A five-member Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development has inspected the construction of Courts Complex and Residential accommodation for the Judiciary at Kadjebi being funded from the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
Mr Emmanuel Kwesi Gyamfi, Chairman of the Committee, speaking at the projects sites, said as part of their mandate and oversight responsibility, they were in the District to verify and inspect the progress of projects being funded by the DACF.
“This the Committee believes would equip it with first-hand information to prepare a comprehensive report for the consideration of the House before the consideration of the 2021 formulae for the distribution of the DACF”, he said.
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Bosses at Newton Rigg have rejected claims by a campaign group that answers are still awaited by the group of MPs who quizzed them.
Newton Rigg Ltd, which wants to open a new college on the existing campus near Penrith, said that stakeholders “submitted a large number of questions to the Select Committee” to be answered by Askham Bryan College, and the answers are still awaited.
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Making Of A “Free Crime” Zone
Basil Fernando
Social reformers in some countries have spoken about crime free zones. This meant putting special effort to experiment with the possibility of making a particular area within a country crime free. The purpose of doing that is to create a model which would gradually spread into the whole country so that the crime would be reduced or eliminated gradually.
This same idea is embedded in the making of criminal justice systems. The idea of control of a crime through proper criminal investigations through competent and confident officers, through impartial prosecution systems and a judiciary that will uphold the basic principles of fair trial are all meant to reduce crime drastically if not for altogether eliminating crimes.
Friday, 7 May 2021, 5:25 am
It’s disappointing the Government has chosen to block
an inquiry into the increasing violence being experienced in
our prisons, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon
Brown says.
Mr Brown says that since Kelvin Davis
became Minister of Corrections there has been a 92 per cent
increase on prisoner assaults on corrections officers and a
30 per cent increase in prisoner on prisoner
assaults.
The number of corrections officers requiring
medical treatment from prisoner assaults has also increased
by an alarming 80 per cent since 2017.
The
Parliamentary Select Committee inquiry would’ve
investigated:
· Any influence gangs are having on the
violence in our prisons
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MAY 6, 2021
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Science and Technology believe Ghana does not need to send a delegation anywhere for studies before the sanitation challenges in the country can be solved.
Dr. Emmanuel Marfo said Ghana has the expertise and the men to ensure the nation is free of filth but the expertise is not put into use.
A delegation from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA ) and Africa Environmental Sanitation Consult (AFESC), the research and consultancy firm of Jospong Group of Companies and Sanitation giants, Zoomlion, are currently in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to understudy that country’s waste management system and good environmental and sanitation practices.