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Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia – a potential candidate for presidential election?

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Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is Vice President of the Republic of Ghana and head of Ghana’s Economic Management Team. He is an economist and banker by training. He served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana between 2006 and 2009. Between 2009 and 2010 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University.

He also served as a resident representative for the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe in 2011-2012. He was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia (Canada), and a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Between 2013 and 2015 Dr. Bawumia was a visiting professor of Economic Governance at Central University, Ghana.

Dr. Bawumia also served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, Texas, USA (1996- 2000). Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia holds a BSc. Economics (First Class Honors) degree from the University of Buckingham, UK, a Masters degree in Development Economics from Oxford University (Lincoln College), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Simon Fraser University (Canada).

He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (U.K). (ACIB) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB), Ghana. Dr . Bawumia has published several articles in refereed journals and has also published two books on Monetary Policy and Economic Development.

 

RECALL-REMOVE MPs

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RECALL-REMOVE MPs

_who don’t represent their constituents, who support Cathedral, Ken, VAT…_

 

Every Member of Parliament represents a Constituency, THE PEOPLE OF THE CONSTITUENCY THEY REPRESENT IN PARLIAMENT.

 

“`The Parliament of Ghana is the House of the People’s Representatives.“`

 

Parliamentarians are expected to connect with their constituents on the major issues through Town Hall meetings, forums and other means then carry their views by way of votes in Parliament to reflect the wishes of the people they represent.

 

The views of Parliamentarians on the major issues must be public and must coincide with that of their constituents they purport to represent.

 

What is your Parliamentarian’s position on the following;

 

1. Removal of Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister?

 

2. The imposition of an additional 2.5% VAT and removal of E-LEVY threshold?

 

3. Allocation of State Funds and Land for the Cathedral Project?

 

4. The suspension and reinstatement of Toll Booths by the Roads Minister?

 

5. The IMF BAILOUT particularly the haircut of Ghanaians’ investments?

 

6. The rising inflation and helpless hopelessness of the incompetent Economic Management Team that has left the Cedi as the worst currency in the world?

 

“`7. The LGBTQI Bill.“`

 

8. Breaking the Eight mantra of the Government amidst the Economic crisis?

 

9. The reduction in the huge size of the Akufo Addo-Bawumia government amid an employment freeze?

 

10. Removal of Absentee MPs and MPs who do not represent their constituents?

 

Why keep an MP who represents nobody but himself or his Party or influenced by Bribe-Giving Businessmen or coerced by the President.

 

The Majority Leader confirmed that the entire NPP Caucus was committed to the Removal of Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister and also that a Businessman had given a bribe to NPP MPs to rescind their decision to have the Finance Minister sacked.

 

The 98 NPP MPs who originally held a Press Conference to state that they were driven by their constituents demand to have Ken Ofori-Atta removed but made several U-Turns betraying their constituents must be recalled and removed by their constituents.

 

Ursula Owusu afte her unforgiveable belligerence on the SIM Re-Registration and blocking of mobile phones, decided to irresponsibly leave Parliament ahead of the Budget debate and instead travelled to enjoy herself in Qatar during the Football World Cup…

 

Ghana spent $5.1million on the Qatar World Cup, a breakdown including cost of travels, hotel, ground transport, tickets and entertainment will be required in the coming days.

 

The people of the Ablekuma West Constituency deserve a Town Hall meeting with their Member of Parliament, Ursula Owusu.

 

The MP must state her position on the 10 questions in addition to an account of her personal conduct and ministerial function.

 

A vote on the issues, particularly the removal of Ken Ofori-Atta and the Cathedral must be taken and articulated by the MP who will be expected to reflect same in Parliament when the house resumes sitting in the new year.

 

Failure to do so must have consequences;

 

The MP who refuses or fails to represent the constituents is unfit to remain in Parliament and must be removed by the constituents by a vote of no confidence passed on the MP.

 

Members of Parliament are not guaranteed 4years in office, their tenure in office can be truncated by their parties removing them by sacking them, by cross-carpeting or by their constituents through a *RECALL VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE* passed at a special meeting for that purpose.

 

Ghanaians must be Citizens and not Spectators.

 

THE RECALL OF MPs must be tested in the case of the removal of Ken Ofori-Atta, the Cathedral and the LGBTQI Bill.

 

DID YOUR MP COLLECT THE BRIBE FROM THE BUSINESSMAN?

 

IS YOUR MP PROTECTING KEN OFORI-ATTA FROM BEING REMOVED?

 

DOES YOUR MP SUPPORT LGBTQI & CATHEDRAL?

 

IF YES, then your MP is unfit to remain in Parliament purporting to represent you when in deed and in fact your MP is not representing the constituents;

 

UNLESS, you support LGBTQI, the Cathedral and Ken Ofori-Atta.

 

? AriseGhana Youth for your country.

 

Each MP must *categorically state their position PUBLICLY* on the illegal upfront payment of State Funds to the LGBTQI Advocate David Adjaye through the Cathedral, on the blindside of Parliament…

 

God Save Our Homeland Ghana and help us survive the *WASTED YEARS OF THE AKUFO ADDO-BAWUMIA GOVERNMENT* and their DumbDogs who can’t speak truth to power because they are compromised or complicit or corrupt.

 

#SayNoToLGBTQI+

#ReturnCathedralCash

#KenMustGo

#RecallYourMP

New year message: John Dramani Mahama

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JM writes;

My 2023 New Year Message to the people of Ghana.

What a year it has been!

 

Our dear nation, Ghana, defaulted on our debt obligations due to reckless binge borrowing over the last few years.

 

Ghanaians have been confronted with unprecedented hardships never seen under this Fourth Republic. And our democracy and patience as a people were tested to their elastic limits.

 

We welcome the new year, 2023, knowing that a journey of austerity and sacrifice is just beginning. But we cannot give up HOPE! We cannot give up on our dear motherland Ghana.

 

As we face the future with fortitude, let us remember the solemn words of the hymnist, Johnson Oatman Jr, when he urges us to Count Our Blessings and Name Them One by One.

 

We have been fortunate to survive as a nation and are lucky by the grace of the Almighty to be alive to see the dawn of a new year. Once we have the gift of life, which is the most important of all, there is opportunity in the new year to be better versions of ourselves and work even harder towards salvaging our dear nation from the avoidable abyss into which she has been plunged.

 

May this new year open the pathway and bring us to the cusp of building the ‘Ghana We Want’— a Ghana of opportunities for all and one in which our individual and collective aspirations are achieved.

 

I wish you all, my fellow countrymen and women, a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.

 

December 31, 2022

New year message: Zuttah Dela Kaletor, Afadzato South Constituency Chairman

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The Lord has been good to us in the year 2022, in spite of the many challenges that confronted our dear New Patriotic Party. Through your constant cooperation and tolerance, we have ended the year successfully.

 

I would like to seize this opportunity to thank each and every constituent, especially my Constituency Executives, for being there for me through thick and thin.

It’s your support, guidance and encouragement that have brought the Afadzato South Constituency this far.

 

As Constituency Chairman, I might not be hundred percent right, so if there has been an instance where I’ve stepped on anyone’s toes, I would like to render my sincere apologies, and state that it wasn’t deliberate.

 

We have a mandate to execute to make sure that our dear constituency moves forward beyond expectation, and a task to prove that we can make Afadzato South a safe haven for the NPP.

 

Unity among us and a sense of purpose can make the agenda of breaking the 8 possible.

 

As your Constituency Chairman, I will continue to discharge my mandate in a harmonious way, and in conformity with the party’s constitution, devoid of any form of abuse and favoritism.

 

We are one family and my outfit is always available to everyone within the constituency.

 

Thank you for being there for the NPP and Afadzato South Constituency.

 

May the good Lord continue to bless us all.

 

Happy New Year.

Zuttah Dela Kaletor

Constituency Chairman

Afadzato South Constituency

New year message: Kwame Baffour Abronye – Bono Regional NPP Chairman

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Bono region is one of the regions known to have firm support for the New Patriot Party.

This is due to the continuous support and cooperation among all the executives from the region down to the polling station.

 

The unity among the executives and party faithful and their continuous support towards the NPP is what energize us to keep championing the party agenda towards breaking the 8 in other keep developing in freedom.

Indeed the Lord has been good to us by protecting us for 365 days in 2022.

 

Although 2022 came with its challenges, it also came with special learning opportunities and experiences. But in all your continued support, encouragement and guidance are what have brought the region this far.

While discharging my mandate as your regional chairman, there are instances that we might disagree to agree, I would like to seize this opportunity to render an unqualified apology to anyone in one way or another that I stepped on his or her feet while delivering my mandate, it wasn’t deliberate.

 

The New Patriotic Party going into the year 2023, has a lot of tasks ahead towards agenda-breaking the 8. Unity, one common sense of direction, and our collective contribution are what’s going to move the party forward.

 

As your regional chairman, I’ll continue to discharge my duties under the party constitution and directions free and devoid of any forms of abuse and favoritism.

 

A big thank you to our communicators and all party activist within the region for their immersed contributions toward making the party activities and developmental projects visible in all media enclaves and to the good people of the Bono region.

 

I believe and have a strong hope that 2023 will be the best year for all of us.

 

Happy New Year

Kwame Baffour Abronye

Bono Regional NPP Chairman

Manchester United top player on bench for disciplinary reasons

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Manchester United’s player Marcus Rashford has been dropped to the bench for Saturday’s Premier League game at Wolves for some disciplinary reasons.

When the manager Erik ten Hag was asked about the footballer’s absence, he told BT Sport that it was an internal issue and gave no details

“Internal disciplinary. No [details]. Our rules.”

England international Rashford started United’s previous game against Nottingham Forest on 27 December, and scored the opening goal in a 3-0 win.

He was replaced in the starting XI by 18-year-old winger Alejandro Garnacho.

 

46 soldiers sentenced to 20 years in prison

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A court in Mali has sentenced 46 soldiers from Ivory Coast to 20 years’ imprisonment for conspiring against the government, and three others to death in absentia.

The soldiers were also fined more than $3,000 and convicted of carrying and transporting weapons, Prosecutor General Ladji Sara said in a statement on Friday.

Forty-nine Ivorian soldiers were arrested at the airport in Mali’s capital Bamako in July, three of whom were later released. Their arrests led to a diplomatic row between the neighbouring countries and widespread condemnation from regional allies.

The soldiers were detained when they went to work for Sahel Aviation Service, a private company contracted to work in Mali by the United Nations.

Mali’s military administration said the soldiers were acting as mercenaries, while Ivory Coast said they were part of a UN peacekeeping mission.

They were charged with attempting to undermine state security in August and convicted in a trial that began on Thursday and ended on Friday, ahead of a January 1 deadline set by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the region’s main political and economic bloc, to release them or face sanctions.

Ivory Coast said its troops were being held hostage, and has made repeated pleas for their release. The country announced last month that it would withdraw its remaining soldiers from the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA).

One of Africa’s most volatile countries, Mali has for a decade relied on regional allies and peacekeepers to contain rebels who have killed thousands of people and taken over large areas of the central and northern regions.

Mali has little to gain from antagonising a key neighbour, said Alexander Thurston, assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati.

“The junta is compounding its isolation and adding to the likelihood that (the UN peacekeeping mission) will collapse,” he said.

The case has added to escalating tensions between Mali’s military authority and the international community.

The military authority’s leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, has faced growing isolation since he seized power in a coup two years ago and then failed to meet an international deadline for organising democratic elections.

Goita has also allowed Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group to help fight rebels linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS).

The Russians came into Mali as the French and other regional forces left.

Amid growing tensions with the army, France withdrew its troops after nine years of operations in Mali against rebel groups.

In June, Malian authorities said they would not authorise the UN mission to investigate possible human rights violations in the country, including the deaths of more than 300 civilians earlier this year.

Aggrieved NABCO trainees to hold a press conference

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Information circulating on social media indicates some aggrieved NABCO trainees are planning to have a press conference to express their displeasure about unpaid monies from some months now.

Find statement below:

 

Some few weeks ago, the group petitioned parliament over unpaid arrears. The leadership of the group petitioned through member of parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who received the petition in Accra.

The group appealed to the lawmaker to facilitate their request through the Speaker of Parliament to order the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning before 25th December 2022 to pay their 9months arrears and other outstanding arrears since 2019.

They further asked the NABCO Secretariat to track all payments due from the portal after they were told delay in payment was due to oversight and network challenges beyond their control.

 

 

Four killed in police checkpoint attack

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Four persons have been confirmed dead and some other 12 wounded as a result of an attack at a police checkpoint in Ismailia, Egypt.

 

Persons that have been confirmed dead included three police officers and an unidentified person, as confirmed from hospital document obtained by The Associated Press news agency showed.

Most of the other wounded individuals are recruits and have been taken to hospital.

The incident occurred on Friday afternoon on the western side of the Suez Canal.

 

 

Hiplife artiste, Mzbel has apologized to fans

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Mzbel has apologized and stated her reasons for her poor performance at the Afrochella festival as she was unable to meet the expectations of her fans. Many have described her performance as “low” as compared to what they have known her for.

The musician has apologized to the organizers of the event and fans, promising to make it up to them anytime soon.

In a Facebook post she wrote:

“To all Mzbelievers who are disappointed in my performance at the just ended Afrochella 2022, I am terribly sorry and I’m disappointed too cos this is not how we prepared to entertain u

What happened was I couldn’t hear myself and couldn’t hear my music on stage that’s why I kept on shouting and trying my best to have fun somehow but it all ended up trashy. Also, the lights hitting the stage was just too strong for my fragile eyes so I couldn’t even see the crowd to interact properly.”

She continued “Without any rehearsals and dancers I made u proud at Ghana Music Awards 2021 but unfortunately the media houses and bloggers trashing me today didn’t share it like they sharing this particular performance but hey I promise to make it up to u soon. There’s a bigger gig in the pipeline and if arrangements work out well, I will make u proud again.”