POLITICS

A leading New Patriotic Party (NPP) member Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has kicked against moves to set up Special Courts to prosecute TV license defaulters. The TV licensing Act 1966 (NLCD 89) of Ghana mandates the collection of license fees from persons or households owning TV sets. The collection of the fee was reintroduced in 2015. Domestic TV users are to ...

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has said the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) cannot impose a levy on Ghanaians because it is now a commercial media organisation competing with private media houses for sponsorship. According to him, to the extent that the GBC has veered off its public service mandate, and become a commercial broadcaster, it cannot continue ...

The Majority Chief Whip, Matthew Nyindam, has said the Special Prosecutor will deal with corrupt public office holders across all political divide and will not harass members of a particular administration. According to him, the Office of the Special Prosecutor was approved by parliament after a thorough deliberation on the proposal, therefore, deep considerations went into its creation, a situation ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Tarkwa-Nsuaem, George Mireku Duker has said that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deserves commendation for performing well in the first year of his administration. According to the Legislator, Nana Addo has demonstrated his willingness to truly transform the country through the introduction of various innovative policies. One of these policies, ...

Both past and present government appointees will be held to account by the Special Prosecutor’s office, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. “My hope and expectation is that the establishment of this office is going to be an important step in our collective determination to root out corruption in the public life of our country. “All of us know it is ...

Parliament has been recalled to attend an emergency sitting on Friday to consider a motion for a parliamentary probe into the purported sale of seats at an event for participants to sit close to the President. A statement signed by the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, said: “In pursuance of Article 112 (3) of the Constitution of the ...

Some churches in the Volta regional capital, Ho, last Sunday were virtually left empty as hundreds of residents, mostly supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), abandoned church service to attend the 36th commemoration of the 31st December 1981 revolution which ushered in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government under the chairmanship of Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings. ...

President Akufo-Addo has assented to five Acts including that of the Special Prosecutor which were passed by Parliament last year. The others are Northern Development Authority, Middle Belt Devt Authority, Coastal Development Authority, and the Zongo Development Fund. Addressing a brief ceremony attended by the Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, the Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid and his deputy Kojo Oppong ...

The spirit of volunteerism and patriotism has fled the current crop of Ghanaian youth who have now joined the bandwagon of enriching themselves through politics. Former President Jerry John Rawlings who made this observation at the 31st December Revolution anniversary celebration, indicated that this was not in the case in the 1980s where they were prepared to work to see ...

The Acting General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has said Ghanaians will feel the full impact of government’s policies to better their lives in 2018. “I am of the firm conviction that 2018 shall be much more fascinating and greater in view of the life-changing policy interventions that are being rolled out by the hardworking ...