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What is it that we have benefited from NDC in Talensi? NPP Talensi Parliamentary candidate seeks for answers

Parliamentary Candidate for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Thomas Daunab Wuni has questioned the achievements of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Talensi Constituency since their 19 years in power, especially with the mandate given to them by the people of Talensi constituency. He said the only community center the Constituency is proud of, which was later converted to offices was built under the first NPP government in the early 70s. “What is it that we have benefited, what do we have to show? Go round you will find people building state of the art for their communities; can we point at one in Bolga here? Let alone to come to the Talensi to point at one?”. He questioned “We have a community center that was built in the 70s by the first NPP government; I am not talking about Kufuor’s government. That is the only community center you can look around that we have converted into offices. We have never thought of a community center in our place”. He stressed Talking about road infrastructure, the Parliamentary Candidate described the road infrastructure in Talensi Constituency as very poor road in a solid-state, as he admonished the NDC in Talensi not to talk about road infrastructure, because for all their years in power they did nothing to bring the Talensi road in good shape. “Our road infrastructure is very poor in a solid-state and I hear the NDC followers making the loudest noise about road infrastructure now, calling on the DCE to go and fix the road and the young man has just been in office for just 3 and half years. You had 8 years of NDC government and they did not see anything wrong with the road, and this is the time they are seeing it, you see the propaganda? And they are shouting on top of their voices that the road is not good. Why didn’t the NDC do the road within their 8 years plus the 11 years of Jerry John Rawlings”. He questioned However, he believes the NDC cannot compare themselves to the New Patriotic Party, because the NPP is a policy-oriented party. “You cannot compare NDC to NPP, they called themselves social democrats and they say we are property owing democracy but we have a lot more pro-poor policies than them, so what are they talking about?” He questioned In Education, Mr. Duanab said, education in Talensi since the Akufo Addo administration has seen some progress both in infrastructure and logistics and human resource wise. However, he also believes the Talensi Member of Parliament Mr. Benson Tongo Baba has not done anything better in terms of assisting Talensi Children with some learning competitions as a way of preparing them ahead of the BECE exams. “In 2015, I identify something, because I followed the performance of statistics of BECE related to my district; I studied 3 years of it and noticed there was a serious problem. So I went around and asked some teachers to tell me why we are having poor performance and they were genuine concerns. The beginning was not too good and they offload them to JHS and turned them out. They sighted textbooks as one of their problems and we have about 48 JHS in the Talensi District and I bought a set of a textbook to every JHS in the District and I threw a challenge that, if by the end of the BECE exam I got any student getting one in mathematics, I was going to be personally responsible for paying and taking care of that student till he or she finishes whatever programme they want to do and till now, no one has claimed that award from me”. “So I would have thought that the seating MP, instead of concentrating on providing mathematical set on examination day, he would have taken it up to deal with the base. I even doubt if some of the students know how to answer the question before they enter”. Mr. Duanab said giving BECE candidates a mathematical set without teaching them how to use it, is a bad idea. “Is a bad idea, because the children have not been trained to use a mathematical set. If I had my way, I will go and get all the Talensi marking scheme and their mathematics papers to see how many of them gets construction in the examination hall, with that we should be able to tell if the maths set is of use to them. And thought the MP would have arranged a stakeholder dialogue to share ideas and to see the way forward and that is lacking seriously”. You are an MP, “YES’ you are to sit in parliament and make laws and in making laws, you should be thinking about your constituents, those you represent to solve their primary problems. In this part of the world, a Member of Parliament is not supposed to go and sit in parliament and everyday you say yeaaaaaaah yeah, that is not what is required of a parliamentarian. What is the addition you are adding for being in parliament to the people? That’s what is important. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please kindly contact Apexnewsgh.com on Email: editor@apexnewsgh.com for your credible News publications

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No single phone was hijacked-Sanusi Issah

There has been some level of tension among the Communicators of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region. The Tension is emanating as a result of 54 SAMSUNG GALAXY A51 SMARTPHONES the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Buffer Stock Abdul Wahab Anan Aludiba donated to Constituencies party communication office, to be distributed to party communication officers in the region. Information reaching Apexnewsgh.com has it that, most members of the party communication team are not satisfied with the way the party communication office is going about it, as they claim the party regional executives have hijacked the smartphone from them. However, the Regional Communication Director Sanusi Issah upon receiving the tension has come out with a press release, stating that no single phone was hijacked by the NPP Regional Executives. As he assured the CEO of Buffer Stock Alhaji Abdul Wahab Anan that the phones are on save hands and it will get to the right persons who really deserve it. Below is the full details: New Patriotic Party Upper Regional Secretariat P O Box BGN 180 GPS UB-0003-7300 28th September 2020 PRESS RELEASE RE: UE/ REGIONAL NPP EXECUTIVES HIJACKED SAMSUNG GALAXY A51 SMARTPHONES MEANT FOR THE PARTY’S COMMUNICATION OFFICERS. My attention was drawn to the above publications on Ghanaweb and subsequently shared on other social media platforms. According to the publication, the CEO of Buffer Stock Abdul Wahab Anan Aludiba donated SAMSUNG GALAXY A51 SMARTPHONES to Constituencies party communication officers, this must be disregarded and ignored it does not represent the facts. The CEO of Buffer Stock Alhaji Abdul Wahab Anan donated 94 SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 CORE SMARTPHONES to Upper East and Upper West Regional Communications team, Upper East took 54 and Upper West took 40 respectively. I took delivery of all the 54 smartphones and all party constituencies communication officers were duly informed and arrangements were been made to deliver the phones to them, I was therefore taken at back to read the publications that NPP Regional Executives hijacked the smartphones meant for constituencies communication officers. This must be ignored and treated with the contempt it deserves. I wish to assure the CEO of Buffer Stock Alhaji Abdul Wahab Anan the phones are on save hands and it will get to the right persons who really deserve it. I also want to take this opportunity once again to thank the benevolent CEO for his kind gesture and his unconditional support for the team. It is important to reiterate, not a single phone was hijacked by NPP Regional Executives. Thank you Issah Sanusi Regional Communications Officer Upper East Region Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana

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PRINCE KAMAL GUMAH DEPUTY YOUTH ORGANIZER OF THE NPP-USA CHAPTER DONATES TWO MOTORBIKES EACH AND A LARGE NUMBER OF T-SHIRTS TO THE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE OF YAGABA-KUBORI AND TOLON RESPECTIVELY

Prince Kamal Gumah, a businessman, philanthropist cum politician has donated two motorbikes each and a large number of T-shirts to the Parliamentary candidate of Yagaba-Kubori and that of Tolon respectively. The presentation of the motorbikes was done on his behalf by Alhaji Mohammed Murtala the former Upper East Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party. Alhaji Mohammed Murtala during the presentation said, he is convinced that the donations presented to the two Parliamentary candidates, Hon. Yussif Mustapha, C.E.O of National Service Secretariat, and Mr.Habib Iddrisu, Deputy C.E.O of Ghana Freezones Board will help run campaign activities in their respective Constituencies to secure the seats for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and to also fetch massive votes for President Nana Akufo Addo to retain his office and continue with his unprecedented development agenda come 2021. “It would be recalled that few weeks ago same Prince Kamal’s Gumah name was on the media domain for having donated two brand new Apsonic motorbikes to his mother Constituency, Bawku Central”. In fact, the unimaginable good works of Mr. Gumah in the Yagaba-Kubori Constituency has convinced the Constituents as well as the party structure to call for his inclusion in the Constituency Campaign Team. He has become more or less an institution in the Yagaba- Kubori. “It is my hope and prayer that the Almighty Allah will empower and protect our illustrious son to continue with his good works for the party”. He prayed However, Alhaji Murtala said the continuous support from Mr. Gumah to the party, has really demonstrated to the good people of the north that he has them at heart. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana

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UER: Deputy YEA CEO embarked on Constituency engagement with party members

As part of a Constituency campaign strategy ahead of the 2020 election, Alhaji Ibrahim Bashiru, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Youth Employment Agency has intensified monitoring to meet with Constituency Executives, Polling station executives, Electoral area coordinators, Party elders, and Patrons of the party According to source, he is in the constituency to engage with party faithful in the Constituency to re-orient and prepare them for the battle ahead of December 7. During the engagement, Executives, Polling station executives, Electoral area coordinators, Party elders, and Patrons of the party were tasked to focus on their electoral areas as well as ensuring that all those on their polling station who went through the registration are contacted by way marketing to government development in the area which came through the Member of Parliament and other government appointees, to enable them to vote for the party. However, the Upper East Regional Director of MASLOC Ustarz Umar was in attendance to explain the support of the Scheme to the constituency members Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie

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Volta Regional Minister assures active security to the people of Volta.

The Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Letsa has assured active security to the people of the Volta Region. Dr Archibald Letsa who spoke to a Bolgatanga base radio station on their afternoon news bulletin popularly known as Reporters Visit (RV) monitored by Apexnewsgh.com, says the country’s security forces were very much aware of a series of planned attacks by Western Togoland Restoration Front, the separatist group seeking secession from Ghana. According to Dr. Letsa, the nation’s security forces had pre-empted the Friday morning attack by securing vital installations in the region from the group, and it was suspected that the roadblocks at the Mepe-Sege road and the Accra-Ho road at Juapong were designed as a distraction to draw the security forces away from those locations. “We have been monitoring them for some time now, especially for over two years. We were aware that there were that the group is to carry out some activities last night and we had to protect some vital installation to make sure that the economy of the region is not affected and we succeeded in preventing them”. Meanwhile, he is very confident that the moves by the group will not yield them any good result whiles the eye of the national security is closely on their activities. he assured citizens of the Volta Region to go about their daily activities without entertaining any kind of fears. Apexnewsgh.com/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen

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Nigerians’ future at stake, warns Jega

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, on Friday warned that Nigerians’ future was at stake due to misgovernance. Jega, who stated this at the inauguration of the 34-member Policy Advisory Committee of the People’s Redemption Party in Abuja on Friday, asked Nigerians not to allow “bad people” to continue to misgovern the country by contributing to the electoral process. The committee is made up of Jega, Mr Richard Umoru, Prof Ifeanyi Anigbogu, Dr Aminu Aliyu, Mr Abdulkadir Isa, Prof Ahmadu Sanda, Hajiya Aishatu Dankani, among others. The former INEC boss, who is a member of the committee, said, “I believe that all Nigerians can no longer sit on the fence, as everybody needs to contribute to the cleansing of politics in Nigeria. There should be no fence-sitters; our future is at stake. We cannot allow bad people to continue to misgovern us and continue to wreak havoc on our country and its future.” Jega said the committee was to prepare policy papers and frameworks that would make the PRP a strong political party that could win elections. The party chairman, Mr Falalu Bello, earlier while inaugurating the committee, said its members were thoroughbred intellectuals drawn from different fields of expertise and experience. He advised the members to consider the progressive provisions of Chapter two of the 1999 Constitution in carrying out their assignment. “Our party, the PRP, shall court the involvement and participation of intellectuals in the struggle for the material and social advancement of the masses of this country,” he said. Source: Punch

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UER:Sherigu community to get recycling plant under 1D1F Policy.

Information reaching Apexnewsgh.com has it that October 9, 2020, His excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo will be cutting sod for the construction of a recycling plant in Sherigu community a suburb of Bolgatanga Municipal of the Upper East Region. Consultants from the Jospong Group of Companies visited the community to survey the site where the massive recycling plant construction will be structured. However, the information gathered so far by Apexnewsgh.com also has it that the plant after construction will be serving the BONABOTO area, Navrongo Central, Kasena Nankana West, and Sandema. The solid waste generated from the plant will be used for the production of fertilizer, whiles the faeces waste will be used for the production of Gas. The construction of the recycling plant falls under the Akufo Addo government policy of One District One Factory (1D1F). Below are some footages: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Stephen

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Why can’t we improve upon what we do? Yaw Gyampo questioned

1. Voter Register Exhibition exercise has been undertaken since 1992 and the challenges being experienced today have always been experienced. Every time there is exhibition, names get missing in a manner that portrays the Electoral Commission as staffed with people who are virtually non-receptive to learning. This is the truth in plain language. Every Election Day, there will be late start of polls somewhere. Every Election Day, there will be shortage of polling materials and machine malfunction somewhere. Every exhibition process is characterized by missing names. Why? Don’t we learn? Can’t we improve upon what we do? Must we always explain the challenges instead of dealing with them? 2. Is it that the Commission has an incompetent tradition that shapes the conduct and performance of its staff and appointees? I ask this because some of the challenges of the Commission, including that of voter register exhibition, have been there from the days of Justice Josiah Ofori Boateng, the first chair of Ghana’s Election Management Body. 3. To my mind, a Commission that allows such repetitive challenges to saddle its work, does a great disservice to its mandate and perpetuate the oppositional mistrust that greets its activities all the time. The Commission must aim at achieving a level of maturity and professionalism, where these repetitive challenges would be reduced to the barest minimum. 4. My checks with some officials at the Commission show that apart from the current plague of relational incompetence of the EC in dealing with its stakeholders, especially, the opposition, the limited time frame within which to conduct the upcoming elections, and some level of incompetence or sabotage by some EC staff, have caused the embarrassment. The Commission is very much aware of these and must forcefully explain to Ghanaians, as no one can understand and explain the issues better than they themselves. For now, their explanations have been economical, in my view. 5. The Commission must develop a relational competence in its dealing with political parties and must ring-fence itself from the partisan support of political parties in power. They are have what it takes to defend themselves and hence must openly reject the partisan support of every ruling party. Indeed, the party in government must also lift the bar of partisan politics a little, by allowing the EC to fight its own battles and critiquing the Commission when necessary. For, it cannot be true that the EC is infallible to warrant praise-singing and support at all times. It must be added that once the ruling party continue to serve as the mouthpiece of the Commission, it will naturally be difficult for the opposition to trust the Commission. 6. In dealing with the opposition, the idea of relational competence will dictate that it may not always about be helpful for the Commission to only be interested in asserting its mandate. A complex balance and synthesis must be found between mandate assertion, and consensual-conciliatory way of working with groups, without which, there will be no mandate to assert. Sometimes, just a phone call to influential people in the opposition, to explain challenges and to show willingness to work together to address them, will douse tension and reduce mistrust. 7. But those who have problems with the EC now, should also be measured in their outbursts and threats. This is because the history of the Fourth Republic show that their tone and language about the EC, will change when they win power, and suddenly, all the challenges of the EC identified by them, will vanish after the political kingdom has been given them. 8. In assuring the public that no registered voter who has an ID Card will be disenfranchised, the Commission must also work through it’s Eminent Advisory Body, to iron out its differences with the political parties, particularly, the opposition. The Commission must do this for its own institutional peace, as it conducts the remaining processes towards the upcoming elections. 9. Those hired staff of the Commission whose incompetence and, or sabotage brought this embarrassment, must be brought to book by the EC. Machines won’t work to perfection when there is sabotage, or not too qualified people operate them. 10. As for the timing, it is now too late. The EC must rush the processes and we must brace ourselves for the implications of such rush. That’s why the contrary view for a new voter register in the immediate period leading to our major election of 2020, shouldn’t have been brushed aside an initio. Yaw Gyampo A31, Prabiw PAV Ansah Street Saltpond & Suro Nipa House Kubease Larteh-Akuapim Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana

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John Mahama, NDC console President Rawlings

The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, and the leadership of the NDC, on Friday morning called on former President Jerry John Rawlings to sympathize with him following the passing of his mother, Madam Victoria Agbotui. President Mahama, in a brief remark, described the loss of Madam Agbotui as a shared one because she was always on hand to give wise counsel whenever she interacted with him and other party members. He consoled President Rawlings and encouraged him to take heart as Mama had lived a full life and had seen it all. The NDC flagbearer said “Mama was the kind of person one would assume would live forever…” He also assured the NDC Founder that the NDC will participate fully in the funeral activities of the late Madam Agbotui. President Mahama was accompanied by the Vice Chairman of the NDC Council of Elders Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, National Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia and other national executives of the party. Madam Victoria Agbotui died in the early hours of Thursday, September 24 at the age of 101. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana

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Electoral Commission re-opens Voters Registration Exercise for one day

The Electoral Commission (EC) has re-opened the voter’s registration Exercise to the general public for one day. According to EC, the reason for opening the registration is to pave way for those attained the age of Eighteen (18) and Citizens who for one reason or the other were not able to register in the just-ended Registration Exercise. However, the registration will take place in the district offices nationwide the date on Thursday, 1st October 2020. Read full details: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/ Ngamegbulam Stephen

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What is it that we have benefited from NDC in Talensi? NPP Talensi Parliamentary candidate seeks for answers

No single phone was hijacked-Sanusi Issah

PRINCE KAMAL GUMAH DEPUTY YOUTH ORGANIZER OF THE NPP-USA CHAPTER DONATES TWO MOTORBIKES EACH AND A LARGE NUMBER OF T-SHIRTS TO THE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE OF YAGABA-KUBORI AND TOLON RESPECTIVELY

UER: Deputy YEA CEO embarked on Constituency engagement with party members

Volta Regional Minister assures active security to the people of Volta.

Nigerians’ future at stake, warns Jega

UER:Sherigu community to get recycling plant under 1D1F Policy.

Why can’t we improve upon what we do? Yaw Gyampo questioned

John Mahama, NDC console President Rawlings

Electoral Commission re-opens Voters Registration Exercise for one day

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