Transport Minister Resigns Over MMRT Rebranding Scandal

Information available topeacefmonline.com indicates that Minister of Transport, Dzifa Attivor has resigned over the Metro Mass Rapid Transit Bus scandal. According to a statement signed by her Personal Assistant, Egypt Kobla Kudoto, the Minister of Transport can no longer continue with her duties and has accordingly submitted her resignation letter to the President, John Dramani Mahama. Issue Government has spent about GH¢ 3,649,044.75 on the Re-branding of 116 buses for the Metro Mass Rapid Transit (MMRT) imported to improve the transport system in the country. Re-branding for each of the buses cost GH¢31,457.28, leading to a total of GH¢3,649,044.75 for the 116 buses, the Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu quoted figures from the 2015 annual report on the Petroleum Funds. But the Transport Minister, Dzifa Ativor in her response to the claim by the Minority Leader said she did not have the details of the re-branding at hand and promised to make it available to the House at a later date. Below is the full statement: Hon Mrs Dzifa Attivor, Minister of Transport wishes to inform the good people of Ghana that, as the Minister with oversight responsibility for the activities of the Metro Mass Transit (MMT), she has tendered in her resignation as Minister due to the current issues surrounding the branding of the 116 buses. She further wants to take the opportunity to thank her Party for the opportunity offered her to serve, first as Deputy Minister of Transport under the late President JEA Mills, and later the substantive Minister. Mrs Dzifa Attivor also wishes to thank the President sincerely for the honour to serve in his government. She has already communicated this decision to His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama through the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah. Signed Egypt Kobla Kudoto Personal Assistant

Source: Peacefmonline.com

List Of Honest Judges Who Refused Anas' Bribes.

Some judges at the superior and lower courts rejected attempts to bribed by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye investigation team during the investigation into judicial corruption in Ghana. In all, 34 judges and 146 judicial staff have been named in the scandal.

 But Anas Aremeyaw Anas has presented names of some eleven judges who refused to be bribed. “Some even threatened to imprison us for attempting to bribe them,” he said.

 On Joy FM and MultiTV's Newsfile programme, the Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, read Anas' letter to the Chief Justice which contained the list of the honourable judges. Mr Kweku Baako said it is a matter of fairness to celebrate those who were not lured by money and goats.

 Below is the roll of the honourable judges:

Some judges at the superior and lower courts rejected attempts to bribed by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye investigation team during the investigation into judicial corruption in Ghana. In all, 34 judges and 146 judicial staff have been named in the scandal.

But Anas Aremeyaw Anas has presented names of some eleven judges who refused to be bribed. “Some even threatened to imprison us for attempting to bribe them,” he said.

On Joy FM and MultiTV's Newsfile programme, the Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, read Anas' letter to the Chief Justice which contained the list of the honourable judges. Mr Kweku Baako said it is a matter of fairness to celebrate those who were not lured by money and goats.

 Below is the roll of the honourable judges:

Justice Kwesi Boakye HC, Wa

Bright Mensah HC, Accra
Constance hometorwu HC, Accra
Georgina mensah HC, Accra
Afia serwaa ASARE HC, Accra
Anthony oppong HC, Accra
Felicia DC, Abeka
Charles Kwesi Acheampong DC, Dodowa
Samuel Quartey DC, Ejiusu
Abdul Abullaih DC, Tuobudom
Bright Ajosagi DC,

*HC= High Court, *DC = District Court

Source: modernghana.com

I Fear For Ghana's Youth Under N.D.C.

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, running mate of New Patriotic Party flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo, has stated that if President Mahama were his student he would have graded him F in economics.

He said the NDC government has since 2009 failed in its management of the economy.

“You inherited an economy with the highest resources in the history of Ghana. Tax resources, four times higher than the NPP; Cocoa, three times higher; Gold, three times higher; you have borrowed more than all the governments put together and still we can’t feel a better economy, then you have failed. Mahama deserves F in economic management,” Bawumia asserted.

Speaking in an interview with Nsempawura on a Koforidua-based Eastern FM, the former Deputy Governor said for instance, the NDC government inherited a total debt of GHC 9.5 billion in 2009 and has increased it to GHC 90 billion within six years.

By the end of the year, Ghana’s debt will hit about US$ 40 billion looking at the current borrowing trend, he predicted.

With the sum of US$ 40 billion, he said, a good management team will allocate just US$ 2 billion to each region for development but the contrary is happening under the NDC government.



In economic management, every government with such an amount of money should be able to pay nurses, teachers, doctors, NHIS, and take care of all the social intervention programmes in Ghana, Dr. Bawumia analysed.

According to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, President Mahama and the NDC government can best be described as a “toxic mixture of incompetent and corruption which has exploded into ‘Wahala’ and Suffering”.

He feared for the future of the Ghanaian youth under the NDC administration, and challenged the youth to join the NPP to recapture power from the NDC in the 2016 General elections.

Meanwhile, the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaians to resist politicians who inflame ethnic sentiment in the run up to the general elections.

He accused the NDC of inflaming ethnic comment in the Eastern region and other parts of the country to gain political favor.

He said, the Eastern Region and Ghana has a mixture of all tribes and have lived together over the year’s without clashes or misunderstanding hence the NDC should not destabilize the country by promoting ethnic propaganda

The NPP flagbearer noted that, he is not corrupt and has never stolen the state money before hence he is the best person Ghanaians should trust to manage the affairs of this country.




 Source: modernghana.com

Crisis Over Admissions Into Nursing Training Colleges.

Crisis Over Admission -
Into Nursing Training
Colleges
Updated : 13 - Jul - 2015
Most senior high school graduates
who have successfully met the
admission requirements of
nursing training colleges and have
applied for admission will not be
admitted because government has
imposed a quota on the schools .
The imposition of the quota has ,
therefore, reduced admissions by
half, and this directly contradicts
government ’s position that
allowances for teacher and
nursing training students be
scrapped in order to increase
enrolment at training institutions.
A letter from the Ministry of
Health to principals of nursing
training colleges warned that
those who do not strictly abide by
the quota will be sanctioned .
Checks by The Finder at the Health
Ministry confirmed that a quota
has been imposed, and the
explanation is that training has to
be controlled so that the state will
be in a position to employ
graduates of such schools .
Quota imposed on nursing
training colleges
Schools that have been admitting
200 students per programme such
as State Registered Nursing ,
Community Health Nursing and
Certificate Nursing have been
asked to admit 100 students for
each of the programmes .
This means that a school that runs
the three programmes mentioned
above has to cut its total
admission to 300 students instead
of the 600 which it would have
admitted without the quota .
Over 2 ,000 qualified candidates
applied for State Registered
Nursing in one training college,
but with the quota, only 100 will
be offered admission.
Already, over 2 ,000 qualified
nurses and midwives who
successfully completed National
Service do not have jobs .

Oh Ghana, Why?

What is happening in this country!!! Just last Wednesday 3rd of June, hundreds of people died in a national disaster. Today on the 1st of another month the republic day around 6pm this evening, the canopy walkway at Bunso Aboretum here in the Eastern region fell down to the ground where hundreds of students who have completed the BECE went to excursion.
Currently the ambulances are tirelessly conveying the found victims to the Koforidua government hospital here in Koforidua.
We pray for those victims.