POLITICS

The Akufo-Addo administration has put on notice that it will begin prosecuting corrupt former officials who served under the Mahama government in October. “By October when we start moving to court with some of the cases, Ghanaians will know that we are serious and we are ready to fight corruption as a canker in this country and uproot it once ...

The lawmaker representing Nabdam, Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane, has predicted a bad start and a jumbled ending to the much-touted free Senior High School (SHS) policy, saying government will have a mountain to climb implementing it. He cited two reasons for the foretold mess: oversize cost and exclusion of key stakeholders from the proposed running of fee-free second-cycle institutions nationwide. ...

Central Regional Chairman for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs has advised politicians across the country to desist from making ethnocentric comments in public. Mr William Quaittoo whom until Tuesday evening was the Deputy Minister for Agriculture resigned following incessant pressure on him to do so. He was accused of insulting people from the north when he called ...

Sammy Awuku, the National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), says President Nana Akufo-Addo has put his critics to shame with his splendid performance in office so far. He observed that the young NPP administration has done extremely well since assuming office. Mr. Awuku said critics of President Akufo-Addo continuously accused him of making unrealistic promises during the ...

Maverick musician, A Plus has dismissed assertions that he got the fuel haulage contract with the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) because of his affiliation to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to him, he awarded the contract because he has all the qualifications. “No. no. I was given this job because I am a Ghanaian,” ...

Controversial Musician and member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame A Plus, has apologised to President Akufo-Addo over the corruption allegations he made against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff. A Plus accused Abu Jinapor and Francis Asenso-Boakye of corruption and described them as “arrogant fools”. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has since begun investigations into those allegations. But ...

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has invited controversial musician Kwame A Plus and Assin Central Member of Parliament Kennedy Agyepong to substantiate claims of corruption at the Flagstaff House. A Plus has made several allegations suggesting that the deputy Chiefs of Staff at the Flagstaff House – John Jinapor and Francis Asenso-Boakye – extort over 10, ...

A new petition for impeachment has been filed against Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei. The petition was filed on August 18 at the Presidency and is demanding that a process to remove the EC boss should be commenced over alleged breaches of public procurement practices and provisions of the Public Procurement Act 2003 (Act 663), as well ...

Campaign Coordinator at the Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC), Dr. Steve Manteaw, says he is not impressed with the way President Nana Akufo-Addo is managing the affairs of the country. According to him, he was expecting the President to learn from the wrongs of the erstwhile NDC government and institute measures to reduce public sector corruption. “Akufo-Addo is repeating the ...

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has begun a probe into corruption allegations levelled against Deputy Chiefs of Staff Samuel Abu Jinapor and Francis Asenso-Boakye, by Kwame A Plus, a staunch supporter of President Nana Akufo-Addo. Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin, told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, 30 August that the CID spoke ...