Thousands of residents of Mampong-Akuapem in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region embarked on massive clean up exercise as part of their preparation towards the 2020 Ohum – Odwira festival.

This clean up exercise features the traditional rulers, MCE for the Municipality and some executive members of the NPP in the constituency.

In an interview with the press, the MCE for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Berima Awuah Sarpong Asiedu-Larbi explained that, in every year, before the Ohum festival will take off they embark on clean up exercise to ensure that the entire township become neat to pave way for the festival.

He added that, “the Ohum festival is being celebrated to perform tradition and custom to purified the town and also to ask God for his mercies and blessings upon the town in subsequent years”

“This programme we embarked on is in support of the sanitation system we want to put in place to make sure that Akuapemman become neat”

Hon. MCE continue to say, “those days, if you’re walking in Akuapemman, you won’t see any filthy or mosquitoes around but today because of the increase of the populace things have changed”

” So we took this clean up exercise upon ourselves to create awareness to the people of Okuapemman to know and understand how importance it is to beautify their various communities or environment regularly to prevent themselves from getting diseases like malaria and cholera and also to stay healthy”

Later on Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH had an interview with the Akuapem North Constituency Women’s Organizer for the ruling NPP, Mrs. Awo Yaa Boatemaa Aboagye stated, the program was organized by the youth of the constituency but unfortunately Hon. Nana Ama Dokua their MP couldn’t make it because of the heavy downpour.

But all the same, other executives of the NPP came and support the exercise.

She stressed, “when it comes to the issues surrounding sanitation in Ghana, Prez Nana Addo and the Sanitation Ministry have done marvelously well. All what I will say is that,’ we should keep our environment clean”

“If we do that the gov’t won’t spend huge money for purchasing medicines to cure the diseases. it will help the state to save enough money to run the country’s affairs” she noted.

Moreover the Odikro of Mampong , Nana Oware Ansah III shows his profound gratitude to the people of Mampong especially the youth for helping them to clean up the the whole township.

He said, “because of the Covid, this year’s Ohum festival there wouldn’t be any social gathering”

Source//obohnews.

BY// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

The Eastern Regional Minister and MP for Nkawkaw Hon. Eric Kwakye Kofi Darfuor, the Eastern Regional Director for Ghana Highways Authority, Mr. Charles Adubofuor, the Eastern Regional Manager for Feeder Roads, Mr. Osei Nketiah and other roads construction expert embarked on two day tour to inspect the ongoing road construction projects in the region.

The inspection of the road construction projects took us to Kwahu West, South, and East Assembly, New Juaben South and North Assembly, Atiwa West and East, Lower West Akyem Assembly, Birim North, Central and South ,Fanteakwa and North South, Abuakwa South Assembly, Asene Manso Akroso Assembly, Suhum Assembly and ended at Akim Oda Assembly.

Kingdom FM’s KONTINHEN KOFI OBOH speaking in an interview with the Eastern Regional Minister and and MP for Nkawkaw Constituency, Hon. Eric Kwakye Kofi Darfour said, he is very impressed with the ongoing roads construction projects in the region. “Some are completed and others are also under construction” he noted.

“Over 400km of the road have been awarded to Ghana Highways Authority, over 1000km to Feeder roads and 300km to Urban roads. The contractors are also on top of their game and I believe that by the end of this year all the said awarded road projects will be completed” he confirms.

The Regional Minister praised Prez Nana Addo for fulfilling his 2020 year of roads promise and pleaded with Ghanaians to give him another 4 more term to do do more.

The Eastern Regional Director for Ghana Highways Authority Mr. Charles Adubofuor also spoke with Kingdom News and stated, “most of our roads, some of them were began in 2017 , 2018, 2019 and even 2020 and looking at the percentage, some have gotten to its climax meaning the contractors are doing very well on the site and are at the verge of competing.

“The good news is that, all this roads are being constructed by local contractors”

” We have to keep on encouraging and give them training skills and it will help a lot” he adds.

“A time will come all our road projects would be done by the Ghanaian Contractors” he assures.

He added that, “the eastern regional branch of the Ghana Highways have awarded 500km trunk road projects and I have confidence that it will be completed by the end of the 2020; our total road Network is 1,551Km and out of that 500km would be completed by the mentioned time” he said.

Furthermore, the Eastern Regional Manager for Feeder Roads, Mr. Osei Nketiah revealed to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH that, they have around “4,226Km road projects they are working on”

Since 2017 to 2020 they have awarded “1000Km of Feeder roads in all the 33 Municipal and District Assemblies in the region”

“Out of the 1000km roads, the contractors have completed 123km with black top or bitumen surface”
“As at 2017 the eastern region Feeder roads were having bitumen surface or pavement roads just “around 326Km”

“So if we are able to add up 123km black top to the previous 326 within the space of 3yrs, then it means work is in progress” he noted.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

Apostle Elisha Adjin-Tettey in an advice to world wide Christians said “God blessings comes in disguise” yet Christians are to help control their anger.

“We need not to understand God in how He does His works because He is God” he said.

“God works can’t be understood by man and He can’t be quentioned as in why and how He does his work”

Throwing more light into this, he pleased to all Christians to accept all words but help to manage the root ones out.

Based on the Scriptures, Provibes 29:22 and Eph 4:26-27 advice all Christians to do away all anger for it is only “foolish people” who never made chances out of this quote from the Bible.

Moses never step foot to the promise land due to anger after God asked him to hit his rod to the mountain for the flow of water.

Beside Moses also pleaded to God to control his temper on the Israelites for the Egyptians might consider him as wicked.

He advice Christians to take this as key to their marriages, work, friendships etc for a sustainable and reflection on our daily lives as Christians.

In conclusion, he used the just happened in the United State of America, Pastor Sylvester, who recently shot his wife to death because he (pastor Sylverster) couldn’t control his anger.

Story by// Kwabena Gyamfi

Rev. Dr. Nicholas Apreh Saiw has taken over the Presbyterian College of Education in Akuapem-Akropong in the Eastern Region as the new 25th Principal of the college.

Rt. Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, PHD, Moderator of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church of Ghana stressed, “we are expecting 5 important things to be done by the new principal of the school”.

“We want him to beef up the academics works, and also to improve on the school’s infrastructure to beautify the environment as well”

Rt. Rev. Prof. Joseph Mante continue that, “what is more relevant for the Presbyterian Church is Holistic Education”

“Many people are of the view that, if you’re in the tertiary institution you don’t have to be working and that’s not a good education to our children”

“It is our responsibility to teach the children and let them work to know and understand that working with their hands in school is not a punishment but rather is part of life. I will be glad if all the various universities in Ghana will consider and teach the students on how to do the house chores, it will help a lot” he add.

Rt. Rev. Prof. Yeboah Mante mention this to Oboh News online in an interview during the Investiture Ceremony of the 25th Principal of Presbyterian College of Education of Rev. Dr. Nicholas Apreh Siaw at Akuapem-Akropong. He advised the new Principal to ensure that he will put good measures in place to save guard the school funds.

The new Principal of the college, Rev. Dr. Nicholas Apreh Siaw noted, “his vision is to make the college, the college of eminence in Africa and beyond. College of eminence means our vision and policies is in line with the int’l standard and practices”

“We will also create Internal Generated Fund (IGF) to run the affairs of the school and ensure that our infrastructure development will be more advance than all the other ones”

He further stated, “we won’t train only the heads and hands but rather we will train the heart also to fear God”

MP for Akuapem North Constituency and Deputy Minister of Information, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adei who graced the program congratulate Rev. Dr. Nicholas Apreh Siaw on his appointment as the 25th Principal of the college. I believe that, with Jesus in the boat, you will weather the storm and overcome all hurdles.

Hon. Dokua adds, “as government we can’t underestimate the role the Presbyterian Church have played through maintaining peace and order in the country by promoting health through the Presbyterian Hospitals. Again the Presbyterian Church has established numerous schools in Ghana and they are helping the country’s development”

“This government is committed to the colleges of education most especially Akropong P.C.E. We are ever ready to support PCE when the need arised” she assures.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

At least six out of thirty-six young footballers from Offinso in the Ashanti Region have been confirmed dead in a horrific accident on Saturday around 3pm in the afternoon with Pregio car registration number AS-928-19.

According to preliminary investigations conducted by Offinso based Time FM journalist, Adusei Poku, the thirty-six footballers whose age ranges from 12 to 18 years had travelled to Afrancho in the Ashanti region for their football registration exercise were veered off the road and summersaults from the bridge into ‘Offin’ riverbanks on their return to Offinso.

Five of the deceased are said to be students of Offinso State ‘A’ Junior high school in Offinso municipal.

Abdul Jamal and Kwame Poku are Offinso State ‘A’ form 1 students, Elvis, a primary student, Ofori Amanfo, Atta Panin and Obed’s corpse are awaiting autopsy at St. Patrick’s hospital.

Reports says four of the young footballers are currently in critical condition at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with the remaining twenty-four receiving treatments at the St. Patrick Hospital in Offinso.

Joint Fire Service personnel and the police from Offinso rushed to the accident scene to convey the accident victims.

By// Kwesi Afari

Source// Time FM

The Eastern Regional Director for NADMO, Mr. Kwame Appiah Kodua has held a pre-elections simulation exercise with all the stakeholders in the region should in case if riot,chaos, misunderstanding, hooliganism, conflict and etc arised before, during and after the elections 2020, they will be able to find solution for such incident.

The stakeholders are,’ Ghana Police Service, Ghana Armed Forces, Information Department Service, Representative from the Muslim, Representative from the Christian Council, Ghana National Fire Service, Representative from the Traditional Rulers, Immigration, Military, Ambulance Service, NADMO, and Red cross.

In an interview with Kingdom News after the Simulation Exercise, the Deputy Director General of NADMO in charge of the Technical Operations, Mr. Seji Saji explained the purpose and importance of this program they held with the various stakeholders in the region.

He said, NADMO don’t respond to only fire outbreak in the country. They have something called ‘similar emergencies they respond to of which conflict resolution is one of them. It has left some few days for us to go for polls.

Normally every elections have its own implications. During the elections process something can happen, and someone may be hurt or loose his or her house. If this happens, as a country we have to find a way of helping the victims by given them humanitarian services support.

This is the reasons why we organized this program to test our strength should in case something occurred what will be the reactions from police, fire service, armed forces, religious bodies, ambulance service etc to resolve those challenges.

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister who double as the Parliamentary Candidate for Lower Manya Krobo, Hon Samuel Nuertey Ayitey on his part stated, “the pre-elections simulation exercise has been successful and all the stakeholders were present”

“We were able to get credible information from both the various side to combat any unforeseen tragedy that will occur during the electioneering process”

He added that , “whether we like it or not , there is going to be some incidence and we need to prepare ourselves adequately to face what happens on December 7, 2020 general elections

By//Kontihen Kofi Oboh

Source// Obohnews

The Chief Research Scientists and Special Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture on Cocoa Affairs, Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah has donated 35 motorbikes and 70 megaphones to the Eastern Regional NPP Secretariat to be used for the 2020 elections campaign in the Region.

In an interview with Kingdom News, he said, the purpose of presenting these items to the NPP regional secretariat is to support the elections 2020 campaign because of the covid “there wouldn’t be any massive rally for this year’s elections to proclaimed the good works of the NPP gov’t to Ghanaians”

Dr. Adu-Ampomah continue to say, “with the help of this motorbikes, it will help our people to ride it to the hinterland areas to communicate with those over there to see what Prez Nana Addo have done”

He also urge the riders to ride it with care to avoid any unforeseen accident during the campaign rounds.

Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah made these known to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview after handling over the items to the Eastern Regional First Vice Chairman Alhaji Umar Bodinga.

Some of the beneficiaries to the items went to the Chairman of Nkawkaw Constituency, Mr. Kwame Osei Danquah and Organiser for Afram Plains North Constituency Mr. Martin Adinkra said, the items have come at the right time and it will help them to propagate the good works of the NPP gov’t to their constituents.

The Eastern Regional Secretary for NPP ,Mr. Jeff Kunadu Addo revealed to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview that, the item they have received from Dr. Yaw Ampomah, will be distribute to only 18 Constituencies in the region especially the orphan constituencies.

On behalf of the regional executives, he showed his profound gratitude to Dr. Adu-Ampomah for his kind gesture to the party’s secretariat.

Mr. Kunadu Addo pleaded with the NPP members from the eastern region who have travelled and have gotten something to also come and support the party.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

SOURCE// obohnews.

The Member of Parliament for Akuapem North Constituency in the Eastern Region who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Information, Hon. Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adjei has commissioned water projects for 8 communities in her constituency.

She said, “they have commissioned 8 water projects already, We are commissioning this 8 water projects in the following communities’, Mampong, Otwiri, Asempanayɛ,Pakro, Gbolo Kofi, Akwateakwaso and Mampong Nkwanta to add up to the first 8 making it 16 water projects”

Hon. Nana Ama Dokua when addressing the people of Akwateakwaso said, “a certain gov’t came to power for 8yrs but they couldn’t do a single project here and as for the NPP, gov’t is committed to our words”.

“NPP gov’t have come to transform Ghana, even though we haven’t met all your expectations and that doesn’t mean we have turn a deaf ears to your needs”

“We have started doing something and today we are here to commission this water project to give live to so many people”

Hon. MP took the opportunity to launch and inaugurate the NPP’s 2020 elections campaign team at the various electoral areas. She also pleaded with all the NPP members to exercise patience and stop saying that “I haven’t gotten anything, May be indirectly, your sibling, friend, family member, niece or nephew have gotten opportunity in NaBco, Police, Military, Fire service, Free SHS, Planting for Food and Job and etc”

Some of the beneficiaries of this water projects at Akwateakwaso show their profound gratitude to their Hon. MP for her kind gesture. They also made a humble appeal to Hon. Nana Ama Dokua to come and fixed their light for them because they have slept in darkness for a very long time.

The MCE for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Berima Awuah Sarpong Asiedu-Larbi revealed that, “all these projects are from the 1 million dollar per constituency”

He stressed, they are doing electricity extension in all the communities that don’t have access to light.

“Ghanaians should have faith in Prez Nana Addo Nana Ama Dokua and give them another mandate to continue their good works” he continue.

Some of the Akuapem North Constituency NPP executives accompanied her to commissioned the water projects. Its include the party’s chairman, Mr. Frank Appiah, the youth organizer , Mr. Kojo Afriyie (aka IGP), the Woman’s organizer Mrs. Awo Yaa Aboagye and organizer, Mr. Appianti.

As government effort to strengthened the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the country to ensure every Ghanaian child get his or her own hand craft.

The Deputy Minister for Education in charge of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) who doubles as the MP for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon Gifty Twum Ampofo has cut sod for the construction of multipurpose storey building TVET workshop centre at St. Paul Technical Institute in Kukurantumi. The following departments can be found in the workshop after completion , Mechanical Engineering, Authomative Engineering, Electrical and Electronics , Weldering Engineering and etc. This construction will be done by Avic Int’l and is expected to be completed within 18 months time.

In her speech, she emphatically stated, “many people are of the view that, gov’t is spending huge amount of money on the Free SHS students and is not true. But rather gov’t is spending much more money on TVET students more than the Free SHS students”

Prez Nana Addo says, “if we want to eliminate poverty and stops our graduates from carrying the brown envelopes going arounds in search of jobs then as a nation the best solution to that problem is TVET”

“Because if you complete TVET school, you can open your own shop and employ other people to pay them” she said.

Hon. Deputy Education Minister revealed that, government is spending 131million dollars on National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) students, “we are using 478 million dollars for the construction of the 13 state of the art workshops across the country of which SPATS have also benefitted one from the such amount”

The Chief of Kukurantumi, Dasebre Boamah Darko, together with his cabinet who graced the event commended the NPP led governance for their good works for embarking on building the Multipurpose workshops across the country to boost TVET education.

“We have had so many governments in this country before but Prez Nana Addo is unique amongst all of them. He is doing unprecedented works for making Technical and Vocational Education and Training so attractive to the students” he praised.

Dasebre Darko took the opportunity to make a humble appeal to Hon Gifty Twum to consider and construct the St. Paul Technical Institute road for them.

Furthermore, the Executive Director for Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah added that, just about “2years ago the Senior Minister Hon. Osarfo Marfo announced gov’t plans to transform TVET and as such re-aligning all Technical and Vocational Institutions to the Ministry of Education”

“This process has advance so much. One of the things we are doing as the country is to give new meaning to TVET so as to ensure young ones in Ghana and youth of Ghana can have employable skills be it the grammar education or TVET education” he noted.

Dr. Kyei Asamoah revealed that, gov’t have invested so much in TVET and today we are here to witness one of such intervention which is infrastructure to support Technical and Vocational education.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source//Onohnews.

Hon Gifty Twum-Ampofo popularly known in political circles as Hajia Kande, Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region and also the deputy minister of education in charge of Technical And Vocational Education And Training (TVET), has donated a total of one thousand, seven hundred and twenty four (1,724) pieces of mathematical sets to all the BECE candidates in her constituency ahead of this year’s examinations.

Presenting the mathematical sets to the candidates, the Member of Parliament admonished the students to put their books first in all they do and study hard to pass their examinations so that they can benefit from the Nana Akufo-Addo led NPP government’s flagship Free SHS policy.

The honourable MP added that, candidates should take their time in selecting their preferred senior high schools to facilitate easy access.

Hon. Gifty Twum explained that, the government through Ghana Education Service (GES) has modified the computerized school selection and placement system to give candidates the opportunity to select their preferred senior high schools after they are done with the examinations. This change allows candidates to choose their schools according to their performance in the subjects areas.

She therefore advised the candidates to laise with their teachers and parents during the school selection process to make the best choices.

Some of the candidates expressed their profound gratitude to Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo for such a wonderful gesture she has shown them and promised to come out with flying colours.

By// Nana Kwasi Asare

Source//obohnews