POLITICS

The Minority in Parliament has vowed to resist government plan to raise a $2.5bn bond to pay off energy sector debts estimated at $2.4 billion. Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu said the bond with 15-year payment plan will be a burden on the taxpayer. He said there was no justification for the bond because the erstwhile NDC government had put in ...

Member of Parliament for Bongo constituency of the Upper East Region, Edward Bawa has denied claims by the Majority that Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) sold about 20million litres of contaminated fuel between 2014 and 2016. According to Mr. Bawa, the last time fuel was contaminated at BOST, was December 2013 when Kwame Awuah Darko was Managing Director. ...

Senyo Hosi, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs) has sued New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Kennedy Agyapong, Kencity Media and the Deputy Director of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Afia Akoto. In a writ of sermons, the plaintiff is making 11 claims including an amount of five Million Ghana Cedis (GH¢5,000,000) for ...

Mr Johnson Asiedu Nektia has vowed to join controversial lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong to fight persons machinating the downfall of his business empire because of his affiliation with the ruling party. He however warned that he will not be part to a struggle if contracts are awarded to individuals based on their political party inclination; observing that it is not in ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, has shockingly threatened, he would expose the party to the world, the undemocratic means through which his party, won the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections. According to Kennedy Agyapong, known for speaking his mind, the elections which made Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP, President of Ghana with ...

The Minority has accused president Akufo-Addo of tacitly endorsing corruption as a result of his failure to comment on the scandal that hit the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST). The MD for BOST, Alfred Obeng Boateng, last month sanctioned the sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to Movenpiina, a transaction the minority has described as “gravely ...

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddy Blay, says recent uncomplimentary statements attributed to Assin North’s Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, have been taken out of contest. Assin North Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, at a Delegates Conference in his constituency, lambasted his own government for neglecting the grassroots who fought fiercely to bring ...

The election was held at a closed-door meeting for the First Ladies at the 19th General Assembly of OAFLA organised on the side-lines of the 29th AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme for this year’s OAFLA summit is ‘‘Building on 15 years of engagement to harness the demographic dividend of Africa through promoting the needs of adolescents and ...

Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, under the erstwhile NDC government, Joseph Yamin is predicting the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)defeat in 2020 due to frustration. In his view, a government barely a year in office is finding it difficult to make ends meet due to the lies it peddled in the 2016 electioneering campaign. Joseph Yamin’s comment comes after NPP ...

The Minority in parliament has indicted the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), accusing the state security apparatus of being complicit following its exoneration of the Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Limited (BOST), Alfred Obeng Boateng, in the recent contaminated fuel saga. The BNI after investigations cleared Mr Boateng of any wrongdoing in the sale of five ...