Exclusive: Auditor-General Domelevo Returns From Leave, Set To Resume Work On Monday
Credible sources available to GhanaXtra indicate that Mr. Domelevo whose leave came to an end on January 8, 2021, will report to work on Monday, January 11, 2021, to take over his official duties as Auditor-General. The President on June 29, 2020, directed Mr. Domelevo to take an accumulated annual leave of 123 days effective July 1, 2020. The directive by the President was based on sections 20 (1) and 31 of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651) which apply to all workers, including public office holders such as the Auditor-General. But Mr. Domelevo on July 3, 2020, wrote to the Presidency urging the President to have a second look at the directive ordering him to proceed on his accumulated leave. Mr. Domelevo at the time averred that the directive by the President was unconstitutional and not in the best interest of the very he occupied. However, the Presidency replied on July 3, 2020, indicating that the Office of the President has decided to increase the accumulated annual leave of the Auditor-General from the initial 123 to 167 working days. The new directive per the contents of the reply had included his period of leave for the year 2020 other than the earlier directive which only calculated the accumulated leave days from 2017 to 2019. GhanaXtra Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
UER: Tindaama’s youngest chairman vows to fight exploitations
A newly elected Chairman of the Talensi Tindaama Association, Wagbil Bobazaa, has spoken of his readiness to ensure that all lands in Talensi, a mineral-rich district in the Upper East Region, are protected from any form of exploitation. At 27 years, the new chair is said to be the youngest figure to lead the association he joined after he was installed as a traditional landowner at the age of 22. Tindaama— a plural word for Tindaan, which means a traditional landowner in Talen, the language spoken in Talensi— are custodians of lands and spiritual leaders in their various jurisdictions. Wagbil Bobazaa, who is the Tindaan for Tindongo, a community in the east of the district, made this pledge after he defeated his sole contender, Tindaan Togbazaa, at a keen chairmanship election that saw him obtain 19 votes of the 30 total valid votes cast. Tindaan Togbazaa, who is the traditional landowner of Yinduure, a community in the west of the district, polled 11 votes. “I humbly ask for your firm support so that together we can successfully fight for our rights as traditional landowners. I am very humbled by the confidence you have reposed in me by electing me as the chairman of the association despite the fact that I am so young. I will ensure that our lands are protected against any form of exploitation. I will not let you down,” said the new chairman. The association was established in 2014 to put a stop to recurrent mining-related deaths, unapproved takeover of lands, environmental degradation caused by individuals and groups and to protect sacred groves and rivers which serve as shrines in the district. Tindaan Togbazaa, as the runner-up of the chairmanship contest, is now the Vice Chairman of the association. Clement Kojo Bukari, a retired regional director of agriculture better known as C.K. Bukari, was maintained at the election as the association’s Coordinator. Whilst the Secretary position went to Maxwell Bakevolimah, Isaac Kudoog was voted as the Assistant Secretary and Michael Neebazaa secured the Treasurer position. The traditional landowners made a joint appeal after the electoral exercise to benevolent corporate entities to support the association financially so it could function as it should. They also underscored the need for unity to prevail among members of the association in the interest of Talenteng (the Talensi homeland) Daily Mail Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Dismiss the petition, the petitioner didn’t challenge all election conducted throughout the 38,622 polling stations– EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said that the election petition filed by the NDC’s John Dramani Mahama lack basis. The Commission has served notice of its intention to urge the Supreme Court to dismiss the matter immediately than allowing goes through the mandatory 42 days. John Dramani Mahama who contested on the ticket of NDC is in Court asking that it annuls the election results that saw as winner of the 2020 election . According to Him, Mr. Akufo-Addo is a beneficiary of EC arithmetic errors. The EC is named as a defendant in the petition as required by law. Lawyer for the Commission, Justin Amenuvor has filed a 13-paged response on the petition. He argues that the EC Chairperson in her declaration inadvertently read out the figure representing the total number of votes cast as the total number of valid votes and the percentage of Mr. Akufo-Addo as 51.59 instead of 51.295%. This, the Commission says, it subsequently corrected insisting it did not affect the overall results declared. On Techiman South which Mr. Mahama’s argues if he obtained all votes, the NPP’s Akufo-Addo will end up with less than 50% plus one, the EC says the votes (results) it obtained from its officials do not support this view. “1st Respondent states that the petition ought to be dismissed also because the Petitioner does not challenge the validity of the election conducted throughout the 38,622 polling stations and the 311 special voting centres in the country, or contest the lawfulness of votes obtained by any of the parties to the election”. However, this result the EC says has been available even before John Mahama filed his petition to the Apex court. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Akufo Addo will run, he won’t finish his 4 years — Bulldog alleges
Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson an artiste manager who claimed he has some lockup invested with Menzgold said, President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must not complete his tenure in office if not taken step to pay aggrieved customers of Menzgold gold their locked-up investment. Bulldog, as he is popularly known in showbiz during his submission on UTV’s United Showbiz on Saturday, January 9, 2021 said it unfortunate some people are saying they customers hold government accountable for the harm caused. Adding that, they the customers of Menzgold will get their monies back, if not the President will run and will never finish his tenure as a President. “We’ll get our monies back else Nana Addo will run; he won’t finish his 4 years. I’m telling you. He won’t finish his 4 years,” a visibly angry Bulldog vehemently barked. However, Bulldog after his pronouncement stressed that his concerns are not influenced by the fact that he was once an employee of Zylofon Media, one of the companies owned by Menzgold. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Some of those who claimed to be darling boys and girls of President caused us a massive mess…
One of the Upper East Region illustrious politician and former Upper East Deputy Regional Minister who equally served as the former member of the parliament for Builsa North Agnes Asangalisa Chigabatia has said, some of people who claimed to be darling boys and girls to the President contributed hugely to the mess and the embarrassment the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had witnessed since the party history, because they only pretend to work together physically but spiritually wicked in their hearts against one another. Madam Chigabatia who was speaking in an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com said, her earlier projections for the region was 5 seats, but that will materialize, only if the DCEs, PCs, and the Party Executives worked together as one people with one common goal but unfortunately, the party in the region ended up losing the already secured 3 seats to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) “Holistically, we worked together physically but deep in our heart we don’t work together and God listens to the heart, he doesn’t listen to lip services. Our problem is that, we pretend to things when we are not doing them and that one spiritually affects everything. People claim they are close to the President, they are sleeping with the President but they have never worked for the President”. She stressed “Someone called me and said Agnes, how many seats are we getting now? Before God and man, I told the person that look, we have 3 seats, when we work well, we will get 5 seats but when we don’t work well, we might not get the three seats again. That person is calling me a prophetess and I said no, I am not a prophetess. There is no constituency in the region I don’t have boys there. I am plain oo, atimes my plain talks lead me to trouble and I don’t know how to pretend. So, when I say that you won’t win then, immediately you lose you say Chagabatia made me not to win. Am I a magician? I stood for elections 3 times and won only one and the others I lost, if am that magic, why didn’t I make it to win?”. According to Madam Chigabatia, if not for the sake of President Akufo Addo and his wonderful Vice Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, the party would have been in opposition now, because some of the party members are only good and interested in running like children playing football looking for who to destroy with their concocted and fabricated information. “They will just go and destroy you aaa and you don’t even know where the source of information is coming from. So, some of them are not helping the President. They are just running up and down like children playing football. If not for the good work of the President and his Vice and some of the appointees, we would have been in opposition now. Because the people disappointed him, only about 40 percent of the appointees worked and the rest wasn’t good”. She however, explained how she tried releasing information to some PCs, DCEs, and executives which would have brought some change to most of the constituencies but unfortunately, her calls were not answered “A lot of them I tried to call them personally to link up and tell them that this is what I am hearing. I will call they won’t pick, I will WhatsApp they won’t read. So why should I give myself hypertension? Or you think I have time to buy units put on my phone to call you, and you don’t know why am calling you and you won’t pick? Every information is vital or you think the unit I went and picked it from the trash? I used money to buy it. So, when you are looking up and you don’t look down, it is the down you will fall unto. Even now my boys are calling all over, saying madam you see, that is what we were telling you, yes is what you were telling but I don’t have the power, I was nothing, I only loved the party that is why I was campaigning. So, even if you report to me that this is what is happening and I call your PC, your chairman he doesn’t pick, should I go and beat him and they will say Agnes Chigabatia is beating someone? No”. She told Apexnewsgh.com Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.