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You and Ken Ofori-Atta should take better decision before the censure- Prez. Akufo-Addo told

One of the outspoken member of the Upper East Regional NPP Communication Team Johnson Ayine has advised President Akufo-Addo and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to take a better decision before the censure debate and voting tomorrow to avoid a possible precedent that may compound their situation as a governing party. Apexnewsgh.com report. According to Mr. Ayine, even if one member of the NPP side voted in favor of the motion it would be a bad day for the party and government politically and economically. The Party Communicator, went ahead to say, “I love Ken but let’s do what the majority of Ghanaians want”. “Mr president the day is still young, do something before we regret it”. Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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Upper East Regional Airport: Johnson Ayine made more interesting and mindblowing revelations, about the delays…

It appears there are more hidden revelations regarding the delays bedeviling the success and reality of the construction of the controversial Upper East Regional Airport over the years. Apexnewsgh.com report According to a regional communication member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Johnson Ayine, the current location for the construction of the regional airport was as a result of a political decision and that is why after clearing off the commercial trees, it was difficult for them to do the work. Mr. Ayine made the revelation during an engagement on Apexnews Ghana’s flagship developmental programme dubbed “SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST REGION” with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Making some references, Mr. Ayine said during Achampong’s time, his community Sherigu, Dachio, and some other places were identified as very suitable for the airport construction. He however insisted, it was a political decision to put the project where it is currently and that is why along the process, it was difficult for them to continue with the project. He further revealed, that during the CAN 2008 African Cup, Hon. Gloria Akufo was the Minister for Aviation under Kufour, she came here with a technical team and they wanted to work on the Sumbrungu airport so that some of the African countries will lodge in and use the airport to Tamale for the football. Mr. Ayine said, after going through, “the recommendation was that there was a rock underground and the place is also muddy”. He added; “Why the project is delaying, why we are not getting the project, is a political decision. The politician fears going to tell the people that it can’t work. Because the people will not forgive them. If they go and tell the people of Sumbrungu today that the place is not suitable, they will ask them why they came and destroyed their land and pulled commercial trees down. They have made investors to go there and bought lands. Is left for the politicians to tell them the truth, you mark it down today, the truth will come one day if God is only one God whether am alive or not”. He stressed “The way we are doing politics in this region is not helping us” “Do you think if NDC can go to Sumbrungu to tell the people of Sumbrungu that the place won’t be good for the airport? Do you think they will be able to win there again? The people are likely to come against them and because of what NDC did, the NPP too are not bold enough as we speak. That was why they were hunting Rockson Bukari because he was bold to tell them the truth and they were hunting him. Nobody will tell them the truth and the truth shall come”. He maintained Meanwhile, sharing a little idea of what was already planned should be in case the airport was located in Sherigu Community.“For our side, they were targeting the road. The plan was to cut a road to Pwalungu, so that when passengers are coming from the North East Region and Talensi area, they will not pass through Bolga and another road was cut to Kandiga, so that when they are coming from Navrongo and other places, they will pass through Kandiga without coming to Bolga and those that will be coming from Bawku enclave will pass through Bolga and come. Those were the plans” Johnson Ayine told Apexnewsgh.com Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For Publication, please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: Apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion, Politics

JUST IN: Talensi NDC Secretary dares NPP, says he will resign his position if ….

The Newly elected Talensi Constituency Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper East Region Augustine Mmi-Oni Guure has dared that, if the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is able to construct the Pawlungu Multi-purpose dam project up to 60 percent, he would resign his position as a constituency Secretary. Apexnewsgh.com report According to Mr. Guure, is not a prophecy, is common sense that these things cannot be done and they know within themselves that it cannot be done. “The worst they can do is to start the process not to even get to 30 to 40 percent of that project neither to talk of completing it and I dare him, he should write it down somewhere and one day he will ask me if is true, I will resign from my office”. The NDC Secretary made the strong vow during an engagement on Apexnews Ghana’s flagship programme dubbed “SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST REGION” with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. President Akufo-Addo cut sod for the construction of the Pwalungu Multipurpose dam on November 29, 2019, and since then, the project has generated a whole lot of controversy in the region because nothing much to show at the construction site for years now. According to Mr. Guure, “these people are not taking Ghanaians serious. Am telling you to mark it somewhere if by the end of 2 years, by the end of 2024 if the NPP is able to construct the Pwalungu Multi-Purpose dam up to 60 percent, I will resign as Talensi Constituency Secretary. I am a man of my word and I mean what am saying”. He vowed However, he believes it is about time the governing party speaks the truth to the people of the Upper East region. “we are deprived of development, we are underdeveloped. So, when the opportunities are given we shouldn’t be looking at equalization”. He stressed Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For Publication, please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: Apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion, Politics

Finance Min’s sack: See interesting proposal from NPP Man to President Akufo-Addo

A member of the Upper East Regional Communication Team of the governing New Patriotic Party Johnson Ayine has proposed to President Akufo-Addo to consider engaging CSOs, GUTA, and some other identifiable groups in the Country for them to propose their choice of Finance Minister for the state. The party communication member made the proposal during an engagement on Apexnews Ghana’s flagship development programme dubbed “SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST REGION” with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. “President should meet with the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), and Ghana Union of Traders’ Associations (GUTA) all these identifiable groups, and tasked them to bring a Finance Minister to be appointed to succeed Ken Ofori-Atta” According to Mr. Ayine, such a move by the President will stop all the hullabaloo in the future in case of any act of non-performance by anyone nominated by the above identifiable groups themselves. “What is left, is telling them to get him, somebody, to be appointed and it will tone down our commentary on radio and what have you. He stressed Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion, Politics

UER: “Our MPs are failing us–Johnson Ayine

“If we are to look at the role of an MP, our MPs are failing us” this is according to Johnson Ayine a member of the NPP regional communication team in the Upper East Region.Mr. Ayine was responding to a topic for discussion which was presented on Apexnews Ghana’s flagship programme on Friday, October 7, 2022, dubbed: “SPEAK OUT UPPER EAST”. The question presented to panels is, “What is your general overview with regard to our representatives from this part of the country as Parliamentary Caucus? Do you think they represent the region well development-wise? Meanwhile, responding to the question, Mr. Ayine said: “What I am seeing as somebody who is from the north and who has been a political actor for over decades, I think we haven’t gotten enough from our representative of Parliament and this is a fact. It is something that they cannot run away from it. They can say they are doing it to their satisfaction, they say that there are obstacles, and what have you. But everybody knows that to become a Member of Parliament, there are A, B, C, and D challenges that you will face. But conveniently, some of them always tell that their role is to go and pass laws”. “What they are forgetting is that an MP’s main role is to scrutinize the executive properly. To make sure that they put the executive on its track to do the deliverables. But they say passed laws, what laws? Laws are there for you to pass but your job is to scrutinize them. In the process of securitizing what the executives are supposed to do, you ought to also make sure that whatever the executive is doing, is of benefit to the country and your constituency in particular”. He said “So, you need to leverage that opportunity that has been given to you to scrutinize. Scrutinizing government expenditure or government businesses does not necessarily mean that if they come to parliament, maybe there is a perception that there is corruption, lets sight an example like Pwalugu Multi-Purpose dam… oh the money is too big, so I have to go and make sure that somebody is not corrupt No. Scrutinizing does not necessarily mean that you should make sure that there is only value for money. But the project that is going to be executed, will it benefit the state? Is it of benefit to wherever am coming from? Is it something that is of priority? So, the scrutinization is not limited to the perceived corruption aspect alone, it goes beyond that”. Mr. Ayine believes, the MPs after scrutinizing have the responsibility to communicate back to their constituents before and after. “But unfortunately in Ghana, we have allowed our MPs. They go there and make augment on our behalf without our consent and after the argument whatever comes out, they don’t come back to communicate to us and they claim they are representing the good people of Bolga, representing the good people of Talensi when small consultation has not been done to know whether your people like it or not”. He extended his call to the MPs “I want to call on the Ghanaian legislatures to make good use of the existing technology, and the existing polarization of media in the country. Today, any MP that wants to sample the opinions of his or her constituents can easily use the radio station, social media, and online portals and gather information but they don’t do it. They hardly even come to social media because their perception is on social media they are insulting people, they don’t want to engage the media, and the media have difficulty getting them to engage on their platforms. That is why you see them talking too much when they are in opposition and when they are in government they are silent”. “So, if we are to look at the role of an MP, our MPs are failing us.Unfortunately, you have this part of the country the Caucus is weak, you hardly find or even who is their Caucus leader, you hardly hear them having Caucus meetings, and you hardly hear them moving as Caucus to go and find out what is happening at ABCD, you hardly see your Caucus demanding good result from policymakers implementers. That is the difficulty we have. They go there and put party interest first more than their community, constituency, and the region”. Johnson Ayine stressed Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion, Politics

COVID-19 PPEs procured in the Upper East were largely procured by NDC MPs–Michael Nangena

The uncontested Talensi Communication Officer of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in their upcoming party internal election Michael Nangena has said, if not for the intervention of NDC MPs fight against the deadly COVID-19 would have been a disaster. Mr. Nangena was responding to a topic for discussion which was presented on Apexnews Ghana’s flagship programme on Friday, October 7, 2022, dubbed: “SPEAK OUT UPPER EAST”. The question presented to panels is, “What is your general overview with regard to our representatives from this part of the country as Parliamentary Caucus? Do you think they represent the region well development-wise? Meanwhile, responding to the question, Mr. Ayine said: “We cannot discuss the role of our MPs without if we are not able to situate ourselves in what the constitution of Ghana enjoys every Member of Parliament to do and our MPs can never be an exception”. “When we come to the role of the MP, according to the 1992 constitution, the MP has a legislative function, apart from the legislative function there is another one we call the financial function, representative function, and oversight function and they also have what we call a deliberative role and what I would add which I described as incidental to this function is what we call they their social responsibility of trying to take some minor developmental projects like paying school fees, roofing schools, etc. “In the issue of the legislative function, what it means is that MP is elected to represent the people of his constituency in the law-making processes. The question we will be asking is whether the MPs from this part of the region are left out or not. Do they all participate in the law-making process of the country? And that answer is no. They are actively involved”. “I am not a lawyer, but if you ask most of the constitutional lawyers and in fact, lawyers of Parliamentary democracy and they will all tell you that the Parliament of Ghana will be incomplete without input especially from the Northern MPs and in particular the MPs from the Upper East Region and most of served in the select committee of legal and constitutional affairs. Beyond this, we have issues of financial responsibility. As MPs, they are supposed to really sanction the executive to spend on our budget and they do all these things”. “Representation, we don’t run direct democracy, we run indirect democracy and by that, it means the people of Upper East, all of us cannot converge in Parliament to take part in decision-making”. “So, you can only judge our MP in this respect by his or her attendance to the house, and in fact, there have been Civil Society Organizations that have come out with polls making the attendance of MPs, and am too sure anytime the list is out, our MPs are not victims”. “During the COVID time, remember Upper East was mentioned as a hotspot because we have a high incidence of COVID-19 in the region. Look, the basic PPEs the nurses needed to use to fight the pandemic were largely procured by NDC MPs and I was directly involved in the distribution of these PPEs that were also procured by my MP and am yet to be told of a single MP in the Upper East Region who never rose to the occasion”. He ended. Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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

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

Opinion, Politics

Read full detail: No chief in Upper East Region is regarded as an Apex Leader just like Nayiri, Yaana, and Asante King.

A Citizen of the Upper East Region and a communication team member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Johnson Ayine has shared an interesting view about his observation on issues bedeviling the roles of chiefs in the region. Johnson Ayine made these submissions on Apexnewsgh.com’s newly introduced development programme dubbed “SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST” on September 7, 2022. Responding to the question on the role of chiefs in our regional development, Johnson said, in the Upper East Region everybody is sitting at his palace looking big. He said, even though they have Regional House of Chiefs President, to him, is just by name. Just officially to attend meeting brief and go. If you are House Chief President, you don’t have any controlling power over any of the chiefs. So, that is the problem. “I don’t know why God has made this region like Asisaawa (cloth of many colours) and the echoism is not helping us. Why is it that a whole region we don’t have one traditional leader that has a command? Let me tell you, in the next 5, 10 years, the North East Region, the Savanna Region will be far better than us mark it down. Because our chiefs thinks that, I am not paying homage to you, you don’t have power over me, I am this, I am that. Everybody is sitting at his place looking big {sorry to say this} they have a regional house of chiefs president to me, is just by name. Just officially to attend meeting brief and go. If you are House Chief President, you don’t have any controlling power over any of the chiefs. So, that is the problem”. He stressed “In this region, chiefs are also respected in their various communities based on the level of their wealth or stature in the society. We don’t respect our chiefs just because they are chiefs. There is a saying that, even if they put a dwarf as a chief in your community, you ought to respect that dwarf. But here, immediately they drive a car to their house and their house is better than the chief house, the person becomes the Chief. They want to have command over the chief, the chief will say this and the person will also give his own instruction. So, the chief will not have control”. “We normally want to compare ourselves with Asante Region and I have said it a long time, there is no 100 percent democracy in the Ashanti region and that is why there is a little bit of discipline in the Asante region”. “What happened to the media house in the Ashanti Region, in the upper east here it can’t happen. But in that area, they value the king of the Asante more than the president. So, the king has control and the sub-chief have control, the king is the apex leader of that region. In Upper East, we don’t have that apex body”. “As we speak Dagbon is progressing, they have a chief, the Yaana is there and when Yaana addresses his people everybody will hear. So, there is a command”. “Remember, they were some issues between the ECG, Police, and Yaana intervened and a whole IGP had to send Director General of CID and he himself had to visit and they have to go and apologize to him. In upper East here, if Tongraan or Bonaaba or any of the chiefs have done that, we would have insulted the chief”. “And those in Authority respected him, they accorded him that respect as a leader. So, it tells you that the IGP that moved to his house to plead on behalf of his people today, if they are doing recruitment and Yaana called the IGP and say I have 2 or 3 people, won’t he listen to him and pick them? There is a blessing in disguise, which granted an opportunity for them”. “Today, any head of Department in the Northern Region is answerable to Yaana. The Head of Department in the Upper East Region including political heads is not answerable to any of our chiefs. One day, let Tongraan say, the regional minister has misbehaved I want to do him this, you may see some chiefs saying Tongraan do not have that power to anything because the regional minister is for the whole Upper East Region not only Tongo”. “The North East Region as we speak, the Nayiri is there controlling and that is the apex body. If the regional minister is misbehaving, Nayiri can cause his firing today, Upper East the regional minister can misbehave no chief can cause his firing. So, that is indiscipline”. He said Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion, Politics

See how Upper East Region missed a golden opportunity in 2018 from Dr. Bawumia

A member of the NPP’s Upper East Regional communication team, Johnson Ayine has revealed that efforts made by the Vice President to institute some wonderful measures that would have inured to the benefit of regional development in 2018 were destroyed by the same people recommended to the Vice President as ‘Neutrals’ by their own party executives. Johnson Ayine made the revelation on Apexnewsgh.com’s “SPEAK OUT UPPER EAST” program on Wed, September 07, 2022. According to him, “In 2018, the Vice President of the land, sent a communique to the regional executive then and party elders. That should identify people who are not politicians but development advocates for him to meet them because he doesn’t want to be relying on what the party briefs him. So that from time, he will be taking information from them, some of our brothers were given the opportunity. He said, even the then Regional Minister Rockson Bukari was not allowed to be part of the meeting, because the meeting demanded that the Regional Minister shouldn’t be part, “it was only the Vice President and they themselves and the meeting ended around 1 am midnight. Dr. Ayars as at that period was his aide, he wasn’t in charge of NABCO”. Do you know what happens? The following week some of them were on the radio lambasting the government and our regional executives were the people who selected those participants before you realized the information got back and that was how they spoiled that opportunity. So, if those participants had not done those politics with that arrangement by the Vice President, it would have helped. Today, who told you that the other region’s own was not successful? So, those regions own are successful and he is getting information from neutrals and their regions are doing better than us and we say the party has neglected Upper East not knowing we have done that to ourselves. You can blame those who had the opportunity to meet him. We are engaged in unnecessary competition and jealousy is seriously affecting human growth and development in the region. He said Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

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