Story: Samuel Duodu, Fiapre
The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has been elected as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate to contest the Sunyani West Constituency seat in the Brong Ahafo Region during the December general elections.
At the party’s constituency delegates’ conference held at Fiapre in the Sunyani West District on Monday and supervised by the Sunyani Municipal Directorate of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr Baffour Awuah polled 110 votes out of the 113 votes cast, while his main opponent, Dr Joseph Adu-Mensah, a lecturer at the Kwadaso Agriculture College in the Ashanti Region, obtained three votes.
The 113 delegates out of a total of 115 voted while two were absent. Two other aspirants, Madam Evelyn Adarkwa Frema, the Proprietress of St Declan Preparatory School at Odumase No. 1, and Prof. Acheampong Yaw Amoateng, Director of Child, Youth and Social Development, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), who had filed their nominations withdrew from the contest some few minutes to voting.
Mr Ofori Pewiah, the Municipal Director of the EC, after the counting of the ballots cast which went in favour of Mr Baffour Awuah, subsequently declared him as the winner amidst thunderous applause from the crowd that had gathered outside the Fiapre Methodist Church, the venue for the primaries.
In his victory speech, Mr Baffour Awuah pledged to work closely with all the aspirants to ensure that the party recorded a wider margin in both the presidential and the parliamentary elections.
He thanked the delegates for electing him to contest on the party’s ticket for the Sunyani West Constituency in the forthcoming general elections and pledged that he would provide the polling station executive with the necessary logistics to embark on a vigorous campaign to retain the parliamentary seat for the party.
Mr Baffour Awuah urged supporters of the party to close their ranks and work hard to ensure that the party retained power and the Sunyani West parliamentary seat in the December polls.
He also promised to use his wealth of experience to lobby for more development projects to the constituency and therefore appealed to the electorate to vote massively for him.
Conceding defeat, Dr Adu-Mensah pledged to throw his weight behind Mr Baffour Awuah to ensure that the party retained the parliamentary seat.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
ZOOMLION LAUNCHES NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT CONCEPT (PAGE 21)
Story: Samuel Duodu, Sunyani
THE Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has called on assembly members, traditional authorities and religious leaders to lead the crusade against indiscriminate dumping of refuse and littering in their various communities.
He said the poor sanitary habits exhibited by some people could be corrected if assembly members, chiefs and religious leaders, who lived closer to the people in their vicinities, would take it upon themselves to educate people to desist from such negative acts.
Mr Baffour-Awuah made the call at the launch of a new waste management concept by Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management company.
The new concept is aimed at actively involving assembly members in waste collection in their electoral areas, especially the door-to-door collection, in the spirit of public-private participation in waste management.
Under the project, Zoomlion would provide the necessary logistics for assembly members to educate the public on good sanitation.
To this end, Zoomlion would provide trucks equipped with public address systems to be used for the waste collection at the cost of GH¢19,500.
Mr Baffour-Awuah attributed the sharp increase in malaria cases and other preventable diseases such as typhoid, diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera to the insanitary conditions created in the cities, towns and villages.
Those diseases, he stated, could easily be prevented if people desisted from indiscriminate dumping of refuse in gutters and drains that tended to be the breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other insects.
The regional minister appealed to the various municipal and district assemblies to rigidly enforce their sanitation bye-laws to help protect the environment, stressing that the public must also assist by keeping their surrounding clean at all times.
Mr Baffour-Awuah expressed the hope that the new concept, which was a further collaboration between Zoomlion and the district assemblies, would enhance waste collection and management in the country.
The Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zoomlion, Nana Yaw Sarkodie, stated that the new concept was not the first time that Zoomlion was working in collaboration with the assemblies to ensure national development, especially in the areas of health and sanitation.
He expressed the hope that the project would go a long way to improve environmental sanitation in the country.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Co-ordinator of Zoomlion, Mr Kwame Gariba, said the trucks to be used by the assembly members for the waste collection and public education, would be given to each municipal and district assembly on hire purchase basis.
He said payment would be spread over a period of five years, while Zoomlion would be responsible for the servicing, repairs and maintenance cost of the truck.
Mr Gariba added that under the project, Zoomlion would also provide GH¢200 for the public education component, while assembly members would only be responsible for the payment of the driver’s salary and fuelling of the trucks.
According to him, under the project, residents were expected to pay a token to support its sustainability.
THE Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has called on assembly members, traditional authorities and religious leaders to lead the crusade against indiscriminate dumping of refuse and littering in their various communities.
He said the poor sanitary habits exhibited by some people could be corrected if assembly members, chiefs and religious leaders, who lived closer to the people in their vicinities, would take it upon themselves to educate people to desist from such negative acts.
Mr Baffour-Awuah made the call at the launch of a new waste management concept by Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management company.
The new concept is aimed at actively involving assembly members in waste collection in their electoral areas, especially the door-to-door collection, in the spirit of public-private participation in waste management.
Under the project, Zoomlion would provide the necessary logistics for assembly members to educate the public on good sanitation.
To this end, Zoomlion would provide trucks equipped with public address systems to be used for the waste collection at the cost of GH¢19,500.
Mr Baffour-Awuah attributed the sharp increase in malaria cases and other preventable diseases such as typhoid, diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera to the insanitary conditions created in the cities, towns and villages.
Those diseases, he stated, could easily be prevented if people desisted from indiscriminate dumping of refuse in gutters and drains that tended to be the breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other insects.
The regional minister appealed to the various municipal and district assemblies to rigidly enforce their sanitation bye-laws to help protect the environment, stressing that the public must also assist by keeping their surrounding clean at all times.
Mr Baffour-Awuah expressed the hope that the new concept, which was a further collaboration between Zoomlion and the district assemblies, would enhance waste collection and management in the country.
The Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zoomlion, Nana Yaw Sarkodie, stated that the new concept was not the first time that Zoomlion was working in collaboration with the assemblies to ensure national development, especially in the areas of health and sanitation.
He expressed the hope that the project would go a long way to improve environmental sanitation in the country.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Co-ordinator of Zoomlion, Mr Kwame Gariba, said the trucks to be used by the assembly members for the waste collection and public education, would be given to each municipal and district assembly on hire purchase basis.
He said payment would be spread over a period of five years, while Zoomlion would be responsible for the servicing, repairs and maintenance cost of the truck.
Mr Gariba added that under the project, Zoomlion would also provide GH¢200 for the public education component, while assembly members would only be responsible for the payment of the driver’s salary and fuelling of the trucks.
According to him, under the project, residents were expected to pay a token to support its sustainability.
Monday, April 28, 2008
DRIVER FINED FOR DRINK DRIVING (PAGE 32)
Story: Samuel Duodu, Sunyani
A 30-year-old driver who was arrested for taking in alcohol beyond the statutory 0.08 per cent in the Sunyani township by personnel of the Brong Ahafo Regional Police Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢6,000 or in default serve two years’ imprisonment in hard labour by the Duayaw Nkwanta Circuit Court.
The convict, Kwaku Fosu, who pleaded guilty to the offence of driving a motor vehicle when alcohol concentration in his blood was above the prescribed limit, was sentenced on his own plea by the court, presided over by Mr Emmanuel Yartey.
According to the Regional Police Commander of the MTTU, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ansu Frimpong, on April 16, 2008 at about 6.50 a.m. Fosu who was driving a Nissan mini bus was travelling from Kumasi to Sunyani with passengers on board.
He said on reaching the Sunyani township personnel from the regional MTTU who were on patrol duties stopped the convict to produce his driving licence, but he struggled to alight from the driver’s seat.
ASP Frimpong stated further that the police became suspicious that the convict was drunk and he (convict) was therefore escorted to the Regional Police MTTU office and when he was tested with the breathalyser it showed 120 per cent instead of the 0.08 per cent.
He said the convict was shown the result of the test and he admitted at the police station to have taken in some alcohol.
He was subsequently put before the court.
A 30-year-old driver who was arrested for taking in alcohol beyond the statutory 0.08 per cent in the Sunyani township by personnel of the Brong Ahafo Regional Police Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢6,000 or in default serve two years’ imprisonment in hard labour by the Duayaw Nkwanta Circuit Court.
The convict, Kwaku Fosu, who pleaded guilty to the offence of driving a motor vehicle when alcohol concentration in his blood was above the prescribed limit, was sentenced on his own plea by the court, presided over by Mr Emmanuel Yartey.
According to the Regional Police Commander of the MTTU, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ansu Frimpong, on April 16, 2008 at about 6.50 a.m. Fosu who was driving a Nissan mini bus was travelling from Kumasi to Sunyani with passengers on board.
He said on reaching the Sunyani township personnel from the regional MTTU who were on patrol duties stopped the convict to produce his driving licence, but he struggled to alight from the driver’s seat.
ASP Frimpong stated further that the police became suspicious that the convict was drunk and he (convict) was therefore escorted to the Regional Police MTTU office and when he was tested with the breathalyser it showed 120 per cent instead of the 0.08 per cent.
He said the convict was shown the result of the test and he admitted at the police station to have taken in some alcohol.
He was subsequently put before the court.
DON'T POLITICISE PROJECTS — BAFFOUR-AWUAH (PAGE 9)
Story: Samuel Duodu,
Sunyani.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has urged Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) operators in the region not to politicise the Ghana Government (GOG) and the World Bank (WB) project for MSMEs in the country.
They should rather strive to derive the full benefits from the project.
According to him, the MSMEs project, which is jointly financed by the government and the World Bank was aimed at supporting entrepreneurship development, trigger growth and lower poverty levels in the country.
The minister noted that the project was so important to the region that it could not be underestimated.
“The region, therefore, sees the launching of the project as timely and good opportunity for the business community to further improve upon their enterprises, increase their production levels and generate more job opportunities”, he stressed.
Mr Baffour Awuah said this in an address read on his behalf by Mr Kwame Twumasi-Awuah, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, at the regional launch of the GOG/WB MSME project in Sunyani, the regional capital.
The MSME project is a Government of Ghana initiative to provide essential financing and technical support to enhance MSMEs development in the country.
It is expected that the project would generate growth in the national economy and lower poverty levels by increasing the competitiveness and employment levels of MSMEs.
Mr Baffour-Awuah observed that though MSMEs contributed towards the overall development of the nation and the region in particular, there were challenges that their operations faced and mentioned some of them as poor road network to the rural areas, irregular supply of electricity and water, inaccessibility of credits to small and medium enterprises at the bank’s since most banks insist on collaterals which they find difficult to get.
However, he stated that despite these challenges that the operators were confronted with, it was his expectation that the vigorous infrastructure development programme that the government was pursuing would solve some of the challenges.
Mr Baffour-Awuah also expressed the hope that the project would go a long way to free MSMEs operators from the problems associated with capacity building, access to market and technical assistance.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist on the project, David Oppong, said the $119 million nationwide project, which would last for a period of five years, would reduce business constraints faced by the MSMEs, such as technical barriers to trade.
It would also develop and strengthen the capacity of local intermediaries to deliver financial and non-financial services to MSMEs as well as build the capacity of MSMEs.
Sunyani.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has urged Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) operators in the region not to politicise the Ghana Government (GOG) and the World Bank (WB) project for MSMEs in the country.
They should rather strive to derive the full benefits from the project.
According to him, the MSMEs project, which is jointly financed by the government and the World Bank was aimed at supporting entrepreneurship development, trigger growth and lower poverty levels in the country.
The minister noted that the project was so important to the region that it could not be underestimated.
“The region, therefore, sees the launching of the project as timely and good opportunity for the business community to further improve upon their enterprises, increase their production levels and generate more job opportunities”, he stressed.
Mr Baffour Awuah said this in an address read on his behalf by Mr Kwame Twumasi-Awuah, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, at the regional launch of the GOG/WB MSME project in Sunyani, the regional capital.
The MSME project is a Government of Ghana initiative to provide essential financing and technical support to enhance MSMEs development in the country.
It is expected that the project would generate growth in the national economy and lower poverty levels by increasing the competitiveness and employment levels of MSMEs.
Mr Baffour-Awuah observed that though MSMEs contributed towards the overall development of the nation and the region in particular, there were challenges that their operations faced and mentioned some of them as poor road network to the rural areas, irregular supply of electricity and water, inaccessibility of credits to small and medium enterprises at the bank’s since most banks insist on collaterals which they find difficult to get.
However, he stated that despite these challenges that the operators were confronted with, it was his expectation that the vigorous infrastructure development programme that the government was pursuing would solve some of the challenges.
Mr Baffour-Awuah also expressed the hope that the project would go a long way to free MSMEs operators from the problems associated with capacity building, access to market and technical assistance.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist on the project, David Oppong, said the $119 million nationwide project, which would last for a period of five years, would reduce business constraints faced by the MSMEs, such as technical barriers to trade.
It would also develop and strengthen the capacity of local intermediaries to deliver financial and non-financial services to MSMEs as well as build the capacity of MSMEs.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
2 Sunyani schools get litter bins
April 16 (page 21)
Story: Samuel Duodu, Sunyani
THE Brong Ahafo Regional Environmental Network Committee (RENC), the regional advisory committee on environment, has presented litter bins worth GH¢300 to two basic schools in the Sunyani Municipality at separate ceremonies in Sunyani.
The beneficiary schools were the Ridge Experimental ‘A’ School (north campus) and High Street Junior High School (JHS) at Penkwasi, a suburb of Sunyani. Each of the schools received two litter bins.
The committee which comprises representatives from the Brong Ahafo Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environmental Health Directorate and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) was set up to identify environmental problems in the region and make recommendations for their solution.
Presenting the items, the Chairman of RENC, Mr Nat Dzadey, who is also a Deputy Director at the RCC, said the donation was aimed at inculcating the habit of environmental sanitation in schoolchildren in the municipality.
Another objective of the donation, he said, was to promote environmental sanitation in public basic schools in the municipality and to create the awareness among schoolchildren on the need to keep their surroundings clean always.
Mr Dzadey stated that the litter bins were purchased through an appeal made to certain individuals and organisations in the municipality to help procure them for distribution to basic schools, lorry parks and markets to reduce indiscriminate disposal of refuse.
He thanked the sponsors and expressed the hope that others would support the RENC to ensure a clean and safe environment in the region.
Mr Dzadey urged the schoolchildren to desist from littering the environment, especially with plastic waste that could not decompose easily.
The Regional Director of the EPA, Mr Isaac Osei, who is a member of the committee, said schoolchildren were targeted for the programme because they were seen as agents of change in the society.
The Headmistress of Ridge Experimental, Mrs Rosemary Annor Sakyi, and Mr Emmanuel Boafo, the Headmaster of High Street JHS, expressed their gratitude to the committee.
He noted that the litter bins would go a long way to enhance sanitation in their schools.
They pledged to take good care of the bins and advised the schoolchildren to use them instead of littering the school compound.
Story: Samuel Duodu, Sunyani
THE Brong Ahafo Regional Environmental Network Committee (RENC), the regional advisory committee on environment, has presented litter bins worth GH¢300 to two basic schools in the Sunyani Municipality at separate ceremonies in Sunyani.
The beneficiary schools were the Ridge Experimental ‘A’ School (north campus) and High Street Junior High School (JHS) at Penkwasi, a suburb of Sunyani. Each of the schools received two litter bins.
The committee which comprises representatives from the Brong Ahafo Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environmental Health Directorate and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) was set up to identify environmental problems in the region and make recommendations for their solution.
Presenting the items, the Chairman of RENC, Mr Nat Dzadey, who is also a Deputy Director at the RCC, said the donation was aimed at inculcating the habit of environmental sanitation in schoolchildren in the municipality.
Another objective of the donation, he said, was to promote environmental sanitation in public basic schools in the municipality and to create the awareness among schoolchildren on the need to keep their surroundings clean always.
Mr Dzadey stated that the litter bins were purchased through an appeal made to certain individuals and organisations in the municipality to help procure them for distribution to basic schools, lorry parks and markets to reduce indiscriminate disposal of refuse.
He thanked the sponsors and expressed the hope that others would support the RENC to ensure a clean and safe environment in the region.
Mr Dzadey urged the schoolchildren to desist from littering the environment, especially with plastic waste that could not decompose easily.
The Regional Director of the EPA, Mr Isaac Osei, who is a member of the committee, said schoolchildren were targeted for the programme because they were seen as agents of change in the society.
The Headmistress of Ridge Experimental, Mrs Rosemary Annor Sakyi, and Mr Emmanuel Boafo, the Headmaster of High Street JHS, expressed their gratitude to the committee.
He noted that the litter bins would go a long way to enhance sanitation in their schools.
They pledged to take good care of the bins and advised the schoolchildren to use them instead of littering the school compound.
Bawa defects to NPP
April15
Story: Samuel Duodu, Sunyani
A former Brong Ahafo Regional Deputy Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Dauda Bawa, 67, has announced his defection from the party to join the Nasara club of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Alhaji Bawa who announced his defection at a press conference held in Sunyani, stated that his decision to defect from the NDC to the Nasara Club of the NPP was based on his personal convictions.
Alhaji Bawa, who was flanked by the executives of the Nasara club, stated that he had no problem with the NDC as a party and expressed his admiration for former President Rawlings for his good work during his rule, but added that he was moved by the dedication and selfless service rendered by the NPP government led by President Kufuor that had brought development to every nook and cranny of the country.
Story: Samuel Duodu, Sunyani
A former Brong Ahafo Regional Deputy Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Dauda Bawa, 67, has announced his defection from the party to join the Nasara club of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Alhaji Bawa who announced his defection at a press conference held in Sunyani, stated that his decision to defect from the NDC to the Nasara Club of the NPP was based on his personal convictions.
Alhaji Bawa, who was flanked by the executives of the Nasara club, stated that he had no problem with the NDC as a party and expressed his admiration for former President Rawlings for his good work during his rule, but added that he was moved by the dedication and selfless service rendered by the NPP government led by President Kufuor that had brought development to every nook and cranny of the country.
Three widows will soon be free
April 15, 2008
Story: Samuel Duodu,
New Longolo
THE three ‘royal’ widows of the Mo Traditional Council in the Brong Ahafo Region have consented to the latest agreement by the council to elect Nana Adjei Adinkra II, Krontihene of New Longolo, as the acting President of the traditional council to perform the final funeral rites for the late chief.
This means that the widows, Madam Yaa Nsia, Madam Afua Nkume and Madam Ama Sumaa, who have performed widowhood rites for nine years since the death of their husband, Nana Kwaku Dimpo 11, chief of New Longolo in the Kimtampo North District, will be free after the funeral rites.
This develpoment follows a meeting held at New Longolo on April 4, 2008 between the family of the late chief and the Mo Traditional Council to elect an acting president for the council. During the meeting, July 25 to 31, 2008 was slated for the celebration of the final funeral rites of Nana Dimpo 11, who died in 1999.
The decision which was reached at the meeting has been communicated to the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, which has also given its approval for the funeral of the late chief to be performed to ‘free’ the women.
The culture of the Mo Traditional Area demands that the successor to the deceased chief should perform the final funeral rites of his predecessor and that after the final funeral rites of the late chief that the widows would be freed from widowhood.
It will be recalled that the Daily Graphic in its April 5, 2008 edition published an appeal by the three ‘royal’ widows asking the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs to expedite action on the settling of the disputes among the three gates of the Mo stool for the final funeral rites of their late husband to be performed for them to be free.
The widows, who have been confined to their rooms and the compound of their homes for the past nine years, had rejected earlier moves by the head of their late husband’s family to perform the initiation to relieve them of widowhood describing such an action as a breach of tradition.
Story: Samuel Duodu,
New Longolo
THE three ‘royal’ widows of the Mo Traditional Council in the Brong Ahafo Region have consented to the latest agreement by the council to elect Nana Adjei Adinkra II, Krontihene of New Longolo, as the acting President of the traditional council to perform the final funeral rites for the late chief.
This means that the widows, Madam Yaa Nsia, Madam Afua Nkume and Madam Ama Sumaa, who have performed widowhood rites for nine years since the death of their husband, Nana Kwaku Dimpo 11, chief of New Longolo in the Kimtampo North District, will be free after the funeral rites.
This develpoment follows a meeting held at New Longolo on April 4, 2008 between the family of the late chief and the Mo Traditional Council to elect an acting president for the council. During the meeting, July 25 to 31, 2008 was slated for the celebration of the final funeral rites of Nana Dimpo 11, who died in 1999.
The decision which was reached at the meeting has been communicated to the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, which has also given its approval for the funeral of the late chief to be performed to ‘free’ the women.
The culture of the Mo Traditional Area demands that the successor to the deceased chief should perform the final funeral rites of his predecessor and that after the final funeral rites of the late chief that the widows would be freed from widowhood.
It will be recalled that the Daily Graphic in its April 5, 2008 edition published an appeal by the three ‘royal’ widows asking the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs to expedite action on the settling of the disputes among the three gates of the Mo stool for the final funeral rites of their late husband to be performed for them to be free.
The widows, who have been confined to their rooms and the compound of their homes for the past nine years, had rejected earlier moves by the head of their late husband’s family to perform the initiation to relieve them of widowhood describing such an action as a breach of tradition.
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