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Women advised to contribute quota to national development
The Coordinating Director of the Wa Municipal Assembly in the Upper West Region, Pognaa Fati Koray has encouraged women to get involved in civic engagement to ensure that they contribute their quota to the development of the country.
She, however, bemoaned the low participation of women in communal, governance and national issues particularly in the municipality, and called on them to offer themselves for engagements that would lead to national cohesion and development.
The director indicated that out of a total of 44 assembly members in the municipality, only four were women and lamented further that only one out of the four, was elected.
Pognaa Koray who is the queen of Chansa community in the Wa Municipality stated this at a programme aimed at whipping up the interest of women in national discourse at Charia, on Tuesday.
The Programme which was at the instance of ProNet North, a non-governmental organisation in the region was on the theme “Women empowerment, a key mechanism for transforming our tomorrow”.
She explained that civic engagement was the individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern.
She cited voting, volunteerism, and participation in activities such as tree planting, communal labour as well as discussions on communal and national issues as programmes women should actively participate.
“It is interesting to know that there are myriad of issues ranging from social to political and economic that affect citizens globally and need the involvement of women in civic engagement to help address those issues.
“We need women to lead the fort in fighting against societal issues such as early marriage, open defaecation, child labour and trafficking, teenage pregnancies and domestic violence”, she charged.
She encouraged men to support women to engage in national discourse and allow them to participate in politics without criticisms and name calling.
For her part, Head of Programmes of the ProNet North, Ms Catherine Amissah also appealed to men to reduce the workload on women so that they would be able to make time for other individual and social events.
“Sometimes it is not as if the women are not interested in social activities, they are just unable to make time for them due to their heavy work schedule at home”, she said.
She advised women to pursue education and skills training so that they would be better placed to take up responsibilities that required specific skills and qualifications, if the need arose.
From Lydia Darlington Fordjour, Charia
Miniser for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has revealed a major shake up at Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) following recent power outages.
In a post on Facebook, Felix Kwakye Ofosu disclosed that Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor has asked the CEO of GRIDCo to step aside pending investigations into fire incident at Akosombo power control center.
Also, he further noted that there has been a major shake up in the leadership of the ECG in the Ashanti Region.
“At 2pm tomorrow, Minister for Energy and Green Transition, Hon John Jinapor, will hold a major briefing on recent developments in electricity distribution,” he concluded.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
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Abu Trica’s extradition case: Prophets, fetish priests demand pay for spiritual solution …Lawyer reveals
Mr Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a lawyer for embattled Frederick Kumi, affectionately called Abu Trica and has made a shocking revelation over the behaviour of some members of the clergy.
According to him in a post on social media, the difficult part of Abu Trica’s trial is not the law but the number of ‘Men of God’ and fetish priests demanding financial sacrifices to help resolve the matter spiritually.
Oliver Barker-Vormawor posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2026, “The most difficult part about the Abu Trica case; is not the law.”
He continued: “It is the number of, prophetesses, evangelists and fetish priests, who have called or messaged to ask us to pay for spiritual solutions.”
It would be recalled that in March this year, the Gbese District Court dismissed a preliminary objection filed by Abu Trica, challenging the extradition proceedings initiated at the request of the United States.
The court, presided over by Anna Akosua Appiah Gottfried Anaafi Gyasi, in its ruling held that the offences forming the basis of the extradition, particularly wire fraud, constitute extraditable offences under the 1931 treaty between Ghana and the United States.
He was then given 15 days counting from March 27 to appeal the decision of the court or be surrendered for extradition to the US.
Against this backdrop, he was on Tuesday, April 22, granted a bail in the sum of GH¢30,000,000 by an Accra High, pending the appeal of his extradition
Mr Kumi was arrested in Ghana in December 2025 following an indictment by United States authorities, alleging that he played a role in a romance scam network that defrauded elderly American victims of more than $8 million.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
