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NPP Super Delegate Polls: Voting underway in 17 centres

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Voting is underway at all 17 voting centres across the country.

The voting is taking place in all 16 regions of the country and the National Headquarters, bringing the total to 17 centres.

A total of 961 members of the special electoral college are voting to select five out of the ten candidates for the main presidential primaries on November 4, 2023.

The Special Electoral College shall comprise the following Delegates:
i. The National Council
ii. The National Executive Committee
iii. All Regional Executive Committee
iv. All Members of the National Council of Elders
v. All the Party Members of Parliament
vi. Three (3) representatives of each of the special organs of the Party
vii. Past National Officers
viii. Three (3) representatives each from every external branch (27 Branches in all)
ix. Founding Members during the registration of the Party at the Electoral Commission
x. All Party Card bearing Ministers.

Below are the various voting centres across the 16 regions.

a. Ashanti KNUST, Kumasi
b. Ahafo Pastoral Centre, Goaso
c. Bono Pastoral Centre, Sunyani
d. Bono East Ameyaw-Akumfi Social Centre, Techiman
e. Central Pempamsie Hotel, Cape Coast
f. Eastern Eastern Premier, K’dua
g- Greater Accra Accra Senior High School
h. Northern Region Radach Hotel, Tamale
i. North East Nelerigu Secondary School
j- Savannah Damango Youth Centre
k. Upper East Ganas Hotel, Bolgatanga
1. Upper West Upland Hotel, Wa
m. Oti Dambai College of Education
n. Volta Pastoral Centre, Ho
o. Western Regional Library, Takoradi
P- Western North Villa Boakye Hotel, Sefwi-Wiawso

 

NPP Special Delegates vote: Who Make The Five Morrow?

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MAXWELL OFORI
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The leading contestants from left - Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen

The atmosphere appears tensed ahead of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) special delegates’ conference tomorrow, which will see some 961 eligible voters casting their ballots to select five out of the ten presidential aspirants of the party.

All ten candidates have been criss-crossing the entire nation, enticing the delegates to vote for them.  Saturday, August 26, 2023, secret ballot is in accordance with Article 12 (5) (b) of the NPP constitution, as amended in 2009.

That portion states that “where there are more than five contestants for nomination as the party’s presidential candidate, a special electoral college shall cast their votes by secret ballot for the first five contestants to be short-listed.”

POSITION BALLOT

The ballot paper for the special delegates’ election has Kennedy Agyapong as number one; Alan Kyerematen as number two; Joe Ghartey, number three; Kwadwo Poku, four and Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto as number five.

The rest are Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, number six; Francis Addai-Nimoh, number seven; Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, number eight; Boakye Agyarko, number nine and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, number 10.

VICTORY

Several surveys have tipped the Vice President, Dr. Bawumia, to have a landslide victory, but not ruling out the possibility of surprises from either the former Minister for Trades and Industry or the Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong.

For instance, a survey conducted by Outcomes International Ghana and the Center for Sustainable African Development Initiatives (C-SADI) UK, project a 72 percent victory for Dr. Bawumia tomorrow.

According to the survey, Alan Cash will follow Bawumia with 7.7 percent, Ken Agyapong will be third with 4.3 percent, Kwabena Agyepong will be fourth with 1.8 percent and Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto will take the fifth place with 0.6%.

MESSAGES

The five, as projected by the survey, have separate messages going into November 4, 2023 and by extension 2024.

Dr. Bawumia boasts of his achievements in the last six years as vice president to convince delegates that he could do more as the main man, the president.

He cites the implementation of the national identification system, the drone for medical supply, mobile money interoperability, the digital address system and the Zongo Development Fund, among others.

“If I have been able to achieve all these as vice president, imagine what I can do when I become president with your support,” he told delegates in Asankare, Asante-Akim South Constituency, during his Ashanti Region campaign tour.

 

Mr Alan Kyerematen, a few days after resigning from government, announced what he termed the Great Transformational Plan to transform the country.

According to him, his policies mainly focus on industry, agriculture, economics, governance, and security within a five-year period spanning 2025–2030.

The Assin North MP, Ken Agyapong, is campaigning on job creation. He tells the delegate to consider the fact that as a private person he has created several jobs and employed a lot of Ghanaians, adding that he would run Ghana like a business until an unprecedented transformation.

Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, the former Press Secretary under Kufuor, who later became General Secretary of the NPP, launched his campaign with a six-point strategy to tackle the country’s economic challenges.

“In this New Dawn, I envision a Ghana that is economically robust and resilient, fiscally responsible, socially cohesive and fully accountable to the good people,” he stated as he outlined his strategy.

The former Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, is in the contest with his track record as the agriculture minister.

He has thus promised to leverage the potential of the agricultural sector to turn the economic fortunes of the country around.

Meanwhile, some have said that a premium should not be placed on the hierarchy of the five at the special delegate vote.

Akoto to delegates: show me your love

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Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto

A flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has appealed to the 961 super delegates of the party to have faith in him by voting massively for him to be among the five candidates that will be shortlisted for the November 4 showdown.

In his message to the super delegates ahead of Saturday, August 26, 2023 polls, Dr. Akoto said now is the time for the kingmakers of the party to show him some love, after doing so much to the progress of the party.

He reminded them of his vision for the party and the country and noted that he has the wherewithal to revive the UP tradition and ensure its growth where the sufferings of its activists will be no more.

According to the former two-terms Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso, his vision of establishing commercial businesses to generate revenue to finance activities of the party at all levels, whilst creating job opportunities for the unemployed, stands tall among the ten candidates vying for the flagbearer position of the party, since it is sustainable and attainable.

“I am appealing to you, the super delegates, to vote for me. When you vote for me, I have envisioned two things to do; one for the party and the other for the country. All of us are aware of what happened in the 2016 general elections.

“In the Presidential, our then candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo beat the then incumbent President, John Mahama, with over 900,000 votes. But when we went to the 2020 general elections, when everyone was expecting a wider margin between these two presidential candidates, the over 900,000 votes was cut down to a little over 500,000. We nearly lost the parliamentary majority seats. We are now pegged at 137 with the Independent Parliamentary candidate, Amoako Asiamah, declaring to do business with the NPP for us to become the Majority Group”, he noted.

He added that: “these happenings tell us that all was not well, largely because our grassroots were abandoned. When you talk to them, almost everyone is complaining. This makes breaking the eight-year governance cycle very difficult, hence, my decision to contest for the flagbearer position to turn things around. So, I am appealing to you once again to show me some love and vote massively for me. I will ensure to work hard to reform the party for all to enjoy”, he underscored.

He said women and the youth will play leading roles in his government, when elected to lead the NPP and subsequently as President of the Republic of Ghana.

A total of 10 aspirants are contesting for the flagbearer race of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).

By Stephen Odoi-Larbi

Money Van driver in court for allegedly stealing GH¢106k

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BERNICE BESSEY
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A driver of Edern Security Services, Emmanuel Adenyo, is alleged to have stolen a cash amount of GH¢106,570.19 belonging to Shoprite, Junction Mall, meant to be deposited with the Standard Chartered Bank and spent part to buy a Hyundai Grace van.

Adenyo has been arrested and put before an Accra Circuit, presided over by Mr. Isaac Addo, yesterday for stealing, but pleaded not guilty to the charge. The court has granted him bail in the sum of GH¢120,000 with two sureties to be justified with landed property.

The accused is being prosecuted by Chief Inspector Jonas Lawer.

Narrating the facts of the case to the court, C/Insp. Lawer stated that the case was reported to the police by Michael Asamoah-Duku, Head of Cash in Transit at Edern Security Services.

According to him, the accused was put in charge of the company’s Fiat Money Van, which he, together with two tellers and a police officer, were assigned to pick up monies on behalf of Standard Chartered Bank from its customers.

But, on July 25, 2023, the security company received a complaint from Standard Chartered Bank that the management of Shoprite, Junction Mall, had informed them that cash in the sum of GH¢106,570.19 that was picked up from its outlet on July 4, had not been credited to their account.

Based on that information, the security company conducted its own investigation and detected that it was the van of the accused that picked up the money from Shoprite, Junction Mall, on the day in question.

The prosecutor said the accused confessed to the crime after he was interrogated, together with the other people on board the van that fateful day by his employers. He managed to steal one sack of money and carried it home after close of work on July 4. A formal complaint was then made to the police on August 8, and the accused was arrested.

The accused admitted the offence in his caution statement in the presence of an independent witness that he stole a sack of money containing cash of GH¢106,570.19, and then destroyed the cash deposit slips, as well as the schedule covering the cash.

The accused allegedly admitted during investigation that he used GH¢46,000.00 of the amount to purchase a Hyundai Grace van with registration number WR 2391-13.

His Honour Addo was also told that the police was able to retrieve the van and cash of GH¢37,616.00 from him.

The court further heard that it was after investigations that Adenyo was charged with the offence and put before it. The case was adjourned to September 25 for continuation.

GRA arrests more business owners for tax evasion

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BERNICE BESSEY
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Rev Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, GRA boss

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has arrested more business owners in Accra for tax evasion. The latest of these companies arrested by the GRA are Dorley Company Limited, Aqua Scape, 69 Bridge Enterprise, Aqua Professionals and Rozy’s Collections.

They were arrested yesterday by the GRA Accra Central Area Enforcement Team at East Legon, yesterday.

The Head of Accra Central Enforcement Unit of the GRA, Assistant Commissioner Joseph Annan, said the arrests was part of the Authority’s special enforcement effort to ensure voluntary tax compliance by businesses and eligible taxpayers,

He told journalists that the GRA was using enforcement as a tool to leave no escape route for taxpayers in the country.

According to him, the commonest offences businesses indulged in were non-tax registration, selective issuance of tax invoices, and non-issuance of tax invoices.

Mr. Annan added that the Authority had a remedy to these offences by conducting a pre-empt assessment from the period the tax offenders were supposed to register, declare and make payment to the GRA.

He explained that the pre-emptive assessment was to serve as a basis for future payout, and the infractions would also come with a cost to the business owner.

“The law talks about going back to when they were supposed to have been registered. So if they were supposed to have registered like three years ago and they failed to do so. Then once we register them, we will go back to when they were supposed to have registered and we will assess them from that time to date,” he stressed.

Representatives of the errand companies were also picked up by the taskforce and it was expected that the CID would take them to their office to take their statements, after which they would be registered and assessed bt the pre-emptive unit.

The deputy Commissioner also informed the public about the rolling out of other programmes that would complement the special enforcement exercise, and this includes invoice invigilation and night market compliance checks.

He said the programmes were to make sure that taxpayers complied with the laws.

Pfizer creates awareness on antibiotic abuse

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BERNICE BESSEY
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Pfizer

Prof. Kwame Ohene Buabeng, a Clinical Pharmacologist and a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for critical action against the use of antibiotics.

He said the abuse of antibiotics has given rise to public health concern in Ghana and other parts of the African continent.

Prof Buabeng indicated at a round table media discussion on Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship orgainsed by Pfizer on Zoom yesterday, that the patients are currently not responding to treatment because their bodies have developed resistance to the medication.

He added that this trend has been attributed to drug abuse, over dosage, wrong pescriptions and noncompeting medication course.

According to him, the challenge is not limited to public health but the agriculture sector where livestock, poultry and fishes are given cocktail of antibiotics, which are passed on to their human consumers.

Therefore, a combined effect of being exposed these animal products and factors mentioned above will cost patients more on treatment, and longer admission at the hospital as well as recovery or even death.

He noted with worry that Artesunate-amodiaquine may no longer treat malaria like Chloroquine because of these very reasons, “it is a shame the first and second generation (of antibiotics) is no longer effective.”

Prof Buabeng added that Ghana needs to adopt a policy to address this as emergency public health concern, especially when it lacks the capacity to develop new or more potent antibiotics.

He said the development need massive public awareness, education and policy to cause change the country’s health ecosystem.

“Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health. It increases morbidity and mortality, and is associated with high economic costs due to its health care burden. Infections with multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria also have substantial implications on clinical and economic outcomes.

Moreover, increased indiscriminate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic will heighten bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths. This review highlights AMR’s scale and consequences, the importance, and implications of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) to fight resistance and protect global health. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), an organizational or system-wide health-care strategy, is designed to promote, improve, monitor, and evaluate the rational use of antimicrobials to preserve their future effectiveness, along with the promotion and protection of public health. ASP has been very successful in promoting antimicrobials’ appropriate use by implementing evidence-based interventions.

“The “One Health” approach, a holistic and multisectoral approach, is also needed to address AMR’s rising threat. AMS practices, principles, and interventions are critical steps towards containing and mitigating AMR. Evidence-based policies must guide the “One Health” approach, vaccination protocols, health professionals’ education, and the public’s awareness about AMR.”

Dr. Yaw Ampem Amoakoa, Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the KNUST, Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician and Research Scientist at Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), assessed the economic impact of Antimicrobial Resistance on the country.

According to him, 60 per cent of outpatient people do not need antibiotics but the challenge can be address through public awareness and education, as well as multi-sectoral and multi-discipline approach.

He explained that medication is not administered in a vacuum but upon a thorough examination that it may not result in other health complications.

Dr. Amoako emphasized on the importance of antimicrobial stewardship programmes, which improve patient outcomes, reduce AMR and health-care-associated infections, and save health-care costs amongst others.

“With rates of AMR increasing worldwide, and very few new antibiotics being developed, existing antibiotics are becoming a limited resource. It is therefore essential that antibiotics only be prescribed – and that last-resort antibiotics (AWaRe RESERVE group) be reserved – for patients who truly need them. Hence, AMS and its defined set of actions for optimizing antibiotic use are of paramount importance.”

Dr. Kodjo Soroh, Medical Director West Africa Pfizer explained that AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.

He said AMR is one of the biggest threats to global health today and can affect anyone, of any age, in any country and if it continues to rise unchecked, minor infections could become life- threatening, serious infections could become impossible to treat, and many routine medical procedures could become too risky to perform.

Without action by governments, industry, and society, AMR is expected to cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050.

Make or break for the New Patriotic Party 

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Stephen Ayensu-Ntim, National Chairman, NPP

Tomorrow is the day the ten presidential aspirant hopefuls justify their inclusion in the selection for the final race slated for November 4, 2023. It is a tough moment for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), which has a history of dividing the party, to the extent of costing them the 2008 presidential election after 17 candidates contested to lead the party.

The NPP could not patch all the cracks created after 2008, which led to – then candidate Nana Akufo-Addo – losing to the late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

President Kufuor had managed to build a solid economic foundation after taking over from the Rawlings administration. When President Kufuor, aka Gentle Giant, took over, Ghana was in a dire economic situation and a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC), forcing him to access the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank initiative of HIPC, aimed at reducing the debt burden for heavily indebted poor countries.

The new administration also had to travel to Nigeria to plead for crude because the Obsanjo government had cut supplies to Ghana, due to non-payment and accumulation of debts by the then NDC regime. After signing an undertaking at the instance of Obasanjo, in the presence of his cabinet, that Ghana would not default again, Nigeria restored supply with 30,000 barrels of crude per day on credit for the entire eight-year period.

The Gentle Giant had to redenominate the Ghanaian currency, together with other initiatives, thereby ending his tenure with a growth rate of 6.3% from an abysmal 3.7%.

The NPP had gained the goodwill of the masses, until the flag-bearer contest for Kufuor’s replacement shattered all hopes to break the eight in 2008. Not even the promise by then-candidate Akufo-Addo to introduce a free senior high school could save the party.

Considering the events of the 2008 presidential primaries, the party amended its constitution on August 22, 2009 to ensure that no more than five people competed for the slot at the National Delegates Congress.

Article 12 (5) (b) of the NPP constitution, as amended in 2009, reads: “Where there are more than five contestants for nomination as the party’s presidential candidate, a special electoral college shall cast their votes by secret ballot for the first five contestants to be short-listed.”

The Stephen Ayensu Ntim-led national executives have assured that they will work to bind the party together before, during, and after the crucial primaries to strengthen the NPP even more ahead of 2024.

In the last few months of active campaigning, the aspirants have been carrying the message of their competence in transforming the NPP and the nation at large.

The campaigns have not been without religious and ethnic attacks, as well as discrediting the government, compelling the party to issue several warnings to candidates and their supporters to be decorous.

The events leading to the mode of election and venue selection, which had nine of the aspirants, except the Vice President, Dr. Bawumia, petitioning the party leadership, could be a warning on the wall.

We think it is grievous for aspirants to speak ill of the performance of the government in a subtle move to discredit a particular candidate. None of the aspirants can absorb themselves, since after the primaries they cannot but campaign in 2024 on the records and achievements of the current government.

We think that in the arena of politics, discrediting the government formed out of the party you are spending resources to lead, is like freely arming your opponent to punch you harder.

The opposition would do well to urge you on till you win the primaries, and they would replay your own statements and clips to disarm you in the general elections.

Already, the government is not in the good books of the masses owing to the painful implementation of IMF conditions. The least the aspirants can do is to concentrate on their competence and plan for the country instead of roping in the government.

If the NPP really wants to break the eight in the face of the economic hardship, how it comes out more united after the August 26 and November 4, 2023polls would be the starting point.

Opinion: NPP Electoral College and Super Delegates Congress

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NPP

In 2007, the NPP conducted Presidential Primaries with 2,285 out of an estimated 2,326 delegates, voting to elect the flag bearer. The party administration at that time, later felt the need to expand the Electoral College, because of the perception that such a number of people can be bought by any aspirant who is loaded with cash to spray about.

In 2007, the Electoral College was made up of ten delegates from each constituency that came up to 2,300, considering the 230 constituencies at that time.

The idea of expanding the Electoral College was very good, since it would spread the democratic tendencies of the NPP. So, from 2008, all five executives of the polling stations in every constituency became delegates. In the event that there were 30,000 polling stations in the country, the grassroot base in the NPP will be 150,000 delegates. That was such good news.

Then the National Executive Council came out with an elite group of electorates, to be called Super Delegates who will prune down the number of aspirants, if they exceeded five, which was now the acceptable limit for the Presidential Primaries.

And here is what does not add up. During the 2014 Super Delegates Conference, 787 people, made up of constituency chairpersons, national executive committee members, funding members and members of the Council of Elders, formed the Super Delegates Electoral College. These people were mandated to prune down the number of aspirants from seven to five, which they did.

Now assuming, as was said that 2,500 people can easily be bought by any filthy rich aspirant, then what cannot be done with barely 800 delegates? The fear here is that any aspirant with the backing of the National Executive Committee can be given a list of those to make sure they make it to the Presidential Primaries. With this, is it not likely that the very popular aspirants, who can win over the Ghanaian electorates but are not in the good books of the powers that be, can be conveniently removed, democratically?

Tomorrow, Saturday August 26, 2023 would be the second of such Super Delegates Conference of the NPP and less than 900 delegates will make up the Electoral College. I am told they are 891. The main congress for the Presidential Primaries, slated for November this year, has about 190,000 delegates coming from the grassroot base, the polling stations alone. And 891 people are going to indicate to them which set of five aspirants they are to choose the flag bearer from.

To me, this Super Delegates concept should be scrapped because it is not democratic enough. How can the elite decide for the masses, in a democracy, who have got equal votes as they have, on the day that matters most, the General Elections Day.

If NPP is to showcase its unchallenged democratic tendencies as liberal democrats, then it should come out with a selection process that will involve all who matter in the Party. To begin with, loyal people who had once served in government and in Parliament, talking about former MPs, ministers, deputy ministers, CEOs, etc. etc., are exempted from selecting a flag bearer, except they serve in areas like polling station, constituency, regional and national executive committees. This is not respectful and democratic enough.

I will suggest that the race to the flag bearer slot must begin with all aspirants trekking to the constituencies and to get elected. At the end of the 276 trips, the top three will be made to contest at the Presidential Primaries. What should happen here is that only the constituency and polling station executives should be allowed to vote to select the three to contest in the Presidential Primaries.

With this concept, the majority will decide who and who should go into the primaries. And during the primaries, everyone who has once served in an NPP government or was an MP before must be included among the delegates.

One thing about the electoral trip to the constituencies is that, those who have the wish to lead the Party will have to start working at the grassroot base, where the votes actually come from. They must be seen in the trenches, doing all they can to be familiar with the people and the environment there. This is very important, for as it will show respect for those who make the votes possible, it will also prepare whoever wins the primaries to go into the General Election Campaign fully prepared and very much used to the ground. For the truth is every polling station is unique.

As the Super Delegates are going to the polls tomorrow, I pray that they are guided by the Holy Spirit to cast votes based on their conscience and select only those who if the win the Presidential Primaries, can easily break the eight.

A victory which is not laced with buying of votes is what the NPP wants, so that it can continue to exhibit to the whole world that it is a true democratic party, where people are respected and not used and abused.

May the Triune God, sent forth His angels to camped at all the electoral centres on Saturday and ensure that only what is Godly is made manifest.

Hon. Daniel Dugan

NPP selects five for flag bearership race tomorrow

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SEBASTIAN R. FREIKU
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The leading contestants from left - Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen

Barring any unforeseen challenges and last minutes changes, a total of 955 delegates, constituting a Special Electoral College, will, on Saturday August 26, 2023, converge at the various polling centres across the 16 regions and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Headquarters to select five candidates for the flagbearership race in November.

The August 26 Super Delegates Conference will reduce the number of aspirants down to five to make way for the presidential primary on November 4 to select a presidential candidate towards the 2024 General Elections.

The Special Delegates include seven ministers, 33 National Executives Committee, 38 Past National Executives and nine delegates from the Special Wing.

Eighty delegates will vote from the external branch of the party.

The Ashanti Region, which has a total of 118 delegates, including 42 Members of Parliament, has 8 proxy slots.

Delegates from other regions are Ahafo 30; Bono 38; Bono East 34; Central 54; Eastern 81; Greater Accra 72; North East 29; Northern 50; Oti 30 and Savanna 30.

The rest are Upper East 35; Upper West 32; Volta 41, Western 46 and Western North 33.

The delegates will choose five from Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, former Trade Minister, Mr. Kwadwo Poku, an energy expert, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President, Boakye Kyerematen Agyarko, former Energy Minister, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, former General Secretary, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Member of Parliament (MP ) for Assin Central, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, former Minister in the Kufuor administration, Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie, former Minister of Agriculture, Joe Ghartey, former Minister of Justice, and Francis Addai-Nimoh, former MP for  Mampong, who have all been cleared by the NPP Vetting Committee to qualify for the Super Delegates Congress.

Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Elections Committee says it will deliver a free, fair and transparent election on Saturday, August 26.

The NPP says it has put in place adequate measures to ensure that the election is successful.

Professor Michael Oquaye, Chairman of the NPP Presidential Elections Committee, says the outcome of the election would be acceptable to all, due to the measures put in place to ensure the transparency of the polls.

Ofosu Nkansah engages Asante Akyem Central teachers

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Ofosu Nkansah (middle) in a picture with other dignitaries

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National and Entrepreneurial Innovation Programme Presidential (NEIP), Mr. Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, over the weekend had an engagement with over 500 teachers in the Asante Akyem Central Constituency in the Ashanti Region.

Mr. Ofosu Nkansah, since his tenure in office in 2022, has led the NEIP to undertake various initiatives that are aimed at providing integrated national support for startups and small businesses.

He also ensures that his outfit provides direct and indirect funding support to third party institutions, such as tech-hubs, incubators, accelerators, and other business development service providers, which provide business support for innovation-based start-ups.

His engagement with the teachers in Asante Akyem Central Constituency was intended to support their efforts and encourage excellent academic standards in the region where he was from by giving them scholarships and honours.

Addressing the gathering at the event, Mr. Ofosu Nkansah emphasised that since teachers were an integral element of economic advancement, it was necessary to provide them with the resources they required for success.

The NEIP CEO explained that the engagement with the stakeholders in the area would enable teachers to be highly motivated and conscientious, and contribute effectively to the Ministry of Education

Mr. Ofosu Nkansah indicated that the programme would enable them to further their education, reduce stress, and improve their mood, self-esteem and happiness.

He further explained that it would serve as a systematic and integrated policy initiative by the NEIP to empower and support teachers with many opportunities, adding that his outfit had provided integrated national support for teachers to enable them contribute significantly to economic growth.

He added that his outfit would continue to serve as a special-purpose vehicle for skills training, and the provision of scholarships and awards to beneficiaries. According to him, his outfit would continue to serve as a special-purpose vehicle for skills training, and the provision of scholarships and awards to beneficiaries.

He continued that he was focused on building an industry-driven economy capable of providing decent jobs that were suitable and sustainable for development to the constituents, where he wanted to become a future Member of Parliament to serve them.

Mr. Ofosu Nkansah affirmed that he was committed to backing teachers for their contributions towards the quality of school education and improving the lives of teachers.

The event was graced by Lectures from the University of Education, University of Cape Coast, Scholarship Secretariats, teachers and other relevant stakeholders, who came to share their knowledge to uplift the state of teachers in the Municipality.

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