Dr. R. T. B. Koranteng, PC – Yilo Krobo Constituency is the one waving the NPP flag.
It was all joy with an electrifying atmosphere as the principal streets of Yilo Krobo Constituency in the Eastern Region dominated by the traditional New Patriotic Party’s Red, White, and Blue colors occasioned a mega health walk with Dr. Richard Twum Barimah Koranteng, the Parliamentary Candidate of the Constituency.
The exercise, which was dubbed: “DUKU health walk”, pulled hundreds of crowds, predominately by the NPP faithful, to energize the grassroots base ahead of the December 7 polls.
Speaking to KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH, the MP hopeful for the Constituency noted that among all other factors, the need to energize the party’s fans based in the area was key to enabling them to preach the good work done by their government to the people and also to maintain in power to do more for Ghana.
Dr. Richard Koranteng treated the members of the ruling governing party to be proud of its achievements because they have proven doubters wrong, especially the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
“If I were former President John Dramani Mahama I wouldn’t have joined the race to contest the 2024 election because he has occupied all the positions in governance,” he stated.
Dr. Koranteng then advised Ghanaians to disgrace him by voting massively against him and indicated that in doing so, he would go on retirement because they didn’t know what he left at the Jubilee House and wanted to return and go for it.
He then pleaded with the Yilo Krobo constituents to shun the NDC PC, Albert Nyakotey, and vote for him to become the MP to bring more infrastructure projects and transform the area.
The Eastern Regional Chairman of the Party, Jeff Konadu Addo, also, in an interview with KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH, said they will rally their support behind Dr. Richard Twum Barimah Koranteng to grab the parliamentary seat from the NDC MP, Albert Nyakotey.
He stressed that the turnout of the program shows that the people of Yilo Krobo were hungry for change in the upcoming elections.
According to him, the NPP has 25 parliamentary seats against 8 of the NDC and is poised to take all the NDC’s seats from them because he believes that his party has done a lot of developmental projects in the Region and deserves to win those seats.
The Eastern Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Anthony Osei Adjei, has praised the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency in the region, Gifty Twum Ampofo, for dashing out six brand-new motorbikes to support the Constituency’s 2024 elections campaign.
According to him, the MP’s gesture to the party shows that there is unity in the Constituency despite losing the Parliamentary bid to a different person.
“Our party has given many opportunities to most of our sitting Members of Parliament, but after losing the parliamentary primaries, they have dumped us and are contesting the 2024 parliamentary race as independent candidates, but Gifty Twum Ampofo respected the decision of the delegates and never left the party,” he added.
Anthony Adjei noted that Gifty Twum Ampofo’s continuous support and commitment indicate that she appreciates what the party has done for her in the past 7 years as cabinet member.
The Eastern Regional NPP Secretary used the opportunity and appealed to their Members of Parliament who genuinely said they were not contesting again and those who couldn’t retain their seats to emulate the outgoing Abuakwa North MP and return the same gesture to their constituencies to strengthen the campaign to enable them to enter every household to grab their votes to help them break the eight to retain power in 2025.
The Member of Parliament for the Constituency, Gifty Twum Ampofo on her part said, that donating 6 motorbikes to the party will help them to go to the remote areas in the Constituency where cars can’t go and sell the achievements of the NPP government to the residents over there to vote for them to remain in power.
Gift Ampofo added that she has served under the NPP government for seven years as Deputy Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection, and immediate past Deputy Minister of Education in charge of TVET, and a Lawmaker for eight years and donating the motorbikes to support the 2024 election campaign formed part of her appreciation to the party.
She then entreated the youth who are not working, especially the unemployed graduates, to pursue Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) courses to enable them to create job opportunities for themselves rather than always depending on someone for daily bread.
Alhaji Seidu Ibrahim, the Chairman of the Constituency, received the motorbikes on behalf of his executives and thanked the MP, Gifty Twum Ampofo, for the kind gesture.
“We never thought that someone who has spent a huge amount of money on an election and couldn’t win can purchased us 6 motorbikes for to be use for our campaign and canvas votes to help Chief Buffalo who defeated her to maintain the seat for NPP and this is incredible,” he revealed.
The Former Member of Parliament for Suhum Constituency in the Eastern Region, Frederick Opare Ansah has vindicated Kontihen Kofi Oboh, a broadcast journalist in the region
Before the 2020 general elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) held many press conferences and spoke about former President John Dramani Mahama.
For this reason, Kontihen Kofi Oboh suggested that the NPP government should propagate the good works they have done to enable Ghanaians to give them another nod to continue to govern the country.
He was of the view that talking about former President Mahama would make him popular to garner more votes but some journalists in the region thought he hated NPP.
Lo and behold, NDC nearly caused harm to the NPP by getting over 6 million votes in the 2020 elections. Meanwhile, the NPP eventually won the 2016 elections with over 1 million votes.
“We all knew what NDC said about then flagbearer of NPP and now the President of Ghana, Nana Addo, that he was too short and couldn’t be a President, and those things made him popular to humiliate them in 2016, and the same thing nearly occurred to the NPP in the 2020 elections,” he added.
After many suggestions from Kofi Oboh on one of the Eastern Regional Media platforms, someone forwarded it to one of the NPP executives in the region.
Four years down the lane, the journalist has been vindicated by Frederick Opare Ansah, a renowned politician in Ghana.
On Sunday, September 15, 2024, the NPP executives in Suhum Constituency, led by their Parliamentary Candidate, organized a mega health walk exercise to energize the base to bring floating voters on board to vote for them in the upcoming December 7 polls.
When addressing the NPP faithful in Suhum, the former Member of Parliament for the Constituency, Frederick Opare Ansah recounted how an independent parliamentary made him lose the 2008 election.
According to him, during their 2008 campaign wherever they went, they mentioned the name of the independent parliamentary candidate, and that made him popular and grabbed over 4,000 votes.
“So, going into the 2012 election, they developed a strategy and stopped mentioning his name in their campaign, and it helped them win the elections by a big margin,” revealed Opare Ansah.
The former Suhum MP used the opportunity to advise the NPP members in the area, not to mention the name of Ɔboafo Kwadjo Asante, who has turned his back on them and is going independent to contest the Parliamentary seat.
“In doing so, nobody would hear of him, and it would give an advantage to the NPP’s Parliamentary Candidate, Frank Asiedu Bekoe, popularly known as ‘Protozoa,’ to retain the seat for them,” he noted.
Nancy Abbey presenting the award to Haruna Yussif Wunpini.
A Journalist with the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Haruna Yussif Wunpini, has been awarded Eastern Region Tourism Media Personality for the year 2024.
Haruna Wunpini, who has been with the GCGL and primarily been writing stories for the Daily Graphic, The company’s flagship newspaper as the Regional Reporter was also adjudged Best Reporter in the print category at the maiden Eastern Regional Tourism Media Awards held at Koforidua, the regional capital on Friday, September 13, 2024.
Parts of the citation reads, ”As the Eastern Regional Reporter, your quest and passion to write in-depth feature stories and news articles on the tourism potentials in the region is highly remarkable.”.
According to the citation, Wunpini’s dedication to tourism reporting took him to destinations to uncover unique attractions and untapped potentials such as the Rock with Human Features at ”Kodidi” in the Afram Plains North.
Another wonderful work of nature is the Canoe-Shaped tree at the Bunso Eco Park which publications in the Daily Graphic, The Mirror and Graphic Online significantly contributed in showcasing the region’s tourism attractions and potentials to the world.
The publications, the citation further highlighted some of the numerous challenges facing the tourism industry to the sector ministry for redress.
Another media organization, Channel One TV, was recognized as the Tourism Oriented Media for the year 2024, while 14 other tourism-related facilities in the region were also honored and given plagues and citations.
The awards scheme, the first of its kind, was instituted by the Eastern Regional Office of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to honor outstanding individuals and hospitality facilities committed to excellence and dedication to tourism.
Haruna Wunpini, who was highly elated with the latest honor considering their relentless love for the tourism industry over the past years, said he never anticipated being given such an award.
“The path of success is always rough and very difficult, and those who are always ready to take challenges head-on and at the same time have a keen interest and are full of determination win over it”.
“I thank Almighty Allah for giving me the strength and energy to do what I have done. “My editors and colleague journalists, including my wives and family members, supported me in winning the ultimate,” Yussif Wunpini stated.
To him, the public had recognised his good works and expressed appreciation to the GTA for honouring him.
The Eastern Regional Graphic reporter indicated that the award received would spur him to do more to enable him to win the national diadem.
Speaking at the event on the theme “Celebrating Innovation and Recognising Excellence In Ghana’s Tourism Sector”, the Head of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Cape Coast, Professor Ishmael Mensah said the region had many tourist facilities such as Odweanoma Mountain, Akuapem Ridge, Aburi Botanical Gardens, the Volta Lake and the Akonnedi Shrine at Larteh and local cuisine such as “aboloo” and “Koko” which portrayed the region as a land of diversity.
He stated that the region which is endowed with highlands, wildlife, rich cultural heritage and warm-hearted people had been attracting tourists.
Professor Mensah, who is also the Director of the Confucius Institute, emphasized that given such tourist attractions, his outfit had recognized the awards as important to the development of the tourism industry.
He then congratulated all award winners, especially Haruna Wunpini of Daily Graphic for emerging the Eastern Region Tourism Media Personality for the year 2024.
Professor Mensah urged him to continue to write more feature stories on tourism related activities to enable him win the national award in the near future.
For his part, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the GTA, Akwasi Agyeman said the ceremony was the first to be organized in the 16 regions and that the rest would follow to showcase tourism potentials in such areas, adding that all the events would take place this September that had been designated tourism month.
He told the gathering that the events would be climaxed with the World Tourism Day on September 27, this month.
Agyeman therefore called on all the awardees to continue to work hard in their respective fields of work to project the region’s tourism potentials.
Furthermore, the Eastern Regional Director of GTA, Dinah Adu-Owusu said the region boast of vast tropical forests and landscapes, countless water bodies, rich cultural diversity and world class tourism hospitality facilities that merged to define the tourism hospitality landscape to host both domestic and international visitors.
She noted that it was important at the same time necessary to celebrate and honour the tourism entrepreneurs as well as the media practitioners and individuals who had througth innovation and their pursuit for excellence had transformed the available resources into memorable experiences in Eastern Region over the years.
“The future of tourism greatly depend on our ability to be continually innovative and intune with technology in order to meet the changing demands of todays problems and find ways to address them,” Adu-Owusu stated.
The representatives of the Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong and the Omanhene of the New Juaben Traditional Area, Daasebre Kwaku Boateng III also graced the occasion
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Akwatia Constituency in the Eastern Region, Henry Boakye Yiadom, has registered his displeasure about how the Electoral Commission of Ghana is delaying the rectification of the errors in the voters register.
According to him, they have received a lot of reports from the various constituencies complaining of missing names in the voter register with other claims of illegal transfer of their credentials to different constituencies without their knowledge.
“The National Leadership of the National Democratic Congress has had a meeting with EC about the bloated register and has been assured of correcting those mistakes, but it has proven futile, and we can’t sit down alof to allow them to use inaccurate voter register for the December 7 polls,” he said.
The Member of Parliament for Akwatia told KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during the NDC’s nationwide ‘Enough Is Enough’ demonstration against the Electoral Commission for alleged adding over 240,000 people’s names to the voter register.
Hundreds of individuals and NDC party faithful turned out for the demonstration that took place in Koforidua, the Capital Town of the Eastern Region, on Tuesday, September 17, 2024.
Boakye Yiadom further stated that it would be worrying that someone would go to the polling center on December 7 to cast his or her vote and the person would not find its name in the voter register, hence the NDC demand for the EC to allow an independent body to audit the register to enable the country to get credible voters’ register for the 2024 elections.
He then urged the EC to listen to what they were saying about the voter register and do the needful to ensure peaceful elections.
The Eastern Regional Director for the Electoral Commission, John Appiah Barfo received the petition letter and assured them of presenting it to the appropriate authorities
For his part, the National Youth Organizer for the party, George Opare Addo entreated President Akufo Addo to peacefully hand over the power to John Dramani Mahama because they are winning the 2024 election with ease.
The Lower Manya Krobo Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Eastern Region has held its Women’s wing Conference ahead of the December 7 polls intended to retain power.
The conference aims to train the women’s wing in the constituency on how to interact with the residents in the area to propagate the good things that have been executed by the NPP government to enable their vision a reality.
They stated that the Leadership of the National Democratic Congress should not dream of winning the 2024 general elections on a silver platter because they will give them a tough opposition by shaking the nation with a gargantuan campaign to win the hearts of Ghanaians to ensure they maintain NPP to continue their good works.
Speaking to KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH the Lower Manya Krobo Women Organizer, Gifty Ambasaki who spearheaded the program said women play a crucial role in every election, hence involving them in the campaign to help NPP break the eight.
She added that many people are peeved at the NPP, so they will use the campaign to explain to them that Ghana is not the only country confronting economic challenges but should have confidence in the NPP as they seek to change the fortunes of the country.
Reacting on the NDC’s demonstration against the Electoral Commission for bloating the voters’ register to enable them rig the elections for NPP, Lawyer Charles Owusu Juanah, an NPP Financier described the NDC as epitome of demonstrators.
According to him, Ghanaians have become matured to the extent that the NDC people can’t lie and deceive them anymore so they are creating an impression as if something bad would happen.
“We are telling them that nothing would occur before, during and after the 2024 elections and Ghana will continue to enjoy its peace God has bestowed on us,”.
Lawyer Charles Juanah then alleged that NDC are going rounds with the said inaccurate voters’ register and given people ¢200.00 to vote for them.
He then entreated Ghanaians not to take them serious because they knew they can’t win the elections.
The Parliamentary Candidate for Okere Constituency in the Eastern Region, Daniel Nana Addo-Kenneth, says the December 7 polls will be decided by Traditional Authorities in the country.
According to him, the Chiefs are the custodians of the lands, likewise, the politicians who don’t spend much more time in power.
“All the developmental projects have been vested into the hands of the government, and if the Chiefs are seeking development, they go to the politicians before getting them; hence, they must take the 2024 elections seriously and vote for the development-oriented party who thinks about their well-being,” he opined.
Daniel Kenneth stated that traditional rulers don’t involve themselves in active politics, but if they need infrastructure projects for their towns, then they should wake up and advise their people to give the leadership mantle to the Flagbearer of NPP, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia to continue the good works of President Akufo Addo in 2025 to prevent the country from going backward.
He indicated the electricity and tarring of Okere roads projects, which started from Former President John Kuffuor’s era, were not continued for 8 years during the former President Mahama’s administration until President Akufo-Addo came to power in 2016 and completed those projects through Dan Kwaku Botwe, the outgoing Member of Parliament for the constituency.
The Parliamentary Candidate for Okere then said this was a clear indication that the NPP government has been fair to the people of Okere and that the chiefs and elders in the area would not be ungrateful to the NPP.
He made this assertion during the engagement with the Chiefs and Elders of all the seven towns in Okere at Amanfrom on Saturday, September 13, 2024, to propagate the achievement of the NPP to enable them to maintain power.
The Okere PC, who doubles as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the District, used the opportunity to showcase some of the infrastructure projects the NPP government has done in the area to them.
Speaking with the media, the Chief of Amanfrom, Nana Tete Ajokwa III commended the NPP government for the numerous developmental projects received in Okere and stated that all the projects their Parliamentary Candidate mentioned are visible to be seen and expressed their gratitude.
“They have given us the District Hospital, Court, and educational infrastructure, and even recently, they cut sod for seven major projects to complement the existing ones,” he said.
He then assured him of his support by demarcating some lands to the assembly to use for other important projects to develop the area.
Nana Tete Ajokwa III added that Daniel Kenneth has performed better as DCE and would pray for him to win the Okere Parliamentary seat to become the next Member of Parliament in 2025 and continue the good works of their indefatigable outgoing MP, Daniel Kwaku Botwe.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Suhum Constituency, Frank Asiedu Bekoe popularly known as Protozoa has stated that the government of President Akufo Addo has employed more youth than any government in the history of Ghana.
According to him, most of the tertiary students who graduated under erstwhile former President John Atta Mills and John Mahama’s administration were left unemployed and became a burden to society.
But to Protozoa, President Akufo-Addo was a God-sent in both the 2016 and 2020 elections to enable him to employ these unemployed graduates who were frustrated and hopeless at the time.
“The NPP government is committed to job creation that is why Ghanaians need to vote for Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia to become the next President of Ghana to continue this initiative,” he opined.
Frank Bekoe mentioned that the well-being of the youth is paramount to Dr. Bawumia. That is why he said if elected as President, he would create 1 million digital jobs for them, and this would help reduce the unemployment rate in the country.
Protozoa made these known when addressing party faithful in Suhum on Sunday, September 15, during a mega-health walk.
He then urged the constituents of Suhum to vote for him and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in the 2024 election because they aim to create more jobs for the youth in the country.
The Member of Parliament for Abetifi Constituency, who doubles as the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Bryan Acheampong touted the NPP record in Suhum over the past years.
He leveraged and entreated the voters to vote for Protozoa because he aimed at enriching the constituency with developments owning to his lobbying prowess.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Atiwa East Constituency in the Eastern Region, Abena Osei Asare, has admonished the Muslim community in Anyinam to vote for her to maintain the Parliamentary seat for the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
She acknowledged their role played during her victory in the previous elections, and further said she is relying on them with their vote counts massively on December 7, 2024.
According to Madam Osei Asare, retaining her in power for another term in office will see the continuation of her numerous developmental projects in various sectors.
The MP further reminded the Muslims in the area of the need to honor their own in the person of the party’s flagbearer, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia.
“If you vote for me and don’t vote for Dr. Bawumia you have not done anything, urging them to desist from the skirt and blouse style in the 2024 election and give the leadership mantle to Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to become the substantive President to help her discharge her duties accordingly in 2025,” she noted.
The Atiwa East Legislature made this known on Friday, September 13, when she embarked on a street-to-street and market-to-market campaign in the area, accompanied by the party’s executives in the constituency.
They used the opportunity and joined the Muslim brothers and sisters in their Friday session prayers at the mosque, where they asked for Allah’s blessings and favor ahead of the forthcoming 2024 general elections.
Emphasizing the need to vote for the NPP, she opined that a vote for Dr. Bawumia is a vote for prosperity.
For his part, the Chairman of the Constituency, Albert Nuamah said that Ghana needs Dr. Bawumia in this crucial time to change the fortunes of the country.
According to him, the world has been hit with an economic crisis; therefore, Ghana needs an innovative and visionary leader like the NPP presidential candidate to lead the country to return to its glory days.
The campaign exercise saw the team visit places such as the Anyinam Mosque and Anyinam Market, among others, and have interactions with the people to explain what is entailed in the Party’s 2024 manifesto.
Some market women told KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview that they have taken the 2024 elections personally and indicated they will vote for NPP to protect the image of the Free Senior High School education policy because they cannot afford to see it collapse under the NDC.
They stated that if not for the FSHS most of their children would have stayed home after completing Junior High School (JHS).
They promised Madam Abena Osei Asare a massive turnout, giving her a resounding victory to retain the seat since her achievement as MP in the area is outstanding.
The Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN) held its 2024 annual media and stakeholders engagement in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital, to explain what contributed to its recent network interruption.
According to management, the network challenges experienced by customers stem from exercises undertaken to replace old machines to help improve the networking.
MTN Ghana noted that after carrying out the exercise, they encountered other problems that led to the unstableness network connection.
Speaking to KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH, the Network Manager of the telco in charge of Eastern, Volta, and Oti Regions, Samuel Duku, added that one major challenge facing the company is the work of road contractors nationwide.
He said most of these contractors fail to contact or consult them when awarded contracts, leading to their work affecting its fiber lines to cause an interruption in the network.
However, Mr. Doku believes if road contractors embrace the practice of consulting the company before hitting grounds for work, the issue of clients’ poor network accessibility would be a thing of the past.
“If they informed us early, we would reposition our fiber cables, which have been laid under the grounds to avoid it being that mostly cause problems to our customers,” he stressed.
He leveraged the platform and humbly appealed to road contractors and fuel station contractors to consult them periodically before proceeding to their sites to start work.
According to the Network Manager, collaborative efforts will propel them to reposition their lines to prevent destruction.
As part of the forum, the attendees from the media fraternity were allowed a five-minute minute presentation on the theme “THE FUTURE OF DIGITALIZATION; MTN IN THE NEXT 5.
The presentation was centered on educating the general public on new techniques adopted by Mobile Money fraudsters in scamming people among others issues.
It would aid customers to be self-cautious against falling victim to the traps of these scammers’ transactions.
After the presentation, journalists from the Television field were crowned winners, followed by those in the media Radio space while practitioners from the Print media /Online came third.
Speaking at the forum as a guest, the Municipal Chief Executive for the New Juaben South Municipal Assembly, Dr. Isaac Apau Gyasi commended the media for their contributions towards the country’s development.
He praised the leadership of MTN in the region for organizing such a program to enlighten the media in their quest to ensure the scamming canker becoming too many with the company come to an end.
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