Education,it is said reduces inequalities can break the cycle of poverty, Foster tolerance reach gender equality and empower people to live More healthy lives and attain more productive livelihood. Therefore Seteke D/A Primary school in the Adansi Aboabo No2 in the Ashanti Region region are appealing for support over the learn in mud classroom popularly known as”Ata kwame” is affecting teaching and learning in the schools.
In an interview with the Newsmen, the residents revealed that the mud classroom block which was constructed over years has not seen any renovation yet. “The roofs leak badly and have caused severe damage to the ceilings leaving the classrooms flooded anytime it rains with lessons suspended for the day.”
According to the residents,they stated emphatically that the school have been abandon by government and their member of parliament Hon K.T Hammond after many promises made to them.
They stressed that “the school has written to the district assembly as well as the Member of Parliament for the area, Hon K.T Hammond about the situation but no help is avail.
Therefore ,Staffs, pupil’s and residents of Seteke D/A Primary school are calling on the government, NGO, District Assembly and philanthropist to come to their aid as an urgent call.
The residents used the opportunity to reply the Member of parliament for Assin central constituency Hon Kennedy Agyapong over the recent comments he made that their MP Hon K.T Hammond deserves another term in office to continue his gargantuan developmental projects in the area which the residents is saying that Hon K.T Hammond has Not done anything good for them to give him another term in office to serve them as their member of parliament.
There is a looming cholera outbreak in parts of the country as the good people of Yawkrom in Amansie West district of Ashanti had blamed the Member of Parliament Hon.Albert Joseph Quarm and the District Chief Executive Nii Lante Ollenu for their incompetencies leading to the abandoning of a toilet project.
According to them the only toilet facility that serve the entire community was pull down to pave way for this new toilet facility but the project after reaching a certain stage has been rejected and the contractors are no where to be located making it difficult for us to get place for convenience.
The abandoned ongoing construction of automated modern toilet facility projects under a Public-Private Partnership between Ghana First Company and the Government of Ghana started some years ago looking forward for it to be completed but as at now the project has now turned to be white elephant which is threatening the issue of sanitation in this community and we a using this medium to appeal to the president and the District Chief Executive including our member of parliament to come to our aid. ” they opined “.
Addressing a section of the media the residents indicated that the new toilet facilities which were expected to be completed within three months have not seen the light of day due to nonpayment of the contractors leaving the affected communities without places of convenience for several months forcing many residents to engage in open defecation.
The Government through the Local Government Ministry in 2018 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ghana First Company Limited [GhFCL], a waste management firm owned by one Frank Akulley, an NPP stalwart to construct 20,000 units of modern automated toilet facilities across all Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts across the country at cost of $300,000,000 in partnership with a German firm, Thermodul System GmBH. The Company subsequently opened tender for the construction of the first set of the facilities with a target of constructing 10,000 of its toilet facility model and put into operation by 2025.
Contractors were made to believe that funds were available in Ghana, and therefore a contractor just had to raise the structure, provide roofing and outside plastering to pave way for the automation, meanwhile the Contractors were made to pay 2% upfront of the contract sum to Ghana first company limited before award letters and various sites were handed over to them.However, the contractors, most of whom have reached 80% completion stage, claim they have not been paid despite several efforts forcing them to abandon sites.
Choicenews visit to some affected electoral areas such as Akropong in the same District revealed excruciating situations of open defecation. “They demolished the only toilet facility serving the entire electoral area with population of over 1500 so look around everywhere all these polythene bags are toilets. This bush is where everybody go to toilet so what is the sense in demolishing the toilet if you know it can’t be completed early for us.all these polythene bags you see around are wrap and throw it contains toilet, a resident lamented.
“Both men and women defecate near the roadside. Sometimes you see the men looking at your private part. Very discomfort but what can you do. We all shit together at dawn and evening in the bush. The chief of Manso Yawkrom Nana Kwaku ti wants government’s intervention to ensure the completion of the project with alacrity to avert outbreak of diseases staring at the people of Yawkrom and Akropong.
More worrying to the people of Akropong is that the residents both men and women go to toilet in the bush which is very risky to their lives. Everyone is forced to engage in the open defecation notoriety which is not the best.
” my people are struggling to get decent place of convenience since this impasse started so all that I want to say is that government must intervene, abrogate the PPP agreement and get other private persons to complete the project fo Build Operate and Transfer bases so that residents get toilet facility to use “Nana stressed”.
Already, it is estimated that close to Nineteen percent (19%) of Ghana’s total population practice open defection daily translating into one out of every five people practicing it. Ghana reportedly loses an average of $79 million annually to open defecation and is classified among 34 countries with the highest open defecation rates of 15% and above. The stalemate between the contractors and Ghana First Company if not fixed will worsen the situation and effect effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal on Sanitation and Hygiene by 2030.
Residents of Manso Yawkrom in Amansie west district of Ashanti had lamented over poor road network in the area.
According to them the road connecting the community from manso Nkwanta main road is no more usable to the people and this is affecting their community.
Addressing some section of the media today at Manso Yawkrom in Amansie west district, the Youth Conveyor Mr.Osei Boateng stated that Yawkrom is a farming community that provides so many foodstuffs for the good people of their country but due to the bad nature of their road all the farming product ended up in rotten and this is affecting the financial aspect of the farmers.
He added that the road had been rewarded to a contractor for the pass four years but the contractor normally come to the site when it is an election year.
Speaking to the media in an interview this is what Mr.Osei Boateng the Youth Conveyor of Manso Yawkrom stated.
Some of the people in the community who shared their frustration on the bad road network and poor toilet facility in the community
Hon Joseph Owusu Odenkyem,DCE Sekyere Afram Plains
The district security council of Sekyere Afram Plains district, led by Mr Joseph Owusu, Odenkyem, has expressed a word of caution to the executives and members of National Democratic Congress in the constituency to reversed their plans to cause mayhams in the upcoming voter’s registration exercise in the constituency.
According to the district chief executive, his intelligent information received from the camp of the largest opposition party NDC indicated that, the executives of the party in the constituency have held a close door meeting at Kumawu few days ago with bad intension to cause mayhams in the upcoming voter’s registration exercise to disturb the interest of the people to go out to their various polling stations for the exercise but the security agencies in the district will not allow anyone to misbehave before, during and after the exercise.
Hon Joseph Owusu Odenkyem, DCE Sekyere Afram Plains
He assured the constituents not to be worry about this plan conceived by NDC and go out boldly in their numbers to register to get their names into the electoral commission’s album to give them opportunity to exercise their voting right when time is due.
According to him, his intelligent information confirmed that, members who were at the said meeting includes the former DCE for the district, Hon Fuseni Donkor, the member of parliament, Hon Alex Adomako Mensah and many executives.
“We are ever ready to face anyone squally if they try”Dce warns.
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Following the President directives to implement Small scale mining scheme which aimed to formalizing mining in selected communities across the country, the minister of lands and natural resources together with the Board chairman of the Ghana Minerals commission Mr. S.K. Boafoand the member of Parliament for Manso Nkwanta Constituency, Hon.Albert Joseph Quarm had today stormed Manso Nsiana to officially commissioned the Community Mining Project at Nsiana in Amansie West District of Ashanti.
The ceremony which was conducted peacefully with covid-19 directives brought together some prominent people both from the district and nation capital including the traditional rulers.
The programme which is expected to provide job fortuity for millions of young men and women to grab opportunity to engaged themselves in a proper Small scale mining activities in the community.
Speaking at the Launching ceremony of Community small scale mining scheme at Manso Nsiana in the Amansie West today, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Hon Hon Kwaku Asomah Cheremeh Charged the Community to ensure that “mining will be done the right way, within the tenets of the law, and will not destroy our natural resources.”
He said, “Today, we are launching a type of mining that will benefit all of us irrespective of the party and community that one belongs to.
He urged the young men who Will participating the community mining to do their best to adhere to all the laws and do a good job so that monies which will generated from the community mining will sustain to the community and that will add some economic value to the people in the community.
He said the commissioning of this project is only denoted by the citizens of this country devoid of foreigners. Stressing that the the ministry will establishment watchdog committee which will go rounds to inspect any mining site in the district.
Foreigners are not allow to engage themselves in community mining and if any foreigner is been caught in community mining activities the person will face the law.
Residents of Nyinahin Adupri cry over bad road network. Adupri superb of Atwima Mponua District have bemoaned the bad nature of their roads and appealed to government to repair them.
According to them, roads in the area are full of potholes with rough surfaces as stones used to base the roads are showing due to erosion and neglect over the years.
The unit committee Member of Nyinahin Adupri Francis Fosu told Media that drivers especially, commercial ones often try to dodge the numerous potholes on the roads, putting the lives of pedestrians and passengers in denger.
They also complained about the muddy and slippery nature of the roads whenever it rained, which they stated made it difficult for them to move freely to their destinations.
They were sad that many of them had miscarriage on their way to attend antenatal clinics at the Nyinahin District Hospital because of the poor nature of the road. Unit committee member said because of the poor nature of the road most pregnant women sought the services of traditional birth attendants and report to the hospital when cases became complicated.
The Member of Parliament for Juaben Constituency Hon Ama Sapomaa today as part of her social intervention to improve road network has cut sod for the construction of roads, and astro turf football parks for the good people of Juaben and its enclaves.
Among the projects, the major one is 31.1Km route from Kubease to Juabeng which is very devastating and dilapidated which need urgent attention to save the good people from future accident.
In a short ceremony which took place in Kubease, the MP, Hon. Ama Pomaah, explained that, one of the biggest problem as the member of parliament for the people of Juaben is Kubease to Juabe town, the road was devastated and it undermining the development of the district and for that matter this sod cutting ceremony will pave way for the project to start and make it accessible for the commuters on their daily routines.
Other communities that will benefits from the Kubease to Juabeng route includes Krofrom, Nkyiripoaso Ofoase and others.
She noted that, the completion of the road construction will help in many ways, like economic, agricultural, health and other life intervention reasons.
Stressing that as the member of Parliament representing the good people of Juaben my priority is to ensure that the good people within my constituency will get their shares of the national cake and when the president announced that this year is a year for roads I decided to push hard for some of my roads to see face lift and the sod cutting ceremony is what we are all witnessing today.
She excavated that the people of Juaben and it enclaves contributed immensely for the development of this country especially the Agric sector base on that the construction of this roads will add more to agric production and that will help to improve the lives of the people. In conclusion her speech, Hon.Ama Sapomaa the Member of Parliament for the people of Juaben reveals the government commitment to improve the development of this country in all sectors which she appealed to the people to support the Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo led government and give him another four more years to continue his work.
The Tabital Pulaaku International Ghana Chapter and Danbaki Royal family representing the entire Fulani Community in Ghana have kicked against the Electoral Commission’s (EC) plans to resort to the use of the Ghana card and passport as proof of citizenship for the upcoming voters’ registration exercise to take place later this month.
The group is calling on Parliament to reject the CI laid before it to make it lawful for the EC to use only Ghana card and passport for the registration exercise.
The Fulani community in Ghana noted that many of their compatriots have no Ghana card or passport and therefore “Passing or accepting the CI in its current state amounts to disenfranchising the entire Fulani Community in Ghana.”
In a statement, the Fulani community called for the amendment of the CI to include other national documents such as the Birth certificate, voter ID etc “or we call for a total rejection of the CI.”
The Fulani Community said they will continue to resist any attempt by any National Public institution that tries to de-nationalize them in the country.
The concerns of the Fulanis dovetails into calls by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and some political parties that rsorting to use only the Ghana card and passport as prove of identification for the voter card registration will disenfranchise many Ghanaians.
Mr Yakubu Musah Barry, General Secretary Tabital Pulaaku International Ghana
Following the Fear and Panic that Grips the residents of Manso Tetrem in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region As they have Recorded its first positive case of the Covid-19 after several suspect cases in the Community.
The chief of Tetrem ,Nana Poku has today donated personal protective Equipment (PPEs) to His People in the community to support the fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic.
The personal protective Equipments are 20 Veronica buckets, 20 Boxes of Alcoholic-Based Hand Sanitizers,3000 Nose Masks, 20 packages of paper Towel Tissues,waste buckets, 20 gallons of liquid soaps, mini buckets and Hand gloves.the items running into Gh 10,000 (Ten Thousand Ghana cedis)
At a colourful presentation ceremony today at Tetrem, The chief of the community Nana Poku and His able unit committee members said they have implemented a range of preventive measures to stop a spread to the community”They have imposed a restriction on Beer bar operators to closed at 7:00 Pm everyday.
Nana Poku Tetremhene said the fight against Covid 19 has become a collective effort for everyone therefore there is a need for his community members NOT to ignore health protocols underlined by the president and the Ghana Health Service.
He said “It is only when we follow the Laid down procedures that we will Curb the COVID 19 Pandemic.
Receiving the items,the Assembly member , Unit Committee members and residents of the Tetrem community thanked their chief Nana Poku for this kind gestures.
The decision was taken with the consent of the District Health Emmergency Committee and Traditional Council as the best line of action to ensure the spread of the COVID 19 The normal markets however, would be operating.
The DCE also the DISEC’s Emmergency Committee Chairman for COVID-19 Hon. Williams Dark in an interview with the media after a patrol to monitor Teusday market at Nyinahin, compliance with health and safety measures and protocols on Tuesday in Nyinahin.
He said it was a necessary state of emergency because traders, most especially those from outside the District were being recalcitrant in complying with the directives of the traditional authorities and the DISEC Task Force. Hon. regretted that the traders were not adhere the complying. Nyinahin recorded one positive case
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