POLITICS

Attorney General and Minister for Justice Gloria Akuffo has said that the punishment for persons caught in laundering money must not end with just imprisonment but the confiscation of their assets. This, she said, will prevent them from enjoying their booty. Speaking at a money laundering and recovery of assets forum which is part of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency week, ...

Then you come to the Minority Leader himself who said: “The people may decide otherwise and you cannot determine it; so the support of those of us on this side of the house is conditional to the fact that DCEs should be elected but they should be elected on partisan lines. That is the principle we will support and walk ...

Out of shame, the referendum was illegally aborted, now let’s test the law as to whether or not Nana Addo acted ultra vires. Article 290 of the 1992 constitution listed entrench clauses and processes to amend them. Article 297 (d) rolled out the process to amend bills with constitutional instruments or writ, like that of article 55(3) which has a ...

The Centre for Democratic and Accountable Government (CEDAG) has petitioned President Akufo-Addo to remove deputy chairperson of the electoral commission Dr. Bossman Asare from office. According to the group, their demand is based on the fact that the deputy EC boss publicly campaigned for a ‘yes’ vote in the cancelled referendum. “Dr Bossman Asare, in the exercise of his duty ...

President Akufo-Addo has appealed to the Ghanaian electorate to give him four more years in office to complete all the work he has started in his first term in office. Speaking to the Chief and people of the Weija/Gbawe Constituency at a ceremony to cut the sod for the construction of a science-based Senior High School at the Weija Treatment ...

More than half of Ghanaians have said that the level of corruption in the country has increased and the Akufo-Addo government is doing a poor job at fighting it, a new Afrobarometer survey has said. Approval ratings for the government’s anti-corruption efforts have declined since 2017 despite the setting up of the Office of the Special Prosecutor. It more than ...

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. John Boadu, appears appalled at the conduct of the National Democratic Congress, particularly it’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia. The NPP stalwart was surprised to hear the Chief Scribe of the opposition party say “there was never a consensus on the referendum”, and that there was also “no meeting between them (NDC) ...

Founder of the largest opposition party the National Democratic Congress, former President Jerry John Rawlings has said the last Electoral Commissioners “suffered suspicions” because they were appointed by an incumbent. In June 2015, then President John Dramani Mahama in accordance with Article 70(2) of the 1992 Constitution, appointed Mrs. Charlotte Osei as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana. ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described the establishment of an Eminent Advisory Committee by the Electoral Commission (EC) as a wise decision. He believes that will help to remove the suspicions people have about the Commission. Describing the committee members as people we must take pride in; Mr Rawlings said the last Commission suffered suspicions because it was appointed ...

President Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaian traders that his administration is working closely with the Bank of Ghana to find a lasting solution to the phenomenon of high-interest rates they are charged by banks in order to access loans to grow their businesses. Addressing traders, market men and women of Kantamanto, Makola and Okaishie on day two of his three-day tour ...