Press Release

Notice is hereby served the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the general public that all Akyode delegates will not participate in the 2023 NPP Parliamentary Elections scheduled for Saturday 2nd December, 2023.

It would be recalled that in a Press Conference held at the International Press Centre on Thursday 30th November, 2023, we made our position clear that henceforth, Akyodes will no

longer participate in the party’s activities including this year’s Parliamentary Primaries and the 2024 General Elections. We still stand by our decision.

This follows our registered disappointment in the leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) over their failure to provide adequate security for the celebration of our yam festival; thus, making us not only vulnerable but also victims of deadly attacks from our belligerent neighbors.

Also, the stunning silence and indifference of the party leadership and government appointees with the impression that the party neither cherishes our participation nor recognizes our in the Municipality and Region towards our plights in the current conflict situation leaves us membership in the party anymore. This denial and betrayal of trustis least expected especially from a party that Akyodes have consistently and unanimously endorsed since the beginning of constitutional rule.

Our decision is also informed by the fact that the security situation in Nkwanta remains highly volatilesince our assailants have still not been arrested; and this makes it more precarious for our people (Akyodes) who have become targets for unwarranted attacks and arrests, to participate in Saturday’s nationwide political exerciseat Nkwanta.

In the meantime, we are still mourning our people who were gruesomely murdered, and sympathizing with those whose houses and other properties were destroyed. We therefore wish to be left alone, just as we have been neglected by the party and left to our fatein our most dreadful and difficult times. We are confident, however, that with or without the party’s support, we shall triumph in the land of our ancestors.

Our votes may be immaterial to the outcome of Saturday’s Primaries. But we know that we surelycount someday. Meanwhile, we wish the party and all parliamentary aspirants
good luck.

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, submitted to the Speaker, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, the names of his deputy ministerial nominees for Parliament’s prior approval.

Also appointed is Charles Adu-Boahen as a Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance who served in President Akufo-Addo’s first term.

The list which is replete with parliamentarians also has persons who have served in the President’s first term including former National Petroleum Authority boss, Hassan Tampuli; former Deputy Energy Minister, Dr Amin Mohammed Adam and former Deputy Information Minister, Nana Dokua Asiamah Adjei among others.

President Akufo-Addo said he “is hopeful that, just as was done for his Ministers, Parliament will, on a bi-partisan basis, expedite the approval of his Deputy Ministerial nominees, so they can join the government forthwith, and assist in the delivery of his mandate for his second term in office.”

Below is the list:

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President Nana Akufo-Addo has, through the Interior Ministry, announced Monday, March 8 as a public holiday.

This, according to a statement on the ministry’s website on March 1, is because the country’s Independence Day, which is a Statutory Public Holiday, falls on a weekend.

“The general public is hereby notified that Saturday, 6th March 2021 marks Independence Day which is a Statutory Public Holiday.

“However, in view of the fact that 6th March 2021 falls on a Saturday, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, has by Executive Instrument (E.I), in accordance with section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, 2001 (Act 601) declared Monday, 8th March 2021 as a Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country,” the statement noted.

The release was signed by the Interior Minister-designate, Ambrose Dery.

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President Nana Akufo-Addo has shared some beautiful photos of himself being surrounded by pastors as he goes down for prayers.

The President, having attended the Installation and Enthronement ceremony of Rt. Rev Dr Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, as the 2nd Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Ghana, at Asante-Mampong, in the Ashanti Region on Saturday, 27th February 2021, went down on his knees for the men of God present to say a word of prayer for him – “For the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails.”

In one of the photographs from the event shared on his Facebook page, President Akufo-Addo was seen on his knees while the reverend ministers stretched forth their hands in prayer.

At the ceremony, the president broke his silence on the raging issue of same-sex intimate relations, declaring that his administration will never legalise same-sex marriage in the country.

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Communications Director of Ghana Gas Company Limited, Ernest Owusu Bempah, has rendered an unqualified apology to Chief Executive Officer of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama.

This was after an Accra High Court ordered the National Investment Bank to release funds to the tune of GHC 310,000.00 from his [Bempah] account to pay for damages for defaming the businessman. Mr Owusu Bempah is on the verge of losing his plush three-bedroom house due to his inability to raise the GH¢310,000.00 judgment debt.

He has, thus, retracted the said allegations against the businessman and pleaded for forgiveness.

Below is the full statement:

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Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament (MPs) denied themselves sleep and stormed Parliament at 4:am on Friday.

This move was to allow them to sit on the right-hand side of the Speaker of Parliament as they claimed to be the Majority in Parliament.
Photos of the Members of Parliament have flooded social media, showing many of them resting in their seats and sleeping off the spare time they had on their hands.

Many have been reacting to the photos even as the nation awaits the moment for the showdown that is expected to happen in Parliament.

Check out some reactions below:

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https://twitter.com/ManKujoe/status/1349978292791762944/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1349978292791762944%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adomonline.com%2Fsocial-media-reacts-to-npp-mps-sleeping-in-parliament-after-arriving-at-4am%2F

https://twitter.com/CheEsquire/status/1350014492348919809/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1350014492348919809%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adomonline.com%2Fsocial-media-reacts-to-npp-mps-sleeping-in-parliament-after-arriving-at-4am%2F

https://twitter.com/ChuckAyitey/status/1350018267633639425/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1350018267633639425%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adomonline.com%2Fsocial-media-reacts-to-npp-mps-sleeping-in-parliament-after-arriving-at-4am%2F

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Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, is seeking the face of God in the discharge of his duties.

He said: “The battle is always the Lord’s” during the second sitting of the 8th Parliament, Friday, January 15, 2021.
Mr Bagbin noted that his destiny is in his own hands as Speaker of Parliament but will do the work diligently with the help of God.

“I intend to live by the Oath I swore on the occasion of my election to this office, to respect, obey and abide by the will of the House. I am fully committed to being fair and impartial. The battle is always the Lord’s. Glory be to the Most High God,” he said.

The Speaker maintained that, he is fully committed to serving the House and the country faithfully and conscientiously as the Speaker for Members of Parliament and indeed all Ghanaians.

“The Speakership is not a partisan-political office. Regardless of which party nominated or voted to elect him or her, and regardless of his or her previous political background, the Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana occupies a non-partisan, impartial office,” he added.

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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Remedi Entertainment, Dan Lartey has stated on Kastle FM that the statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey that Parliament isn’t for jokes is questionable. Speaking on the Kastle Entertainment Show with Amansan Krakye monitored by ghanaian blogger, Dan Lartey fumed at the Foreign Affairs Minister following the recent incident that happened in Parliament during the election of the Speaker.

He said “Some people think that the creative arts industry is a joke. If you’d remember, before the 2020 general elections, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey came out to make a statement concerning John Dumelo’s parliamentary bid.

“She said that Parliament is not meant for jokes. So if Parliament is not for jokes then what did we see in Parliament in the last few days? What we saw happening in the Parliament of Ghana wasn’t honourable. An honourable person is someone who is well revered and respected for demonstrating a certain behaviour pattern in society, which is worthy of emulation,” he added. “And to be seeing someone who is supposed to be honourable kicking ballot boxes and others snatching ballot papers on live TV, then I think the statement made by Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey that Parliament is not for jokers or Parliament is for serious-minded people becomes questionable,” he fumed.

He concluded, “So if John Dumelo who is a creative arts person wouldn’t do that and these honourables are rather doing that, between the honourable and the creative arts industry player who deserves to be in parliament?”

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Thursday appealed to the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to remain focused and united to ensure the stability and progress of the party.

He said infighting and finger-pointing would create volatilities inimical to the party, which in turn could lend the opposition some serious political capital.

“The most important thing for us to do at this stage, is to keep together…is to reinforce our unity and maintain our morale,” he said in meeting with the NPP’s regional executives and chairmen of the constituencies in the Greater Accra Region, at the Jubilee House, Accra.

“If we are going to spend a lot of energies pointing fingers at each other, neither of those things are going to be attained,” he told them.

The President told the party officials that what should occupy them was to counter the false narratives the opposition was propagating about the outcome of the December 2020 elections.

“So I want you very much to have that in mind, you’ll have something else, very important in mind, these NDC people making so much noise, we won we won, remember they began, one time we even went to 145 seats, they could never be quite clear how many with 139, 140 , 141, 145, Mahama had won the election.

“It turned out all to be false, and we should remember, ever since Jerry John Rawlings left the presidential scene of politics in our country, no NDC presidential candidate has won more than 51 percent of the votes. His successor Mills, in his first round against Kufour 44 per cent, second round 47 per cent.

“When it came to the second time against Kufour the same figures and in 2008. When he contested against me after three rounds he got 50.03 per cent of the vote. Mahama in 2012, got 50.7, in 2016, 44 per cent of the votes, in 2020 47 per cent of the vote.

“What these figures tell us is that whenever we NPP put our acts together we win,” he stated

President Akufo-Addo reinforced the fact that “the majority is with us, so let us be very clear in our mind, our opponent with all the shouting do not have the support of the majority of the people in our country.”

“So the future of Ghana, the future of this country is in our hands. It is the function of how we behave, how we organize ourselves that will determine how the country will also move ahead,” he stressed.

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Leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus in the 8th Parliament, Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, says the Speaker agrees his side is the majority.

According to the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame Constituency, the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, who is the man at the centre, has declared the caucus the Fomena MP sides with will constitute the majority. Hence, the MP, Andrew Amoako Asiamah’s official notice to the Speaker in which he was copied validates the declaration.

The lawmaker made the disclosure in an interview on Accra-based GHOne TV.

“When we met on Tuesday, the Speaker declared the Fomena MP holds the trump card and when he makes the declaration wherever he decides to lay his head and spread his mat becomes the majority since his decision will swing the pendulum for the side he chooses to do business with,” the long-serving MP said. The Fomena MP on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, officially wrote to the Speaker on the side he will be doing business with.

Part of the letter read: “I Andrew Asiamah Amoako an independent MP for Fomena constituency and now the Second Deputy Speaker for the same parliament do hereby declare that I shall, for purposes of transacting business in the house, associate with the NPP caucus in the 8th parliament.”

However, the Suame lawmaker indicated he was still skeptical about the decision.

“I had the communication from him yesterday but I won’t put any premium on that since anything can happen and he can decide to change his mind so I will wait for tomorrow [Friday],” he added.

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