Hotel Kufuor opens
... Without pomp and pageantry .... As Chief goes for solar
The controversy that surrounded the purchase of Hotel Kufuor might have informed operators of the multi billion facility, situated at HIPC Junction in the Airport residential area, to open the hotel for business without the usual pomp and splendour that go with such events.
The hotel, christened African Regency Hotel, which brought a political slugfest between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has finally opened for business without much publicity.
This paper can confirm that though the hotel may not be popular in the country, it is already famous among clients from the US and UK. This confirmation came about during some interactions this reporter had with some customers of the hotel, who were mainly from these two countries.
A brief visit to hotel, which is located just about five minutes drive from Kotoka International Airport, showed that edifice is furnished with the state of the art modern facilities.
Living up to its name African Regency Hotel, the hotel is decorated with African arts with the rooms furnished with the best facilities found any where in the world.
Though the hotel is not yet rated, the facilities and services it provides currently can match the known five star hotels in the country, notably Labadi Beach Hotel or Lapalm Beach Hotel.
Surprisingly, in spite of the high quality facilities and services the hotel provides it clients; its charges are very moderate with a room earmarked for a family of about three persons charge about $75 a night.
According to some visitors to the hotel who were interviewed during our verification visit over the weekend, they admire the hotel due the location, security and the attitudes towards the environment. Currently, the African Regency Hotel is the only hotel in the country which has fully installed solar energy as it main source of power.
The hotel is locally called “Hotel Kufuor” due to the alleged involvement of the first family in its purchase with the suspicion that President John Agyekum Kufuor was the real owner of the hotel and that he was using his eldest son, Chief Kufuor, to front for him.
However, a preliminary investigation by the independent anti-corruption agency, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), exonerated the President from the transaction.
One unique feature of the Hotel is the foresight they had in powering the facility with solar energy even when the energy crises had not started.
Because at a time when the nation’s energy experts in the country are grappling with finding an alternative source of power for the country, the first family in about three years ago had anticipated the problem and funded a long term cheap source of energy for the hotel.
Many Ghanaians had thought that the hotel would be opened during the African Union Summit slated for Ghana this June, but a source close to the first family informed this paper that, the first family do not want to get involved in public debate about the timing, hence the early opening even when the hotel is not hundred per cent completed.
Just as all the residents along the president’s home, the hotel also enjoys high security presence just as the president’s bungalow which is about ten metres away
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NANA ASARE KONADU for GYE NYAME CONCORD
"Galamsey" To Be Part Of NYEP
Kumasi (Ghanaian Times) --The Ministry of Manpower Youth and Employment is to incorporate small scale mining into the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).
Dubbed ‘Youth in Mines,’ the incorporation is to enable the small scale miners or ‘galamsey’ operators to be recognised by the Minerals Commission and also to receive special training aimed at restoring the environment to a usable condition for the communities.
Mr. Boniface Abubakar Saddique, the sector minister, who announced this to media personnel here on Monday, said when the galamsey operators are legalised, the ministry would endeavour to provide them with machines and try to set them up.
"We recognise that deforestation has been a problem in Ghana for decades and with the programme it will ensure that trees are grown before the mine starts," he added.
Mr. Saddique was speaking when he led the Parliamentary Select Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprises to the Ashanti Region for a two-day tour of the Youth Employment Programme in Kumasi.
It emerged during the tour that 440 youths have been registered to be trained as health extension workers to assist doctors and nurses at hospitals.
The registered persons had started a six-month training course which focuses on skills development, structure of the programme and job description, among the lots.
Under the programme the beneficiaries would be given a monthly allowance of ¢400,000 untill completion of the training.
The Minister said, government attached much importance to the NYEP and hoped that the youth would take the programme seriously.
According to him, government had so far expended about ¢120 billion on the 10 modules with ¢15 billion alone disbursed for the training of teachers.
Some of the modules are the Youth in Agriculture, Community Protectors and the National Volunteer scheme.
He said, under the NYEP, about 300,000 youths are expected to be provided with employment by the end of this year, meanwhile 80,000 are currently employed.
Mr. Saddique said the sustainability of the NYEP depended on the flow of money and that the government would ensure that such a laudable programme would stay.
Mr. Paul Okoh, chairman of the Select Committee and a Member of Parliament for Asutifi North, advised the youth in the nursing programme to be patriotic adding, "You have a lot of opportunities as the training you are receiving will catapult you into greater heights in the future."
The Ranking Member, Jagri Mohammed who is the MP for Zabzugu Tatale, commended the government for the NYEP which he said aimed at reducing unemployment in the country.
"This is not an NPP or NDC or any party’s programme, let us see it so, and embrace it instead of trying to politicise it," he added.
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Times
Mills Mobbed In His Homeland
As He Tours Constituencies In The Central Region
The NDC flagbearer for the 2008 elections, Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills, is making serious in-roads into the hearts and minds of the people of the Central region as he tours his homeland – the Central Region.
The tour, which started last Thursday, has thus far seen Prof. Mills visiting traditional authorities and opinion leaders in Gomoa, Ajumako, Assin, Mankesim, Winneba, Adjumako-Enyan-Essiam, KEEA, and several other constituencies in the Central region. Prof. Mills, who was mobbed at virtually every stop, told the people that they [the people] do not need him to tell them about the failure of the NPP to make life more bearable for the people of this country because everyone, apart from those who are close to President Kufuor and his associates, is feeling the pinch of the unfeeling and usually short-sighted policies of the NPP government.
Each time Prof. Mills made this point, the usually large crowds underscore the truism in the statement by shouting their approval and indicating that the lot of the Ghanaian has worsened under the NPP regime.
At Mankesim Market, where all activity came to a halt upon the arrival of Prof at the place, the learned Professor assured the people that the Central Region is not hated because of the way their votes went in the last election and urged them to learn from their past mistakes and support him to victory.
On the on-going energy crisis, Prof. Mills has been telling the people that it is most regrettable that the NPP rejected out of hand the NDC’s offer of assistance to solve the problem.
"We are all suffering under the energy crisis. We in the NDC see it as a national crisis that is why we offered the significant expertise that we have in the party to help bring the crisis to an early end, but, typical of the NPP, this offer was rejected out of hand," Prof. Mills said to a teeming crowd of ecstatic listeners at Ajumako.
He pointed out that, "even though the NPP has rejected our offer of help, I have instructed my Energy Advisors to continue to reach out to them through other means and offer any useful advise that would help them to resolve the crisis early."
"This crisis has led to, and continues to lead to, loss of several jobs, therefore adding to the woes of our people who are already impoverished. Some people can afford the cost of running generators or other battery-powered appliances, but it is for the larger population that cannot afford the necessary additional costs that these entail, that we are eager to help to resolve this crisis," Prof. Mills further pointed out.
On his visit to the Akosombo Dam, the law Professor cum Tax Expert said that but for his visit, the country would not have been told the true story of how the crippling energy crisis would stay with us for a while.
"It was my visit to Akosombo that gave all of us the true state of our energy affairs and so we now know that when President Kufuor and his insulting Energy Ministers tell us their tales, they are not being truthful to us" the NDC Presidential Candidate added.
Prof. Mills has also been speaking about his vision for the country, and promised that under his presidency the ethnic divisions that have become accentuated by the NPP’s divisive approach to governance would be a thing of the past.
"We are all, first of all, Ghanaians. By all means, let us take pride in our heritage, let us take pride in our roots, but these must never overcrowd our identity as Ghanaians, and when we have a national leadership that is conscious of forging national unity, its policies and how it distributes the national cake goes a long way to subdue ethnocentrisms while forging national unity," Prof Mills noted.
"I want to offer the kind of visionary and all-inclusive leadership that Kwame Nkurmah gave us, where our national anthem and national flag means more to us than our tribes and clans, that is why I am humbly asking you to give me your mandate to lead us back onto the path of oneness."
Prof Mills indicated that his manifesto outlining his full vision for the country under his presidency would soon be outdoored in the line with the Social Democratic tenets of the NDC.
Prof. Mills has also been meeting with Constituency and Branch Executives on how to oil the party’s machinery towards campaigning for the 2008 elections.
An aide to Prof. Mills, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, told this reporter that Prof. Mills attaches great importance to his meetings with the party structures because "politics is about involving locals. And the people who best understand local politics are those who are with the people. That is why Prof. attaches great importance to meeting constituency and branch executives."
"After Prof. has left, the mantle would now fall on the constituency and branch executives to, as it were, nurture and groom the seeds that the Prof has come to sow in their constituencies and branches, so you can see why it was important that he meets with the executives," Mr. Vanderpuije posited.
Prof Mills is being accompanied by the likes of Vallis Akyianu, Central Regional Chairman of the NDC, Ama Benyiwa Doe, National Women’s Organiser, Allotey Jacobs, Central Regional Propaganda Secretary, Peter Light Coomson, Central Regional Secretary, Patrick Aniagyei, Central Regional Organiser, Antwi Boasiako Sekyere, Aide to Prof Mills, and Nii Lantey Vanderpuije who is in charge of Operations at the Office of Prof Mills
Prof. Mills is expected back in Accra on Saturday to attend the funeral of the late wife of Nana Ato Dadzie, Chief of Staff in the NDC government, after which he would be moving to the Eastern Region to continue with his grassroot approach to mobilizing support.
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DCE Chased out of office
...Banished from district capital, official car impounded by irate Youth THE DISTRICT Chief Executive (DCE) for Sene District Assembly (SDA) in the Brong Ahafo Region, Madam Cynthia Titiriku Danso has been banished from entering the capital of the District, Kwame Danso, to transact business as the political head of the area.
The official vehicle of the DCE has also been impounded by the youth, who have handed over its ignition key to the Police at Kwame Danso, on the grounds that she was using the official vehicle for her personal duties without attending to office work.
The people are accusing her of not respecting the traditional rulers and even her New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives. She has also been accused of not being punctual to duty and reporting to work at her leisure time.
Speaking to The Chronicle in separate interviews, the youth from the district, covering the three traditional areas and the constituency executives of the NPP, have all called for the removal of the DCE. It is only those in the Kajaji Traditional Area, the home town of the DCE that did not accuse her or call for her head.
Madam Titiriku has been accused of being corrupt, distrustful and disrespectful to traditional authorities and engaging in mass acquisition of properties.
The spokesperson for the three traditional areas, which include Bassa, Dwan and Wiase, Nana Otchor Adu II, also the Acting President of the Wiase Traditional Area, called on the government to investigate an alleged embezzlement of ¢ 1.3 billion belonging to the assembly by the DCE.
The chiefs, the youth and the NPP constituency executives have also urged the anti corruption institutions, such as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the BNI and other relevant institutions to investigate to ascertain where the DCE, Madam Titiriku had money from, to put up four houses at her hometown, Kajeji within a three-month period.
These groups disclosed to The Chronicle that they could not understand how the DCE, within three months of recovering from sickness, which took her away from the office after her appointment as DCE, could put up such magnificent buildings.
The Chronicle’s highly-placed source at the District Assembly also shared the same sentiment of the people, adding, “some of us were shocked when we saw the buildings during our visit to the town when the DCE’s mother passed away.”
The source endorsed the decision of the three groups namely, NPP, the youth association and the traditional authorities, to investigate the operations of the assembly, as they were ready to co-orperate.
Nana Adu II, also the Akyeamehene of Wiase Traditional Area buttressing his point on the DCE’s disregard for tradition, disclosed that on one occasion, a three-member delegation from Bassa, Dwan and Wiase traditional areas was sent to Madam Titiriku to plead with her for the release of a charcoal vehicle impounded by the assembly.
According to the chief, when the delegation went to the DCE, instead of her to personally come to meet them, she rather sent her driver to tell the chiefs that she would not have time for them, since she was traveling.
Nana Adu told the paper that, one of the delegates, Nana Krontihene of Bassa Traditional area, then suggested that they should sit down and wait for her.
The spokesperson told The Chronicle that later, Madam Titiriku had second thoughts and invited them in.
Nana Otchor revealed that when they had access to her, a lot of suggestions on how to resolve certain issues were raised, including the lifting of the ban on burning of charcoal in the area.
Another issue that the traditional authorities accused the DCE of, bordered on discrimination.
According to Nana Adu, during the celebration of this year’s yam festival by four traditional areas in the district, Madam Titiriku donated only two crates of minerals, one crate of Guinness, 15 plastic chairs and ¢ 1million to three traditional areas namely, Bassa, Dwan and Wiase out of the four, but donated ¢25.5 million to Kajeji Traditional Area, because she hailed from there.
Since the incident occurred, the DCE had switched off her mobile phone and efforts to get her to comment on the issues have proved futile.
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Headmaster "chops" exams fees
Nungua, Accra (Daily Graphic) --
The hopes of 11 JSS Three students of the Ghana National Preparatory School (GHANAPS) at Nungua of writing this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been dashed because the proprietor of the school has squandered their registration fees.
"It was just unfortunate," the Proprietor, Mr Theophilus Tei Okunnor who also doubles as the Headmaster of the school, was reported to have told the police after his arrest.
Mr Okunnor, who is a former Assembly Member for East Nkpor in Nungua, was on Tuesday remanded in police custody, together with the Assistant Headmaster, Mr Ben Nyamekye, after appearing before the La Magistrate Court on a preliminary charge of stealing.
Although BECE candidates are required to pay ¢41,000, which is 28 percent of the registration fee of ¢146,000, with the government absorbing the remainder, the parents and students claimed that they were made to pay ¢100,000 as registration fees for the examination.
According to them, apart from the registration fees, all the other financial investments they had made in the children, such as the payment of school and mock examination fees, the buying of a compiled book of Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) from which they could make their choice and other materials, all totaling ¢1.5 million each (¢16.5 million for all the students) for this academic year alone, had gone down the drain.
Daily Graphic enquiries indicated that Mr Okunnor had all along deceived the parents of the students that he had registered them for the BECE until last Monday, one week to the start of the BECE, when he unveiled his deception to them.
On Tuesday, some of the parents and students stormed the headquarters of the Ghana Education Service (GES) at the Ministries to seek official intervention for their children to write the BECE.
The Director-General of the GES and the Director of Basic Education were not available for comment, but the Daily Graphic said when it called at the offices of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), the engines of the vehicles which were to dispatch examination materials to various parts of the country were warming up.
According to the Public Relations Officer of WAEC, Mrs Agnes Tei-Cudjoe, it was not likely that anything could be done for the affected students now, since all was set for the BECE to start on Monday.
Some of the parents the Daily Graphic caught up with at the Nungua Police Station on Tuesday said about a month ago, Mr Okunnor invited the parents individually to suggest to them to let their children write the BECE next year because their academic performance was not good.
The parents, however, rejected the suggestion and insisted that their children should write the examination and that if they did not perform well, then they would know what to do next.
They said anytime they asked Mr Okunnor whether he had registered the students, he responded in the affirmative so they did not expect that such a thing could happen.
The parents said the students had been attending classes even during the vacation period, in preparation for the BECE but just last Friday the proprietor sent a message through the students to the parents, inviting them for a meeting last Monday, during which he told them the truth.
They said Mr Okunnor had explained that he could not meet the WAEC deadline for the registration, as a result of which he was asked to pay a penalty of ¢2 million, and since he did not want to pass on that penalty to parents, it took him a little while to raise that money, by which time the registration had closed.
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Attorney-General in court
Accra, April 18, GNA -
Mr Joe Ghartey, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, on Wednesday took his turn in court to answer a contempt suit filed against him and Minister of the Interior, saying the application sought to attack his image.
According to him the application was flawed and misplaced, adding that the court's earlier order to reinstate Mr Kojo Hodare Okae, former deputy director, Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), was not directed to the A-G.
He was responding to a contempt suit filed against him and the Minister of the Interior for failing to re-instate Mr Okae. Mr Okae on September 5, 2002 received a letter signed by the then Acting Interior Minister Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor informing him that the President had transferred him from GIS to the Ghana Free Zone Board (GFZB).
When Mr Okae proceeded to GFZB he realised that he had no role to play and was not accepted by the Board.
Mr Okae said after exhausting all available avenues, and in view of the frustrations, he sought redress from the court, which gave judgement in his favour in 2005.
The court declared that Mr Okae be reinstated in the public service.
On January 27, this year Mr Okae reached his compulsory retirement age.
Responding to the affidavit and motion filed by Mr Okae, Mr Ghartey noted that issues relating to reinstatement should have been done by the President and not the Attorney General.
"The president does not pay entitlements. All that the applicant ought to do was to notify the Controller and Accountant General of his entitlements."
He said the judgement of the court did not put him out of public service, and instead of him going to the right place for reinstatement he rather went to wrong places.
Mr Ghartey said the Controller and Accountant General was to work Mr Okae's entitlements and not the Attorney General adding that the certificate of judgement was not served on the A-G.
The A-G said as at the time the applicant had reached 60, he had not served the certificate of judgment on the A-G, adding that the attachment of the A-G in the contempt suit was directly misplaced. In an affidavit in support of a motion, Mr Okae pointed out that he had made efforts to get the A-G to comply with the court order but he had refused to comply.
He said he had reached his retiring age in January this year, without being posted anywhere in the public service. "The attitude of the A-G clearly shows a determination on his part to use state power arbitrarily to trample upon my rights," he said. Mr Akoto Apaw who represented Mr Okae admitted that the Court order was directed to the President but said since it was the A-G who enforced the powers of the Executive it was relevant to attach him to the contempt application.
The Court after listening to both applications adjourned the matter to April 26 to rule on the matter.
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GNA
BOG only authority to issue currency
Birase (C/R), April 18, GNA -
The 1992 constitution mandates the Bank of Ghana (BOG) as the sole authority to issue currency in the country.
It also enjoins the Bank under Article 183 to promote, maintain and regulate the currency to promote national economic progress. Neenyi Kofi Tagoe, Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) District Director of the National Commission for Civil Education (NCCE), stated these when he refuted an allegation that the re-denomination of the cedi was to the benefit of a particular political party. Answering a question at a forum at Birase near Komenda in the Central Region, he appealed to people to stop politicising the exercise in the interest of the nation.
Neenyi Tagoe pointed out that even though the old currency would cease to be legal tender after December 31, 2007, it could be changed in any bank in the country for the new one.
There is no need for panic changing since there is no time limit to change the old money, the NCCE Director stated.
Mr. John Prince Mensah, Civic Education Officer, explaining the need for the exercise said it would facilitate business since it would curtail the carrying of huge sums for business transactions and simplify accounting and book keeping.
Similar forums had been held at Dominase, Atonkwa, Ayensudo, Komenda and Elmina.
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MP donates to Schools
Accra, April 18, GNA -
Nii Amasah Namoale, Member of Parliament for Dade Kotopon on Wednesday presented stationery items worth 30 million cedis to schools within his Constituency to motivate them towards their examinations this year.
The items, which included mathematical sets, pens, pencils and success cards with each pupil's name boldly written on it were given to 2,500 finalists to encourage them give of their best in the forthcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), which begins on Monday. Presenting the items, Nii Namoale said education was an important tool in national development, which needed attention, adding that it was necessary for people to educate themselves to embrace the storms in future.
He said education has no limit and urged the pupils to learn hard even after their basic education to survive well in any economic conditions, especially in the capital city. He urged the pupils, especially the girls to avoid early marriage and immoral activities, which would disrupt their education and make them vulnerable to unscrupulous men who would take advantage of them and destroy their bright future.
Nii Namoale called on the teachers and parents of all the schools to give of their best in supporting their education, which he said, was the key to success.
Col Kenneth Osei-Kwadwo, Director Ghana Armed Forces Education Corpse, who received the items on behalf of Five Garrison Education Unit at Burma-camp expressed his gratitude to the MP and called on all to nullify the perception that Burma-camp schools were well to do. Col Osei-Kwadwo said "motivating pupils in times like this when their exam is near was a step in the right direction coming from someone who belongs to an important organ of the nation.
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Generator use creating noise problems for Tema residents
Tema, April 18, GNA -
Reports received by the Tema Office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicate that churches contribute largely to noise making in the communities.
In the first quarter of this year, the residents have lodged 10 complaints against the churches and the office has asked the churches concerned, mostly the charismatic ones, to reduce their "all night" church services.
The Senior Programme Officer of the Tema Office of the EPA revealed this to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Tema to mark the second national noise awareness day that fell on Monday, April 16. The day was observed under the theme "Control noise, protect your health".
He said despite warnings, the churches continue to ignore the EPA's directives and rather called at the office to trade insults and curses on the officials while their "prayer warriors" pray in the background with the intention to change the mind of the officials.
These Churches, which he described as the most difficult group to deal with, normally use loud musical instruments, shout while praying, sing loudly and dance through out the night coupled with their "deliverance" during worship.
Mr Tettey said the recalcitrant ones are made to sign undertakings so that when they flout it they are sent to court.
Other sources of noise in the municipality are the drinking bars, factories, lorry stations, social gatherings among others but of all the churches contribute to about 70 percent.
The Programme Officer said his outfit is also grappling with numerous complaints received from residents about generators causing excessive noise.
He advised those using generators to house and install silencers to control the noise else the law would deal with them.
He said ideally landlords and ladies are mandated to involve officials of EPA when installing vital items in the house to ensure their proper location in order not to cause inconvenience to neighbours but they fail to abide by the law.
To enable the public appreciate the harmful effects of noise making, his office is intensifying its education drive starting from the schools and this would be extended to the communities. Mr Tettey said the noise awareness day was set aside in 2004 in the country to draw public attention to the harmful effects of noise on health and hearing ability.
He said the head office of the EPA has procured 15 noise meters at three billion cedis for its regional and district offices for monitoring purposes.
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New Drivers' License Out
... Only for Literates
.... What if applicant is literate in a local language?
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority has launched a new driver’s license which requires that from next year, the possessor must be literate with at least the basic school certificate. The new license which is in a form of a plastic identity card is to replace the existing one for all categories of drivers -private, commercial or international. It is renewable after six years.
The new license which costs 154,000 cedis has security features like water marks and the national coat of arms logo. Each of the DVLA's 23 offices (pictured)nationwide is eligible to issue a drivers' license. Launching the new license in Accra on Monday, the Chief Executive Officer of the DVLA, Joe Osei Owusu said the introduction of the new licenses would eliminate the activities of middle men, popularly called 'goro boys' and to meet international standards.
The minimum education requirement, he said is to make for easier assimilation of traffic safety signs and regulations. Mr. Osei-Owusu said unlike the booklet type of license which could easily be faked and destroyed, the plastic and computerized type is more durable able and cannot be destroyed easily or duplicated. He said it is not advisable for the bearers of the existing license to change for new one unless the expiry date is due.
He noted that following the intensification of public education by the DVLA the number of clients kept increasing which implied that they were beginning to realize that they had been issued with fake documents prepared by outsiders. Over 2,000 fake licenses have been intercepted and impounded by the DVLA as a result of the campaign. In order to differentiate between genuine DVLA staff and the 'goro boys', the staff have been given DVLA ID cards which should help clients avoid imposters.
C.W. Musah, Director, Driver Training/Testing and Licensing who briefed the media on the new computerized system said the machines have signature column, eye testing, finger printing and camera sections to ensure a one stop processing of documents. This requires that the applicant must be present to go through the process unlike the old system where applicants could have their licenses renewed though third parties.
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Health Insurance attracts more members in Nkwanta District
Nkwanta (V/R), April 18, GNA -
Membership of the Nkwanta District Health Insurance scheme rose from 6,500 to 21,699 between February and December 2006, the year of its inauguration.
During the period the scheme realized 457.9 million cedis from premiums and paid out 1.7 billion cedis as claims to its service providers. Mr Prosper Ohumawu, the Nkwanta District Manager of the Scheme, made these known to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Nkwanta.
He said the district scheme received 1.7 billion cedis from the government on behalf of groups exempted from paying premiums.
Mr Ohumawu said the district scheme has started issuing booklet identity cards to its subscribers to last for five years to reduce the cost of yearly renewals.
He projected that by the end of 2007 the scheme would capture more than half of the people in the district.
Mr Ohumawu said motorcycles and bicycles were needed to be able to reach out to scattered villages and hamlets and expressed regret that some members rush to health facilities at the slightest sign of ill health.
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