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The Hohoe Magistrate Court has sentenced Esther Ofori, a provision shop owner, for her refusal to participate in communal clean-up exercsie organised by the Hohoe Municipal Assembly on the National Sanitation Day.
Her refusal is contrary to section 21 subsection 4(i), (ii) and (v) of Hohoe Municipal Assembly bye-laws- 2018.
Ofori pleaded guilty and was sentenced on her own plea to a sum of GH₵240 and will serve one-month imprisonment if she defaults.
Mr Daniel Dotse Eklo, Environmental Health Analyst, prosecuting told the court, presided over by the relieving judge Mr Lambert Y. Keriba, that the convict on Thursday, July 2, 2026, refused to participate in communal clean up exercise organised by assembly on National Sanitation Day.
He said the assembly had set every first Thursday of each month as a communal clean-up day or National Sanitation Day between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. to improve sanitation in the Hohoe township.
Mr Eklo said during the exercise days, no business premises should operate between the hours except pharmaceutical or drug stores or others that offered emergency health or humanitarian services.
He said bar keepers, chop bar operators, market traders and shop, and storekeepers using their own resources should undertake cleaning of market and sheds, clean front of their shops and desilt drains during the clean-up period.
Mr Eklo revealed that on the said day at about 9:22 a.m., when the Municipal Sanitation Taskforce was going round to supervise communal clean-up at the Atabu area, they saw the accused who had opened her store and was selling to the public.
He said her refusal to participate was unlawful hence, was subsequently served with the court summons. –GNA
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President John Dramani Mahama will be joining African heads of state, business leaders, investors and innovators shaping Africa’s next chapter, at the inaugural Alamein Africa Forum scheduled to take place from 2nd to 4th October 2026 in the historic city of Alamein on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.
The three-day Alamein Africa Forum is established as a permanent African Business Forum to convene biennially in Egypt.
It is to become the continent’s premier gathering where political power meets entrepreneurial prowess, bridging the established engines of African growth with the new sectors defining its future.
Co-organised by the Government of Egypt, African Export – Import Bank (Afreximbank), the African Union and AUDA-NEPAD, it is expected to bring together more than twenty (20) heads of state and government representatives alongside business leaders, bankers and development institutions.
Ghana’s President, who on 23rd September 2026 declared Ghana is open for business in New York after ringing the ceremonial closing bell at the Nasdaq Stock Market will be leading the Ghanaian delegation, to include the Minister for Trade, Agribusiness, and Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu – Adjare, to the forum.
Other members of the Ghanaian delegation are the Head and Presidential Advisor for Ghana’s 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Programme, Hon. Augustus Goosie Tanoh, Ghana’s Special Envoy to the Alliance of Sahel States, Colonel Larry Gbevlo – Lartey alongside key Ghanaian private sector players.
Bringing together leaders in politics, business and policy from across the continent, the Alamein Africa Forum will provide a unique opportunity to shape Africa’s growth agenda by aligning policy and investment priorities, mobilising partnerships for implementation and strengthening financing and investment pathways.
The private sector must become an integral part of Agenda 2063, the African Union’s strategic fifty-year masterplan to transform the continent. The private sector is the core economic engine required to turn the African 2063 from an aspirational government roadmap into realized infrastructure, jobs, and value-added trade.
By Chris KONEY
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Contractors move to site to begin construction of 120-Bed Trauma Hospital at Bole – Felix Kwakye Ofosu
Minister for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has revealed that contractors have moved to site to begin construction of a 120-bed Specialised Trauma and Emergency Hospital at Bole in the Savannah Region.
According to the Minister, the 16,000 square metre facility will be equipped with modern medical infrastructure to provide emergency and trauma care.
The hospital will have a 24-hour Accident and Emergency Unit, trauma resuscitation bays, emergency operating theatres, an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a High Dependency Unit (HDU).
It will also include specialised trauma wards, a burns treatment unit, orthopaedic and surgical units, as well as imaging and diagnostic facilities, among others.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
