Articles from the ‘Local’ category
Posted by GNA on June 18, 2009 at 9:58 am in Local, Politics
Mr. Omane Agyekum, Mampong Municipal Director of National Commission for Civic education (NCCE) has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to introduce biometric voting in the 2012 parliamentary and presidential elections to ensure clean and credible elections. Mr Agyekum made this suggestion when he presented a paper on, “Beyond Elections†last Saturday during the 5th [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:55 am in Local, Politics
A Founder Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Kofi Mintah has appealed to Ghanaians to remain calm over the government’s house cleaning exercise. “No one should panic as the security operatives embark on an exercise to identify office holders who are in possession of state funds and properties illegally to enable the law [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:54 am in Local, Politics
The Mfantseman West Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to the National Security Coordinator to ensure that the interrogation exercise they have embarked upon is given a human face. Briefing the Ghana News Agency at Mankessim about the party’s position on the exercise, Mr Felix Nyarko-Antwi, the constituency Vice Chairman, who was [...]
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Posted by GNA on June 17, 2009 at 11:40 am in Local, Politics
Mr. Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, has expressed his dissatisfaction about the inability of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s (AMA) to inform him of the decision to rid the national capital of hawkers. “I was not officially informed of this decision, I only heard of it after it had been launched,” he said. Speaking [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 11:38 am in Local, Politics
Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey, Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), on Tuesday proposed that government should establish a Transitional Commission that would ensure the smooth handover of one democratic elected administration to another. He said past experiences where a new government had to go through challenges in the handover of power did not [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 11:38 am in Local, Politics
Mr Francis Ganyaglo, Kpando District Chief Executive on Tuesday said his utmost priority is to facelift Kpando to reflect its status as a district capital. He said the outlook of Kpando and the entire district presently indicates that nothing was working. He therefore pledged to work hard to change the situation in the next four [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:37 am in Local, Politics
The Minority NPP in Parliament on Tuesday raised issues over the absence of the Sports Minister, Mohammed Muntaka, to answer an urgent question about the level of preparations for the Africa Hockey Championship in July. The question had stood in the name of Mr Isaac Asiamah, NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima Mponua and [...]
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Posted by Contributor on June 16, 2009 at 2:37 pm in Local, Politics
The South Dayi constituency Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have declared their support for Mr Semenu Kafui Bekui as the President’s new nominee for the position of District Chief Executive (DCE). Mr Bekui replaces Mrs Perpetual Annan who was rejected by the 17-member Assembly by 13 to 4 votes. “We urge all [...]
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