Reacting to reports from the Deputy Minister of Roads suggesting that road construction will come to a halt because of a lack of funds, the NDC leader noted that he was not surprised by the government’s position, as they enjoy talking but not the action.

Speaking on Opemsuo FM in Kumasi, the NDC National Organizer, said the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration is beyond a failure.

“I will not challenge this government when they claim to have constructed more roads than any other government. You see, it is only people who do not know the facts that will accept these things. The NPP under Nana Addo in Ashanti alone has awarded over six thousand kilometres of roads on paper but have only completed just thousand five hundred.

“Is this not someone who is a master of road construction? Where are the roads in the Ashanti Region? Why are people still complaining about their roads?

“I drove past the Suame roundabout; all the corrugated sheets that were used to cordon off the place have come off, and now the roundabout is bare for all to see. There is nothing happening there,” he revealed.

He said the government of the day had not taken residents of Ashanti seriously and has been toying with critical developmental issues in the region. Citing numerous sod cuttings by the government with no real impacts, he fell short of calling the government a fraud.

“Just in Kumasi alone, Nana Addo, Bawumia and Amoako-Atta have all come to cut sod for the same hundred kilometres of road. Just go and read all the headlines. It is the same story always but no work to see.

“I can confidently say one of the leading contractors, Kofi Job, who is handling most of Kumasi roads, you go to the site, and almost all his machines are parked. Why? He is owed by this government,” he retorted.

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A former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yamin, has said that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s statement on the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) was not convincing enough.

To him, the President was deceived with regards to the CSE and upon realising it, he is now using his Authority to reject it.

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“I listened to what the President said in Kumasi and it sounded more like he was addressing free senior high school and not CSE. So at the age of four, we want to teach kids about CSE and this is totally different from what was taught before.

“The President is trying hard to defend something that Ghanaians are already aware of. They should tell us that he was deceived and upon realising it, he’s now using his authority to reject it,” he said in interview on Adom TV’s Badwam morning show.

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Some members of the public are up in arms against the government over the alleged introduction of a CSE in Ghanaian schools.

But, President Akufo-Addo has debunked suggestions that his government is bent on introducing ‘alien’ practices into the Ghanaian society through the CSE.

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President Akufo-Addo said he didn’t bring free senior high school for children to be taught inappropriate contents and insisted that so long as he is the President, and as a Christian, it will never happen in Ghana.

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The former Ashanti regional deputy minister, Joseph Yamin, says offerings have reduced drastically in churches since the Nana Akufo-Addo led NPP came to power.

He has, therefore, compared the current state of the country to the conditions in hell.

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He asserted that when the fundamentals are weak, the pastors are the first to suffer because their proceeds in the church are affected.

Speaking on Adom TV’s morning show, Badwam Monday, Mr Yamin said churches were repeating their harvest targets because of the current economic conditions.

He also claimed that citizens were not attending church service because they may not have the means to give offerings when they do go to church.

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But Joseph Yamin who is also an evangelist said Ghana was worse off under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo.

He noted the Akufo-Addo government has failed Ghanaians after promising to make life easy for them in the last general election.

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“Let us be truthful to ourselves. Today people are suffering and they cannot feed themselves and families and for that matter, I urge all Ghanaians to show President Akufo-Addo and the NPP government exit in 202,” he warned.

Defeated Ashanti regional chairman of the National Democratic (NDC), Joseph Yamin, has been urged not to give up as he still has a big role to play in the party.

According to the chairman of the Ashanti regional council of elders, Frank Osei Mensah, Joseph Yamin, together with other defeated candidates should rather work extra hard to make the party attractive.

“Yamin is still relevant in the party. The world is not over for him because; I can assure him that he rather has a big role to play in the NDC. In those days we had party members who were defeated in various elections but they never gave up. Winning power in 2020 is more important now and so we need to work on that,” he said.

Joseph Yamin was beaten by 88 votes by incumbent Augustus Andrews Nana Kwasi in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ashanti Region elections held on Saturday.

But he has not taken his defeat well, accusing national chairman aspirant, Betty Mould Iddrisu of masterminding it.

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Some members of the ruling NPP, for instance, claim Joseph Yamin lost in his bid to become the Ashanti Regional chairman of the NDC because of internal tribal politics in his party.

But speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Friday, Mr Osei Mensah, denied such claims.

According to him, the party is fiercely against tribalism and would not allow its members to be involved in such acts.

“For us, as a party, we never engaged in such acts and so those saying that Yamin was ousted because he is Fulani was not true,” he noted.

“The list of candidates, there was only two Ashantis and rest were from the Northern part of the country so how could they make such claims” he quizzed.

Mr Osei Mensah indicated that what the party needs to do as a minority party in the Ashanti Region is to unite so as to be strong enough to fight the NPP who are in majority in the region.

He said Joseph Yamin’s allegations against Mrs Mould-Iddrisu who is aspiring for the position of a Chairperson for the party is baseless.

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“Yamin is only bitter and does not want to accept the fact that he has lost an election. He should stop peddling those falsehoods because it won’t hold. Accusing Betty Mould of masterminding his defeat is just childish” he said on Okay FM monitored by Adomonline.com.

Mr Yamin has vowed to ensure that Mrs Iddrisu does not succeed in her bid to become National Chairperson of the party for working against his interest in the just ended regional elections.

Yamin said he championed Mrs Iddrisu’s bid to become national vice-chairperson but doubts if she can function well as a chairperson.

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In his opinion, it is dangerous to employ a try and error tactic because Mrs Iddrisu has secrets that will disable him to play the role of a chairperson.

But Mr Adusei is asking Joseph Yamin to, as a matter of urgency, rescind his decision of organising a press conference to malign Betty Mould-Iddrisu.

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According to him, the disrespect meted out to leading members of the NDC including Mrs Mould-Iddrisu does not augur well for the chances of former President Mahama.

He said the Betty Mould camp won’t allow Joseph Yamin to destroy the reputation of John Mahama.

“Yamin should rescind his decision of organising a presser to destroy Mrs Mould-Iddrisu. We won’t allow you to destroy the party and Mahama,” he stated.

Former Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Joseph Yamin is asking party delegates to vote against Betty Mould Iddrisu who is aspiring for the National Chairperson position, during national executive elections.

Mr Yammin, who is accusing the current National Vice Chairperson and aspiring National Chairperson of the party of masterminding his defeat during last Saturday’s conference, insists Madam Iddrisu’s election as substantive chairperson of the party will spell doom for the NDC in the 2020 elections.

“Betty Mould Iddrisu came to the region to campaign against me. She openly told delegates not to vote for me and I have been voted against, giving me the free role to also pay her back by calling on delegates to vote against her national chairmanship bid,” he said.

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“She is not the person to be a national chairperson so I will also go all out to explain with evidence and tell party members not to go ahead and waste their time voting for her,” he said on Accra-based Okay FM monitored by Adomonline.com.

Joseph Yamin was beaten by 88 votes by incumbent Augustus Andrews Nana Kwasi in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ashanti Region elections held on Saturday.

The elections, which took place at the Tweneboah Koduah Senior High School in Sekyere Kumawu, were disrupted by a vigilante group by the name, The Hawks.

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They claimed Mr Yamin was being short-changed by unknown hands.

But calm was later restored by General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia for the polls to continue.

Mr Asiedu Nketia was among party bigwigs including First National Vice Chair Betty Mould Iddrisu present at the polls.

At the end of the exercise, which travelled into Sunday, Nana Kwasi polled 699 votes to beat closest contender Mr Yamin, who polled 611 votes.

But reacting to his defeat, Joseph Yamin said in the coming days he will chronicle why Mrs Mould Iddrisu should not be elected as a national chairman.

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Describing her as baggage’, he said NDC will be worse off with Betty Mould as a national chairperson.

“Betty Mould is not competent to be a national chairperson. People of Ashanti, especially, will not support her bid to become a national chairperson. She is a baggage for us to carry into 2020,” he stated.

Joseph Yamin indicated that the NDC needs executives to inspire confidence in the 2020 election and Betty Mould is not one who can do that.

New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Youth Organizer, Henry Nana Boakye claims Joseph Yamin lost in his bid to become the Ashanti Regional chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) because of internal tribal politics in his party.

He said tribal undertones are gradually gaining roots in the NDC, a situation he said led to the defeat of Mr Yamin who is considered an ‘alien’ within his party.

“Yamin was booted out because he was seen as a visitor. NDC always feeds on tribal politics and that is the problem of the NDC. Their behaviour has extended to all the regions and Yamin’s own was not an exception” he said,

Joseph Yamin was defeated at the polls in his bid to become the Ashanti Regional chairman of the NDC.

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He polled 611 to against Augustus Adrew Nana Akwasi, who won with 699, according to the polls declared by the Electoral Commission (EC).

Mr Yamin was widely tipped to win the election, owing to his position as the former Ashanti regional secretary of the NDC, Deputy Ashanti regional minister and Deputy Youth and Sports Minister.

Speaking on Adom TV’s Morning show Badwam Tuesday, Nana Boakye said in terms of political pedigree, Joseph Yamin was far better than Augustus Andrew Nana Akwasi, who won the bid.

He claimed that tribal divisiveness is killing the love and loyalty supporters of the NDC used to have for the party, adding that it will continue to haunt them if they refuse to work on it.

According to The New Crusade Guide publication on Tuesday May 30, 2017, in spite of the collective national will to fight against the cancerous galamsey (illegal mining) menace, the Geo Professional Services Company (GPSC), a mining company in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region appeared to be enjoying military protection to carry out their illegal mining activities with the blessing of a deputy minister under the erstwhile Mahama led NDC administration.

“The [former] deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Joseph Yamin is reported to have requested for the military protection for the ‘galamseyers’ through the Regional Security Council contrary to the concerted effort by government and people of Ghana to bring an end to the cumulative effect of illegal mining business,” The New Crusading Guide reported.

“This heretic attitude of a [former] deputy Regional Minister was exposed by the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) in their attempt to defend the deployment of some of its men to protect Geo Professional Services Company who were caught operating illegally,” the Newspaper added.

“The assertion by the GAF as to who requested for their men on the illegal grounds was further ascertained by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah during an interview on Citi FM yesterday,” Kwaku Baako’s newspaper indicated.

Reacting to The New Crusading Guide publication on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ Morning Show, Joseph Yamin slammed saying Kwaku Baako has an agenda, otherwise a seasoned Journalist of his calibre would not have allowed his newspaper carry this ‘unintelligent story’ with the caption “NDC’s Yamin Exposed . . . Over Galamsey Soldiers”.

According Joseph Yamin, the story which sought to malign him has misquoted him as the Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah didn’t mention his [Yamin’s] name in his submission over soldiers giving protection to a mining company.

“The minister and I were on the same radio platform and nowhere has he mentioned my name as the one who went to request for the military protection for ‘galamseyers’ from the Regional Security Council,” he asserted.

“If he didn’t mention my name, why then is Kwaku Baako’s newspaper pointing accusing finger at me? I thank him for making me popular. The same story has been done by Citi FM without mentioning my name,” he averred.

He however asserted that Kwaku Baako exposed himself for the fact that he [Yamin] doesn’t know the mining company in question; thus, he does not remember meeting the company anywhere.

But he quickly added that he may not remember every document which comes to their ministry; throwing a challenge out to anybody with evidence to come forward to prove him wrong.

With his rich knowledge in the mining industry as a former leader of Anti-galamsey Committee in the Ashanti Region, Joseph Yamin explained that even though he doesn’t know Geo Professional Services Company anywhere, from the Ashanti Regional Minister’s statement, the company is into large scale mining; defeating the claim of its involvement in galamsey.

“I can explain why it happened that way but inasmuch as I don’t know them from anywhere, from the minister’s statement shows that those people are large scale miners and if so then they are not into illegal mining [galamsey] because large scale mining is not galamsey. So educate Kwaku Baako on that because I am sure he is listening before he makes some pronouncements,” he opined.

“I don’t know if it is an agenda against Yamin because I can recollect the things he has said against me on Peace FM about my involvement in galamsey. Kwaku Baako should know that there are differences among large scale mining, small scale mining and galamsey. Government is yet to introduce something we call medium scale mining,” he explained.

He elaborated that “galamsey is illegal activities in mining and the illegality is when a small scale mining company using excavator to do mining because small scale is not permitted to use heavy duty machines to do mining. Small scale mining operating close to 50km near a river is considered galamsey despite its legitimate to operate.”

Joseph Yamin averred that as GPSC is a large scale mining company, it is appropriate for it to seek protection from the state if its activities are threatened by illegal miners; thus it is an investment opportunity for the country.

“If Kwaku Baako wants to talk about mining, he should come for free tutorials on how to report on mining issues,” he jabbed.

In his view, investigations by the police will be an exercise in futility it does not collaborate with the Bureau of National Investigations.

Aisha Huang, believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining in Ghana, was arrested earlier in May by the Ghana Immigration Service over her alleged involvement in illegal mining in an area belonging to the Volta Resources Company Limited.

She is currently on remand at the Nsawam prison pending investigations into allegations leveled against her.

But Mr. Yamin maintained that the police will be embarking on a fruitless venture if it does not heed to his advice.

He indicated that, the Chinese woman is well connected and it would take the BNI to secure a conviction.

“If the police want to deal with Aisha, they should go to BNI. Otherwise soon she would be let to go free. I have given them a hint. If they want to know who she really is they should go to the BNI, if they don’t succeed, they should come to me…” he said on Accra-based Okay FM.

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The former deputy Ashanti regional minister in the erstwhile Mahama urged the police not to focus on only Chinese nationals because Indians and American nationals are also involved.

“The Indians are into the Galamsey too. I deported two of them and one American, and an American Malaysian. I became a threat to them. Eight months in Ashanti region I deported fourteen Chinese Galamseyers. They didn’t like me because I locked them up because it’s illegal…” he maintained.

Aisha Huang, believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining in Ghana, was arrested earlier in May by the Ghana Immigration Service over her alleged involvement in illegal mining in an area belonging to the Volta Resources Company Limited.

It was reported that she is very influential and wields a lot of power due to the backing she receives from some high-profile state officers, including top security personnel.

But Joseph Yamin who is also a former Deputy Sports Minister and head of the anti-Galamsey committee for the Ashanti region said Aisha’s criminal activities can’t be equated to anything apart from armed robbery.

He added that, his intelligence was very close to arresting Aisha when his party was in power hence he worked with the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and the Military on her case but failed to arrest her due to political influence.

“Aisha’s activities go beyond Galamsey. It goes into robbery. You can’t equate it to anything apart from robbery. I worked with the BNI, military, and the police on her case. I have never seen her before but she’s more popular in the Ashanti region…” he said.

He further stressed that, if he had only a month as the deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, he would have locked Aisha behind bars because he had already deported fourteen Chinese  ‘Galamseyers’ back to their country.

“If I were in Ashanti region for one more month, I would have arrested Aisha. I was very close to arresting her. Eight months in Ashanti region I deported fourteen Chinese Galamseyers…” he stated.

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Joseph Yamin who is also a former Deputy Sports Minister and head of the anti-galamsey committee for the region said the anti-galamsey campaign that has been will not be won easily.

Speaking on a political discussion on a London-based radio station on Sunday, Mr Yamin said, he abandoned his hopes of enforcing the elimination of galamsey operation due to persecution from strong people within and outside the then NDC government, the armed forces, and chiefs.

He accused some senior officials and prominent people of allegedly engineering his “downfall” because of his firm anti-galamsey stance.

He said, his detractors felt uncomfortable with his anti-graft crusade and hence the reasons why he was sacked and subsequently replaced.

The officials, Yamin claimed, embarked on a mission to ensure he was sacked in their quest to continue profiting from galamsey activities that he observed was deep rooted in the authorities.

“The level of graft and other malpractices was so deep-rooted in the country and when I started to fight the vice in my capacity as chairman of the anti galamsey committee, some senior officials and members of the then opposition NPP, did not like the move and instead conspired to ensure my downfall,” he said.

Joseph Yamin added that, when he was at the fore-front to weed out galamsey operation within the Ashanti Region, he managed to deport 14 Chinese, 2 Indians and one American who were deeply involved in destroying Ghana water bodies for their selfish interest.

He said Nana Akufo-Addo and the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Peter Amewu, are very likely to fail in their bid to arrest illegal mining because of the enemies within the NPP administration.

He mentioned NPP’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi as a kingpin in galamsey, suggesting that the NPP administration would have to do more.

In a strong rebuttal, a London-based communications member of the NPP, Peter Antwi Boasiako said, Joseph Yamin must bow his head in shame for admitting that officials of his NDC party were corrupt.

Peter Antwi Boasiako is confident the NPP administration will deliver on the promises to rid the country of illegal mining.

According to him, there is no way the curse he, Abronye, invoked during the 2016 electioneering will manifest on to the children during the Kintampo excursion some days ago.

During the 2016 December elections, Abronye DC invoked curses ahead of the polls as a check on the EC Chair, Madam Charlotte Osei and any individual that will try through dubious means to aid the National Democratic Congress (NDC) win the elections.

It is due to this that Joseph Yamin alleged that the curses invoked on people during the electioneering by the Brong Ahafo regional youth organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe is the cause of most of the misfortunes happening after NPP attained power into office.

However, Abronye in a response stressed that his curses have not killed anyone hence he did not even call on the name of the ‘waterfall’s god’ as a deity to assist him achieve his goals.

According to him, he was the manager of the Kintampo waterfalls in the year 2006 under a registered company Abronye Investments Limited,  hence he knows the dos and don’ts of the tourist site; Kintampo would have been a better tourist site if he had not been taken off contract due to the change of government in 2008.

“My curses didn’t kill anyone. I didn’t even call on the name of the water god. How many of the kids do vote? They are not even up to 18 years.

“Joseph Yamin needs to visit the Psychiatric hospital. He needs to go check his brain. He can be wearing a suit but have issues at head. I am not ready to meet him. He might harm me…” he said on Asempa fm’s Ekosi Sen Tuesday.

The previous NDC government, he explained, was the sole reason for the disaster because there had never been a renovation of the site by cutting the huge growing branches of the trees hovering over the waterfall that was likely to put the lives of visitors in danger.

“In 2006 Abronye investment was the company renovating Kintampo falls to its fullest. We always looked for people to cut down the trees in a special way. Those are the trees that have outgrown to that level. The new government came to sack us in 2008. If we were there till now we would have taken care of it…”

According to him, there have been several major disasters during the Mills-Mahama- Led administration that have deeper meanings deeming it satisfying to relating them as curses, comparing to the recent unfortunate happenings under the NPP govt.

“During NDC’s era, November 2016, metro mass killed 73 people at Kintampo. Would we say NDC killed them? In the 2016, June 3rd disaster 365 people died. Should we say it’s NDC that killed them? 62 people in 2008 died at Obuasi after former ambassador to USA Ohene Agyekum cursed. Who should we blame…?” he quizzed rhetorically.

source: Ghana/Adomonline.com/Dennis Kofi Adu

He said though he is a Presbyterian, he will never listen to the preaching of his former moderator because his preaching is not based on nationalism but attacks on the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Some members of NDC have accused the former moderator of hitting hard at the NDC without recourse.

According to Mr Yamin, Rev. Martey and some renowned pastors such as the head pastor of International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) Pastor Mensah Otabil have been painting the NDC black in their preaching.

Speaking on Kumasi-based Abusua FM, Mr Yamin further accused the former Moderator of developing intense hatred for the former President John Dramani Mahama during the electioneering.

He stated that he has no qualms people visiting these pastors’ churches but will never go to their churches to worship God.

He described them as politicians in pastoral clothes.

‘They should tell Ghanaians that they made wrong submissions. They made us believed that prayers couldn’t solve any problem. I will not visit Rev Owusu Bempeh’s church, neither will I go to Pastor Otabil’s church or listen to his preaching. I have never listened to him before, I always hear his preaching from third parties. I am a Presbyterian but I don’t listen to Rev. Emmanuel Martey’s preaching. I will walk out if he stands in front of the pulpit to preach, because his preaching will be based on NPP and not nationalism, they have taken on political attire.

The respected man of God Pastor Mensa Otabil said prayers couldn’t solve Ghana’s problems, and Rev. Owusu Bempah is now saying that they prayed for Nana Addo to win power, why couldn’t that same God help change the fortunes of the country during Mahama’s administration?. Its sheer hatred for John Mahama. Owusu Bimpeh had confirmed today that he and the other pastors don’t like John Mahama,’ he fumed.

The former deputy coordinator of NADMO said men of God are role models who should lead exemplary lives for others to follow than wearing political party colours.

He remarked that he admires the Chairman of the National Peace Council Rev. Emmanuel Asante saying it’s difficult for one to tell where his political affiliation when he is preaching or granting media interviews.

source: ultimatefm