Police in Awutu Senya East in the Central region have arrested four people after a gun incident disrupted the ongoing voter registration exercise at a polling centre in the area.
The incident which took place at the ‘Step to Christ’ polling station was allegedly triggered by some followers of the Member of Parliament for the Area Mavis Hawa Koomson who was visiting registration centres.
Bishop Charles Agyinasare, founder and leader of Perez Chapel International has bemoaned the silence from the clergy in the country with regards to wrongdoings by politicians.
According to the bishop, the clergy who are supposed to hold politicians accountable by using their pulpits to drum the wrongdoings because these politicians go to church and mosques, have turned a blind eye.
“So are our clergymen. Our clergy who should be saying it on the rooftop because many of these politicians go to our churches or the mosques. But the clergy, we have become dumb dogs. We are acting as if we don’t see what is happening,” he said in his sermon on Sunday titled ‘Get Rid of Envy’ monitored by GhanaWeb.
He reiterated that pastors who come out boldly to speak against these wrongdoings of the politicians are tagged as ‘talkative’.
“And if you are a Pastor and you are talking, they say you are talking too much. Instead of teaching our electorate who are made up of our Church members and made up of the people who go to the Mosque, to hold our government accountable, we are competing in our visions about who will win and who will die.”
He supported his sermon with a quote from the Book of Isaiah 56:10 which reads; “His watchmen are (A)blind, They are all ignorant; (B)They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark;[a]Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.”
Young actor who gained popularity for his great acting prowess in the Beast of No Nation movie, Strika in an interview with Abraham Offei of Glovantis Multimedia has revealed that he started smoking at a very tender age.
According to him, he began taking interest in smoking ‘wee’ before he turned 14 years of age, “for me I began smoking at a very young age, like before 14.”
After being discovered for the Beast of No Nation Movie, he got admission into a Montessori school in the Central Region, Cape Coast, having in mind that the new environment will help him get better but his addiction to smoking ‘wee’ grew even more.
“I did not stop when I got the admission to school there, I couldn’t, I was still doing it, in fact every student in the school knew that I was doing it and unfortunately my cover blew one day.”
Narrating how his cover was blown, Strika real name Emmanuel Nii Adokwei said, “one of the students I smoked with mistakenly placed a piece of the substance at a wrong place and our alarm was blown. I am using the word our because I was not the only person, there were students from other countries who were also into that act.”
When asked if he was punished for engaging in something like that, he told the host, “to an extent yes and I was taken through counselling, I was spoken to and given a reason to know why it was not good for me.”
Strika however revealed that though he was into smoking he managed to hide it from the crew and scouts when he was given the role to play in the movie.
“…another truth is that, before I was discovered, no one knew that I was into that, including my scouts, I hid it from them till I was caught.”
Beasts of No Nation was released in 2015, it is an American-Ghanaian war drama film centred on an orphaned who is forced into a guerrilla group with a vision in modern warfare.
Colonel Ignatius Acheampong desired that Kwame Nkrumah ’s body be returned to Ghana
On April 27, 1972, Kwame Nkrumah, the deposed President of Ghana and a great Pan-Africanist died in Bucharest, Romania after six years in exile in Guinea far away from his birthplace of Nkroful at the age of 62.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah arrived in Conakry, Guinea after being invited by Sékou Touré just after the Military Coup that unconstitutionally ousted his Government from Power. Colonel Ignatius Acheampong, leader of the Ghana’s military junta which seized power from Prime minister Kofi Busia in January 1972.
The death of one of Africa’s most prominent personalities normally would have occasioned a dignified reaction from the two major parties concerned:
President Sékou Touré of Guinea, who had granted Nkrumah political asylum in his country following the latter’s removal from power
Colonel Ignatius Acheampong, leader of Ghana’s military junta which seized power from Prime minister Kofi Busia in January 1972. There began instead a macabre quarrel between the two over the final resting-place of the ex-President’s remains.
Colonel Ignatius Acheampong desired that Kwame Nkrumah ’s body be returned to Ghana where, he said, the former President would be given a dignified burial.
Madam Elizabeth Nyaniba, an aged mother of the deceased President, made an impassioned plea to President Sékou Touré to allow the body to be returned to Ghana: “I want to touch the body of my son before he is buried, or I die.” She also indicated that she would like her son’s body embalmed and kept permanently on public display the way Lenin’s body is preserved. Sékou Touré would not consent, however—at least not until he had extracted from the Ghanaians important concessions which would redound to his personal profit. And, since the Romanians had sent the body to Conakry, the Guineans were in a strong position to dictate terms.
Press reports shortly after Kwame Nkrumah’s death announced that Toure had attached four conditions to the return of the ex-President’s body to Ghana:
a. Nkrumah’s complete rehabilitation in the eyes of the Ghanaian people (lifting all charges that had been pending against him)
b. The liberation of all of Nkrumah’s partisans still held in Ghanaian jails
c. Removal of the threat of arrest which hung over all of Nkrumah’s followers who had chosen to remain with him in exile
d. An official welcome by the Ghanaian government of Nkrumah’s remains, with all the honours due to a deceased chief of state.
On May 20, 1972, it was revealed that Touré had imposed even more conditions. He now insisted that Nkrumah’s tomb be placed in front of Ghana’s Parliament building and that all of the men who had occupied ministerial appointments and high positions in his civil service be restored to their former posts. Touré sought, in other words, to re-impose Nkrumah’s discredited government—minus only Nkrumah—on the Ghanaian people as the price for recovering the former President’s body.
Barring acceptance of these terms, Touré implied the body would be kept in Guinea. Not unexpectedly, Colonel Ignatius Acheampong refused to negotiate on such a basis and continued to urge the Guineans to allow the body to be brought back to Ghana.
Sékou Touré based Guinea’s right to keep Nkrumah’s body on Nkrumah’s having been granted asylum in Guinea and having been declared co-President of the Guinean Republic in 1966 when he was “betrayed” by the Ghanaian officers who overthrew him.
He claimed that Nkrumah had actually been co-President of Guinea as far back as 1958 when the two countries had formed the Guinea-Ghana Union. He even insisted that this important decision—which automatically made each man co-President of the other’s country, in addition to being head of his own state-had been officially communicated at the time to all the countries and to all the international organizations with which the Republic of Guinea had diplomatic relations.
Touré obstinately refused to assent to the pleas of Nkrumah’s family and the Ghanaian people, and to the demands of the Ghanaian government and press. When Guinea’s leader appeared to have no moral justification for retaining Nkrumah’s body, African public opinion began criticizing Touré’s intransigence with increasing severity.
The Daily Nation of Nairobi, in an editorial titled “A Cruel Refusal,” stated:
« Though he now denies it, President Sékou Touré is believed to have asked for the impossible before allowing Kwame Nkrumah ’s body to be taken to Ghana to be buried in his home town of Nkroful… The people of Ghana cannot be dictated to as to where Nkrumah’s mortal remains should be buried… Guinea should not fear the loss of face. Facing realities is more important. It should reverse the decision and thus fulfil and honour a dead man’s wishes. »
« President Sékou Touré should see a reason to release the corpse as he had earlier promised… If he remains adamant, he would not be depriving the military Junta in Ghana of anything. It is the common people of Ghana who would be deprived of paying their final respects to their bereaved leader.
The quarrel, now attracting attention from the non-African press as well, continued unabated. Finally, several African leaders, notably Presidents William Tolbert of Liberia, Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, and General Yakubu Gowon of Nigeria, tried to persuade Sékou Touré that it was in the best interests of African dignity, and Africa’s image abroad, that the body is returned to Ghana. The West African press reported that Toure finally gave in to these appeals but this proved to be unfounded. As events were to show, Touré, determined to squeeze every possible propaganda advantage from Nkrumah’s demise.
Mahama Sakara, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district manager, NHIA
Management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says an investigation is ongoing following the allegation of sexual assault levelled against one of its directors in the Savannah Region.
This was after a petition was sent to the authority outlining the allegations.
A nurse at the Soma CHPS facility has accused the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district manager of the NHIA, Mahama Sakara of sexual assault.
“We wish to assure the general public and all stakeholders that Executive Management has already taken action with regards to the petition,” the NHIA said in a statement.
Police are also being involved in the investigation.
“There is also an on-going investigation in collaboration with the Police service and further actions will be taken as necessary as the facts of the case become clear,” the statement added.
The nurse said Mr Sakara came to the facility under the guise of a monitoring exercise. He then tried to persuade her to give in to his sexual demands.
This was followed by a struggle between the two after the nurse continued to refuse the demands. During the struggle, the nurse claimed she was fingered by Mr. Sakara.
“Let’s go and sit over there so that I’ll just suck it. Over even if you want, Lemme lick; lemme just lick your vagina,” he begged to which the lady replied, “Manager, it’s not good.”
The story has been captured in a 21-minute audio clip and has been attached to a petition to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).
“However, when we got into the facility, Mahama Sakara (the Sawla NHIA Manager) started making sexual demands. Upon several pleading that I was engaged to a man, Mr Sakara engaged me in a struggle to have sex with me. In the process, his (Sakara) fingers entered my vagina but could not have sexual intercourse with me,” part of her petition read.
Executive Management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has received a petition from a health worker of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) accusing the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District National Health Insurance (NHIS) Manager, Mr. Mahama Sankara of an attempted sexual assault.
In her petition, the Nurse in the Savannah Region alleged that Mr. Sankara visited her duty post, July 8, 2020 at about 9:00 am under the guise of “Monitoring” and attempted to have sex with her.
We wish to assure the general public and all stakeholders that Executive Management has already taken action with regards to the petition.
There is also an on-going investigation in collaboration with the Police service and further actions will be taken as necessary as the facts of the case become clear.
The NHIA strongly condemns all incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault and gender-based violence in our society.
The organisation will continue to champion the cause of individuals’ rights and liberties to live and work without interference especially women.
The NHIA will continue to demonstrate such values as it strives to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all.
Bishop Charles Agyinasare, presiding Bishop of Perez Dome
Bishop Charles Agyinasare has called out fake prophets who prophesy election victory as well as the death of celebrities.
In a recent virtual sermon, the Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International said the Bible has spoken of such prophecies of lies.
For instance, he said Jeremiah 5:31 as saying: ‘The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power, and my people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?’.
Additionally, he quoted Jeremiah 14:14, as saying: ‘And the Lord said to me, ‘the prophets prophesy lies in my name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart’.
He said rather than give false prophecies, priests must educate the people, as the Amplified version of Malachi 2:7 says: ‘For the priest’s lips should guard and keep pure the knowledge [of my law], and the people should seek (inquire for and require) instruction at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts’.
“How can our prophets prophesy safety and who would win elections 2020 in the face of all the social evils?” the founder of Perez Chapel International wondered.
“Is God confused? Some are prophesying Nana [Akufo-Addo] would win while others are prophesying JM [John Mahama] would win”, he observed.
“So, why do the candidates have to campaign, since it is a done deal?” Bishop Agyinasare asked.
Apart from electoral prophecies, Bishop Agyinasare also said: “Instead of educating the masses, we are prophesying the death of celebrities”, asking: “Why are we not prophesying the deaths of poor people”.
“For us pastors, we must judge ourselves so others don’t”, he admonished, quoting I Corinthians 11:31, which says: “For, if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged’.”
“Our prophecies must be subject to scrutiny by the church”, Bishop Agyinasare noted, quoting I Corinthians 14:29, which says: ‘Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge’, as biblical evidence.
He, however, observed that every society gets the crop of pastors it desires. “We have the kind of pastors we deserve. With our desires, we have produced the kind of priests we have today”.
To support his assertion, Bishop Agyinasare quoted 2 Timothy 4:3 & 4, which say: ‘The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4:4 and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables’.
“We have priests tearing families apart with ‘your wife or mother or your grandmother is a witch’ “instead of teaching the people how to work on their marriage”.
“Instead of teaching people the principles of fasting and prayer so the congregation can pray for their own needs, some say ‘bring provisions, I would fast for you’.
“Instead of teaching the people that God blesses hard work and that if you don’t do any work, which is zero if God blesses you a thousand times, you would still have zero, they are prophesying lotto numbers. What a shame!”
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has detailed the successes of the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government since it took over the affairs of the country two years ago.
List of Achievements Below:
Delivered over 676 vehicles, procured 3 helicopters and other equipment to the Ghana police service
> Procured 307 new ambulances for the ambulance service> Retooled the Ghana Armed forces with new vehicles, ammunition and tools
> Employed a total of 64,770 workers into the health service
> Employed a total of 66,357 teaching and non-teaching staff into GES between 2017-2019
> A total of 181 projects spread across 112 districts at various stages of completion under 1D1F
> Improved agricultural sector by *providing 215 tractors, 231 farm implements, 141 maize shellers, 25 multi-crop threshers, 68 planters and other machinery amounting to a total of $33m in support of Agric mechanization> Construction of 5 interchanges including Pokuase, tamale, Sekondi, Tema and Obetsebi Lamptey (Abossey Okai)
> 83,000 Ghanaians have been recruited under the Forest Plantation Programme to help restore our environment;
> 200 dams have been completed, and an additional 360 are dams under construction; under the 1V1D initiative
> 50 prefabricated grain warehouses have been constructed to reduce post-harvest losses; and
> 50 rural markets are under construction to enhance trade within our local assemblies.
We promised Free SHS to reduce the hardship on parents and we have delivered.
We promised to restore teacher training allowances to reduce the hardship on teacher trainees and we have delivered.
We promised to restore nursing training allowances to reduce the hardship on nursing trainees and we have delivered.
We promised to establish a Zongo Development Fund and we have delivered.
We promised a renewed focus on agriculture through the Planting For Food and Jobs program and we have delivered.
We promised to issue National ID Cards and we are delivering.
We promised to implement a National Property Digital Address System and we have delivered.
We promised to digitize the clearance of goods at the ports through paperless ports and we have delivered.
We promised to establish three Development Authorities (Northern, Middle Belt, and Coastal) and we have delivered.
We promised a One District One Factory program and we are delivering.
We promised a One Village One Dam program and we are delivering.
We promised a One District One Warehouse program and we are delivering.
We promised to implement a Nation Builders Corps- NABCO program to reduce the hardships on the graduate unemployed and we have delivered
We promised to implement a National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program- NEIP to provide support and reduce hardships of entrepreneurs and we have delivered
We promised to rehabilitate VALCO to resume operations and we have delivered.
We promised to leverage our natural resources to obtain a $2 billion innovative infrastructure financing arrangement with *Sinohydro* and we have delivered.
We promised to establish integrated bauxite and aluminium industry and we are delivering
We promised to implement mobile money interoperability and we have delivered.
We promised to reduce electricity prices and we have delivered.
We promised to reduce the hardship in obtaining a drivers license and we have delivered.
We promised to reduce the hardship in obtaining a passport and we have delivered
We promised to reduce the hardships in renewing the national health insurance and we have delivered.
We promised to establish an Office of the Special Prosecutor on Corruption and we have delivered.
We promised to revive Ghana’s railways and we are on course.
We promised a transparent allocation of Ghana’s oil blocs and we have delivered.
We promised to reverse the trend of declining economic growth and we have delivered.
We promised to restore discipline in the management of our public finances* and we have delivered with *lower fiscal deficits.
We promised to pass a fiscal Responsibility Act and we have delivered.
We promised to establish a Fiscal Council and we have delivered.
We promised to Establish a Financial Stability Council and we have delivered
We promised to reduce inflation to single digits and we have delivered.
We promised to reduce interest rates and we are delivering.
We promised to keep our exchange rate relatively stable even in the midst of global volatilities and we have delivered.
We promised to reverse Ghana’s trade position with the rest of the world from deficit to surplus and we have delivered.
We promised to reduce taxes and we reduced and abolished 17 different taxes in two years. We have delivered.
We promised to revive the NHIS and we have cleared the GHC1.2 billion arrears inherited under the NHIS.* The NHIS is working again. We have delivered.
We promised to move away from a predominance of sole sourcing to tendering in procurement and we have delivered.
We promised to bring about a change from destructive galamsey activities to a more regulated small scale mining activities and we have delivered. Says by the NPP
We promised to reduce the hardships of the disabled and increase the share of the DACF to persons with disabilities by 50%. We have delivered.
We promised to double the Capitation Grant* and we have delivered
Head of European Studies at the Department of Political Science in the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has denied reports suggesting that he will be contesting for Presidency as the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) is considering making him its flagbearer.
There were reports in some sections of the media suggesting that the astute Political Scientist is at the verge of taking up the flagbearership role of PPP for election 2020.
This the reports said was because of the unavailability of the Party’s founder to contest for the election which will take place on December 7, 2020.
But the astute political Scientist in an interview with mynewsgh denied the reports indicating that he has no plans in the short term to enter politics.
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According to him, as a Political Scientist, he cannot compromise his neutrality by joining a political party and by so doing taking up the flagbearership role.
“My response is simple. I am not aware of the intention. Secondly, I don’t and can’t do partisan politics in Ghana for now. My job as a Political Scientist requires that I maintain neutrality at all times,” he said.
The Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) which was founded by D. Papa Kwesi Ndoum has been in the political space since 2012.
Dr. Nduom has since the party was founded been the party’s flagbearer.
In 2012, the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) polled 64, 267 votes which represented 0.58% of the votes cast on the day. However, his votes increased in 2016 when he polled 113, 240 which represented 1.07% of the total votes cast.
The Kasoa District Police Commander has confirmed the shooting of a Nigerian, known as Precious at Gomoa Buduburam in the Central Region.
Superintendent Samuel Odame in an interview with joy newsSaturday said the shot was fired in an attempt to defend the patrol team on the ground from the victim.
Narrating the incident, he said the police received intelligence that a man in the procession of a cutlass had ran amok and was threatening to slash anyone who came his way.
Therefore, a patrol team was dispatched to engage him.
However, upon the encounter, Precious, now deceased pursued the officers and in their defence shot the man who subsequently died of the gunshot wound.
“The victim attacked my men with a machete. When the police officers got there, they wanted to talk to him to calm down but the Corporal who made that attempt was chased by the victim so my men had to run [for their lives].
“But the thing is, the shot was fired to disable him, it is just unfortunate that he passed on later. But the attempt was not to kill him, the attempt was to disable him,” he stressed.
Supt Odame however, refused to disclose where the bullet hit, explaining that, it could jeopardize the post mortem examination.
Despite the police’s explanation, the news of Precious’ death has caused an immense tension as an angry mob besieged the Gomoa Buduburam Police Station on Saturday morning.
Prophet Nigel Gaisie has issued stern warnings to Cyberbullies who insult him in the comment section of his posts on his social media platforms.
According to him, people who insult him under his posts on the various political predictions will face the wrath of his God.
Nigel Gaisie indicated that the pain he has faced since taking up the mantle of serving God will be visited on such people because they have their personal timeline to express their personal sentiments.
Mr. Gaisie said “.In the past five years, humbly none of my inspired Prophecies from God has FAILED!
Alas, in my vision this dawn thus I saw again one of the parties in GHANA secure 42% and it was a major SHOCK TO ALL!
I saw POLLS CLOSE VERY EARLY ON 7th December
REMEMBER I HAVE BEEN VERY CONSISTENT BECAUSE I HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD CLEARLY AND I KNOW THIS WON’T FAIL ! Elections2020
MAY MY COVENANT WITH GOD AND MY PAINS IN MINISTRY SPEAK AGAINST YOU CONTINUOUSLY, IF YOU COME AND ABUSE ME ON MY PAGE; If you have any resentment, it should be on your timeline not mine!!!!”
