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OB Nartey picks nomination form
Renowned broadcaster, Kwame Obimpeh Nartey has today picked nomination form to contest in the up coming New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary primaries in search for a candidate for the Adentan Constituency.
Kwame OB Nartey and his team yesterday marched to the Adentan NPP party headquarters to pick their nomination forms. 
The team was received by the Chairman, Joseph Acolatse and Ebenezer Nyedu Bediako, Secretary of the Adentan Constituency at the party’s constituency headquarters.
Speaking at the ceremony, the chairman and secretary expressed their gratitude and admiration for our candidate and urged the team to be decorous in our campaigns and not to resort to charlatanism and cynicism as deployed by other candidates.
OB Nartey also expressed his joy and appreciation to the party’s executives for opening their doors, and also seized the opportunity to reiterate his commitment and visions for the constituency.
He also appealed to all party faithfuls to regard him as their best candidate, determined and capable of winning our parliamentary seat come December, 2024.
Constituency delegates present were ecstatic at the event and prided themselves and for the party, to see OB Nartey successfully pick his nomination forms.
They declared that, “this is our first step in our determination to rescue our lost seat from the opposition party and build the flourishing Adentan we want for ourselves.”
“We humbly urge all and sundry to join our team in our efforts to win the upcoming primaries and ultimately climax that with an overwhelming victory come 2024,” they added.
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.
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BY MALIK SULLEMANA
