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We are sitting on gold, but lack development -Apinto Chief

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KWESI ALFRED ADAMS
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Nana Dr. Kwabena Adarkwa Bediako III, Gyasehene of the Apinto Divisional Stool

The Gyasehene of the Apinto Divisional Stool, Nana Dr. Kwabena Adarkwa Bediako III, has warned that Tarkwa, a mining community in the Western Region, may not be able to continue to offer its land and resources anymore for the development of the country, if their development needs were not addressed.

According to him, gold had been mined in the area for 170 years, yet they were not seeing any tangible development.

Speaking in an interview with journalists at Tarkwa, he said 5% of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was derived from Tarkwa every year, yet their roads were in deplorable states.

The Apinto Gyasehene, who is also a University Lecturer, warned that should the government fail to do something about the current state of Tarkwa, his outfit would be right to agitate for an end to mining in Tarkwa.

“There are more asphalt roads in Alajo and in Circle than Tarkwa, a community that provides 5% of Ghana’s GDP,” he said, adding that, but for the mining companies operating in Tarkwa, social intervention programmes such as building of schools and hospitals and clinic would have eluded them.

“All these are being built by mining companies, but what about government?” he questioned.

Supporting his argument with facts, he added that when Ghana realised that cocoa was providing revenue for the country, there was a countrywide scholarships for cocoa growing communities.

“So, what about providing scholarships for mining communities; why do we have to put all the burden on mining companies and not government?” he asked.

Registrar to slap penalties on defaulting coys in filing returns

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BERNICE BESSEY
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ORC

The Office of Registrar of Companies (ORC) has warned that failure to file annual financial statements would result in penalties being imposed on the defaulting companies.

This would be the first time that the ORC is fully implementing section 126(7) of the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992), which states: “Where a company defaults in complying with the filing of Annual Returns and Financial Statements, the Company, and every officer of the company that is in default, is liable to pay to the Registrar an Administrative Penalty of Twenty-Five penalty units for each day, during which the default continues.”

The ORC says it would start the enforcement  of the Act from June 1, 2023, and failure on the part of any company to comply with the law would attract 25 penalty units, thus GH¢300.00 each day.

The information was contained in a news release issued by the ORC, dated January 12, and signed by the Registrar of Companies, Jemima Mamaa Oware.

“The full implementation of the Companies Act, 2019 Act 992 by this section is being proposed now by Management and the Board to ensure Companies take the compliance of this requirement in the Act more seriously than they have done previously. Company Secretaries and Auditors should therefore kick-start the processes in getting these mandatory documents ready and on time to avoid paying this very punitive Administrative Penalty and sanction and push their Companies into a state of inactivity,” it said.

It further added that the ORC was going to enforce section 5A (2) of the Registration of Business Names Act, 1962 (Act 151) on annual renewals.

Per the Act, “without prejudice to any other liability prescribed by this Act, a registration which is not renewed in accordance with this section shall LAPSE and the Registrar may remove from the Register the Business Name of the person whose Registration has lapsed after the expiration of the period prescribed for the renewal.”

Therefore, it warned that from this year, failure by a company to renew its business name, be it sole proprietorship/subsidiary business name for a period of three months after the year, would have the name expunged from the system.

“To avoid such business names falling into the public domain and for anyone of interest to use it after it has been struck off the Business Names Register, Business Name owners can electronically renew their Businesses by dialing the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) Code *222# and follow the prompt to make payment with their Mobile Money wallet on the Ghana.Gov payment platform,” it said.

It also called on all Company Secretaries who are yet to comply with the directives issued by the ORC on the Name Changes in the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992) are to submit a Special Resolution for a change of their company name, by adding the appropriate ‘suffix’ to the end of their company name.

Similarly, companies that have not adopted a registered constitution reflecting the changed name in place of their company regulations are also being reminded to do so by the end of June, 2023.

For service efficiency and effectiveness, it added that the ORC would also be introducing expedited/express services the year.

This is to ensure that patrons of the services get their documents within 48 hours and would be available at the Head Office in Accra and some Regional Offices when it commences after the first half of the year.

The new directives, notwithstanding, the announcement that there had been increases in changes in the fees and charges on all transactions, including the incorporation and registration of businesses, amendments and the filing of annual returns, which took effect from January 1, 2023.

This is in accordance with the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2022 Act 1080 as passed by Parliament and earlier indicated in our Press Release dated 14th November, 2022.

The changes in fees and charges would apply to the registration and amendment of business names, subsidiary business names, partnerships, external companies, professional bodies as well as the incorporation of companies limited/ unlimited by shares and companies limited by guarantee.

Martin Kyere to testify in The Gambia massacre in a German Court 

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SEBASTIAN R. FREIKU
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Martin Kyere - Survivor of the 2005 Massacre in The Gambia

Mr. Martin Kyere, a survivor of the unlawful killings of about 44 Ghanaians in The Gambia in 2005, is scheduled to appear before a German court this week.

He is to testify against Bai Lowe, one of the alleged perpetrators of the killings.

Lowe, who had left the Gambia to seek asylum in Germany was arrested in Hanover, Germany, in March 2021 under the international criminal law principle of universal jurisdiction and charged with murder, attempted murder, and crimes against humanity.

One of the charges relates to his alleged role in the murder of DeydaHydara, a Gambian journalist and founder of The Point newspaper.

Universal jurisdiction allows for the prosecution of a person for an international crime such as crimes against humanity in a foreign country regardless of where the crime was committed.

Kyere, who had jumped from the moving pick-up vehicle that was transporting the Ghanaians and other West African migrants to the spot where the migrants were summarily executed, will testify before the German court, presided over by Judge Ralf Günther, in Celle, a statement issued in Accra yesterday by The Jammeh2Justice Ghana Coalition,  a Coalition of Civil Society Organizations led by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and formed to advocate justice and reparations for the Ghanaian victims’ families and survivors of the Gambia massacre, has indicated.

Lowe, a member of the ‘Junglers’, a hit squad, some of whose members summarily executed the Ghanaians on the orders of former President Yahya Jammeh, denied the charges, adding he did not participate in the killings in his statement to the court read earlier  by his lawyer.

Lowe had told Freedom Radio in an interview on February 24, 2013 that he was the driver of the “Junglers’ who summarily executed the Ghanaians and other West African migrants.

The migrants were thrown into a well in Yunoor, near Casamance, on the border between The Gambia and Senegal.

Some of the bodies of the migrants were dismembered and put in plastic bags, he added.

In December 2021, The Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) found 13 members of the Junglers culpable for the killing of the Ghanaians and other West African migrants and recommended their prosecution along with former president Jammeh who allegedly gave the orders for the killings.

The Gambian government issued a White Paper in May 2022 accepting the TRRC recommendations but no prosecution of the alleged perpetrators has begun in The Gambia.

Nkusumkum Omanhen officially gazetted

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NAABENYIN JOOJO AMISSAH
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Nana Okese Essandoh IX

The Paramount Chief of the Nkusukum Traditional Area in the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region, Nana Okese Essandoh IX, has officially been gazetted by the National House of Chiefs, Kumasi.

The official gazette has given national recognition to his successful enstoolment as the legitimate as well as the only recognised paramount chief for the paramountcy, whose name has been entered into national records.

The official gazette is expected to end a 13 year old protracted chieftaincy dispute which did not just adversely affect the development of the area, but also retarded its progress.

Known in private life as Mr Nicholas Biney, the 50 year old professional teacher, who holds a Master’s degree in Building Construction Technology, Nana Okese Essandoh IX, has fully assumed the status of Omanhen of the Area.

Addressing the press at the Nkusukum Omanhen’s Palace at Yamoransa, the newly gazetted chief said “I want everybody to understand that there CAN NEVER be two gazetted Paramount Chiefs to occupy one Stool”.

He added: “So the rumors lingering in the town that Nana Kofi Enyin has also been gazetted is a palpable falsehood. It has never happened before and it will never happen till the end of the World”.

He, therefore, called for unity, saying it was the only means through which all other differences could be buried so that the traditional area could be developed.

RECONCILIATORY MESSAGE

“Now all what I want to say is that the gazette brings to an end the 13 year old Nkusukum Paramountcy Chieftaincy Dispute. The victory is NOT only for Nicholas Biney and his supporters, but for the whole Nkusukum Traditional State, Central Region and Ghana as a whole.

“I admonish all and sundry to end insults, insinuation and intimidations in any form, henceforth, and let us all come together to build better Nkusukum State, which will be a legacy for now and future generation,” he said.

WORD OF CAUTION

He cautioned that it would amount to criminality if any person or group of persons organise a Traditional Council meeting or perform any duties of the Omanhen of Nkusukum Traditional Area without his consent.

“Any such act will amount to the interference of my duties and responsibilities as the substantive Omanhene of Nkusukum Traditional Area. That I will not hastate to take a legal action against the offender(s)”, he cautioned.

What became famously known as the Nkusukum Traditional Area paramountcy dispute began following the death of the late Omanhen, Nana Okese Essandoh VIII, in 2009.

As tradition and customs demand, there was the need for a successor to be nominated, vetted, approved and successfully installed after all other customary rites have been performed

Nomination of Kelvin Ewudzi and matters arising

According to information, there was an attempt by the late Ebusuapanyin Kwamena Bosom to appoint and install one Kelvin Ewudzi, also known as Nana Kofi Enyin, to succeed the late chief.

This attempt was fiercely resisted by the Royal Twidan Family  because according to them,  Nana Kofi Enyin lacked the legitimacy to be installed a chief, especially as  his root was traced to Abiriwa Nguamba from Moree in the Asebu Traditional Area.

This action resulted in litigations, accusations and counter-accusations and eventually set the tone for more troubles as the Royal Twidan Family of Yamonansa challenged every step to install Mr Kelvin Ewudzi as the Nkusukum Omanhen.

According to reliable sources, all the parties involved in the litigations later consented to have the matter settled through arbitration after years of back and forth litigations.

A retired Justice of the Apex Court, Justice S.A. Brobbey was approached to lead the arbitration who also appointed Prof Okatakyie Amenfi VIII, a lecturer, and Nana Amoa VIII, who is currently a Court of Appeals’ judge as members of the committee

Arbitration Committee’s award/Recommendations

After months of extensive engagements with both parties and others who mattered as far as the raging chieftaincy dispute was concerned, the committee deduced ample evidence from both parties.

Based on the evidence before it, the committee realised that Nana Kofi Enyin did not qualify in the first place to be nominated, elected and installed as the Nkusukum Omanhen and the president of the Traditional Council.

Furthermore, the committee indicated that the purported nomination and installation of Nana Kofi Enyin was a nullity because it did not follow the proper procedures, customs and usages necessary to validate the installation of Nkusukum Omanhen.

Additionally, the committee pointed out that Mr Ewudzi did not qualify to be the Omanhen of Nkusukum because he traced his root to Nguamba who hailed from Moree.

The committee, therefore, urged Kelvin Ewudzi to step aside as the Omanhen of the Nkusukum Traditional Area with the stool name Nana Essandoh IX.

The committee recommended that intensive and effective consultation should be made among the gates to nominate and present a common candidate for approval and installation as the new Omanhen of the Nkusukum Traditional Area

Nomination, electing and installation of Nana Okese Essandoh IX

Following the award and recommendations by the arbitration committee, the Royal family settled on Mr Nicholas Biney as the most legitimate royal to succeed the late chief as Nkusukum Omanhen and the President of the Nkusukum Traditional Council

As a result, all the legitimate procedures as well as all usages necessary to validate his installation as the Omanhen were duly followed and he subsequently became the Omanhen of the Nkusukum Traditional Area with the stool name, Nana Okese Essandoh IX.

Fallout from the committee’s award and further action

Not satisfied with the award and the recommendations by the arbitration Committee, Nana Kofi Enyin and former acting president of the Nkusukum Traditional Council, Nana Kwesi Brebo, proceeded to the High Court in Cape Coast to have the decision quashed by Certiorari, but they failed to succeed.

Again a Judicial Review filed at the Appeals Court eventually fell flat and this was followed by a petition at the Central Regional House of Chiefs on the same subject matter, but the Petitioners again lost.

Appeal at the National House of Chiefs in Kumasi.

The appellants, Nana Kofi Enyin and Nana Yandoh Kese V, further petitioned the National House of Chiefs in Kumasi to review the ruling by the judicial committee of the Central Regional House of Chiefs, which went against them.

However, the appellants/petitioners in a letter to the judicial committee of the National House of Chiefs, dated April14, 2022 discontinued the case.

It reads: “PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Petitioners/Appellants hereby discontinue the appeal against the ruling of the judicial committee of the Central Regional chiefs dated the 8th November 2021”.

National House of Chiefs’ decision

Following the notice of discontinuance as filed by the appellants, the five member committee chaired by Osaagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II, struck out the appeal as withdrawn.

Other members of the committee are, Barima Sarfo Tweneboah Kodua, Naa Dawda Yamiya Tooka II, Daasebre AkuamoahAgyapong II and Sagnari Naa Yakubu Abdulai.

Cost of GH₵5,000.00 was awarded against the petitioners.

Editorial: Government must listen to wise counsel

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THE CHRONICLE
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Editorial

As part of measures to address the current economic crisis, the government launched the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme on December 5, 2022. Pursuant to that, the government invited certain holders of approximately GH¢137.3 billion of the principal amount outstanding of certain domestic notes and bonds issued by the government, E.S.L.A. Plc or Daakye Trust Plc (the “Eligible Bonds”). They were to exchange their Eligible Bonds for a package of new bonds to be issued by the government. The terms and conditions of the invitation were described in an exchange memorandum.

On December 24, 2022, the government announced a further extension of the expiration date of its domestic debt exchange to January 16, 2023, and amendments to the terms of the domestic debt exchange. In addition to the foregoing extensions, the government announced modifications to the invitation to exchange, which were set forth in further detail on a Term Sheet:

One is offering accrued and unpaid interest on Eligible Bonds and a cash tender fee payment to holders of Eligible Bonds maturing in 2023. Also, increasing the New Bonds offered by adding eight new instruments to the composition of the New Bonds, for a total of 12 New Bonds, one maturing each year, starting January 2027 and ending January 2038. Another is modifying the Exchange Consideration Ratios for each New Bond. The Exchange Consideration Ratio applicable to Eligible Bonds maturing in 2023 will be different than for other Eligible Bonds.

Though the invitation to sign up for the exchange programme was due to expire yesterday, we have sighted a statement from the Ministry of Finance announcing a further extension to January 31, 2023. The reason given for the further extension; to engage stakeholders, particularly domestic bond holders, sounds right.

However, the general mood of the country is not lively, as people do not know what will happen next to their investments. It is not for nothing that financial experts, ordinary citizens, even the leadership of the NPP and Members of Parliament from both sides of the aisle are advocating for a second look at the decision to include individual bond holders. Already, affected individuals bond holders are mobilising to sue the government over their inclusion in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme.

Yesterday, the Minority held a press conference and called for the suspension of the Debt Exchange Programme. They argued that the deal in its current form is a recipe for disaster and will further worsen the plight of ordinary Ghanaians.

The Chronicle has observed the arguments by government, the opposition party and financial experts and is persuaded to suggest that government must listen to wise counsel.

While the programme, according to the government is key to landing an IMF deal, some experts have warned that it could further destabilise the economy even before the deal is secured.

We are happy that in its statement yesterday, the Finance Ministry said it was continuing with stakeholder engagement. We will encourage them to intensify it to calm the aggrieved individuals who are affected.

We view this programme, as a necessary bitter pill based on the explanation from the government and the consequences for affected individuals. This bitter pill should not be forced down the throat, but rather obtained through a persuasive process.

Sunyani Queenmother hints at a 5-year development plan

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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Nana Akosua Dua Asor Sika Brayie II, Sunyanihemaa
The Bono Regional House of Chiefs

The Queenmother of Sunyani, Nana Akosua Dua Asor Sika Brayie II, has hinted at a 5-year development plan for a new Sunyani.

Addressing the media at the enstoolment of Sunyani Gyaase sub-chiefs, she said; “There is a decision to make Sunyani an enviable town amongst its peers.”

According to her, the 5-year development plan for the new Sunyani was an agenda to project the town to the outside world.

She said that as part of the 5-year development plan, there was an initiative to clean up Sunyani on the first Saturday of every month, starting this year.

Nana Akosua Brayie explained that the initiative was dubbed ‘Ohemaa Apra-pra’. The clean-up exercise would take place simultaneously across Sunyani, and would be in collaboration with the Municipal Assembly.

In a wakeup call to address the traffic and congestion in the Sunyani township, the Queenmother  said the Traditional Council had plans to relocate the Light Industry (Magazine) to a new settlement, and wood workshops to a ‘wood village’ to ease congestion and create a social centre for social activities.

Nana Akosua Brayie called on investors to collaborate with the Sunyani Traditional Council for accelerated development.

“A piece of land has been demarcated at Benue Nkwanta for real estate development. I invite investors to collaborate with the Traditional Council to make this vision a reality,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Bono Regional House of Chiefs, at its 2022 end-of-year meeting in Sunyani, appealed to the government to construct some major roads in the region.

The President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs, Osagyefo Oseadeyo Dr. Agyemang Badu, in his speech, mentioned that the Berekum-Sampa road, Sunyani town roads, New Dormaa-Kootokrom road, Nsawkaw-Seikwa road, and Badu road amongst others be constructed as a matter of urgency.

He continued that some of the roads had, over the years, been captured in the National Budget, while others were awarded on contract with no contractor on site.

He pleaded with the government and the Roads Minister to hasten their approach to constructing major roads in the region.

Osagyefo commended the government for the completion of phase one of the Sunyani Airport, and called on it to hasten the process to enable the second phase of the airport to commence soon, and also upgrade the Regional Hospital to a Teaching Hospital.

Chiraahene wants street light poles replaced by April 2023

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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Chiraahemaa Nana Yeboah Pene II

The Chief of Chiraa, Barima Mintah-Afari II, has demanded the replacement of street light poles in the town.

He made the demand when the 2nd Lady, H.E. Samira Bawumia, and the Bono Regional Minister, Justina Owusu-Banahene, paid a courtesy call on the chiefs and people of Chiraa.

Being grateful to the government for development in the district, Barima Mintah-Afari II added that Chiraa was the gateway to the region and deserves the needed development to give the area a befitting welcome.

He said the people of Chiraa were not pleased with the current street light poles, and gave an ultimatum that they must be replaced with metal ones latest by Easter this year.

“My people are not pleased with the current state of street light poles in the Chiraa township. We want them replaced by Easter 2023,” he charged.

Meanwhile, the Queenmother of Chiraa, Nana Yeboah Pene II, has hinted at constructing a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Chiraa Government Hospital.

Addressing a gathering when H.E. Samia Samira Bawumia paid a courtesy call on the chiefs and people of Chiraa, Nana Yeboah Pene II disclosed that the project was to celebrate her 20th Anniversary as Queenmother of Chiraa since 2024.

She explained that the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Bono Regional Hospital was inadequate and compromised the quality of healthcare delivery.

She said that situating the proposed NICU at Chiraa would be strategic, as it would serve the Bono and Ahafo regions.

Nana Yeboah Pene further called on interested individuals and cooperate Ghana to support her vision.

Esereso Holy Trinity School appeals for support

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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Pupils of the Esereso Holy Trinity School sit on blocks

The Headteacher of Esereso Holy Trinity School in the Sunyani West Municipality, Abu Yahaya, has appealed to the government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the general public to support the school with a Junior High School (JHS) block.

The Junior High School has no classroom block after six years of existence. The Headteacher explained that before the establishment of the Junior High School, pupils had to enrol in nearby communities to continue their education. “The situation led to an increase in school dropouts and teenage pregnancy,” he added.

A wooden structure now serves as a JHS block for the pupils of Esereso Holy Trinity School. Mr. Yahaya appealed for support to put up a befitting classroom block.

“It will surprise you to know that despite this challenge, through the hard work of our teachers, our pupils come out with 100% pass. I am appealing to the government, individuals, cooperate institutions and NGOs to come to our aid,” he pleaded.

Ghanaians must appreciate government for prudent measures

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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Mr. Kwame Baffoe Abronye

The Bono Regional Chairman of the Ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Kwame Baffoe Abronye has asked Ghanaians to appreciate the Nana Akufo-Addo government because despite the global challenges Ghanaians don’t queue for basic necessities.

In a recent radio interview in Sunyani the NPP chairman observed that Ghana as a developing country has faced serious global crises including COVID-19, but due to the good governance, the country is on the right path, in all various sectors of the economy.

He said many people in advanced countries across the globe are still going  through worse circumstances than Ghanaians faced, including Lebanon, a country which once boasted the nickname “Switzerland of the Middle East” for its thriving banking sector,  where citizens have to queue for hours every day just to buy bread.

Abronye recalled that in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni recently in an address during the Labour Day Celebrations told Ugandans to opt for cassava if they cannot find bread due to the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, however

“He added that the story is different in Ghana because President Akufo-Addo has ensured that nothing is scarce in the country”, chairman Abronye added.

According to chairman Abronye, Ghana would have been worse if the world crisis had happened under the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

He said “Ghanaians would have been queuing to buy fuel and accessing other amenities if these global crises had happened under the NDC and John Mahama”.

“I agree that we are in hard times, which the president himself has also admitted but I can confidently say that had it not been for the good policies laid down by the NPP government, the situation would have been worse, therefore, am urging all meaningful Ghanaians not to fall for the propaganda that the world crisis has no effect on Ghana’s economy”, Abronye said.

“Covid-19 has been a bad omen for Ghanaians, but the way the government handled the pandemic led to lesser infection rates and cases. If Ghana was under the government of John Dramani Mahama Ghana would have been in a pit”, he explained further.

“This is because the NDC government during the previous administration showed that  it had problems in addressing national issues and Ghanaians should be thankful to the President because he saved the country during COVID”, he said.

Chairman Abronye pointed out that checks have revealed that even some streets of giant countries in Europe go dark in the night as a result of the global energy crisis. He added that  to solve economic woes, Egypt turns off city street lights and has introduced new austerity measures to aid its weak economy.

“In Egypt there is a whole set of new austerity measures that leaves streets, squares, shops and malls without lighting after 11 p.m.”, he said. Chairman Abronye said Spain has ordered shops to turn their lights off at night, while Berlin is switching off the spotlights illuminating 200 of its historic buildings and monuments.

A number of towns and cities in Austria, Germany and Italy have also reduced street lighting or turned off commercial signs. In France, 14 communities in the Val d’Oise department north of Paris are to fully switch off public lighting at night.

Local authorities estimate shutting off street lights for three-and-a-half hours every night. The towns join some 12,000 communities in France that already either fully or partially switch off public lighting at night.

Finland and Bulgarian towns want to do without street lighting at night after gas supplies from Russia were interrupted by the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Chairman Abronye, however insisted that the president has done well to ensure that our power is on all the time for which the nation must be thankful to him

Bono region has developed under NPP government-regional minister

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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Madam Justina Owusu Banahene

The Bono Regional minister, Madam Justina Owusu Banahene has observed that the region has benefited from development projects under the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government.

She therefore said “It will be disingenuous for government critics in the region to create the impression that the Bono Region has been neglected in terms of development”.

Speaking in an interview with the GNA on the sidelines of the inauguration of the refurbished conference hall of the Bono Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in Sunyani,

Madam Owusu-Banahene said, “the government is gradually turning Sunyani, the Bono regional capital into a modern city.”

The National Petroleum Authority funded the rehabilitation of the 60-seater conference hall furnished with air conditioners and standard equipment.

Madam Owusu-Banahene said the regional capital would soon have a standard 29 kilometer access roads, modern streetlights, and pedestrian walkways “because of administration of President Akufo-Addo’s government.”

She said construction works on several development projects in the education and health sectors would soon be completed, saying the completion of works on the expansion and rehabilitation of the Sunyani Airport remained a great achievement of the government.

Madam Owusu-Banahene called on the people of the region to keep and maintain their faith, as the government addressed some of the development deficit in the region.

The regional minister also said the government has handed over a new administration block for the Sunyani Municipal Assembly, constructed a new regional command for the Ghana National Fire Service, and constructed a modern Agric Business Centre in the Dormaa West District.

Other projects include 60-bed capacity Paediatric Ward with offices, rest rooms, and 12 wash rooms at the Nkrakwanta District Hospital, 12 Unit two Storey classroom block for the Sunyani Senior and St James Seminary Senior High Schools, and standard maternity block at the Dwenem Health center.

The government has also constructed and handed-over two Storey market with 72 stores and a standard lorry terminal with washrooms in the Dormaa and Berekum Municipality, as well as another standard market at Drobo in the Jaman South Municipality.

The regional minister  said the Weddi Africa Tomato Processing Factory and Agro Farms in the Berekum West under the One-District-One-Factory project have created several jobs for the youth in the area.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

She said huge investments have been made to improve physical infrastructure development at the Sunyani Technical University (STU), Methodist Technical and Vocational Institute in Sunyani and the Koase Senior High and Technical School.

WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The regional minister said Sunyani has also selected to benefit from a World Bank (WB) facility which is investing US$ 1.8 million to facelift the capital and improving lighting systems, and other social amenities.

Madam Owusu-Banahene explained under the five-year WB project, all concrete light poles in the capital were being replaced with galvanized ones, to add to the beauty of the capital, saying closed to 115,000 LED bulbs have been installed on the major streets of the town.

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