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President Mills Favourite In December Polls - Report
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President John Evans Atta Mills is a slight favourite in the upcoming December Presidential election, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a specialist publishing company in the United Kingdom, has said.
In its country report released on Ghana in January this year, it said the favourable economic picture of high growth and relatively low inflation was certain to inure to the advantage and benefit of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
It said the 2012 presidential election would be a repeat of the 2008 contest in which a per cent of votes separated the NDC from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the final run-off.
“The power of incumbency will, however, give some advantage to the NDC, especially in terms of spending the early oil windfall,” the report said.
Conversely, the losing side might be less inclined in accepting the results than in previous close-run elections, it noted. That the report said was likely to greatly increase domestic tension that could lead to the outbreak of violence.
“However, the country’s domestic processes are considered sufficiently well embedded to ensure that post-election unrest on the scale seen in Cote d’Ivoire or Kenya in 2007-2008 will be avoided,’ it said.
The report also said President Mills, who had struggled to maintain party unity in the lead to the NDC’s July 2011 congress, would be faced with mudslinging and squabbling between the party’s two rival factions, which could play into the hands of the opposition.
It further said 2016 could be a very different stage of development from now, providing that the oil boom was managed effectively, saying, “If this is the case, whoever wins at the December polls would have a strong chance of securing re-election. The flip side to this, it said, would be that “if development has not been viewed by the electorate as having improved enough”, then another swap in power between the NDC and NPP could be expected.
It said whereas the NDC looked set to suffer from internal rivalries should President Mills and the NDC be victorious in 2012, which would have made him serve a maximum two terms by 2016, agreeing upon a successor would probably cause tension in the party, on which the NPP could capitalize well.
Source: Daily Graphic
No commentsFormer Magistrate Evicted From Official Residence
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Former Magistrate Evicted From Official Residence
{sidebar id=10 align=right}A former Magistrate with the Madina Court, Gladys Akoto Bamfo is protesting her forceful eviction from her official residence in Accra.
Mrs. Akoto Bamfo who is almost 60 years old says the official residence she occupied for many decades is currently locked up while she sits outside with her belongings.
According to her, the residence has been allegedly sold to a private individual.
Narrating the incident, she remarked that “I was there at dawn when some people came with armed policemen, forced the door open and started taking my things out. They didn’t show me any document and all I saw was that they just forced the door open and started taking my things out,” she narrated.
Mrs. Akoto Bamfo said although the people claimed their action was based on a court order; she wasn’t invited to court before the court order was given.
She remarked that although government had given her permission to live in the house, the people still threw her belongings out of the house.
“As far as I know, the Council of State says I should not be removed until the matter is determined so the National Security came to put a sign board that this is government property so nobody should touch but they took my things out and when I wanted to remove the rest of my belongings they said no, they won’t allow me to move the rest of my belongings out.”
“The people scattered all my documents, files, law books. I have worked for the state for 40 years so if anything, this is not how the matter should be handled. The court should have also given me time to move,” Mrs. Akoto Bamfo added.
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Chiefs In Tears Over New District
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Chiefs In Tears Over New District
{sidebar id=10 align=right}The ChiefS and people of Jukwa in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira (THLD) District of the Central Region are up-in-arms against government over the creation of new districts.
The Paramount Chief of Denkyira Traditional Area, Odeefuo Boaponsem, broke down in tears after government’s failure to name Jukwa as a new district capital.
Odeefuo Boaponsem noted that President John Atta Mills had not been truthful to the people of Jukwa.
The paramount chief stated this after the announcement of the 42 newly-created districts in the country where Hemang was named as the district capital of Hemang Lower Denkyira (HLD), instead of Jukwa as they expected.
He noted that he did not understand why Jukwa had all the resources but was not given the district capital.
“They have politicised the siting of the district capital and let me tell you this, if it is about NDC, I also contributed to the formation of the party through many pieces of advice. I even gave them an office in 1992 when the country was going to become a democracy,” he said.
Odeefuo Boaponsem therefore called on President Mills to send a fact-finding independent body to the area to do a diligent investigation whether Jukwa did not qualify to be the district capital.
The people in the area who were annoyed over the siting of the district capital at Hemang had no option but to stage a four-hour peaceful demonstration in the area.
DAILY GUIDE gathered from the angry demonstrators that they regretted that their chief was now aging, adding, “Had it not been for his old age, Odeefuo would have shown the government that, he is an action man”.
The demonstrators, dressed in their red and black attires, chanted war songs and paraded through the principal streets where they were later addressed by a representative of Odeefuo, Nana Taaku III.
Addressing the irate demonstrators, Nana Taaku said the people of Jukwa would not allow the assembly to collect revenue from the place if the government did not reverse its decision.
He also warned assembly members drawn from Jukwa to withdraw their services from the assembly, adding that, none of them should attend assembly sittings and measures would be put in place to stop workers from taking revenue at the Kakum National Park.
The chief accused the Central Regional Minister, Comfort Ama Benyiwa Doe, for instigating the siting of the district capital at Hemang.
According to him, Madam Doe, during the confirmation of the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the area, was given some time to address the gathering where she openly stated that the people of Hemang and Atti-Mokwa were the NDC’s main supporters and so the government would make sure they were given the district capital.
DAILY GUIDE further gathered that traders and drivers were all dressed in red and black while economic activities were still going on.
DAILY GUIDE can state on authority that all the chiefs under the Denkyira Traditional Area attended the demonstration.
Meanwhile, three new districts have been created in the Central Region. They are Awutu, Hemang and Ekumfi districts.
From Sarah Owusu – Darlington, Jukwa
Source: The Daily Guide/Ghana
Dr. Kwabena Adjei's letter
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VERY URGENT COMMUNICATION 10th January, 2012
Your Excellency, Mr. President,
Developments within our Party, the National Democratic Congress, have become a source of grave concern to me and, I believe to all Ghanaians who love and cherish the Party that you lead. I therefore demand, with all respect, that you summon a meeting, within a week, in which the following, among others, will attend to discuss and resolve very urgent disintegrative factional dynamics and processes within the NDC before it is too late for the 2012 General Elections:
1. Flt. Lt. J. J. Rawlings (NDC Founder & Chairman of Council of Elders)
2. H. E. John Mahama (Vice President)
3. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (Member of NDC Finance Committee)
4. Professor Kofi Awoonor (Chairman of Council of State)
5. Captain Kojo Tsikata
6. Alhaji Idrissu Mahama
7. Alhaji Issifu Ali 8. Mr. J. H. Owusu-Akyeampong
9. Mr. Ato Ahwoi
10. Hon. Kwesi Ahwoi (Minister of Food & Agriculture)
11. Professor Kwamena Ahwoi
12. Mr. Kofi Totobi Quarkyi
13. Mr. P. V. Obeng
14. Mr. Kwame Peprah
15. Dr. Kwabena Adjei (NDC National Chairman)
16. Hon. Johnson Asiedu Nketia (NDC General Secretary)
17. Mr. Yaw Boateng Gyan (NDC National Organizer)
18. Naval Captain K. A. Butah (NDC Chairman of Finance Committee)
19. Mr. Kamel Norshie (NDC National Treasurer)
20. Madam Victoria Addy (NDC Member of Council of Elders).
21. Mr. Ohene Kena
22. All NDC Regional Chairmen
In the supreme interest of the Party I have, for the past three years, sincerely patiently and silently taken the position of a unifying middle liner between those who are perceived as major factions in the Party by many concerned and discerning Ghanaians, I have threaded this leadership path cautiously, hoping to keep the Party united and stable in my strong belief that it can provide an impregnable political fortress in which all members would have some unencumbered political space to realize their socio-economic aspirations.
However, most Party members do not think and feel that they have so far had that political space for which they dedicated their times, energies and resources during the 2008 electioneering campaign. Indeed, my impression is that most of our Party members do not even feel that they belong to a Party they aggressively defend.
As a person who, without resources, contributed greatly to our electoral victory all I have deserved are abuse, character assassination, blocking of my efforts and physical threats to my person.
In all honesty, I cannot personally hide the fact that I have reached the limit of my patience and tolerance. Indeed, I can no longer put up with the on-going and well-known divisive machinations and schemes that threaten to wreck the Party's very survival and my person as the popularly elected Chairman.
Mr. President, I do hope that you understand, as much as I do, the seriousness of the threat to our great Party if I am forced to go public to cleanse my assassinated character hatched within the Party, and more importantly take the needed steps to straighten up the Party itself.
Sir, I am copying this letter to the NDC Founder, Flt Lt. J. J. Rawlings, in my strong conviction that so long as he lives and commands continued grassroots support, his relevance in our Party affairs can neither be questioned nor treated with contempt.
Thank you Sir.
Yours in the service of the NDC and Mother Ghana, Hon. Dr. Kwabena Adjei
Copy: H.E. J. J. Rawlings.
NDC Founder, Accra.
Source: Dr Kwabena Agyei, NDC National Chairman
Birim River pollution: Residents ailing
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Birim River pollution: Residents ailing
Residents of communities around the Birim River in the Eastern Region are frustrated at what they say is government’s lack of action against galamsey operators there.