The Office of the Chief of Staff and President Nana Akufo-Addo have directed that this year’s 6th March celebrations and all its related activities be cancelled.
The directive applies to all jurisdictions of local governance across the country, due to the high prevalence rate of the COVID-19 cases in the country.
Consequently, in a press statement dated February 15, the office said the Ghana Education Service has suspended the 64th Anniversary celebrations nationwide.
Thus, no parade, neither will the Independence Square march by schools and organisations hold
The chiefs and people of Mehame in the Asutifi South District of Ahafo Region has made a passionate appeal to the District Assembly and the Ghana Health Service to put Mehame Clinic into use.
The project which was started in 2016 under the NDC was completed and commissioned by NPP in November last year but no single health personnel has been posted to the area.
According to the 2010 population census Mehame, Oseikrom, Apenimadi and it’s villages has over 5,000 residents.
While the facility has be left in the bush for some time now, unknown persons has broken and ransacked the facility to steal but nothing was found.
Some residents who spoke to Success FM’s Atiewin Mohammed in Goaso says their fustration and cost to accessed health care delivery will reduce.
The Assembly Member for Mehame Odumase Electoral Area, Hon. Osman Kofi Kusi also expressed worried and call for an immediate resolution.
Ghana’s youngest Member of Parliament (MP) who represents the people of Kwabere East constituency, Francisca Oteng Mensah, has tied the knot.
The lawmaker got married to Mr Kwadwo Adade Amponsah in a colourful ceremony on Sunday, February 14, 2021, at the Blessed Bible Church in Kumasi.
Her big day coincided with her 28th birthday and the Valentine Day celebration.
The purple-themed wedding saw family and friends share in the couple’s joy.
The ceremony saw Miss Mensah dazzle in a purple Kente outfit adorned with beads while her husband wore a purple Kaftan.
MP for Kwabere East. Other photos saw, now Mrs Amponsah, rock a beautiful purple and silver gown as the newlywed couple beamed with smiles for the camera.
the ceremony which have popped up online has attracted congratulatory messages alongside prayers for the couple.
The Member of Parliament for Afigya Kwabre North constituency in the Ashanti Region, Hon William Adomako Mensah has embarked on a tour of his constituency to inspect development projects being undertaken by the government and also interact with his constituents.
The visit was to enable him interact and listen to the concerns of the people and also appreciate the state of development projects in the constituency.
Hon William Adomako Mensah has embarked on thank you tour on his constituency to show appreciation to Nananom and opinion leaders for have a confidence in him and Nana Addo.
Addressing Nananom, Hon William Adomako Mensah urged the opinion leaders to enforce their people to wear the nose mask since covid-19 is real.
He said, education has been his priorities since day one and will make sure 3 people will benefits from his scholarship scheme in each town to boost the youth confidence when education is concerned.
Hon William Adomako Mensah donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and pledge to support the hair dressers dryers and sewing machines in all the communities visited.
He also inspected Kyekyewere community football field taking over by erosion and promise to repair their spoiled water projects and construct 1 seater water closet toilet facilities in Kyekyewere, Nsuotem and Kyerekrom.
He also cut sod for the construction of an ultra modern 12 seater water closet toilet facility for the people of Kyerekrom as his first projects since entering into Parliament.
Hon Collins Adomako Mensah cutting sod for the construction of 12 seater water closet toilet facility
He assured his constituents that he would continue to work very hard to provide their needs.
He also asked the people to support the government of Nana Addo to realise its human centred policies and programmes. The member of Parliament appealed to the people to take advantage of government numerous programmes such as the free senior school ,planting for food and jobs ,nation builders Corp and the financial support for businesses.
The lawmaker commended the people for their self help spirit and urged them to continue with that spirit.
In all the communities, the people and their elders thanked the member of Parliament for his support and honor done them. They also assured him of their continuous support and prayers.
Chairman of Afigya Chiefs Association, Chief of Nsuotem Nana Koantwam ll
The Chairman of Afigya Chiefs Association and the Chief of Nsuotem in Afigya Kwabre North, Nana Koantwam ll has called on the government to make good used of Apostle Kojo Sarfo’s ideologies.
He said Ghanaian should shift to adopt the use of organic farming products in stead of non-organic products since it’s the cause of kidney failure and heart attacks. Nana Koantwam ll advice that Ghanaian should used Apostle Kojo Sarfo’s factory as practical room for mechanical engineering students in the various Technical Institutions .
He said this when Afigya Kwabre North constituency MP, Hon William Adomako Mensah paid a courtesy call to him in his palace.
Nana Owusu Akyiaw Brempong, Council of State Member elect Ashanti region
FacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare The Ashanti Regional Council of State Elections was one of the keenly contested in the Country. The elections were held today. 12th February 2021 at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, kumasi, the Regional Capital.
Nana Owusu Akyiaw Brempong, the chief of Akrofooso who also doubles as chief, Farmer and a Businessman with International commendation won the elections by obtaining Votes 77 Votes out of the 86 delegates.
His other competitors like James Nana Prempeh, Addae Boakye Yiadom, , Nana Bobbie Ansah, Suleman Seidu,. Justice Baffour Awuah and James Adusei Sarkodie got less than ten (10) out of 86 (eighty six) delegates
Nana Owusu Akyiaw Brempong
He has been duly declared by the Electoral Commission to represent Ashanti at the Council of State, who is responsible to advise H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, the president of the Republic of Ghana on national and international issues. Nana Owusu Akyiaw Brempong has made history today as the first person to represent the Ashanti Region at the Council of State by winning in this huge margin in his second time of office.
Nana Owusu Akyiaw Brempong stated emphatically that, the victory is not for him alone but his competitors, the delegates and the good people of Ashanti Region.
Nana Owusu Akyiaw Brempong added that, the mandate given to him is for the people, therefore, he shall represent the people of Ahafo very well at the Council of State.
He is poised for development, best representation, unity and prosperity for all.
The MMDCEs in the Ashanti region were also present to witness and cast their vote in such a historic election which was held at the Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council, Goaso, Ahafo Regional Capital.
At the Eleventh Hour of the elections, Justice Baafour Awuah and JamesbAdusei Sarkodie , two of the aspirant stepped down for a reason known to themselves.
A Nana Sarpong led pro disgruntled Sekyere Kumawu DCE, Samuel Addai Agyekum, group has shot itself in the arm by exposing the DCE’s machinations to dwindle the votes of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the constituency in the December 07, 2020 general elections.
“We want to point out also that, the votes earned by the party in Kumawu constituency truly reflect on the true performance of our government/party headed by President Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo,” their statement reads.
The embarrassing development comes few days after the identifiable George Ofosu convened NPP Supporters, Sympathizers and Citizens of Sekyere Kumawu group revealed the machinations of the district chief executive to drop the votes of the party from 78.1% in 2016 to 51.1% in 2020 as he made sure the independent candidate came close to the incumbent NPP member of parliament, Philip Basoah, in the race.
In a panic reaction to escape the imminent sacking of many metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) for similar reasons, the group has rather deepened the wounds of the not Sekyere Kumawu resident DCE Agyekum.
Several mainstream media platforms are on the exposed embarrassing posture of the DCE who is struggling to defend himself.
Among the distasteful attitudes of the DCE are defying the intervention of party stalwart F. F. Anto and others to find an amicable solution for his disregard for his MP, abandoning the furnished DCE’s bungalow to commute from another district to the office everyday, etcetera.
It is evident on the ground that should President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo reappoint Mr. Agyekum as the DCE, the party’s 2024 electoral fortunes will be hard hit in the Sekyere Kumawu constituency.
The Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, Ken Thompson, has said there is no way customers of the defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, will recoup their lost investments.
Unless out of sympathy the government decides to pay them their locked-up funds, they should not think of being able to recover their cash, he said.
In a documentary titled ‘The Menzgold heartache in Ghana; two years on!’ and produced by TV3’s Komla Adom, Mr Thompson said Menzgold was an obvious scam and further wondered how people were lured into this trap.
“It was such an obvious scam and I don’t know how we allowed it to happen. And I am not sure it would not happen again,” he said.
He added, “it was almost as if the messiah had come and was changing peoples’ lives. Whenever these things happen, it derails the trust people have in the financial system.”
Latest News In Ghana. Click Here To Read Our Latest News Stories Whether or not these aggrieved customers would ever get their monies back, Mr. Thompson says there is no hope.
“As for the people who have lost their monies, it is unfortunate, they may not get it back. If they get something back, then it probably would be from the generosity of the state.”
With the Menzgold heartache, arguably the most publicized financial scam in recent memory, experts say the relevant agencies must act to ensure the players in this circus are prosecuted.
“It is such a shame that two years on, people are still walking. Nobody has been prosecuted, Nana Appiah Mensah is probably living in luxury in his mansions and other properties that are left,” Mr Thompson said.
Read below the transcript of the documentary…
The Menzgold heartache in Ghana; two years on!
The Menzgold Heartache; two years on! In September 2018, thousands of persons got their funds locked up in what many have described as one of the biggest financial scams in Ghana’s recent history. Students, doctors, teachers, mine workers and many more even students, were affected. Official records show at least 200 million Cedis have been locked up in the gold dealership firm, now widely tagged as a Ponzi scheme. The impact, unquantifiable and far-reaching.
Worst affected victims
I went to meet thirty-seven-year-old Ayambilla; bedridden for more than a decade after surviving an accident. Escaping a ghastly road accident which killed nearly everyone on board a commercial bus en route his father’s funeral, has left him almost permanently paralyzed!
“It was the worst day of my life, I literally saw my life snuffing out of my body,” Ayambilla told me as he struggled to string his words together.
He told me, “as I sit, it is like they are using pins to pierce me inside. I feel immense pain because of the fracture in my back. The bone is completely broken and as I sit, I cannot control urine.”
Convinced by a friend, he invested an amount of money raised to cater for his medical treatment in the gold dealership firm, Menzgold!
“I had my doubts, but I thought I could invest the money in Menzgold, get returns and fly out of the country to seek treatment to make my condition better.”
Shutdown of the company meant his funds and that of several other thousands of people were locked up. It has been a daily struggle for Ayambilla since September 2018; he still cannot do anything by himself and cannot control urine.
“Since the company was shut down on September 12, 2018, it has not been easy for me at all. I have had sleepless nights, in addition to the pain of being consigned to one spot. It’s been pain after pain each passing day,” Ayambilla told me. His hope is wearing thin, fearing, at 37 years and with his predicament, his days on earth are numbered.
But, Ayambilla is not alone. I traveled to Kasoa in the Central region of Ghana.
It is where sixty-three-year-old pensioner, Francesca Dzoboka, now lives, in an uncompleted structure offered her by someone who introduced her to the Menzgold Company. She is down with stroke and facing death threats constantly from her husband who is blaming her for the woes of the family, after their combined investment of sixty thousand cedis was locked up.
“My husband says he would kill me if I do not go and find his money for him. He is not talking to me. He said our diets have become poor and we now feed off the benevolence of others,” a distraught Francisca said while tears streamed down her cheeks. The pensioner says she is unable to afford a decent meal after two years of frustration following the collapse of gold dealership firm, Menzgold. She convinced her husband to contribute 20,000 cedis to add up to her 40,000 she raised to invest in the firm. But exactly six days after the transaction, Menzgold shut down.
Francisca cannot hold back her tears. “I was entertaining some fears when my friend introduced me to the firm, but I wanted to make life better for us all and also help see my son through university.”
With her 85-year-old bedridden sick mother and her last child almost dropping out of medical school, Francesca Dzoboka says her world is crushing; a teaching career of more than 40 years almost means nothing now.
“If they pay me back my money, I can take my mother to the best hospital to seek medical care and I can also treat myself,” she told me as she sunk her face into her cloth, trying to hide the tears.
Regulatory interventions before shutdown of Menzgold
The bank of Ghana on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 in a notice issued and signed by the secretary of the Central bank Caroline Otoo, stated that despite the several cautions to Menzgold Ghana “to desist from solicitation, receipt of money and the payment of dividends to its clients, the company persists in its deposit-taking activity.” According to the BoG, this was in breach of section 6(1) of the Banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930). The notice said that Menzgold is not licensed to receive money and pay dividends to clients. A year later, on September 7, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered Menzgold to shut down operations. It further requested the company which had been on the warpath with the Bank of Ghana, not to accept new investments.
Days and weeks after Menzgold was directed to shut up shop, agitated customers thronged the various offices of the company to attempt to retrieve their monies. They visited their anger and frustration on some journalists at the scene. Since then, there have been countless protests by agitating customers demanding their locked-up funds. One hundred customers were in January 2019 arrested for storming the Trassaco residence of the chief executive officer of the defunct company, Nana Appiah Mensah to collect their monies after he returned to Ghana from Dubai following his arrest over a botched gold deal.
Any moves to pay back the depositors?
Officials of the gold dealership told the media, Nana Appiah Mensah won an appeal case with Dubai based Royal Horizon Diamond and was expected to be paid over 35 million dollars owed him. On August 19, 2019, the CEO of the company, addressed the press following his return from detention in Dubai. He admitted it’s been a tough road and assured the company would work to honor its financial obligation to the customers.
“To our Menzgold customers, we note that you have experienced an increased level of anxiety and concern but have been extremely patient with us through these trying times,” the CEO of the defunct company told pressmen.
Nana Appiah Mensah said, “We recognize your sacrifice. Please remember that your patience with us has been earned by the way we worked with you diligently over the past years. I can assure you that it would pay off favorably soon.”
He concluded a tense press briefing by urging customers to remain calm, “as we work to meet our obligations and to the government of Ghana, we applaud you for not sparing the rod and spoiling the child.”
Any hope for the several thousands of customers?
But after more than a year the customers say, it has been one excuse after another and the over ten thousand affected members continue to wallow in penury.
According to executives of the coalition of aggrieved Menzgold customers, more than sixty of their members have died in the last two years since the debacle! A commemorative event to mark two years since the collapse of the company on September 12, and a wreath-laying exercise in memory of the deceased in Accra, was also scuttled by the police. It’s been a long tortuous road for these customers – several appeals to the Securities and Exchange Commission and government to intervene have proven futile.
For now, Francesca, Ayambilla, and the many other affected customers would hope some help would come – after a migration and validation exercise sanctioned by the company.
The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) in January 2019, secured a court order confirming the freezing of landed properties and Vehicles of embattled CEO of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah. The properties affected include Menzgold Ghana limited, Menzgold office complex, Zylofon Arts complex, Brew Marketing Consult, Star Madrid Football Club, Zylofon music and media company limited.
Others include Brew Energy Company limited, G-Tech Automobile Service, Two (2) properties located at Trassaco Valley i.e. plot No. 315 and plot No. 337, Plot of land No. 54 near Oak Street Trassaco Valley, uncompleted residence, 510 acres of land. EOCO in a statement directed all employees of the affected companies, relatives and friends who are in possession of any such properties to surrender same by the authority of the High Court to EOCO. Checks with EOCO indicate all the frozen assets have been handed over to the police Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Officials from the legal team of EOCO told me,
“EOCO has since 2018 prepared the docket on the matter under the supervision of the head of public prosecutions and the Attorney General’s office and handed over to the police CID.”
“All movable and immovable assets of the defunct company and documentation have also been handed over to the CID.”
Police sources within the CID, say investigations have been concluded and the case currently before court. But the customers say the longer the case hangs, the worse they become. Two years on, has there been any lessons learnt from the Menzgold heartache? Chief Executive officer of Dalex Finance, Ken Thompson believes not.
“It was such an obvious scam and I don’t know how we allowed it to happen. And I am not sure it would not happen again.”
He said, “it was almost as if the messiah had come and was changing peoples’ lives. Whenever these things happen, it derails the trust people have in the financial system.”
And on whether or not these aggrieved customers would ever get their monies back, Mr. Thompson says there is no hope.
“As for the people who have lost their monies, it is unfortunate, they may not get it back. If they get something back, then it probably would be from the generosity of the state.”
With the Menzgold heartache, arguably the most publicized financial scam in recent memory, experts say the relevant agencies must act to ensure the players in this circus are prosecuted.
“It is such a shame that two years on, people are still walking. Nobody has been prosecuted, Nana Appiah Mensah is probably living in luxury in his mansions and other properties that are left.”
Mr. Thomson is of the view, “It would have been nice, if some people felt that justice had been done, it would have given them some sense of closure even though it would not bring back those who have died.”
Francesca, Ayambilla and many others like them who are battling depression, stroke, permanent deformities and other health conditions would hope sometime soon, they would hear good news! But how long, can they wait?
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Eugene Arhin Finally Responds to Reports of Divorce Rumor Suit Filed by Wife.
Mr Eugene Arhin
The Director of Communications at the presidency has responded to the reports following a suit filed by his spouse [Gloria Assan Arhin] seeking an annulment of their marriage.
Eugene Arhin in a Facebook post shared on Thursday February 11, 2021 said his lawyers will upon receipt of the document respond accordingly to the allegations leveled against him.
“I have seen a divorce petition filed by my wife, which has been deliberately leaked all over social media obviously to achieve a certain effect. I have still not been served with these court processes, and, upon receipt, my lawyers will respond accordingly,” his post read in part.
He also denied reports of property acquisition and claims of physical abuse leveled against him as untrue.
In a writ available to GhanaWeb, Gloria Assan Arhin, spouse of Eugene Arhin has filed for divorce at the Matrimonial Division of the Accra High Court citing reasons of him inflicting emotional, physical and verbal abuse on her.
The suit filed on Wednesday February 10, 2021 claimed that during the duration of their marriage, they have jointly acquired and developed a number of properties across the country.
Conveyor George Ofosu addressing the press conference.
Sekyere Kumawu DCE Hon Addae Agyekum was captured red handed campaigning for independent candidate which courses total reduction in our total vote cast henceforth, we can’t work with him anymore in the District, grassroots pleads with president to sack and replaced him .
Some aggrieved ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) members, sympathizers and citizens of Sekyere Kumawu district in Ashanti region of Ghana are calling for the removal of their district chief executive (DCE), Samuel Addai Agyekum, for having “woefully failed” as a government representative in all aspects of his line of duty.
At a press conference held at Bodomase, the group raised Mr. Agyekum’s failed an attempts to support an independent candidate to unseat his own NPP member of parliament (MP) to the extent of campaigning for independent candidate, insulting the MP and refusing to heed influential regional members of the party’s advice to resolve the issue, among other attitudes that have retrogressed the development in the party’s stronghold.
The group is, therefore, pleading with the president to replace Mr. Agyekum with a “proactive, industrious, well connected, and ready to work in harmony with the MP” person to ensure the development of the district and the party’s popularity in the constituency.
Convenor George Ofosu sighted that, since he became the DCE, he has brought misunderstanding in the party and division among themselves leaving his work as DCE and fighting against party members, threatened others.
Sekyere Kumawu DCE Hon Addae Agyekum
He said, they have the men who are willing to work with the MP, dedicated to lead the party in Kumawu in other to rebrand NPP in Sekyere Kumawu since Hon Addae Agyekum disgrace the party colours of NPP.
The women and traders add their voice of the concern sympathyzser to sack him as DCE be he failed as a president representative in our district by providing ediquate security to the market women.
Speaking in the press conference said, armed rubbers has been harassing them and collecting their , several report has been made to him but to no avail henceforth calling for his removal from office as Sekyere Kumawu DCE.
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