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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You must be desperate to retire failed Akuffo-Addo & NPP gov't - Julian Cobinnah to Ghanaian youth

You must be desperate to retire failed Akuffo-Addo & NPP gov't - Julian Cobinnah to Ghanaian youth

An activist of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC),Julian Yaw M. Cobbinah,has called on the youth of Ghana to rally their collective energies in voting out the failed Akuffo-Addo and NPP government come 2024.

This he said was the only way the young people of this country can demonstrate their increasing frustration and lost of faith in the current New Patriotic Party administration.

In response to calls from the youth of the NDC for him to consider running for the position of Deputy National Youth Organizer position of the party,he said the NDC must be desperate in putting young people at the centre of the move out of the brokenness of our country.

"The argument is that we need to change this country. I have heard and listened to soo many painful stories of young people who are desperate and want our country to work. I have listened to young people's growing hopes that the NDC should carry the coalition of young people behind It into 2024 without fail. 

"As a person continuously in the trenches with young people knowing how they are increasingly losing faith in our great nation, how opportunities are being shut in their faces and the depression they have to keep at I  know we cannot gamble with the future of young people.

We must stand UP ! We must save the sinking nature of our Republic. Our democracy must mean something,  being Ghanaian must mean something and being a young person in the NDC must mean something more than party identities.

"We should be desperate to retire the Presidency of H.E Akufo-Addo and build a selfless NDC government based purely on the values that young people in Bogoso have demonstrated a couple of days ago - to draw out our very life to save the country and to save this generation of youth from inheriting a tasteless, mean, insensitive and bleak Republic that is all the worst except the fine language and insatiable greed of people entrapped by political power.

Your calls have been overwhelming and the language is clear.I have listened to You and  You have to listen to me too," he wrote.

The youth activist said he will in the coming days firm his decision to either contest or otherwise for the position of the National Youth Organizer of the party in response to the many calls from party youth, encouraging the youth of the party to keep hopes alive and remain united towards the social change agenda.

"One thing is clear ; whether at the final whistle, I decide to run for the Deputy National Youth Organizer of the NDC or NOT,  it is you the young people's agenda for social change on the wings of a renewed NDC that will count in the decision making process. 

For all the many calls, endorsements and words of support I have received from young people in the NPP, NDC, CPP, independents and etc who believe I can lead them into an NDC 2024 victory I say thank you,"the Akwatia/Elmina/Dzevetato boy said.

He simply described the current administration as a sophiscated corrupt one, stressing on the need to fight collectively to bring depressed young people of this great nation into the palace of a metaphoric fruitful nation that works for all.

Source: Ananpansah Bartholomew Abraham

Residents of Settlement unhappy with destruction of road

Residents of Settlement unhappy with destruction of road 

The residents of Settlement,suburb of Canteen in the West Gonja Municipal of the Savannah Region have expressed deep worry about the destruction of the road network leading to the community.

This they say was having a heavy toil on the community and putting the lives of motorists and pedestrians, especially women, farmers and the school going children at risk.

At a community durbur to review activities for last year 2021 and set community goals for the year 2022, the Assemblyman, Ananpansah Abraham said the extent of destruction of the road by tipper trucks and dozers used to convey gravel from the gravel pit in the area was disheartening.

He said he was brokenhearted to see the Canteen-to-Settlement road which hitherto was in very good shape and motorable, suddenly turn into a sandy and dusty path due to the gravel digging activities, which was posing economic and health risk to residents.

The situation he said, was likely to worsen during the raining season if something is not done urgently.

According to him,the community was currently not benefiting anything as a Corporate Social Responsibility from the activities of constructors and individuals who come to excavate gravel from the area, stressing that, "I daresy these people don't even pay revenue to the assembly for road maintenance and were acting in bad faith".

The Assemblyman said these constructors and individuals have failed in their several promises to reshape the road, after the several community complaints he laid to them and stakeholders on the need to maintain the very road they were plying with their heavy duty vehicles to harvest gravel from the area.

He appealed to the department of feeder roads and all the necessary stakeholders to come to the aid of the community, hinting that his office together with the community have resolved to present a letter to the Department of Feeder roads and all the concerned stakeholders reiterating the need to work on the road.

In the interim,he said there will be a community bye-law barring any individual or group of persons from excavating gravel from the area untill the road is reshaped.

He called on the community members to remain united in order to achieve the collective aspirations and wishes of the entire electoral area.

The community chief,Seidu Iddrisu appealed to government to intervene in reshaping the road wondering why those fetching gravel from area have turned death ears to the the several complaints of the community.

He said the community was unanimous in its decision to place a temporal ban on the fetching of gravel from the area until the road is reshaped, commending the Assemblyman for always responding promptly to the concerns of the community. 

Joseph Yidane,the community caretaker expressed fear for they the farmers ahead of the raining season with sudden state of the road.

He said the health and lives of the residents was at risk if nothing is done about the situation, stressing on the numerous times the community together with the Assemblyman have called on stakeholders and the individuals fetching gravel from the area to consider fixing the very road they had destroyed to no avail.

The women and youth present at the meeting  added their voice to the need to reshape the road, stating that in the event of an emergency it will be very difficult for an ambulance and other emergency Vans to get to the community.

They said they were contemplating a demonstration to register their displeasure over the destruction of the road network which use to be one of the best feeder road in the municipality if nothing is done about the situation.

Source: Ananpansah Bartholomew Abraham

123,328 people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Savannah Region - GHS

123,328 people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Savannah Region - GHS

A total of One Hundred and Twenty Three Thousand,Three Hundred and Twenty Eight(123,328) people have so far received vaccinated against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic in the Savannah Region.

This is according to the Ghana Health Service(GHS) in a media briefing held at Damongo,the Savannah regional capital to bring the general public up to speed with regards to the progress of work towards the fight against the deadly virus.

Doctor Chrystantus Kubio,the Savannah Regional Health Director, who made the disclosure said the current data was taken as at January 1,2022, adding that," Savannah Region is targeting to vaccinate 385,536 eligible population".

He indicated that based on several considerations, including safety, efficacy and potential effectiveness,the region had received a total of 155,780 doses of AstraZeneca,13,440 doses of Moderna,43,700 doses of Johnson and Johnson and 50,310 doses of Pfizer; bringing the total vaccines received to 263,230 doses.

"The country target to vaccinate 20 million people segmented by population groups and geography, excluding children and pregnant women. Savannah Region is targeting to vaccinate 385,536 eligible population. In the long run,the vision is to expand the vaccination to include children and pregnant women as time goes on and more safety data become available,"he said.

He lamented on the low patronage of the vaccines in the region as a result of the many conspiracy theories and false information circulating on social and print mediae,with some holding the conviction that the vaccines cannot simply protect them against the virus.

Borne out of the perceptions,a lot of people he noted were resisting the jab,even as we enter the fourth wave of the pandemic.

He called on the media to help address the public misconceptions and hesitancy to the COVID-9 vaccination in the region in order to reduce the risk of spread of the virus.

The benefits of the vaccination in his estimation far outweigh the perceived conspiracies, including a potential reduction in Coronavirus ill-health and deaths and reduced disruption of social and economic functions.

Source: Ananpansah,B Abraham

Strict regulatory enforcement and compliance of protocols could have averted Bogoso explosion - Minority

Strict regulatory enforcement and compliance of protocols could have averted Bogoso explosion - Minority

The Minority in the Parliament of Ghana are of the firm conviction that, the unfortunate explosion at Bogoso in the South-Western part of Ghana that claimed at least 17 lives could have been averted if there was strict regulatory enforcement and compliance of protocols.

The Ranking Member for Mines and Energy Committee and the National Democratic Congress legislator for Yapei/Kusawgu constituency,John Abdulai Jinapor in a press statement copied to this reporter indicated that there were strict laid down protocols to be followed in the transportation of such mining explosives in accordance with LI2177.

He called for an independent probe into the unfortunate incident,whilst impressing on government to as a matter of urgency support the affected victims.

Read the full statement below:

Press Release 

For Immediate Release 

21st January, 2022

MINORITY CALLS FOR AN INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY INTO THE BOGOSO EXPLOSION

The Minority in Parliament has received the tragic news of an explosion in Apiate, a town close to Bogoso in the Western Region in which several lives and properties were lost.

Credible reports confirm that a motorcycle run into a vehicle carrying explosives resulting in the carnage leading to loss of lives and destruction of properties. 

This incident is unacceptable because there are strict laid down protocols to be followed during transportation of such explosives in accordance with LI2177. 

It is our firm conviction that with strict regulatory enforcement and compliance of protocols, this unfortunate incident could have been averted. 

The Minority is therefore calling for an impartial enquiry into this heart-wrenching accident and unfortunate lost of at least seventeen lives and destruction of several properties. 

This enquiry among others will prevent the recurrence of such an incident in the future. 

We therefore call on the government to do all within its powers to support the affected people in order to ameliorate their lost.

The Minority wish to join well meaning Ghanaians to commiserate and share in the pain and anguish of all affected people.

Signed

John Abdulai Jinapor

Ranking Member, Mines and Energy Committee

Source: Ananpansah,B Abraham