POLITICS

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has clarified that its earlier statement decreeing that toll collection be stopped across the country following the abolishment of road and bridge tolls in the 2022 budget, was to intervene in the chaotic situations that occurred at the various booths. A statement issued on Thursday November 18 explained that soon after the Finance Minister had announced ...

The Attorney General (AG) and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has revealed that cabinet has approved his request to amend the Criminal Procedure which will allow for plea bargaining to certain criminal offences in the country. According to the AG, the draft bill will soon be put before Parliament which will enhance the criminal justice delivery in the country ...

Any Ghanaian who is able to send more than GHS100 day via mobile money platforms is not poor, the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said. Once the 2022 budget is approved, all electronic transactions in Ghana will attract an Electronic Transaction Levy or E-Levy, as part of moves by the government to shore up its revenue ...

All arsenals must be marshalled to tackle corruption in Ghana, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in last year’s elections, has said. She noted that the corruption menace has been a major challenge in Ghana and one that is hampering development. Therefore, she said, it must be dealt with no matter what ...

The minority MPs in parliament have threatened to reject new taxes announced by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in the 2022 budget presentation. Ofori-Atta announced the scrapping of road tolls and the introduction of E-levy to cover Mobile money transactions, remittances and other electronic transactions. Fees and charges of government services have also been increased by 15%. “Total value of transactions ...

Ellembele MP Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, has said that the 2022 budget statement that was presented by the Finance Minister Keb Ofori Atta does not provide reliefs to businesses to enable them thrive. According to him, the budget shows how the public sector debt is shooting up. “We have moved from 120 billion debt to 380billion so our debt to ...

Ningo Prampram lawmaker Samuel Nartey George has said the government did not engage the telecom companies before announcing the introduction of the tax on mobile money services in the 2022 budget statement. Sam George who is also a member of the communications committee of Parliament described the government as ‘clueless bunch’. “Let me state for the records that the govt ...

The former executive director of the Danquah Institute (DI), Richard Ahiagbah, has been appointed the deputy director of research in the Office of the President, Jubilee House. Mr Ahiagbah’s appoinment takes retrospective effect from October 2021. New research directorate In his new role, Ahiagbah will assist his boss Dr Isaac Owusu-Mensah, the director of research in the Office of the ...

Vice President of Imani Africa, Kofi Bentil has welcomes the decision by the government to abolish road tolls in the country. According to him, the policy think tank had always advocated the scrapping of the road tolls initiative because it was more expensive. “For years we argued for their scrapping because it was actually more expensive. Finally someone heard ! How ...

The YouStart initiative that has been introduced by the government in the 2022 budget statement will help in reducing the youth unemployment situation in the country, Lawmaker for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has said. “The 2022 Budget demonstrates a listening government in touch with our challenges as Ghanaians. Initiatives like YouStart tackle the challenge of youth unemployment head-on. Govt is still ...