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U.S. USAID Office of Transition Initiatives provided more than $140,000 to support UE- House of Chiefs– U.S. Amb. Virginia E. Palmer

The United State Ambassador to Ghana has revealed that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives provided more than $140,000 of support to rehabilitate the Upper East House of Chiefs building, which forms part of the United States’ commitment to promoting community cohesion and peace, and stability in Ghana. U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Virginia E. Palmer, visited Bolgatanga and the Upper East Region on Wednesday, May 30, 2023. The Ambassador joined Vice President Bawumia, the Upper East Regional Minister Honorable Stephen Yakubu, and the Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Honorable Stephen Asamoah Boateng to inaugurate the rehabilitated Upper East Regional House of Chiefs office in Bolgatanga. At the inauguration ceremony, Ambassador Palmer said, “The U.S. Government stands together with local partners in the Upper East to advance their goals of promoting peace, improving livelihoods and increasing community well-being for more cohesive and resilient communities” The renovation of the Upper East Regional House of Chief’s office was financed by the United States Government. The newly renovated building provides a conducive and inclusive space for meetings, work, and training for Chiefs, Queen Mothers, and technical staff. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives provided more than $140,000 of support to rehabilitate the Upper East House of Chiefs building, which forms part of the United States’ commitment to promoting community cohesion and peace, and stability in Ghana. As part of her two-day trip, Ambassador Palmer also met with women traditional leaders. U.S. Embassy grantees and partners, Alumni of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, and other U.S Government exchange programs. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0256336062

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

UER: Chiefs, CSOs, NGOs, Pastors, and Imams enjoy visiting the Prez for their own personal interest –John Ayine

A member of the NPP’s Upper East Regional communication team, Johnson Ayine has said, the act of interest self-seeking Chiefs, CSOs, NGOs, Pastors, and Imams in the Upper East Region is a massive contributing factor to the region’s underdevelopment. Mr. Ayine made the revelation on Apexnewsgh.com flagship program dubbed “SPEAK OUT UPPER EAST” on Wed, September 07, 2022 Responding to the question from the host of the program Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen on issues bedeviling development in the region, Mr. Ayine said some identifiable groups in the region enjoy visiting the President, Vice President, and Ministers of State individually for their own selfish interests and parochial interest without considering development for the regionHe asked “How many times have you seen Upper East either at NDC or NPP administration, how many times have you seen these identifiable groups either traditional rulers, pastors, Imams, Civil Society Organizations moving up and down meeting President or those in various ministries to demand development in our region, how many times? When they visit our region our chiefs, and imams went there individually, the religious leaders went there individually, our CSOs and what have you, and some of them went there individually. How many of them will say, let us go there with one voice and demand what is due us? He quizzed Sighting an example, he said BONABOTO and TEERE as a group were able to come together and succeeded in getting the people of Upper East Gurune language into GES as a learning language. “For the Gurune Language was executed by BONABOTO and TEERE Mr. Avea’s NGO and the government listened and that tells you that when we come together as a people and demand for something, the government will listen. When my father delegated his sub-chiefs Dorongo Naaba, Kalbeo Naaba, myself, and some other persons to Dr. Bawumia to talk about this road, he listened. So, that is what we are supposed to be doing”. He stressed Source:Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion, Politics

UER: Take advantage of Akufo-Addo’s visit to the region to fight for Devpt-Bismark Ayorogo to UER Chiefs

The Executive Director for Northern Patriots in Research and Advocacy (NORPRA), Bismark Adongo Ayorogo has advised the Chiefs in the Upper East Region to take advantage of President Akufo-Addo’s visit to the region on Thursday, August 4, 2022, to address some developmental challenge facing the region. Apexnewsgh.com report Mr. Ayorogo made the pledge during an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Tuesday. He said: “Chiefs are supposed to be our fathers in our various communities and chieftaincy institutions command a lot of respect locally, nationally, and internationally. And they have a compelling voice but regrettably some of them, though the institution itself is not a political institution, the individuals there seem to prioritize partisan politics to the neglect of their own people”. He added: “So, we as their subjects, we as their followers can use this opportunity to appeal to them to prioritize the development of the region first by coming together and raising critical voice on some of the strategic development projects that are eluding us. According to him, almost all regions in the country have an airport, but the people of the Upper East still don’t have and is just because the politician is taking undue advantage of their divided front and lack of humility toward the people. “Can you imagine what the President will do if all the chiefs say, look Mr. President our region is even a distance to the national capital than most of the regions you have given airports? We need one now whether is in Bolga or Navrongo we need one now, it will work. If our chiefs in unity say, Mr. President this your industrialization is fantastic but we as a region, we want to see smoke in the air at the Pawlugu tomato factory, so that all our farmers from the region will be able to produce tomato and feed and even to make it a multi-vegetable factory, So that in the raining season when tomatoes are not even produced they can produce other crops such as yellow melon, watermelon and other vegetables to feed the country, it will be done”. He believes “If over 50 years ago, the leadership of this country thought that it was good to build factories like tomato and meat factories, is it today that is not relevant? Is it today that our growing population is not relevant? We are not united, they leave it to in the hands of youth groups and civil society and mostly CSOs are looking for what the donor is saying, is the donor interested in LGBTQI or Gender-based Violence because they think that is where money is. But the key strategic thing that will unlock the development potential of this region they are swept under the carpet”. He laments He said the pawlugu multipurpose dam which was touted as one of the biggest public investments in northern Ghana has not received any serious attention from the government “Just look at the biggest public investment in the word of government in northern Ghana been the pwalugu multi-purpose dam which was given 50 months period for it to complete, what is there? I can tell you on authority that all the workers have packed and gone”. “I understand President is going round talking about Agenda 111? Just go to any medical stores in the Upper East here, no single paracetamol. That is why when you go to the hospital these days, is just because you want to meet the doctor and go to a pharmacist nothing more. One would go to the hospital with offering you any medication, they are likely to bill you for no medication given”. laments Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion, Politics

UER: Educated personalities, MPs, directors, and NGOs are the cause of the Regional underdevelopment—Balungu Chief.

Chief of Balungu a community in the traditional area in the Upper East Region Naba John Attia (Wmaribilsonga Niitinga/Putisonne maaletinga) says the underdevelopment bedeviling the people of the Region is a self-inflected one by the people themselves. Naba Attia made the interesting revelation on Saturday, July 9, 2022, when the Apexnewsgh.com crew visited his palace to digest issues of development relating to his traditional area and the region at large. However, sharing his views on the nature of underdevelopment bedeviling the region over the years, the chief did not miss words. He said: “I don’t blame anybody, I blame ourselves. Now, look at Bolga, look at Bawku, and look at Doba and Kandiga. It is our own people, our educated people, our MPs, our brothers who are directors and so on, they have let Upper East down”. Naba John also holds the view that those operating Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the region have done the region more bad than good, especially with the huge resources they are receiving from their outside donors. An area he challenges the media to research and come out with the revelations. He insisted that those handling the donor’s dollars in the region are not Ashanti’s or the people from Ga but insisting they are from the region. “NGOs dollars, all those monies are handled by our own brothers and sisters here. Go and see, what are they using the money for? We have money more than Upper West when it comes to NGOs. NGOs started coming here when Upper West didn’t have NGOs. If you want to do research and look at the number of dollars that have entered Upper East here, those monies were not handled by Ashanti’s, we always say Ashanti’s are cheating us, they were not handled by Ga’s, they were handled by our own people here”. Naba John insisted Over a period, Apexnewsgh.com as a developmental-oriented online platform interested in the development of the Upper East Region has reported some of the gaps, when it comes to developmental achievement between some other regions and the Upper East region, especially with Upper West Region as a basis. The basic and common research conducted by ApexnewsGh shows that Upper West got their stadium with 5,000 capacity in 2006 whereas, Upper East Region has none, the last time we checked, the people of Kassena Nankana East Municipality were protesting for the completion of their abandoned sports stadium after 4 years of promising to hand it over to them as a valentine gift. Also, research by ApexnewsGh shows that the people of Upper West opened their airport for commercial flight operations on October 15, 2019, with service by Africa World Airlines from Accra via Tamale using an Embraer 145 regional jet. In the Upper East, the Airport promises brought division and unfortunately ended regrettably without even a drone center for the region. However, research by ApexnewsGh also shows that the people of the Upper West Region commissioned their Passport Application Center (PAC) in 2020 which is actively in use at this point. In the Upper East Region, the story is different. It took ApexnewsGh report in October 2021 and a follow-up to the authority. Then, in March the region received funding support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to begin construction of a passport office. The construction is supposed to last for 3 months and as we write, is already 5 months the construction is still not completed following the land owner’s demands for land settlement. According to Apexnewsgh.com research, the 160-bed capacity Upper West Regional Hospital was made open to the general public on January 9, 2020, even after a little delay. Because President Akufo Addo earlier commissioned the US$ 52 million facilities in August 2019. Whereas, in the case of the Upper East Region, the $20 million between the government of Ghana and Saudi Arabia in 2019 for the completion of Bolgatanga Regional Hospital was truncated and it has since ended on that note without achieving the regional hospital agenda. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion, Politics

Upper East Regional House of Chief worried over the senseless and morally depraved criminal acts in Bawku

The Upper East Regional House of Chiefs led by the Paramount Chief of the Chiana Traditional Area, Pe Dituudini Adiana Ayagitam III who doubles as the President of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs has said, “it is saddening to note that since these clashes in Bawku in 1983, 1984 and 1985 all has not been well with the inhabitants of this growing township. The House of Chief President made the revelation on Thursday, May 26, 2022 during a press conference organized by the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs. The statement said: “In the last quarter of 2021, there was renewed escalation of the regrettably enduring conflict in Bawku. These skirmishes in the township aggravated in the run up to the Samampiid and the purported plans by the Mamprusis to observe the final funeral rites of the late Tampuri Alhaji Adam Zangbeogo, who is still recognized as the last Bawku Naba by the Mamprusis and subsequently celebrate the Damba”. “This has led to the loss of abled and productive lives and valuable property, stalled economic activities, and deprived several school children of an opportunity to pursue their future dreams. Asa bustling economic hub of the east and Ghana, it has further worsened the woes of a country emerging from the ravaging effects of COVID-19 and its consequences on the national economy. It is from this background that the Chiefs of the Region wish to condemn in no uncertain terms these senseless and morally depraved criminal acts”. “It is saddening to note that since these clashes in Bawku in 1983, 1984 and 1985 all has not been well with the inhabitants of this growing township”. “The clashes have transformed, over the years into a war of attrition rather than an action to settle a chieftaincy dispute”. The statement said: “Despite the political meddling in the conflict, it is worth nothing that successive governments have equally played significant roles in ending the debilitating conflict through their unequivocal declarations on the matter in reference to the Supreme Court Decision”. “The most recent attempt initiated by His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, by inviting the Nayiri and the Bawku Naba for discussions is highly commendable”. However, “it is rather disappointing that these high-level interventions have yielded little results in resolving this devastating conflict. “This has led us to reason that what we are experiencing in the area is organized crime orchestrated by people with doubtful integrity for their selfish interests. Crime is intolerable in any society and thus must be stamped out. The statement said “What is particular concern to us in this region is the attempt by some persons to associate the recent acts of lawlessness in Bawku with the desire of Nayiri, Overlord of Mamprugu, to maintain a hold in the Kusaug Traditional Area through violence and intimidation”. The statement said Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093

Politics

The E-blocks standing, they are a disgrace to our national reputation John Mahama to UER-House of Chiefs

The former President John Dramani Mahama has pleaded with the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs to inform President Akufo-Addo that the E-blocks standing untouched across the region since the NPP administration, has become a disgrace to Ghana’s reputation The former President who was on a ‘THANK YOU TOUR’ to appreciate the people of the Upper East Region for their wonderful support during the 2020 general election made the plea to the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. “Governance is supposed to be a continuum and so when a government takes over from the other, it continuous what the previous government was doing. When I came into office, as best as I could the projects that we had inherited from the preceding government we tried to continue them”. Some we concluded, others we move to another level so that another government will come and continue and so I will urge that you continue to urge on this president that the E-blocks that are standing, they are a disgrace to our national reputation. “You are the moral voices of our society. You should continue to draw government’s attention to taxpayer’s money that is being wasted by the numerous abandoned projects that we have in your traditional areas”. “Because, as I have said before it is not my Education Minister who was my running mate in 2020 Naana Opoku Agyeman who financed them out of her pocket, or it wasn’t me who financed that project from my pocket it was the taxpayer’s money, your money and my money that we used to put up this blocks” However, the President of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs Pe Dituudini Adiana Ayagitam III who doubles as the paramount chief for the Chiana Traditional Area during his speech described the former President as an ‘epitome’ of peace especially with his posture of calming down growing tensions across the country after the result declaration and during the 2020 election petition. The Upper East Regional House of Chiefs was grateful for the appreciation shown by the former President John Dramani Mahama especially by choosing Upper East Region first as he embarked on his Thank You Tour journey across other regions Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

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

UER: Chiefs, CSOs, NGOs, Pastors, and Imams enjoy visiting the Prez for their own personal interest –John Ayine

UER: Take advantage of Akufo-Addo’s visit to the region to fight for Devpt-Bismark Ayorogo to UER Chiefs

UER: Educated personalities, MPs, directors, and NGOs are the cause of the Regional underdevelopment—Balungu Chief.

Upper East Regional House of Chief worried over the senseless and morally depraved criminal acts in Bawku

The E-blocks standing, they are a disgrace to our national reputation John Mahama to UER-House of Chiefs

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