POLITICS

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has revealed the minority in the chamber is considering petitioning the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice over the controversial cash for seat saga. It comes after the report compiled by the majority members on the committee, tasked to probe the incident, cleared the trade minister and his ministry ...

The Five-member Committee mandated to investigate the “Cash for Seat” saga has dismissed the allegation brought against the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Millennium Excellence Foundation, organisers of the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards. According to the Committee, there is no merit in the allegation levelled against the Ministry and the Foundation. Mr Kwesi Ameyaw-Cheremeh, the Chairman of the ...

The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation Joseph Kofi Adda has dismissed claims that he has been ineffective since he was appointed a year ago by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. A section of Ghanaians have labelled Mr. Adda a failure. According to critics, he has failed to rid the city and other parts of the country of filth. Some ...

Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen has called for the prosecution of Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak for causing financial loss to the state. According to Mr. Kyerematen, the Asawase MP championed the setting up of a committee to probe the cash for seat allegations and since the claims have been described as lacking merit, Hon. Mubarak must bear the costs of ...

The Forestry Commission has begun reclaiming forest reserves degraded by activities of illegal miners. Eight local firms are working on the program over 12 months in Ashanti, Eastern and Western regions. Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, says massive destruction by galamsey operators necessitated the move. Apamprama Forest Reserve is one of the affected reserves in the ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak has slammed government after it announced that it has taken delivery of 34 vehicles out of the 43 procured by the previous administration. According to the government, it has renegotiated and saved over $3million from the $9million luxury cars that were procured by the previous administration. The Mahama administration ...

The Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has slammed the minority for attempting to scuttle the cash for seat report before Parliament. According to him, some minority members are still hallucinating and yet to recover from the 2016 election defeat. The Minority in Parliament has on Tuesday stormed out of Parliament to avoid being part of the debate to ...

The Minority has staged a walkout from Parliament over the “cash for seat” committee report on the probe of claims the Trade Ministry extorted $100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to the President during the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards in December 2017. This is because it claims most of the MPs have not read the 146-page report ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has described the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) as a ‘bogus’ institution. According to him, the institution has nothing to offer Ghanaians since its only objective is to frustrate pensioners in the country. He accused SSNIT of not doing enough to help better pensioners’ economic situation so that they can ...

Communications director of the Ghana Gas Company Limited, Owusu Bempah has stated emphatically that he will relinquish his position should Mr. John Dramani Mahama amass 30% in the 2020 Presidential election. According to Mr Bempah, the erstwhile Mahama administration woefully handled the country’s economy and doesn’t deserve a second chance to lead the National Democratic Congress [NDC] in 2020. Speaking ...