaku Adu and his constituency chairman,Mr.Kofi Brobbey Acheampong have endorsed the candidature of Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia ahead of the Party’s Flagbearership race.
They have also promised to deliver One hundred percent (100%) of 502 delegates to Dr.Baaumia to enable him win the contest to lead them break the 8.
Some scenes from the meeting
The constituency chairman in his welcome address made declaration and his decision was subsequently supported by MP for the area,Hon.Johnson Kwaku Adu during Dr.Bawumia’s campaign tour in the area held at Roman Catholic church,Kunsu near Mankraso.
The constituency chairman told the delegates” I would have problem with you if any of you should make a mistake and we don’t get 100%for Dr.Bawumia”.
According to Mr.Acheanpong,Dr.Bawumia is the most competent person among the aspirants to lead the Party achieve victory in 2024 general elections.
He however, lamented that since 1996 to date, NPP always win both Parliamentary and Presidential elections in the constituency but they have never had Ministerial,CEO and Board Chairpersons’ position.
He therefore appealed to the Veep President that if he should wins the primaries and subsequently become President,he should consider people in the constituency in that direction.The constituency chairman also appealed to the Government to fast track move to fix the bad road networks in the District.
Hon.Johnson Kwaku Adu on his part stressed the need for all delegates to rally behind Dr.Bawumia in the Flagbearership race.
According to him,the delegates of the party can’t afford to make mistake in their decision because Dr.Bawumia is the only candidate who can lead NPP to retain power.
“As my constituency chairman indicated earlier on we will vote 100% for Dr.Bawumia to lead us to break the 8 come 2024 general elections”.Source:tntnewspapergh.com
Otumfuo Ahenenanahene, Nana Kwame Mensah Bonsu, has appealed to former President John Dramani Mahama to pick his running mate from Ashanti region.
He noted that no member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from the Ashanti region has occupied the position of President or Vice President, and, therefore, called the need to pick an Asante as his running mate.
Addressing a press conference in Kumasi few days ago, he said, it is not only about time an Asante occupies that higher position but will also enable the party to maximize votes in the region in the 2024 general elections.
Nana Kwame Mensah Bonsu,
He suggested that the flagbearer of the NDC picks the former Local Government Minister, Akwasi Oppong Fosu to enable the party to wrestle power from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Mr Ofosu, he said, commands respect not only in the party but also in the Ashanti region and the nation as a whole, aside from his experience and his track record.
He, however, indicated that the decision is on the bosom of the former President to pick whoever he wants but from the Ashanti region to enable the party to maximize votes.
H.E.John Mahama
The Chief who was unhappy with the current state of the nation’s economy noted that Ghanaians are suffering under the current government.
Nana Bonsu said the current state of Ghana’s economy cannot be attributed to the Russia-Ukraine war but to bad governance.
He noted that Ghana is not within Russia or Ukraine to experience such a situation while questioning why neighboring countries are not also experiencing the same economic situation. Source:broadcastrrgh.com
