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  Parliament on Friday constituted a nine-member Adhoc Committee to investigate the procurement contracts between the Government of Ghana and Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum and one other for the supply of Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccines. Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo Markin is the chairman of the committee, and Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Ranking Member on the Health Committee is vice. The rest of the members are Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie, Chairman of the Health Committee; Mr Bernard Ahiafor, MP for Akatsi South; Mr Kwame Anyimadu Antwi, MP for Asante-Akim Central, Mr Ernest Norgbey, MP for...

Graphic Online BY: Emmanuel Bruce 705 The Parliamentary ad hoc committee probing the collapse of Unibank Ghana Limited and UT Bank has asked the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to submit its response to the issues raised by the petitioners by Tuesday, May 18, 2021. As such, the committee has also directed its clerk to make copies of the petitions available to the central bank. Upon receiving the responses from the BoG, the committee will fix a date to determine whether the petitioners and respondent will be invited to meet the committee. These decisions were agreed on when the committee held its second...

  The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus has called on the government to expedite action on the procurement and deployment of covid-19 vaccines to prevent further health risks. At an emergency press conference, the Minority complained about the delay in the arrival of the vaccines for the second dose of Covid-19 injections. ”It was expected that the vaccines would have arrived before the 28th of April so that those who had taken their first jabs could take the second jabs and those not vaccinated would get the opportunity,” Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the Ranking Member on...

  The Parliamentary Ad hoc Committee set up to probe the collapse of Unibank Ghana Limited and UT Bank has directed the petitioners to submit all the necessary documents relating to the collapse of the banks. In a letter addressed to the Member of Parliament of Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, who presented the petition on behalf of the petitioners, the committee is asking that it receives the necessary documents before April 30, 2021. “At the first meeting of the committee held on Thursday, April 22, the committee in furtherance of its mandate determined that it would require all relevan...

  Mr Kwesi Adu Gyan, Bono East Regional Minister, has expressed a commitment to making agriculture attractive to the youth in the region.      He noted that the youth were the driving force for national development and needed to be empowered through agriculture.      The region is the fourth largest agriculture producer in the country with over 95 per cent of land suitable for commercial agriculture.     Mr Gyan, who was briefing the media at Techiman in the Bono Region, explained that a long stretch of the Volta River, which serves as a natural boundary to the North and South-Eas...