POLITICS

Maverick Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organiser, Kwame Baffoe better known as Abronye DC has leveled 7 corruption allegations against the Regional Minister Kwaku Asomah Cheremeh. On Kumasi based Otec FM he claimed among others things that the Minister who is less than a year in office, has allegedly been engaged in some underhand dealings and therefore deserve to be fired ...

The Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho says the Finance Minster, Ken Ofori-Atta will have absolutely nothing to say in his 2018 budget presentation. “He [Ken Ofori-Atta] will be interested in telling us about his entire family both the living and the dead rather than presenting a budget. He has nothing to tell us, ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has threatened to expose NDC spokesperson on Finance and former Deputy Finance Minister, Casiel Ato Forson. According to him, his involvement in alleged shady deals at the energy sector nearly collapsed the sector. “I have a problem with NDC especially the deputy Finance Minister whose dubious deeds at the energy sector ...

The government’s flagship district industrialisation programme, One District, One Factory (1D1F) is likely to receive a GH¢430 million allocation in next year’s budget, when the Minister of Finance presents the economic policy statement to Parliament on Wednesday. The proposed amount is slightly lower than the GH¢456.3 million budgeted for the programme in the 2017 Under the programme, the government seeks ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is optimistic Ghana will be a great place for private investors in all sectors of the economy to do business under his watch. Speaking at a ceremony to officially cut the sod for the commencement of the affordable housing project by Appolonia City and Ghana Home Loans, President Akufo-Addo said the surest way to deal ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe, has called for an investigation into corrupt practices by the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister Kwaku Asomah Kyeremeh, for awarding contracts to himself. According to Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who has declared fight against corrupt practices in the country, ...

Presidential aspirant of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Stephen Atubiga has revealed candidly that Former president Jerry John Rawlings can never be the sole founder of the Party(NDC). There has been a raging argument within the ranks of the NDC over Rawlings’ status as Founder. It would be recalled that, a former Chairman of the party (NDC),Dr. Obed ...

The Minority in Parliament says the President has demonstrated double standards after he appeared to be cozying up with a businessman Joseph Siaw Agyepong whose companies have been linked to several corruption scandals. Expressing surprise, Deputy Minority Leader James Klutse Avedzi said the president must explain his percieved shift in his position after using Jospong-linked scandals to campaign about fighting ...

The Minority in Parliament has chastised government’s management of the economy citing the rising public debt stock as a situation that can take Ghana back to the status of HIPC [heavily indebted poor countries] by the end of 2019. They also warned that Ghanaians will experience “severe hardship” equivalent to the 1983 experience. According to the Minority Spokesperson on Finance, ...

Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo not to sign into law, the recently passed Major Mahama Trust Bill by parliament, saying it is defective in many ways. Parliament on Thursday, 9 November gave legal backing for the establishment of a fund to cater for the wife and two children of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, an ...