Mr. Bernard Amoako-Attah, the Assembly Member for Akyem Asafo Electoral Area also the Presiding Member of Abuakwa South Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region of Ghana has advised all Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates across the country especially in his enclave to remain focused and disciplined before, during and after the examination.

The Hon. Assembly Member emphasized that, the BECE is the foundation of their success in life hence the need to be serious.

“The Basic Education Certificate Examination is the foundation for you to progress academically, embrace it and climb to success. Put a stop to the unnecessary roaming abouts and make your books your friend and avoid examination mulpractices as you enter the examination season. Never allow the post examination period to destroy your future by engaging yourselves into alcoholism, drugs, cyber crimes and others for the boys, galavanting and unwanted pregnancies for the girls as the Free SHS flagship policy awaits you to make your future bright.” Honourable Amoako-Attah said.

He advised parents to allow the candidates space to learn devoided of home chores and teachers to continue helping the candidates with questions answering tactics in examination.

Mr. Amoako-Attah further sobbed that, about eight thousand(8000) candidates have been presented for BECE in his electoral area over the past ten(10) years with less than eight(8) candidates having aggregate six(6), a situation he describes as a decline in education in the area.

He hinted that, he is in consultations with the unit committee members, the traditional and opinion leaders to institute programs such as quiz competitions, spelling bees, debates etc with attractive prizes awarded to deserving winners to rekindle the image of education in the electoral area.

To motivate the candidates, he mentioned that, the best candidate after the examination will be facilitated with all school needs during his or her entire senior high school education.

Mr. Bernard Amoako-Attah made this statement when together with his unit committee members, presented mathematical sets, nose masks and hand sanitizers to all the BECE candidates in his Electoral Area.

A presentation he said, is just the first of many more to come and a gesture of giving back to his community that made him.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) will commence on Monday, November 15, 2021.

The examinations, which will end on Friday, November 19, will be held at 2,158 centres, with a total of 571,894 candidates across the country.

By// Nana Kwasi Asare.

Source// Obohnews.

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others”. Pericles.

The Romance that started from an embryonic stage of my life eventually developed into a charade of a long-lasting relationship inter-twinned with abundant eternal strong ties which continues to thrive on till date.

Having entered Ofori Panin campus at the age nine (9) for a family vacation, the aura that enveloped me at that tender age will go on to be a manifestation which I am a witness today.

Some 31 years ago at age 9 , the greens and beautiful landscape continued to linger In my mind’s eyes and ears, coupled with the birds chirping and singing melodious songs to Obaantanpa Yaa Oforiwaa brings back some nostalgic feeling and the innate desire to really go back to establish the bondage. No wonder I told my granny then Mrs. Charity Asare, may she rest in peace that, I will come back on the expiration of the vacation.

The next phase of my educational advancement came with so much ease, because having experienced some affection on my first visit to Opass, I never blinked an eye on the choice of school to select.

The joy and the ecstasy was so profound that I slept with OPASS in mind and woke up with OPASS in thought.
As a product of the secondary school system, the euphoria and the joy that came with the admission was so loud that I felt the ‘heaven’ we have been taught at “Junior Y” lessons by Teacher Nketiah at Koforidua Ascension Presby Church was what I was about to experience because he said ” there is so much joy in heaven”.

Real student life begun with its ups and downs with a new assimilated culture with different set of human beings very difficult to understand but gradually things reached a crescendo of normalcy.

Ofori Panin Senior High school is not just a CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE AND CHARACTER FORMATION but an institution built on formidable principles of bond and togetherness. To some, OPASS is a school but to us we see it as family.,

Our motto ‘Dwen Na Som’ is an epitome of Philosophical knowledge of cogitation .

Eno Yaa Foriwaa born on the 21st September a thursday, as you celebrate 60 years of piety in fertility and an unabated production of offsprings found in different facets of the world with a plethora of serious accomplishments.

All we can say is, we are proud of you and that you are not just turning 60 but you are turning into an undeniable classic that can’t be matched.

Named after the greatest Akyem Abuakwa King Ofori Panin I, who through so much bravery and courage moved the traditional Akyem Abuakwa capital from Pameng to Kyebi and venturing into several wars for Territorial aggrandisement, your sons, daughters, grandchildren are so happy about your exploits and will continue to have our belief and trust which we have scribbled in our school hymn that”we build our school on thee Oh Lord, to thee we bring our common needs”.

Long Live OPASS.

Long live Okyeman

OPASS is 60

Opanin Daniel Obeng (OB), 2000 batch.

Source// Obohnews.

“Nananom, Hon. Gifty Twum-Ampofo who is the Member of Parliament for the constituency also the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) including myself, decided to “ambush” the roads minister in connection with our dilapidated road networks which contractors have neglected. A reliable information reaching me indicates that, the roads minister who is currently on a national assignment, has assigned one of his deputies and the new contractor for Old Tafo Engen through New Tafo-Akim township to Kukurantumi (OPASS) for inspection and rapid action,” Hon. Alhaji Umar Babs Kofi Bodinga stated.

Hon. Alhaji Bodinga made this revelation in an exclusive interview with Nana Kwasi Asare, when he was asked questions about the bad nature of roads in the municipality as discussed at the Second Ordinary Meeting Of The Second Session Of The Second General Assembly Of The Municipal Assembly held at the Assembly’s Hall in Akyem Kukurantumi on 4th November, 2021.

He added that, his first general meeting with the assembly, has coughed out other abandoned but urgently needed projects apart from the bad road networks.
To mention a few, the assembly hall complex building, community foot bridges, public places of convenience and others.

Hon Umar Bodinga therefore admonished all netizens of Abuakwa North, his commitment in consultations with all stakeholders to get the situation unravelled is optimum.

The Hon. Municipal Chief Executive said, being an “armed chair” leader is detrimental to development, his first field engagement took him to the “Aboboyaa” operators majority of whom are not trained but operating in the enclave.
He said, he has formed a committee to superintend their training, onward licensing and safe operations to curb road carnages.

The meeting was graced by the Municipal Coordinating Director, Mrs Ruth Woode, Hon Emmanuel Asare Gyekye, Presiding Member, Honourable Assembly Members, Departmental Heads, DSP Isaac Ampofo, Tafo District Commander, ASP Frederick Kpetigo, Tafo District Crime Officer and the Press.

By : Nana Kwasi Asare.

Source// Obohnews.

Mr Benjamin Arkaah Otoo popularly called Benjilo, CEO of Benjilo Foundation, Chartered Accountant also Director of Finance at the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has hauled praises to the Nana Akufo-Addo led New Patriotic Party’s flagship policy, Free Senior High School, and admonished all Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in Ghana especially those in the Abuakwa South Constituency, to take advantage.

He explained that, education is the key to national development and as the Government spends huge sums of money to roll out such wonderful policy, the candidates must also learn very hard, pass their BECE and gain access to the Senior High Schools to benefit.

Mr Benjamin Arkaah Otoo added that, his foundation is ever ready to sponsor any candidate in the Abuakwa South Constituency, with passes in the BECE, ranging from aggregate six(6) to fifteen (15).

He said, Benjilo Foundation will cater for all their school needs and give them pocket money of GHc 200 each.

The philanthropist was speaking at a fund raising ceremony of Akyem Akwadum Roman Catholic Basic School, in the Abuakwa South Constituency of the Eastern Region of Ghana, as the Chairman of the occasion on 28th October, 2021.

He further asked the School’s Management Committee (SMC) to furnish him with the budget for the proposed renovation works and number of desks needed for the Benjilo Foundation’s rapid consideration.

Gyaasehene Atta Sintim, on behalf of the school and the community, thanked Mr Benjamin Arkaah Otoo and his team for such a wonderful gesture meted to them. He again called on all well meaning Ghanaians, civil society and Government to emulate Benjilo Foundation for socio-economic development of Ghana.

Benjilo Foundation has earlier this year, presented two hundred pieces of mono desks to the St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Senior High and Technical School(STEPSS), Akyem Asiakwa, Abuakwa South Constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana, on 26th August, 2021 after the school’s management appealed for support from the outfit.

The presentation he said, was the first institutional donation since the beginning of the Foundation and it is just the first of many more to come.

Mr Benjamin Arkaah Otoo said, this is his way of giving back to his community.

By// Nana Kwasi Asare.

Source// Obohnews.

The Parent Teacher Association of New Juaben Senior High School (NJUASCO) in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region, has presented 20 beds to their newly built girls dormitory.

According to Dr. Ebenezer Nii Armah, the chairman for the association disclosed that, their move was aimed to support the government building a new dormitory for the girls.

“So as a chairman, I spoke with my members to see what we can also do to support the gov’t. That’s why we came up by presenting these beds to the school to help relief some burden from the gov’t” he told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH.

Dr. Nii Armah further stated that, amidst raising an initial one or two storey building, the project was not attended to for sometime now a situation that resulted to leakages on the walls, leaving students stranded whenever it rains.

“We will plead with the Eastern Regional Education Directorate or the MCE of New Juaben South Assembly Mr. Isaac Appau Gyasi to come to our aid and help us to flow the top so that our children will have a good sleep when it rains”.

Receiving the beds, the headmaster of the school, Mr. Mark Ofori Frimpong thanked the PTA Chairman and his members for the beautiful thing they have done for the girls.

He stated that, gov’t haven’t said parents shouldn’t contribute to the school’s development but it differs from those days whereby parents who refused to pay their PTA dues of their children are sacked.

He urge parents not to run from their responsibilities, rather they should do well to pay their PTA dues so that the association can used it to run the affairs of the schools because gov’t have a lot of work to do and can’t do everything for the children despite the Free SHS.

Source// Obohnews.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Assembly Members of Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region has overwhelmingly endorsed the confirmation of Alhaji Umar Babs Kofi Bodinga to represent Prez Nana Addo in the Municipality as its new Municipal Chief Executive.

He was nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his list of the Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCE’s) positions in his second tenure of administration.

At a confirmation exercise, preceded by an election, out of 23 Assembly Members present who took part in the exercise, all voted in his favor representing 100% of the votes cast to prove his nomination unanimously.

In his acceptance speech the newly MCE elect, Alhaji Umar Bodinga extend his appreciation to Prez Akuffo Addo, for the opportunity given him and promised to work hard to lead the municipality for the betterment of the people.

That notwithstanding, he extend his gratitude to members of the August house, Traditional authorities, the Member of parliament of the area, Gifty Twum Ampofo and party executives in the region as well as the municipality for reposing their trust in him to serve the people.

He however called for cooperation from the Assembly members and the people to help build a strong foundation to transform the Assembly, since the task is a shared responsibility.

The former Eastern Regional 1st Vice Chairman of NPP thereafter assured to continue the good works of his predecessor, Mr. Owusu Twum Ampofo for the municipality.

Meanwhile, Member of Parliament for the Constituency, Mrs. Gifty Twum Ampofo advice Mr. Bodinga to be mindful of his words before he speaks since he has now become a leader before a whole Municipal

To conclude with, she observe to team up with him to make Abuakwa North a developmental area.

Speaking with Kingdom News, the eastern regional secretary of NPP, Mr. Jeff Konadu Addo commended the hon assembly members for voting yes to confirmed Alhaji Bodinga as the MCE for the municipality to make prez proud.

He asked the people of Abuakwa North to work with Mr. Bodinga in peace to help developed the area together.

Mr. Jeff Konadu also pleaded with the NPP members not to put pressure on him but rather allow him to freely do his work.

The attendees were ERM, Mr. Seth Acheampong Acheampong, ANMA Coordinating Director, Mrs. Ruth Woode, NDC Abuakwa North Constituency Chairman, Mr. Kofi Siaw, Nanaanom and among others.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The MP for Abuakwa South Constituency in the Eastern Region, Mr. Samuel Atta Kyea, has advised the newly MCE elect for the municipality, Mrs. Akosua Asabea Annor to be careful about gossipers if she want to be successful in her administration or else she will failed.

He noted that, gossipers and liars will probably approach her in an attempt to destroyed people for favor thus, should be cautious in reacting to such atrocious comments.

Mr. Atta Kyea made these remarks at Kyebi when all the 35 Assembly Members present voted yes representing 100% vote to confirmed the former’s nomination by Prez Akufo-Addo to lead the Municipality.

“If you want to go far in your administration don’t listen to the gossipers and liars otherwise you may end up with hating and sacking all the good people coming to you” he added.

Following these advice, the MCE elect for Abuakwa South Municipal Assembly, Mrs. Akosua Asabea Annor thanked her MP for the advice given her and assured of heed to it.

She showed her heartfelt appreciation to Prez Nana Addo for choosing her to represent him at the Municipal level. Again she gave thanks to Okyehene and his cabinet for their support.

Mrs. Asabea Annor thereafter promised to work hand in hand with the assembly members of the municipality to help develop Okyeman.

Meanwhile, the people of Apedwa had earlier embarked on demonstration against some prominent persons in Kyebi accusing them of being influence to Prez Akufo-Addo to chose Mrs. Akosua Annor over the incumbent MCE, Mr. Kojo Ofori-Sarfo.

With this brouhaha, the Presiding Member for the Municipality, Mr. Amoako Atta said, it will be humiliated for the Prez if the Assembly Members had rejected his nominee since this is his own constituency.

“We are very much grateful and excited that, the assembly members put their differences aside and made Prez proud for overwhelmingly endorsing his nominee by 100% votes” he stressed.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The Assembly Members of Fanteakwa South District Assembly in the Eastern Region which comprises of 18 elected assembly members and 9 gov’t appointees has unanimously voted yes to confirmed the DCE nominee by Prez Akufo-Addo for the Assembly.

Prior to the elections, all the 27 assembly members declared popular acclamation of his confirmation but the electoral commissioners on duty quashed their decision away, and asked them to show it on the ballot paper and indeed all of them voted yes representing 100%.

Addressing the gathering, the DCE elect, Mr. Ernest Ofosu thanked God for his victory and also extend his profound gratitude to Prez Akufo-Addo for choosing him among others who contested for the position.

He adds, he is going to run an open administration for all persons to help develop Fanteakwa District.

Mr. Ofosu showed appreciation to the outgoing DCE, Mr. Kwasi Adjabeng Ntori for his hardwork and assured him of continuing his good works to transform the area.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The Hon. Assembly Members of New Juaben South Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region has heavily endorsed Prez Akufo-Addo’s nominee, Isaac Apaw Gyasi to confirmed his approval as the Municipal Chief Executive for the area.

Out of 49 assembly members expected to cast their vote in respect to the confirmation of the 2nd coming the latter, 46 casted yes with 1 going for no which represent 98%.

Attaining the mandatory two-thirds of the votes of the membership of the entire Assembly, in accordance with the Article 243 (1) of the 1992 Constitution, Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong sworn in the MCE into office to commenced his work.

The MCE, after his confirmation expressed his heartfelt gratitude to H. E. Prez Nana Addo for the confidence reposed in him by renominating him to continue his good works for the Municipality.

Mr. Apaw Gyasi, believes the journey may not be smoothly but togetherness among the hardworking assembly members will help transform and develope the area.

He also assured the Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong that, his second coming as MCE is going to be a term of developmental projects.

However, Member of Parliament for New Juaben South Constituency who doubles as the Deputy Trade Minister, Michael Okyere Kofi Baafi commended members of the assembly for approving the President’s nominee in an encouraging means

He then tasked them to see themselves as one people with a common destiny, and fight for projects to be enable them withness the Koforidua they all love and cherished to see one day.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The Hon. Assembly Members of New Juaben South Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region has heavily endorsed Prez Akufo-Addo’s nominee, Isaac Apaw Gyasi to confirmed his approval as the Municipal Chief Executive for the area.

Out of 49 assembly members expected to cast their vote in respect to the confirmation of the 2nd coming the latter, 46 casted yes with 1 going for no which represent 98%.

Attaining the mandatory two-thirds of the votes of the membership of the entire Assembly, in accordance with the Article 243 (1) of the 1992 Constitution, Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong sworn in the MCE into office to commenced his work.

The MCE, after his confirmation expressed his heartfelt gratitude to H. E. Prez Nana Addo for the confidence reposed in him by renominating him to continue his good works for the Municipality.

Mr. Apaw Gyasi, believes the journey may not be smoothly but togetherness among the hardworking assembly members will help transform and develope the area.

He also assured the Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong that, his second coming as MCE is going to be a term of developmental projects.

However, Member of Parliament for New Juaben South Constituency who doubles as the Deputy Trade Minister, Michael Okyere Kofi Baafi commended members of the assembly for approving the President’s nominee in an encouraging means

He then tasked them to see themselves as one people with a common destiny, and fight for projects to be enable them withness the Koforidua they all love and cherished to see one day.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.