The drivers at the Kaneshie lorry station complains over the high rate of fuel which affects them a lot.

In an interview with some drivers at the lorry station, they complained bitterly of passengers fighting with them because of the increase of transportation fare. Also, they told D Fm news reporter that, the market women complain of transportation fare when they are going for their goods as well.

Mr. Alanta who is a driver at the kaneshi station said when the passengers complain they tell them it’s not their fault but rather the increase of fuel but they still insult them which sometimes becomes a fight between the conductor and some passengers which end up at the police station.

Mr. Yusif who is also a driver spoke about poor roads in the country. He said the reason why they increase the transportation is not due to only increase in fuel but also because of bad roads. He said their vehicles get spoilt and it’s sometimes difficult for them to repair it because they don’t gain any profit from the job they do which is very sad.

We are on our knees pleading with the government to reduce the price of fuel and also provide us with good roads; they said.

BY: Prince Antwi|DIKODER.COM|D FM

The Kaneshie market is a trading center in Kaneshie, Accra, Ghana. It was built in the 1970’s.Because of some challenges that the market people were facing through, D Fm news team went out to interview some of them.

In an interview with Madam Esi an egg seller at Kaneshie said the first quarter of last year(2018) was very bad in terms of selling her eggs which made her to go in for pure water. She also said comparing last year to this year’s market business, this year’s business better as compare to last year.

 A Herbal medicine seller known as Madam Efua also at Kaneshie told D Fm news that comparing last year’s market to this year’s market business, last year’s business went on well for her than this year’s business. She also added that when customers come in to buy from them they complain of high price of goods which is also not their fault because when they also go in for the goods the price of transportation and also the price of the goods has gone high.

They are urging the government to reduce the price of goods and also the price of fuel which will also reduce the price of transportation.  

BY: Okyerewah Janet|DIKODER.COM|D FM

The people at Darkuman Junction calls for help from the government because of flooding issues which worries them a lot at the place.

In an interview with some people at the place, D Fm reporters were told the flooding issues are caused by seasonal rainfall combined with poor drainage (the dumping of waste into water ways and the elevation of settlements).

Speaking with Hajia Kande who is a seller at Darkuman Junction said the flood is  caused by chocked gutters, dumping of waste products and water released by mortuaries around the place which leaves them with high odour and also drives away their customers.

Some victims at the place also told the reporters the flood worries them a lot especially when it moves to the streets. They find it difficult to cross to the other side of the street when is a flood issue and also it causes traffic at the place due to the holes it has created there.

They are pleading with the government to solve their problems for them because they can’t wait for it to become a major flash point every year.

BY: Doreen Ampomah|DIKODER.COM|D FM

Assembly members at Techiman municipality the newly created Bono East regional capital led by Presiding Member Hon. Apenteng Fosu Korsah has expressed fear about the city becoming filthy in the coming years.

Speaking in an interview with D FM after their 1st general assembly meeting for 2019, the Honorable members therefore called on government to abrogate the contract of “Zoomlion” or minimize its monopoly power of waste management in Ghana to improve sanitation management.

They noted it was sad to see that Zoomlion Ghana was taking some mandatory huge sums of monies from government chest but were not living up to expectation in collecting and managing refuse situations at the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies nationwide

Adding up to that, Municipal Chief Executive for Techiman Hon. John Kofi Donyinah told D FM news that, Nana Kwadwo Adu and the assembly would take pragmatic measures to solve the sanitation problem once and for all.

BY: Agyaba Kwame|DIKODER.COM|D FM

Street hawkers at kaneshie first light have shared the challenges they are facing and the reason why they prefer to sell on the street.

Street hawking was in the past restricted to the central business districts of Accra, kejetia, and Adum in Kumasi as well as some few travellers’ stops on some major highways in the country. Streets in Accra are becoming chocked as a result of the activities of street hawkers.

For that reason, D FM news team went out to interview some of the street hawkers at kaneshie first light on the challenges that they are facing and also the reasons why they engage themselves in such business.

Sister Ama who is a Tiger nut seller said, she wants to re-write her exams but her parents are facing financial problem.  In another interview, Untie Anita also said, they were asked to go to the market to sale but she will not go because if they all go there the place will be chocked .

BY: Theresah Aba Mensah|DIKODER.COM|D FM

Executive Director, Ghana National Council of Private Schools has said Government’s decision to license all private schools and teachers within the year 2020 as part of the road map to teacher professionalism will lead to the collapse of 70 percent of private schools in Ghana, the Executive Director of Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS), Mr. Enoch Gyetuah, has hinted.

Per his assessment, 70 percent of low-fee-paying schools will fold up under the licensing policy owing to the fact that most private schools will not meet the criterion for the licensing.

He continued that should the policy be implemented by 2020, private schools will be forced to employ licensed teachers whose salaries they cannot afford, coupled with the fact that schools without licence would not be permitted to operate, leading to the collapse of many of them.

According to the national boss for GNACOPS, only 5 percent of the private schools (elite schools) will be able to survive under this policy.

“The remaining 25 percent (mission, populated and affiliate schools) will be able to endure for some few years, hopefully up to two and four years,” Mr Gyetuah said.

BY: Agyaba Kwame|dikoder.com|D FM

The Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP Maame Tiwaa Addo Danquah has explained why she said that the police knew where the three kidnapped Takoradi girls were, she had explained that it was to give police hope forescuing them.

According to her, they don’t Know where the girls are and that the police was working assiduously to locate them.

The CID boss at a press conference in Accra on April 2, 2019, had said the police knew where the three missing girls were and that the police would rescue them to enable the girls reunite with their families.

COP Maame Tiwaa Addo Danquah at the said press conference was quoted to have said: “We know where the girls are.”

She added “It’s taken us over three months to even identify where the ladies are, and what we don’t want to do is do anything that will jeopardise the safety of that. So we are working very hard. All the stakeholders supposed to be on board are on board and hopefully, the girls will be brought back safe and sound.”

In an audio recording played on Joy FM’s midday news on Monday, May 13, 2019 however, the CID boss is heard saying in Twi that people had misconstrued her earlier statement that the police had found the three missing girls.

According to her, her earlier statement was to the effect that the discovery of the location of the girls gave hope to the security agencies of recovering the girls.

The missing girls are 18-year-old Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, last seen on December 21, 2018; 21-year-old Priscilla Blessing Bentum, last seen on August 17, 2018; and 18-year-old Ruth Love Quayson, last seen on December 4, 2018.

Meanwhile, the families of the three kidnapped girls have been accusing the police of playing with their emotions.

BY: Agyaba Kwame|dikoder.com|D FM

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The Rastafarai Council of Ghana has described the imprisonment of persons arrested for smoking Cannabis (Marijuana) as an abuse of human right as they push for the government to decriminalise the act.

Ghana’s laws on narcotics frown on the possession of marijuana with several culprits caught in the act made to face the full force of the law and in most cases, they are sentenced to spend jail term.

On a day where Ghana joined the rest of the world to celebrate International Cannabis Day, the Rastafarai Council of Ghana is advocating for the immediate decriminalization of Marijuana as they call on the government to see to the release of suspects imprisoned for smoking the plant.
Rastafarai Council of Ghana
Speaking to Class FM on Saturday, April 20, 2019, on the back of the celebration of International Cannabis Day, Lawyer for the Rastafarai Council, Mr. George Tetteh Wayo highlighted that people who have been imprisoned for allegedly smoking weed did not commit any crime and must be set free.“As a lawyer, I will want to say that because that is what the law is.

But the idea is that looking at what is it they have been punished for something that really must not be criminalized. They have been punished for something that is not really a crime”, the lawyer argued.He continued:“Because what we are saying here is that herb is a plant and like I said Genesis 1, 11, 12, 29 and 30 talks about the creator himself creating herbs and saying that all plants and herbs are for food and medicine.

So from day one, our creator has given us something that is for food and medicine. It is the passage of time that society decided to criminalize this particular aspect of the issue”.

Source : Modernghana.com

THE MUSIGA CONSTITUTION AND ITS INTERPRETATIONS:

ARTICLE 10: QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICERS

Every applicant for a national Executive position in the Union:

Must be sane
Must have no criminal record
Must be a paid up member
Must be literate
Eligibility for a national Executive position shall be a minimum of six months continuous membership.

****For the office of the President(i.e, President, 1st Vice/2nd Vice Presidents),applicants must have held Executive office of the Union successfully for at least one Term.

ARTICLE 11: ELECTIONS/ELECTION COMMITTEE

Elections for National and Regional Executive Offices shall take place every four years to coincide with the end of the term of office of the National and Regional Executives.

There shall be established for the purpose of National and Regional Elections, an election committee appointed by the National Executive Council.

“***The Election Committee shall be made up of one representative from each region and three members from among the NEC.

The National and Regional Elections shall be supervised by the Elections Committee with the technical support of the Electoral Commission of Ghana.

Elections shall be held once every four years and at the same time for both the Regional and National Elections.

****Election Committee members shall be members of MUSIGA.

Election Committee members shall not take part in elections as contestants.

The Elections Committee shall be dissolved after close of polls and announcement of official results of the election.

Their functions shall include:

To define the procedure for elections
Call for filing of Nominations
Receive filled Nomination forms
Vet and recommend Nominees
Conduct and supervise the election of National and Regional Executive Offices
Ensure a free, fair and transparent electioneering processes.

Looking at what is going on currently, it is clear that THE MUSIGA CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN BREACHED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS!

1. The composition of the elections committee.

The current elections committee was not constituted in accordance with the constitution. In the first place, the current elections committee which Mr. Smart Nkansah Chairs and Mrs. Diana Hopeson is the Secretary was not formed by the National Executive Council as required by the constitution. It was rather formed by the National Executive Committee. This is very wrong. Secondly, the membership of the committee excludes Regional representatives
and 3 NEC members. This is also wrong. It is clear that the current Elections Committee is not valid.

1. For the office of the President, applicants must have held executive office of the Union successfully for at least one term.
   The rational behind this clause is that a person who leads the union as President or acts in the absence of the President is required to have some level of experience and knowledge in union matters. The reason why this clause applies to the president, 1st Vice President and 2nd Vice president is that in the absence of the president, the 1st Vice acts as president and in the absence of both the President and Vice President, the 2nd Vice President acts as president hence the need for the three of them to have served the union in an executive (elected) position for at least one term in order to ensure that they have the requisite experience to lead the union.
   It is clear that applicants who have not served executive office in the Union successfully for at least one term do not qualify. This can not be condoned.
   MUSIGA…Together in Rhythm!

TheRains is an Urban Gospel music group made of three great guys. Original kofi blakk, Alfredo and Sir Calip. Their aim is to put the Gospel on the street to bring the lost soul home. To make the youth and everyone understand that God love no matter who,what and where they are.

According to the group , taking the gospel to the street has been very challenging. Urban Gospel is the current choice of spreading the gospel to lovers on the street. Soul winning is not only about evangelism but there is more to it.

The group is now out with a banger titled “TAKE ME TO THE TOP” which is enjoying airplay and making waves in Gospel Entertaiment Industry. The song was produced by Tone City Records .

First vice chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bono region has slammed the NDC Member of Parliament for Bolga Central, Isaac Adongo for his weak economic analysis.

Mr Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, indicated that the analysis done by the MP to counter Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s Town Hall Meeting lecture on the state of economy was only fit for “selling dog meat.”The NDC Economic Management Team led by Mr Adongo yesterday, delivered what they termed as the true state of the economy as the forum was purposely organized to address the numerous distortions created by the Akufo-Addo led administration to brighten the gloomy picture of Ghana’s economy.

The NDC’s Economic Lecture Series was held at Mensvic Hotel on April 4, 2019.“In 2018 we went to borrow $750 million and only $119 million was spent on capital expenditure and 631 million dollars on consumption. Our children will have to pay for this and they have nothing to show for it,” he noted.

But, responding to such allegations, the astute communicator for the ruling New Patriotic Party said the supposed economic guru offered no solution to resuscitate the supposed ailing economy under the NPP.To him, ““All the analysis offered by Adongo are ones fit for selling dog meat at Bolga market not for managing an economy like Ghana’s”.

Some giant billboards sited along some of the busiest highways within the Kumasi metropolis were uprooted by a heavy storm that accompanied hours of torrential rain in the Ashanti Regional capital on Thursday night, dikoder.com has gathered.

Many have been displaced after the downpour as roofs of some homes were ripped off; others were forced to evacuate as flood waters invaded their rooms last night.
At Afful Nkwanta, it took a spirited effort by some fire officers to rescue some passengers on board a Toyota Corolla salon car, who had been trapped under a billboard that fell on the vehicle alongside others.

The victims were rushed to a nearby clinic for medical attention, as they all sustained some injuries.
Station Officer at the Regional Fire Office, Augustine Adugba led the rescue team to the scene.
Some onlookers who were present at the accident scene called on city authorities to remove all dangerous billboards from the road side to curb a future incident that may be fatal.
Many houses, in poorly planned and heavily populated areas were submerged by flood waters at Aboabo, Oforikrom, Sawaba and other areas in the city.

Household appliances and other personal effects were seen afloat in the rushing streams of rain water, while stranded individuals sheltered themselves at petrol stations and other obscure places just to avoid either becoming wet or being washed away by the flood.
Parts of the city were thrown into total darkness as electricity was immediately taken off due to the lightening and thunder that came with the rain.
Lightening struck at the studio of Ahotor, 92.5 FM; host of Spot Kick, Philip Appiah, popularly known as “Philipp Inzaghi”, who escaped the lightening by a hair’s breadth, in a post on Facebook said, “I returned to work today after being on a sick bed for a week…and God is soo great to save my life whiles on air for the evening sports show. I would’ve been dead 20minutes ago at the studio sake of Lighting….. Hmmmm, father the entire sports crew thank you for our lives this evening…”.

“I’ m just imagining how my lifeless body would be carried from the studio to the mortuary and the reaction from my family and fans”, he said in another post.

As at the time of filing this story, no loss of life had been reported.

Source:MyNewsGh.com

It was all drama and laughter on Wednesday morning at the Ejusu District Court in the Ashanti Region, as 4 suspect gentlemen who appeared before court for allegedly stealing 7 fat goats from their neighbor pleaded not guilty with the claims that, their actions was just a prank (April fool).
The judge presiding over the case could not hold it in but broke into loud laughter… When the accused was further asked why they killed the said goats, they answered “My Lord, please it was all about April fool.. we wanted to prank our neighbor but he got it all wrong”.

Well, this time around, the whole court was in chronic laughter as the judge had no choice but to adjourn case to 24th April.

Meanwhile, the suspects have been detained to help the police carry out further investigations on the matter.