Day: December 8, 2022

Stop wrongful, multiple sale of lands -Akufo-Addo to chiefs and land owners

Stop wrongful, multiple sale of lands -Akufo-Addo to chiefs and land owners

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has kicked against wrongful and multiple sales of lands by chiefs and people without authority, tagged as ‘land guards’. He bemoaned the country’s lands which have been taken over by clans, skins, stools and families, adding that the situation has negatively affected development. The President suggested that a consensus is built to check lands administration and called for a new model to be developed to curtail the menace. “Unfortunately, in our urban areas, the customarily lands system has been the bane of most of…

Parliament to debate censure motion against Ofori-Atta today

Parliament to debate censure motion against Ofori-Atta today

Members of Parliament (MPs) will today, Thursday, December 8, 2022, commence debate on the censure motion against embattled Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The Minority caucus filed the motion of censure against the Finance Minister, accusing him of mismanagement of the economy, financial recklessness, conflict of interest, gross mismanagement of the economy. The debate which was supposed to have been done yesterday, Wednesday was postponed to today will center on whether the House should vote to remove Mr. Ofori-Atta from office or not. The 8-member ad-hoc committee which was set up…

Rethink Debt Exchange programme – UTAG tells govt

Rethink Debt Exchange programme – UTAG tells govt

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has told the government to have a second look at the Debt Exchange porgramme following the concerns raised by stakeholders. Stakeholders including the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), the Ghana National Union of Traders Association (GUTA), the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have all rejected the  programme that was launched by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday December 6. UTAG also said they take serious exception to any intervention that would worsen the plight of the already impoverished University Lecturer. “In particular, we reject the wholesale implementation of the recently…