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The Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Joseph Whittal, has asked the government to tackle poverty among women as a way of ending the witches’ camp menace in the country. He noted that poverty has been the main factor for the witches camp issues in Ghana aside from the age and gender dimensions. To that end, he said pro-poor programmes must be introduced to support women empowerment in the country. He was commenting on the lynching of a 90-year-old woman at Kafaba near Salaga in the Savannah Region on the accusation that she was a…

The Board of the GCB Bank has officially announced the exit of the Managing Director, Ransford Anselm Sowah. The board hinted at the bank’s 26th Annual General Meeting held on July 30, 2020 that the MD will be stepping down from his role. But a statement issued by the Board Thursday, August 20 said as part of good governance, Mr Sowah will stay on in an acting position up to September 30, 2020 to hand over. “In the interest of continuity, good governance and particularly to ensure a smooth handing over, the Board has agreed that he stays on in…

The government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has pledged in its 2020 manifesto to complete the University of Ghana stadium. The project started in 2004 by CONSAR Limited by the John Agyekum Kuffour led-government but work came to halt when the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), was not used to back the project anymore. However, with the 2023 All African Games approaching with Ghana as host, the current government has said the completion will be priroitised if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) wins this year’s elections. The manifesto also made mention of the fact that 10 multi-purpose Youth and…

Senior fellow at the Center for Social Policy Studies (UG) Dr George Domfeh has said constructing a dual carriage road from Kasoa to Cape Coast will serve a more useful purpose than building an airport in the Central Region capital. He said on the Sunrise morning show hosted by Alfred Ocansey on 3FM that more people will benefit from the dual carriage road than the airport. “The cost of building an airport in Cape Coast is higher than constructing a dual carriage from Kasoa to Cape Coast, which will serve a genuine purpose to the people. “How many people are…

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has said the Akufo-Addo administration has added projects initiated and fully funded by private persons as part of its infrastructural achievements. He also said thousands of projects initiated by former President John Mahama have also been “stolen” by the current government. This situation, he said, smacks of a “419” government taking credit for other people’s hard-earned achievements. During the launch of NPP’s manifesto over the weekend, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia enumerated a number of projects undertaken by the Akufo-Addo government to press home a demand for a…

The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has revealed that the largest opposition party will unveil its manifesto ahead of the 2020 polls on Monday, August 31. He said NDC’s document will inspire hope among Ghanaians who he believed are disappointed in the current government. Addressing journalists at a press briefing in Accra on Monday, August 24, Sammy Gyamfi said the outdooring event will take place in Accra. He said: “Our manifesto launch will be held on the 31st August and it will be held in Accra.” Meanwhile, former President John Mahama has started making promises…

Country Director Send-Ghana George Osei-Bimpeh has said the 2020 manifesto of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has a lot of question marks. In his view, the document was not properly prepared because it lacks clarity and does not also provide timelines to the proposed projects. He said on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM, hosted by Alfred Ocansey, on Monday, August 24 that the drafters of the documents could have done a better job than what they have produced and launched at Cape Coast on Saturday, August 22. Among some of the proposed projects in the manifesto are the…

The Campaign Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu, has said the favourable elections results predictions given by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) will materialise. He said the NPP government has worked harder to ameliorate the hardships that Ghanaians are saddled with to a maximum degree therefore, they expect to win this year’s polls as predicted by the EIU. The EIU predicted in June that the NPP’s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will defeat former President John Dramani Mahama to retain his seat at the Presidency in December. In its report on the upcoming presidential elections and forecast…

A professor in accounting and a fellow at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, has described the controversial Agyapa deal as one that denies Ghana of its future cash flows. The Agyapa deal was part of five approved agreements to allow the country supposedly derive maximum value from its mineral resources and monetise its mineral income accruing to the country in a sustainable and responsible manner, in line the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) Act, 2018 (Act 978). The approval will enable the country to use a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), Agyapa Royalties Limited, to secure…

Lead Researcher at Imani Africa, Patrick Stephenson, has said the manifesto document of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections takes the country backward due to the absence of key ingredients such as timelines for the implementation of the proposed projects. He said the document also fails to give costs to the proposed projects, a situation he believes will make holding the government accountable difficult if the party should win the polls. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Fact Check session on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Monday, August 24 that unlike…