GALAMSEY FIGHT: GOVERNMENT SQUANDERED OVER GH¢1228M – EMPI
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government led by the president, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in its failed bid to defeat the illegal galamsey menace as they promised in their 2016 general election manifesto, wasted a whooping GH¢1228Million of our hard earned taxpayers money. Th...
Published On - April 19, 2020
LOCKDOWN LIFTING BAD, ILL-THOUGHT-OUT
The decision by the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to lift the three (3) week old partial lockdown of Accra, Kumasi and Tema to be bad, ill-thought-out and regrettable now that Ghana’s case count has rapidly risen to 1,042. The president said on his update number 7 measures taken against t...
Published On - April 14, 2020
COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: HUMAN RIGHTS ‘STUPIDITY’ MUST STOP
There is this Akan idiom that literally and loosely translates as: the stern treatment of the nephew’s ankle sore or wound will make him wail and over-pampering him too would end up his leg being amputated. The wisdom in this idiom must apply if President Akufo Addo is truly serious about fighting...
Published On - April 6, 2020
COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS AN OPPORTUNITY
President J.F. Kennedy once remarked that the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. There is no doubt that the Covid-19 crisis has caused many problems, but it also creates opportunities for innovation. It is not surprising that some ...
Published On - March 30, 2020
COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: POSTERITY WILL JUDGE AKUFO ADDO RIGHT
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an address to the nation on Friday, 27TH March, 2020 announced lockdown of Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Kasoa for a period of two weeks subject to review, effective Monday, March 30, 2020 in a bid to halt the spread of the contagious coronavirus pandem...
Published On - March 29, 2020
MY THOUGHTS ON COVID-19: MOSES AKUMIAH
Let Us PRAY for MERCY Now. As I contemplate in my locked down state, I am inspired to write you this piece. For several weeks now the novel Virus Covid-19 has ravaged almost every country on the planet, causing fear, panic and death. World superpowers & great Economies have been brought t...
Published On - March 10, 2020
OVER-AGE CARS, CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES BUT NOT NDC / NPP – EMPI
There is currently a raging debate in our traditional and social media spaces about a legislation that has been tabled before parliament about a complete ban on over-age and salvaged or accident motor vehicles imported into the country. Over-age cars as our law currently define are motor vehi...
Published On - March 8, 2020
OSEI ASSIBEY-ANTWI MUST APOLOGISE OR RESIGN – EMPI
The Environmental and Mining Policy Institute (EMPI) by this statement is giving the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Kumasi – Osei Assibey-Antwi, seven days ultimatum to either find the developer who bulldozed a parcel of land bothering the Subin River in the heart of the Kumasi c...
Published On - March 5, 2020
ABENA DAPAAH, ADJEI SOWAH MUST SIT UP
The minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah must sit up as Accra sits on tenterhooks as the capital city is bracing for the worse in the coming months on the eve of the meteorological service agency’s warning for the worse of the impending rain season. According to ...
Published On - February 29, 2020
JOSPONG’S OFF-TAKER CALL TO GOVERNMENT WARRANTED
The Kumasi Compost and Recycling Plant (KCARP) call to government through Members of Parliament to consider granting the company off-taker agreement to manage and recycle municipal waste in Kumasi and the Ashanti Region in general is warranted, ‘non-negotiable’ and is in the best interest...