Canteen Electoral Area gets market complex

Canteen Electoral Area gets market complex

The Member of Parliament for the Damongo Constituency  and Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has handed over a newly constructed market complex and a refurbished slaughter house to the chiefs and people of the Canteen Electoral Area in the West Gonja Municipal of the Savannah Region.

Speaking at the handing over ceremony,the MP said the construction of the market was to facilitate the economic activities of the area and to help open the community to more investment opportunities.

He said he was particular about women empowerment, and the market provides a golden opportunity for the women of the area to expand their businesses and take advantage of the many opportunities in the newly created Savannah Region.

The legislator disclosed that he financed the construction of the market from his personal resources, adding that,he was poised to fulfilling all the pledged he made to the people of the Damongo constituency.

Whilst appealing to the Assemblyman, Chiefs and people of Canteen to make good use of the market,he said he will soon commission the construction of an ultra modern library facility for the Canteen Community and that the Damongo-Canteen-Kotito road will soon be awarded for construction.

The Municipal Chief Executive for West Gonja,Musah Kusubari commended the MP for augmenting the efforts of the assembly to making life comfortable for the people of Canteen Electoral Area.

He appealed to the Assemblyman, Chiefs and people of Canteen Electoral Area to take good care of the market and set a day aside as a market day for Canteen.

The Assemblyman for the Canteen Electoral Area, Ananpansah Abraham thanked the MP for the kind gesture.

According to him,the newly commissioned market complex will go a long way to boost the trading activities of the area and open up the vast agricultural potentials of the community.

He disclosed that his office partnered with the Savannah Regional Wing of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) sometime ago to conduct a social audit of the needs of the Canteen community and to prioritize them for stakeholder attention.

According to him,after the Community Social Audit durbur,it emerged from the responses of the people that getting a market complex for Canteen was the topmost priority of the community, followed by a library complex to an ultra modern school complex and then youth and women empowerment among others.

He expressed delight that the first of the priority needs has been achieved, praying stakeholders to give attention to the rest of the needs of community.

Rockson Bukari Diwura, who spoke on behalf of the youth Chief of the community expressed gratitude to the Member of Parliament for giving Canteen a facelift with the provision of the market complex.

He disclosed that the chiefs and people of Canteen since 1965 designated the said location for the construction of a market complex and have since prayed and longed to see a day like this.

He said the gesture by the MP was unprecedented and pledged that the community was going to make good use of the facility so that it leaves to serve its intended purpose.

Source: Ananpansah Bartholomew Abraham

Apologize to Ghanaians for economic mess and go back to IMF - PhD student to Akuffo-Addo

Apologize to Ghanaians for economic mess and go back to IMF - PhD student to Akuffo-Addo

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student with the department of economics (International Trade) at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing,China, Zankawah Sanusi Mumuni is calling on the Akuffo-Addo led NPP government to eat the humble pie and apologize to Ghanaians for plunging the country into a hopeless path of economic chaos.

Commenting on the controversial Electronic Levy (E-Levy) before Parliament,the Ghanaian based Chinese student believes the way to go is not to overburden Ghanaians with additional taxes on savings,but rather government should take full responsibility for the economic mess and go back to the International Monetary Fund(IMF) for possible financial amnesty.

At this point,three things are eminent,

"Government should eat the humble pie, apologize to Ghanaians and start to make some sacrifices. Let the Ghanaian have the feel of your repentance and that we are all going to bite the bullet even though your mismanagement led us all here. In that case, we shall all see the need to relax our stands on this E-LEVY and other adjoining taxes to raise the needed revenue to keep our country running.

Again apologize to Ghanaians and go back to the IMF. 

Whiles making those sacrifices, immediate steps must be taken to make the Komenda Sugar factory operational, prioritise rice and poultry farming. If we can downsize the imports of sugar, rice and frozen meat, we would be creating a lot of sustainable jobs and wouldn't have to overburden the citizenry with nuisance taxes," he said in a post copied exclusively to blogger, Ananpansah Abraham.

The PhD economics student maintained that, it was an insolence on our sovereignty to place the health of our economy in the hands of just two multinational telecommunication companies wondering what will happen should those companies fold up or leave the shores of Ghana.

"Isn't this an insult to our sovereignty? The health of our economy now depends on the telecos? How sustainable is this arrangement, a whole country's economy relying on just about two MNC's?Assuming these telecos decides to fold up and leave the shores of Ghana, how is the government going to mobilize revenue to finance its projects? 

At least if we had not privatized our only telecommunication giant i.e Ghana Telecom we could be confident of the sustainability of this source of revenue even if their competitors decided to exit. 

Amidst all this back and forth, the man who misled us here, the economics messiah ( Alhaji Bawumia) is tight-lipped,"he queried.

According to him,the Akuffo-Addo- Bawumiah led NPP government was simply afraid of going to the IMF because of its opulence and extravagant lifestyle,adding that, the IMF will ensure that every penny you take and spend from them made economic sense.

He said former president John Dramani Mahama without any economic background has been vindicated when he predicted last year that going to the IMF was inevitable,and that is exactly where we are today as a country.

Source: Ananpansah Bartholomew Abraham

Canteen Electoral Area: second batch of Assemblyman free uniforms distribution

Canteen Electoral Area: second batch of Assemblyman free uniforms distribution

To the glory of God, I together with my committed team distributed the second batch of free school uniforms to our pool of brilliant but needy students.

The second batch distribution falls in line with the free School Uniforms, School bags and Sandals intervention I launched somewhere April last year with a target of supporting over 200 brilliant but needy students in the Canteen Electoral Area with the necessary learning aids to help them realise their God given potentials.

A total of 25 students made up of 16 girls and nine (9) boys from Canteen Primary Schools- Block A and Block B respectively, benefited from the second batch of the intervention.

I wish to commend the hardworking headmasters and staff of the two schools for their kind words of appreciation, encouragement and acknowledgment of the continuous support my office has been giving to the schools in the electoral area in the areas of furniture and TLMs support in a collective bid to improve upon the standard of education. 

Glad to say that,we secured the second batch of school uniforms from Africa Nyornu,a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) operated by my very good friend, Madam Maloe Nartey. 

Interesting enough,I got to know madam Nartey through a Facebook post made by Musician-now-turned-politician Kwame A-Plus on a dilapidated school structure and furniture situation in a community at Bimbila. 

The compassionate young lady commented on the post expressing interest in intervening to arrest the situation. I quickly took her details and started establishing contacts with her about the development challenges of the Canteen Electoral Area and since then,It has been nothing but proposals-upon-proposals (I don't mean the proposals you're thinking about,I mean development proposals and discussions. Lol) on how to make the world a better place for all.

Infact,a total of 200 students based purely on needs assessment have been captured to benefit from this package through the support of Africa Nyornu NGO. We are also discussing issues having to do with rural Agric and women empowerment in the Canteen Electoral Area.

Madam Maloe has been a very nice and receptive person and one of a kind and I wish to convey the gratitude of the entire Canteen Electoral Area to her and the entire crew at Africa Nyornu NGO for adopting to support our community. We the good Lord richly bless and replenish all those who donated to the worthy course via Africa Nyornu NGO. We are looking forward for more support,like Oliver Twist, from her outfit and other well meaning organizations.

It is important to state that,the first batch of free school uniforms, school sandals and bags intervention was funded by World Vision Ghana with students from Frafra Resettlement School at Kpiri benefiting.

I wish to reaffirm my resolve and commitment to working dilligently with the necessary stakeholders, philanthropist,NGOs and the Assembly in realising the vision of reforming our Electoral Area and making it a shining example to the world.

We are opened to working with you for the growth of humanity and our electoral area. Kindly get in touch with us with any development assistance or ideas and the good Lord will richly bless you.

May the good Lord bless our homeland Canteen and make her people bold and strong.

Kind regards!

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Ananpansah Bartholomew Abraham (AB)

(Assemblyman, Canteen E/A)

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