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The US ambassador to Ghana, Peter Jackson, has said that the US remains committed to help Ghana put in place policies and reforms which would aid in eradicating corruption.
The ambassador made this known during the launch of the Corporate Governance Initiative in Accra Tuesday.
Former President John Dramani Mahama has condemned the raid on the house of Kofi Adams that led to the confiscation of some vehicles.
Writing on social media, the former leader said such ‘unprovoked attacks’ on NDC functionaries must end.
Active politic is so much stress and key political figures who break from it to take a back seat enjoys it so much yet people are still doing everything to be in politics.
This morning GhanaCelebrities.com showed you Ex-President Mahama having some good time eating Lordina’s Jollof, something we doubt he would have enjoyed should he have remained a President with the rearing dumsor situation some parts of Accra have today.
52-year-old vociferous, bitter tongue bashing MP for Ablekuma West constituency and women’s rights activist, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has positively been affected by Nana Addo’s promised change.
The Lawyer facing the vetting committee of parliament today as designated Minister for Communications has totally surprised everyone who knows how uncensored she is on political platforms.
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The rather calm and very articulate Ursula Owusu did not hesitate to point out to the committee that, she is a transformed woman under the Nana Addo administration.
According to a report by Graphic Online, the National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress-Kofi Adams has confirmed on Asempa Fm that “some men said to be from the military, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) and national security on Wednesday confiscated five vehicles parked” in his house at Tema Golf City.
Mr Alex Gyan, the former God is love Funclub/DKM Manager and NPP parliamentary candidate for Kintampo South who became an albatross on the neck of the New Patriotic Party ahead of the just ended general elections due to his involvement in the infamous God is love/ DKM scandal has allegedly been parading himself as District Chief Executive even though no such appointment has been made by the President of the republic.
Mr Gyan who openly claims to be the apple of the eye of the current president as well as the right hand man of the incoming Brong Ahafo regional minister is said to frequently visits the office of the District assemble in order to giving orders to employees of the assembly.
Former President John Dramani Mahama lost elections miserably last year to the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo, who has since taken over his office.
Mahama, who was super confident of winning a second term, has all of a sudden been forced into obscurity whilst his nemesis hogs all the headlines.
Musician and comedian A-Plus has taken to Facebook to call on President Nana Akufo Addo to look into the National Pay Roll as it’s alleged to be full of ghost names, although the system is being operated by an NPP MP.
He wrote:”Please investigate the civil servants’ payroll software. I hear it is run by Byran Achampong, NPP MP for Abetifi. I hear it’s full of ghost names and robbing the state of millions of taxpayers money monthly. We campaigned against the NDC for being corrupt.”
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo Addo says he’s going to do his best for the country but people should understand that he’s a human being and therefore he will make genuine mistakes.
Nana Addo explained that “they will not be mistakes borne either out of ill-will or malice.”
Former President John Dramani Mahama has shown Ghanaians a little glimpse of what he’s up to these days, now that the whole country isn’t on his shoulders – and we’ve gotta say he looks like he’s having fun.
I mean think about it, no more insults, no more political shenanigans, just enjoying some Onaapo jollof.
Erection is the last thing an able man will dream of losing, even if you are a Catholic Priest. This is because if even you don’t need it for cervical services, it’s certainly a feeling that makes you feel healthy and alive. Losing it is the equivalent of a healthy girl or woman who is not pregnant or in her menopause not having her period. Really frustrating.
So in brief that is the trauma the National Youth Organizer of the NDC, Sidii Abubakar Musah, experienced after his party woefully lost the 2016 election.
According to Ghana’s Vice President-Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana’s former President-John Dramani Mahama has spent US$13.9 million on official residence being constructed for the Vice President on the Switchback road at Cantonments in Accra
Bawumia stated that “he was shocked when it was revealed to him that President John Mahama’s administration awarded the contract for the construction through a non-competitive bidding (sole sourcing), reports GraphicOnline.
Speaking at Good Corporate Governance Initiative forum in Accra on Tuesday, Bawumia said: “Very importantly, we want to ensure the strict enforcement of the public procurement Act, Act 663, it is an Act that in my opinion and in the opinion of many, has really been abused recently, the resort to sole-sourcing of contracts has been more the rule rather than the exception.”
The National Service Personnell Association (NASPA) has handed government a one week ultimatum to pay them their ‘real’ allowances or face a strike action.
The NDC government increased the allowances of the personnell from Ghc 350.00 to Ghc 599 just before they left office, with the decision effective January 2017.
Pressure group OccupyGhana has called on the police to investigate the disgraceful allegations of bribery currently flying around Parliament involving the confirmation process of Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko.
In a statement, the group calls for an “independent Police investigation into the damning allegations and a no-holds-barred criminal prosecution of anyone found to be on the wrong side of Ghanaian law in this scandalous development.”
Member of Parliament for North Tongu and former Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has backed up the claims of bribery raised by Mahama Ayariga against Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko.
Mahama Ayariga claimed last week that the then minister designate Agyarko had paid a bribe of Ghc 3,000 each to minority MP’s to speed through his vetting process.
