The Talensi District Chief Executive (DCE) Thomas Duanab Wuni has promised to revisit issues surrounding the unpaid compensation to the families of 16 dead miners. Apexnewsgh.com report On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, some young youth numbering 16 from the Talensi community in the Upper East Region met their untimely death whereas others numbering over 15 went unconscious and was rushed to the hospital and after few days of going through a thorough medical treatment with the assistance of the Health workers at the Regional Hospital, Only a few recovered from the explosion. The majority of these lost lives were noted by friends, family, and community members as breadwinners, this simply means, these individuals carry their family responsibilities on their heads all alone, and they are the only source of happiness for their dependents. Is over 5 years down the lane since after the tragic incident occurred but, the question begging for answers is, what has been the situation for the families of these known breadwinners who regrettably lost their lives as a result of the negligence of a mining company and an individual according to the Mineral Commission Reports? Apexnewsgh.com investigation reveals, that no compensation has been awarded to any of the family members from both the company Shaanxi Mining Company now Earl International and Kwasi Bantama. Currently, as we published this article, we can confidently report that some parents of these dead victims have also died as a result of hardship and struggles of life and some of these dependents are still going through difficult conditions as at now. Sadly, it appears those whose negligence put these families in their current predicaments care less about their human rights and welfare. However, engaging the Talensi District Chief Executive Mr. Thomas Duanab Wuni on the said issue regarding the family’s compensation, he said in his handing over, he hasn’t chanced any issue regarding compensation of families of the 16 dead youths. He promised to revisit in January 2023. “I have been in this office for one year and two months and in my handing over notes, I haven’t chanced any issue regarding what you are telling me. So, is difficult for me to speak to that subject. But all the same, from January when we come back from the holidays, I will take a kin interest and I will revisit what you are telling me and I would make further enquiries to see what the issue is. I hear a lot of you the press guys talking about it but, we in the Assembly here, because it wasn’t included in my handing over note, I find it difficult speaking about it. Because as I took over, there was no indication that I had an issue to follow up. But, if that is the situation, is never too late. I can always go back and look at it. So, from January 2023, I will revisit it and see what the situation is and then, we will take it from there”. The DCE told Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stepehn of Apexnewsgh.com Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Talensi: President Akufo-Addo Nominates Thomas Duanab Wuni
President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated Thomas Duanab as the next District Chief Executive (DCE) for the people of Talensi District of the Upper East Region. Before now, President nominee Mr. Duanab has contested the Parliamentary seat twice under the ticket of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). He contested the 2016 and 2020 parliamentary election in the Talensi District and unfortunately lost the two elections. However, the 2020 election saw a marginal increase in the vote cast in his favor during the last elections as far as Talensi election history is concerned. Mr. Duanab is one of the new faces nominated by President Akufo-Addo to make his second administration work better at the district level. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Your general performance, is shambolic, abysmal and crummy– Talensi Constituency Secretary to NPP
The Secretary of the Opposition National Democratic Congress in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region Zinekena Solomon has registered some level of displeasure with the President and governing New Patriotic Party, especially with issues of Talensi developments and promises made the people of the Upper East Region. In a press statement released by the constituency Secretary on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, captured by Apexnewsgh.com, they constituency Secretary said, they as a party are not against President visiting of Namoalogo Dam, but they believes, the said dam does not fall squarely under the 1 Village 1 Dam (1V1D) policy per chapter 4, page 50 of the NPP 2016 manifesto. “The President cannot find time to visit one of such dams to commission it but rather seeks cover to inspect the progress of work of a project that does not fall squarely under the President’s flagship policy of 1V1D.” He further stated that for over a year now, no work is going on at the site of Pwalugu Multi-Purpose dam. According to him, they expected the President to place a higher priority on the multi-million project to avert the perennial flooding caused by the spillage of the Bagre Dam as he suggested during his sod-cutting speech, which isn’t what they are currently experiencing as he described President pronouncement then as a deception to the people of Talensi and the region at large. However, Mr. Zenekena pointed that another huge infrastructure project that the people of Talensi and the Upper East Region were expecting the President to pay attention to during his visit is the Pusonamogo 120 – Affordable Housing Units called Rock Estates in the Talensi District, which he claimed the Vice President Dr. Bawumia told a falsehood the people of Talensi during his launching of the NPP’s Delivery Tracker. Below are the full details: SPEECH BY COMRADE ZINEKENA SOLOMON T.T.B., TALENSI CONSTITUENCY SECRETARY OF THE NDC, AT PUSUNAMOGO ON TUESDAY, 6TH OCTOBER, 2020. Title: PRESIDENT NANA ADDO’S VISIT TO THE TALENSI CONSTITUENCY; A FARCE AND ELECTORAL DECEIT. Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the media. Thank you once again for your kind coverage of this crucial platform. Ladies and gentle of the media, this venue is chosen because we want to engage in an evidence-based press conference to put things in perspective for the good people of Talensi and Ghanaians at large. Ladies and gentlemen, the Talensi NDC has intercepted the itinerary of President Nana Addo’s visit to the Upper East Region. In the said document, the President will only inspect an irrigation dam under the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA) at Namoalogo in the Talensi District. Ladies and gentlemen, we have combed through the entire proposed programme of the President’s visit, and it appears that it is the only site/project that he is visiting in Talensi. Ladies and gentlemen, the NDC is not against the President’s visit to the dam at the Eastern Zone of the Constituency. However, this press conference is to exposed the record shambolic, abysmal and crummy performance of the NPP government under President Nana Addo and Bawumia by cataloging the NPP’s so-called flagship and unprecedented projects in Talensi which have not caught the attention of the President in his visit. A –The Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam and Irrigation Project. Ladies and gentlemen of the media, you will recall that President Nana Addo on Friday, November 29, 2019, cut sod for the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam and Irrigation Project. In his speech at the sod-cutting ceremony, he stated categorically that the project ‘will be the single, largest investment ever made by any Government in the Northern sector of the country’. He also stated that ‘construction of the Dam will avert the perennial flooding caused by the spillage of the Bagre Dam’. Prior to the sod cutting, Vice President Bawumia on Saturday, August 31, 2019, at the Upper West Regional capital, Wa said that it will be the single, largest investment made by any Government in Northern Ghana since independence. Ladies and gentlemen, were these speeches made by President Nana Addo and his Vice their usual rhetoric and lip service speeches where walking the talk become a heavy barrier? If not, why is the President not visiting the site on his way to the Region since Pwalugu is the first community one will first meet when visiting the Upper East Region from Tamale? It is actually the gateway to the Region. It, however, beats the imagination of discerning Ghanaians why the President would abandon and desert a project he claims is the single, largest investment ever made by any Government in the Northern sector of the country. It is also insensitive and clueless on the part of the President to have ignored the project amidst the recent devastating flood in the Northern sector which has claimed several lives, rendered hundreds homeless, destroyed thousands of hectares of farms worth millions of Ghana Cedis, carried away several livestocks and broke culverts and bridges leading to stagnation of economic activities in the affected areas. We expected the President to place a higher priority on this project to avert the perennial flooding caused by the spillage of the Bagre Dam as he suggested in his sod-cutting speech. In the contrary, ladies and gentlemen, it is almost one solid year today, and there is absolutely nothing going on at the site. If it is not for DECEPTION, then, what is this? Ladies and gentlemen, President Nana Addo is not physically stronger than any of us here such he will be the only person to use the pick-axe or shovel to cut sod but it must be backed by the action of implementation. B – 120 Affordable Housing Units at Pusonamogo. Ladies and gentlemen of the media, another huge infrastructure project that the good people of Talensi and the Upper East Region were expecting the President to pay attention to in his visit is the Pusonamogo 120 – Affordable Housing Units called Rock Estates in the Talensi District, which the
I am ready to debate you Thomas Duanab Awuni to Talensi Member of Parliament.
Parliamentary Candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region Thomas Duanab Wuni has thrown a debate challenge to the BensonTongo Baba the Talensi Member of Parliament. Mr. Duanab throws the challenge on A1 radio’s TRUTH BE TOLD series which is an initiative of NPP-USA CHAPTER monitored by Apexnewsgh.com on Sunday, September 27, 2020. According to Mr. Duanab Wuni, his intention for the debate challenge to the MP Mr. Benson Tongo Baba, is to prove he and NDC wrong in the eye of the Talensi people and Ghana as a whole. He was Optimistic to say, that if the Member of Parliament accepts his debate challenge on A1 radio, he will be able to pay for the cost of the airtime. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please kindly contact Apexnewsgh.com on Email: editor@apexnewsgh.com for your credible News publications
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









