Nana Ofosu Asante Twum popularly known as Nana OAT, has mentioned that, he is ready to serve the people of Abuakwa North Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana with dignity for massive development under the able leadership of Nana Akufo-Addo.

The Municipal Chief Executive of Abuakwa North hopeful, made this statement to the press after he tendered in his documents to vie for the seat at the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council in Koforidua on Tuesday 18th May, 2021.

“I am very determined to work with all humility, sincerity and dignity with all the stakeholders in the Municipality on behalf of the president, Nana Akufo-Addo for the social economic development of Abuakwa North and Ghana as a whole if I am appointed as the Municipal Chief Executive”. Nana Ofosu Asante Twum said.

He recounted the positive impact of flagship policies such as Planting For Food And Jobs, Planting For Export And Rural Development, Free SHS and other developmental projects have had in transforming the lives of the people in the Municipality during the first term of the Nana Akufo-Addo led NPP government and the member of parliament who doubles as the deputy minister of education designate, Honourable Gifty Twum-Ampofo and the Municipal Assembly.

Nana Ofosu Asante Twum further, admonished all to rally behind the government for more developmental projects in this second term to break the eight (8).

Nana Ofosu Asante Twum is currently offering PhD in Migration Studies University of Ghana and holds MPhil in Geography and Resource Development University of Ghana
BA Economics with Geography and Resource Development University of Ghana
Diploma in Education Akrokerri College of Education
Diploma in Theology SOW, Kumasi,
Certificate in Advance Excel and Financial Modeling, Koforidua Technical University.

At the political terrain, Nana Ofosu Asante Twum is Abuakwa North Communication Team Member, Member Government Spokespersons E/R, NPP Research Team Member Abuakwa North, Member Teachers Campaign Team, Member V-20 Group and government appointee to the Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly.

Nana Ofosu Asante Twum is a professional teacher who works with the Eastern Regional Free Senior High School Secretariat as a coordinator.

Four other people are also contesting the aforementioned position, Alhaji Umar Bodinga, Mr Kofi Obeng Mensah, Madam Joyce Mensah and Honourable Asare Gyekye pending vetting on the 22nd May, 2021.

By// Nana Kwasi Asare.

Source// Obohnews.

Students of the school for the blind in Akuapem North Municipality of Eastern Region, have embarked on demonstration to ensure their headmistress Madam Mahela Narh is removed from the school as the headmistress as soon as possible.

According to them, Madam Mahela Narh has spent 12 years in the school without achieving anything better for them[School].

They again accused her of being a dictator and autocratic hence, does not listen to anyone’s view.

“What worsen the case is that, she has been diverting their donated items to some of the eastern regional GES directors to shield her devilish attitude ” they added.

After receiving the students petition, Municipal Education Director for Akuapem North Municipality, Mrs. Elizabeth Korkor Amanor has assured them of forwarding their petition to the regional education directorate and director general of education to conduct investigation into their accusations.

Following this, she asked the students to exercise patience and go back to classroom and learn, and assured them of addressing their claims.

However, the students heed to the advice of the Municipal Education Directorates, but warned that if nothing is done to their grievances before Monday, May 17, 2021, they will advice themselves in a manner that will suit and befit them.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The Eastern Regional Minister Hon. Seth Kwame Acheampong has said, the 30 days prayer and fasting by the Muslims has helped reduced Ghana’s cases of Covid-19.

According to the Minister, had it not been the prayers of our Muslims the second wave of the global coronavirus pandemic disease that hit the country would have gotten out of the hands, adding that this period of Ramadan have been a blessing in disguise.

Hon. Seth Acheampong continue, by urging Ghanaians to have in mind that the covid is still staying with us, hence everyone must observe all the protocols.

Hon. Reg. Min made these known at Koforidua Zongo during the prayers by the Muslims as they brought their 30 days prayers and fasting to an end.

Furthermore, the Eastern Regional Chief Imam Yussif Amudani Suleman said, they thank God ( Allah) for a successful fasting and prayer for how far he has brought them.

“Because they began this 30 days fasting and prayers with a lot of people but today some of them has kicked the bucket”. he added.

Chief Imam Amudani Suleman prayed for Nana Addo, his Veep Dr. Bawumia, his Ministers including MPs, and asked unto them God’s protection and guidance.

The Eastern Regional Deputy Nasara Coordinator for NPP, Adamu Musah Raha also advised Muslim youth in the region to understand that the country is not in good times.

“So I’m urging them to desist from things that goes against the covid protocols”.

Adding, nobody should ride motorbikes to make noise in town amidst celebrating this holy Eid-Ul-Fitr Ramadan festival.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

Legislature for Akuapem North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon. Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei has praised the health directorate in her constituency for recording zero maternal death under the 2020 year of review, and expressed her excitement over their performance.

“We pray this will continue in the rest of the years ahead of us, because if a mother lost her life during child birth in fact is very painful”.

Hon. MP added, the number of people who resides in her constituency keeps increasing thus, will have a dialogue with the ministry of health to give them more health personnels to provide quality health care to its citizenry in the Municipality.

Again Hon. Nana Ama Asiamah-Adjei revealed that, plans are being put in place to get another hospital to complement to the services of Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital, the biggest and main hospital at Mampong-Akuapem to save more lives since Akuapem North has become a developing Municipality.

The Lawmaker said these to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during her first edition of Stakeholders Consultative Meeting at Amanokrom, dubbed; Akuapem North Constituency 2021; Consolidating our gains: Together Towards Tomorrow”.

The MCE for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Berima Asiedu-Larbi also lamented about the poor performance of the students in the municipality.

He said, gone are the days Akuapemman had lots of professors but it has become difficult for students offlate to get aggregate 6 in BECE or better results in WASSCE. A situation he described as very pathetic, stating that education is paramount to the good people of Akuapemman.

“If you come to Akuapem we don’t have lands for cocoa or oil palm plantation nor for farming but what we have here is our brains and it goes with education. So we the [parents] have a lot of work to do” stressed Hon. MCE.

This, he underscores how parents ensures their animals are caged before it’s 6pm, but fails to look for the whereabouts of their wards and bring them home whenever it’s late night, and described the manner as worrisome.

This he stated, parents think about their animals more than their kids education, adding that they[Stakeholders] will put measures in place to make sure parents in Akuapem focus much more on their children’s education more than any other things, because that’s the area where education first started.

Last but not the least, the Eastern Regional Minister, Hon. Seth Acheampong who graced the programme also spoke with Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH and commended Hon. Nana Ama Dokua and her MCE Hon. Asiedu-Larbi for coming up with such programme.

He stressed, this programme will paved way for all the gov’t sectors in the constituency to come out and portrayed what they have done for the constituents to know the happenings going on in their constituency.

“Again its gives an opportunity to the constituents to asked questions about the things they don’t understand in the constituency and find solution to it and this is what we called it democracy “he said.

By// Krontihene Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has donated a relief items to the rainstorm victims of Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality of Eastern Region.

The items that worth undisclosed huge amount of money were presented to those affected individuals whose properties were destroyed by heavy rainstorm on easter Monday, April 5,2021.

Some of the relief items include; blankets, pillows, mattresses, roofing sheets, clothes and many more.

Addressing the short ceremony held at Akim Oda, the Director General of NADMO, Nana Agyemang Prempeh indicated that, most buildings in Ghana are old and needed to be demolished to save people’s lives.

“But if you try to do that, the owners of such buildings will paint you with a certain political party’s colour and even threatened to vote against the MP of that constituency for allowing their buildings to be demolished by either the assembly or NADMO officials”

“Gone are the days, our forefathers used to do maintenance on their buildings( houses) especially when we are approaching a rainy season to prevent any unforeseen tragedy but today the culture of maintenance is no more in existence and that is what is destroying our country” he opined.

He therefore made a humble appeal to the general public especially those whose buildings are on the verge of collapsing to allow themselves for the various assemblies or NADMO officials to demolished such buildings to save lives, since those structures can cause harm through collapsing.

Furthermore, the Eastern Regional Minister, Hon. Seth Acheampong thanked the Director General of NADMO and his team for their kind gesture.

The minister then recalled that faithful easter monday when he first had a distress phone call from the MP of the constituency, Hon. Alexander Akwasi Acquah concerning the incident, a situation he said gave him a headache over where he was going to received support to enable assist the affected victims numbering over 500.

“First all when I heard the news, I stopped whatever I was doing and rushed to Akim Oda and in fact when we got to the scene it was very terrible situation and I have to talk to the victims to restraint patience” he recounted.

This, Hon. Seth Acheampong expressed his excitement over how the victims has finally been relieved by NADMO with the relief items.

Moreover, the senior presidential adviser to the Pres at the presidency, Hon. Nana Yaw Osafo Marfo also showed his gratitude to NADMO for their intervention to the victims of Akim Oda.

However he ceased the opportunity and begged the chiefs of Akim Oda to bring their chieftaincy dispute to an end, quizzing, how that could be the cause of this disaster.

The senior presidential adviser again charged the council of local churches members in the area to pray for the chiefs of Akim Oda to come nerves down.

Hon. Osafo Marfo hinted that, Pres. Nana Addo have heard their chieftaincy dispute and he has taken steps about the issue,, adding that anytime soon the chiefs of the area will be invited by Mr. Pres to the Jubilee House to see how possible best they can finally solved it to bring peace, unity and togetherness amongst the chiefs of Akim Oda.

All these were brought to light during the handing over of the relief items by NADMO to the victims of the Birim Central Municipality after they got hit with a heavy rainstorm.

Some dignitaries that attended the ceremony were Hon. Alexander Akwasi Acquah, MP-Akim Oda Constituency, Hon. Victoria Adu Badu, MCE-Birim Central Municipality, Mr. Kwame Appiah Kodua, E/R NADMO director, clergy and nanaanom of Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area.

Source// Obohnews.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

A group of Muslims of various nationalities based in Germany at the weekend donated some assorted items to seven Muslim communities in the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality of the Eastern Region to finish up the Ramadan fast.

The group which has established friendship with a number of Muslim communities namely Sabon zongo, Wangara line, Moshie zongo, Wala zongo, Kotokoli lane and zongo Illiasu, all within the municipality.

The donation which was on the theme; “Eat Less, Feed More” was to help the Muslims especially the less privilege in society who are currently going on with the Ramadan fast to have enough to eat when they break or want to do their fast each day.

The items which included rice, sugar and oil among others were given to individual needy Muslims comprising widows, the aged and persons with disability.

The donation would be extended to cover other zongo communities in future Ramadan.

Alhaji Iddrisu Salifu who made the donation on behalf of his brother, Alhaji Suliman Wahab, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tuo Lada Ramadan Food Programme for the Needy, said this year the group served 190 needy persons within the communities.

According to him, the items were to be used for the Ramadan fast, and that the gesture was to show love and kindness to the beneficiaries to enable them observe the Ramadan fast without any difficulties.

Alhaji Salifu said it was to support the Muslim communities to undertake the fast with ease.

He noted that the Ramadan offered a time for spiritual growth for the individual, and it was important that Muslims were able to undertake the fast with some level of comfort.

Alhaji Salifu said the group members who came together and contributed to support the beneficiary communities during this year’s Ramadan fast included Mr Fatin, Mr Musa Atta, Mr Umar Ghassem and Mr Zekeriya Celik.

One of the beneficiaries, Hajia Mariama Mustapha lauded the group for the continued and varied support to the communities, saying the donation came at the right time.

By// Haruna Yussif Wunpini.

Source// Obohnews.

The National Women’s Leader of Leaders Light Int’l Church, Mrs. Lizbeth Anane has admonised Ghanian children who normally maltreated their mothers to put a stop to it as soon as possible as we celebrate them today.

This she said, its very disturbing to see children of today accusing their mothers wrongly about things they know nothing about, and later begins beating or doing painful things to them because of hearsays about their parents.

According to Mrs. Anane, mothers are very scarce, and not everyone has one, hence the need to treat every mother with care and love is necessary than maltreating them.

“Again is not every mother who conceived and carried her baby in her stomach for 9 months. So if your mother has been able to carried you in her stomach for 9 months and given birth to you, you don’t have to treat her bad” she added.

Mrs. Lizbeth Anane then explained that; a good mother is someone who gives birth to her children by way of helping them reach certain level in life as well as raising them with the word of God.

She told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview during the mother’s day anniversary celebration church service at Koforidua.

However, district secretary for the Koforidua branch of Leaders Light International Church, Mrs. Alberta Ayeh-Kwapong used the opportunity to advised the youth to take good care of themselves, and also listen to their mother’s teachings, because that’s the only way to help them achieve their aims and aspirations in life.

She also charged them to humble themselves and respect their mothers.

Mrs. Ayeh-Kwapong tasked the youth to let the truth leads them in everything they do to bring glory to themselves and their mothers as well.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source//Obohnews.

The government of Ghana has lunched a fight against Galamsey activities that has taken away the beautiful land and water resources we have in Ghana.

Following this, it has raised many concerns over the menace, which every good citizen of the country has joined the fight.

Anti-Galamsey activist Mr. Tweneboa Kodua has stated that, if the president is meant to stop this act for real, then he must first start from his government since most of his appointees; such as ministers, MMDCE’S, Regional executives, chiefs and many more are allegedly involved in the illegal mining activities( galamsey).

“Aside the water bodies that are being polluted, the galamsey activity in Ghana is also destroying our lands” he stressed.

Mr. Kodua continue that, until president take the necessary steps to stop his appointees and other respectable persons who are into Galamsey activities in Ghana, there is no way the fight against illegal mining can yeild any positive results.

“Any chief who involved in such act must be called-for, by naming and shaming. I believe this will serve as deterrent to others to put a stop to it” he noted.

This, he noted that, the fight against galamsey is a collective responsibility of every Ghanaian to help eradicate the growing canker.

By// T. Kodua

Source//Obohnews

The concerned land owners of Awukugua Domiase, Takasi and Nyensi in the Okere District Assembly of Eastern Region has raised a red flag on their land saying is not for sale.

In a press conference addressed by the leader of the group who doubles as the Saamahene of Awukugua, Nana Titriku Jampoh indicated that, their great grandparents left the land for them for over 400yrs ago and they haven’t had issues or litigation with those who have their lands in the area.

He said, Awukugua town had its boundary with Dawu and Adukurom and their lands are in between these two towns (I.e. Dawu and Adukurom) and over twenty (20) people have their lands at the aforementioned places.

Nana Jampoh added, in 2018 they heard that some people has invaded into their land and demarcated a large portion of their land without their concern.

“Later on we got an information that it was late opanyin Yaw Badu who hails from Awukugua’s son Nana Yaw who has sold our lands to an unknown private firms” he said.

“We the concerned land owners of Awukugua Domiase, Takasi and Nyensi are sending a word of caution to opanyin Yaw Badu’s son Nana Yaw to refurbished the money to those an unknown firms because our lands are not for sale even though the case is at the court”.

Furthermore, he revealed that, when the private firms went to Domiase, Takasi and Nyensi they told those living around that, the gov’t of Ghana needed the lands to do a developmental projects for them which prevented them to questioned their actions.

Thereafter, he noted that upon coming to their senses of the act of the imposters, reliazed they have been scammed and have already demarcated over 1,500 acres of their lands.

“Yes the case is at the court but its keeping long that’s why we have taken this steps to register our displeasure to the gov’t of Ghana, if indeed he knew nothing about this matter then gov’t should handle back our lands to us” he stressed.

Nana Titriku Jampoh then opined that they don’t want to take the law into their own hands to attacked those who have purchased their lands from the said Imposters.

“But if we don’t hear something good from Opanyin Yaw Badu’s son Nana Yaw that will calm nerves down and sees strangers on our lands then what will happen will happen” he warned.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

Okorasehene Nana Asare Kumi III has debunked rumours circulating that he and some few people had secretly commissioned the newly Okorase Chip compound without the involvement of any gov’t officials and residents of the area.

This, he categorically indicated that, the Okorase chip compound is not officially commissioned as claimed by constituents of the area.

Nana Asare Kumi III explained that, Vodafone Ghana has a periodically donations initiative they do for towns and communities that needs help concerning their education and health.

“Vodafone Ghana has programme for their workers and fortunately for us we have one staff in Okorase who has been supportive to us over the past years, his first help was he brought Vodafone to Okorase to come and do free health screening for us” said Nana Kumi III.

“So this time around he came to me and asked do we need any help and I told him gov’t has built a new chip compound for us and is over 95% completion but we don’t have equipment inside for the nurses to moved inn and start working” he stressed.

Moreover, he explained that Vodafone Ghana assisted them with some hospital equipment and since they wanted the equipment not to be white elephant, they collaborated with them[Vodafone] as well as few personnels before handing over the equipment for the health workers to put them in use. But never commissioned the entire facility.

Following this, Nana Asare Kumi III denied speculations making wave that the facility was built by the former President H. E. John Dramani Mahama, revealing, it was rather built under H. E. President Nana Addo led NPP administration.

However, he noted that, cutting sod for the commencement of the project was made under the guise of incumbent MP for Akuapem North in the E/R , Hon. Nana Ama Dokua and former MCE for the municipality, Hon. Miracle Dennis Aboagye.

Nana Asare Kumi III added, in due time the gov’t officials of the constituency led by the Lawmaker and her MCE will officially come and commissioned the Okorase Chip Compound for use.

Making this remarks to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview, he thus, assures his people that on the day of commissioning the facility, he will make it known to every constituents to come and witness the ceremony.

Source// Obohnews.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.