Bawumia’s mouthwatering economic policies in opposition gave the market confidence—Paul Danka
Opinion

Bawumia’s mouthwatering economic policies in opposition gave the market confidence—Paul Danka

A regional communication member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper East Region John Paul Danka has said, the mouthwatering economic policies in opposition led by Dr. Bawumia gave the market some amount of confidence. Mr. Danka made the pronouncement during an engagement on Apexnews Ghana’s flagship development programme dubbed “SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST REGION” with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. According to the NDC Communicator, in 2017, since the NPP came into office, almost all the rating agencies and economic watchers revealed that Ghana’s economy was going to grow because of the two oil wheels that have come on board. Meanwhile, he believes the mouthwatering economic policies in opposition led by Dr. Bawumia gave the market some amount of confidence” he stressed. “So, when the NPP government came into office automatically there is some amount of stability with regard to our forex exchange at the same time we are still under the IMF programme, so the markets were still respecting us because they know no matter what the big brother IMF is still around us and again, they believes in the mouthwatering of the NPP what they say they will do. So, it is true that sometimes a change or commentary can bring confidence and that is why Isaac Adongo keeps telling the governor of the Bank of Ghana to stop making noise”. He explained However, reacting to the demand by members of the majority in parliament, Mr. Danka applauded the 80 majority MPs for the maturity they have shown to the whole world by confidently coming out to demand the removal of their own “Finance Minister”. He said the MPs themselves from the majority have realized that these two gentlemen Ken Ofori-Atta and Charles Boahen are the cause of the hardship Ghanaians are passing through. “We have been telling you that the private companies of these two Ministers are the only people benefiting from the economic problem we found ourselves in this country”. He alleged Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghane For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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“Is that the work of the RCC??”– Paul Danka questioned Reg. Minister Involvement between Shaanxi and Small Scale miners
Mining, Opinion

“Is that the work of the RCC??”– Paul Danka questioned Reg. Minister Involvement between Shaanxi and Small Scale miners

John Paul Danka, One of the astute communicators of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has questioned the involvement of Upper East Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu following the alleged One Million dollar equivalent he is said to have received to settle miners whose concessions were taken by a Mining Company initially known as Shaanxi and now Earl International. Apexnewsgh.com report According to Mr. Danka, “Another problem is the regional Minister, look at what is happening in my area. You have people who came to this republic in the name of supporting mining services called Shaanxi, fast-forward 2008 that law reviewed. Then, there is somebody holding a lease, a concession permit in that area, that Company changed itself to Earl and there is a lease given to them in the name of large-scale mining. How on earth can you give a lease upon a lease or concession upon a concession and you have that minister coming to that enclave. What is in that pot? He quizzed Mr. Danka questioned the Minister’s involvement on a local radio station Dreamzfm in the Bolgatanaga Municipality monitored by Apexnewsgh.com on Friday, October 7, 2022 “Your regional Minister took over, asking those who have issues and those who have gone to court to come out for out-of-court settlement. As we speak today, what has happened to that one? The alleged One million dollar ($1 million) equivalent that the Upper East Regional Minister is said to have received and see how he would be able to help those whose concessions have been taken, to help actually paid them off as we speak we have issues. Is that the work of the RCC?? “You have not seen anything yet, as for the time bomb in Talensi, is still hanging is just a matter of time because once we have realized that government is complicit, the youth of Talensi are not going to sit down, and allow the government because we cannot trust the NPP administration with regards to our natural resources, we cannot. Is like those who benefitted from the pot are okay, but the rest of the people who are there nobody cares about them”. “We know what galamsey has done for our people, is a matter of we making sure we let them follow the due process, let them know the parties that can help them. Most of the roofing and the good building you see hitherto were not there, most of those proceeds are from there. People have worked at galamsey in Talensi and helped their brothers and sisters go to school, and advance their education. So, if you come and you are taking that thing off and you don’t handle it well, is just a matter of time when it explodes, we will then see how the national security issue will be handled”. He laments Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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“Nana Akufo-Addo is galamsey and galamsey is Nana Akufo-Addo”–John Paul
Politics

“Nana Akufo-Addo is galamsey and galamsey is Nana Akufo-Addo”–John Paul

One of the astute communication team members of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Paul Danka has said with the current happenings across the various mining area in the country he could only be concluded that President Nana Akufo-Addo is galamsey and galamsey is President Nana Akufo-Addo. Apexnewsgh.com report According to Mr. Danka, “There has always been regulation in terms of small-scale mining, it is the enforcement that was the problem and going on I would tell you unequivocally that we have galamsey on our hand but it was better till Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ban galamsey. “Nana Addo is galamsey and galamsey is Nana Addo”. Nana Addo is the face of galamsey. He cannot run away from the fact that where we have found ourselves, Nana Addo is the cause of what is currently happening”. Mr. Danka spoke on Dreamzfm a local radio station in the Bolgatanaga Municipality monitored by Apexnewsgh.com on Friday, October 7, 2022 Making some reference to the pronouncement made by former President John Dramani Mahama, he said: “And I would entreat that yes, John Dramani Mahama said that when given the opportunity, he will pardon our brothers and sisters who are languishing in jail per the illegal mining act they found themselves culpable in the sense that, you cannot lock Ghanaians allow a Chinese or allow Chinese people to be rooming free and he also create Cavour that by now they have served some days and they have learned their lessons. He didn’t just end there, he also went ahead to say that, to ensure that the training and packaging we say we are going to do when we get the opportunity we will implement them”. “No government has ever had goodwill like Akufo-Addo before and no government has ever lost goodwill in a short while like Akufo-Addo in both governance and the issue of tackling galamsey”. “You the media started this galamsey fight, you wanted the official endorsement, he bought into it banned, made taskforce to go into it. You have opened audio and clear videos of a Sector Minister, Presidential staffer involved in galamsey proceeds in terms of equipment and machinery. What has happened to them? The time they said they banned galamsey was it not the time the women Organizer of the NPP excavator was burnt? Didn’t she go to court to secure a judgment debt? Our foreign reserve we are talking about Akonta mines, who is for Akonta mines? Is it not the regional chairman of the NPP for the Ashanti region? So, if Charle Bissiue, prof. Frimpong Boateng is rooming, the other boys involve are rooming, the JOY exposé where we saw military men and their faces, we saw the tango between the media men who went there and that of the security men. You have the state apparatus, military men, the rank of a staff sergeant guarding galamsey operators. What has happened to them up to date? With those videos, why would you wait for an investigation? Investigate what? It is not an allegation”. He stressed Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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Johnson Ayine proposes an industrial attachment method for students under FSHS level during vacation across country.
Education, Politics

Johnson Ayine proposes an industrial attachment method for students under FSHS level during vacation across country.

Johnson Ayine proposes an industrial attachment method for students under FSHS level during vacation across the country. Johnson Ayine a Regional Communication Team member for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region has proposed to the government to adopt an industrial attachment method for students under the Senior High Schools level during their vacation across the country.Mr. Ayine made the proposal when discussing the government flagship programme Free Senior High School (FSHS) Policy on ApexnewsGh.Com flagship Programme dubbed ‘SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST REGION’ on Monday, September 26, 2022. According to Mr. Ayine, “as a country, we have not been able to adopt the STERM policy and am happy this current Education Minister is adopting it”. “When we made this our educational reforms and move from middle school to Senior High Schools, those days we were learning technical skills, technical drawing, there were practical tools and equipment that was furnished every senior high school. So, from form 1, you will go theoretical and practical. The Agric students were doing the practicals because they were on some school farm. Making his suggestion, Mr. Ayine said: “This double track we are complaining about students staying at home for a very long time and what have you, we now have an emerging revolution of artisanship.He said: “When you get to some hinterlands and they have light, there is a wilder there, they have carpenters there, they have mason there, and can we do some industrial attachment to these Senior High School students? So that when they are on long vacation we know that students A and B are going to learn welding which can lead them to become wilder. So, if we are able to start the industrial attachment to that level because we have not been able to feed all the Senior High Schools with the necessary equipment and tools. We can do these simple attachments so that when the school gets home, he cannot find an excuse that he or she is traveling to Kumasi”. He stressed “So, let me make this proposal to the government for us to see how we can implement it”. Mr. Ayine proposed Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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FSHS: If you want to destroy any nation, you don’t need to throw bombs, target the education system–John Paul Danka
Education, Politics

FSHS: If you want to destroy any nation, you don’t need to throw bombs, target the education system–John Paul Danka

A Regional Communication Team member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Paul Danka has said, “If you want to destroy any nation, you don’t need to throw bombs, you don’t need to cause war, target the education system and that ends it”. Mr. Danka made the pronouncement when discussing the government flagship programme of Free Senior High School (FSHS) Policy on ApexnewsGh.Com flagship Programme dubbed ‘SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST REGION’ on Monday, September 26, 2022 Giving some history about how the NDC government started the process, Mr. Danka said, in the 1992 constitution Article 25 (1b) the provision was made for the country to look at all forms of Secondary school education, the best way it could be affordable, accessible. He pointed out, that there was a need for then NDC government to start looking into the FSHS Policy in the constitution and later arrived at ‘Progressively Free Senior High School’ “1n 2015 thereabout my government and my president decided to look at the FSHS policy in the constitution. The Key word here was ‘Progressively Free Senior High School because we know our economy has issues and for that matter, if we really want to implement it holistically, we will have issues. So, we started with the assumption of most of the fees of these students which had to do with a little about 320,000 students. We absorb their fees for them and subsequently, we were looking for an additional 120, 000 Borden students we can absorb to see how progressively do what we can do that will not be a stress on the budget. So, that was the beginning of the Progressive Free Senior School”. Mr. Danka explained However, Mr. Danka noted that when it comes to policy, the NPP and NDC are like two doctors trying to cure a particular sickness, “NPP might decide use ‘quinine’ to treat malaria and we the NDC might decide to use ‘malafan’ and at the end of the day we looked at it from that angle of progressiveness and they came in and say, it is long overdue they want to implement it fully. So, that is how come we now have the full wholesale as FSHS. But if you looked at it progressively, almost every government did something as part of the introduction”. He stress According to the NDC Communicator, “Nobody is saying FSHS is not good, but the problem we are having here is that we cannot have those at the base level doing the implementation. They are always afraid of telling the policymakers that they have a problem or challenges with A, B or C and that is why we started talking about the review of FSHS as our position. There are others who even at some bigger platforms say John Mahama is going to cancel FSHS but we keep telling them they are wrong. Today are we not back into reviewing? What am doing with my brother, is it not reviewing? He quizzed “So, if is a national policy all that we are saying is that, accept that there is a challenge and then we can move on” Meanwhile, was also worried that if our schools begin to produce bad students, and they become nurses when we go to the hospital our lives will be in danger. “Today, you let any engineering student from the polytechnic or the University say that I have built a car my lecturer or my professor should come and test the car, none of them will come because they fear for their lives. He stated Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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Go back to court, I don’t think your chief arbitrator is giving you fair treatment —Paul Danka gives free advice to Yenyeya Mining Enterprise John Paul Danka, a member of NDC communication team and Talensi resident
Mining, Opinion

Go back to court, I don’t think your chief arbitrator is giving you fair treatment —Paul Danka gives free advice to Yenyeya Mining Enterprise

John Paul Danka a Communication Team member of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who doubles as a native of Talensi District of the Upper East Region has advised Yenyeya Mining Enterprise an aggrieved registered small scale mining company operating in Gbane Community to proceed back to court. Apexnewsgh.com reports According to a brief history between Yenyeya Mining Enterprise and Shaanxi Mining Limited now known as EARL International. It is public knowledge that Shaanxi mining now Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited came into Gbane community of Talensi through Yenyeya the owner of the concession they currently occupied. It is also public knowledge that Shaanxi Mining was brought in to give Yenyeya a mining support service. It is also public knowledge that these two entities have worked together as partners since 2008. However, the latest development causing albatross per what is out there in the public domain got to do with the Chinese moving into a large-scale mining business under the name “Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited” through the back door which has been described as a strategy of taking over the concession that belonged to Yenyeya (his Ghanaian employer). Yenyeya Mining Enterprise later went to court praying for “an independent professional auditor” to audit the “mining operations and other related activities” that have been carried out inside the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise’s concession from 2008 to date. However, the Plaintiff is also praying the High Court to pronounce a restraining order “in the nature of a perpetual injunction” stopping Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited “from doing illegal mining and related activities” in the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise’s small-scale concession and from entering the concession until the court case is over. Yenyeya Mining Enterprise further seek “relief for damages resulting from injury caused to Plaintiff’s rights by the willful and malicious conversion of Plaintiff’s ownership of its small-scale mining concession by the defendants”. It is also looking for relief for “damages sustained from injury to Plaintiff’s property resulting from breach of contract and the unauthorized and wrongful exercise of control over Plaintiff’s concession by the defendants”. But according to Mr. Danka who was speaking on Dreams FM Morning Show monitored by Apexnewsgh.com on October 8, 2021, the actions exhibited so far by the regional minister who happens to be the arbitrator between the mining partners has not shown any atom of equal fairness to Yenyeya Mining Enterprise.    “I was expecting that time the sector/regional minister will be giving the commentary and even before the company that are coming in are given there prospective licensing and what have you per whichever stage they have gotten to MOU should have been signed with the assembly and our Tidaan and Chiefs been parts of these MOUs. “Because our land tenant system here they should remember, is different from any other land system here in the country depending on where you found yourself. In Talensi, we know that Tindaana’s own lands so they need to be part of parcel of these MOUs and to appreciate exactly what the mining Companies have brought”. “And here is the situation, the politicians is usual of them, we will come and speak big big grammer, introduce the miners to you chiefs and what have you and they will leave you and whatever they have signed for the companies and what the companies are giving them in return, they have taken their share and they are gone. And remember, an appointment is not forever”. “So, I am expecting that by now, we should have been talking about MOU been signed by the assembly and telling the people of Talensi what they intend to do for us in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years 20 years as they mine, so that we can track their activities. This is what they called, (we are learning from the past). But what they did, is the same thing. The repeated has been happening. Those coming to chief created an impression that they are the best, but they can’t be at the site to know the damage and how activities will affect the people on the ground. That is the situation we are still confronted with” “You see, the companies they have mentioned their names apart from I think Cardinal Resource that am aware that they had their own concession. ”This company that they went to visit for instance… Why are we doing this to ourselves? You see, the regional minister mislead the sector minister. Because we all know that where he went and met EARL is not for EARL. Shaanxi is no more Shaanxi because Shaanxi should have even moved their things long ago. You see, in all these happenings, I blamed Yenyeya, I still don’t know what they are waiting for. They are your employees, you didn’t even need to wait for these people to come and write to them to leave because the law is no more working. Once you have been told to demobilize and leave, so be it. EARL claimed they have paid compensation to other people close to 16 square acre, you should have gone to meet them there. Do you meet Cardinal Resource in somebody’s concession? He questioned And you see, the matter is at court concerning certain unfilled agreements they have not done and you the Regional Minister requested for an out of court settlement, you are now the Chief arbitrator of this case and you know that there is an injunction that no one should enter the place and no one should use the place. So, how then did you the Chief arbitrator get up and be following one party? When you know that we have not solved the problem, the problem is not been solved, we have not finished. For me, I will advise Yenyeya, they should go back to the court because, the way and manner the chief arbitrator is acting, I don’t think they will get any fair treatment from him. They should go back

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