The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the MBDA, Joe Danquah, who outlined the projects he described as ‘game changer projects’ under the Ministry for Special Development Initiative said the projects were evident for Ghanaians to see.

Mr Danquah said between 2018 and 2019, over 1000 projects were initiated based on needs assessments conducted among local communities.

Most of the projects, he said, include sanitation, and for that matter, public toilets, mechanized boreholes, markets and warehouses.

“We have 142 toilets and 139 water projects in the Ashanti region; Eastern Region has 105 toilets and 105 water projects with the Bono Regions having 93 toilets and water projects,” he outlined.

For the warehouses; Ashanti and Eastern Regions have seven while the Bono Region has six. The Ejura warehouse that was commissioned recently is one of our projects,” he added.

Hon Danquah who was speaking on Adom FM‘s Dwaso Nsem Monday was optimistic the Authority would deliver on its mandate, on full scale within the 109 constituencies under its care.

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He added that the Authority had embarked on other projects which are constituency-specific to satisfy the needs of the constituents also based on assessments to ascertain the basic infrastructural priorities of each constituency.

Among other things done by the Authority are the construction of mechanized boreholes at Asuogyaman and parts of Lower Manya Krobo; ultramodern toilet facilities with bio-digester, which will turn fecal waste into gas as well as markets at Somanya and Adukrom as well as two storey police station at Dompoase with bungalows and libraries at Nsawam.

The MBDA is a special-purpose vehicle established by the government to fast-track the socio-economic transformation of the Eastern, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions.

The IPEP, more commonly known as ‘$1 Million per Constituency’, is a flagship government initiative aimed at meeting critical infrastructure needs identified by local actors at constituency levels.

Under IPEP, each of the 275 constituencies is allocated the equivalence of $1 million annually, to be invested in infrastructure development initiatives of their choice, managed and implemented by three development authorities.

The Northern Development Authority and the Coastal Development Authority are the other two to supervise projects in the coastal, Central, Western and Volta regions, the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions respectively.

Chiefs of Amantin traditional area in the Bono East region have rejected street lights presented to them by the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the area, Edward Owusu.

The chiefs rejected the street lights in protest of MCE’s plethora of unfulfilled promises.

“We rejected them due to the MCE’s failure to ensure that the deplorable roads in the area are fixed, to provide us access roads and other social amenities like those provided to Atebubu township” they added.

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Speaking in an interview with Adom News, the Paramount Chief of Amantin Traditional area, Nana Owusu Ababio II said the MCE has failed them.

He noted that, even the number of street lights given them is not the same President Akufo-Addo promised during his visit three months ago.

Nana Owusu Ababio II said they will not rescind their decision until all promises made are fulfilled.

Also, the Krontihene of Amantin Traditional area, Osabarima Osei-Poku I bemoaned how politicians always take them for granted.

He said they are now very alert and will fight for their share of the national cake.

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Meanwhile, the MCE, Edward Owusu expressed disappointment over the conduct of the chiefs.

He said the provision of the street lights is in fulfillment of promise made to residents who had longed for electricity in the area.

Mr. Edward Owusu said they will deliver the street lights when the chiefs are ready to accept them.

Listen to the paramount Chief of Amantin Traditional area, Nana Owusu Ababio II in audio above

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“I have only spent less than two years in office but I have demonstrated that I did not give vague promises. You are a living witness to that”, he added.

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The President was addressing a durbar of Chiefs and people at Asankra Breman, in the Western Region during the day two of his working visit to the Region.

“They told you that Free SHS was a lie. They said I could not restore teacher trainee and nursing trainee allowances. They said the revival of the National Health Insurance Scheme was also impossible, Nananom, right before your very eyes, and in the eyes of all Ghanaians, I am fulfilling these promises one after the other. Before the end of my tenure in office, I would have fulfilled all of the promises I made to you”, the President stressed.

On free SHS programme, the President indicated that by September 2019, it would cover all students in senior high schools across the country.

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“Free SHS is now a reality. In September this year, the Free SHS policy will cover new entrants, in addition to those who will then be in SHS 2″.

The agriculture sector, the President said would continue to see tremendous growth under his administration through various interventions by the government and development partners.

“By fulfilling all promises, Ghanaians will know that I am an honest person who did not deceive them in order to win their votes in 2016 general elections.”

Nana Akufo-Addo said working on bad roads in the Western Region, was a promise and had therefore come to make it happen.

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“As you may know, the majority of the country’s resources are from this Region and that is why in the 2017/2018 budget, amongst others, the Kojina-Chirano road was given attention”.

He said the 30 kilometre Asankragwaa-Fordjokrom road, would be fixed and “funds have been allotted for this all important road”.

The Yvonne Nelson Glaucoma Foundation (YNGF) was launched in 2010 in association with the Glaucoma Association of Ghana to educate the public on the causes, treatment and prevention of the disease, among other objectives.

Yvonne used her celebrity status to sensitize the public on dangers of glaucoma and to let people know that the disease is treatable.

The Foundation was designed to also create an effective monitoring system to help control existing cases and record new cases.

Speaking exclusively to 3news.com, the celebrated actress revealed that she had received numerous promises from Ghanaian businesses but hasn’t heard anything till date.

“I remember when I launched it, a lot of companies came out and said we are going to support you, this and that but till date nobody has. “Ghanaian companies are stingy; they will promise you and fail and make you talk, talk, talk sit down with the best proposal in the world but will just not take you seriously.

“The challenges we are having with the Glaucoma Foundation is money because we don’t have money to do anything.

“I have patients I buy medicines for but I won’t put it on social media and let the world see that I am buying xalatan or cusimolol or whatever for this person. “I believe God sees everything;

I don’t have to put it on social media and have the entire media crew post it up. “Randomly people will call me and say we have problems, we have this and that. I do it in the low because I believe God sees everything and I don’t have to put it on social media”.

She also appealed to government to subsidise glaucoma medications because they are too expensive “Eye drops like xalatan cost over GH¢170 and it will last you less than a month.

So, if you are a woman somewhere in the village around the Volta Region, where are you going to get money to get the xalatan?” she asked.

“It’s a serious disease and not something that we have to play with at all and we need government and the Ministry of Health to throw more light on it. They need to get on the ground and do something about glaucoma because the cases in Ghana are very alarming.”

It will be recalled that scores of them spent two nights at the Ministry of Health to mount pressure on the government to fast-track their postings.

However, the Deputy Minister of Health Tina Mensah assured members of the Coalition that government will address issues concerning their employment “within a week” from the day of picketing.

She said the Ministry had cleared them to get them employed.

Meanwhile, the President of the Coalition, Solomon Yeboah, told Adom News they hope the Deputy Minister will keep her promise as they will not hesitate to return to the ministry with intensified protests to press home their demands.

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Mr. Addai Odike, who threw his weight behind the then opposition NPP ahead of the 2016 elections, said plans are far advanced to ensure that soon the four factories begin to create employment for the youth of Ghana.

The UPP man made these revelations on Thursday on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene hosted by Nana Yaw Opare. Odike was commenting on how President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is implementing his ideologies after winning the elections.

“I will do four of the 1-district- 1-factory,” he confidently stated. Enumerating his factories and where they would be located, Odike said the defunct Bolga Meat Factory in the Upper East Region would be revived to create more jobs. He said the factory will produce beef and leather to feed shoe industries and corned-beef for the market.

He added that he is also setting up a shoe factory in Ahodwo or Santase in Kumasi to also create jobs for the youth in Kumasi. Odike added: “I have secured a land at Akomadan to establish tomato paste.

We shall grow more tomato and produce tomato paste…we are talking to some Turkish [investors] to help us and we shall do that at Akomadan or Afram plains.”

He further added that he has a “garment factory also in Kumasi which was small scale.

I want to expand it to employ more because it is currently employing about 120 workers”. He said he wants to produce more cotton and “add value here so that we don’t have to export cotton”.

source: 3news

According to him, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his party made so many promises to the extent that they nearly promised ‘one-man, one-wife’ during the electioneering period.

He claimed those promises the call explained that the then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) hauled several promises to Ghanaians which compelled them to vote for the NPP but most of them are not achievable in the next four years.

“The NPP should come and apologize to Ghanaians on where they cannot perform because the NPP nearly promised one-man-one wife”, the MP told Ghana Dadwene on Onua FM on Wednesday. Ras Mubarak said notwithstanding the sweet promises by the NPP, the Akufo-Addo government is currently “wobbling”.

He said though change is good because it helps one to see the difference, from how things are going the NPP cannot deliver on those promises.

“They can’t construct factories in all the districts. They can’t construct dams in all the districts [every village] in the three northern regions so they should start apologizing”.

He added: “if they will do it, it will help all of us but we know they cannot do it and they should apologize to Ghanaians so that we can forgive them”.

source:3news