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Alhaji Otito Achuliwor vows to snatch Navrongo seat from Sampson Tangombu Chiragiaa

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A leading member of the New Patriotic Party in Navrongo Central in the Upper East Region, Alhaji Abdallah Otito Achuliwor, has declared his intention to contest the NPP Navrongo Central Constituency parliamentary primaries.

Alhaji Otito made this public declaration to the media in Navrongo after he joined party members on a unity health walk in the Navrongo township dubbed ‘Unity, Our Power and Strength to Recapture Our Seat’. 

The event was organised by the Women, Youth and Nasara wings as part of strategies to unite the party members to recapture the Navrongo Central Constituency parliamentary seat in the 2024 general election.

Alhaji Otito Achuliwor, said he is the NPP’s best bet to snatch the seat from the NDC’s Sampson Tangombu Chiragiaa.

According to Alhaji Otito, while he remains the NPP’s surest bet, there needs to be unity among the people of the Navrongo area to enable the NPP to garner more votes. 

“It is very true. It is not a rumour at all, it is a reality and the reality is that I am going to return the seat to this party without any mincing of words. It is clear in the constituency, among all the delegates, I am the one who can restore the party back to its original state. So I am going to collect the seat back for us. I have declared my intention to contest the primaries and I am certain that at the Primaries I will take the lead among all the other candidates who will be coming.”

Alhaji Otito promised to be committing Ghc10,000  every month until December 2024, for exercises such as health walks and other party activities in the Navrongo central constituency. He said similar activities help the party’s visibility in the area.

He said that the current NDC MP for the Navrongo Central, Sampson Tangombu Chiragiaa is a non-performing MP and has also not been visible in the constituency as such, he doubts whether the MP can even win his own primaries.

He stated that he will be battling the 2024 parliamentary election with a new NDC PC not Sampson Tangombu.

“Since the NDC took power we are very disappointed because our MP is not visible at all. Even among NDC supporters they do not even appreciate his presence in parliament and I will tell you without doubt that their NDC primaries he will lose to somebody else, so I am going to me a new candidate coming 2024,” he said 

Source:A1Radioonline.Com|101.1MHZ|David Azure| Navrongo|

 

 

Bolga Municipal NSS sensitises personnel to ethics of service; gives assurance of timeous payment of allowances

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The Bolgatanga Municipal branch of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has organised refresher training for all its personnel in the municipality to equip them with requisite knowledge to function efficiently at their various duty posts.

The Bolgatanga Municipal Manager of the National Service Scheme, Korle Brown explained that it is important the Scheme gives personnel the code of conducts, ethics and guidelines to help them discharge their duties well.

Speaking to A1 News shortly after the orientation ceremony held at Bolgatanga Girls Senior High School, Mr. Korle gave the assurance that his outfit is working assiduously to ensure their allowances are paid on time.

He said “the National Service Secretariat always organises this orientation for its personnel to get them abreast with the rules and regulations as they take up their mandatory national Service, so that they don’t cause trouble for themselves, the organisations they work and Scheme as well. I want to encourage the service personnel; we know how it is to work without allowance but we are assiduously working on their allowances and very soon it will hit their accounts.”

Speaking on behalf of the Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Albert Akanmiim Agariga admonished graduates from tertiary institutions in the country to accept posting to wherever the National Service Secretariat posts them.

According to him, going to places far from their hometown opens them up to opportunities.

Mr. Akanmiim admonished the youth to prepare themselves and take advantage of the government’s numerous job opportunities such as the you start and others programme.

He said “the youth, we just want to centre ourselves into these white collar jobs which is not the best. In recent times, you see that it’s entrepreneurship that creates jobs. That is why government policies are centred primarily on youth agendas. Government policies are that they have to build excellence in them and make them entrepreneurs. I encourage you to take up other responsibilities, whatever you can do legally to earn income, you should do because the jobs are not going to be readily available for you. When they post you, you just want to stay in your house. This exercise like the National Service is going to expose you to the outside world. So if they post you anywhere in Ghana, you go and get experience. It’s an exposure, it’s an opportunity for you to sell yourselves out there and make the networks, the connections. Today if you don’t network, you can’t do anything.”

The Scheme used the opportunity to elect new leaders to steer the affairs of personnel for the next 12 months.

Charles Anyore was elected the President. Raphael Kpinn Nwinianaa was elected the Vice President. Secretary went to Evans Kumi, Inusah Abdul-Karim was elected as the Financial Secretary. Adendaa Clement was elected as Organising Secretary and Ramatu Nyaaba Abugre was elected the Women’s Commissioner.

Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHz| Samuel Adagom|Ghana

We need to support our own development – Osman Kariyamah

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Osman Kariyamah, a member of the NPP Upper East Regional Communication, is calling on the people of the Upper East Region to be supportive of independently led developmental projects and drives, explaining that the government as an entity would not be able to immediately satisfy all the demands of Ghanaians at the same time. 

Mr. Kariyamah made these comments on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show in reference to the Special Initiative Committee that has been constituted by the MCE for Bolgatanga, Rex Asanga and chaired by the Founder of the Millar Open University, Professor David Millar. 

“It is a good initiative. I would like to urge him to continue. I would also call on his colleague MDCEs in the Upper East Region to initiate such projects in their areas. The world is changing. The world is not waiting for us. We must also contribute our quota. A lot of us from this side of the country have been blessed. What have we done to support our communities? The CEO of Blue Sky Hotel presented an ambulance to the regional hospital, and I was very happy,” he said. 

Mr. Kariyamah explained that in other parts of the country, residents are ready to support the development of the area, particularly in education. 

“We sit here and talk about Wesly Girls, go there and look at what the parents are doing for the school. Sometime ago, when I was in Legon, there was a PTA at the Legon Basic School. I went there to sit and observe what was going on. A parent donated a car to a teacher who was using trotro. Here, you wont even see a parent donating a chair. You discipline a child, and a parent would even follow up with the school and say they should even beat you,” he added. 

Recently, two schools in the municipality acquired furniture as a result of the project, showing that the MCE’s Special Initiative Committee’s effort.

The first initiative of the project saw the committee, together with the Bolgatanga MCE hand over about 27 pieces of dual desks to the Sumbrungu Primary and Junior High School and St Charles Special School, all in Bolgatanga. 

At a short ceremony to hand over the furniture, Chairman of the committee, Professor David Millar said the gesture was part of the committee’s efforts to help address the furniture deficit in the municipality.

“The first thing he tasked us to do was to find some support for alleviating the problem of children lying on the floor or sitting on the floor and writing or reading, so this is the first effort of what we called collectively as Municipal Chief Executive Special Initiative.”

“This one is not from an assemblyman. We have to make it very clear because your colleagues in other schools when they hear this they will say assembly took their money and only came and supported you. This is from his pocket, from my pocket and from the pocket of two or three other people so today I am really happy we are able to do this,” he said.

Prof. Millar also disclosed that  the 27 pieces of dual desks which were funded by individuals cost around Ghc4,000.00. The Bolgatanga MCE used the opportunity to appeal to the public to support the initiative. Mr. Asanga described it as unfortunate for students in the 21st century to be lying on the floor to study.

Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

 

Abdul-Rahman Danladi appointed as Head Coach of senior women’s national indoor volleyball team

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Coach Abdul-Rahman Danladi has been appointed the head coach of the senior women’s national indoor volleyball team.

A letter dated 25th January, 2023 from the Ghana Volleyball Association signed by Alhassan Sumani, the Association’s Secretary General  said, “Following the board interview session with you on the 9th January, 2023, I have been directed to inform you that, you have been appointed to serve as the Head Coach of the Senior Women National Indoor Volleyball team with immediate effect.”

“Additionally, you will be responsible for the supervision of coaches of the various youth (U17, U13) national indoor volleyball teams.”

Coach Abdul-Rahman Danladi recently handled the male National Volleyball team of Ghana 

Coach Danladi Abdul-Rahman doubles as the head coach of the  Mobil Volleyball Club in the Upper East Region.

Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1Mhz|Aduko Cletus Akosah|Bolgatanga|Ghana

 

 

 

Leaders have failed, reason Talensi isn’t getting much from mining companies – Augustine Guure

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Augustine Guure, resident of the Talensi District in the Upper East Region of Ghana, is disenchanted with political, traditional, community, and religious leaders in the area. 

According to Mr. Guure, who doubles as the Constituency Secretary for the NDC, if leadership in the area had sat up and demanded fair compensation for the people, Talensi would have seen tremendous infrastructural and human development. 

He said this when he spoke on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show today. 

” … because of the negligence and lackadaisical attitude of some of the leaders in the Talensi district, the Talensi district is not growing. Whether an opinion leader, traditional leader, stakeholder, political leader, or whoever, we have all become responsible for the mess we find ourselves in the district. I am from the Talensi District, and that is unequivocal. I am saying this on authority that we are the problem. To get this problem resolved, we need to rally everybody around,” he said. 

Mr. Guure suggested that some leaders with selfish personal interests have refused to sign deals, or strike bargains that are in the interest of the larger population. 

“When this is happening, people think that, let us use this opportunity, to get a personal or independent benefit, and that is what is killing us. When their pockets are filled, they become an opposition to you that they started the agenda with. That has become the main problem,” he said.

Mr. Guure, unhappy with the situation, called for prioritisation. 

“We have to get our priorities right. This thing that we are doing, it would have an adverse effect on us all,” he said.

 Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

 

 

Kassena-Nankana West District: Community members cut sod, raise funds to construct Kadania CHPS compound

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The paramount chief and people of Kayoro in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East have cut sod and raised funds to construct a Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compound in the Kadania community of the Saboro/Kayoro electoral area.

Assembly member for the Saboro/Kayoro electoral area, Thomas Kwalase said even though community health nurses were posted to the area in the year 2020 as part of the Ghana Health Service policy to have a CHPS compound in each electoral area, there was no health facility in the area for them to serve the residents.

Mr. Kwalase said the community members were compelled to provide a temporal structure that was not conducive to serving the purpose of a CHPS compound.

He said the community members, while waiting for the government’s intervention, raised funds and have so far moulded blocks of about 65 bags of cement for the construction of a health facility.

“Let me add that, all my sitting allowances be it committee sittings, or ordinary sessions since the year 2020 in the assembly have been used for this project. As part of our mobilisation, we are currently having about 30 bags of cement for the start of the project”, he added.

Mr. Kwalase recounted a sad experience of how his wife who was due for labour lost the baby while being transported from the community to Sandema hospital because of the non-existent facility for a midwife to operate in.

“In 2019 while I was in school for studies, my wife was teaching in a primary school in the community. She was pregnant and due for labour but because we do not have a midwife around, she was rushed to Sandema. And because of the bad nature of our roads, the baby died. And I believe many people are suffering from the pain I felt during that period”, Mr. Kwalase recalled.

The assembly member thanked the community members for their benevolence towards the project. He appealed to government and corporate bodies to come to their aid in the construction of the CHPS compound to meet the health needs of the people.

The paramount chief for the Kayoro traditional area, Pe Oscar Tiyiamo Batabi II said the lack of a health facility in the Saboro/Kayoro electoral area is contributing to stillbirths and maternal mortality.

“We are not nearer to any facility except the one in Chiana which is a distance from us. The road linking to that facility is very bad that when a woman is in labour and being transported on the road, at times they die on the way and prematurely they give birth and the child will not be alive.”

Pe Batabi II appealed for government and public support to help construct the health facility in the Kadania community.

District chief Executive for the Kassena-Nankana West, Gerard Ataogye commended the people of the Saboro/Kayoro electoral area for the initiative to build a health centre, as the government plays its part since development is a shared responsibility.

The DCE promised to support the project after the assembly engineer evaluates the number of cement and other building materials needed for its completion.

Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1Mhz|Joshua Asaah|Kadania|Ghana

 

Professor Millar details deep love for Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s magnanimity; urges folks in U.E.R to do same

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“The growth of the regional capital boils down to collective efforts by all and sundry. We can’t continue to be left behind. From sanitation to education and health ought to be worked on, and all of us must come together devoid of politics.”

Rex Asanga, the Municipal Chief Executive of Bolgatanga, said this when he launched the MCE’s Special Initiative Committee. 

The committee will assist in determining the municipality’s urgent needs, formulating them, and packaging them for donor initiatives. Additionally, it will make use of social media and other channels of communication to solicit financing for the implementation of such recognizable projects.

Speaking about the committee’s work so far, the Chairman, Professor David Millar of Millar Institute of Transdisciplinary and Development Studies commended the MCE, Rex Asanga for the bold initiative. 

“Let me comment the MCE. This is not because he is here with me. You would notice that during the christmas, some of the politicians went back to some of their communities and personally started giving out to those communities. That culture is not here in the North,” he said. 

The culture of giving, according to Professor Millar is one that has to be adopted in Northern Ghana to aid development. The Chairman of the MCE’s Special Initiative touted the MP for North Tongu’s charitable deeds. 

“That is the special quality I like about Ablakwa. He gives from his pocket. In fact, imagine an MP in opposition and the amount of giving he is doing. This is how votes should be won. It tells you that if that guy gets the opportunity, he may do more than that.”

“I am pleading with the Northern politicians. Forget about the notion that if you do it, they would say that you have money. Look back at where you came from and give the people help. That is all we are asking for,” he said. 

As part of the Committee’s work, Professor Millar appealed for support to enable the committee to support schools in need of furniture. 

Two schools in the municipality acquired furniture as a result of the project, showing that the committee’s effort is beginning to bear fruit.

The first initiative of the project saw the committee, together with the Bolgatanga MCE hand over about 27 pieces of dual desks to the Sumbrungu Primary and Junior High School and St Charles Special School, all in Bolgatanga. 

At a short ceremony to hand over the furniture, Chairman of the committee, Professor David Millar said the gesture was part of the committee’s efforts to help address the furniture deficit in the municipality.

“The first thing he tasked us to do was to find some support for alleviating the problem of children lying on the floor or sitting on the floor and writing or reading, so this is the first effort of what we called collectively as Municipal Chief Executive Special Initiative.”

“This one is not from an assemblyman. We have to make it very clear because your colleagues in other schools when they hear this they will say assembly took their money and only came and supported you. This is from his pocket, from my pocket and from the pocket of two or three other people so today I am really happy we are able to do this,” he said.

Prof. Millar also disclosed that  the 27 pieces of dual desks which were funded by individuals cost around Ghc4,000.00. The Bolgatanga MCE used the opportunity to appeal to the public to support the initiative. Mr. Asanga described it as unfortunate for students in the 21st century to be lying on the floor to study.

Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

 

 

Family of girl shot in the buttocks at Karimenga by Police petition IGP, Minister for Gender

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It would be recalled that in May 2022 there was some uneasiness in Karimenga, in the North East Region, as a young lady was shot in the buttock after police said she, along with the rider of the motorbike they were on, were suspected criminal elements.

“At about 5pm yesterday, the police detailed to man the checkpoint on the Bolga-Tamale road, at the section of the road known as the Karimenga snap checkpoint, were attacked by the community members after the incident had occurred. The incident had to do with the suspicion of criminal movement and an accident that indeed occurred.”

“As the police were on duty, they observed an oncoming motor rider with a pillion rider. They crashed into the barricade as we have it to embark on stop-and-search. Now, when they crashed, the rider managed to flee the scene and the police suspected them to be criminal elements who are about to commit a crime somewhere. Because they saw the police with all the reflective materials, the police decided to immobilise them. A gunshot was fired and unfortunately, it hit the pillion rider who happens to be a lady. The victim was rushed to the regional hospital,” the Public Affairs Officer of the Upper East Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), David Fianko-Okyere said when he spoke on Dreamz FM.

After the shooting, the victim was conveyed to the Upper East Regional Hospital. She was subsequently sent to the Diare Health Centre in Kukua in the North East Region where the bullets were removed.

Expected to bear the cost of the removal of the bullets, the recepits for the cost of treatment were sent to the Ghana Police Service for reimbursement.

The cost of treatment, feeding and transportation was valued at a little over Ghc8,000.00.

More than 6 months after the incident, the police have still refused to reimburse the family. This is according to Godwin Wuni, the brother of the lady who was shot. 

Speaking on the Day Break Upper East Show today, January 30, 2023, Mr. Wuni explained that despite the involvement of the chiefs, the police have still refused to honour their pledges. 

The family has thus petitioned the MP for Walewale, who doubles as the Minister for Gender, Madam Lariba Zuweira Abudu. 

“We communicated with the MP for Walewale, who is the Minister for Gender, to try and show interest in the case. We were asked to write a petition petitioning the IGP, the Minister of Interior, and the MP herself. We did that and she said we should hold on for the meantime,” he said. 

Meanwhile, the family is unclear about how much longer it is expected to hold on. 

Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

 

Bolga High Court to decide fate of Builsa South DCE over “diversion” of GetFund Projects on February 22nd

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The Bolgatanga High Court, presided over by Justice Alexander Graham, has set February 22, 2023, to decide whether the action taken by the Builsa South District Chief Executive, Daniel Kwame Gariba, to “divert” the two Get-Fund projects in his area was permissible by law.

It could be recalled that the DCE last year, in November 2022, was dragged to court by two communities, Wiesi and Doninga, for “diverting” GetFund Emergency Projects meant for them to other communities. 

The projects, two-unit classroom blocks, were awarded on 14th June 2022 titled ‘GetFund emergency projects in the Builsa South District’ specifically for the two communities, but the DCE later ‘diverted’ the projects to his preferred communities.

But speaking to the media after the court hearing, the counsel for the plaintiffs’ Lawyer Apanga Lamtiig, explained that the plaintiffs have the right as Ghanaians and beneficiaries of the projects to seek justice.

“We came to court with the plaintiffs, seeking an order from the court to enforce a contract for the construction of the projects in their rightful place, as clearly stated in the awarded contract. Based on the newspaper, the two projects were to be constructed in Wiesi and Doninga, not the other way around.  The plaintiffs’ action is based on Section 5(1) of the Contract Act, Act 25, which empowers beneficiaries of a contract to enforce the contract even when they are not parties to the contract,” he added.

The lawyer for the Plaintiffs however added that the actions by the plaintiffs have affirmed the President of the Republic of Ghana, President Nana Akufo-Addo’s call that people should be citizens and not spectators. 

Meanwhile, the lawyer for the first defendant,  Anthony Namoo, also explained that the case should not have been taken to court based on the capacity of the parties.

“Under the Local Governance Act, a provision is made that if you want to sue an assembly, you must give the assembly 30 days’ notice to know your course of action and see how it can work on it. But here is the case they have not complied with that, so there is no rig before us because there is a condition precedent. So, we are raising the point that the case should be dismissed. But among other things, we are raising the issue of capacity to bring this action, and embedded in that is whether they even have a course of action to bring the matter to court because they are private citizens, and that of the case is a constitutional matter.”

Thw court postponed the case to February 22nd, 2023, and instructed the two attorneys to provide a written response by February 15th, 2023.

Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1 MHz|Moses Apiah|Ghana

 

 

 

 

Navrongo Central NPP embarks on health walk; calls on Sampson Tangombu to start packing from Parliament 

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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Navrongo central constituency, under the supervision of the Women, Youth, and Nasara wings, organized a health walk in the Navrongo township as part of strategies to bring unity among party members and to also reclaim the Navrongo central constituency parliamentary seat in the 2024 general election.

Speaking at the event, The Upper East Regional Youth Organiser of the NPP, Salahu-Deen Musah Al-Khomeini served notice to the NDC Member of Parliament for the Navrongo Central Constituency, Sampson Tangombu Chiragia to start preparing to exit parliament as the NPP is ready to take over the seat come December 2024.  

According to Mr. Al-Khomeini, the Navrongo central seat is for the NPP therefore it was by chance that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was able to win it in the 2020 general election hence the NPP is taking back the Navrongo central constituency  without any doubt.

“Whoever is doing the listening; if Sampson is doing the listening or whether his people are here and doing the listening or wherever they are today they should take note that come 2024 Sampson will go home. Sampson should be preparing to carry his bags and leave the Parliament house of Ghana and come back to Navrongo and we will send our NPP rep to go and represent us. Navrongo is an NPP constituency, Navrongo is for NPP Navrongo has always be for NPP and Navrongo is stay fit with the tradition of Danquah-Dombo-Busia, today I am convinced beyond any doubt that whatever will happen come 2024 they will be success.”   

The health walk which was under the theme ‘ Unity Our Power and Strength to Recapture Our Seat’ saw the presence of the Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party Lawyer Anthony Namoo, Regional Organizer Charles T. Ndabong, Youth Organizer  Salahu-Deen Musah, Women Organizer Georgina Ayamba and Shelly Delwinde the Regional Nasara Coordinator together with all Navrongo constituency present and past executives and the MCE for Navrongo municipality among other party members including all Tascon members in the Constituency joining the health walk. 

On his part the Navrongo central constituency Chairman David Samari noted that the new patriotic party in the Constituency is highly united and however ready to recapture power for the party. According to Mr. Samari, he and his team together with the former executives are to work together day and night to make sure that whoever is representing the Navrongo central constituency in the 2024 election wins the election. 

Lawyer Anthony Namoo the Regional Chairman of the party used the opportunity and expresses his deepest gratitude to the Navrongo central constituency executives especially the Women, Youth and Nasara wings  for organising the event to foster unity ahead of the election. He tasked them to continue working hard in order to achieve for the party. Lawyer Namoo also called on all executives right from the polling station level to start working hard towards winning the 2024 general election. 

Source:A1Radioonline.Com|101.1MHZ|David Azure|Navrongo|

 

 

 

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