Mahama Will Struggle To Get 43% - Popular Actress.

His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama will struggle to attain 43% of total voting percentage in the upcoming elections, a popular actress, Matilda Asare, has predicted.

The National Coordinator of the Agya Koo ‘Agenda 57% For Nana Addo’ says because of the abysmal performance of the NDC government, President Mahama will be rejected by Ghanaians in his second term bid for the Presidency.

Addressing supporters of the NPP in the Brong Ahafo Region, the popular actress said considering the level of despondency amongst many Ghanaians, especially those in the northern part of the country where the NDC describe as their strongholds, it will be very difficult for the President to achieve anything above 40% in the upcoming elections.

She noted that Ghanaians are gearing up for change and that "nothing can stop the change from happening"

Eva Lokko Has Passed On.

2012 Vice Presidential Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP) and current Parliamentary Aspirant for Klottey Korle constituency on the same party's ticket, Mrs Eva Lokko, has passed on to eternal glory.

She reportedly passed away Thursday afternoon in the United States of America, where she had been flown for medical treatment. 

An official of the party, Richmond Keelson confirmed her demise but declined to give further details. 



Biography

Eva Naa Merely Lokko attended Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast. She was an engineer by profession and holds a master's degree in Intelligent Management Systems, System Analysis and Design.

Lokko was the first Satellite Communications Engineer and the first woman engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in 1972. She was part of the engineering team that installed and maintained Ghana's first colour television infrastructure in 1985. 

She has worked in over forty countries across the world in various capacities and served as Regional Programme Coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme initiative for Internet development in Africa. She worked with the United Nations for thirteen years and also served as chairperson of the UN Federation of International Civil Servants Association and the United Nations Staff Council and as a member of the UNDP News Advisory Board. 

She was once the Chief Executive Officer of Totally Youth, a Non Governmental Organization based in Accra. In 2002, she was appointed Director-General of the GBC, becoming the first and only woman to hold that position since the corporation was established in 1953. 

I'm Building What Akufo-Addo Is Dreaming About - Mahama.

President John Mahama has urged Ghanaians not to experiment with NPP presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo when they can continue with his tried and tested leadership.

At a rally in Abisem, near Sunyani, in the Brong Ahafo region, the President said he has already began an industrialisation agenda which his main opponent Akufo-Addo is promising to do.

With jobs and the economy taking center stage in the 2016 general elections, the main opposition NPP has promised to industrialise the country.

In one of his promises christened one-district, one factory, the NPP presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has vowed to cite factories across the country's 216 districts.

But president John Mahama has laughed this off. "You have never built a factory before", he said.

"A man who has built a factory and another who says he wants to build a factory, our elders say if a tattered man promises to give you clothes, examine him first", he quoted a Twi proverb.

As a testament to what he described as his proven leadership, the NDC presidential candidate mentioned the factories and plants he has rebuilt in his four-year tenure.

President John Mahama mentioned Komenda Sugar factory, the Elmina Fish Processing plant in the Central region.The Kumasi shoe factory is now producing boots for the military, he said.

He said the Tema harbour is undergoing expansion that would make it the largest in West Africa.

Under the NPP, existing rails were sold off as scrap but his government is also building a railway line in Sekondi-Takoradi, he claimed even though the Kufuor government built 80 percent of the Accra-Tema rail line.

These factories and infrastructural projects were built by Ghana's first president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who on Independence Day vowed that "we are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, young as we are, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation."

But after his overthrow in February 1969, the massive infrastructure suffered deterioration and later collapsed.

According to the president, Kwame Nkrumah was severely opposed until all his industries collapsed. The collapse of the factories is responsible for the worrying levels of unemployment in Ghana, he said.

More than four decades since Nkrumah's overthrow, President Mahama says his government is gradually reviving the vision of the Ghanaian leader who was named Africa's man of the century.

The President noted that once again, like Nkrumah, his government is facing the opposition NPP, an off-shoot of the UGCC, the formal opposition party during Kwame Nkrumah's leadership.

President Mahama said he is being lampooned for ballooning the public debt just as Nkrumah was criticised for his infrastructural projects, his comparisons continued.

He urged the people not to be swept away by his detractors who are "first class" when it comes to lies and deceit.

Mahama encouraged the people to support his vision by endorsing his re-election bid come December 7 general elections.

Ayariga’s Tomfoolery And CHRAJ’s Paradoxical Ruling!

My father is late. He never left me and my siblings any property but I still hold him in high esteem. I regard him as one of the best fathers anyone could ever have because he raised me well. The kind of upbringing I had wouldn’t make me stoop low to collect bribe, even if it was a Ford Expedition. Yes, I’m not a president; neither am I rich. But I’m not bothered about riches and prestige in society because my “old boy” taught me not to measure success by those standards. I would forever be grateful to the old boy for the morals he had instilled in me. I’m a very fulfilled person. My heart is gladdened anytime I see students who had passed through my hands making positive impact in the society. With my over fifteen years experience as a teacher, I’m proud to say I’ve helped shape the destinies of hundreds, if not thousands, of students. Do I sometimes envy those with fathers who gave them good upbringing and also left valuable properties for them when their fathers left for Samanfoland? Yes, I do but I do not allow it to degenerate into hatred. Perhaps, that is what Hassan Ayariga has failed to do. It is no secret that Nana Addo was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. It is also an open secret that many people, politicians inclusive, are envious of the man’s professional life and the family he was born into. But Hassan Ayariga is one of the few who have allowed that envy to degenerate into hatred. I therefore take this opportunity to appeal to those who feel hurt by Ayariga’s tomfoolery to let go. Ayariga is only exhibiting hatred for legal and political achievements he and many in his family could never even dream of. Clearly, his hatred for Nana Addo has clouded his sense of reasoning. It is very true that Nana Addo lives in his father’s house at age 72. Is that enough to conclude that the man is a failure? For sure, that can be a sign of failure only in the minds of people with mediocre minds. Did Nana Addo live a very fruitful and fulfilling professional life? Could he have built a hundred houses if he had so desired? Does he own a house built through his own sweat? Did he save the country huge cowries by staying in his own house during his tenure as Attorney-General and Minister of Foreign Affairs? If the answer to all these questions is a big YES, then why should we be bothered by the naughtiness of a political stooge? Ayariga thinks he is only doing the bidding of his political masters by throwing mud at Nana Addo. What he fails to realize is that he is also exposing his idiocy to the whole world. As the saying goes, “The goat may go round soiling the whole town. But it forgets that it is soiling its anus as well.” Abusuapanin, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has released the report on the Ford Expedition saga; and they did not disappoint me one bit. They did exactly as I expected. I’m very surprised some of my compatriots had expected otherwise. How could they expect a boot-licking CHRAJ boss to indict President Ogwanfunu in an election year? CHRAJ report or not, nothing can change the fact that the circumstances under which the Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, met the then Vice-President smacks of corruption.  Per Djibril’s own account, he did not win a contract in Ghana the first time he submitted a proposal. After losing the bid, a friend called Mike Aidoo (Mikado), who knew  then Vice-President Ogwanfunu, now President, took him to salute (greet) the vice-president. Thus began the beautiful relationship between the two, which led to a USD100,000 gift exchanging hands. The motive for Mikado taking Djibril to see then Vice-President Ogwanfunu is clear, isn’t it? He had lost a contract, so he needed someone who could pull strings to make things happen the next time. And did the new relationship he established with Vice-President Ogwanfunu not help him get subsequent contracts? The paradoxical ruling by the CHRAJ makes interesting reading. In one breath the report says President Ogwanfunu breached the country’s gift policy. In another breath it says he has not broken any law. So, what is the punishment for breaching the country’s gift policy? Ours is indeed a land of jokers! CHRAJ has given me a better insight to the saying, “You cannot convince a monkey that honey is sweeter than banana.” And all I can do is weep for Mother Ghana!

PPP Cites EC For Contempt.

Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) for contempt after the latter accepted its filing fee last week. The PPP had filed a suit at the Accra High Court seeking an injunction to prevent the EC from receiving the reviewed filing fees for presidential and parliamentary aspirants. The fees have been increased by at least 500%. In this regard the party said the EC’s decision to accept its filing fee, despite the injunction application seeking to prohibit that action, amounted to disrespecting the court. The EC last week accepted the GH¢50,000 filing fee for the PPP presidential hopeful, Papa Kwesi Nduom, explaining that once the party brought the fee despite its own injunction, it had every right to collect and retain same. For the EC to have rejected the fees of other parties, but went on to take the PPP’s, own, the party argued that the EC is in contempt. In its affidavit, the PPP said if it is to satisfy the EC’s demand and qualify to participate in the December presidential and parliamentary elections, it has to “find and deposit with the EC, an amount of GHC2,800,000 which…would be confiscated to the state should [it] fail to secure at least 25 per cent of the presidential votes and 12.5 per cent votes in each constituency parliamentary votes in the general election.”