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NPP boys slaughter sheep in river over party polls

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NPP boys slaughter sheep in river over party polls

SOME AGGRIEVED executive members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Juaben Constituency in the Ashanti Region have hurled normality to the dogs and resorted to the use of river deity to seek justice.

Wearing red armed bands to symbolize their fury, the NPP executives allegedly slaughtered a sheep in a river and rained curses on the party leadership for what they perceived as “attempts to protect the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Ama Pomaa Boateng.”

According to the aggrieved executive members, the party leadership, in furtherance of the subtle move to ensure that there is no contest, has disqualified one Francis Owusu Achiaw, who has expressed interest to battle it out with the incumbent MP.

In their view, the decision of the party leadership demonstrates unfairness and undemocratic behaviour akin to the character of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

While slaughtering a white sheep in ‘Asuo Abena’, the angry-looking NPP executives prayed for “the powerful river goddess at Juaben” to deal with their leaders.

The abnormal incident took place at ‘Asuo Abena’ at Nobewam, one of the communities in the Juaben Constituency, last Friday. It attracted scores of NPP faithful and sympathizers.

They particularly asked the river deity to deal severely with any party leader that is trying to impose the incumbent MP on the people of Juaben.

The aggrieved executives said they were only seeking a free and fair internal parliamentary poll in the area and added that they would never reverse the curse until their demands were met.

In a related development, other reports indicated that some NPP executives at Offinso had also resorted to similar action by invoking curses on the party leadership in the constituency.

They also took an exception to the disqualification of some parliamentary aspirants ahead of the polls set for Saturday, June 20, 2020.

There have been tensions in some other constituencies in the Ashanti Region after the announcement of the election date.

Source: dailyguidenework.com

Breaking: Bulldog Arrested By The Police For Claiming His 9 Months Old Daughter Is Wiser Than The Security Service

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Breaking: Bulldog Arrested By The Police For Claiming His 9 Months Old Daughter Is Wiser Than The Security Service

Controversial and vociferous artiste manager and entertainment show pundit, born Hanson Asamoah but widely known as Bulldog is currently in dire straits following his recent disparaging and derogatory comments about the Ghana police service.

 

The firebrand entertainment commentator who appeard visceral during an interview on OKAY fm without mincing words; stated emphatically that, Officers of the Ghana police service are plain stupid and it’s evident that his 9 months old daughter is more knowledgeable and smart than employees of the aforementioned security service.

These unanticipated assertions by Bulldog were marked by a throwback encounter he claimed to have had with some police personnels.

On the authority of Bulldog, he once had a police case and ironically to the public image security service portrays (THE POLICE IS YOUR FRIEND) – he was treated like a first degree murderer.

A close ally of the paradoxical and outspoken figure who spoke with a staff of Gossips24.com just this morning has disclosed that; Bulldog is currently in the grips of the Ghana police service.

He additionally added that; he’s been counselled to openly retract his unhealthy remarks against the security service and also sign a bond to never repeat such disreputable act.

We promise to bring to you the later developings to this story.

NDC prophet’ arrested after threatening to kill EC boss

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NDC prophet’ arrested after threatening to kill EC boss

self-styled preacher, Prophet Kwabena Owusu Agyei who was seen in a viral video threatening and castigating President Akufo-Addo and the electoral commission chairperson Jean Mensa has been arrested.

The preacher was reportedly arrested by plain cloth security men during a live interview with Accra-based Hot FM Tuesday morning.

The pastor at a Church Service on Facebook live via NDC TV on Sunday served a strong warning to the EC boss to stop the compilation of the new register.

He arrogantly displayed that if the voter’s register is allowed to be changed, the Electoral Commissioner will die, adding that Ghana will not allow a small family to dictate to the nation.

The NDC pastor stated categorically that, during the June 4 revolution, it was the blood of the military that flowed and that, what he is hearing in this time, it is the blood of the ‘Akyem mafia’ that will flow.

He said should the EC chairperson attempt the compilation of a new electoral roll she will die at 12 midday without indicating the day.

Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission of Ghana has stated that the underlying legal reasons for its decision not to include the existing voter’s Identification Card (ID) in its upcoming registration exercise is because the Supreme Court itself has held that the register is reasonably not credible and that by implication, the cards issued pursuant to it are also reasonably not credible.

The EC made this accession in its thirty-one (31) page response to the order of a seven-member Supreme Court panel on the 4th of June 2020, to provide legal basis for its decision to exclude the existing voter’s identity card from the list of IDs that are admissible for the upcoming voters’ registration exercise due to commence at the end of the month of June.

The EC’s Supplementary Statement of Case was filed today Monday, the 8th of June 2020 in fulfilment of the timelines given by the Supreme Court.

Summary of EC Argument

“In summary, the following are the legal reasons why the 2nd Defendant (EC) is not allowing the existing voter identification cards to be used in the upcoming voter registration exercise” .

  1. “The existing voter register which was compiled in 2012 pursuant to CI 72 and revised since by limited registration exercises has been held by this Honourable Court as not being reasonably credible. By implication, the cards issued pursuant to it are also not reasonably credible” the document entitled “Supplementary Statement of case of the 2nd Defendant pursuant to the orders of the Court dated 4th June 2020” said.

The supplementary statement filed by lawyer for the EC, Justin Amenuvor, further stated that, 2. “In respect of the cards issued pursuant to ci 12, the 2nd Defendant (EC) has found that those voter identification cards were issued without any form of identification at all and its ineligibilities, breaches and excesses were imported into the 2012 register pursuant to CI 72 in breach of Article 42 and displacing the credibility of the CI 12 cards”.

The third point of the EC is that “it found a fundamental omission in its training manual and the manner in which the voter registration exercise was carried out in 2012 partly in breach of its own binding CI 72 and also in breach of Article 42 of the constitution”. the fourth point is that “the 2nd Defendant wants a break from the past to remedy all the carried on ineligibilities, excesses and breaches of Article 42 as the existing cards have become fruits of a “poisoned tree”.

Source: Starr FM

CHRAJ throws out vote-buying and corruption allegations against Mahama

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CHRAJ throws out vote-buying and corruption allegations against Mahama

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has thrown out an alleged case of vote-buying and corruption against former President John Mahama.

The Commission was petitioned by Truth and Accountability Forum, a group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The complainants claimed that ahead of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential primaries last year, Mr Mahama presented some 40 vehicles to the party.

This act, according to the Forum impacted the results of the election, which he won.

They also requested that the Commission investigate the source of the funding for the vehicles donated to the party.

But the Commission, in a 10-page report, dismissed the complainant’s petition, indicating that it was without merit.

At the end of its preliminary investigation into the allegations, the Commission came to the following findings of fact and conclusions:
a.) That the Respondent, HE former President John Dramani Mahama, is not a public officer;

b.) That the mandate of the Commission under Article 218 and Chapter 24 of the 1992 Constitution as well as s.7 (1) (a) and (c) of Act 456 deal specifically with public officers, and since the Commission has found as a fact that the position of a former President is not a public office, the anti-corruption investigative mandate of the Commission does not apply to the Respondent, a private citizen;

c.) And that the Commission finds as a fact that Respondent is not complicit in any ongoing corruption investigation by the Commission involving any public officer(s), adding that “investigation of corruption allegations against a public officer that implicates a private person makes that private person liable to the Commission’s corruption investigation mandate based on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of Article 218 of the 1992 Constitution in the Kamara case supra.”

The CHRAJ decision ends an almost year-long case first brought before it in June 2019.

BOST contaminated fuel cash pocketed, nothing paid to the state – NDC

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BOST contaminated fuel cash pocketed, nothing paid to the state – NDC

No payment has been made for contaminated “BOST fuel”.

That is according to the largest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC) which said the fuel in question was sold to Movenpina.

It would be recalled that on 18th January 2017, 5 million litres of fuel was contaminated at the premises of the state-owned Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST).

The contamination was as a result of a mixture of diesel and petrol with the contaminated product being sold to “unlicensed” Movenpina and Zup Oil.

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Addressing the first edition of the “Corruption Tracker Series”, National Communications Officer of the NDC Sammy Gyamfi said the committee that was set up and tasked to investigate the incident by the then Energy minister Boakye Agyako the Movenpina-Zup Oil contaminated fuel saga, found that the transaction was criminal.

He also disclosed that the committee found that thousands of litres of contaminated fuel lodged into the NPA account are yet to be accounted for.

“Today we know that the committee tasked to investigate the Movenpina-Zup Oil contaminated fuel saga, has found that the transaction was criminal and that, the proceeds from same has not been paid into the state coffers till date.”

“Indeed, the committee’s report indicates that Movenpina has not paid BOST for the 471,000 litres sold through Zup Oil Limited.”

“The committee also found out that thousands of litres of fuel which was lodged in the tanks of the NPA could not be accounted for,” he stated.

The NDC Communications Officer said the committee’s provides enough grounds to conclude that the transaction was not only “unlawful for breach of the Public Procurement Law and the NPA Act, but the proceeds from same have been pocketed by a few corrupt officials and criminal entities with the tacit approval of President Akufo-Addo.”

Source: Nancy Obimpeh/Radiogoldlive.com

You are the President not a “low-level NPP Communicator”- Kwakye Fosu to Akufo-Addo

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You are the President not a “low-level NPP Communicator”- Kwakye Fosu to Akufo-Addo

A former deputy Minister for Communications Felix Kwakye Fosu says President Akufo-Addo is reducing himself to low-level NPP communicators with his claims over the “Green Book”

President Akufo-Addo during the commissioning of the Tema Motorway Interchange last week claimed “we made a pledge to the Ghanaian people to expand and improve the road network while closing the missing link in the network. We had to make this pledge because we know that the so-called unprecedented infrastructure development of the Mahama administration was fantasy, existing in the Green Book and not on the ground”.

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In a sharp response, the former deputy Communications minister Felix Kwakye said the President was engaging in “pedestrian propaganda.”

He believes President Akufo-Addo’s ‘consistent falsehoods” can only be explained by the possibility that “President Akufo-Addo has never sighted a copy of the book and has thus not had the opportunity to peruse it.’

“This would not be a far-fetched theory in view of the several times he has displayed a lack of attention to detail and faced embarrassment when multiple plagiarized speeches have been thrust before him to read.”

“We all can recollect how the same cavalier approach to governance and his lack of attention to detail led to his approval of the most inflated contract in the history of Ghana, the Ameri Novation deal, only for it to be withdrawn and for us to be told by sources with knowledge of the matter, that he had been misled into granting executive approval for same,” he stated.

The former deputy Information minister said the President’s claim which may be targeted at misleading some Ghanaians is undeserving of his office.

“It is also entirely possible that he is fully apprised of the contents of the Green Book but has chosen the path of falsehood in so far as it enables him to mislead fanatical supporters of the NPP or unsuspecting members of the public and in the process hide his dubious reputation as the least performing of all Ghanaian leaders at least in the area of infrastructure or capital investments.”

“Either way, this would be most unbecoming of an occupant of the high office of President. That office is associated with certain basic requirements which include candor, thoroughness, and truthfulness. The president of a country must speak in ways that leave no room for doubt or the potential for him to be ridiculed or derided,” he stated.

Source: Sena Nombo/Radiogoldlive.com

Prampram Police Chief Inspector collapses and dies instantly

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Prampram Police Chief Inspector collapses and dies instantly

News reaching Ghana Breaking News indicates that a female Police Chief Inspector stationed at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region has collapsed and died.

 

It is gathered that Chief Patience Ayivor aged 54 who is the Prampram Station Officer complained of ill health at home and was rushed to Prampram Polyclinic but collapsed and died on arrival.

Her Body has since been conveyed and deposited at the Police Hospital morgue for preservation awaiting autopsy.

Gender Minister In HOT SOUP for sharing expired food items at Agona West

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Gender Minister In HOT SOUP for sharing expired food items at Agona West

National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Agona West Constituency in the Central region has slammed  the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Madam Cynthia Mamle Morrison for allegedly distributing expired food items to residents in the area.

The party said Madam Morrison, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Constituency, must apologize to her constituents for sharing the unwholesome food items as relief packages to the constituents during the period of the  Coronavirus lockdown in March.

Communities where the expired food items were distributed are Saalem, Dasuenim, Ankyease and Nkubease, the NDC said at a press conference.

“…We succeeded in retrieving some of the items, with many others also regrettably already consuming the items- some of which are currently in our possession as evidence,” Emmanuel Korley, the NDC Secretary in the constituency, noted at a press conference during the weekend.

Whatever is worth doing, they say, is worth doing right. So we cannot countenance shoddy, substandard and inferior goods under the guise of showing care for the people- that’s unacceptable and reprehensible.”

Mr Korley, who indicated the food items were shared on March 24, 2020, also stated the people’s attention had also been drawn to the fact that the ice cream they received from the MP had expired.

He said the press conference was to ” draw the attention of the people to be very careful of future donations to prevent the recurrence of consuming expired food items and to also prevent many unsuspecting children and women from consuming the unwholesome ice cream.”

“For us in the NDC, Politics is not the destruction of one’s opponents to win political power using subterfuge, sophistry and chicanery but rather it is the construction of the destiny of one’s people, lobbying for meaningful development like good health care, quality education, access to water and electricity and provision of sustainable jobs which is consistent with our egalitarian ethos, ” said Korley.

To prevent people from consuming the ice cream and fall ill, the NDC asked them to destroy them upon alerting them.

The NDC has urged the MP to stop the rhetorics and apologize to the residents.

“So, instead of condemning us, ab initio, especially our comrade, Nana Kweku Dodoo for the timely exposé, we must actually be commended for being worthy citizens of Agonaman, concerned about the health of our people as key stakeholders in the governance of Agonaman,” Korley concluded.

NIA postpones Ghana Card issuance exercise to June 10

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NIA postpones Ghana Card issuance exercise to June 10

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has rescheduled its issuance of the printed Ghana Cards from today [Monday] to Wednesday, June 10.

According to a statement from the authority, the rescheduling has been necessitated by the Authority’s need to complete the distribution of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to registration centres.

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The NIA will be issuing 3,875,441 printed cards to Ghana Card applicants at 5,635 registration centres.

The authority has described the exercise as a nationwide card issuance blitz which will run till Tuesday, June 16, 2020.

It expects 11,062,850 Ghanaians to have the Ghana Card in time for the Electoral Commission’s (EC) compilation of a new voter register as the EC plans to make the Ghana Card and the passports the only valid identification for registering to vote.

There will also be a nationwide mop-up registration exercise commencing on June 18, 2020, which will run through to mid-September 2020.

“The issuance will also enable persons in possession of the Ghana Card to use it for other mandatory purposes stated in the National Identity Register Regulation, 2012 (LI 2111), including registering as a voter and vouching for others as Ghanaians,” the authority noted in a press release issued last Friday, June 5, 2020.

The authority assured that adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will be provided for use by the NIA’s field officers during the exercise.

“Additionally, security personnel will be deployed at each Registration Centre to ensure that crowd control measures such as physical distancing and appointment system are strictly observed,” it added.

Applicants attending the NIA card collection centres will be required to be in their face masks and wash their hands before beginning the card collection process.

Existing Voter ID: Fruit of poisoned tree – EC argues

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Existing Voter ID: Fruit of poisoned tree – EC argues
Ghana’s Electoral Commission has in a 31-page written legal argument, urged Ghana’s apex court to back its decision to exclude the current voters ID card as proof of identification for prospective voters.

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