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* 29.12.2009

Dan Lartey is dead

Mr. Daniel Augustus Lartey, presidential candidate, leader, founder and chairman of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) is dead.

Dan Lartey, also called Uncle Dan or Domestication, passed away on Monday, December 28, at his residence in Accra after a short illness, according to family sources. He was 83.

Henry Lartey, son of Mr Dan Lartey, confirmed the death to Adom FM.

He said the family was meeting Tuesday morning over the bad news but said the family would celebrate the life and death of their father because he had achieved a lot for himself and for Ghana.

Dan Lartey, a staunch vestige of Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party and an Nkrumahist adherent, has run for national president on the ticket of the GCPP on two occasions since breaking away to form the GCPP as a splinter of the CPP.

After the 2000 and 2004 elections, he was only stopped from having a third bite at the 2008 presidential race when the Electoral Commission disqualified him for submitting his nomination papers late. He had just managed to beat an October 17, 2008 deadline for the exercise and paid the stipulated GH¢5,000 nomination fee only to be told of errors in his documents. The documents and money were returned to him but it was too late already to beat the deadline.

A former publisher and labour unionist, Dan Lartey's name became a household one following his 2004 mantra of domestication, a political thought of growing Ghana from Ghana rather than depending on foreign aid and investments.

 

Source: MyJoyOnline

 

* 29.12.2009 

Ghana Navy arrests two Industrial trawlers

 Two Industrial trawlers have been arrested and detained by the Ghana Navy in Cape Coast and Tema for illegally operating in the country’s territorial waters.

The trawlers, MV Awoyaa 8, with registration number AF 648 and MV Zhong Lu Yu 1004, with registration number AF 675 have been detained at the Western Naval command in Takoradi and the Tema Habour, as an arbitration committee determines the next course of action.

A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Nii Amasah Namoale, said the operation was a collaborative effort between the Ghana Navy and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture as well as the Fisheries Management Committees in Cape Coast and Moree.

Source: GBC

*11.12.2009

Minority challenges Mills and Pianim to name bribe givers

Accra, Dec 11, GNA - The Minority in Parliament on Friday challenged both President John Atta Mills and Mr. Kwame Pianim to furnish the public with the identities of the persons involved in the alleged attempted bribery of the President.
They also called on the President to come out with measures put in place to arrest those people since it was criminal to attempt to bribe the highest personality of the country.
"The criminal code Act 29 clearly criminalizes both the giver and the taker of a bribe including attempted bribery...since the President and Mr Pianim have both failed to report the matter to the police, then they are both culpable".
This was contained in a statement signed by Mr. Frederick Opare Ansah, Minority Chief Whip.
The Minority further questioned why the President of the land could refuse bribe from people in the presence of a leading opposition member describing the issue as laughable and questionable. "Would one be wrong in concluding that the episode involving an attempt to bribe a president in the presence of a frontline political opponent is either a set up or a farcical stage-managed event," the statement said.

 

Source: GNA

* 03.12.2009 
 Govt denies MP's claims on Job 600 renovation

Accra, Dec. 2, GNA - Government on Tuesday denied claims by the MP for Ashaiman, Mr Alfred Agbesi, that President John Atta Mills promised to renovate the Job 600 building during his State of the Nation address in parliament early this year.

A statement signed by the Min ister for Information Mrs. Zita Okaikoi explained that while government recognised the importance of providing office accommodation for Members of Parliament and "we are indeed working towards that, I must state emphatically that President Mills did not make any promise in the house to refurbish the Job 600 building".


Government has, however, been working to provide MPs with offices. According to Mrs. Okaikoi, in August government through the Ministry of Works and Housing announced that it had secured a $24million facility to commence work on the Job 600 building.

The modalities required to commence the works, according to the Works and Housing Ministry, were to be discussed with the leadership of parliament.

"I am aware that the Finance and Economic Planning Ministry has been engaging with the leadership of Parliament on this project and there are plans to start with meeting rooms."

The statement said Mr Agbesi's criticism of the President was unfair and misplaced given that the President did not make the stated promise for which he had been negatively portrayed in the media and in public discussions.

"Government will continue to welcome positive and constructive criticism in furtherance of our promise to run a transparent and open government. We would also continue to engage positively with all Ghanaians but we also wish to point out that we must be judged based on what we do." On the claim by the MP that the former Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs building has been allocated to "Castle Boys", the statement described it as disappointing and dishonourable both the claim and description.

"That building houses the offices of Deputy Chief of Staff Mr Alex Segbefia and also the operations of Brand Ghana, two very important offices under the office of the President. It is also being used by Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr, who chairs the Nkrumah Centenary Celebration. To describe these personalities and offices as 'Castle Boys' is indeed most unfortunate," the Minister said.

Source: GNA

 * 01.12.2009
MP calls on President to fulfil his promises

Accra, Dec.1 , GNA - Mr. Alfred Kwame Agbesi, Member of Parliament(MP) for Ashaiman on Monday called on President John Evans Atta Mills, to fulfil his promise to complete renovation works on the Job 600 building to provide offices for MPs.


This, he said would build a good image for his administration and dismiss public perception that his promise was a lip service. Mr. Agbesi was contributing to a debate on the 2010 budget statement, presented by Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, two weeks ago.

He said it was unacceptable for MPs who approve budgets to operate without offices.

"It is not just the matter of coming to the floor of Parliament to make promises, but the President should be able to back his promises with action in order to attach a level of importance to whatever he says," he said. He expressed regret that the Job 600 project, which had appeared in several annual budget statements was not receiving attention to ameliorate the plight of MPs.

Mr. Agbesi said most often the MPs meet with their constituents in either the public foyer of Parliament or in their vehicles.

"Madam Speaker, we have heard a whole lot of the talking and we want the President to take action to make us comfortable and not the words." Mr. Agbesi asked why the former office of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs was relinquished to some personnel of the castle instead of the MPs. "Is it that our role here is not important?"

He expressed the hope that every MP of the house would be appropriately accommodated as contained in the 2010 budget statement.

Reacting to the contribution, Mr. Albert Abongo, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing said the renovation of the Job 600 project was currently going through the procurement process and said a concrete decision would be taken before the end of the year.

He said the 2010 budget had a lot of potentials for every Ghanaian and appealed to his colleagues to exercise restraint and allow the President and his team to execute the projects they promised to do in the statement.


Source GNA
 * 14.11.2009
Four robbers gunned down

Four suspected armed robbers were killed Friday night by the Ashanti Regional police in a shootout. The robbers, numbering about seven, had earlier robbed a business man of GHCedis 95,000 at Asokwa after snatching a Nissan Pathfinder from a woman at Ahodwo.

 

Source JoyFM

NDC Gurus In Oil deals
AFTER TERRIBLY castigating Sahara Oil of Nigeria for lifting crude oil into the country under the Kufuor Administration, officials of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have in just 10 months in power, formed numerous companies to supply oil, according to the Minority in Parliament.

The new companies, the Minority disclosed, include Manitwoc, Scan Oil, Forrestor, Crest Grade International, Kempac, Petro Ghana, Cush Oil, Smk Energy, Mafci and Joint Development.

“There is evidence to suggest that some of these entities are companies which have been hurriedly formed by leading members of the NDC in an attempt to cash in on the importation of petroleum products while the good people of Ghana continue to suffer high-priced and little supply of petroleum products,” the Minority group indicated at the news conference in Accra yesterday.

Addressing the media on behalf the Minority, former Deputy Minister for Energy and Member of Parliament for Nkoranza South, Kwame Amporfo-Twumasi, said there were reasons to believe that shady underhand dealings were going on with these companies that have no track record globally or even on the continent, in dealing with the supply of petroleum products.

“We are reliably informed that at least one of the companies listed above has been blacklisted in one country,” Mr. Amporfo-Twumasi hinted, stressing that the NDC is placing private commercial interest over national welfare.

Describing President Atta Mills’ administration as a “Government of Committees”, the Minority asked the Chief Executive of the Land to yet again form another committee to find out when these companies were formed, where they are based and who are behind them.

The Committee, the Minority demanded, should also investigate whether the new companies are reputable organisations known globally or even on the African continent to be dealing in petroleum products.

“The President must, pursuant to his much-touted anti corruption crusade, cause an immediate investigation to unveil the plaque covering these newly-introduced companies and their operations for us to know who are behind these mushroom companies and whether or not Ghanaians are being shortchanged,” the Minority demanded.

Touching on a wide range of issues, including alleged official corruption in the petroleum sector, the Minority also accused the Atta Mills Administration of harassing a Ghanaian investor, George Owusu, the man who apparently brought Kosmos Energy into the country for the nation’s oil find.

“We wish to point out the unfair and inhumane manner in which a leading Ghanaian partner in KOSMOS, Mr. George Owusu, has been extensively investigated by the Ghanaian law enforcement agencies including stripping him naked in his own house, conducting many surprise searches in the house, office, going through his computer hard drive and bank accounts,” the Minority lamented.

George Owusu is said to have a 5 percent stake in Kosmos Oil and has reportedly been under intense investigation by the NDC Administration over issues that are not immediately clear.

The Minority is baffled as to why Ghanaian partners who facilitated the oil discovery are being hounded by the security agencies and treated as villains instead of being hailed as heroes, noting that it was not against investigation of any person if there were wrongdoings but it was the modus operandi that was questionable.

“Does Professor Mills realize that by these actions, they are discouraging investors in the oil and gas sector as the signals are filtering out to the world community that Ghana cannot recognize their own citizens, and that it could be worse for non-Ghanaians to have their investments secured?” Minority quizzed the President, indicating that the country’s favourable image is fast declining as investors have expressed serious concerns on how Ghanaians are being treated.

Equally worrisome, according to the Minority, is the manner in which GNPC is compelling KOSMOS to sell its stake to companies of its (GNPC) choice as against companies that are globally known to have the track record in global oil production that would make Ghana a top class player in the oil and gas industry at the world level.

“We wish to state that there is a total lack of transparency in the transactions being orchestrated by GNPC and we are by this statement serving notice that the GNPC would be required to appraise the nation fully through the august House of Parliament, of these matters,” Minority stressed.

“President Mills should turn his attention in this direction and immediately put an end to the corruption that is taking place right beneath his nose and stop harassing investors in the oil industry,” the Minority charged.

By Awudu Mahama & Sheilla Sackey

Source: Daily Guide
* 10.11.2009 

From: BLAY JAMES REDMAN
Phone: 0245399477
E-mail:
redmanjames55@yahoo.com

BEYIN-TIKOBO NO.1 ROAD

I write as an appeal to the Roads and Highways Ministry
to upgrade the road from Beyin to Tikobo no.1.
This road serves many villages but it's deplorable state has sent almost all vehicles plying on it to the workshop thereby creating unbearable hardships to the commuting public.

 

Vehicles do not ply the road after 6 p.m.a situation that is affecting people especially the sick.


The road has been left untouched for years now and the recent heavy rains have added it's signature to make it worse.

 

The situation needs urgent remedy to put withdrawn vehicles back to the road to help speed up developments in the area.I hope the concerned authorities as well as the president of the Republic of Ghana will give attention to the road above mentioned.
LONG LIVE GHANA.

 

Source: Blay James Redman

* 09.11.2009 
 VEEP Laments Exodus of Doctors
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has expressed worry about the continued brain drain of medical doctors and entreated members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to assist government to address the problem.

He lamented that in spite of the many doctors and other professionals being produced each year by the universities, only a few of them stay and work in the country.

“It is worrying to know that over the past decade, the total number of doctors practicing in Ghana has not changed much in spite of the production of over 100 doctors each year and other interventions in human resource development,” he said.

Mr Mahama stated this in a speech read on his behalf by the acting Minister of Health, Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, at the opening of the 51st Annual General Meeting of the Ghana Medical Association held in Tamale at the weekend. The meeting which is the first to be held in the north was on the theme “Towards a better Health Care for Ghana the Human Resource Changes and Solutions.”

The Vice-President noted that the human resource in the health sector continue to be headache and stressed on the need for doctors to join hands with government to resolve it.

“The challenges that the country was confronted with 50 years ago in the health sector have changed in nature and essence and therefore a commitment to re-strategise to adapt changes and develop new initiatives to overcome the challenges for the coming years is more paramount now than later,” he emphasised.

Mr Mahama also urged them to ensure that plans and programmes of the sector were in tune with culture and circumstance of the country and global trends. “We must let our plans and programmes in the health sector be informed by our culture, our circumstance vis-à-vis changes in global trends. In other words think local, act global,” he said.

President of GMA, Dr Emmanuel Adom Winful, complained about shortage of doctors and nurses in the northern sector.

This, he said, was an indictment on the country and therefore called on government and other stakeholders to help correct the skewed distribution of doctors in the country.

Dr Winful also called on the district assemblies in the Northern Region to put up incentive packages to attract health professionals to their area.

The Northern Regional Minister, Stephen Sumani Nayina, hinted that plans are far advance to come out with packages that will entice health professional to work in the area.

Source: Ghanaian Times
 Minister "Steals" Govt Vehicle
The name of Ms. Hannah Bisiw, a deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, is on the lips of staff of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) over her alleged seizure of a Toyota Land Cruiser allocated to the Engineering Technical Team of the company.

The deputy minister was said o to have put in a request to the Managing Director of the GWCL for a vehicle, as hers had been taken away for routing servicing. A land cruiser with registration number GN 1423 Z, being used by the technical team for its monitoring operations, was given out to the deputy minister to temporarily cushion her.

However, the brief period for which she claimed she would use the vehicle had gone beyond a few days and is now over a month, causing an inconvenience to the team which hitherto used it for its normal work. Nobody had been able to either demand the turn of the vehicle or even ask when such return would be, as the staff is afraid of the walkabout minister.

Some features of the vehicle have changed since it was taken away, prominent among which is the now tainted glasses of the land cruiser, an indication that the vehicle might not go back to the water company. Dr. Bisiw was very active in the early days of her appointment as she demanded keys to government bungalows, a task she performed with little favour. Attempts to speak to her hit the rocks, as Daily Guide was unable to establish contact with her.

Source: Daily Guide
* 05.11.2009  (not 1909) "Tourism Show Case Nzulezo"
From: BLAY JAMES REDMAN
Phone: 00233 (0) 245399477
E-mail: redmanjames55@yahoo.com

DEVELOP NZULEZO


Nzulezo, a tourist village in Jomoro district of the Western Region lacks development to compete with other tourist sites in the country. As at now nothing shows that the place is really a tourist spot as the area lacks infrastructure.

I am appealing to the Ghana Tourists Board and concerned citzens of the Tourist World to help develop Nzulezo. The appeal also goes to the Jomoro District Assembly, to help by providing electricity to the area.

It is a pity to note that the people use the same water they drink as toilet.
The community outboard motor that carries school children to school at Beyin is banned thereby leaving these poor children to go to school in small dug out canoes.

Women who send foodstuffs to Beyin and surrounding villages also use the small dug out canoes posing a threat to their lives.
I hope the government will intervene to save souls as early as possible.

 

Source: Blay James Redman

 * 12. October 2009  (Monday)

Experience it! Believe it!

 

GIA crew jailed 8 years for drugs

A Ghana International Airlines cabin crew member Kwaku Asante Ayirebi has been jailed eight years in London for attempting to smuggle drugs into the UK.

The 30-year-old Ghanaian was charged after cocaine with an estimated street value of £98,000 was found in his luggage at the Gatwick Airport in July.

He pleaded guilty to importing cocaine into that country.

Officers from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) discovered the drugs, weighing about two kilos, in baggage that had arrived on a Ghana International Airways flight from Accra.

Source:
Myjoyonline

 * 11. October 2009
President accepts resignation of two ministers
President John Evans Atta-Mills has accepted the resignation of two Ministers of State, Dr. George Sipa Yankey, Minister of Health and Mr. Amadu Seidu, Minister of State at the Presidency, following the bribery allegations in the Mabey and Johnson case.

This follows lengthy closed door discussions held over the last two days with the Vice President, the Chief of Staff, Attorney-General and other close aides of the President.

According to a statement signed by Mr.John Henry Martey Newman, Chief of Staff, "the President has also decided to invite an independent body, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to conduct investigations into those allegations of bribery against Ghanaian public officials in the said case."

"The President expressed regret at the resignations and was hopeful that the decision to ask the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the case would offer a platform for the public officials named in the case to clear their names and hard won reputations."the statement said.

Source: GNA
* 08. October 2009
Michelle Obamas ancestry revealed
This morning’s New York Times reveals the details of their fascinating project to uncover the previously unknown details of Michelle Obama’s family tree.
WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs was a 6-year-old slave girl valued soon afterward at $475.

In his will, she is described simply as the “negro girl Melvinia.” After his death, she was torn away from the people and places she knew and shipped to Georgia. While she was still a teenager, a white man would father her first-born son under circumstances lost in the passage of time.

In the annals of American slavery, this painful story would be utterly unremarkable, save for one reason: This union, consummated some two years before the Civil War, represents the origins of a family line that would extend from rural Georgia, to Birmingham, Ala., to Chicago and, finally, to the White House.

Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Michelle Obama, the first lady.

Viewed by many as a powerful symbol of black advancement, Mrs. Obama grew up with only a vague sense of her ancestry, aides and relatives said. During the presidential campaign, the family learned about one paternal great-great-grandfather, a former slave from South Carolina, but the rest of Mrs. Obama’s roots were a mystery. READ MORE

 * 24 September 2009
Presidents Mill`s economic speech  / 24.09.2009
President Mills' speech @ UN General Assembly

The following is President John Evans Atta Mills's address to the United Nations General Assembly at its 64th Session.

Mr. President,

Permit me to join previous speakers in congratulating you on your election as President of the 64th Session of the General Assembly.

Your long and distinguished service to your country and Africa gives us the confidence that we are in experienced and capable hands.

I also wish to express my delegation’s appreciation to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, for the able manner with which he presided over the 63rd Session of the General Assembly.

Mr. President,

This year marks the centenary of the birth of an illustrious son of Ghana and Africa, our first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, under whose leadership Ghana became a member of the United Nations on March 8, 1957, only two days after achieving Independence.

We recall Dr. Nkrumah’s proclamation before this august body on 23rd September, 1960, during the 15th Session, that “the United Nations was the only organization that holds out any hope for the future of mankind.”

It was at the same session that he also called for the reform of the Security Council in order to bring it in line with a rapidly changing world.

More than forty years have since passed, and those views remain relevant.

Mr. President,

Then, as now, Africa faced deep crisis with profound and far-reaching implications for international peace and stability.

Today, the combined effects of climate change, high food and energy prices and the current financial and economic crisis threaten to erode the modest but hard earned economic growth and democratic achievements of the last two decades.

Africa remains volatile, and violent conflicts still persist.
Therefore, we must all support the United Nations and its regional allies, such as the African Union, to live up to these and other pressing challenges facing the international community.

Mr. President,

We acknowledge that globalization has expanded and accelerated economic interdependence among states.

In contrast, the benefits of globalization have been negligible in the majority of developing countries and their economies have not been transformed in any significant manner.

Despite almost a decade of impressive growth of about 5 percent, only a few countries have been able to reduce the proportion of their population living on less than US$1 per day.

Consequently, most of the countries remain susceptible to various external shocks which continue to pose threats to their growth.

In fact, the over-reliance on high commodity prices and mineral exports has not lessened, but rather exposed the structural impediments to food security.

This is particularly true of sub-Saharan Africa where the on-going world financial and economic crisis threatens to erode decades of modest growth and thereby make the Millennium Development Goals unattainable in any meaningful way.

Ghana, therefore, reiterates her support for a global integration that ensures inclusive and equitable development and effectively contributes to substantial poverty alleviation, including full and productive employment as well as broad access to social services.

A number of developing countries, including those in Africa, have taken various steps to mitigate the impact of the financial crisis on their economies, including interest rate reductions, recapitalization of financial institutions, increasing liquidity to banks, trade policy changes, and regulatory reforms.

In Ghana, fiscal restraint has been exercised in response to the crisis, including cutting all low priority public spending and shifting the balance from recurrent expenditure to infrastructure investment.

In addressing the impact of crisis on their economies, African countries will like to see:

Rich countries making more effort to meet existing commitments on aid and debt reduction

Accelerating disbursements and improving access to existing financial facilities

Urging the International Monetary Fund to put in place a new facility with relaxed conditions to support African economies during this crisis period

A capital increase for the African Development Bank to enable it to scale up its interventions in support of African development
Sale of International Monetary Fund gold reserves to release additional resources to help developing countries deal with the financial crisis and

Issuance of new special drawing rights

Mr. President,

Prior to the onset of the global crisis, namely the food and oil price hikes, and the current financial crisis, a number of developing countries were making tremendous efforts and progress towards achieving the MDGs.

Many of them were implementing MDG-consistent national development plans or poverty reduction strategies to accelerate the progress towards achieving those goals.

Even under those favourable conditions, there were concerns that the majority of developing countries, particularly in Africa, were not on track to meeting all the MDGs by the target date of 2015.

The rise in food prices in 2008 reversed the nearly two-decade trend in reducing the proportion of people who suffer from hunger in the developing world and this has been exacerbated by the financial crisis.

Mr. President,
International trade carries enormous potential for reducing poverty and driving economic growth that can lift millions of people out of poverty.

The ongoing Doha Trade Round is committed, at least in principle, to improve market access for poor countries.

This commitment is very important, especially in low-skill and labour-intensive sectors such as garment manufacturing where most African exports come from.

Sustained economic growth requires that poor countries increase their exports to the rich countries.

Unfortunately, the current global trading system discriminates against developing countries, hinders their participation in the global economy and damages the earning opportunities of farmers and rural communities in poor countries.

Trade-distorting subsidies, as well as tariff and non-tariff barriers instituted by most advanced countries have denied market access to African products.

For developing countries like Ghana a meaningful liberalization must be accompanied by predictable access to markets, eliminating abuse of anti-dumping measures and the reduction of tariffs and non-tariff barriers.

Mr. President,

In the face of all these developments, Africa acknowledges that our efforts at achieving sustainable, social and economic development depend essentially on our commitment to good governance.

In spite of the difficult challenges, leaders across the continent have embraced democratic values except in a few cases where narrow self interests of leaders are threatening the commendable gains of the last decade.

Mr. President,

We are also confronted with grave risks posed by climate change to environmental, social and economic development.

The need for concrete, timely and decisive measures to enable us to cope with this largely man-made problem is obvious and must not be deferred any longer.

As we proceed to the UN Climate Change Conference scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen (COP-15), the issue of financing mitigation and adaptation to climate change in developing countries will remain central in the deliberations, and in fact, progress on these issues will be significantly crucial in determining any outcome in Copenhagen.

Mr. President,

Peacekeeping operations have undoubtedly played a pivotal role in the organization’s efforts to fulfill its core obligation of promoting international peace and security.

Ghana, as one of the oldest and consistent troop contributing countries, deems it a matter of honour and privilege to be associated with this success story of our Organization.

We equally acknowledge that increasing demands have placed further strain on an already overstretched system.

It is for this reason that we applaud and renew our support for the reform process which has so far yielded fruitful dividends, although further improvements are required if we are to achieve the ultimate goal.

Ghana cannot but commend the growing cooperation between the UN and regional organizations, and calls for its intensification to make the best use of the cooperative strength of the UN and regional arrangements in a mutually complementary manner.

Mr. President,

Next year marks the fifteenth year after the adoption of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

However, the huge gap between policy and practice and the uneven progress in implementing the international commitments on gender equality and empowerment of women heightens the importance of creating an enabling environment, through a more coherent, integrated and multi-sectoral approach.

Over the years, Ghana has spared no effort in implementing the Beijing Platform goals and has amply demonstrated its commitment to promoting and ensuring gender equality and women’s empowerment through concrete administrative, legal and constitutional means.

In our efforts to achieve full and accelerated implementation of these goals and objectives, the Government is actively pursuing an Affirmative Action Policy which seeks to ensure 40 percent representation of women in decision-making positions.

We have made gains to this end as lucidly testified by the appointment of the first female Speaker of Parliament, first female Attorney General, as well as a number of female Ministers and Deputy Ministers. Also, other professional women occupy high offices.

Mr. President,

At the 63rd Session, this Assembly adopted a resolution that requested that we improve our efforts and join together in backing the international initiative against human trafficking and protection of victims.

We concur with those who view the elaboration and adoption of a United Nations Global Plan of Action as an effective and practical way to give this resolution life and strengthen international efforts against this despicable crime.

Our expectation is that the President of the General Assembly will make this an urgent and priority issue for this 64th Session and I assure you of Ghana’s full commitment and support to this cause.

Mr. President,

In conclusion, I would like to note with regret that conflicts, particularly in the developing world, have robbed us of the opportunity to improve the wellbeing of our people.

Sustainable development can only be achieved in an international environment characterized by peace and security.

Ghana, therefore, wishes to reiterate her commitment to the ideals of the United Nations and will continue to live up to its charter obligations and together with member states assist this organization in its task of maintaining global peace and security.

Ghana believes that the United Nations remains the ideal multilateral instrument available for maintaining international peace and security and for promoting fruitful international cooperation.

We must therefore strengthen our resolve and muster the necessary political will to allow the UN to function more effectively in redeeming the majority of our people from war, disease and poverty.

My fellow Presidents; we in Ghana are committed to building a Better Ghana; let us, as Presidents, commit ourselves to building a Better World.

I thank you for your attention and God bless us all.


Source: Castle - Osu

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 * 24 September 2009
Nkrumah's centenary will re-kindle the spirit of patriotism - Veep

Accra, Sept. 11, GNA - Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Friday said the centenary celebration of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was a call to Ghanaians, especially the youth to re-kindle the spirit of patriotism. "It is a call to all of us particularly the youth to do what they can for the nation and not what they can get from the country," he said. Vice President Mahama, launching the centenary celebrations in Accra, said the revival of the spirit of nationhood would inculcate in the younger generation higher values of service, and commitment to ideals of the commonwealth beyond material possession and power for self gratification.

The centenary celebrations would extend over the period September 2009 to May 2010; and would be organised around three clusters of activities and events, namely: Kwame Nkrumah's Birthday (September 21), Independence Day (March 6, 2010) and Africa Liberation Day (May 25, 2010).

Mr Mahama said it was worth celebrating the life and works of Dr Nkrumah because he was not just an individual but an institution in Africa and the Diaspora, who fought selflessly for the emancipation and independence of not only Ghana but for the total liberation of the African continent.

"Apart from being at the forefront of Ghana's independence and Africa's liberation struggles, the achievements of Nkrumah run through the length and breadth of Ghana. He laid a solid foundation in the country's infrastructural architecture," he said.

He said the many schools, roads, ports, health facilities, a hydro power project and vigorous industrialization and agricultural programmes formed the nucleus of a vision the first President had for Ghana. Vice President
Mahama said: "today as African countries enjoy the fruits of independence so is it imperative for us to appreciate the selfless leaders who kept their lives on the line to ensure that we achieved the memorable feat.

"For a people who do not recognize the significance of their history would eventually lose their bearing and values," Mr Mahama said. Commenting on the attributes of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Mr Mahama said he preached African continental unity and demonstrated it at home and was a cultural icon in whom the embodiment of a truly African vision was personified in his mode of dressing and in the institutions he set up to project the cultural heritage Ghana.

"For those of us who either lived during his lifetime as adults or experienced it as teenagers can testify to a united country that he sought to build. A country devoid of tribalism and ethnic animosity," he said. Mr Mahama stated that there had been no period in the history of Ghana in which the national consciousness, identity and unity were solid and indivisible except during the era of Dr Kwame Nkrumah to the extent that every African and those of African descent identified themselves with Ghana and were even proud to hold Ghanaian passport.

"These are the attributes we need to cherish in order to build a prosperous and united country. So for a person to have lived and died a vicarious life for his compatriots there is no other tribute to give than keeping his name and works continuously aflame," he said. Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr, the Chairman of the centenary celebrations Committee, said between the three clusters, there would be a series of activities/events reflecting all the aspects of the celebrations and spread over the regions.

He said the highest point of the first cluster of events would be a series of events at Nkroful from September 17 to 21, and a Grand Pageant and Durbar of Ghanaians and African Peoples to be held at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park on September 21.

Activities to be captured during the year-long celebration include Political/intellectual interventions such as lectures, symposia, students' quizzes and exhibitions, Culture and Arts, renovation of monuments and memorials, and the re-enactment of significant events in Nkrumah's life and time.

Vice President Mahama later broke the ground for renovation of the Memorial Park and also unveiled the centenary logo. 11 Sept. 09


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 * 10 September 2009

Tourist Board closes down hotels

and bars in Volta Region

Ho, Sept. 10, GNA - The Volta Regional Office of the Ghana Tourist Board has begun an exercise to close down unlicensed hotels and bars in the region. Seven hotels and bars were closed down on Thursday for operating without the requisite documents and these are Pensioners Hall, Fiave Lodge, King Fisher and Lord's Hotel. The exercise was carried out by officers of the board in the company of the police.

The rest are the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Hostel, Top Club, all in Ho and Pleasant Dreams at Kpetoe among others. Mr Sulemana Amadu, Resource Officer in charge of the exercise, said most hotels and bars in the region were without any document and had been operating illegally since their inception.

He said some have substandard facilities therefore could not invite the Tourist Board for inspection.

"You will be surprised that some big hotels in town do not have doormats, enough bedspreads and pillows but are charging huge sums of money without paying anything to government," Mr Amadu said. He said offenders would have to pay a penalty of 50 per cent of the licensing fee of four Ghana cedis, register with six Ghana cedis and pay allowances for officers to inspect their facilities for their places to be re-opened.

 

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Doctors continue to refuse postings..

to the Upper East Region

Bolgatanga, Aug 6, GNA - Dr. Koku Awoonor-Williams, Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, has reiterated his concern over the inadequate number of health personnel in the region, saying none of the 57 newly qualified Medical Doctors in the country chose posting to the Region.

He said out of 19 doctors posted to the region over the past three years, only one reported, the current Doctor to Patient ratio being 1:34,000. Medical Assistants in the region are 28 instead of the required number of 92, and 12 out of the 28 are above 55 years of age.

He noted that the Region lacked many critical staff of all grades including Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and Technicians. Each of the five district hospitals were manned by single Ghanaian doctors with the help of the Cuban Medical Brigade.

"There are 224 Midwives for 147 health facilities, and 43 enrolled nurses 41 of whom are above 50 years," he said, adding that 200 more professional nurses are needed to fill the District hospitals, while 70 per cent of those trained in the region refused to stay back and serve the area.

Dr. Awoonor-Williams expressed these concerns at a three-day Health Sector Performance Review meeting underway in Bolgatanga on the theme, "Harnessing resources and expertise in health delivery to achieve the Millennium Development Goals". It is being organized by the Regional Health Directorate.

He noted that poor and inadequate health infrastructure, including dilapidated health facilities and the lack of staff accommodation, were contributory factors that discouraged health personnel from working in the region.

Dr. Awoonor-Williams said in order to improve efficiency and maximize output, the Regional Health Directorate, after a careful review of the human resource situation, embarked on a reshuffle and transfer of staff of all categories within the region. This, he said, was not accepted by some staff and explained that transfers were not punitive and were done without malice. The half-year review meeting is meant to give the health personnel an opportunity to take stock of their performance against set objectives and targets, and to identify the challenges they face.

 

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Nana Akuffo-Addo's Press Statement -26 May 2009-
NPP No Shaking! We shall be back!

Accra, May 26, GNA - "NPP! No shaking! We shall be back," declared Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Election 2008 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Tuesday stressing that in spite of the "intimidation" of the ruling Government the Party would grow from strength to strength and capture power in 2012 to move Ghana forward. He said the Government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had spent the last four months intimidating innocent citizens and political opponents.

"We have seen attacks on NPP members in several parts of the country including Agbobloshie; Kumasi and Tamale," he said, adding that the country had experienced arson attacks in Nyihini, Lameshegu, Worizehi, Choggu and Gumbihini.

"All the 27 properties that were attacked belong to NPP members. Not a single one belong to an NDC member..No attempt has been made by the State to assist the innocent victims, numbering about 800, who had their homes and belongings destroyed," Nana Akufo-Addo said. ...

 

...Nana Akufo-Addo appealed to President John Evans Atta Mills, the ruling NDC, the opposition political parties and civil society to work together to make Ghana peaceful and safe to preserve the country's democratic development. 26 May 09

 

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Racist  L’Oreal under investigations “at the highest level”.?

L’Oreal West Africa Director in racial abuse -

The abusive and racial remarks by the Finance and Operations Director of L’Oreal West Africa Limited, a multi national organisation in Accra, Mr Nicholas Lombart, against Ghanaian employees of the company is triggering uneasy calm among employees resulting in forceful resignations.

Mr Lombart, a French national, who was appointed about 15 months ago to the largest cosmetics producing company in the world, is said to have created a hostile working environment with employees.

Some of the employees who pleaded anonymity said that Mr Lombart had embarked on a deliberate attempt to frustrate employees into resigning and that since August last year he had consistently shown disrespect towards employees.

“How can we be treated like slaves in our own country? This man has made life unbearable for us in this company,” the employees lamented..

They called on human rights organisations in the country particularly the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) to call to order such organisations where foreign expatriates had the latitude to abuse the human rights of Ghanaians in their own country.

Consequently, some of his victims who could not bear any further humiliation resigned and have initiated legal actions against the company to compel Mr Lombart to pay all compensation packages due them.

A former employee of the company who pleaded anonymity tended in his resignation following a constructive termination of employment, is seeking legal action against Mr Lombart and, has therefore, engaged the services of lawyers who issued a letter dated August 12, 2008, to the General Manager of the company, Mr Abdennasser Benabou.

It read in part that their client who was initially employed in 1999 as a Warehouse Supervisor and who rose through the ranks to attain his latest before his constructive termination of employment reported directly to Mr Lombart who had made it his total focus to make “our client’s continued employment a hell”.

“Indeed such is the enormity of the frustrations and ill-treatment brought upon our client by the Head of Finance and Operations, that our client finds himself having the unpleasant duty of working in an environment which is so hostile to the extent that our client cannot be expected by any level headed or reasonable person to continue working in such an atmosphere,” the letter stated.

It cited instances where in May 2008, their client was summoned by Mr Lombart over some forecast figures for order to be made and in that meeting the latter got so upset with the figures that he recommended the former to rather drive a forklift instead of his current job.

According to the letter on countless occasions the disrespect shown by Mr Lombart towards their client had been done in the presence of co-workers even though his conduct was reported to the Head of Legal and Administrative Manager of the company.

“He advised our client to leave the employment by the end if July 2008, since he cannot work with our client, and that he was bringing in somebody from France who had the same qualification as his,” it said.

On one occasion Mr Lombart described their client as a “waste” saying that he would have wanted him out of his office and even if possible thrown out by security.

A medical report indicated that the client in question suffered stress induced hypertension as a result of his ordeal.

Another letter to the management of the company from the lawyers of another victim revealed that Mr Lombart uttered insulting words in French such as “merde” and “putain” meaning “shit” and “fuck” or “prostitute” on an employee who is currently engaged in a legal battle with him.

The letter described as unfortunate his penchant for treating people with consistent disrespect adding that “for an individual who works with an international organisation, we expect a certain degree of decorum and respect for people of other races and cultures on his part.”

When the General Manger, Mr Abdennasser Benabou, and the Human Resource and Legal Manager of the company, Ms Patience Aduakwa, were contacted for their reactions to the allegations against Mr Lombart, they both maintained that the matter had come to the attention of the Group at its headquarters in Paris and is currently under investigations “at the highest level”.

Mr Benabou said the ethics of the company frowned on all manner of discrimination and disrespect for diversity noting that if the allegations were confirmed the Ethical Manager of the Group in Paris would take disciplinary action against Mr Lombart.

Source: Sebastian Syme; saba77@yahoo.com
Rename Airport After Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah

Hohoe, Nov. 14, GNA - Mr Anthony Korsi Kumeni, a retired Civil Servant, has passionately appealed to President John E. A. Mills to rename the Kotoka International Airport after Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

He said Dr Nkrumah has left remarkable prints on the conscience of Ghanaians through his efforts to lay the developmental foundation for national socio-economic prosperity and none of the successive leaders compare to him.

Mr Kumeni, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency, in an interview, said naming the airport after Lieutenant-General Kotoka after the 1966 coup was "a clear case of self glorification."

He said the events that led to the toppling of the Government of the Conventions Peoples' Party (CPP) in 1966, only succeeded in reversing the developmental wheel.

Mr Kumeni said the Kotoka-led coup d'etat brought untold hardship such as unemployment, corruption, indiscipline, tribalism, nepotism and prostitution.

He appealed to President Mills to revisit the issue and explore measures to revive all defunct factories established under the CPP as a means to employ the youth.

Mr Kumeni said changing the name of the airport to Dr Kwame, a pillar and one of the torchbearers of Pan-Africanism, was 'a ready-made marketing strategy' to advertise the country on the global marketplace. He said: "Giving our premier President a treble by inscribing his name on the airport after being named after a University and a 'Circle' in the centre of Accra would be an icing on the cake.

"Men are born every day but great men are born once a century. The mission and vision of Dr Nkrumah is more relevant today than it was some time ago. Let us celebrate our heroes in a constructive manner." Mr Kumeni recounted some of the achievements of Dr Nkrumah, which include the Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) and factories for shoes, meat, tomatoes, matches and glass. 14. November 09

 

Source: GNA
* 14.07.2009
Tour Guide Overwhelmed By Obamas

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

 

The Cape Coast Castle Museum Educator, Mr. Essel Blankson, who conducted the United States of America President, Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and children Sasha and Malia, round the historical monument has stated categorically that the event offered him an opportunity to talk to the world's most powerful leader.

Speaking to The Chronicle on Sunday, at the precinct of Cape Castle, Blankson said although he perceived the tour with President Obama and his family as doing his normal work as a museum educator, he did his job on that day as an enthusiastic African, because of Obama's fighting spirit which enabled him to ascend the American Presidency as an African. " I like the man because of his ability as an African to become President of the United States of America, and I was happy to conduct him and his family round the castle", Mr. Blankson told the Chronicle newspaper.

According him, it was a great opportunity to guide Obama and his family through the castle for almost one hour tour, explaining the history and heritage of the castle to his august visitors. Blankson revealed that Obama and his wife Michelle seemed to know the story about the slave trade, but the couple might have purposely visited the dungeon to introduce their children, Sasha and Malia to the historical remnant of the obnoxious slave trade that was perpetrated more than 500 centuries ago. "President Obama and Michelle seem to know about the history of the slave trade, and they shared a lot of information with Mr. Fritz Baffuor, an indigene of Elmina”, he said.

Mr. Blankson emphasized that the Obamas wanted their children to experience the story of the slave trade and its relics at close hand, and he explained that the behaviour of the couple attested to the fact that it was their intention to expose the children to the reality of the barbaric act of mankind against his fellow human being. He said Obama was accompanied by his in-law and Michelle's auntie, as well as the two children.

He further stated that President Obama's visit has created awareness for the Cape Coast castle, the Central region and Ghana in both local and international circles. To him, people will soon flock to visit the castle. Mr. Blankson contended that although local patronage is higher than the foreign ones that they normally get, Saturday's visit by President Obama and his family might also boost local patronage.

The Cape Coast Castle Museum Educator told the paper that he was given a certificate of appreciation by a White House Staff who was among President Obama's entourage. Hon. Fritz Bafour explained in answer to a question that there was no need for the people of Elmina to feel envious of the mileage that Cape Coast had gotten out of Obama’s visit, because Michelle specifically requested to visit the Cape Coast Castle. The American first lady was armed with information that her great-great ancestors were taken through the ‘door of no return’ by slave ships to Virginia or South Carolina in America, where they worked on the sugarcane plantations and tobacco fields of Virginia.

According to history, Ships from Elmina sailed to Brazil and not to the United states, explained Fritz Bafour, an itinerant castle ‘curator’, in an interview with The Chronicle. There were undercurrents of jealousy which observers in Cape Coast felt particularly among the sub-chiefs and Asafo companies. Thankfully, it did not burst out in the open. Fritz, whose Father was a celebrated educationist, confirmed that he knew about the friction and said it was a wasted emotion.

In a usually sultry morning, the historic city of Cape Coast came face to face with the most charismatic man on the planet, who is a walking symbol of Black achievement and African hope, accompanied by America’s machismo, standing by with well sculpted biceps at the ready, reassuring Americans that they can relax. But this was no excursion. This was the defining moment for Michelle Obama, and her kids Malia and Sasha. And it took all of one hour. One hour of the Obama’s time! By the time Beast 2 glided through the Castle, a morbid sense of expectation hung in the air. The chiefs, who had had a brief interaction with Obama, patiently sat close to the castle in their Sunday best, hoping that Obama will talk to them. They were disappointed. They had to make do with a hearty politicians’ wave.

Then it was straight to the main business of the day at the Castle. And Mr. Blankson, the Castle tour Guide was ready for them, with a helping hand from Hon. Fritz Bafour. They entered several recesses of the castle and took in a deep breath while they readied themselves for a plunge through the Door of No Return. By the time President Obama emerged, his face was no longer, wearing the bubbling countenance that the world knew and expected from him. There was no break down or anything like that, said Mr. Fritz Bafour, like Rita Marley or Stevie Wonder or countless American stars that had visited Cape Coast. The girls were very curios, he added, especially Sasha, who asked very pointed and searching questions.

For Obama, it was a very sombre look and melancholy voice that came through when he spoke to the microphones at the Castle. He said in a voice trembling with emotion: ‘It reminds us of the capacity of human beings to commit great evil. One of the most striking things that I heard was that right above the dungeons in which male captives were kept, was a church, and that reminds us that sometimes we can tolerate and stand by great evil even as we think that we're doing well. Now, I think it was particularly important for Malia and Sasha, who are growing up in such a blessed way, to be reminded that history can take very cruel turns, and hopefully one of the things that was imparted to them during this trip is their sense of obligation to fight oppression and cruelty wherever it appears, and that any group of people who are degrading another group of people have to be fought against with whatever tools we have available to us.

So obviously it's a moving experience, a moving moment. We want to thank those who arranged for the tour and the people of Ghana for preserving this history. As painful as it is, I think that it helps to teach all of us that we have to do what we can to fight against the kinds of evils that, sadly, still exist in our world, not just on this continent but in every corner of the globe. And I think, as Americans, and as African Americans, obviously there's a special sense that on the one hand this place was a place of profound sadness; on the other hand, it is here where the journey of much of the African American experience began.

And symbolically, to be able to come back with my family, with Michelle and our children, and see the portal through which the diaspora began, but also to be able to come back here in celebration with the people of Ghana of the extraordinary progress that we've made because of the courage of so many, black and white, to abolish slavery and ultimately win civil rights for all people, I think is a source of hope. It reminds us that as bad as history can be, it's also possible to overcome.

Source:
Chronicle
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