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The Spectator story yields result …teacher confined to wheel chair gets support for surgery abroad
A physically ‘incapacitated’ but a dedicated female teacher whose condition was highlighted by The Spectator, not long ago, has got financial support from some well-meaning individuals and institutions to seek further medical care abroad.
Ms Felicia Kwakye, 51, is presently at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in, Stanmore, London for medical care.
“For the first time in many months, I am able to climb to the first floor of the house where I am currently recuperating”, she said.
The teacher was confined to a wheel chair due to complications of post poliomyelitis.
Ms Felicia Kwakye after undergoing her first total knee replacementsaid, “thesurgery has straightened my bow leg and twisted foot and this has made me so happy. The pains in my cervical and lumbar spines have reduced drastically and I am presently undergoing an intensive physiotherapy session to aid my mobility.”
She is extremely grateful to everyone that helped raise the money including the Holy Child School Old Students Association.
The Spectator covered a story with the headline “Polio confines female teacher to wheel chair, she needs urgent help to undergo surgery”.
By God’s grace and the help of well-meaning individuals and institutions, Ms Felicia Kwakye’s first part of the surgery costing £18, 400.00 aside physiotherapy expenses, (which is £375 a week) has been successfully done in London.
She will be due for another surgery on the left leg which will take place in three to four months, at a cost of £16, 000.00(minus the post-surgery care).
She, therefore, appeals to all well-meaning individuals and institutions to again help her raise the money for her next surgery to enable her to walk and work to contribute her quota to national development.
Any financial help to Ms Felicia Kwakye can be sent to Mobile Money 0244092136. Name of the account holder is Anastasia Adoma Kenyah.
By Portia Hutton-Mills
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
