POLITICS

The removed chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei still has her post  intact on the official website of the commission as her title remains “chairman” on the portal. This is despite the fact that Mrs. Osei and her two deputies have been out of office since the last one week having been removed on Thursday June 28. When Starrfmonline.com ...

The Attorney General Gloria Akuffo is to retrieve all documents from the Economic and Organized Crimes Office and other state agencies to enable former COCOBOD CEO Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni put up his defense in the case in which he is accused of causing financial loss to the state. Justice Clemence Honyenuga, an Appeals court Judge who is sitting as ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has appeared before the Disciplinary Committee of Parliament over his alleged attacks on the Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu. This comes after the outspoken MP refused to show up fortnight ago when he was invited by the Joe Osei Owusu-led committee. The maverick politician has been accused of making ...

The Electoral Commission is capable of operating on its own without a substantive chairperson or a commissioner, Director of Advocacy and Policy Engagement at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) has said. According to Kojo Asante, the constitution that established the commission makes it possible for it to operate without a commissioner. The comment comes in the wake of the ...

Parliament is to reconstitute the Privileges Committee to hear the contempt case against the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Ken Agyapong after three members recused themselves from the committee. At a sitting on Tuesday, July 3, 2018, Counsels for the Assin Central lawmaker, Alexander Afenyo-Markin and K. T. Hammond drew the Committee’s attention to a letter signed by three ...

Three majority members of Parliament’s privileges committee have decided to recuse themselves from the hearing of contempt case brought against the Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong. The decision brought the work of the committee to a halt Tuesday, July 3. The MPs, Gomoa Central MP Naana Ayiah, Agona West MP Cynthia Morrison and Samuel Nsowa-Djan in a letter argued that ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that late former Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah Arthur, would be honoured with a state burial despite a request by his family that his wishes for a simple and modest burial be respected. Additionally, President Akufo-Addo has directed that all flags across the country fly at half-mast, as the nation observes five days of ...

Firebrand New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmaker for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong will in the ensuing days’ report and submit ‘evidence’ to the Chinese Embassy in Ghana against investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas for the alleged killings of some Chinese Nationals According to him, the Tiger Eye PI boss signed a contract with some European companies in the country to ...

A Strong Npp Member Mr. Kutin has donated 20 street lights, 20 chokes and 20 bulbs to Assin Nyankomasi community. Although the 20 street lights were a complete set, the need for the extra 20 chokes and 20 bulbs was to help maintain them if they developed faults in future. Communities benefited from the street bulbs are, Assin Akropong, Assin ...

A former Deputy Minister of Communication in the John Mahama administration, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has commenced legal action against Mrs Pauline Dadzawa, a Commissioner at the Electoral Commission (EC), for alleging he stole $6 million of a $12 million bribe meant to influence the commissioners to rig the results of the 2016 elections in favour of the then-incumbent Mahama administration. ...