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Rent Control reacts to ‘office locked over non-payment of arrears’ report

Abigail Bonney — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 16:35:21 +0000

The Rent Control Department has reacted to reports purporting that one of their offices has been closed down by landlord over non-payment of rent.

The office at Amasaman is said to have been shut down after the department failed to pay its rent for the past five months.

In a latest press statement, the Rent Control has debunked such rumours, stating that they are just to paint the department in a negative light.

The statement added that none of their offices has been locked down, and they are not under any landlord by name Mr Joseph Nsiah Abugri, as claimed.

Find attached statement below:

GUTA opens foreigners’ shops; gives them one-week ultimatum to pack out

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:12:06 +0000

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has begun opening locked up shops belonging to foreign retailers to enable them to completely pack off the market.

The Accra and Kumasi-based shops were locked up two weeks ago because government failed to respond to pleas to enforce laws banning foreigners from doing retail business.

Vice President of GUTA, Patrick Osei Brogya, addressing a news conference said GUTA was opening the shops to allow the foreigners to completely pack out of the market.

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GUTA says foreign retailers flout section 27 of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Act 865.

That law specifies that the sale of goods or provision of services in a market, petty trading or hawking or selling of goods in a stall at any place must be reserved for Ghanaians.

HOT AUDIO: Boy who was locked in a car for hours dies

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:06:42 +0000

Listen to the mother
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A ten year old boy has lost his life after he was locked in a car at Akyem Tafo in the Eastern Region.
Alex Adarkwa met his untimely death when a neighbour who offered to send him to school in his car locked up the deceased and left for the GCB bank in Tafo to transact business.
The incident occurred Monday, March 19, 2018.
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The suspect, Adjei Somuah, a retiree, claims he forgot the child was in his car when he locked it and subsequently travelled to Koforidua to transact another business.
Akosua Ofobi, mother of the deceased narrating what led to the death of her child said his son had come for school fees when the suspect offered to lift him back to school.
She said the suspect allegedly parked his car in an obscure location before leaving.
According to her, she started looking for his son after she realized he had not returned from school, even though school had closed.
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Akosua Ofobi said it was her husband who returned home from work to break the news of their son.
The body of the deceased has been deposited at Akyem Tafo Government Hospital.
Meanwhile, the Police have arrested the suspected Driver of the Car to assist with investigations.

Irate Karaga NPP youth lock up DCE's office

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 18:58:12 +0000

Irate youth of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Karaga in the Northern region Wednesday morning took to the streets and rampaged through the District Assembly offices shutting down the office of the District Chief Executive.
The NPP accuse the DCE Alhassan Yabdoo and the constituency organizer of hoarding contracts and dividing the party.
According to the youth, the DCE is stashing contracts to the party organizer adding that Mr. Yabdoo is also refusing to recognize the authority of the constituency chairman who he claimed did not support his DCE bid.
Abdul Karim Alhassan, the party’s constituency research and elections officer explained that the youth took the action because of the discriminatory attitude of the DCE.
“The irate youth of the NPP took to the streets and incidentally they locked up the offices…apparently because of the discriminatory practices of the DCE and the constituency organizer.
“The DCE has been found not to be working with the constituency chairman and not to recognize him as such,” Mr. Karim Alhassan told Adom News’ Illiasu Abdul Rauf.
The Police, according to sources engaged the irate youth who promised to open the offices and allow the assembly members to work.
No person has yet been arrested by the police yet.

Kwesi Botchwey report under ‘lock and key’ – Koku

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:12:03 +0000

Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in charge of operations, Koku Anyidoho has stated that the 455-page report on circumstances that led to the party’s disgraceful defeat in 2016 remains a classified document.

He has therefore cautioned the citizenry to be wary of media portals inviting readers into details of the Kwesi Botchwey report.

The 13-member Kwesi Botchwey Committee constituted and mandated to investigate what caused the embarrassing defeat of the NDC at the 2016 polls yesterday.

The team presented a 455-page report to the National Executive Council detailing the party’s shortfall hence defeat.

But according to Mr Anyidoho, the investigative team submitted only one copy of the final report to Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the party hence media reports detailing the cause of NDC’s 2016 defeat with regards to the Kwesi Botchwey report should be overlooked.

“It’s just one copy. It’s very tight. The General Secretary has the document under lock and key. There is no way someone will have a scope. You should debunk all media headlines on the matter…” he said on Accra based Okay FM on Tuesday.

With the way forward, he disclosed the executives of the party will heed to the voices and recommendations from the grassroots participants right to the prime members of the NDC party.

“As executives we will listen to the recommendations from the ground level as expected since it basically entails their views…” he said.

When questioned if the NDC party is dead from the political atmosphere, Mr Anyidoho said as no man can live with his or her head cut off; the NDC party has its political heads intact to win political power from the opposition NPP in 2020.

“As there is no way alive with their head cut off then the NDC party isn’t dead because it has a head. If the Head of the party is cut off then the party is dead. We will look at the generalized issues to bring the party back to power. Daily guide has heard something from somewhere. The report has just come to us…” he explained.