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25/02/2022

As a Ghanaian Citizen, what is your honest opinion of Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta's management of our economy and finances so far?

19/12/2021

Are you happy with the current situation of development in your constituency?

1 year after election.

26/09/2021

What has your member of parliament done since he or she was voted for?

14/07/2021

Honorable Theresa Lardi Awuni. The MP for OKAIKWEI-NORTH who is making the constituency great day by day. Theresa Lardi Awuni . These are the people we want as leaders.

09/06/2021

Ghanaians on the 7th of December, 2016 took to the polls and elected a president whom we at the time thought was a savior, all in the name of his father was a president and therefore he was born a leader. Against all odds, Nana Akuffo Addo became the president by the lies he and the entire New Patriotic Party won the votes of the majority of the Ghanaian votes.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
By lies, I mean they made promises that they knew very well that they could not fulfill. This has manifested in the recent activities that have occurred and continue to occur in this country.
It will sadden you to know that what was known as freedom of expression and freedom of the press in this country. If a journalist comments the wrongdoings of the president or that of any of his members will be dealt with as in the case of the journalist who investigated the MASLOC cars that are packed rusting, cars that have been bought with taxpayers’ money.
Our safety as a country is no longer promised as it was before 2017, everyday there is a new case of murder in the news, all due to the hardship that this president has brought to this noble country. The country that the president himself said had money and we are still suffering as in 2016 when he was campaigning for the position of presidency.
There are a few questions that I know most of you would want to ask, but you are scared.
What is the assurance that the Takoradi girls' issue was solved?
What has become the issue of the death of Ahmed the journalist who was shot dead?
What happened to the report of the Ayawaso West Bye-election?
What has become of the excavators that went missing?
What has become of the AGYAPA deal?
What is our current public debt?
If I do recall, the vice candidate or should I say the running mate of the new patriotic party in 2016 said in a campaign speech said: “We will protect the public purse if voted for”. I want us all to now analyze his state made. Can we say indeed the public purse has been protected by this current government?
Ghanaians woke up to realize that the vice president of this noble country is said to be the biggest liar in Ghana and no one seems to be concerned about it. If Google can identify him as the biggest liar, how can we then trust a verified liar?
The government that promised Ghanaians, honey, is feeding us with bitter cola nut and they expect us to keep quiet and enjoy whatever they give us.
Ghana beyond aid and today the president has borrowed more than all past governments combined. The International Monetary Fund is forecasting a worrying 76.7% of debt-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio for the country this year, according to its Sub Saharan Africa Regional Economic Outlook report released today.
This put the nation in the high risk of debt distress country category.
The debt-to-GDP ratio will however drop slightly to 74.7 percent of GDP in 2021.
The Bretton Wood institution said the rising debt poses a threat to both the fiscal and monetary economy, particularly revenue mobilization, exchange rate, and inflation.
The nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio has been growing sharply, from 44% in 2016 to 58.3% in 2017and subsequently to 59.1% in 2018.
In 2019, the nation’s debt stood at 62.8% of GDP, about GHS217.9 billion. Ghana’s debt hit GHS263 billion in July 2020.
I ask again, are we truly safe with the current government and the rate at which they are borrowing as we sleep and wake up each day.
A government that will spend more to collapse its indigenous banks, rendering thousands of its citizens jobless, and expecting that crime rates to reduce is a very big joke.
Again this is the same government and president that loves to address the nation on the state of the COVID 19 pandemic urging the public to adhere to all protocols put in place to safeguard us all. some weeks past there was a demonstration to be staged on , of which the police got an injunction from the high court to prevent the citizens from exercising their constitutional right. a right that has been enshrined, acknowledge and backed by the constitution, which is the basics of all rules and regulations in this country.
The same police were caught on camera watching as the masses at the burial of Sir, John who was said to have died as of the coronavirus.
This is a clear indication that the interest of the good people of this does not matter to the government.
we can hope and pray that God himself will help us and protect us till we get the opportunity to vote this corrupt and failed government out of power come 7th December 2024.
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31/05/2021

The Member of Parliament for OkaikweiNorth, Hon. Theresa Lardi Awuni has asked the public to stop disposing of waste at unauthorized places.

According to her, individuals must contribute their quota in maintaining a hygienic environment.

Speaking to United Television during a clean-up exercise in parts of the constituency which took place on Saturday the 29th of May, 2021.
Hon. Theresa Lardi Awuni noted that the exercise will be done every month.

“This is part of a program that I have outlined that every month I will move to one electoral area and do a clean-up exercise. When you look at the plastic that we have cleared on the roadside and in the gutters, this leads to serious flooding anytime there are heavy rains, properties are destroyed. So I will advise them to desist from that habit of throwing rubbish onto the streets and in the gutters. I will also advise my constituents to practice safe hygiene.”

A similar project was started by the government in 2014 called the National Sanitation Day.

It was observed on every first Saturday of every month.

This was a voluntary clean-up exercise which was supposed to take place across the country.

However, the National Sanitation Day has not been effective in recent times.

20/05/2021

“SƐBE O, TAFRAKYƐ, NA 'ƆTE K'ƆKƆƆ SOƆ' DEƐ, YƐBƆ NANO SƐN? [With all due respect, how can the occupant of the Golden Stool be silenced?]

By CAMERON DUODU

Sometimes I am ashamed to be called a “Journalist' in Ghana. For the 'news values' of some of our “journalists” are so skewed up!

SCENARIO: The King of one of our oldest pre-colonial nations – Otumfuo Osei Tutu The Second – has been invited to give the opening address of a “Dialogue” between the Central Government and the “stakeholders” in the so-called small-scale mining sector. The dialogue is about the terrible galamsey disaster that Ghanaians have inflicted upon themselves.

Otumfuo arrives at the venue in his capital, Kumase. But before he can speak, the Central Government's representative in his capital, probably on the basis of “intelligence” provided to him, goes to him with another Government representative. They plead, obsequiously, that Otumfuo should please observe “protocol” and “stick to his script!”

Otumfuo does not want to cause a “furore”, and so agrees to do as the Central Government wants.

But in Asante, 'Yɛmmfrɛ wo Ɔhen kwa'! [They don't call you a King or Chief for nothing!]

So, as soon as he stands before the microphones, the spirits of Okomfo Anokye, Otumfuo Osei Tutu The First, Otumfuo Opoku Ware and other illustrious founders of the Asante Nation, take over his mouth.

And he reveals, extempore, in Asante Twi, that the Ashanti Regional Minister and another representative of the Government had approached him earlier, to “stick to his script”. But before doing that, he would just want to say a word or two.

And he continues to charge that a high percentage of the people in the room – perhaps 30 percent – not only knew who were carrying out galamsey in the country, but that some were themselves involved in the dastardly practice. They should stop forthwith, for he was minded to name and shame them!

Otumfuo said this, but except for a video of the speech posted by JoyFM, I would never have known about it! I certainly haven't seen any mention of it by the print media. Yet, the official handout of the Otumfuo's speech is all over the place – almost verbatim! Where are the “news values” of our “Journalists”?

In effect, Otumfuo had – partly – refused to be censored by the Regional Minister for Ashanti, Mr Osei Mensah! But no-one in the media had noticed! (Even JoyFM, in its text report of the Otumfuo's speech, did NOT make any reference to that all-important peroration in Twi!)

Of course, I can hear the excuses coming fast and furious: some of the reporters at the dialogue do not speak Twi; blah-blah-blah. Fiddlesticks! So no reporter at the dialogue could have asked for a translation of it from Twi into English for them, if they had shown any interest?

I draw the attention of my readers to this incident because it is symbolic of the duplicity and hypocrisy surrounding the whole galamsey enterprise. You only have to go to a galamsey site to ascertain with your own eyes that the people engaged in it are conscienceless, ruthless miscreants who respect neither drinking water, nor food and cocoa farms, nor forest reserves.

Yet the officials at the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources, the

Minerals Commission and the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, have been pretending, in drawing up official documents, that they can “supervise” the criminals' operations and sanitize them”. How? By by issuing “licences” to them!

Their first act of short-sightedness has been to limit “small-scale mining” operations to a designated area (100 metres) beyond the banks of a river.

But does that mean that, say, a portion of the Accra-Kumasi road can be dug up for gold-mining purposes, so long as it is outside the 100 metre-limit designated as the distance where gold-digging can occur from riverbanks?

Does that mean that people's food and cocoa farms can be “sold” to galamseyers and used for gold-mining, so long as they are outside the prohibited distance or range?

Why does the so-called law not make any mention of the reclamation of lands on which huge craters are formed during “small-scale mining?

What does it matter whether “small-scale mining” is called “community mining” or what have you, so long as it ends up creating environmental damage through craters that are abandoned as soon as the gold has been dug up? Damage of such a devastating nature that it cannot be repaired without expending huge sums of money, which we haven't got?

If the galamseyers were people with any understanding or a little honour, they would appreciate the dilemma they have placed the Government in and be less destructive while trying to dig up the gold. But the pull of the gold is stronger than common sense. And they want the country to tolerate this nonsense by playing on words?

We do know that when the Government gives them licences to “prospect” for gold, they corruptly upgrade the licences into permission to mine, and then flog the licences to the highest-bidding galamsey gangster, who can procure excavators, bulldozers and changfans – plus Chinese technicians!. Then they take as much gold as possible from the land, and – scram!

It has gone all for far too long. Our country looks, from the sky, like the playground of some drunken mammoths with gigantic feet, who woken up from their “Jurassic Park” and set on us to extinguish our nation from the face of the Earth. I exaggerate? Tell, that to the women in Aowin who, it is reported, are giving birth to babies without eyes and other organs.

As Otumfuo said, we know who are behind the destruction. Only we but are afraid to name, shame and prosecute them!

Otumfuo kasa! [Speak up, Otumfuo!]

Wo man di wakyi! [Your nation is behind you!]"

10/05/2021

Speaker Alban Bagbin has pledged his commitment to champion advocacy to drastically reduce road accidents.

Speaker Alban S K Bagbin has pledged his commitment to champion advocacy to drastically reduce road accidents that account for high death cases recorded in the country annually.

The Speaker said this when a management team from JoyNews and Multi-media Group paid a courtesy call on him in Parliament to present him with copies of its documentary titled ‘CRUSHED’ its contribution to addressing the increasing number of road accidents in the country. The documentary captures chilling details of how many families have lost loved ones to road carnage.

Speaker Bagbin assured the team that he would task the relevant Committees and Parliament as a whole to discuss and analyze the current road traffic challenges and come up with proposals to curb the growing unfortunate trend.

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