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.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

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.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

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.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Okere District Assembly in the Eastern Region, Daniel Kenneth, has cut the sod for the construction of seven major projects to improve infrastructure deficits in the area.

The project includes six units of classroom blocks with axillary facilities for Apirede Methodist D/A Basic School, Abiriw Presbyterian D/A Basic School, and Adukrom Methodist D/A Basic.

The others are the Adukrom Bypass Road, Dawu Clinic, and Awukugua Teachers’ bungalow and Nurses’ quarters.

These projects are aimed at enhancing teaching and learning to complement the commitment of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to quality education, healthcare, and roads networking.

Speaking in cross-section with the pressmen, Daniel Kenneth, who doubles as the Parliamentary Candidate for the area, said that the structures of the beneficiary schools were in a bad state, especially the 70-year-old Apirede Methodist Primary School.

He believes the move comes at the right time because schoolchildren deserve a serene environment for their studies to enable them to compete with their colleagues in other schools.

The Okere DCE expressed his profound gratitude to Awukuguahene, Ɔsaberima Ɔpɛse Konadu, for demarcating 10 acres of land to the assembly for the construction of the bungalow facilities.

Mr. Kenneth then said that when the projects commenced, it would create job opportunities for the youth in the area.

He furthered and thanked the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area, Daniel Kwaku Botwe, for lobbying for such important projects from the Social Investment Fund (SIF).

According to him, these developmental projects received would help them in many ways.

Dr. Joseph Ofosu Kwarteng, the Zonal Officer for the Social Investment Fund in Greater Accra, Eastern, Volta, and Oti Regions, hints that they have embarked on a project called the Integrated Rural Development Project.

“Out of the 261 MMDAs in Ghana, only 23 Assemblies were selected, including the Okere District Assembly, he stressed.

“Fortunately for the Okere District, they got 7, and when the projects were given to them we sent a request that they should rather indicate where they wanted the projects to go, and they gave us the names of the aforementioned towns because they are in dire need of the projects,” he stated.

Furthermore, Joseph Hottor, the Construction Manager for Memphis Metropolitan Limited, assured the DCE, MP, and Nanaanom that they would employ more youth from Okere to do the work to enable them to complete the projects within the stipulated period of six months.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

The incumbent Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Gifty Twum Ampofo, says she has not dreamt of seeking re-election as an Independent Parliamentary Candidate in the upcoming 2024 parliamentary elections.

According to her, doing the opposite would amount to being ungrateful to President Akufo Addo and the New Patriotic Party whose shoulders she rose to become the MP of the area for 8 years and serving as former Deputy Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection and Deputy Minister of Education responsible for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

Gifty Twum Ampofo is part of the sitting NPP MPs who lost their parliamentary seats on January 27, 2024, during the party’s parliamentary primaries.

She emphasized that she would not do that and indicated that in every circumstance, the least to do is being thankful to God because she believes nation-building is not done by one person.

The Abuakwa North MP told KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH when she embarked on ‘My First Day at School’ tour in her constituency to visit the fresh pupils in KG1 and class 1 who reported to school on Tuesday, September 10, 2024.

Gifty Ampofo gave them some learning materials and snacks and used the opportunity and encourage them to take their studies seriously to be able to become good leaders in the future.

She also took advantage and inspected some 13 ongoing educational infrastructures of which 8 have been completed and expected to be commissioned soon.

The Director of Education for Abuakwa North Municipality, Grace Adaza-Awude, added that early childhood education is very essential for every child. Hence, parents must send their wards to school because, without education, the future is bleak.

She then commended Gifty Twum Twum for her continuous support for the school children in Abuakwa North and said they are going to miss her as her tenure in office as a Member of Parliament is gradually coming to an end on January 7, 2025.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.

The Parliamentary Candidate elected for Suhum Constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Frank Asiedu Bekoe, popularly known in the political terrain as Protozoa says, Suhum needed a brave Parliamentarian who can lobby for more developmental projects for the people in the area.

“That is the type of leadership style I am bringing on board to help Suhumman to develop. Because Suhum has a population of over 126,000, we can’t let them suffer as a result of one person,” he added.

Protozoa noted that if elected as a Member of Parliament for the Constituency, he would work hand in hand with the government in power to ensure his constituents get their share of the national cake through lobbying.

“I can’t say that all the parliamentarians Suhum has had haven’t done anything, and in doing so, I wouldn’t be fair to them, but in my administration, I will take the Constituency to a different level because the development of Suhum is dear to my heart,” said Protozoa.

The Suhum NPP P.C. made this assertion when breaking grounds for the construction of a 500-seater capacity of Suhum Anglican Astro Turf Park.

Protozoa then mentioned that football unit people and when the project is completed, it will help harness the talents of the footballers in the area and hope to get a topnotch player from Suhum who will projects their name high across the globe.

The Suhumhene, Ɔsaberima Ayeh Kofi Opare applauded Protozoa for his commitment to football for bringing them the AstroTurf Park.

He stressed that the NPP government has done a lot of things in Suhum, and the upcoming 2024 election wouldn’t be easy because the opposition party is also determined to win power.

“As a result, the NPP has to be united and forgo their differences among themselves. Other than that, they fall for their opponent to clinch the victory,” opined Ɔsaberima Ayeh Kofi Opare.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

The Member of Parliament for Atiwa East Constituency in the Eastern Region, Abena Osei Asare, who doubles as the Parliamentary Candidate has successfully filed her nomination forms at the Electoral Commission’s office in the area to contest the December 7 polls.

Hundreds of individuals, party supporters, sympathizers, and NPP constituency executives flooded the streets of Anyinam with red, blue, and white colors to accompany her in submitting the form on Monday, September 9, 2024.

According to her, she is confidence Ghanaians appreciates the good works of the New Patriotic Party’s government and have also embraced their 2024 manifesto.

The Atiwa East Lawmaker, who doubles as the Minister of State in charge of Finance, mentioned that over 80% of the things in their 2016 and 2020 manifesto have been executed, highlighting the Free Senior High School education policy.

“I’m optimistic that our track record across all sectors of the country will win us the 2024 election and that Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of NPP will become the next President of Ghana and will also be retained as Atiwa East MP to enable us to do more developmental projects for Ghanaians,” she said.

Bringing her remarks to an end, she advised Ghanaians, especially her constituent, not to go to the polling centers with any form of foreign materials that may disturb the peace of the country on December 7 polls because peace is very expensive, hence we the country must protect it own.

Speaking to Rainbow News, the Chairman of the Constituency, Albert Nuamah, emphatically stated that those who want to go independent in the area should save their money because apart from the National Democratic Congress that would bag a little above 5% votes, the others should forget about winning the parliamentary seat from them and indicated that they have performed better in the Atiwa East.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnewsonline.com.

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.