Mr. Asare Danso,DCE-Birim South District Assembly.
Honourable Asare Danso, District Chief Executive of Birim South, has been captured on tape for allegedly threatening a journalist, Kofi Amoah popularly called Fiko, who works with Ahenkan Radio for reporting negative and falsehood about him (DCE), the audio which is in Twi (Ghanaian local language) emphasized.
“There is power somewhere, after spending six months somewhere you will attest. I use the law for everything I do. That Fiko should continue to do those foolish reports about me, I will get him.
“As you see, I have done a lot in Akyem Swedru and the environs but your reporter will never mention but always negativity, negativity. Am I an animal? this small boy aaah! I will get him, but just be careful you don’t also fall victims because I’m bent on taking drastic decision against the boss. I know he is going to fall because he is a fool, Fiko, I will lay hands on him………….!” The tape revealed.
He further sent a word of caution to Kofi Amoah, to be fair in his reportage about him to avoid his (DCE) wrath.
Mr. Joshua Kofi Soga, Treasurer of Koforidua PROTOA.
As many Ghanaians are waiting to listen to what Mr. Ken Ofori Atta, the Finance Minister have for them in tomorrow’s 2022 budget, some persons have expressed their expectations ahead of the budget.
The Treasurer of Koforidua Progressive Transport Union Association (PROTOA), Mr. Joshua Kofi Soga have said, the Driver Unions across the country are suffering as a result of the continuous increment of the fuel prices.
“We are expecting the Finance Minister to address to this issue either reducing the fuel prices or adding some small percentage to the lorry fare to help relief drivers from their suffering”, he noted.
Mr. Kofi Soga indicated that, it is not only the fuel prices that have gone up, but rather, the prices of spare parts have also gone up. Now car battery price have increased from GHS350.00 to GHS600.00, car tyres from GHS350.00 to GHS500.00, and engine oil from GHS82.00 to GHS116.00.
He made this to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH, adding that, its difficult for the drivers to get money to buy new spare parts to fix their vehicles when the fuel prices goes high without increasing the lorry fare.
He ceased the opportunity to advice drivers to be extra cautious when driving as Christmas festivities is approaching.
Mr. Soga also highlighted that good driver are the ones who drives passengers to their various destinations safely.
” I observed during the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) monitoring with the Deputy Minister of Education incharge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) also the member of parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency, Honourable Gifty Twum-Ampofo, the Regional and Municipal Education Directors, Mrs Margaret Nsiah-Asamoah and Miss Abena Gyamerah respectively that, Abuakwa North Municipal Education Directorate needed to be taken care of with water and other drinks to fortify them in their discharge of the five day examination process hence my decision to donate seventeen (17) cartons of malt drinks and thirty-five (35) cartons of bottled water. A kind gesture I emulated from my political God father, Nana Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana and the Commander In chief Of The Ghana Armed Forces, my utmost appreciations to him always”, stated Hon. Alhaji Umar Babs Bodinga.
He therefore, admonished all officials and invigilators to continue to deliver their core mandates with the best of diligence devoided of any intimidation or whatsoever to make the examination process successful.
The Honourable Municipal Chief Executive, emotionally opted with impulse decision, to take charge of the feeding of some candidates from other small but remote towns namely, Nobi, Anweabeng and Abremponsu, who have been given temporal stay, around the examination centres because of commuting difficulties, as hinted by the Municipal Education Director.
Receiving the donations with emotions, Miss Abena Gyamerah, the Municipal Education Director, expressed her profound gratitude to the Municipal Chief Executive and pledged maximum cooperation to build the education sector in the Municipality for national development. The items were received in the presence of some selected staff of the directorate.
According to Miss Abena Gyamerah, thousand five hundred and ninety five (1,595) candidates are expected to write the examination in the municipality.
The presentation he said, is the first institutional donation since the beginning of his tenure of office and it’s just the first of many more to come.
Hon. Umar Babs Bodinga (Alhaji), newly confirmed Municipal Chief Executive of Abuakwa North Assembly in the Eastern Region of Ghana made these donations together with some selected staff from the Municipal Assembly, 16th November, 2021 to facilitate all officials and Invigilators of the year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination.
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.
Mrs. Gifty Twum Ampofo, Dept Edu. Min and MP advising the candidates.
Mrs. Gifty Twum-Ampofo, MP for Abuakwa North Constituency in the E/R also the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has today toured the three (3) Basic School Education Certificate Examination (BECE) centers in the Constituency namely Ofori Panin, WBM Zion and Hawa Memorial Saviour Senior High Schools.
The Hon Deputy Minister was satisfied with the examination conduct, the calm composure of the students and the adherence of the COVID-19 safety protocols at the centers.
She wished the candidates the best of luck and admonished them to approach the examination with the seriousness it deserves for a successful future as the Nana Akufo-Addo led New Patriotic Party administration’s Free Senior High School (FSHS) flagship policy awaits them.
Mrs. Gifty Twum-Ampofo pleaded with teachers and parents to help the candidates during the Senior High Schools selection process and advised that, Technical and Vocational Education and Training should be prioritized since government has invested massively to manpower its industrialization agenda.
Mrs. Twum Ampofo then admonished the girls to embrace the non- traditional TVET courses such as, auto mechanic engeneering, welding , spraying, carpentry and joinery, electricals etc to bridge the boys domination gap.
Mr. Alhaji Umar Babs Bodinga, Municipal Chief Executive of Abuakwa North on his part, encouraged the candidates to approach the examination with confidence and avoid any form of examination malpractices. This he said, will make their academic journey smooth and successful for a brighter future.
The Hon. Municipal Chief Executive advised the candidates to be very calm and proactive in answering their questions by reading them well as the questions are nothing new but from their basic syllabus.
According to Miss Abena Gyamerah, the Municipal Education Director, thousand five hundred and ninety five (1,595) candidates are expected to write the examination in the municipality.
The delegation included, Mrs. Margaret Nsiah-Asamoah, Eastern Regional Education Director, Mrs Ruth Woode, Abuakwa North Municipal Coordinating Director & some selected staff from the Municipal Assembly, Hon Emmanuel Asare Gyekye, Presiding Member of Abuakwa North, Mr Stephen Osei Wusu, Municipal NADMO Director, staff from the Education Ministry and the press.
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.
Meanwhile, 55,888 candidates sits for the Eastern Regional 2021 BECE of which 28,588 are boys and 27,300 are girls.
The National Dean of Presiding Members – Ghana, Mr. Joseph Korto expressed worry over local government refusal to pay salaries to Assembly Members.
According to him, the development is disturbing since their duties are tedious thus, the Local Government Ministry and Parliament should seek to amend some articles of the laws to ensure their incentives goes up.
Mr. Korto adds, all the 261 MMDCEs have vehicles and offices to discharge their duties unlike the presiding members. Meanwhile they are the pillars of the Assembly, something he’s asking gov’t to get them vehicles and offices to help them discharge their duties accordingly.
He told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during the 2021 National Conference held in Eastern Region-Kofoidua with the THEME: GHANA’S DIGITAL REVOLUTION FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE; THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL ASSEMBLIES.
Mr. Joseph Korto then urged all the Assemblies to embrace digitization in their works, because digitization is key to development.
Speaking on behalf of the Communications Minister, Mrs. Ursula Owusu Akuffo, the Deputy Administrator of Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), Mrs. Eva Andoh Opoku indicated that, most countries are developing through digital transformation which Ghana must follow suit to emulate them.
Mrs. Andoh Opoku continue that, girls are not interested in studying ICT as a result, the Communication Ministry led by Mrs. Owusu Akuffo have introduced what’s called ‘Girls in ICT’ to teach them about how to operate computer or mobile phones to do businesses transaction
“The Communication Ministry is training over 1000 girls in IT nationwide which have commenced in C/R, NE/R, O,R, W/R, and WN/R. This programme have made us to notice that most of the girls haven’t even seen computer mouse before and is difficult for them to use it.
As 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination candidates are preparing themselves for the Monday, November 15, 2021 showdown, the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Mrs. Gifty Twum Ampofo have donated hundreds of mathematical set and pens to the candidates.
Other beneficiaries of the MP’s gesture are teachers who teaches mathematics and science subjects in her constituency.
Addressing the candidates, the MP who doubles as the Deputy Minister of Education, in charge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training, said, life after school will be difficult to cope with should they fail to make the pass mark in the examination, and thus thought to assist them with the items which is key.
“Hence there is the need for me to come in as parents to encourage and pray with them for God Almighty to see them through and also to wish them well” she added.
Mrs. Twum Ampofo also urged them to be extra careful when choosing schools in their next level of education, a situation he highlighted that the world has now become technical and vocational which she suggests TVET as the only solution to alleviate poverty.
Madam Abena Gyamerah, the Municipal Education Director on her side noted, preparation towards the Monday exams is far advance saying they have 3 centers where the B. E. C. E will take place i.e. OPASS, Saviour SHS, and W. B. M. School. Adding that, the logistics are in except the questions.
“On Sunday, November 14, 2021 all the candidates will go to the aforementioned centers to check their names and index numbers before the exams on Monday, November 15,2021” she accounts.
Madam Abena Gyamerah, indicated that a total of 1,595 candidates for 2021 BECE which comprises of 779 males and 816 females were registered in the municipality.
Meanwhile the entire Eastern Region have 55,888 candidates prepared for this years BECE examination with 28,588 being males and 27,300 females
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.
“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”.
Hon. Alhaji Umar Babs Kofi Bodinga,MCE-Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly.
“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.
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.
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