The Centre for Freedom and Accuracy (CFA), a freedom and accountability non-governmental organisation (NGO), last week reminded Ghanaians of what can best be described as a premeditated sieve under the economic iota of the country – the Tema Harbour. According to the CFA’s investigations, a network of corrupt national security personnel, customs officials, other [...]
President John Dramani Mahama announced the formation of an inter-ministerial task force on illegal small-scale mining last month. Inaugurating the controlling panel, President Mahama lamented that the menace of illegal small-scale mining was threatening to become a national security issue, and that if care was not taken, it would lead to lawlessness. He, therefore, [...]
Cabinet has reportedly approved amendments to The Whistleblower Act to widen the net of protection to non-government employees who may wish to report crimes in their places of work, including corrupt practices, to the security agencies. Henceforth, whistleblowers working in the private sector would be shielded from victimisation and vilification from their employers for [...]
On June 4, 2013, the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) issued a statement announcing the arrest in the United States of Mr. Solomon Adelaquaye, Managing Director of Sohin Security Services Limited, the company in charge of security at our premier airport, Kotoka International. According to the NACOB statement, Adelaquaye and three others – two Nigerians and [...]
Electricity consumers may be said to be currently between the devil and the deep blue sea. While they have been suffocating in mosquito-ridden pitch darkness for the past six months, the power service providers, whose middle name could well be said to be “Inefficient”, have submitted proposals to the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) for [...]
Pre-June 4, 2013, it was widely expected that Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, who providentially led the June 4, 1979 revolt in the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), would throw a bombshell, as is usually his wont on such occasions. In the event, he did not disappoint, but went a step forward, which seems to suggest that [...]
The Government of Ghana has reportedly reached agreement for an US$8 million housing loan with the Government of China. Though the US$8 million have allegedly been received, the loan agreement has not been laid before Parliament for approval as required by law. The China Railway Engineering Design Institute Co. Ltd is pencilled as the [...]
Tongues have been wagging overtime as to whodunit, following the shocking revelation in President John Dramani Mahama’s State-of-the-Nation Address that the meat of Ghana has been “chopped to the bare bone.” The questions multiplied and took on lives of their own with the second disclosure in the 2013 Budget Statement that the projected budget [...]
The High Command of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), last weekend, launched a major campaign to launder its image. It published a list 22 erring service personnel who have been meted justice or undergoing trial in both its own channels and the civilian court judicial system. In a statement signed by its Public Affairs Director, [...]
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), last week exposed one of its officers as being a conduit pipe for illegal Chinese immigrants who have become a menace in the gold-mining areas of the country. The culprit, identified as an Immigration Control Officer (ICO), is said to be responsible for the entry of 15 illegal Chinese into [...]