TAMALE CENTRAL CONSTITUENCY NDC EXECUTIVES RESCUE INUSAH FUSEINI

TAMALE CENTRAL CONSTITUENCY NDC EXECUTIVES RESCUE INUSAH FUSEINI

Abubakari Malba, Propaganda Secretary of the NDC Tamale Central Constituency has urged all party loyalists to ignore calls for the replacement of Hon. Inusah Fuseini in 2012 based on unsubstantiated allegations leveled against the dynamic and affable Tamale Central MP by a group called the Tamale Central Coalition of NDC youth.
He said the party leadership was not surprised at the culture of impunity certain selfish individuals are trying very hard to import into the constituency to tarnish the hard won reputation of Hon. Inusah Fuseini also Ghana’s Deputy Energy Minister.
At a news conference meant to react to the Tamale Central Coalition of NDC youth’s call for their MP’s replacement, Abubakari Malba unreservedly warned that the constituency leadership will deal ruthlessly with the detractors.
He described as grossly irresponsible the statement that Hon. Inusah Fuseini denounced his allegiance to the Andani gate on one of the editions of Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme and concluded that the MP is for all irrespective of their religion, political or chieftaincy affiliations.
Abubakari Malba said the constituents are proud of their MP for his sterling performance within the short period that he took over from Dr. Wayo Seini through a bye-election that he won a landslide victory.
He recounted the building of 13 classroom blocks and the recent sod cutting ceremony for work to commence on a GH 640 community project for the Moshie Zongo, Warizehi and SakaSaka electoral areas.
Abubakari Malba disclosed that through the efforts of Hon. Inusah Fuseini, about 1000 women have gained access to credit facilities to expand their business and that 500 tertiary students have so far benefited from a scholarship fund established with the MP’s personal funds.
The Tamale Central Constituency NDC propaganda Secretary nevertheless called for unity in the party to enable President Mills clinch onto power in 2012.

CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMISSION HOLDS REGIONAL LEVEL HEARINGS IN TAMALE

CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMISSION HOLDS REGIONAL LEVEL HEARINGS IN TAMALE

The Constitutional Review Commission with the mandate of reviewing Ghana’s 1992 Republican Constitution has held a two day regional level hearings and consultation meeting in Tamale.
The nationwide exercise was intended to make recommendations to government through a draft bill if necessary for possible amendments of the whole or portions of the 1992 Constitution which have outlived its usefulness.
Pertinent portions that were subjected to roundtable discussions included, the Executive powers or transition of executive authority, Legislative powers or transition of Parliaments, Legal sector issues and Decentralization and local governance.
Other important areas were the Independent constitutional bodies, the public services of Ghana, the traditional authorities, Tindanas (landowners), Queen mothers and human right issues including gender and access to justice.
Moses Bukari Mabengba, Northern Regional Minister who opened the forum appealed to the participants to attach importance to the exercise by approaching the topics under discussion in a bipartisan manner.
He said: “I entreat all of you herein assembled to make your inputs in a bipartisan manner that will assist the nation to enrich the Bills to be amended to make the constitution a true living document that will not only stand the test of time but will also address your yearning needs to deepen our democracy and increase the tempo of socio-economic development in this country,”.
The Minister also said the exercise was in line with President John Evans Atta Mills’ call for a review of the 1992 Republican Constitution which was captured in his State of the Nations address during the early part of this year.
Mr. Mabengba reiterated the President’s call which read, “We believe also that a National Constitutional Review Conference is the surest way to ensure that our manifesto promises as well as those of some of the other political parties which require constitutional amendments see fruition in a consensual manner: Iin preparation towards this conference we shall this year establish a Constitutional Review Committee to collate views on amendment proposals and work towards the conference,”.
Professor Albert K. Fiadjoe, Chairman of the Commission said the Commission was committed to work in a free and fair manner devoid of politics and urged participants to place premium on the exercise.
He commended the people of the three Northern Regions for the level of enthusiasm attached to deliberations on the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) which is awaiting Presidential assent and asked the participants to do same to the ongoing exercise.
Professor Fiadjoe announced that over 31,000 submissions had been received so far from across the country and Ghanaians in the Diaspora but complained that Northern Region recorded the lowest figure.
He therefore challenged the participants to improve the figure and called for greater participation of the youth, women and the destitute in the society whose collective input through the final documentations will help build a united and prosperous Ghana.
 

NATIONAL SERVICE PERSONNEL URGE TO ACCEPT POSTINGS TO HINTERLANDS

NATIONAL SERVICE PERSONNEL URGE TO ACCEPT POSTINGS TO HINTERLANDS

National Service Personnel has been urged to be accepting posting to the hinterlands, but not to see it as castigation because the people in those areas also needed their service mostly as compare to the urban center.
The Bole district Director of the National Service Scheme, Ali Issah gave the advice in a welcome address delivered at this year’s service personnel week celebration dinner night in Bole to climax the service week celebration.
The week long programme, the first of it kind in the district was chunked with several activities such as a float match through the principal streets of Bole, a clean up exercise, an entrepreneurship symposium, Gala matches and among other activities lined up which was climax by a dinner dance.
Addressing the Service Personnel on the theme “National Service in the drive towards a better Ghana” Mr. Ali reiterated that it is relevant to take a sober reflection of the significant of the National Service to the development of the individual personnel, the district, the region and the country at large.
The Coordinator said the National Service Scheme present an opportunity to the personnel to serve mother Ghana and also create avenues as the first step of experience acquisition after tertiary education.
This he said is manifested as personnel are posted to various sectors of the economy especially the teaching sector.
He however expressed his sincere gratitude and appreciation to all service personnel who within the period in diverse ways contributed in their own capacity to help end the 10 month period of service without any challenges and wished them the best of luck as they go out to compete in search for jobs.
The President of the National Service personnel Association of Ghana in Bole, Issah Ewuntomah advised his colleagues to become responsible future leaders of the nation.
He also challenged them to also be courageous in approaching Directors and other high Officials who occupied key positions and lobby for jobs.
Mr. Ewuntomah said the association in the district has also acquired a land at Green Valley, a suburb of Bole for construction of a hostel facility to ease accommodation challenges facing personnel in the district.

NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES OF FULANI HERDSMEN BEQUEATH TRADITIONAL RULERS SLEEPLESS NIGHT

NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES OF FULANI HERDSMEN BEQUEATH TRADITIONAL RULERS SLEEPLESS NIGHT

The Incessant nefarious activities of the alien Fulani Herdsmen in the country have indeed become a great source of worry to traditional rulers in the three Northern Regions, whose people are worst victims of those activities. The Chiefs have therefore vowed to adopt their own means of flashing out the alien herdsmen of their communities, since the state has been very unconcerned about the issue.
The over 60 Paramount Chiefs also expressed serious disappointment at the government for unjustifiably failing to institute concrete measures to regulate and monitor the activities of the Fulanis, whom they said were becoming “nuisance” in the Ghanaian societies.
At a roundtable discussion of all Paramount Chiefs in the three Northern Regions held in Tamale recently to discuss the drafted Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) Bill and make significant inputs, majority of the Chiefs criticized government for over glorifying the so-called ECOWAS protocol of free trade and human movement at the expense of the rights, safety and security of Ghanaians.
The Paramount Chief of Gwollu in the Sissala West District of the West Region, Kuoru Kuri-Buktie Limann II is one of the vociferous Chiefs who are passionate about the issue of the Fulanis.
He indicated that his traditional area was close to the Burkina Faso-Ghana border and thus recounted some of the bad activities of the aliens. The Chief lamented that apart from broad day robbery and destruction of people’s farms, the Fulani Herdsmen also engaged in raping married women and other young ladies at gun point.
They sometimes also kill and takeover livestock animals of some poor farmers and run away unpunished.
The Paramount Chief of Gwollu therefore challenged government and for that matter Parliament to without any further delay, come out with legislative instrument that can transform the Fulanis and sanction them when necessary.
The Paramount Chief of Kpembe Traditional in the East Gonja District, Kpembewura Haruna Kabasigi also lamented that he did not foresee any possibility of government taking stringent measure to flash out of regulate the activities of the alien Fulanis, since several public outcries to government had gone wasted.
The Kpembewura therefore announced his plans to unilaterally demarcate a portion of the lands in his area to the Fulanis where they will be confined or restricted from mingling with the indigenes and crossing people’s farms. They will have access to all the basic amenities especially water and electricity.
According to him, he is already in talks with the leadership of the Fulanis to ensure that all their members and animals are registered to avoid stealing of other people’s cattle.
The Paramount Chiefs of Bolgatanga and Yunyoo, Bolga-Naaba, Martin Abilba and Yunyoo-Lana Yamyia Tooka II respectively in separate interview with Fiila News also attributed the growing problem to successive governments’ inability to include traditional authorities in governance.
According to the Yunyoo-Lana, the ECOWAS Protocol treaty is not superior to the laws of Ghana and enjoined government to be firm and resolute in protecting its people’s lives and properties.
He stated that the serious nuisance the Fulani Herdsmen are creating in Ghana can not be perpetrated or accepted in any other ECOWAS member country.
The Chief therefore called on government to control the Fulanis and made them to pay heavy taxes and also face serious sanctions for any wrong doing.
Meanwhile, the activities of alien Fulani Herdsmen are gradually threatening the security of residents in the three Northern Regions.
These aliens are alleged to be the brain behind major highway robberies, indiscriminate rape of women and the burning of farms leading to considerable loss of farm produce stored in the farm houses and those yet to be harvested.
They are also believed to be engaged in the cutting down of food crops and economic trees in feeding their animals which is making the north more prone to desertification.
Residents on several occasions have engaged in confrontations with these herdsmen and raised concerns over their continuous stay in the region and have therefore called on the authorities to as a matter of urgency eject them or closely monitor their activities.
Many have also blamed them for the poor harvest which had impacted negatively on the food security in the Northern Sector regarded as the bread baskets of the country.

AMALE CENTRAL NDC YOUTH CALL ON GOV’T TO EXIT MP

TAMALE CENTRAL NDC YOUTH CALL ON GOV’T TO EXIT MP
The Tamale Central youth coalition of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Changli has called on the NDC government to as a matter of urgency replace the constituency Member of Parliament, Lawer Inusah Fuseni with a more competent candidate or will be at the risk of loosing the seat to the opposition.
The youth coalition of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Changli said the Member of Parliament, Haruna Fuseini falsely lured the youth to gain his political mandate in the Constituency.
The coalition of Youth groups in Changli laid out this in a press statement issued to Fiila News and sign by the Chairman, Abdul-Karim Seidu at the weekend in Tamale.
According to the statement, Lawyer Inusah Fuseini promised the youth in the area jobs when he gain power but immediately he had the mandate in the political terrain he totally snub the youth in area.
The youth therefore challenged the MP to publicly come out to name the number of people he provided with jobs since his assumption to the political power.
The youth in their statement clearly indicated that the disappointing part of it is that the MP used the murder of late Overlord of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani as his major campaign message and again denounced on Metro TV recently that he is not part of the Andani and all its activities.
The MP who took over from Prof Wayo Seini can only be described as a failure by the youth to the constituency. The youth however cautioned the NDC government to sit up and face the promises they made to Ghanaians.
The youth therefore rendered an unqualified apology to the opposition New Patriotic Party for the brutalities in the 2008 election meted out to its members, saying that it was ignorance and the influence of the self-seeking politicians in the Metropolis.
They also urged the opposition NPP to let them bury their differences and label the politicians as hypocrites in order to co-exist for they are one people.

EDUCATIONIST CALL ON PARENTS TO INVEST IN THEIR CHILDREN EDUCATION

EDUCATIONIST CALL ON PARENTS TO INVEST IN THEIR CHILDREN EDUCATION

The Tamale Metropolitan Director of Ghana Education Service has called on parents to invest in their children’s education to ensure that good future leaders emerges for accurate policies to be made in the country for accelerated development.
Alhaji Abdul-Rahaman Saani said investing in education is the greatest assert in the life of every individual in the society.
He made this call at the 16th graduation ceremony of Fatchi “Little Flower” School Complex in Tamale where 70 pupils from kindergarten 2 were graduated.
The school with over 530 pupil population and 30 teaching staff has a Long Term Human Resource Development Foundation for Orphans (LOTHDEFO) where 40 pupil and students are currently benefiting from the endowment fund ranging from the pre-school to the tertiary level.
Alhaji Saani disclosed that education in the Metropolis is grabbling with numeracy and illiteracy which is a setback to the education structure in the metropolis.
According to him, parents need to get the clearer understanding of education for quality education delivery in the country, saying children need good educational foundation to gain academic laurels in the academic ladder.
The Metropolitan Director of GES therefore urged parents to take active roles in schools activities such as PTA meeting, regular visiting of pupil’s among others to boost the morale of both students and tutors which he believes will yield academic success for their children.
In his address the Manager of the Fatchi “Little Flower” School complex, Christopher K. Nyabu said the vision of the school is to provide children between the ages of 2 and above with emotional and psychological foundations that will enhance their mental, social and physical growth for development saying, buttressing the vision and mission management does not comprise with lazy teachers.
Mr. C.K Nyabu called on parents to enroll their children in schools to ensure that every child of school going age must be in school.
The Manager therefore made a passionate appealed to the PTA to give unflinching support to the managing director by providing a fence wall around the school to weed out kidnapping which is becoming common in preparatory schools.

ALLOWANCES OF NYEP RECRUITS TO BE PAID ON TIME

ALLOWANCES OF NYEP RECRUITS TO BE PAID ON TIME

As from September this year, the salaries and allowances of District Employment Coordinators (DECs) of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) and their deputies, will be regularized and they will receive payment directly from the Bank at the end of every month.

Similarly efforts are been made to ensure that all the recruits under the programme receive their allowances promptly from the Banks at the end of every month.

The National Coordinator of the NYEP, Abuga Pele announced this at a meeting with district coordinators of the Programme in Tamale at the weekend, to review the programme and draw up strategies for the future.

The NYEP National Coordinator however explained that the DECs and their deputies will be the first to be able to access their salaries through the Banks in September, while that of the recruits will followed later.

Mr. Pele said all beneficiaries of the NYEP have been paid and the Programme no longer owed anyone.

He said a significant milestone achieved by the Programme was the establishment of people with disabilities unit in all the employment modules, adding that, since the creation of the unit, appointments had been issued to 150 persons with disabilities nationwide.
He said apart from the traditional employment modules, the NYEP is focusing on self employment modules that had the capacity to engage many youth and encourage entrepreneurship among them, so that this would put less pressure on the monthly pay roll of the Programme.

Mr. Pele warned the DECs to ensure equitable and fair recruitment of people into the NYEP to stop the agitations from some foot soldiers of the NDC who are complaining of unfairness and favoritism in the recruitment exercise.