The Chief of Suhum Traditional Authority in the Eastern Region, Ɔsaberima Ayeh Kofi Opare has refuted claims that the annual Odwira festival had become an avenue for the promotion of prostitution.

According to him, some media personnel in the region reported that the youth in the area took advantage of the festival to fornicate due to used condoms found on the grounds during one of the previous occasions.

Ɔsaberima Ayeh Opare described the assertion as falsehood and noted how the reportage tarnished the image of Suhumman.

The traditional ruler further explained that the Odwira festival is celebrated to bring back the people both home and abroad together to think about how well they can build and transform Suhum but not to engage in acts that retards the development in the area.

The Chief of Suhum Traditional Authority indicated that in every festival, a lot of things do occur without their knowledge, and one can’t attribute it to them.

Ɔsaberima Ayeh Kofi Opare made this known during the launching ceremony of the 2024 Suhum Odwira and the 25th Anniversary of his reign as the Chief of Suhum.

This event comes with a lot of programs, and according to them, it will commence on November 18 and end on November 30, 2024.

For his part, the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Suhum Constituency, Frank Asiedu Bekoe, affectionately called Protozoa, who would be chairing the whole event, assured Nanaanom of Suhum Traditional Authority that he would discharge his duties accordingly to make the program successful.

Protozoa used the opportunity and called on residents of Suhum, both home and abroad, to come and rally their support behind them to make this year’s Odwira festival and 25th Anniversary of Ɔsaberima Ayeh Kofi Opare a memorable one.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has urged all the Nurses who completed School in 2021 to exercise restraint for the government because measures have been put in place to employ them.

According to him, the government is employing them in badges that is set to happen hopefully the end of the year.

He believes that before December, the Finance Ministry will give them financial clearance to absorb the 2021 graduate nurses.

Dr. Nsiah-Asare added that they have heard some people are collecting monies from the some of unposted graduate nurses and deceiving them by adding their names to those the Ministry of Finance has released money for them to be employed.

He indicated that the Ghana Health Service has the pin number of all the graduating nurses, and that was what they used to absorb them when the Finance Ministry gave them clearance.

‘So if your name is not part of their list despite paying money to goro people, you won’t be employed’ hence, advising them to be vigilant.

The Presidential Advisor on Health made this known when the 2021 graduate nurse asked him a question about their postings at Koforidua Center for National Culture on Tuesday, September 3, during the Eastern Regional second edition of the 2024 Town Hall Meeting and exhibition program spearheaded by the Information Ministry.

This program is aimed at showcasing the infrastructure projects done by the government across all the 261 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the country.

He further stated that they were looking forward to posting about 15,000 2021 graduated nurses this year and pleaded with them to have hope in the NPP government led by President Nana Addo.

He asserted that the government is committed to complete and commission most of the agenda 111 hospitals, thus, the need to absorbed these nurses.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

The Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong, has touted the government’s achievement in the region since 2017 to date.

According to him, when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia assumed office in 2017, they embarked on a path of transformation, policy implementation, and projects aimed at improving the livelihood of the Ghanaian people.

Mr. Acheampong noted that, from infrastructure development to health care, education, and economic empowerment, the NPP government has worked tirelessly to make a positive impact.

Touching on the road infrastructure being done in the region, Seth Acheampong mentioned that the Eastern Region has a total length of 7,147.79km of roads.

“Out of these, 5,555.79km has been awarded to contract, and they have been able to complete 1,859.62km,” he added.

The Eastern Regional Minister revealed this in Koforidua at the Center for National Culture on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, during the second edition of the Eastern Town Hall meet and exhibition program organized by the Information Ministry.

This program aimed to showcase the infrastructure projects executed by the NPP in all the 33 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Region.

For her part, the Minister for Information, Fatima Abubakar, said that accountability is the bedrock of democracy; hence, she saw the need to come and show the residents of the Eastern Region all the developmental projects that have been achieved within the regime of the leadership of President Akufo Addo.

Furthermore, Alhaji Dr Umar Bodinga and Margaret Darko Darkwa, the Municipal Chief Executives for Abuakwa North and Suhum Assemblies, respectively, also outlined some of the projects they have executed in the area to Obohnewsonline, said the NPP government has done well and deserved to be commended.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline. com.

The New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for the Suhum Constituency in the Eastern Region, Ɔboafo Kwadjo Asante, has finally declared his intention to contest independently in the 2024 Parliamentary elections.

On Sunday, July 28, 2024, friends of Ɔboafo embarked on a mega health walk in the constituency, and after the exercise, they petitioned him to contest the December polls as an Independent Parliamentary Candidate, avoid their planned decision to absent themselves from the coming polls.

The secretary to the MP, Isaac Asiedu received the petition letter on his behalf and assured them that at the appropriate time, Ɔboafo Kwadjo Asante would come out and respond to their letter.

In the latest development on Sunday, September 1, 2024, the Member of Parliament of the constituency organized the same mega health walk where the principal streets of Suhum were flooded by the constituents.

In his address after the exercise, Ɔboafo Asante thanked the crowd for their massive support and recognized his efforts of doing a lot of uncountable infrastructure projects in the area and pleading with him to go independent despite losing the parliamentary primaries.

“I can’t disappoint the larger number of the constituents who have seen my handwriting across the Constituency and asking me to contest the 2024 elections as an independent Parliamentary Candidate, likewise the delegates,” he stated.

Ɔboafo Kwadjo Asante then mentioned that it was an honor for the entire constituents to back him to go independent; therefore he will be contesting the 2024 general elections as an independent Parliamentary Candidate for Suhum Constituency to continue his works.

He further said he would continue to do developmental projects for Suhumman if he remained as the lawmaker of the area.

After the declaration, the constituents couldn’t hide their excitement, saying they could now have a good sleep because that was what they were expected of Ɔboafo Kwadjo Asante.

They told DL FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH that, this should send a signal to the NPP delegates that they can’t decide for the entire constituents whom they want to become their Parliamentary Candidate.

“We won’t allow Ɔboafo Kwadjo Asante to just go like that because none of our previous MPs has performed better like him since assuming office in 2021, and we can’t afford to lose him in Parliament, hence pleading with him to go independent for us,” they recounted.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

Traditional Authorities in Adawso in Akuapem North of the Eastern Region have embarked on a peaceful demonstration over the lack of developmental projects in the area.

According to them, Adawso is confronted with a lot of challenges, mentioning that their market is deteriorating and if care is not taken one day, it will collapse and cause disaster in the area.

They added that their roads are also in a sorry state and have lodged a lot of complaints to the Assembly, but the situation still remains the same.

“The management of the Assembly says they don’t get anything from Adawso that is why they have abandoned our town to be destroyed,” they opined.

For this reason, the Apesemakahene of Adawso, Nana Ntow Amirekyi, through the demonstration, has ordered the market women in the area not to pay any tax to the Assembly again because they don’t benefit from the revenue mobilization the Assembly has been collecting over the past years.

Nana Ntow Amirekyi told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH that they will put in place measures to see how best they can collect revenues themselves and use the money to develop the area since the Assembly has turned a deaf ear to their challenges.

“Adawso market generates a lot of income for the Assembly, yet still, we can’t pinpoint a single project the Assembly has done for us,” he said.

He further stated that the only option that would make them allow the Assembly to continue collecting the tax from the market women is when they see them fixing their plight. Other than that, they should forget about staking tickets to the market women in the area.”

For her, the Adawso Abontendomhemaa, Nana Afua Gyekabea, said that she supports the directives given to the market women by the Apesemakahene, indicating that if the Assembly says they have staged a demonstration against them so they won’t fix their roads and deteriorating market for them, it’s okay.

“But we will advise ourselves because we have been taking it for granted for a very long time,” she added.

The market women, after hearing the news, thanked the Adawso Traditional rulers for the decision taken, saying the Assembly has been collecting tax from them, but they don’t know what they use the money for.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

The Vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, has proposed making the agriculture sector attractive if elected Ghana’s next President since it is one of his topmost priorities.

He promised to invest heavily in the sector to make sure there is availability of enough food in the country.

According to the New Patriotic Party’s Presidential Candidate, he will use the money generated from the country’s natural resources to run the agriculture sector.

“In Ghana, over 60% of people are into farming activities, and if they prosper, our economy will also grow, hence investing in their work to change their living conditions,” he opined.

Dr. Bawumia who asserted this at Fanteakwa North Constituency when addressing party members as part of his Eastern Tour urged them to work hard to enable the party retain power in the upcoming 2024 elections.

Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia then assured farmers of farm equipments that will enhance their work to enable them produce more food items for the country.

Faustina Yeboah, an independent Parliamentary Candidate for Fanteakwa North who rescinded her decision to throw her support for the NPP’s Parliamentary Candidate of the area Kwame Appiah Kodua said;

“She added that she had an engagement with Dr. Bawumia and realized his vision and plans for Fanteakwa North and Ghana as a whole are very huge and saw the need to bow out from the Parliamentary race and rally behind him to win power in 2024 to enable him to develop the country.”

She used the platform and asked for forgiveness from her followers of redrawing her bid, adding she took the decision for their own good.

On the part of the Parliamentary Candidate, Kwame Appiah Kodua, he affirmed that whether hook or crook, the NDC will lose the 2024 elections to Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia.

He indicated that the Akufo-Addo and Dr. Bawumia government has performed tremendously and therefore the next NPP administration will continue and create more jobs for the youth to reduce the unemployment rate issues in the country.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

The Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Gifty Twum Ampofo says that voting out government every eight years retard development.

According to the immediate past Deputy Minister of Education in charge of TVET, developed countries like Malaysia, China, Germany, Singapore, and others maintained their government in power for decades.

She, thus, believes Ghana can compete with them in terms of developmental wise the country had emulate their system of changing government in power.

Mrs. Twum Ampofo stated that the NPP government has done a lot of infrastructure projects in the last 7 years and more of such feat will be achieved if Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia is elected as the next President of Ghana after Akufo-Addo.

Gifty Ampofo believes if NPP is retained in power in the upcoming 2024 elections it will be a sign of development a
transformation to the country.

The Abuakwa North MP made this known when Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia visited her constituency on Thursday, August 22, 2024, as part of his Eastern tour.

Gifty Twum Ampofo then used the occasion to outdoor the newly elected Parliamentary Candidate of the Constituency, Nana Kwame Ampaw Addo Frimpong to the constituents who was present at the gathering.

She further urged the constituents to vote for the MP hopeful, noting that’s the NPP needed a majority in Parliament to make their work easy and also enable them to deliver their promise made to Ghanaians if they win the 2024 election.

For Nana Kwame Ampaw Addo Frimpong, popularly known as Chief Buffalo, the Parliamentary Candidate of the area, warned against the canker of bitterness and disunity which contributed to the party’s defeat in 2008, stating they can’t afford to repeat same come the December 7th exercise.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Kingdom FM.

It was all joy with an electrifying atmosphere as the streets of Akooko and Asafo, dominated by the traditional NPP’s Red, White, and Blue colors, occasioned a mega health walk with Dr. Kingsley Agyemang, the Parliamentary Candidate for Abuakwa South Constituency in the Eastern Region.

The exercise, which pulled hundreds of crowds predominantly by faithful of the ruling New Patriotic Party, was to energize the fans ahead of the DECEMBER 7 polls.

Speaking to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH, the MP hopeful said among all other factors, the need to energize the party’s fan base in the area was key to enabling them to preach the good work done to the people and also to maintain them to do more for Ghanaians.

He noted members of the ruling party must be proud of its achievements because they have proven doubters wrong, especially the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

According to him, when the NPP made a promise to implement the Free SHS policy in 2016, the NDC opposed it strongly and described it as unrealistic; however, after coming to power, they made its implementation a reality for the benefit of every child.

“We are working hard to break the 8-year jinx. Our opponents can continue tickling themselves and laughing, and it will take them by surprise that NPP will be declared the winners of the 2024 elections, and it will shock them like how we make the free SHS policy possible,” he stressed.

Dr. Kingsley Agyeman mentioned that the NPP has performed better and they can’t afford to lose the December 7 polls to the NDC to come and ride on their success.

Dr. Kingsley Agyemang, owing to this, believes the NPP deserves to be retained rather than resting the future of the country in the hands of the NDC, whose leader, John Mahama, lacks credibility.

He further questioned why Mr. Mahama, who is a former president, would be seeking reelection, having made remarks that raised concerns about the credibility of his presidential bid.

“Mahama says 4 years is not good for him, so why is he contesting the 2024 elections unless he is coming to capsize the country’s constitution in his favor and allow him to extend the 4 years mandatory grace period given to every President into office other than that, he should exit from the Presidential race,” he added.

The Assemblyman for the Asafo electoral area, who doubles as the Presiding Member for the Abuakwa South Municipal Assembly, Amoako Atta, added that though there have been concerns amongst the majority of Ghanaians about hardship in the country the NDC is not an option to address it.

He indicated that the NDC has nothing new to offer Ghanaians, and it amounts to an insult asking the public for reelection to assume power again.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

The Okyeman Nifahene in Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council of the Eastern Region, Daasbre Doctor Twum Ampofo, has saluted Okyenhene, Ɔsagyefoɔ Amoatia Ofori Panin, for his tree planting initiative to ensure the environment goes green.

According to him, Okyenhene is the only King in Ghana who is committed to tree planting and has been planting 1 million tree seedlings in the area annually since the inception of the Green Ghana Day program by President Nana Addo in 2020/21.

Daasbre Twum Ampofo added that Okyehene’s significant initiative stemmed from an unsuccessful fight against the illegal mining in the country that has contributed to the destruction of the forest reserve.

He mentioned that the 25-year reign of Okyenhene has been a phenomenon and has executed a lot of infrastructure projects, but the ‘tree planting program’ stands tall among them because he is saving lives.

The Okyeman Nifahene, who doubles as the Asiakwahene, stated that sooner, he would be planting ‘12,000 tree seedlings in the Nife Division’ to augment the over 1 million tree seedlings planted by Ɔsagyefoɔ Ofori Panin in 2024 to reclaim the destroyed lands and forest by the illegal miners in the Akyem Abuakwa enclave.

Daasebre Dr. Twum Ampofo made this known to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during his visitation of Okyenhene, Ɔsagyefoɔ Amoatia Ofori Panin to Nifa Division (Asiakwa) as part of his 25th Anniversary Celebration on the Ofori Panyin Stool.

For her part, the Municipal Chief Executive of the Abuakwa South Municipal Assembly, Akosua Asabea Annoh, lauded Okyenhene for his leadership style and his generosity to his people.

She said that the reign of Ɔsagyefoɔ Amoatia Ofori Panin as Okyenhene has produced a President for Ghana, and through that, she [Asebea Annoh] had the opportunity to serve the people of Abuakwa South as their MCE and will continue to work hand in hand with Okyenhene to develop the area.

Addressing the Chiefs, elders, and residents of the Nifa Division [Asiakwa] the overlord of the Akyem Abuakwa State, Ɔsagyefoɔ Amoatia Ofori Panin said Ghana is about to go to polls to elect t new leader to govern the country in the next four years and urge the youth to stay away from any form of act that may disturb the peace of the country before, during and after the elections.

He stressed that when ‘we moved from a Military rule to a Democratic state in 1992, all the elections being conducted in the country were successful, and he firmly believes that the 2024 general elections would also be transparent, free, and fair for Ghana to become victorious at the end of the polls.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Right Reverend Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye says the Government must put in place measures to resolve the 8-week (2 months) ongoing strike by the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG).

According to him, the tutors have been on strike since Friday, June 14, 2024, and this is very worrying because the colleges are yet to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rt. Rev. Opare Kwakye then made a passionate appeal on behalf of the entire Christian fraternity to the Ministry of Education, the National Labour Commission, the Fair Wages and Salary Commission, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, and the leadership of the Colleges of Education Teachers of Ghana to quickly find a middle grounds and come to a settlement.

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana Moderator made this call during the 16th Congregation Ceremony of the Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong, where over 400 students graduated, having read various degree programs.

The 16th Graduation of the Akropong Presbyterian College of Education was celebrated under the theme: “TEACHER LEADERSHIP: NURTURING MINDS, IMPACTING COMMUNITIES”.

He furthered by saying that the struggle between CETAG and the government has led to difficulties in post by students of the colleges in the country and appeal for a quick settlement.

Rt. Rev. Abraham Nana Kwakye indicated that it was inappropriate to leave this young person for several months without any sense of purpose.

The Principal of the College, Rev. Dr. Nicholas Apreh Siaw, also added that, unfortunately, the 62nd semester of the 2023/24 academic year has suffered massive distraction.

He mentioned that originally, the second semester was supposed to be open on 2nd June 2024 but had to be postponed for the week for certain logistics to be provided.

Rev. Dr. Apreh Siaw noted that the rescheduled academic calendar was to begin on June 9 and end on September 17, 2024, unfortunately, the reopening met with the CETAG strike which has a link for months, the strike action has almost grounded every activity on campus and it is negatively impacting teaching and learning as the academic calendar has been thrown overboard.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.