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The Member of Parliament for Ketu South Constituency, Abla Dzifa Gomashie, has described the imposition of taxes on sanitary pads as insensitive to girls and women.Speaking on the Class Morning Show’s edition of March 8th, 2023 with Korku Lumor on the occasion of International Women’s Day, Abla Dzifa Gomashie indicated that women are beset with a lot of barriers, including the biological process of menstruation.According to her, the imposition of taxes on their basic need such as sanitary pads is repressive to their growth.“Policies and societal, cultural inhibitions, cow many women from achieving their full potential.“Women are beset by varied…
The deputy secretary of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) in the Ashanti Region has described the response by the deputy Minister for Defence to the military brutality in the Ashaiman community as senseless.According to him, the military in the first place had no business going to Ashaiman on such an operation if investigations have not been done to identify the hideout of those who orchestrated the crime of killing a young soldier.“They didn’t ask them to go and do anything, they asked them to go and beat them. Is the military in charge of investigations? So what did they go there…
The Member of Parliament for Okaikwei North Constituency, Theresa Lardi Awuni, has described as shameful the government’s failure to procure vaccines for the immunisation of babies.There is a widespread shortage of some vaccines used for routine immunisation of babies from birth to at least 18 months in the country.Experts say the situation has the potential to increase the vulnerability of children to the diseases the vaccines seek to protect them against.Despite concerns being raised by the Minority to seek answers to the situation, the Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu says he does not know when the vaccines will arrive.The Minister…
Media personality Kwame A Plus has reacted to Tuesday, March 7 swoop by the military on Ashaiman official town.The military said they were in the area to find killers of a young sldier, 21-year-old Trooper Sherrif Imoro, who had been killed by unknown assailants on March 4.A Plus commiserated with the peaceloving people of Ashaiman who he said had been subjected to the terrorism of criminals living in the notorious area.”How do you defend this?” he asked after pointing out how the search for a murderer had led soldiers to conduct a swoop “to brutalize everyone including the good people…
Convener of the Fix The Country movement, Oliver Barker-Vormawor has expressed disappointment at the failure of president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to speak to the recent killing of a soldier and subsequent military swoop in Ashaiman in Accra.He is particularly concerned that there is a national conversation around the developments yet Akufo-Addo failed even during the March 8 State of the Nation Address (SoNA) to speak to the matter.Speaking on the Ghana Tonight show on TV3 (March 8, 2023), the activist cum lawyer submitted: “A young man has lost his life, a military official has lost his life in circumstances…
Kasimu Abudulai, the Acting Upper East Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says the prolonged conflict in Bawku has affected the Authority’s performance in 2022.He said it caused a 47 per cent shortfall in membership in the area.“This, no doubt will affect our efforts at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the Region,” he added.Kasimu Abudulai, who was speaking at the 2022 annual performance review meeting of the Authority in Bolgatanga, appealed to stakeholders in the conflict to smoke the peace pipe to enable the area to derive the needed development.The meeting held on the theme: “The…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has questioned the State’s posture in the case against its Suame Youth Organizer, Razak Koampa Avoliya.Mr Avoliya was arrested, charged and arraigned after he was captured in a viral video threatening mayhem ahead of the 2024 polls. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge of offensive conduct.During sittings on Thursday (9 March), the court was compelled to adjourn the sitting to April 4, after the prosecution requested more time to file and serve defence counsel with its witness statement. The documents will include the transcription of the content of the viral video from…
Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi has alleged that Former President John Dramani Mahama did not attend Ghana’s 66th Independence Day Celebration held in the Volta Region because of pain and anger he harbours in him.Chairman Wontumi argued that for the sake of the people in the region, Mr. Mahama should have attended the celebration considering the fact that, where the event was held in the stronghold of his party National Democratic Congress (NDC) which could have been an opportunity for him.This comment by the…
A 35-year-old man who allegedly abused his 15-year-old daughter sexually and claims the act “is a tradition” has been put before a Gender Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters in Accra.Bless Gatogo, alleged to have abused his daughter on three occasions at Okushiebiade, near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region, has been charged with incest and defilement.The accused person has denied the charges.The court presided over by Dora Eshun has admitted Gatogo to bail in the sum of GH¢20,000 with two sureties who are to be known by the Police.The court has adjourned the matter to March 27 for…
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako, known as Chairman Wontumi, has revealed that he had to bring his children back home from the United Kingdom (UK) because there is unbearable hardship there.“There is too much hardship in the UK. As I speak to you, I have brought them all to live in Ghana because Ghana now is better than the UK”, Chairman Wontumi said on Movement TV in an interview monitored by MyNewsGH.com.He added that all his children are UK citizens but he had to take that tough decision.According to him, there is…
