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NDC Research Team Arrested In The Eastern Region

The current government has been branded by a section of Ghanaians including journalist for being intolerance. Accusations include the government aiming to win the upcoming December elections with violence.

The media including investigative journalist Manasseh Azure have in comparison confessed that they felt safe under the opposition government NDC than the current government the NPP.

Per observations and reports members of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), are arrested for little or no offense where as members of the governing NPP such as Hawa Koomson and Kennedy Agyapong walk freely for greater offenses.

The arrest of four persons conducting research for the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, in the Upper Manya Krobo Constituency of the Eastern Region has heightened political tension in the area.

The four were arrested Saturday November 14, 2020 by armed Police officers led by the District Police Commander John Yeboah while in a community administering questionnaires.

They were, however, granted bail four hours after the intervention of the party executives.

Police also impounded motorbikes which they were using to move around.

Addressing the media on Sunday, Kwasi Lawer spokesperson for the Campaign team of the NDC in the Constituency questioned the basis for the arrest of their members conducting survey for the party.

He said:

just as any other organizations like the media, students and the Civil Societies conduct surveys, we in the NDC also have that same right to conduct a survey and that was exactly what we were doing before the needless arrest by the police. We want to ask the police , when did conducting a research or a survey and campaigning become a crime in Ghana?

“The District Police Command who is said to be acting on the directives of the top NPP executives reluctantly granted our party faithfuls bail after several hours of being in police custody”

” the Police Command who is supposed to act professionally per the code of ethics of the service, has thrown the laws of the land to the dogs, forgetting that his allegiance is to the state and not the governing party”.

He said the NPP unleashed thugs on their party faithfuls during the voters registration exercise but the local police failed to act which has emboldened them to fester similar intimidation tactics going into the main election, therefore demanding, that Police come out with a roadmap to ensure peaceful election on December 7.

The Party, however, charged all members and sympathizers in the Upper Manya Krobo Constituency “to remain vigilant and be security conscious due to what we have seen in Akatawia, when our opponents brought cutlasses to intimate us during the voter registration.

“We haven’t forgotten how some of our party faithfuls were unfairly transferred, some slapped and beaten at various polling stations by no less a person but the NPP MP Hon. Joseph Tetteh himself”.

The NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Upper Manya Krobo, Bismark Tetteh said the NDC may be forced to retaliate the NPP if the Police cannot be a neutral arbiter .

“NPP thinks they can only win this election through violence. We are ready for them.We are for peace of course we know we are winning so we don’t have issues to fight people of we are winning then we must ensure that there is peace however we are also ready for whoever wants to bring violence to Upper Manya”

However , the Upper Manya Krobo NPP has been reacting to this development accusing the NDC of inciting the people under the guise of survey.

“Yesterday some of their youth went to the villages precisely Odumata and they went there to ask the people whether if they vote for Hon Joe T and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo won’t there be a war and the people asked them are you here to campaign and cause confusion indeed the area became chaotic.

“Police had the intelligence and went there so they brought the guys who disguised under conducting research to the police station to write their statement. I was there ,nobody detained them, NPP have no time to follow them with their fallacies” Philip Kwaku Mamphey a stalwart of the NPP in Upper Manya said.

The Upper Manya Krobo Constituency is one of the hottest areas in this year’s election as the NDC pushes hard to recapture its long occupied seat snatched in 2016 by the incumbent NPP Member of Parliament Joseph Tetteh who is seeking reelection.

The Asesewa District Police Commander John Yeboah was however unavailable to respond to allegations of bias levelled against him.

These allegations suggest that some authorities of the Police force are in with the current government as they intimidate members of the opposition NDC.

Ghana goes to the polls on December 7. The EC has promised a fair, transparent and peaceful election.

Ghanacrusader

November 16, 2020
Livestream: NDC holds vigil for Rawlings
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is currently holding a vigil in honour of its founder, late former President Jerry John Rawlings.

The vigil is taking place at the Obra Spot at Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra.

Flagbearer of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama, his running-mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, other party dignitaries, and some members of the Diplomatic Corp are expected to show up at the event.

The vigil will end at 12 midnight.
Watch video below;
November 16, 2020
Europe is ready for Biden to get started.

President Trump and his supporters don’t seem to think it’s over. Over the weekend, thousands marched in Washington protesting the election result.

On Twitter, Trump vowed to not concede and repeated baseless and false claims of widespread voter fraud. On Sunday network shows, analysts puzzled over whether Trump’s defiance ought to be read as a corrosive threat to American democracy or one last farce in the waning twilight of his presidency.

But across the Atlantic, societies and governments seem eager to turn the page. A recent Morning Consult poll found that news of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory almost immediately boosted the U.S.’s net favorability by more than 20 points in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

During a parliamentary session last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson referred to Trump as the “previous president.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Biden’s election and hoped he would reinvigorate transatlantic ties. The United States and the European Union “must stand together in order to face the great challenges of our time,” Merkel said.

Those challenges include climate change. Biden is expected to return the United States to the Paris climate pact upon his January inauguration. French President Emmanuel Macron said a Biden presidency presented a new chance to “make our planet great again.”

In an interview with Today’s WorldView, the European Union’s top diplomat expressed a similar confidence. “The world will be different with the U.S. in the fight against climate [change],” said Josep Borrell, the E.U.’s foreign affairs chief. He added that it is “extraordinarily good news” that Washington will be back on the “same side of history” as other governments that seemed more committed than Trump to curb emissions and wean their economies off fossil fuels.

Borrell didn’t mince words about the broader toll that four years of Trumpism had exacted on Europe. “For the first time, we had a president of the United States who publicly and explicitly declared his animosity for the European Union,” said Borrell, pointing to the well-known catalogue of barbs launched by Trump at the continental bloc. Trump championed Brexit and urged other European nations to also quit the E.U.; he listed some European countries as “national security” threats to justify slapping tariffs on them; and he showed constant scorn for myriad institutions and organizations that for decades underpinned U.S.-Europe relations.

Borrell, a veteran politician who once served as Spain’s foreign minister, said that the “national populism” reflected in Trumpism and kindred far-right movements in Europe still poses “a threat” to the “stability of liberal democracies.” But Trump’s bruising behavior also served as a “strategic wake-up call” for many European policymakers, Borrell said, accelerating a reckoning on the continent that “we have to take some of our problems in our own hands without expecting the Americans to come and solve them.

Still, Europe’s political elites are relieved that a less polarizing figure may soon take his seat in the White House. “The very idea of the Western world was falling apart and it has to be rebuilt,” Borrell said. “We don’t expect President Biden to do miracles. But we want to make the most of this new chapter.”

That begins with a Biden administration returning — or trying to return — to the multilateral pacts or international organizations that Trump rejected. Borrell said the Europeans have struggled “to keep alive” the Iran nuclear deal, in part because of the Trump administration’s threat of sanctions on European companies that sought to do business with Iran.

Under Biden, he hopes for a return to economic concessions to coax the Iranians back on their side. Since Trump imposed a vast regime of sanctions on the Iranian economy, the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium has increased. Borrell said that arresting this trend is “mutually beneficial for everybody, for the stability of the region and for common security.”

BBC

November 16, 2020
Dumsor destroyed the Kumawood movie industry – Akrobeto.

For years now, Ghanaians have been wondering how the Kumawood movie industry just died out simple like that. It was rising so fast it has amazed people how it just died out.

Akwasi Boadi, aka Akrobeto, has finally spoken on what causes the death of Ghana Music Awards, especially the Kumawood movie industry.
According to the veteran actor, the country’s erratic power supply, especially between 2015 and 2016, caused the moving industry’s collapse.

Akrobeto claims it was the beginning of all the movie industry problems because even people who bought the movies could not watch them.
Because of that, producers could not continue producing more movies, which also affected the actors and production crew, totally crippling the movie industry.

Akrobeto was one of the panelists on Mcbrown’s show on UTV and that was when he spoke on what caused the collapse of the Kumawood movie industry.

Dumsor destroyed Kumawood- Akrobeto pic.twitter.com/5DFCC7wAWo
— RASHAD (@its_rashadgh) November 15, 2020

November 16, 2020
He was always beating me-Funny Face’s baby mama finally comes out to expose him.

Finally, Vanessa, the baby mama of Funny Face, has come out to expose Funny Face and set the record straight on why she left him.

According to Vanessa, in a new voice note received by GhPage, Funny Face was beating the hell out of her the least chance he gets.
She narrated how she was saved by Maame Yeboah Asiedu when Funny Face beat her for asking him to help take care of their twins.

Vanessa explained the same Maame Yeboah Asiedu came to her rescue and took her to her own home to stay with her for 4 days with her children.
After insulting the woman when she took her away, Funny Face recorded another video pleading for forgiveness. It was the same woman she is now insulting that begged on his behalf to settle their relationship problems.

This is the first time Funny Face’s baby mama has uttered a word in public to explain why she had to leave Funny Face, and from what she has said, it simply boils down to how Funny Face was always abusing her.

Interestingly, she is pregnant again for Funny Face. She was pregnant before leaving Funny Face’s house, and reports reaching GhPage allege that Funny Face does not even take care of her and her unborn baby. It’s the same Maame Yeboah Asiedu helping her out in Kumasi, where she lives now.

Source: ghpage

November 16, 2020
Dwarfs Goalkeeper Razak Issah scored from a free-kick in injury time to rescue a point in central derby.

Abusua dwarfs goalkeeper Razak Isaiah scored a late free-kick in 2-2 stalemate with Elimina sharks in Week 1 of the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League.

Abusua dwarfs were lucky to escape defeat in the opening fixture of the season against the sharks of Elimina at the cape coast Sports Stadium.
The game was dominated by the sharks who had the lead in the 53rd minute through their captain Ishmael Hammond from a corner.

In the 85th minute, dwarfs had a free-kick closer to the penalty box of the sharks, Razak Issah the goalkeeper of dwarfs run all the way from his goal to take the free-kick.

He curled the ball beautifully pass the human wall and on the blind side of the keeper to give the equalizer.

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November 16, 2020
Parliamentary candidates at Anyaa Sowutuom promise improved roads.

Two Parliamentary candidates in the Anyaa Sowutuom Constituency have promised to provide improved road networks when voted into office.

They are Mr Emmanuel Adotey Allotey, the Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for the National Democratic Congress, and Madam Joyce Larbie, the PC for the Convention People’s Party.

They made these promises at a Town Hall meeting when they took their turns to present their policies and programmes to the constituents, ahead of the December polls.

The meeting, organised by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra, brought together opinion leaders and electorates to share their views on issues of concern in the constituency.

Mr Allotey said he would provide basic social amenities including water, improved road networks, and drainage systems to help solve the perennial flooding in the area.

“As a member of parliament, you have the primary role to market the challenges of your constituents and lobby for projects to be done,” he said.
Mr Allotey, who is a banker, said he would establish an MP’s Credit Union for traders, especially market women, to help improve their businesses.

He said he would group the 13 electoral areas of the Constituency into three and establish an MP’s office in each of them, where constituents could lodge complaints and challenges.

Madam Larbie said if given the nod, she would implement a community skills training for the youth.

The apprenticeship training programme would provide the youth, especially those unable to further their education, with alternative skills in sowing and catering among other things.

Madam Larbie said she would introduce a constituency credit union to support the people, especially the aged.

She promised to lobby for road projects, drainage systems and provide water connectivity if she became the Member of Parliament.

Mr Ogochukwu Nweke, Vice President of Synergies Institute-Ghana, who was a guest speaker, entreated the electorates to be well informed on the duties and roles of parliamentarians so as to hold them accountable.

He said a lot of people were not privy to designated roles of MPs and the Central Government, thereby making some politicians to take advantage and make promises outside their designated roles.

Source: GNA

November 16, 2020
Kojo Antwi arrested for killing step-daughter.

Twenty-seven-year-old Kojo Antwi also known as Ebenezer Antwi has been arrested by Assin Awisem Police for assaulting and killing his two-year-old stepdaughter, Victoria Twumasi.

According to sources, the girl eased on herself during a Health Insurance Registration Exercise in Assin Awisem.

This provoked Kojo Antwi to assault her by hitting her on the ground, fracturing her leg.

He then took the girl away into a bush and killed her and run into hiding, her mother, Alice Gbeve, told the journalist.

Speaking with the journalist, Assemblymember for Assin Awisem Obrayeko Electoral area Ayuba Andoh said police intelligence led to the arrest of the suspect after he had run to a nearby town to seek refuge.

The suspect, Kojo Antwi, confessed that he has killed the stepdaughter by giving her a weedicide (gramoxone) and buried the body under a cocoa tree.

Police conducted a search and found the body of the girl under a tree and was subsequently deposited at the Twifo Praso Government Hospital for preservation and autopsy.

Central Regional Deputy Police PRO Sgt Isaac Evans Ettie confirmed the incident to the media.

GhanaWeb

November 16, 2020
Angry Funny Face launches new attack on TV presenter Maame Yeboah Asiedu.

Ghanaian comedian, Benson Nana Yaw Oduro Boateng, well known as Funny Face, has attacked Maame Yeboah Asiedu in a new video.

In a video sighted by Zionfelix.net, the ‘Kasoa Trotro’ actor accused the former Adom TV presenter of being among those who advised the mother of his twins to behave badly towards him.
He used unprintable words against Maame Yeboah Asiedu.

Funny Face stated that he is not done with her, he will come with more verbal attacks.
According to him, the woman is fake and Ghanaians will know all her dirty secrets soon.
He also dared Maame Yeboah Asiedu to say “fiim fiim”.

Funny Face added that it will be like a ‘war film’ by the time he finishes dealing with her.

November 16, 2020
NDC will steal the body of late Jerry Rawlings should Nana Akuffo Addo bury him-says Stephen Atubiga.

NDC will steal the body of late Jerry Rawlings should Nana Akuffo Addo bury him-says Stephen Atubiga.

NDC’s communications member, Stephen Atubiga, in an inteview on Kofi Tv boldly disclosed that they are more than ready and prepared to steal the corps of Jerry Rawlings should the NPP decided to burry him.

According to Stephen Atubiga, the NDC should rather be doing the burying and not the NPP. He added that if President Akufo-Addo buried Papa Jay under his his or even in his bedroom, they would still go ahead and steal the body and rebury him.

November 16, 2020
Dela Coffie has promised to exposed the hypocrisy of Asideu Nkatia
Less than 25 days to the 2020 general election, it seems the close association of the late Jerry John Rawlings and some members of the National Democratic Congress have scores to settle.

The death of the founder of the National Democratic Congress has opened up a lot of worms within the party.

The new tension in the party happens to do with Dela Coffie a member of the NDC and the party general secretary Johnson Aseidu Nketia.

In a new post on his facebook page, Dela Coffie has promised to exposed the hypocrisy of the Asideu Nkatie the general secretary of the NDC over a mourning arrangement of the late Former President Jerry John Rawlings.

He wrote:

We are grieving! And rightly so the family has requested for privacy at this difficult period. Then again, I feel like unpacking the hypocrisy of the likes of Asiedu Nkentia. I really want to, but my thoughts are just not coming together.I’ll certainly find my rhythm, and when I do, it will be very explosive.

In the meantime, the hypocrisy must stop. The attempt to cry more than the bereaved must also stop. And more importantly, those who think we’ll allow them to engage in political profiteering enterprise with the demise of President Rawlings must think again. Isn’t it even offensive to learn that those who consistently berated Rawlings over the last 12years, and called him “barking dog” are today claiming ownership of him as the founder of the NDC?

It has suddenly dawned on you to fight for the same Rawlings that you lots recruited puppets to publicly humiliate and talkback at? I shall return.
November 15, 2020
Nana Akufo Addo, Rename the University of Developmental Studies, After the Late Jerry John Rawlings

News making its way on social media tonight indicates that the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, has named the University of Developmental Studies, after the Late Jerry John Rawlings, founder of the National Democratic Congress.

According to the President, Late Jerry John Rawlings did not accept the fact that he should be named after the University, when he was alive. Now that he has unfortunately met his demise, the President has rekindled his decision. Formerly, it was the University of Developmental Studies. Now, it stands as J. J. Rawlings’ University for Developmental Studies.

The little fact is, Jerry John Rawlings is the founder of the University being talked about. This event occurred on Saturday, at the campus of the University.

The President, after re-commissioning the University, gave a little speech.

November 15, 2020
Prophet Dr. Kofi Oduro Once again Exposes the Hypocrisy Among some Politicians in the Country

Leader and Founder of the Alabaster International Church, Prophet Dr. Kofi Oduro has once again exposed the hypocrisy among some politicians in the country, who only wait for their leaders to die before they honor them.

Speaking at a Sunday Service sermon on November 15^th 2020 from the Amponsah Memorial Temple of his church, Prophet Dr. Kofi Oduro indicated that the late Papa Kwesi Amissah Arthur was never honored by his own party and Ghanaians but after his death close associates started showing sympathy to his wife Matilda Amiissah Arthur.

He adds that, after the hypocrisy became enough for Amissah Arthur’s wife, she poured out the anger in her. Prophet Dr. Kofi Oduro adds that same story befell the late John Evans Atta Mills, and now the late Jerry John Rawlings.

“I sat down on Thursday till today, I have still not posted any picture of Rawlings. How hypocritical can we be as Ghanaians from the church to the streets. Suddenly, we have become lovers of Rawlings at once.

It happened to Atta Mills, Papa Kwesi Amissah Arthur, and they are doing same to Jerry John Rawlings. They rubbished all the work of Atta Mills, and started ridiculing him him after six months, we are very hypocrite in this country is and its unbelievable.

You never regarded Rawlings and now you are pretending as if you loved him. You did not post his pictures when he was alive and now you are spreading it at if you love him. You pushed Amissah Arthur’s wife to the wall, and she came out to expose all your hypocrisy, and now you have started with Rawlings. This is sickness”. Prophet Kofi Oduro noted.

He added that, the situation is not only peculiar to the NDC, but all political parties in the country. Prophet Kofi Oduro is advising politicians to put a stop to that hypocritical behavior, and begin to honor their heroes whilst they are alive.

“We cannot wait for them to die before we praise them. Now we are going to see hypocrites. It is in all the political parties. It is a sickness in the entire nation. You cannot pretend to love the dead, when indeed you hated them in your hearts. Now we are going to name monuments after Jerry John Rawlings but when he was alive, nothing was named after him apart from that poor Rawlings park”. Prophet Kofi Oduro added.

November 15, 2020
Rawlings Was Used As A Sacrificial Lamb For NDC’s 2020 Victory” – Sammy Gyamfi

Loudmouth Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Gyamfi who is popularly known as Sammy Gyamfi has got tongues rolling across social media.

The young legal practitioner’s comment is in relation to the unfortunate demise of Late Jerry John Rawlings who was the former president of Ghana and also doubled as the founder and leader of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The former president passed on at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra in the late hours of Thursday, November 12, 2020.

Speaking virtually on Okese FM’s late evening political show, Sammy Gyamfi posited that the former president Rawlings’ death was big news to the party.

He further stressed that the late John Rawlings remain a big sacrifice to the party and so is his death.

“Jerry was a true leader and a national legend, his sacrifice to the party is unquestionable so is his death to the party. Our 2020 victory as a sacrifice will be made to honour him” he said.

November 15, 2020
No one-week commiseration for Rawlings

The family of the late former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings says there will be no one-week ceremony held in his honour.
According to a statement from the Communication Directorate of the Office of the former President, “All flyers and other communication announcing such ceremony are false and should be ignored”.

In the Ghanaian society, some bereaved families use the one-week ceremony to plan and set a date for the funeral of their deceased member.

Friends and sympathisers use such an opportunity to commiserate with the bereaved family.

But the statement signed by Kobina Andoh Amoakwa stated that any individual who wishes to call on the family of the late former President to commiserate with them will be received by pre-arranged appointments.

“Due to Covid-19 protocols, the office kindly informs all groups and institutions who obtain appointments that visitors with appointments who arrive at the former President’s office without [face] masks will not be allowed in,” he added.

The statement further urged the general public and sympathisers to visit the Accra International Conference Centre to sign the book of condolence opened in honour of the late Jerry John Rawlings who died on Thursday, November 12 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, after a week of admission.
The statement also debunked rumours that Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has been admitted at the hospital.

It added that Nana Konadu was present when both President Akufo-Addo and former President Mahama called on the family on Friday, November 13.

Read the full statement below.

CONDOLENCE VISITS
The office of former President Jerry John Rawlings informs the general public that all who wish to call on the family of the late former President will be received by pre-arranged appointments.
Individuals or organisations are kindly urged to book appointments by calling 0264444464. Ghanaians from all walks of life are urged to visit the Ghana International Conference Centre to sign the book of condolence opened in honour of the late President by the state.

Due to Covid-19 protocols, the office kindly informs all groups and institutions who obtain appointments that visitors with appointments who arrive at the former President’s office without nose masks will not be allowed in.

NO ONE WEEK CEREMONY
The general public is also informed that there will be no one-week ceremony. All flyers and other communication announcing such a ceremony are false and should be ignored.

The general public is informed that Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is well and has not been admitted to any hospital. She was present when President Akufo-Addo and former President Mahama called on the family on Friday, November 13.

Signed:

Kobina Andoh Amoakwa

(Communications Directorate)

Ghanaweb

November 15, 2020