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Remember your promise to us -Traders remind Nana Addo
Informal Hawkers and Vendors Association of Ghana (IHVAG) and Greater Accra Market Association (GAMA), two traders’ associations, are imploring President Akufo-Addo to remember his promise to traders at the Odawna Market and other markets whose businesses had been ravaged by fire.
The IHVAG and GAMA entreated the President to take immediate steps to implement his promise on November 19, last year, to support the over 3,000 affected traders who lost their means of livelihoods in the Odawna Market fire with grant funding through the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI).
Contained in a press statement authored by Anas Ibrahim, President of IHVAG, and Mercy Needjan, President of GAMA, and copied to
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The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has disbursed GH¢37 million to creative arts practitioners who applied for loans under the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme Business Support Scheme (CAP BuSS).
The 24,464 beneficiaries have since invested their share of the fund in their respective businesses to save the sector from the negative impact of the COVID-19.
The beneficiaries, who received between GH¢1,000 and GH¢200,000, are from 12 creative arts associations which were supported by the Creative Arts Agency (CAA).
They include people in the garment and textiles sub-sector, photographers, hairdressers and beauticians, musical instruments and electronic dealers, furniture makers, music producers, event and meeting professionals, artisans, smock and Kente weavers, leather dealers and makers, goldsmiths and jewellers, musicians and film producers.
The Majority in Parliament has described as mischievous the accusation by the Minority that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is insensitive to the plight of tertiary students and parents in the payment of fees.
It said the government had since 2009 been subsidising 70 per cent of the various fees paid by students, including the academic facility user fees.
“So whatever bill a student (whether a fresher or continuing student) is given is subsidised. So for our colleagues to give the impression that we do not support the urgent need to provide some relief for our students at the tertiary level is most misconceived,” it stated.