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  • Nana Akuffo Addo Gifts Samuel Takyi(Tokyo Olympics) a Car and $10,000

    Nana Akuffo Addo Gifts Samuel Takyi(Tokyo Olympics) a Car and $10,000

    President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that bronze medalist at the just-ended Olympics in Tokyo, Samuel Takyi will receive a cash reward of $10,000, a car and a further $20,000 to be put in a career development fund for him.

    In addition, each member of Ghana’s 14-athlete contingent will also receive an amount of $5,000 for their efforts at the games.

    All the athletes and officials for the games were also given medals by the president in appreciation of their performance at the games. However, the President announced that government has spent $150,000 in bonuses for Team Ghana’s athletes at the Tokyo Olympics.

    The President of the Republic of Ghana and Samuel Takyi

    “For the first time ever, a Ghanaian athlete, Samuel Takyi, was selected to represent Africa at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. For the first time in the history of the 4th Republic, Ghana won a medal at the Olympics.

    “Out of the 52 African countries that participated at the Olympics, Ghana placed 10th on the continent. This should spur us on to even greater heights in future competitions,” he noted.

    “On behalf of the people of Ghana, I say a big hearty ayekoo to all of you. You made the country proud,” President Akufo-Addo added.

    Meanwhile, the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has stated that Takyi would be included in the $5,000 package meant for athletes and officials at the Olympics in Tokyo.

    That means the 20-year-old boxer could bag $15,000 cash reward for participating and winning bronze at the games.

    another Victory for Samuel Takyi

    “What the President meant was that each athlete and official that represented Team Ghana at the Olympics will receive $5,000 with the $10,000 being a reward for winning the bronze medal,” Ben Nunoo Mensah, GOC president explained.

    Takyi’s bronze medal in boxing ended the country’s Olympics medal drought since 1992, and ended a 49-year wait for an individual medal at the multi-sport event.

    Team Ghana’s 4x100m relay team also set a national record to book a spot in the finals of the event while Joseph Paul Amoah ran the fastest 200m time of any Ghanaian athlete at the games.

  • God hasn’t asked Nana Addo to build any cathedral, Eagle prophet must shut up – Apostle Fires

    God hasn’t asked Nana Addo to build any cathedral, Eagle prophet must shut up – Apostle Fires

    President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo has been urged to rescind his decision to put up a National Cathedral he claims to be doing for God.

    According to Apostle Dirl Airl King Marshal, God is never in agreement to the President’s decision hence the need to boycott that idea and focus on other important matters.

    The founder and leader of the Soldiers of Christ Prayer Group of All Churches however cautions Prophet Reindoff Oduro aka Eagle Prophet to shut up from causing fear and panic to people who disagree to the Cathedral idea.

    Apostle Airl Marshal also adds that the President’s decision to release Akuapem Poloo from prison despite several cautions from God, coupled with other issues is going to cause the nation a lot.

    The man of God finally reveals that God is very angry at the rate at which ministers are prevented from operating in schools, by indicating that there’s the need to open doors for such ministers to get back to the school rooms.

    Call Apostle on 0541484812 / 0200128758 for more

  • Prof. Henry Kwesi Prempeh Shows Disappointment in Nana Akuffo-Addo and Hon. Albin Bagbin Management

    Prof. Henry Kwesi Prempeh Shows Disappointment in Nana Akuffo-Addo and Hon. Albin Bagbin Management

    The constitution of the Eighth Parliament in January this year, Prof Henry Kwesi Prempeh, Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) who had flagged the appointment of Members of Parliament (MPs) to management boards of state-owned enterprises as a bad governance practice and urged the President and the Speaker to ensure that such appointments are not done has been left disappointed as the practice has persisted.

    Nana Akuffo Addo and Hon.Albin Bagbin

    According to Prof Henry Kwesi Prempeh, he said that appointing MPs to state corporate bodies undermined the oversight responsibility of Parliament and was not a sound corporate governance practice. He called on the President to end the bad practice, stressing that if the President failed to end it, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin could end it by refusing MPs the opportunity to be both MPs and members of boards of state enterprises.

    “The appointment of MPs to state corporate boards is antithetical to good governance. It undermines both Parliament’s oversight role and sound corporate governance in the SOE sector. It must stop. Having MPs double as Ministers in our system is bad enough, but that, for now, is what our Constitution mandates. MPs as board members is not compelled by the Constitution or by best practice, and it has zero, indeed negative, governance value.

    The President must end this bad practice in the interest of good governance, or, failing that, the Speaker must exercise his prerogative under Article 98(2) of the Constitution to disallow it. This is low-hanging fruit when it comes to reforming the way we do business in this town,” Prof Prempeh had written.

    Henry Kwesi Prempeh

    With the recent appointment of the Members of Parliament(MPs) to boards, notably the MP  for Effutu as the board chair of the Ghana Road Fund, the issue of the inappropriateness of such appointments has resurfaced.

    “And here was I thinking Speaker Bagbin could put the brakes on this practice,” Prof Prempeh said while referencing his earlier appeal to him to stop the practice.

    Meanwhile, several boards of state corporate bodies remain unconstituted and it is expected that some more MPs will be appointed to serve on those boards.