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CONCERNED NPP SUPPORTERS BONO REGION.

CONCERNED NPP SUPPORTERS BONO REGION

For Immediate Release!!!

ELEMENTS WITHIN SUNYANI MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL SABOTAGING PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO’S GOVERNMENT

“Concerned NPP Supporters Bono Region” has noted images and video in circulation in the social media insinuating that President Akufo-Addo on his recent tour to the Bono Region commissioned an uncompleted Maternity Block at the Sunyani Municipal Hospital.

The propaganda images and video are being circulated by crisis merchants and mischief-makers who are notably NDC rented media and NDC communicators.

We have reasonably caused to believe that there are elements within the Sunyani Municipal Hospital hierarchy who are determined to do acts to undermine the New Patriotic Party’s government in the hope of achieving their hidden agenda which is to cause the defeat of NPP in election 2024.

We wish to state that there is no iota of truth in the images and video in circulation and therefore wish to set the records straight as follows;

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●President Akufo-Addo on 11th August 2021, as part of his two days working visit to the Bono Region, commissioned a newly constructed Maternity and Mental Health Block at the Sunyani Government Hospital together with the Bono Regional Headquarters of the Fire Service and the Administration Block for the 3rd Battalion Infantry Base in Sunyani.

●At the time of the commissioning, the project was completed, a fact the hospital authority has alluded to in a press release issued and signed by same.

●Some days after the commissioning of the Maternity and Mental health block, the management of the facility decided to enhance it with their own specifications.

●Firstly, Partition the corridor leading to the theatre and recovery with a swing glass door.

●Secondly, Change the doors to the theatre and recovery with a swing glass door

●Lastly to Create a triage area at the reception.

It was during this period, that some rented Press and some NDC communicators got access to the facility and took pictures and made live videos on Facebook and other social media outlets.

The manner in which these individuals had access to the facility and went live on Facebook gives rise to suspicions that, the act is nothing but some form of organised and well-orchestrated sabotage by some officials within the hospital purposely to cause disaffection for the government and ultimately bring about the defeat of New Patriotic Party in the next general elections.

While we appeal to the relevant authorities to fish out the miscreant’s officials and sanction them appropriately, we also inform the general public to disregard these fake stories and treat it with the contempt it merits.

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September 3, 2021
African migrant workers brutalised in UAE – report

African migrant workers brutalised in UAE – report

A group of African workers in the United Arab Emirates have been brutalised, thrown into jail and then deported, researchers from two NGOs have found.

In a new report, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and Impact International for Human Rights Policies detail how the migrants were arrested en masse in June and then subjected to brutal treatment while in prison.

“They took us straight to prison, not even a police station,” Ugandan Kennedy Rubangakene told Focus on Africa TV.
“I was surprised because I did not know why I was there. I worked [there] legally I had the legal documents. My contract had just been renewed.

“There was no offence that I was charged with. They did not even take me to court. There was no offence.”
The authorities in the UAE said the arrests were legal and aimed at “prostitution networks [which] were involved in human trafficking offences, indecent acts, and extortion” adding that “those arrested were found to be involved in these crimes”.

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The researchers spoke to more than 100 of those affected, mostly from Uganda, Cameroon and Nigeria.
They had valid paperwork and were employed in a variety of roles including cleaners, waiters, nurses and electricians, the report says.

The “attacks were planned, targeted and racially motivated”, Michela Pugliese from Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor alleged on the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.
She also detailed how privileges among workers in the UAE vary according to ethnic origin.

In response, the UAE government “categorically denied the report’s racist suggestions, stressing that the [country] adopts strict laws and practices with regards to non-discrimination in all cases”.

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September 3, 2021
No Food Shortage Expected- Agric Minister

No Food Shortage Expected- Agric Minister

The Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto has assured Ghanaians of a stable food supply.

He said the food security situation is not as dire, compared to countries in the sub-region asking Ghanaians not to panic over comments of food shortage in the country.

Speaking to Journalists in Accra, Dr. Owusu Afriyie -Akoto mentioned ongoing initiatives such as the expansion in the provision of seedlings and fertilizers to farmers, improvement in extension service delivery for farmers among others.

“These are measures that are being undertaken to ensure that Ghana does not move from the stable radar to a worse situation.’’

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The Minister announced the Ministry’s Medium-Term plans to dredge the White and Black Volta to minimize the impact of flooding along that path especially to farmlands every year.

“The spillage of the Bagre Dam which is causing havoc in the upper East and upper West, we are trying to find a lasting solution by dredging immediately. Last year and two years ago we did a lot of dredging on the Black and White Volta so you don’t hear much of the flooding in the black Volta. We have a program lined up in the medium term to dredge the water in the White Volta to minimise the damage,” according to Dr. Afriyie-Akoto.

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September 3, 2021
WATCH: Black Stars in high spirits during ‘jama’ session.

WATCH: Black Stars in high spirits during ‘jama’ session

The Black Stars held a spirited Jama session after their last training session on Thursday evening at the Cape Coast Stadium.

The 32 players in the camp looked supercharged as they sang songs to motivate themselves for tonight’s game.

The Black Stars have a date with Group G opponents Ethiopia on Friday, September 3 at the Cape Coast stadium.

None of the players were left out in the JAMA session as the likes of Jefferey Schlupp, Daniel Kofi Kyere, Braydon Manu who couldn’t sing the songs joined with claps and dancing.

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The JAMA session is always a fun moment for the Black Stars which sums up their final training session a night before their games.

Watch the JAMA session in the video below

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September 3, 2021
‘Ghana is in crisis’ – Kwabena Duffuor speaks.

‘Ghana is in crisis’ – Kwabena Duffuor speaks

Kwabena Duffuor says Ghana is in crisis

• He said Ghana has failed to utilise its natural resources to be benefits of its citizens

• He made this remark at a forum organised by IFS

Dr Kwabena Duffuor, a former finance minister, says Ghana, a country well endowed with massive natural resources is in crisis.

He explained that, despite all the natural resources, political leaders have failed to exploit them to the benefit of Ghanaians.

The former governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) made this observation during a forum organized by the Institute for Financial Services, Ghana (IFS).

Dr. Duffuor, however, charged the Akufo-Addo led government to ensure that there is a change in the current narrative of the status of the country else, future generations will suffer and also will not forgive the leaders.

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“The narrative should change immediately, otherwise our children will not forgive us. Our natural resources endowment can change this country if we decide to use them efficiently, and honestly, we are not doing that,” he stressed.

“We cannot disagree that Ghana is a very wealthy nation but Ghanaians are poor, that’s where the problem is. Why are we poor but we are sitting on wealth, so what do we do?” he quizzed.

The owner of the defunct UniBank further charged the clergy and other stakeholders to change the narrative and put Ghana on the path of prosperity, so that Ghanaians can reap the benefits of the natural resources.

“So, the clergy, what are you doing? The media, what are you doing? Ghana is in crisis,” Dr. Duffuor observed.

Source: ghanaweb // TORSAA

September 3, 2021
EU to return ‘Made in Africa’ Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses to Africa

EU to return ‘Made in Africa’ Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses to Africa

The European Union will return coronavirus vaccination doses produced in Africa and shipped to Europe from the manufacturer Johnson & Johnson.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made a commitment on the sidelines of a conference in Berlin, Strive Masiyiwa, coronavirus commissioner of the African Union, said on Thursday.

Von der Leyen has promised to deliver 200 million additional doses by the end of the year. Around 70 million of them come from Germany.

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“This is good news from Europe,” said Masiyiwa.

In Africa, only just under 3 percent of the population have been fully vaccinated, although the continent is currently in the grip of the third wave of infections.

It is estimated that around 1.6 billion doses are required to vaccinate around 60 percent of the population.

The export of vaccine doses produced in South Africa to Europe goes back to an arrangement between Johnson & Johnson and the South African contract manufacturer Aspen.

That has now changed, according to Masiyiwa. Aspen is now producing its own product under a license exclusively for the African market.

Source: GNA // Torsaa

September 3, 2021
Media 5 Promotions And Dikoder Multimedia Organizes Training (+video)

Media 5 Promotions And Dikoder Multimedia Organizes Training For ‘Wana Be’ Actors, Actresses, Singers, TV & Radio Presenters And Sound Engineers (+video)

Media 5 Promotions And Dikoder Multimedia Organizes Training For ‘Wana Be’ Actors, Actresses, Singers, TV & Radio Presenters Sound Engineers, And anymore.

Good News for young and old persons who have dreams of becoming actors, actresses, singers, sound engineers, radio and TV presenters, and camera operators. Media 5 Promotions, producers of popular Ghanaian and Nigerian movies and television series ‘Broken Mirror’ and ‘Grandma’s Apartment in partnership with Dikoder Multimedia, experts in sound engineering, TV and Radio presentation, website Developer, Graphic designer is organizing intensive training in the professions above.

The three months training will be seventy percent practicals and thirty percent theory. Meaning, participants will be taken through intensive on-filled training. Actors, Actresses, camera operators, make-up artists, and boom operators shall be on film location during the training whilst radio and TV presenters, sound engineers, and singers, and others will constantly be in the D-FM studios and music recording studios.

At the end of the training, participants will be given roles in media 5 Promotions’ upcoming movies, TV series, TV commercials, and documentaries. Participants who excel so well will be given contract deals to be managed by Media 5 Promotions.

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Media 5 Promotions has a track record of nurturing new talents. Household names in the movie industry such as James Gardner, Moesha Buodong, Jessica Williams, Cindy Owusu Yaa, and many more are a few examples of actors and actresses who came to limelight through Media 5 Promotions.

Dikoder Multimedia has a track record of nurturing new talents. Household names in the media industry such as Gasmilla, Buk Back, K.K Fosu, Bernice Ansah, Gifty Hammond, and many more are a few examples of Artist We work with and produced.

Singers will be given a three-year recording deal under Dikoder record labels. In the area of radio and TV presenters, participants will have the chance to work at D-FM and Dikoder TV, and Media5 TV.

All interested persons are to visit www.media5promotions.com and www.dikoder.com, fill a simple form and subscribe to the website. They can also call these numbers for further details 0502-389-615, 0545-443-117

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September 3, 2021
CHIEFS OF KWABENYA PETITION OTHER CHIEFS TO ORDER THE REMOVAL OF ALIEN SHRINES AND BAN ALIEN RITUAL ACTIVITIES

CHIEFS OF KWABENYA PETITION OTHER CHIEFS TO ORDER THE REMOVAL OF ALIEN SHRINES AND BAN ALIEN RITUAL ACTIVITIES

The kwabenya Musuku manhene who is also the PRO of the Kwabenya traditional council, Nii Mensah Dza Nyomo I has petitioned the traditional leaders (Chiefs and Queen mothers), to order the closure of all alien shrines on their Lands and jurisdiction to help curb ritual killings and money doubling menace.

The traditional Council in a press conference today said it has been observed that over the past decade there has been an unperfected influx of immigrant ritualists guised as traditional priests who have abused the hospitality of Ghana and engaged in activities that threaten the lives of residents, social order and the health of the national economy.

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Nii Mensah Dza Nyomo I said it is forbidden for migrant traditional rulers and traditional priests to invoke alien rituals and purport to exercise customary authority, which is the sole prerogative of Nananom of Ghana.

He added that the petition would also be extended to the presidency and the national house of chiefs to consider the ban of alien gods in Ghana.

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August 31, 2021
Tipper truck runs over Okada Rider

Tipper truck runs over Okada Rider

A Tipper Truck fully loaded with sand from Gomoa Akoti heading towards Kasoa has run over an Okada Rider at Awutu Bereku in the Awutu Senya West district in the central region.

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The okada rider who was in a coma was sent to Awutu Bereku Health Center but his condition was deteriorating so he has been transferred to Winneba Trauma Hospital

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August 31, 2021
A/R: RITUAL KILLINGS: MAN ARRESTED FOR KILLING PREGNANT WOMAN.

A/R: RITUAL KILLINGS: MAN ARRESTED FOR KILLING PREGNANT WOMAN AND TRYING TO KILL ANOTHER ONE

Killings anywhere is a big subject and when those killings especially become serial, it become bigger headlines.

Past week, news of the alleged murder of two boys by a 28-year-old self-acclaimed architect, Richard Appiah at Alaska Junction in Abessim of the Sunyani Municipality in the Bono Region got many talking.

IGP visited the community, promised to bring finality to ritual killings, and vowed to deal with crime perpetrators according to the law of the country.

But it seems things are escalating and worse crimes are happening in some parts of the country specifically in the Ashanti Region.

A man believed to be in his early 40s has been caught by the residents of Adjamesu in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region attacking a pregnant pregnant woman with a machete in her room whiles her husband was in the bathroom.

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According to the report, the incident happened around 10 pm last night while the victim was alone in the room.

Husband to the victim, Mr. Kwame Afrifa disclosed that the suspect sneaked into the abode of his pregnant wife and begun struggling with her trying to dissecting her belly for the reasons best known to the peperteator alone.

Bra Kwame added that the helpless woman shouted weirdly which drew the attention of his elder brother outside the house and he quickly rushed to the room to ascertain what was going on.

The suspect sensing danger, came out of the room with the sharp matchete to slash anyone trying to venture but with the intimidation on the part of the people gathered there to shoot him, he feared and subsequently overpowered.

“He was naked, holding matchete pretending to be mad person to beat the minds of the locals but when beaten mercilessly, he confessed to be in a gang of Four (4) hunting for pregnant women to kill them for their bloody sakawa business”, the husband of the victim, Bra Kwame told Silver FM’s FILASCO DEGENERAL today.

He confessed killing a pregnant woman in another locality with his gang but luck eluded him trying to kill another that fateful day.

Both hands were tied to the legs and was hit from all angels by the angry locals.

The other Three (3) members were able to outsmart the people and run.

The timely intervention of the police saved his life.

He (suspect) has therefore been handing over to the Dominase Police after severe beatings whiles the victim has also been sent to the Dominase health facility for treatment.

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August 30, 2021
PROPHETESS ACCUSED OF BEHEADING EIGHT ( 8) YEAR OLD BOY AT MAFI- DOVE(+Video)
VOLTA REGION: PROPHETESS ACCUSED OF BEHEADING EIGHT ( 8) YEAR OLD BOY AT MAFI- DOVE.

The residents at MAFI- DOVE in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region have been thrown into a state of Fear as an Eight-year-old boy has been beheaded by a Prophetess.

The prophetess, whose name is yet to be determined according to the report was seen with another guy kidnapping the Boy ( Deceased) to a nearby river in the Area.

The informant narrating the Incidence stressed that the guy Holding the boy threatened him ( Informant) with Knife if he tries to follow them.

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The informant According to him rushed to the Town to inform other guys in the town about the scene.
The mob upon reaching the River didn’t see the Kidnappers and returned to the Community.

The Boys later proceeded to the Kidnapper ( guy’s) house to inspect his room and upon breaking into the room, they saw the beheaded body of the Eight (8) year old boy in the room.
This Horrible incident happened yesterday around 10 pm

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August 30, 2021
9-year-old boy shot dead at Awutu Breku Awubia Festival(+Voice)

9-year-old boy shot dead at Awutu Breku Awubia Festival

A 9-year-old boy has been shot dead during a gun firing display as part of the custom in the celebration of the Awubia Festival by the Chief and People of Awutu Breku in the Central Region.

Per the custom of the Chiefs and people of Awutu Breku, gunshot follows immediately after the Chief Priest(Otwor) has finished performing rituals to the gods at the durbar grand and this nontarget gunshot, unfortunately, hit the boy who was pushing a disabled boy whiles others are in a coma.

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According to information, many people were holding guns with live bullets and were firing indiscriminately at the durbar ground.

The festival has come to end abruptly as a result of the incident and the police have cordoned the durbar ground

The Central Commander ACP Oduro Amaning and his team have been able to arrest the one suspected to have shot the gun.

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August 30, 2021
Residents raise alarm over Gallamsey activities

Residents raise alarm over gallamsey activities destroying their water bodies, call for immediate intervention:

Residents of Anumso, Ofoase, Ohwimase, Achiase, and its environs have complained bitterly over how illegal mining activities are causing the communities.

The worried residents speaking to this reporter indicated that their only source of water, River Annuru has been polluted and coloured by the activities of these illegal miners who are suspected to be operating with a chanffan machine on the said river.
Residents of the aforementioned towns which fall under respective districts such as Bosome Freho, Bosomtwi, and Asante Akyem are mainly known to be farmers. But their hopes in gaining from the farming activities are gradually fading out as these illegal miners keep on tormenting their farming activities.

Nana Tabi Bonsu lll, Chief of Bomfa Akyiase speaking to this reporter disclosed that he and the entire traditional council has lodged a formal complaint to the Pemenase police station in the Bosome Freho district of the Ashanti region so that they could help fight the galamsay operators who invade in their river bodies to mine.

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Briefing the media, Okyiame Sarpong, chief linguist to the Akyiase chief cautioned that whoever’s found in the Anuro river will be chased out and dealt with.

He called for government intervention before the galamsay gets out of hands in Bosome Freho district.

He pleaded with the District police commander, Ashanti Regional Police command, and IGP to collaborate with the chiefs to fight this canker.

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August 30, 2021
Alhaji Bodinga Commission Stores In The New Tafo Market

Alhaji Bodinga

Alhaji Bodinga Commission Stores In The New Tafo Market

As part of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo idea to improve economic activities in the country

The Eastern Regional First vice chairman of the New Patriotic Party NPP who is also the chairman of the Works Committee in the Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly has commission 124 newly built stores in the New Tafo market

Alhaji Bodinga was conducted around the market by the Abuakwa North Coordinating Director, the Prising Member, Mangoasi Assembly Member, and some delegations from the Works Committee

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Addressing the people, the chairman of the Works Committee said, the project would help improve economic activities in and around Abuakwa North, and this is a greater idea of the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo – Addo

We must all support vehemently and take good care of the project, government as we all know is of the people by the people and for the people, and through our support the president can make it to the apex

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August 30, 2021
Gender/Social Protection & Local Government Ministries train and give capital to over 300 people in Offinso North to enter into production

Gender/Social Protection & Local Government Ministries train and give capital to over 300 people in Offinso North to enter into production

The Ministry of Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection through a project dubbed “Ghana Productive Safety Net” have trained and giving start-up capitals to about 300 people in Offinso North District of the Ashanti region to begin production and petty trading in order to make meaningful livelihoods.

Speaking in an interview with Asta/Winners Fm’s Nana Kwadwo Adu during the passing out and handing over ceremony at Akumadan, Mr. Desmond Duametu National Officer in charge of the project revealed that this initiative by President Akuffo Addo led NPP’s government is aimed at helping People of Ghana to get something doing on their own without always depending on Government for jobs.

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Mr. Desmond Duametu, National Officer for Ghana Productive Safety Net project.

Mr. Desmond Duametu, National Officer for Ghana Productive Safety Net project.

For their parts, MP for the area Hon. Augustine Collins Ntim who doubles as a deputy Minister for Local Government and his award-winning DCE Hon. David Kwasi Asare Boakye “Adwumawura” unanimously thanked the President for choosing Offinso North as one of the 80 pilot districts for the project and devised beneficiaries to go and start doing something to better their lives.

MP Hon. A. C. Ntim and DCE Hon. David Kwasi Asare Boakye “Adwumawura”, Offinso North.

MP Hon. A. C. Ntim and DCE Hon. David Kwasi Asare Boakye “Adwumawura”, Offinso North.

Finally, Mr. Albert Sefa Boampong Zonal Coordinator for the Ghana Productive Safety Net project, and some of the beneficiaries also shared their experiences with Peace News correspondent Nana Kwadwo Adu of Asta Fm.

Mr. Albert Sefa Boampong, Zonal Coordinator and some Beneficiaries of the Ghana Productive Safety Net project.

Mr. Albert Sefa Boampong,

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August 30, 2021