Prof Kwesi Aning of KAIPTC
Prof Kwesi Aning of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, KAIPTC, says Ghanaians need not be hypocritical about the recent murder in Kasoa of an 11-year-old boy by his teenage friends.
According to him, society has long shirked the responsibility of making demands of the sources of people’s wealth but rather celebrate people with unexplained wealth.
GhanaWeb monitored Prof Aning’s submissions on Accra-based Joy FM’s Friday night news program, Ghana Connects, during which he stressed the need for a paradigm shift in how society viewed wealth.
“If these boys had been successful, and as one of them said by Friday, Saturday he had bought that Land Rover, society would have glorified them.
Pollster, Ben Ephson
Pollster Ben Ephson has said that Northerners who have supported the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are expecting that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is made the flagbearer of the NPP for 2024 election.
According to him, these individuals are following the happenings in the party with keen interest if the party snubs Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for another Akan, they will come to the realization that they are only good for votes in the NPP.
Ben Ephson who was speaking in an interview on Accra-based Joy FM said “If NPP settles for another Akan, there is going to be that feeling from persons from the Northern regions who have been voting for the NPP that the NPP uses and dumps them especially when the late Aliu Mahama (may he rest in peace) got less than 7 percent in the 2007 presidential race of the NPP. So that could lead the people to think that they only use them for votes and judging from 2020, the Northern regions gave the NPP quite a fair number of seats”.
Sophia Akuffo, immediate past Chief Justice of Ghana
The immediate past Chief Justice of Ghana, Sophia Akuffo, says Asawase lawmaker, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, has defamed all Supreme Court justices in the country with his bribery allegation.
The NDC lawmaker has claimed a Supreme Court judge made an offer through a phone conversation to a member of the NDC caucus in Parliament to vote for former Speaker Aaron Mike Oquaye during the Speakership contest.
He has subsequently insisted he will back the claim with evidence if need be. Professor Oquaye lost the Speakership position to the NDC candidate Alban Bagbin.
Commenting on the development, Madam Akuffo said the allegation upsets her.
According to him, Ghanaians must pay for the free provision of water and electricity introduced by the government in 2020 as part of the relief packages to bring financial and social relief and reduce the continued ravaging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. It [Water and electricity] was free to the people of Ghana at the time, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah said on Accra-based Joy FM. When we say free electricity it doesn’t mean that the IPP producer is also going to say because the President has said free electricity I won’t charge for it, he added.
Speaking on the 2021 budget statement presented in Parliament on Friday, March 12, 2021, he justified the introduction of three levies and the decision by the government to increase taxes.
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