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How I rejected Mahama’s bribe in 2012 and 2016 – Owusu Bempah claims

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Communications Director for the Ghana Gas Company Limited, Ernest Owusu Bempah has alleged that John Dramani Mahama tried to buy his silence in 2016.

According to him, at the time, he was a serious proponent of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its policies and programmes and its administration.

Mr Bempah said the former President felt threatened by his advocacy because it was making him unpopular and therefore tried to buy his silence but he rejected the bribe three consecutive times.

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“Even people in the NDC are aware I cannot be bought. John Mahama in 2016 packed money in a Ghana must go bag and gave it to someone to bribe me but I did not fall for that. I outrightly rejected the money. I don’t want to mention the person’s name but I rejected them three times.”

“When NDP was going to be formed, they came to Kumasi wanting to bribe me but I rejected them. If it were money, I was looking for like I will be like the people who were part of FONKA but have gone to take money but I’m here. They brought money for me to stop criticizing the then President and stop following Akufo-Addo because Mahama is not happy. But I’ve stood on my ground so for me it’s not about Owusu Bempah will say this or that. Everybody knows me and I’ve been consistent and I’ve been straight forward with my politics.”

He noted that Ghanaians will maintain the working Akufo-Addo government the grounds are good and Ghanaians want to keep Akufo-Addo in power to finish the good work he has started across the country to the benefit of the Ghanaian.

Source:MyNewsGh.com

Putting cash in peoples pockets not a solution to Ghana’s problems – Mahama

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Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama says the best form of governance is about infrastructural development and not putting money in people’s pocket.

He said “If someone gives you money today, by tomorrow it will finish. But if you build that hospital, the school it will be there for generations, so governance is common sense and not rocket science”.

He made this known when he was addressing the king of Dagbon, Ya-Naa Abukari Mahama II and his subjects at the Gbewaa palace in Yendi during a courtesy call on the overlord.

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The former President also spoke about the possibility of paying allowances to the various Assembly Members across the country; a promise which the Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama believes is impossible to implement

He believes that with the reduction of the number of Ministers the government will be able to pay Assembly Members.

“When this government took over, they ballooned the size of the central government, 125 ministers. I intend to cut down the size and use it to pay our hardworking assembly members, we can pay them, it’s possible,” he told Ya-Naa Abukari Mahama II.

Source: MyNewsGh.com/

Pardoning ‘insulting WASSCE candidates’ similar to pardoning Montie 3 – Franklin Cudjoe

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President and Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of a policy think tank, Imani Centre for Policy and Education, Franklin Cudjoe has asserted that President Akufo-Addo’s intervention to get WASSCE candidates who insulted him to continue to sit the examination is similar to the pardoning of some three National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicators( Montie 3) who had been jailed for contempt in 2016.

President Akufo-Addo has today directed stakeholders to allow some 14 students who had been barred from continuing to take the WASSCE for insulting him to be allowed to, at least, continue to sit their papers.

His move has been widely praised by many on social media.

For Mr Cudjoe, his action is similar to that of then-President John Mahama who had pardoned the Montie 3 after the Court had found them guilty of contempt.

In reacting to the President’s Directive in a post on Facebook, he said “I think the President did well by intervening to have the students who gravely insulted and abused his person pardoned to enable them to write exams at least. This is what responsible fathers do. It is no different from JM’s decision to show clemency to the vagabond Muntie 3 after thousands signed a petition for that outcome”

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Background of Montie 3

Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako Gunn, and Salifu Maase, all on a political talk show on Accra-based Montie FM got imprisoned on July 27, 2016, for having threatened, on radio, to kill some judges whose judgements were deemed unfavourable to the then governing NDC.

They had also pledged to rape the Chief Justice at the time, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood.

They were hauled before the Supreme Court, found guilty of contempt and handed a three-month jail sentence.

This sparked widespread agitation from NDC supporters, demanding that they be set free by then President, John Dramani Mahama. The protestors had prominent NDC members, including then Education Minister, Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang.

On August 22, 2016, President John Mahama remitted their three-month sentence. They had served only a little over three weeks in jail.

The President’s action at the time was widely condemned by the then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Source: MyNewsGh.com

Anyone who says I’ll cancel Free SHS is a liar – Mahama

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Former President John Mahama has urged Ghanaians to dismiss suggestions that he will cancel the free SHS policy if he wins the December polls.

According to him, what he is against about the policy is its ‘poor’ implementation by the Akufo-Addo government – which initiated it.

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“Free SHS has come to stay. If anyone comes to you that I, John Mahama, the son of E.A. Mahama is going to cancel FREE SHS, tell that person he or she is a bloody liar.

“What I am against is the poor implementation that has put a lot of burden of parents,” Mr. Mahama told a gathering in the Northern region where he is currently campaigning.

The Free policy which was a campaign promise of the then New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo was implemented when the party won the December 2016 elections. The policy enables all eligible secondary school students to attend public secondary schools free.

Many in the ruling party have consistently accused the opposition NDC and the former President of plans to cancel the project if they get back to power, an accusation they dismiss.

2020 WASSCE: Providing students PASCO caused high expectation – Addae-Mensah

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Providing students PASCO caused high expectation

A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ivan Addae-Mensah has blamed the disappointment being expressed by final year SHS students after their WASSCE paper on the provision of past questions by the education ministry to students.

According to him, Senior High Schools over the years have prepared their students using past questions but the education ministry going the extra mile to provide the past questions to all students across the nation heightened expectations among the students.

“Teachers know how to handle students in this situation, the students themselves from time immemorial use past questions… immediately you take this phenomenon out of the hands of the schools and you try and micromanage it from the educational authorities, you create a certain expectation in the students and I believe that something of the sort may have happened.

“If the revision process had been left in the hands of the teachers and the students, maybe this expectation might not have been generated,” Prof. Addae-Mensah said Saturday on Analyses on Starr FM.

His comments come after a reporter with the Daily Graphic in Koforidua, Damalie Emmanuel Pacome, was attacked by students of Bright Senior High School in Akyem Kukurantumi.

The students holding knives, cutlasses, sticks and stones chased the journalist who was in the school to verify reports of attacks on invigilators by the students.

Similarly, the students also clashed with invigilators over alleged intimidation.

Several students in other schools have also attacked the president for providing them with questions which did not appear in their final exams.

On Friday the Ghana Education Service (GES) dismissed some 14 final year students who are believed to have caused chaos and destroyed properties in their respective schools in the wake of the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The GES in a statement said the action is to serve as a deterrent for other students who are still partaking in the exams.

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Meanwhile, the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has relocated its examination centre from the premises of Bright Senior High School to the Ofori Panin Senior High School following the student riot that occurred at the centre on Thursday.

WAEC in a statement also noted it will not hesitate to sanction students and teachers of the school if they are found culpable in the rioting at their premises. Final year students of the school who are writing their exams on Thursday attacked an invigilator and a reporter over claims that supervision was strict during the exams. They were reportedly instigated by the proprietor of the school.

Regent University ranked best private university in Ghana

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Regent University College of Science and Technology has been ranked the best private University in Ghana in the July 2020 edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

Regent was ranked the seventh University overall in Ghana in the same edition of the bi-annual ranking.

A statement issued in Accra by Mr Benjamin Larbi, the Acting Head of Communications Unit of Regent University, and copied to the Ghana News Agency has said.

It said Regent climbed to first place from its previous second position among private universities in Ghana, in the current edition of the ranking.

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The Webometrics Ranking measures institutions according to four metrics: namely; presence (public knowledge shared), visibility (web contents impact), transparency (top-cited researchers) and excellence (top-cited papers).

Established in 2004, Webometrics is the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions, offering every six months, an independent, objective, free, open, scientific exercise.

It also provides reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world.

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Gov’t seeks over $166m loan to purchase armoured cars

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Government is seeking parliamentary approval to borrow a total of $166,120,000 for the purchase of armoured vehicles.

The three separate agreements were laid in parliament Monday and referred to a joint committee on Finance, Defence and Interior.

The first facility is between government of  Ghana (represented by the Ministry of Finance) and Israel Discount Bank Limited for an amount of Seventy-Four Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars to finance the supply of Armoured Vehicles to Government of Ghana.

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The House has also been requested to approve a Commercial Loan Agreement between Government of Ghana and the same Israel Discount Bank for an amount of $12million for supply of Armoured Vehicles.

The third and final facility is a contract Agreement between Government of Ghana and Elbit Systems Land Limited of Israel for an amount of $80 million for supply of Armoured Vehicles.

All the 3 facilities were laid by Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul today.

 

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh

Stop the ‘toxic politics’; we can be civil and still disagree – Atik Mohammed to Politicians

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Ellis Ferdinand
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People’s National Convention (PNC) Stalwart, Atik Mohammed has advised politicians in the country to be decorous in their utterances and the way they play the political game.

According to Atik Mohammed, “the kind of politics that is practiced in this country is very toxic” and it has to change.

He was commenting on claims made by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) against President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government.

The party has accused the President of using the Military to intimidate some Ghanaians and prevent them from registering for their voters’ ID card.

To the NDC, the President is using terror tactics to disenfranchise some Ghanaians, particularly the people of Volta Region and other Regions that are not strongholds of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

But Atik believes there is no such orchestration going on in the country and has branded such comments as ”unfortunate and reckless”.

To him, the culture where politicians engage in tribal politics and also exploit any opportunity to gain power at all cost at the expense of the peace of the nation needs to stop with immediate effect.

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” . . when the political parties get the chance, they are very opportunistic and sometimes they don’t think about the common good in the pursuit of this opportunism . . . We can do our politics and still be civil about it. We can have our disagreements and still remain civil about that,” he said.

”That’s how you grow a country. Let the people make determinations based on policies, issues; we have gone far beyond tribalism or ethnocentrism but politicians will not hesitate to roll back the wheels of this subculture simply because they feel it can give them votes,” he stated on Peace FM’s ”kokrokoo”.

Source: Peace FM

‘Recent activities may cause NDC to collapse’ – Rawlings predicts

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Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Ghana’s former President, Jerry John Rawlings, has dropped a bizarre prediction about his party.

According to Mr Rawlings, recent activities may cause the party to collapse and drown if care is not taken.

“Much as I find it tiring and tedious to be engaging in self-defense when I have given my all, all these years, I will soon deal with the callous agenda of bile by the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi, who are desperately seeking control of the NDC party,” he wrote.

The former President said this when he took to Facebook to react to NDC Stalwart, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi’s book titled ‘Working with Rawlings.’

“The NDC could, should and has survived on the authority of the word but if care is not taken, it will collapse and drown as has been happening, on the word of those in authority,” he cautioned.

However, Mr Rawlings in the same post lauded the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and Togbe Afede XIV.

The book, which chronicled Mr Ahwoi’s experiences working with Mr Rawlings, has sparked series of controversies within the NDC.

I’ll deal with ‘callous agenda’ by Ahwoi soon – Rawlings

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Former president Jerry John Rawlings has slammed Kwamena Ahwoi stating that he will soon deal with a “callous agenda of bile” against him by his former Local Government Minister.

According to the former President, Mr Ahwoi and others are “desperately seeking control of the NDC party” which he said faces collapse and may drown on the words of those in authority of the party if care is not taken.

“Much as I find it tiring and tedious to be engaging in self defence when I have given my all, all these years, I will soon deal with the callous agenda of bile by the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi, who are desperately seeking control of the NDC party.

The NDC could, should and has survived on the authority of the word but if care is not taken, it will collapse and drown as has been happening, on the word of those in authority,” Rawlings said in a statement.

The statement by the NDC founder and former military ruler comes after Mr. Ahwoi published a book that details some of his working relations and close encounters with the former President, who has subsequently disputed some of the contents of the book, ‘Working with Rawlings’.

Below is the full statement

OTUMFUO DESERVES COMMENDATION

I want to take the opportunity to congratulate the Asantehene for the steps he has taken, to seriously protect the environment and also to thank him for tampering justice with mercy on Nana Bantamahene.

We each have to learn to take a cue from the Asantehene and be bold and audacious in our defence of the environment, especially from thieves and crooks, who with impunity can collect parcels of land anywhere, anyhow and do as they wish against the public good and the sanctity of nature.

Let me also express my gratitude to Togbe Afede XIV, President of the National House of Chiefs for taking the initiative to lead a delegation of the Volta Region House of Chiefs to the border areas in the region to ascertain things for themselves. Some of the unsightly things we see on the Internet do not speak well of us locally and internationally.

Much as I find it tiring and tedious to be engaging in self defence when I have given my all, all these years, I will soon deal with the callous agenda of bile by the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi, who are desperately seeking control of the NDC party.

NDC could, should and has survived on the authority of the word but if care is not taken, it will collapse and drown as has been happening, on the word of those in authority.

 

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.

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