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Chief implores citizen to help develop rural c’nities
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The Paramount Chief of Enyan Denkyira Traditional Area, Osabarima Otsibu VI, has appealed to citizens of rural communities who have made it to see it as a mission to help develop their towns and villages.
According to the chief, life has always been difficult in rural communities and help from elsewhere, even government assistance, is hard to get and the well-to-do citizens constitute the easiest source to fall on for support.
Osabarima Otsibu said this last Saturday during a short ceremony held at his palace at Enyan Denkyira in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of the Central Region, to affirm Mr Kweku Gyasi Essel, the Ghanaian Times/The Spectator Night Editor, as head of the Twidan Ebusua (clan) of the town.
Praising the citizens for their support in the town’s development, he said, “just recently, one of these public-spirited citizens single-handedly renovated basic school blocks at the cost of GHc200, 000.”
He encouraged Mr Essel, now going by the title Ebusuapanyin, to do well to bring a change in traditional leadership that would maintain the cordial relationship between his clan and the rest of the community.
“This will eventually help to enhance the development of the clan and our town,” he said.
He said all manner of leaders had failed in things they could have avoided and asked Ebusuapanyin Essel to “eschew hearsay and cronyism.”
In a brief acceptance, Ebusuapanyin Essel, who now has the responsibility of presiding over issues that concern his maternal clan and being the traditional contact between the clan and any individual, group or community that would like to have any dealings with the clan, promised to maintain the unity in the clan and share ideas with the clan members with regard to how to improve their lives.
The newly-appointed traditional leader said, “I pledge to support the chiefs and other traditional leaders to develop the town.
“I will make sure l don’t bring disappointment and disgrace to my clan and community; rather I will endeavour to help to improve lives”.
The Adontsenhen of the traditional area and a member of the Twidan clan, Okumanyin Eduah I, also promised to support Ebusuapanyin Essel to succeed but asked him to “be selfless, firm and tolerant.”
Another traditional leader, Etsifi Asona Ebusuapanyin Kwesi Tweiku, a businessman known in private life as Uncle Siisi Crentsil, welcomed Ebusuapanyin Essel into the midst of the traditional leadership of the town and asked him to be resolute in all his dealings.
The ceremony was attended by other traditional leaders mostly clan members.
By Spectator Reporter
Deputy Director of Operations at the Presidency, Mustapha Gbande, has alleged that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) appears more concerned and emotionally invested in the imprisonment of its Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, than the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Speaking on Joy Prime on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Accra, Mr. Gbande argued that the NPP played a major role in the legal process that led to Wontumi’s conviction.
According to him, the law under which Wontumi was convicted originally carried a maximum prison sentence of three years but was later amended by the NPP administration to increase the maximum punishment to 15 years.
“The law that jailed Wontumi was three years. The NPP enhanced it to 15 years,” he stated.
Mr. Gbande further claimed that the evidence used to prosecute Wontumi was gathered during the previous NPP administration.
He maintained that the case against the NPP chairman did not begin under the current government but was built by officials who served in the former administration.
“The docket that jailed Wontumi was built by the NPP. The evidence that convicted him was built by the NPP,” he asserted.
To support his argument, Mr. Gbande referred to actions taken by the former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources in July 2022, when the minister declared activities linked to Wontumi in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve illegal.
He stressed that once an activity has been declared illegal, it remains a breach of the law regardless of who is involved.
By: Jacob Aggrey
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has warned that traders, transport operators, businesses and individuals who refuse to accept Ghana cedi coins as payment for goods and services could face arrest, prosecution, fines or imprisonment.
In a public notice issued on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, the central bank expressed concern over the widespread refusal to accept 1 pesewa, 5 pesewa, 10 pesewa, 20 pesewa and 50 pesewa coins, as well as the GH¢1 and GH¢2 coins.
It explained that all coins issued by the Bank of Ghana remain legal tender and must be accepted for transactions across the country.
According to the BoG, none of the coins has been withdrawn from circulation or demonetised, and no trader, transport operator, business or individual has the right to reject them because they consider them inconvenient or of low value.
The bank cited the Bank of Ghana Act, 2002 (Act 612), as amended, and the Currency Act, 1964 (Act 242), as the laws governing the use of the country’s currency.
It noted that under the Currency Act, refusing to sell goods or provide services simply because a customer is paying with legal tender coins or banknotes is a criminal offence, unless the currency has been withdrawn from circulation.
The BoG stated that anyone convicted of the offence could face up to three years’ imprisonment, a fine, or both.
It added that people who encourage or instruct others to reject coins, including business owners who direct their employees to do so, are equally liable under the law.
The bank further indicated that a person caught committing the offence may be arrested without a warrant.
To ensure compliance, the BoG said it would work with the Ghana Police Service and other law enforcement agencies to enforce the law against offenders.
It encouraged members of the public to report cases of coin rejection to the nearest Bank of Ghana office, the Ghana Police Service or through the bank’s official communication channels.
The central bank called on individuals, businesses and institutions to accept and handle Ghana’s currency responsibly in all its denominations, saying this would help uphold confidence in the country’s legal tender.
By: Jacob Aggrey
