COVID-19: Ghc 81million fumigation exercise by Zoomlion GH LTD, a huge loss for Ghana–Dr. Anaba
The Executive Director for the African Centre for Health Policy Research and Analysis, Dr. Thomas Anaba has revealed that the COVID-19 fumigation of churches, markets, schools, and public institutions which were done by Zoomlion Ghana Limited was a huge loss for the country because the chemical used didn’t serve the purpose. Apexnewsgh.com report Dr. Anaba made the revelation during his speech at the TEIN induction ceremony of level 100 students of Gbewa College of Education on Saturday, July 17, 2022. According to Dr. Anaba, “COVID-19 came and all of us were worried how the government could get money to solve the covid-19 problem. Because, since 2019 our economy started sliding down. But fortunately for Ghana, the government was even able to raise more money than what we expected to raise to manage COVID-19. And if you also check our budget and our revenue generation, it is only in 2020 that we slide down about 5 billion but, the rest of the years, we meet our target and even exceeded and that shows that the government had enough money to manage covid-19 and even had excess”. “But here we are if you want to check what government used the monies for, after the finance minister came to accounts for it we virtually used half of the monies. The rest he never told us where it went into. From the very beginning of management of COVID-19, some of us have serious problems with how monies were been expended”. He added: “We complained, first about news dissemination. They left everything to Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in Accra, media houses were left out, and even the national council for civic education was left out. Some of us have to come out and talk vigorously before government started giving them money. They never involve local radio stations to be able to translate all the information into local languages. We also saw what happen during the lockdown, they prepared a food handout for people virtually throwing it without accountability. We complained that that was not going to be accountable, after that, they gave us very huge figures about what they spent”. “Meanwhile, we saw benevolent institutions and persons donating items in a very orderly manner, telling people how much they have donated to institutions, and that one could not be done by the government. It came to quarantine, whereby institutions facilities that were used for quarantine, when you trace the background, they were virtually facilities owned by NPP apparatchik. And you were false to pay huge sums of monies instead of government facilitating it and rather making the monies for us to cushion Ghana, they were rather making people in their party make benefits, make do with the incomes from COVID-19 and leaving Ghana. If you look at the revenue we could have generated more, even Kotoka international airport, we could have made a lot of money there, and remember the airport was built with a loan. Instead of letting the COVID-19 test be for the airport, they rather gave it to a private body that made millions of dollars and took it away whiles the government was struggling for money to pay for the construction of the airport. This shows the government wasn’t smart enough”. “When you come to purchase of vaccines, Ghana government has not spent any much money in purchasing vaccine from Ghana’s government pocket. We got virtually everything through donations. The only vaccines we purchased with our money was the one deviled with corruption where a Finance Minister and the Health Minister go ahead and paid money for vaccines we even didn’t have and that really brought about the brouhaha in the system”. “You remembered they said, they were distributing PPEs to school, we traced and realized that many schools didn’t get PPEs meanwhile million were spent on PPEs. The most interesting thing, I see how they collaborated with private institutions to dupe Ghana, is the fumigation of churches, markets, schools, and public institutions, where Zoomlion Ghana Limited claimed they have fumigated Ghana and collected Ghc 81million when they knew very that fumigation they were doing had no effect because the chemical they were using was not going to serve the purpose they were using for. So, that was Ghc 81million loss”. “They decided to insure all health front liners, I am a front liner, many private facilities were front liners but they never had any insurance but the worst of it is that all those who were insured with insurance were insured with Enterprise Insurance, the same Finance Minister’s private company this shows how they worked to dupe this country of resources”. Dr. Anaba expressed satisfaction following parliamentary interest for an independent audit into the matter because he believes the corruption witnessed by Ghanaians during COVID-19 was massive. However, he encouraged the newly inducted students of Gbewa College of Education to take their studies serious irrespective of their political engagement on campus. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/ Gbewa College of Education/TEIN
Colleges of Education likely to start running a shift system–Osman Ayariga
Interested aspiring candidate on the position of National Deputy Youth Organizer in the upcoming internal party election of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Osman Ayariga has revealed, that if care is not taken, colleges of education are likely to run a shift system. Apexnewsgh.com report Mr. Ayariga made the revelation during his speech at the TEIN induction ceremony of level 100 students of Gbewa College of Education on Saturday, July 17, 2022. He said: “You know it was under the NDC that we eliminated the quota system with regards to the colleges of education. There was a conscious effort to try as much as possible to admit as many students as possible in the colleges of education and the enrollment increased over 100% during the tenure of John Dramani Mahama”. The aspiring Deputy National Youth Organizer maintained that “It was under John Dramani Mahama that we introduced some many colleges of education and also so many infrastructural developments with regards to the colleges of education. Unfortunately, if your lecturers are here, they will bear me witness that, come next year or the next academic year, with what is going on whether we like it or not we have two options with regards to colleges of education. Either we revert to the quota system or we are going to run a shift system so far as colleges of education are concerned. Stressing that, if we are not careful, we are going to have a gold track, yellow track, and green track for colleges of education. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Gbewa college of Education/TEIN
JUST IN: NDC to expand Nsawam prison for NPP corruption officials– Abraham Lambon
The Upper East NDC’s Regional Youth Organizer, Abraham Azumah Lambon has hinted that with the amount of corruption witnessed in the Akufo-Addo-led administration, if the National Democratic Congress is given the mandate by Ghanaians in 2024, Nsawam Prison will be expanded to accommodate ex-corrupt government officials. Apexnewsgh.com report Speaking at the TEIN induction ceremony of level 100 students of Gbewa College of Education he said, “For you to say you are fighting corruption, you must have to fight your own. Under His Excellency John Dramani Mahama”. According to Mr. Lambon, the NDC prosecuted their own, a seating MP Mr. Abuga Pelle, insisting that Philip Akpeena Assibit is still in prison because he engage in some aspect of things that were detrimental to the development of the country. “So, NDC we believe in fighting corruption, we believe in creating a just society for everybody to benefit and so stealing the wealth of today which is vanity because we will die and definitely leave it. Just like Seth John who accumulate much wealth and today he is no more and he is willing it forever, we in the NDC will not do that. We will ensure that the wealth is distributed as a social democratic party that believes in the ordinary, the vulnerable”. He stressed However, he maintained that “for those who have looted the money the jail is waiting for them, Nsawam Prison will be expanded. Nana Addo claimed he was going to fight corruption and he is not fighting corruption”. Now, the evidence available shows the President is amplifying corruption. So, we will start from the Presidency to ensure that any person who has spent one cedi of Ghana money is made to account and pay for the whole sum with interest and after that Prison will be a place for such person”. However, he encouraged the newly inducted level students to take their studies serious. The Member of Parliament for the area Hajia Laadi Ayii Ayamba, Party men and women from both Regional, constituency, and national were present at the induction ceremony. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Gbewa college of Education/TEIN
NPP Delegates: Justin Frimpong Kodua buga out John Boadu in shock
The Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency, Mr. Justin Frimpong Kodua (JFK), has defeated the heavyweight John Boadu, the General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). Apexnewsgh.com report In a national delegate’s conference of the NPP on Saturday, 16 July 2022, that traveled into the little hours of Sunday, 17 July, Justin Frimpong Kodua defeated Mr. Boadu and three others with a ‘Buga’ style, putting John Bodu and his supporters in a certain level of ‘fear the delegates state of mind’. Meanwhile, a few days ahead of the delegate’s congress, a video of almost all the 16 NPP Regional Chairmen led by the Ashanti Regional Chairman Wuntumi were sighted throwing their support to Mr. John Boadu. However, it appears the words of Mr. Kennedy Agyapong a very influential personality of the party were stronger than the support put together by almost all the regional party chairmen because a videotape sighted by this platform showed that Mr. Agyapong vowed to make sure John Boadu is defeated as national party secretary. Certified results from the Electoral Commission show that Justin Frimpong Kodua polled 2,837, whiles his closest contender, John Boadu, the incumbent, polled 2,524. The others polled the following: Idrissu Musah – 104 Ramseyer Ahmed Agyeman-Prempeh – 8 Frederick Opare Ansah – 50 Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/