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Okada Riders Association to transport NDC members free of charge to and from voting centres

Okada Riders Association to transport NDC members free of charge to...

Akufo-Addo’s fight against galamsey has been a scam – Manasseh Azure Awuni

Akufo-Addo’s fight against galamsey has been a scam – Manasseh Azure...

Former President John Mahama says Ghana’s economy is shrinking under the Akufo-Addo administration. According to him, the government has very little to show for the amount of money it has borrowed so far. “In 2012, the size of Ghana’s economy was 41.6 billion dollars. In 2016, on my watch as president it was 54.5 billion dollars – a nominal change of 13 billion dollars in 4 years. This year, 2020, on the watch of Akufo-Addo as president, Ghana’s economy is projected to be somewhere 66 billion dollars, which means the NPP government in four years changed the size of the economy by 11 billion dollars – note in 4 years; 13 billion dollars under my watch and 11 billion dollars under NPP. This is what the data says, and it is verifiable. You can examine the data for yourselves. “This government has meanwhile borrowed GH¢140 billion as against GH¢54 billion during my presidency”. On Sunday, Mr. Mahama challenged President Akufo-Addo to point to a secondary school you has constructed since he won power in 2016. According to him, President Akufo-Addo is “heavy” on giving promises but “low” on delivery. “Ghanaians know what my track record is; my opponent comes nowhere near me. When we talk about credibility; who is more credible when it comes to delivery on social infrastructure, everyone knows who is credible. “He (President Akufo-Addo) should show me one secondary school he has built or one hospital he has built in four years. It is easy to say that we have better credibility when it comes to infrastructure with our opponent,” the NDC presidential candidate told TV XYZ in an interview Sunday.

I moved Ghana’s economy from 41.6b to 54.5b in four years...

Residents living along the Kyekyewere to Asuboi portion of the Accra to Kumasi highway in the Eastern Region are threatening to embark on a demonstration over Government’s failure to dualize the Accra to Kumasi highway. “Our people are dying. Look at this accident that happened…it can be you it can be me so the government should dualize the road for us. We will demonstrate if the road is not done,” Ebenezer Ahiawu, Assembly Member for Asuboi said on Monday during another freak accident at Asuboi. At least six persons were injured in the multiple vehicle accident at the Asuboi portion of the Accra to Kumasi Highway of the Eastern Region Monday September 21,2020. The accident involved four vehicles after a KIA Rhino loaded with bags of groundnut from Tamale failed and crashed the vehicles. Information gathered indicate that, Alhassan Abdul Kadir, 30, was driving the Kia Rhino truck with registration number GC 6144-11 with one person on board loaded with bags of groundnut from Tamale towards Accra. But on reaching a section of the road at Asuboi near Suhum on the Accra-Kumasi highway whilst descending a slope, he alleged that his breaking system became ineffective whilst the vehicle was in motion and in the process he ran into the rear portion of a BMW saloon car with trade plate number DV 3758-20 driven by Kwabena Baafi, 34, who was ahead of him. The Kia Rhino truck dragged the BMW private car to ran into a Chrysler Pacifica 4×4 private car with registration AS 8889-20 driven by S.W.O. Stephen Manu, 53, a Toyota Fortuna 4×4 private car with registration GN 1448-12 driven by John Yaw Nimo, 62, and a Kia Grandbird bus with registration number GS 5399-14 driven by Kofi Asare age 36 years who were all coming from the opposite direction. All the Vehicles were damaged. The truck finally crashed in a gutter at the offside of the road when facing Accra direction. According to the acting Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command, Sargeant Francis Gomado, Some of the persons on board all the accident vehicles including the suspect drivers sustained injuries and were rushed to Providence Medical Centre-Suhum for treatment.

Residents threaten demo over dualization of Accra-Kumasi Highway

Agyapa deal already under investigation – Amidu replies STRANEK

Agyapa deal already under investigation – Amidu replies STRANEK

The Okada Riders Association says the manifesto of the opposition National Democratic Congress gives them hope. According to the organisation, while the NDC is welcoming of their means of survival, the governing New Patriotic Party is flip-flopping with their stance on their operations. It comes on the back of the declaration by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia that the NPP government will not legalize Okada operations in Ghana. Addressing a news conference in New Abirem in the Birim North District, the riders said they will form a campaign strategy to get former President John Mahama elected in order to license their operations. “Ladies and gentlemen, we want to make a bold and emphatic declaration after consulting our members across the country. At this juncture, we want to make it clear that commercial motorcycle and tricycle operators find hope in NDC’s People’s Manifesto. It addresses issues relating to our plight and we will do everything legally possible to ensure that the bearer of the idea, John Mahama wins the December 7 election. We call on all our customers, i.e. lawyers, teachers, bankers, soldiers, police officers, politicians, kayeyei, lecturers, engineers, seamstress, tailors, hairdressers, nurses, civil servants, assembly men, journalists, real estate agents, artisans and everybody who has patronized Okada due to the ease associated with its operations to join us campaign and vote for John Mahama and the Parliamentary candidates of the NDC. We can only be in business when John Mahama wins and majority of NDC Parliamentary aspirants win in the December elections. We also call on our family members, friends and dependants to join us secure our jobs on December 7. Securing our job is the only way we can continue to put food on the table and meet other needs,” the group said. They added: “We want to assure Mr Mahama that, not only have we resolved to vote for him in this elections, but we have also taken it upon ourselves to embark on a nationwide drive termed ‘Get Okada Votes’ (GOV) to ensure that all our members across the country speak through the ballot for legalization and regulation of our activities. “Aside this, we want to tell Mr Mahama and the NDC that our members will be busy on election day. As part of our support, we will transport voters ‘to and fro’ their voting centres without charging a fee. There are other initiatives we will embark on in the coming days. For the sake of emphasis, commercial motorcycle and tricycle riders have endorsed John Mahama and his People’s Manifesto.

Riders Rally Behind Mahama With ‘Get Okada Votes’ Campaign

The Ghana Health Service has appealed to striking nurses to call off their strike and return to work to help in the fight against COVID-19. Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, stated that the nation was on the verge of winning the war against COVID-19 and it is unfortunate for nurses to strike at such a crucial time. In an interview on the Morning Starr, Dr Kuma-Aboagye said I am appealing to the nurses “look at the situation with COVID and come back to work to negotiate. Let’s put the nation’s health first. Come back to work and I believe that the discussions will continue. Meanwhile, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has called on the National Labour Commission (NLC) to apologise to the striking nurses and midwives over the decision to block their industrial action in court. According to the GMA Chairman of the Ashanti region, Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, the move by NLC has the tendency to provoke the health workers. “I think the labour commission should apologize to nurses for the stance they wanted to take. Going forward, they shouldn’t employ such tactics. Once you go to court in that manner you make people angry. These are people who have sacrificed so much, they have given everything.” “They are asking that the same hospitals they are working they are given some basic care and leverage and not to continue with the situation where when they are sick they are asked to pay initial cost before they are treated.” Background Nurses and midwives across the country commenced strike action on Monday, September 21,2020 over poor conditions of service. It comes after the failure of government to agree with the health workers on their demand for improved conditions of service. A press release by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association noted “having reconvened in the meetings held on 15th and 16th September 2020 the posture of the Employer changed for the better but did not meet the expectation of the majority of Nurses, Midwives, Physician Assistants and Certified Registered Anaesthetists in Ghana.” The statement, therefore, directed its members to stay away from work until the outstanding issues are addressed with their employer. Meanwhile, an Accra High Court on Friday granted an interlocutory injunction application by the National Labour Commission against the strike. The move by the court presided by Justice Frank Aboagye Rockson is to stop the health workers from their industrial action.

Consider COVID and Return to Work – GHS Appeals to Striking...

Court orders EC to restore NDC Cape Coast North PC on voters register

Court orders EC to restore NDC Cape Coast North PC on...

Mahama suspends Bono region campaign over voter’s exhibition complaints

Mahama Suspends Bono Region Campaign Over Voter’s Exhibition Complaints

NUGS To The Grassroots: K.O.D Educates Community Schools In Ashanti Region

NUGS To The Grassroots: K.O.D Educates Community Schools In Ashanti Region

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