Author: Krobea

Former President John Dramani Mahama says until his party calls a meeting of the Council of Elders and the National Executive Committee (NEC), he cannot name his running mate. “Our constitution states that I must announce my running mate in consultation with these two bodies,” he said. “Unfortunately, because of the restriction on mass gathering, it was not possible for us to bring the members of our National Executive Committee from all over the country to implement that consultation.” He assured that “now that the way has been cleared, you will be hearing the name of my running mate soon”.…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to revise its directive to exempt refrigerated cargo containers from Terminal 3 to the Reefer Yard of the Tema port. In a letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo to the Acting Commissioner General of GRA, Ammishaddai Owusu Amoah, taxes and duties on these particular cargoes should be paid at the Reefer Yard before delivering to consignees. The directive is coming at back of a stand-off at the Tema port last Tuesday when port workers prevented all vessels from entering the port to discharge…

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNCP) Tsatsu Tsikata has said he is not bitter following his wrongful incarceration by Justice Henrietta Abban exactly 12 years ago. He told Alfred Ocansey on TV3’s Hot Issues Thursday, June 18 he thanks God for taking him through, and surviving the ordeal. Mr Tsikata was sentenced for willfully causing financial loss to the state through a loan that the GNPC guaranteed for Valley Farms, a private cocoa-growing company. He was found guilty on three counts of willfully causing financial loss of GH¢230,000 to the state and another count of…

A former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Tsatsu Tsikata, has revealed he watched only TV3 Network while at the Nsawam Maximum Prison. He told TV3’s Alfred Ocansey in an interview on Thursday, June 18, on Hot Issues that: “I watched only TV3 when in prison. TV3 was actually the station I used to watch in prison. In the cells where I was with eleven other people, the TV used to be turned on to that station. And so I paid a lot of attention to TV3. “It was really that the time that I paid…

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Tsatsu Tsikata has revealed that former President John Agyekum Kufuor was determined to jail him at all cost although he had not engaged in any wrongdoing. Mr Tsikata told Alfred Ocansey on TV3’sHot Issue on Thursday that his trial was purely political and intended to satisfy the aspiration of then President Kufuor. The then trial judge, Justice Henrietta Abban, he explained, was only used to prosecute that political motive against him. Mr Tsikata was sentenced for willfully causing financial loss to the state through a loan that the GNPC…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has taken a swipe at President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, saying his successor cannot differentiate between what “promises” are and what “visions” are. He said after the incumbent president has failed to fulfil his “lofty” promises to Ghanaians, he has made a U-turn, calling them “visions” for the country. The former president stated these on Thursday night in a live broadcast on his Facebook page. It was to interact with his followers on that platform as regards some of the happenings in the country. His major concern was the Akufo-Addo-led government’s fight against the coronavirus…

Renowned lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata has asked all Ghanaians to be hopeful that the coronavirus disease will be dealt with sooner or later. He said there are so many lessons Ghanaians can pick from the pandemic going into the future in order to be able to handle such pandemics if they occur. Speaking in an exclusive interview with TV3’s Alfred Ocansey on Hot Issues to be telecast at 9:00pm Thursday, June 18, Mr Tsikata said: “We should look at this pandemic from a kind of optimistic perspective. “I never heard such quiet around me as I did in the first few…

Burundi’s new president has warned opposition parties that they “would no longer get space” in the country, questioning “why should one oppose the government”. Evariste Ndayishimiye made the statement during his hour-long inauguration speech on Thursday. He also promised freedom of expression and protection of human rights. The fast-tracked inauguration ceremony came after his predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza died suddenly last week. Mr Ndayishimiye had been due to take power in August after being declared the winner of May’s presidential election, in which he was the candidate of the ruling party. The opposition said the poll was rigged. No foreign heads…

Independent presidential candidate in the last two elections in Ghana, Jacob Osei Yeboah (JOY), has censured the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voter Register (IPRAN) for protesting against Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) over its decision to reject the existing voter ID cards for the impending new voter registration exercise. Rejection of the existing voter ID card by the EC as a required document for the registration, he says, is legal per the 1992 Constitution thus describing the argument by IPRAN as baseless. Speaking to Nana Yaw Opare on the Yensempa morning show on Onua…

The former Northern Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu, has urged various aspirants in the upcoming parliamentary primaries on Saturday to accept the results and unite after the elections. Bugri Naabu said any division after these primaries will spell doom for the party in December 7 elections. The former Chairman made the call in an interview with Onua TV in Accra. The governing NPP will have its outstanding parliamentary primaries for 168 constituencies on Saturday, June 20, 2020. These constituencies where the party has sitting Members of Parliament (MPs). The primaries have been outstanding since…