She assured the traditional leadership of government resolve to strengthen collaboration between the Chieftaincy institution and local authorities to drive development.

The Krachi West Municipality in the Oti region is a farming community which shares boundaries with Dambai. However, development in the area is at a slow pace.

At a durbar to mark the 25th Anniversary of the enstoolment of the President of Krachi Tradition Council, Ghana’s Vice President Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang commended the Krachiwura for his leadership.

She also reaffirmed government resolve to ensure educational and infrastructural development in the Krachi Municipality

The Vice President further renewed government commitment to strengthen partnership between the Chiefs and the Distrct Assemblies.

While acknowledging government commitment to driving development in the Krachi Municipality, President of the Krachi Traditional Council Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III commended government for taking steps to construct a bridge over the Oti River at Dambai.

He however appealed to government to fast-track the road construction in the area and also consider the establishment of an Agriculture Technical Institute in Krachi

She warned that the continent’s economic transformation agenda cannot be fully realised without stronger support for SMEs, women and young entrepreneurs.

Speaking at the 2026 Africa Prosperity Dialogues in Accra, the Vice President noted that while the Afican Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) presents a historic opportunity for deeper economic integration, many businesses remain unable to take advantage of the expanded market.

“Fewer than 20 percent of SMEs engage in export trade,” she stated, describing the situation as a major obstacle to Africa’s goal of building a single integrated economic space.

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang highlighted the AfCFTA as the world’s largest free trade area by number of participating countries, representing a market of 1.3 billion people, and said it offers Africa a pathway from dependency to self-reliance.

However, she stressed that the continent’s future must be inclusive, cautioning that excluding young people, women and small enterprises would undermine long-term prosperity.

“A future that excludes young people, women and small enterprises is not one we can afford,” she said.

The Vice President noted that SMEs generate an estimated 80 percent of employment across Africa and contribute significantly to GDP, making them central to economic growth and job creation.

She also drew attention to the role of women, who make up nearly half of Africa’s workforce and are major drivers of micro and small enterprises, yet continue to face unequal barriers to finance, mobility and market access.

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The Vice President of Groupe Nduom has described as irrational the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) statement that sought to justify why GN Savings and Loans Limited was closed down by the entity.

Nana Ofori Owusu said the move by the Central Bank was an attempt by the bank “to kill an entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to be able to provide opportunity to Ghanaians.

“You are quick to destroy business but you are not quick to pay the monies you owed us. Is it fair? It’s not rational and we sit down unconcerned as a nation. What is going on is injustice and an attempt to murder Nduom,” he said angrily on Accra based Neat FM, monitored by Adomonline.com.

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Groupe Nduom lost its license alongside 22 other Savings and Loans Companies and Financial Houses.

The BoG said “the revocation of the licences of these institutions has become necessary because they are insolvent even after a reasonable period within which the Bank of Ghana has engaged with them in the hope that they would be recapitalised by their shareholders to return them to solvency.”

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But, Mr Owusu said work is ongoing to challenge the revocation of the licence of GN Savings and Loans in court.

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“We are saying that this grievous misrepresentation of the facts is a travesty of process and we have to go to the court to seek redress in this matter and we are on it. The team is on it,” he added.

He said the company currently feels “scandalised and we feel that a breach of good trust and faith has been committed.”

Source: Adomonline.com | Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy

Representing Government was the Minister for National Planning who also doubles as the Member of Parliament for Wenchi constituency, Prof Yaw Gyan Bafour who donated the money.

This is in addition to an earlier donation by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to the survivors.

The Vice President-led delegation visited the Kintampo Hospital where Dr. Bawumia donated an undisclosed amount of money to the University of Energy and Natural Resources students on admission.

Prof Gyan Baffuor presenting the money to the families urged them to be strong and discard spiritual linkages to what happened.

He also visited injured victims at Wenchi Methodist Hospital.

Meanwhile, the Minority Caucus in parliament have also donated an amount of GHC 2000 to the Wenchi Methodist Senior High School.

The team led by Banda MP, Ahmed Ibrahim was to console the students and encourage them to stay strong despite the incident.

The deceased and injured persons were students of the Wenchi Senior High School, and the University of Energy and Natural Resources.

The accident occurred after a huge tree run off the top of the waterfall following strong winds, falling onto the scores of revellers swimming beneath the fall.

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source: Ghana/Adom News/Maame Esi Nyamekye Thompson