Hot!
Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen appoints new PRO
The Executives of Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen (GNAFF) have appointed Nana Oboadea Boateng Bonsu as Public Relations Officer.
Nana Boateng, who is the President of Concern Farmers Association of Ghana, is to serve a four-year term.
According to the President of GNAFF, Nene Tekpetey Agblese, there would not be any elections of officers this year but all the National and Regional Executives should continue to hold their respective offices while the association prepares towards its national congress.
He said the decision was taken as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and other financial issues confronting the association.
He charged Nana Oboadia Boateng to carry out his work in a professional manner to raise the image of farmers and the Agric Ministry in the country.
He praised the government for the numerous interventions in the agriculture sector and called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to listen to the concerns of farmers because they fed the citizenry.
In his response, Nana Oboadea Boateng pledged to ensure that the concerns of farmers would be addressed in the country.
He outlined his plans that would inure to the benefit of GNAFF and said he would soon have a meeting with the galamsey people in the various regions, organise educational tour to affected mining communities and sensitise them to take advantage of the government’s flagship programmes such as the Planting for Food and Jobs, rearing for Food and Jobs.
By Samuel Opare Lartey
The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh Dompreh, has expressed concern over delays in the release of the District Assemblies Common Fund, warning that the situation is stalling development across the country.
On his facebook page, he described as a matter of urgent national importance, the Minority Chief Whip pointed to what he sees as a growing crisis of unpaid contractors, abandoned projects, and halted infrastructure works in many districts.
He noted that several communities are grappling with half completed schools, unfinished health facilities, abandoned markets, deteriorating roads, and stalled sanitation projects.
According to him, many contractors who have executed projects for district assemblies have not been paid, forcing some construction firms to demobilise from sites while workers lose their jobs.
He stressed that the District Assemblies Common Fund is not a discretionary allocation but a constitutional requirement under Article 252 of the 1992 Constitution, intended to support development at the local level.
In his view, years of delayed releases and accumulated arrears have weakened district development financing and disrupted projects meant to improve living conditions in communities.
He further argued that some payments made in recent years were largely the settlement of old debts rather than funding for new or ongoing projects, a situation he believes has affected contractor confidence and local economic activity.
He described the issue as more than a budgetary challenge, characterising it as a development emergency and a governance concern.
He therefore urged the appropriate authorities to pay outstanding DACF arrears, settle contractors who have completed their work, and ensure that transfers to districts are automatic and predictable.
He maintained that decentralisation can only succeed when district assemblies receive adequate and timely funding to carry out development projects.
He emphasised that stalled projects directly affect ordinary citizens, since they rely on such infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, sanitation, and economic activities.
He called for renewed attention to grassroots development, insisting that national progress should not be concentrated only in major cities but extended to all communities.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Richard Appiah, the footballer who killed two children and stored part of their bodies in a fridge at Abesim in the Bono Region in 2021 has been handed a lifetime sentence.
This was after a five member panel of judges at the Accra High Court returned a verdict of guilty against the convict.
Appiah, 32, also a draughtsman would spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of murder.
More more more
BY MALIK SULLEMANA
