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Ablakwa optimistic about GH₵220m relief fund for Akosombo Dam Spillage victims
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The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has welcomed the government’s GH₵220 million cedis relief fund for persons affected by the Akosombo Dam Spillage.
Mr. Ablakwa says he is cautiously optimistic about the government’s plans to provide relief for persons affected by the Akosombo Dam Spillage.
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta announced a package to acquire additional items for the victims during the 2024 budget presentation on Wednesday, November 15.
“The government has budgeted an amount of 220 million to support the relief place for the community affected by the Akosombo spillage as well as floods upstream in the Oti, Savannah, and Bono East region”.
“I want to believe strongly that those consultations played a significant role in what has commutated in these budgetary allocations but I continue to be cautiously optimized because I know that there is a world of difference between a politician and actual release and then for the resettlement and compensation. I must emphasize that data is still being collected we are still accessing the full range of the devastation and levels of impact,” he said.
Meanwhile, Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has criticised the Akufo-Addo Government’s 2024 Budget statement, describing it as hollow.
The Leader of the NDC MPs also predicted that it would worsen the challenges faced by Ghanaians.
Following Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s presentation of the budget in Parliament on Wednesday, November 15, Dr Ato Forson warned that Ghanaians should prepare for increased hardships, asserting that the Akufo-Addo administration will leave the country with a financially unstable economy.
“This budget is what we describe clearly as an empty budget. Mr Speaker, the government will be leaving behind a bankrupt economy. The government will be leaving the country in an ‘ahokyere’ (hardship) state.”
The Paramount Chief of Bamvum, Abdulai Ziblim, has donated a one-acre plot of land at Jongshegu, a suburb of Tamale, to the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) for the construction of a new fire station.
The Northern Regional Commander of the GNFS, ACFO I Joseph Koranteng, led a delegation to formally accept the land and expressed appreciation to the Chief for his commitment to public safety.
The proposed fire station is expected to improve emergency response times and strengthen fire safety coverage as Jongshegu and surrounding communities continue to expand rapidly.
The Chief called on stakeholders to support the swift development of the facility, while ACFO I Koranteng described the donation as a strong example of collaboration between traditional authorities and state institutions to protect lives and property.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
A 24-year-old tricycle (Pragyia) rider, has been jailed three months by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region for biting a Community Police Assistant (CPA) at Nkawie.
Abdul Aziz pleaded guilty to the charge of negligently causing harm and was convicted on his own plea.
Police Inspector Kwaku Frimpong, prosecuting told the court presided by Mr Robert Addo that, complainants in the case were officers from the Nkawie Divisional Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service.
He said on September 3, at about 8:40am, the complainants led by Chief Inspector Abedi Larbi, were on their official patrol duty to ensure safety at Nkawie township and met the convict, who was in-charge of a Pragya tricycle with registration number M-25-A-3722.
He explained that, after a careful inspection, it was detected that the convict was without licence and other required documents, so Alhassan Seidu, the CPA, was instructed to lead him to the office for the next action.
On their way to the office, the convict took a different direction, so the CPA directed him to take the right route to the police station, but he disobeyed and attacked the CPA, resulting in a struggle between them.
In the process the convict bit the CPA on the chest, so he shouted for help and some nearby youth rushed to the scene and helped him to arrest the convict.
In his caution statement, he admitted the offence and after further investigations he was charged and brought before the court. –GNA
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