Thursday, 13 February 2020
S/R: 'Man of God' donates to hospital that once saved his life
S/R: 'Man of God' donates to hospital that once saved his life
Sunday, 9 February 2020
Decision/Action After Fundraising In Aid of Madam Sayeba Haruna of blessed Memory
Decision/Action After Fundraising In Aid of Madam Sayeba Haruna of blessed Memory
Condition: Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis / Stevens Johnson Syndrome.
(For more explanation,contact the doctors & health practitioners)
Most kind regards and God richly bless you for your generosity towards this campaign.
After collating your views presented through the various social media platforms and in consultation with the family of our beloved sister,Madam Sayeba of blessed memory;the following roadmap has been drawn and some actions have since commenced in earnest to utilise the remaining balance:
NB.You can follow the link ( https://ananpansah-ab.blogspot.com/2020/01/final-accounts-of-fundraising-in-aid-of.html) to read the final accounts.Madam Haruna Sayeba also survived with five children;three girls' and two boys all in their early ages with the elders son being 16 years.
1.The elders son who completed J.H.S,but couldn't proceed has expressed interest in learning a trade. (He has chosen to learn GLASS FABRICATING as a trade).To this end,enquiries have been made from the only glass fabricater in Damongo township to enroll the boy.
The terms and conditions include acquiring for him the necessary working tools.
We are hopeful of completing the process of his registration and enrollment within this week by His eminent grace.
2. Trust Accounts are to be opened in the name of each surviving child and accessible to them at the time of entering into Senior High School through to Tertiary. (Eg.Say one of the children is in primary 6 now,it would have meant that in 4 years time,he/she would've been ready to enroll into SHS all things being equal.The fund can then be accessed as support package).
This process Should have been completed by now,but we faced challenges in getting the birth certificates of these children,which according to the bank is the only mandatory document, since, they are all termed "minors".
We just got confirmation that,they have been able to trace the birth certificate of one of children and the Child Welfare Clinic cards(weighing cards) of the rest of them.We hope the weighing cards will be accepted as valid documents, since they contain every detail about the children,including the date of birth.
We will be going to the bank again on Monday with the documents available to further the process.
NB.School here may not be limited to grammar type of education.It could also mean vocational/technical education or learning a trade depending on the interest and capabilites of the child after J.H.S education.
3.Our attention has been drawn to some development -- the biological father of late Haruna Sayeba has been sick for sometime now and on drugs,but his condition has been worsened by the doleful situation of her daughter's sickness through to her untimely death.
Compatriots, what do you suggest we should do?
Most kind regards and God richly bless you for your generosity towards this campaign.
Rest in peace to our dear sister! You fought well .You've United many voices across the length and breath of the globe and increased in us the genuine spirit of compassion for humanity and benevolence.
# UBUNTU ( I am because you are and you are because I am).
Story to be continued....
By: Ananpansah B Abraham (AB)
(Writer,Social Media Campaigner,Reporter; PAD FM, Damongo)
0241129910
Condition: Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis / Stevens Johnson Syndrome.
(For more explanation,contact the doctors & health practitioners)
Most kind regards and God richly bless you for your generosity towards this campaign.
After collating your views presented through the various social media platforms and in consultation with the family of our beloved sister,Madam Sayeba of blessed memory;the following roadmap has been drawn and some actions have since commenced in earnest to utilise the remaining balance:
NB.You can follow the link ( https://ananpansah-ab.blogspot.com/2020/01/final-accounts-of-fundraising-in-aid-of.html) to read the final accounts.Madam Haruna Sayeba also survived with five children;three girls' and two boys all in their early ages with the elders son being 16 years.
1.The elders son who completed J.H.S,but couldn't proceed has expressed interest in learning a trade. (He has chosen to learn GLASS FABRICATING as a trade).To this end,enquiries have been made from the only glass fabricater in Damongo township to enroll the boy.
The terms and conditions include acquiring for him the necessary working tools.
We are hopeful of completing the process of his registration and enrollment within this week by His eminent grace.
2. Trust Accounts are to be opened in the name of each surviving child and accessible to them at the time of entering into Senior High School through to Tertiary. (Eg.Say one of the children is in primary 6 now,it would have meant that in 4 years time,he/she would've been ready to enroll into SHS all things being equal.The fund can then be accessed as support package).
This process Should have been completed by now,but we faced challenges in getting the birth certificates of these children,which according to the bank is the only mandatory document, since, they are all termed "minors".
We just got confirmation that,they have been able to trace the birth certificate of one of children and the Child Welfare Clinic cards(weighing cards) of the rest of them.We hope the weighing cards will be accepted as valid documents, since they contain every detail about the children,including the date of birth.
We will be going to the bank again on Monday with the documents available to further the process.
NB.School here may not be limited to grammar type of education.It could also mean vocational/technical education or learning a trade depending on the interest and capabilites of the child after J.H.S education.
3.Our attention has been drawn to some development -- the biological father of late Haruna Sayeba has been sick for sometime now and on drugs,but his condition has been worsened by the doleful situation of her daughter's sickness through to her untimely death.
Compatriots, what do you suggest we should do?
Most kind regards and God richly bless you for your generosity towards this campaign.
Rest in peace to our dear sister! You fought well .You've United many voices across the length and breath of the globe and increased in us the genuine spirit of compassion for humanity and benevolence.
# UBUNTU ( I am because you are and you are because I am).
Story to be continued....
By: Ananpansah B Abraham (AB)
(Writer,Social Media Campaigner,Reporter; PAD FM, Damongo)
0241129910
Savannah youth protest against decision to disperse regional departments
Regional NewsSat, 8 Feb 2020
Savannah youth protest against decision to disperse regional departments
The youth of the newly created Savannah Region under the auspices of the Damongo Youth Parliament took to the streets of the regional capital to register their displeasure over the decision by the government to disperse the regional departments of the Savannah Regional Coordinating Council.
Presenting the petition to the Savannah Regional Minister, Adam Salifu Braimah, the speaker of the Damongo Youth Parliament who doubles as the assembly member for the Canteen electoral area, Ananpansah B. Abraham emphasized that for easy coordination and effective/efficient administration, the coordinating departments should be located in Damongo the regional capital.
The youth in the petition to President Nana Akuffo Addo stated that developing Damongo as the pride of Gonjaland like Tamale, Kumasi, Accra, Koforidua etc does not take away anything from the other districts in the region.
These Regional capitals according to the petition to the President by the youth gained the prominence they have today as a result of the concentration of regional departments which propelled growing population with the population attracting investors who will want to take advantage of the numbers to invest in the region.
The mentioned also in the petition that the disadvantages of decentralizing of the departments far outweigh the advantages especially in the Savannah Region with its dispersed settlements.
The emphasized further that the various regional departments are only to serve as coordinating agencies, thus, coordinating the development within the region and dispersing these coordinating agencies of the Regional Coordinating Council will increase the cost of administration as the departments will have to communicate and share relevant documents, resources and information on a regular basis.
They are again craving for more districts in the newly created Savannah Region together with resourcing the existing ones to take charge of development by way of practical decentralization and went ahead to find out the criteria that was used by the Savanah Regional Coordinating Council to determine how the Regional Agricultural Office is best fit to be sited at Bole, the Regional Health Directorate sited in Daboya and Feeder Roads in Salaga.
The group further demanded better involvement and participation of the people before arriving at any decision the concerns them.
The youth therefore in the petition to the President believes that the decentralised departments are just structures responsible for coordinating the development and constitutes not development in themselves.
Clouded in red and holding placards with the inscription ” Regional Capital Without Coordinating Departments Is Meaningless”, ”Mr President This Is Not The Region The Yagbonwura Asked For” etc.
Receiving the petition, Savannah Regional Minister Hon. Adam Salifu Braimah thanked the youth for the peaceful conduct in presenting the petition to him for onward submission to the President of Ghana.
He assured them that as the representative of the President in the region, he will present the petition to President Nana Addo but was quick to remind them that the decentralization of the coordinating offices to the various districts is not limited to the Savannah Region but a policy that cuts across all the newly created regions.
The youth chief of Damongo, Nyiribiwura Yakubu Jaga who was with the youth during the presentation said he was very happy about the turnout and will forever be grateful to the leadership of the Damongo Youth Parliament for helping push this beautiful agenda of concentrating the departments in the regional capital since that will enhance development instead of the scattering of the offices.
https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Savannah-youth-protest-against-decision-to-disperse-regional-departments-860122
https://ghananewsagency.org/social/savannah-youth-want-regional-offices-in-damongo-163694
Source: Zion Abdul-Rauf
Savannah youth protest against decision to disperse regional departments
The youth of the newly created Savannah Region under the auspices of the Damongo Youth Parliament took to the streets of the regional capital to register their displeasure over the decision by the government to disperse the regional departments of the Savannah Regional Coordinating Council.
Presenting the petition to the Savannah Regional Minister, Adam Salifu Braimah, the speaker of the Damongo Youth Parliament who doubles as the assembly member for the Canteen electoral area, Ananpansah B. Abraham emphasized that for easy coordination and effective/efficient administration, the coordinating departments should be located in Damongo the regional capital.
The youth in the petition to President Nana Akuffo Addo stated that developing Damongo as the pride of Gonjaland like Tamale, Kumasi, Accra, Koforidua etc does not take away anything from the other districts in the region.
These Regional capitals according to the petition to the President by the youth gained the prominence they have today as a result of the concentration of regional departments which propelled growing population with the population attracting investors who will want to take advantage of the numbers to invest in the region.
The mentioned also in the petition that the disadvantages of decentralizing of the departments far outweigh the advantages especially in the Savannah Region with its dispersed settlements.
The emphasized further that the various regional departments are only to serve as coordinating agencies, thus, coordinating the development within the region and dispersing these coordinating agencies of the Regional Coordinating Council will increase the cost of administration as the departments will have to communicate and share relevant documents, resources and information on a regular basis.
They are again craving for more districts in the newly created Savannah Region together with resourcing the existing ones to take charge of development by way of practical decentralization and went ahead to find out the criteria that was used by the Savanah Regional Coordinating Council to determine how the Regional Agricultural Office is best fit to be sited at Bole, the Regional Health Directorate sited in Daboya and Feeder Roads in Salaga.
The group further demanded better involvement and participation of the people before arriving at any decision the concerns them.
The youth therefore in the petition to the President believes that the decentralised departments are just structures responsible for coordinating the development and constitutes not development in themselves.
Clouded in red and holding placards with the inscription ” Regional Capital Without Coordinating Departments Is Meaningless”, ”Mr President This Is Not The Region The Yagbonwura Asked For” etc.
Receiving the petition, Savannah Regional Minister Hon. Adam Salifu Braimah thanked the youth for the peaceful conduct in presenting the petition to him for onward submission to the President of Ghana.
He assured them that as the representative of the President in the region, he will present the petition to President Nana Addo but was quick to remind them that the decentralization of the coordinating offices to the various districts is not limited to the Savannah Region but a policy that cuts across all the newly created regions.
The youth chief of Damongo, Nyiribiwura Yakubu Jaga who was with the youth during the presentation said he was very happy about the turnout and will forever be grateful to the leadership of the Damongo Youth Parliament for helping push this beautiful agenda of concentrating the departments in the regional capital since that will enhance development instead of the scattering of the offices.
https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Savannah-youth-protest-against-decision-to-disperse-regional-departments-860122
https://ghananewsagency.org/social/savannah-youth-want-regional-offices-in-damongo-163694
Source: Zion Abdul-Rauf
Savannah Region: disgruntled youth demonstrate against decentralisation of departments
Savannah Region: disgruntled youth demonstrate against decentralisation of departments
Story By Dave Alamisi/Ghanareports On Feb 8, 2020
Hundreds of youth took to the principal streets of Damongo, the capital of the Savannah Region to kick against attempts at decentralisation in the region.
The march, led by the Damongo Youth Parliament (DYP), was to compel the government to situate all departments of the Regional Coordinating Council in Damongo to spur development in the capital.
The group,in a petition to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presented by the Secretary/speaker of the parliament who doubles as the Assembly Man for Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham,to the Savannah Regional Minister,Adam Salifu Braimah, spelt out the gains of concentrating the offices in Damongo.
Describing the action by government as “regrettable”, the group disclosed that in an interview with PAD FM on 1st October 2019, after a closed-door meeting with the Regional Minister, the Registrar of the Gonja Traditional Council, Mr Abutu Kapori, disclosed that, it will be a betrayal of trust if Yagbonwura accepts a region with such dispersed departments.
According to him, the Overlord has directed the minister to relay to government that he has not accepted and will not accept an arrangement to decentralise departments”.
The march was triggered by the subtle disclosure by the Savannah Regional Minister, in a speech read on his behalf at the recently held Savannah Star Awards that, the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the region have been tasked to allocate pieces of lands in their districts for the construction of the various Regional Departments as advertised by government.
“Meaning, he intends to go ahead with the decentralisation policy, despite clear instructions from the chief petitioner against such a decision,” the group lamented.
They argued that developing Damongo like what has been witnessed in Tamale, Kumasi, Accra and Koforidua “does not take away anything from the other districts in the region”.
The group is of the view that the listed regional capitals gained prominence as a result of the concentration of regional departments which propelled a growing population.
“Such a dense population easily attracts investors who will want to take advantage of the numbers to do investments. We are already picking information that potential investors are being scared away from our region because of the unpalatable decision to decentralize since it will not make investment sense to put so much into a town that cannot attract traffic and the numbers needed to drive business”.
However, what they want in the other towns are scattered higher institutions of learning, factories, better road networks, markets, district hospitals and Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds.
They concluded that “the decision to decentralize is not in consonance with the popular will and wishes of the people”.
Dressed in red attire, amidst drumming and chanting of songs, the protestors marched along the main roads. Some of them carried placards which read: “Regional capital without coordinating departments is meaningless”, ”Mr President, this is not the region the Yagbonwura asked for”,” Respect the authority of the Yagbonwura: Site all departments at Damongo”.
Story By Dave Alamisi/Ghanareports On Feb 8, 2020
Hundreds of youth took to the principal streets of Damongo, the capital of the Savannah Region to kick against attempts at decentralisation in the region.
The march, led by the Damongo Youth Parliament (DYP), was to compel the government to situate all departments of the Regional Coordinating Council in Damongo to spur development in the capital.
The group,in a petition to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presented by the Secretary/speaker of the parliament who doubles as the Assembly Man for Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham,to the Savannah Regional Minister,Adam Salifu Braimah, spelt out the gains of concentrating the offices in Damongo.
Describing the action by government as “regrettable”, the group disclosed that in an interview with PAD FM on 1st October 2019, after a closed-door meeting with the Regional Minister, the Registrar of the Gonja Traditional Council, Mr Abutu Kapori, disclosed that, it will be a betrayal of trust if Yagbonwura accepts a region with such dispersed departments.
According to him, the Overlord has directed the minister to relay to government that he has not accepted and will not accept an arrangement to decentralise departments”.
The march was triggered by the subtle disclosure by the Savannah Regional Minister, in a speech read on his behalf at the recently held Savannah Star Awards that, the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the region have been tasked to allocate pieces of lands in their districts for the construction of the various Regional Departments as advertised by government.
“Meaning, he intends to go ahead with the decentralisation policy, despite clear instructions from the chief petitioner against such a decision,” the group lamented.
They argued that developing Damongo like what has been witnessed in Tamale, Kumasi, Accra and Koforidua “does not take away anything from the other districts in the region”.
The group is of the view that the listed regional capitals gained prominence as a result of the concentration of regional departments which propelled a growing population.
“Such a dense population easily attracts investors who will want to take advantage of the numbers to do investments. We are already picking information that potential investors are being scared away from our region because of the unpalatable decision to decentralize since it will not make investment sense to put so much into a town that cannot attract traffic and the numbers needed to drive business”.
However, what they want in the other towns are scattered higher institutions of learning, factories, better road networks, markets, district hospitals and Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds.
They concluded that “the decision to decentralize is not in consonance with the popular will and wishes of the people”.
Dressed in red attire, amidst drumming and chanting of songs, the protestors marched along the main roads. Some of them carried placards which read: “Regional capital without coordinating departments is meaningless”, ”Mr President, this is not the region the Yagbonwura asked for”,” Respect the authority of the Yagbonwura: Site all departments at Damongo”.
Friday, 24 January 2020
NDC accuses DCE of imposing committees on assembly members
NDC accuses DCE of imposing committees on assembly members
The opposition National Democratic Congress in the Damongo Constituency is accusing the West Gonja District Assembly of scheming to impose commitees and subcommittees on assembly members at the just ended inaugural ceremony.
In a statement,its Communication Director,Mr.Mumuni Yahaya alleged that,the said imposed commitees were secretly formed in the night without due regard to the varied interest,competencies and areas of specialisation of the honourable members.
He linked this grand scheme to the Deputy Chief of staff,Lawyer Abu Jinapor and the District Chief Executive who are bent on rendering perceived NDC assembly members useless on the floor of the house.
According to him,he witnessed fruitless attempts by the Assembly Man for the Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham who contested as the Presiding Member to speak out and protest against such an unfair and unsound decision best couched as an ambush.
The assembly man is noted to have argued that,the action of imposing commitees on honourable assembly members was alien to standard practices and the standing orders of the assembly and will not help bring out the best in them.
He further stated that,the assembly was setting a very bad precedents,since this practice has never been known to the august house.And that,the attempt to use numbers to bully perceived opponents on the floor of the house will translate to doing the entire district a great disservice.
His colleague assembly member for Yipala/Nabori Electoral Area, hon. Baluri Abdul Rahman shared similar sentiments.
Read the full statement below:
Poor performance not surprising:West Gonja District Assembly impose committees formed in the night on Assembly Members
Information gathered by the communication Bureau of the National Democratic Congress indicates that,the Deputy Chief of Staff, Lawyer Abu Jinapor has succeeded out of desperation in instructing the DCE for West Gonja District Assembly to form Committees in the night ahead of the inauguration of the assembly and imposed same on Assembly Members at the inaugural ceremony.
This Committees were impossed on Assembly Members without due regard to their areas of specialisation and capabilities.
A practice which many say is alien and not in consonance with the standing orders of the assembly and popular practices.
The scheme was targeted at perceived NDC assembly members to work them out of mandatory Committees of the assembly and to prevent them from chairing any of the eight committees.
I witness fruitless efforts by the Assembly Member for the Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham who contested as the Presiding Member to speak out against this unpopular and unsound decision.
He argued that the decision was not in the best interest of the people and was alien to standard practices and the standing orders of the assembly.He said the assembly was setting a very bad precedents.
Assembly Member for Yipala electoral area,hon.Baluri Abdul Rahman argued strongly against the decision as well,but to no avail...He said the practice was not known to the house and that honourable members were ambused.
This is a well planned scheme and credible information available to us indicates that,it was a serious battle between the DCE and party executives with regards to the alien practice.
There was serious division among their rank as both the DCE and Deputy Chief of staff were at loggerheads with regards to their favourites chairing committees.
It's not surprising the recent poor performance of the district on the district league table.We were adjudged 199th out of 216 districts in the 2018 District League Table.A district that use to chalk 3rd under the able leadership of the current member of parliament and then DCE.
And worst is yet to come as the deputy Chief of Staff is conniving with the DCE to create revenue leakages in the IGF to fund his campaign.
This is the reason why they secretly and illegally schemed and took out the four perceived NDC members from chairing any of the committees, especially the mandatory committees...
The current assembly may record the worst performance if the unnecessary interference by the deputy Chief of staff is not halted.
He has succeeded in getting the technical men and the DCE to compromise and dance to his dubious tactics.
Signed:
Mumuni Yahaya Kiyoyo
(NDC Communication Director, Damongo Constituency)
0241279158
Source: Ananpansah B Abraham
The opposition National Democratic Congress in the Damongo Constituency is accusing the West Gonja District Assembly of scheming to impose commitees and subcommittees on assembly members at the just ended inaugural ceremony.
In a statement,its Communication Director,Mr.Mumuni Yahaya alleged that,the said imposed commitees were secretly formed in the night without due regard to the varied interest,competencies and areas of specialisation of the honourable members.
He linked this grand scheme to the Deputy Chief of staff,Lawyer Abu Jinapor and the District Chief Executive who are bent on rendering perceived NDC assembly members useless on the floor of the house.
According to him,he witnessed fruitless attempts by the Assembly Man for the Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham who contested as the Presiding Member to speak out and protest against such an unfair and unsound decision best couched as an ambush.
The assembly man is noted to have argued that,the action of imposing commitees on honourable assembly members was alien to standard practices and the standing orders of the assembly and will not help bring out the best in them.
He further stated that,the assembly was setting a very bad precedents,since this practice has never been known to the august house.And that,the attempt to use numbers to bully perceived opponents on the floor of the house will translate to doing the entire district a great disservice.
His colleague assembly member for Yipala/Nabori Electoral Area, hon. Baluri Abdul Rahman shared similar sentiments.
Read the full statement below:
Poor performance not surprising:West Gonja District Assembly impose committees formed in the night on Assembly Members
Information gathered by the communication Bureau of the National Democratic Congress indicates that,the Deputy Chief of Staff, Lawyer Abu Jinapor has succeeded out of desperation in instructing the DCE for West Gonja District Assembly to form Committees in the night ahead of the inauguration of the assembly and imposed same on Assembly Members at the inaugural ceremony.
This Committees were impossed on Assembly Members without due regard to their areas of specialisation and capabilities.
A practice which many say is alien and not in consonance with the standing orders of the assembly and popular practices.
The scheme was targeted at perceived NDC assembly members to work them out of mandatory Committees of the assembly and to prevent them from chairing any of the eight committees.
I witness fruitless efforts by the Assembly Member for the Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham who contested as the Presiding Member to speak out against this unpopular and unsound decision.
He argued that the decision was not in the best interest of the people and was alien to standard practices and the standing orders of the assembly.He said the assembly was setting a very bad precedents.
Assembly Member for Yipala electoral area,hon.Baluri Abdul Rahman argued strongly against the decision as well,but to no avail...He said the practice was not known to the house and that honourable members were ambused.
This is a well planned scheme and credible information available to us indicates that,it was a serious battle between the DCE and party executives with regards to the alien practice.
There was serious division among their rank as both the DCE and Deputy Chief of staff were at loggerheads with regards to their favourites chairing committees.
It's not surprising the recent poor performance of the district on the district league table.We were adjudged 199th out of 216 districts in the 2018 District League Table.A district that use to chalk 3rd under the able leadership of the current member of parliament and then DCE.
And worst is yet to come as the deputy Chief of Staff is conniving with the DCE to create revenue leakages in the IGF to fund his campaign.
This is the reason why they secretly and illegally schemed and took out the four perceived NDC members from chairing any of the committees, especially the mandatory committees...
The current assembly may record the worst performance if the unnecessary interference by the deputy Chief of staff is not halted.
He has succeeded in getting the technical men and the DCE to compromise and dance to his dubious tactics.
Signed:
Mumuni Yahaya Kiyoyo
(NDC Communication Director, Damongo Constituency)
0241279158
Source: Ananpansah B Abraham
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Final Accounts of Fundraising In Aid of Madam Sayeba Haruna (Now) of blessed Memory
Final Accounts of Fundraising In Aid of Madam Sayeba Haruna (Now) of blessed Memory
Condition: Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis / Stevens Johnson Syndrome.
(For more explanation,contact the doctors & health practitioners)
By: Ananpansah B Abraham (AB)
(Writer,Social Media Campaigner,Reporter; PAD FM, Damongo)
0241129910
NB.This final accounts will be dully published on the blogspot:(ananpansah-ab.blogspot.com) & (PAD FM Online.com) among other notable portals for future reference.
(A full published story of how it all started and the faith of our late sister's children will follow suit).
All contribution was received through the MTN Mobile Money Number 0241129910 in the name of Ananpansah B Abraham (AB).
Big question to contemplate on: What should we do with the remaining balance(let the public speak)?
Many thanks to you all for the generous contributions and supplications .(The family will continue to remain grateful to you).
May the soul of our late sister rest peacefully in the bosom of Abraham.
Kindly take time and read the full account item by item and be free to ask any question/seek clarification.
Thank you.
After the entire 'Fundraising Campaign launched through the MTN Mobile Money Account 0241129910 in the name of Ananpansah B Abraham',a total cash amount of Ghc14,943.00 was raised.Thus: from the day the Campaign was pioneered (Wednesday,15th January,2020),to the day our beloved sister passed onto glory (Saturday,January 18,2020).
An additional amount of Ghc175.00 was raised immediately after her death,with donors specifically directing their support to her five surviving children.
Total amount raised from fundraising campaign : Ghc14,943.00 + Ghc175.00 = Ghc15,118.00
Total expenses incurred right from the day our beloved sister was referred from the West Gonja Hospital to the Tamale Teaching Hospital(Thursday,January 16,2020);to the day her mortal remains was entombed(Sunday,January 19,2020):
(A).On Thursday,January 16,2020,at 10:29AM,a total amount of Ghc838.00 was cashed out with the consent of the husband and immediate family of madam Sweba. (Mobile Money fee charged = Ghc8.00).
Subtotal (Ghc838.00 + Ghc8.00) = Ghc846.00.
Footnotes:A total amount of Ghc338.00 of the above sum was used to cater for Ambulance Fee from Damongo to Tamale Teaching Hospital(TTH),whilst the remaining balance of Ghc500.00 was given to the husband of madam Sweba as initial public support to aid them to Tamale and cater for medication.
(B).Upon arrival at the TTH,it became necessary that they proceed with our sister to the Akomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital at Kumasi because,the plastic surgeon that was scheduled to attend to her was unavailable.
To this end,an additional amount of Ghc700.00 was requested and dully transfered to Mr.Thomas Atambire(West Gonja Hospital Ambulance Driver) on Thursday January 16,2020, at 8:16pm as Ambulance Fee from Tamale to Kumasi. (Mobile fee charged = Ghc7.00).
Subtotal ( Ghc700.00 + Ghc7.00) = Ghc707.00.
(C).Pending the plastic surgery that was anticipated,the husband and caretakers of Madam Sweba indicated they had run out of money for medication,whilst at the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.To this end,a total amount of Ghc1,000.00 was advanced to the family through madam Abukari Jelia's Mobile Money Account on Friday 17th January,2020, around 4:33pm. (Mobile fee charged Ghc10.00).
Subtotal(Ghc1,000.00 + Ghc10.00) = Ghc1,010.00.
(D).On Saturday 18th January,2020;we received reports that our sister was able to walk and feed on her own for the first time in many days.They were however,asked to buy some drugs to the tune of Ghc1,200.00.Responding to this request, a sum total of Ghc1,500.00 was transferred to the MTN Mobile Money Account of her elder sister,Abubakari Jelia,at exactly 1:04pm.(Fee charged = Ghc15.00).
Subtotal(Ghc1,500.00 + Ghc15.00) = Ghc1,515.00.
(E).Few hours after the Ghc1,500.00 was transferred for the purchase of the prescribed drugs,we received a disheartening report that our beloved sister had passed onto glory at around 4:00pm.Effort was made for the non used drugs to be returned and an amount of Ghc1,000.00 was retrieved in the process.Part of this amount was used to clear some of the hospital bills with a remaining balance of Ghc500.00.
An additional amount of Ghc1000.00 was requested to add up to the balance of Ghc500.00 for the purpose of footing the cost of a hearse used to convey the corps to Buipe for cremation.To this end,an initial amount of Ghc530.00 was transferred to the driver by Mr. Alhassan Braimah of West Gonja Hospital who was handling the process of arranging for the hearse.Upon arrival at Buipe with the body,he added a sum of Ghc500.00 to the driver, bringing the total amount to Ghc1030.00.
Subtotal = Ghc1030.00.
(F).On Sunday 19th January,2020,an amount of Ghc460.00 was transferred to Mr.Iddrius Sufuyanu at 4:50PM to pay for a bus that was hired to convey the family and relatives of beloved Sweba to join in her entombing at Buipe in the Central Gonja District.(Fee charged = Ghc4.00).
Subtotal = Ghc464.00.
Total Expenses(A+B+C+D+E+F) ( Ghc846.00 + Ghc707.00 + Ghc1,010.00 + Ghc1,515.00 + Ghc1030.00 + Ghc464.00) = Ghc5,572.00.
Current Balance ( Ghc15,118.00 - Ghc5,572.00) = Ghc9,546.00.
Thus; the avaliable balance in mobile money account(0241129910) = Ghc9,546.00
Breakdown of donors in response to fundraising campaign;
(Thank you all for your generosity...May the good Lord richly bless and replenish this genuine compassion for humanity).
Target : Ghc10,000.00 (or more).
Contributions:
(I) In Donations;
A.Deputy Chief of Staff, Lawyer Abu Jinapor --- Ghc2,000.00
B.Savannah Regional Coordinating Council--Ghc1,000.00
C.Savannah Regional Minister,Hon.Salifu Adam Braimah ---Ghc1000.00
D.Hon.Nana Kwame Aboagye -- Ghc 2,000.00
E.Daniel J. Zefo (Business Man Based in Accra) -- Ghc 1,500.00
F.Deputy Executive Secretary,GEPC,hon.Diwura Albert -- Ghc500.00
G.DCE,West Gonja District,hon. Muhazu Saeed -- Ghc500.00
(II)In kind contributions:
1.Ananpansah B Abraham -- Ghc50.00
2.Anoma Atabia --Ghc50.00
3.Sulemana Salamatu -- Ghc50.00.
4.kuuire Augustine--Ghc100
5.Celine Delwmine Sapoe--Ghc10.00
6.Undisclosed by discretion--Ghc30.00
7.Abdul Latif Tilisiba--Ghc10.00
8.Akangolige Francis-Ghc5.00
9.Akumbisa Benjamin-Ghc30.00
10.Elizabeth Kudafanga-Ghc20.00
11.Dubiure Umaru Farouk-Ghc200.00
12.Baragbor Afi Evelyn--Ghc100.00
13.Salia Abubakari--Ghc100.00
14.Dramani Alidu Fudjoe-Ghc200.00
15.Abdallah Shaibu--Ghc10
16.Adam Abdul Mohammed--Ghc100
17.Ubaida Nurudeen--Ghc30.00
18.Hajia Sulemana--Ghc100.00
19.IvanAwudu Domasaa--Ghc20.00
20.Lawratu Sulemana--Ghc400.00
21.Thomas Zume-Ghc100.00
22.Ewura Dari Malik--Ghc5.00
23.Yakubu Tahiru --Ghc50.00
24.Naasaal Felix-Ghc50.00
25.Ayizanga Raphael Aloe-80.00
26.Anonymous;sent from Narrows Vent-- Ghc20.00
27.David Bangam -- Ghc216.00
28.Ganew Mohammed--Ghc5.00
29.Seidu Amadu--Ghc10.00
30.Aminu Police--Ghc205.00
31.Anonymous -- Ghc200.00
32.Abdul Ganew Adama Jakpa--Ghc25.00
33.Anonymous; sent from Sundiata Enterprises--Ghc50.00
34.Anonymous--Ghc100.00
35.John Kofi Laweh -- Ghc50.00
36.Nafisah Sulemana -- Ghc2.00
37.Nghanye Sa--Ghc10.00
38.Bianto Women Group (AbingaKura-Chairperson;Adisa Abutu) ---Ghc500.00
39.Prince Emeka Enterprise (EmyLink) -- Ghc 200.00
40.Thompson Bawa-- Ghc50.00
41.Mr.Naheem -- Ghc100.00
42.Dabu Shaibu Ewuntomah -- Ghc20.00
43.Muftawu Habibu -- Ghc50.00
44.Iddiae Abudu -- Ghc200.00
45.Anonymous(sent from W.O Ventures 3) = Ghc640.00
46.Anonymous(sent from Ellis Avenue Parmacy Queens Gate) = Ghc50.00
47.Premier Pen & Paper (P3) -- Ghc50.00
48.Anonymous -- Ghc50.00
49.Yakubu Ali -- Ghc50.00
50.Kweku Alhassan --Ghc50.00
51.Anonymous -- Ghc200.00
52.Issaka Kande --Ghc20.00
53.Alhassan Eliot Haruna - Ghc200.00
54. Kewura Nurudeen - Ghc10.00
55.Felicia Kraja -- Ghc100.00
56.Fulera Abdul Rahaman -- Ghc20.00
57.Samuel Seidu- Ghc 432.00
58.Samuel Seidu(same person as number 57) -- Ghc432.00
59.Zumi Cletus --Ghc100.00
60.AbdulBasit Zakaria -- Ghc25.00
61.Amina Saaka -- Ghc21.00
62.Christy Adams --Ghc50.00
63.Zenabu Osman -- Ghc20.00
64.Mma Mary --Ghc10.00
Subtotal( I +II ) = Ghc14,943.00.
Donations received after the demise of Madam Haruna Sweba as support to the children:
1.Mr.Dominic Osei Kofi(Kumasi) = Ghc100.00.
2.Adam Akilu Gideon = Ghc20.00.
3.Gaariye M-S Emmanuel = Ghc10.00.
4.Akayuri Joseph = Ghc10.00.
5.Abraham Kura Safo = Ghc15.00.
6.Hudu Abudu = Ghc20.00
Subtotal = Ghc175.00.
Total amount raised from fundraising campaign #(Ghc14,943.00 + Ghc175.00) = Ghc 15,118.00.
Total Expenses # (Ghc846.00 + Ghc707.00 + Ghc1,010.00 + Ghc1,515.00 +Ghc1030.00 + Ghc464.00) = (Ghc5,572.00).
Current Balance ( Ghc15,118.00 - Ghc5,572.00) = Ghc9,546.00.
Thus; the avaliable balance in mobile money account = Ghc9,546.00.
Most kind regards and God richly bless you for your generosity towards this campaign.
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
John 14:1-4 ESV.
Rest in peace dear sister! You fought well .You've United many voices across the length and breath of the globe and increased in us the genuine spirit of compassion for humanity and benevolence.
# UBUNTU ( I am because you are and you are because I am).
Story to be continued....
By: Ananpansah B Abraham (AB)
(Writer,Social Media Campaigner,Reporter; PAD FM, Damongo)
0241129910
Condition: Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis / Stevens Johnson Syndrome.
(For more explanation,contact the doctors & health practitioners)
By: Ananpansah B Abraham (AB)
(Writer,Social Media Campaigner,Reporter; PAD FM, Damongo)
0241129910
NB.This final accounts will be dully published on the blogspot:(ananpansah-ab.blogspot.com) & (PAD FM Online.com) among other notable portals for future reference.
(A full published story of how it all started and the faith of our late sister's children will follow suit).
All contribution was received through the MTN Mobile Money Number 0241129910 in the name of Ananpansah B Abraham (AB).
Big question to contemplate on: What should we do with the remaining balance(let the public speak)?
Many thanks to you all for the generous contributions and supplications .(The family will continue to remain grateful to you).
May the soul of our late sister rest peacefully in the bosom of Abraham.
Kindly take time and read the full account item by item and be free to ask any question/seek clarification.
Thank you.
After the entire 'Fundraising Campaign launched through the MTN Mobile Money Account 0241129910 in the name of Ananpansah B Abraham',a total cash amount of Ghc14,943.00 was raised.Thus: from the day the Campaign was pioneered (Wednesday,15th January,2020),to the day our beloved sister passed onto glory (Saturday,January 18,2020).
An additional amount of Ghc175.00 was raised immediately after her death,with donors specifically directing their support to her five surviving children.
Total amount raised from fundraising campaign : Ghc14,943.00 + Ghc175.00 = Ghc15,118.00
Total expenses incurred right from the day our beloved sister was referred from the West Gonja Hospital to the Tamale Teaching Hospital(Thursday,January 16,2020);to the day her mortal remains was entombed(Sunday,January 19,2020):
(A).On Thursday,January 16,2020,at 10:29AM,a total amount of Ghc838.00 was cashed out with the consent of the husband and immediate family of madam Sweba. (Mobile Money fee charged = Ghc8.00).
Subtotal (Ghc838.00 + Ghc8.00) = Ghc846.00.
Footnotes:A total amount of Ghc338.00 of the above sum was used to cater for Ambulance Fee from Damongo to Tamale Teaching Hospital(TTH),whilst the remaining balance of Ghc500.00 was given to the husband of madam Sweba as initial public support to aid them to Tamale and cater for medication.
(B).Upon arrival at the TTH,it became necessary that they proceed with our sister to the Akomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital at Kumasi because,the plastic surgeon that was scheduled to attend to her was unavailable.
To this end,an additional amount of Ghc700.00 was requested and dully transfered to Mr.Thomas Atambire(West Gonja Hospital Ambulance Driver) on Thursday January 16,2020, at 8:16pm as Ambulance Fee from Tamale to Kumasi. (Mobile fee charged = Ghc7.00).
Subtotal ( Ghc700.00 + Ghc7.00) = Ghc707.00.
(C).Pending the plastic surgery that was anticipated,the husband and caretakers of Madam Sweba indicated they had run out of money for medication,whilst at the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.To this end,a total amount of Ghc1,000.00 was advanced to the family through madam Abukari Jelia's Mobile Money Account on Friday 17th January,2020, around 4:33pm. (Mobile fee charged Ghc10.00).
Subtotal(Ghc1,000.00 + Ghc10.00) = Ghc1,010.00.
(D).On Saturday 18th January,2020;we received reports that our sister was able to walk and feed on her own for the first time in many days.They were however,asked to buy some drugs to the tune of Ghc1,200.00.Responding to this request, a sum total of Ghc1,500.00 was transferred to the MTN Mobile Money Account of her elder sister,Abubakari Jelia,at exactly 1:04pm.(Fee charged = Ghc15.00).
Subtotal(Ghc1,500.00 + Ghc15.00) = Ghc1,515.00.
(E).Few hours after the Ghc1,500.00 was transferred for the purchase of the prescribed drugs,we received a disheartening report that our beloved sister had passed onto glory at around 4:00pm.Effort was made for the non used drugs to be returned and an amount of Ghc1,000.00 was retrieved in the process.Part of this amount was used to clear some of the hospital bills with a remaining balance of Ghc500.00.
An additional amount of Ghc1000.00 was requested to add up to the balance of Ghc500.00 for the purpose of footing the cost of a hearse used to convey the corps to Buipe for cremation.To this end,an initial amount of Ghc530.00 was transferred to the driver by Mr. Alhassan Braimah of West Gonja Hospital who was handling the process of arranging for the hearse.Upon arrival at Buipe with the body,he added a sum of Ghc500.00 to the driver, bringing the total amount to Ghc1030.00.
Subtotal = Ghc1030.00.
(F).On Sunday 19th January,2020,an amount of Ghc460.00 was transferred to Mr.Iddrius Sufuyanu at 4:50PM to pay for a bus that was hired to convey the family and relatives of beloved Sweba to join in her entombing at Buipe in the Central Gonja District.(Fee charged = Ghc4.00).
Subtotal = Ghc464.00.
Total Expenses(A+B+C+D+E+F) ( Ghc846.00 + Ghc707.00 + Ghc1,010.00 + Ghc1,515.00 + Ghc1030.00 + Ghc464.00) = Ghc5,572.00.
Current Balance ( Ghc15,118.00 - Ghc5,572.00) = Ghc9,546.00.
Thus; the avaliable balance in mobile money account(0241129910) = Ghc9,546.00
Breakdown of donors in response to fundraising campaign;
(Thank you all for your generosity...May the good Lord richly bless and replenish this genuine compassion for humanity).
Target : Ghc10,000.00 (or more).
Contributions:
(I) In Donations;
A.Deputy Chief of Staff, Lawyer Abu Jinapor --- Ghc2,000.00
B.Savannah Regional Coordinating Council--Ghc1,000.00
C.Savannah Regional Minister,Hon.Salifu Adam Braimah ---Ghc1000.00
D.Hon.Nana Kwame Aboagye -- Ghc 2,000.00
E.Daniel J. Zefo (Business Man Based in Accra) -- Ghc 1,500.00
F.Deputy Executive Secretary,GEPC,hon.Diwura Albert -- Ghc500.00
G.DCE,West Gonja District,hon. Muhazu Saeed -- Ghc500.00
(II)In kind contributions:
1.Ananpansah B Abraham -- Ghc50.00
2.Anoma Atabia --Ghc50.00
3.Sulemana Salamatu -- Ghc50.00.
4.kuuire Augustine--Ghc100
5.Celine Delwmine Sapoe--Ghc10.00
6.Undisclosed by discretion--Ghc30.00
7.Abdul Latif Tilisiba--Ghc10.00
8.Akangolige Francis-Ghc5.00
9.Akumbisa Benjamin-Ghc30.00
10.Elizabeth Kudafanga-Ghc20.00
11.Dubiure Umaru Farouk-Ghc200.00
12.Baragbor Afi Evelyn--Ghc100.00
13.Salia Abubakari--Ghc100.00
14.Dramani Alidu Fudjoe-Ghc200.00
15.Abdallah Shaibu--Ghc10
16.Adam Abdul Mohammed--Ghc100
17.Ubaida Nurudeen--Ghc30.00
18.Hajia Sulemana--Ghc100.00
19.IvanAwudu Domasaa--Ghc20.00
20.Lawratu Sulemana--Ghc400.00
21.Thomas Zume-Ghc100.00
22.Ewura Dari Malik--Ghc5.00
23.Yakubu Tahiru --Ghc50.00
24.Naasaal Felix-Ghc50.00
25.Ayizanga Raphael Aloe-80.00
26.Anonymous;sent from Narrows Vent-- Ghc20.00
27.David Bangam -- Ghc216.00
28.Ganew Mohammed--Ghc5.00
29.Seidu Amadu--Ghc10.00
30.Aminu Police--Ghc205.00
31.Anonymous -- Ghc200.00
32.Abdul Ganew Adama Jakpa--Ghc25.00
33.Anonymous; sent from Sundiata Enterprises--Ghc50.00
34.Anonymous--Ghc100.00
35.John Kofi Laweh -- Ghc50.00
36.Nafisah Sulemana -- Ghc2.00
37.Nghanye Sa--Ghc10.00
38.Bianto Women Group (AbingaKura-Chairperson;Adisa Abutu) ---Ghc500.00
39.Prince Emeka Enterprise (EmyLink) -- Ghc 200.00
40.Thompson Bawa-- Ghc50.00
41.Mr.Naheem -- Ghc100.00
42.Dabu Shaibu Ewuntomah -- Ghc20.00
43.Muftawu Habibu -- Ghc50.00
44.Iddiae Abudu -- Ghc200.00
45.Anonymous(sent from W.O Ventures 3) = Ghc640.00
46.Anonymous(sent from Ellis Avenue Parmacy Queens Gate) = Ghc50.00
47.Premier Pen & Paper (P3) -- Ghc50.00
48.Anonymous -- Ghc50.00
49.Yakubu Ali -- Ghc50.00
50.Kweku Alhassan --Ghc50.00
51.Anonymous -- Ghc200.00
52.Issaka Kande --Ghc20.00
53.Alhassan Eliot Haruna - Ghc200.00
54. Kewura Nurudeen - Ghc10.00
55.Felicia Kraja -- Ghc100.00
56.Fulera Abdul Rahaman -- Ghc20.00
57.Samuel Seidu- Ghc 432.00
58.Samuel Seidu(same person as number 57) -- Ghc432.00
59.Zumi Cletus --Ghc100.00
60.AbdulBasit Zakaria -- Ghc25.00
61.Amina Saaka -- Ghc21.00
62.Christy Adams --Ghc50.00
63.Zenabu Osman -- Ghc20.00
64.Mma Mary --Ghc10.00
Subtotal( I +II ) = Ghc14,943.00.
Donations received after the demise of Madam Haruna Sweba as support to the children:
1.Mr.Dominic Osei Kofi(Kumasi) = Ghc100.00.
2.Adam Akilu Gideon = Ghc20.00.
3.Gaariye M-S Emmanuel = Ghc10.00.
4.Akayuri Joseph = Ghc10.00.
5.Abraham Kura Safo = Ghc15.00.
6.Hudu Abudu = Ghc20.00
Subtotal = Ghc175.00.
Total amount raised from fundraising campaign #(Ghc14,943.00 + Ghc175.00) = Ghc 15,118.00.
Total Expenses # (Ghc846.00 + Ghc707.00 + Ghc1,010.00 + Ghc1,515.00 +Ghc1030.00 + Ghc464.00) = (Ghc5,572.00).
Current Balance ( Ghc15,118.00 - Ghc5,572.00) = Ghc9,546.00.
Thus; the avaliable balance in mobile money account = Ghc9,546.00.
Most kind regards and God richly bless you for your generosity towards this campaign.
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
John 14:1-4 ESV.
Rest in peace dear sister! You fought well .You've United many voices across the length and breath of the globe and increased in us the genuine spirit of compassion for humanity and benevolence.
# UBUNTU ( I am because you are and you are because I am).
Story to be continued....
By: Ananpansah B Abraham (AB)
(Writer,Social Media Campaigner,Reporter; PAD FM, Damongo)
0241129910
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Damongo: Youth Backs Gonja King; Says It’s Costly To Scatter Govt Depts In Savannah Region
Damongo: Youth Backs Gonja King; Says It’s Costly To Scatter Govt Depts In Savannah Region
Tamale, Ghana – The Damongo Youth Parliament, a civic rights group based in Damongo the Savannah Regional capital is supporting demands by the King of Gonja (Yagbonwura) to have all key government departments centralised in the capital.
The group has also served notice that if by December 16th, 2019 the president of the republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo does not rescind his decision to decentralise such key departments, they will stage a protest in Damongo.
Departments such as Health, Feeder Roads, Urban Roads, Roads and Highways, Agriculture, Education, Births and Deaths, Lands Commission, Survey, Planning and Cooperatives among others are currently being shared among other districts of the newly created region.
But at a press conference held in Damongo on Monday, Ananpansah B. Abraham, Secretary to the group, said the proposed government policy may work well for other regions, but not the Savannah Region. “… the disperse nature of our settlement patterns makes it impractical to reason about. It will only end up in promoting inefficiency and ineffectiveness in administration. The efficiency ingredient which was key in requesting for the region will be defeated with a decentralized bureaucracy.
“The time and resources that will be needed to access scattered departments in the Savannah Region however, presents a somewhat Scary picture with cost implications.
“You can imagine the head of a particular decentralized department having to travel 341kms to and from Bole and Daboya for an official meeting or duty.How about a nurse in Salaga having to travel 252.4kms to Daboya to sign his/her documents because, the Regional Health Directorate is located there. Can you imagine the time, resources and stress? How about a contractor in Bamboi covering a distance of 455.1kms to Salaga to access the Feeder Roads Department and another 341kms to Bole to access the Agric department. You see what we are talking about?”, he quizzed.
According to Mr. Ananpansah, “It will be a clear affront to the authority of the Overlord who is the chief petitioner to scatter these coordinating departments. And it will be clearly against the wishes and aspirations of the people for whose reason the region was created.
“ What is insulting and somewhat authoritative is that, the decision to decentralize was taken at the blind side of the Yagbonwura and the people of Gonjaland.Yagbonwura disclosed in one of our engagements with him that he only heard of the “somewhat unpopular” decision when PAD FM broke the news.”
Below is the full statement read at their press conference:
PRESS CONFERENCE
DAMONGO YOUTH PARLIAMENT(DYP)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2019
IMPLEMENT WISHES AND ASPIRATIONS OF PEOPLE OF SAVANNAH REGION BY DESISTING FROM ANY ATTEMPT TO DECENTRALIZE REGIONAL DEPARTMENTS OF SAVANNAH REGIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL
Warm salutations to you our gallant press men, fellow Gonjalanders, friends, ladies and gentlemen; all protocols dully observed.
With a heart filled with gratitude and warm fuzzes, I wish to welcome you all on behalf of the rank and file of the youth parliament to this all-important press conference.
As a youth parliament, the common good of the youth and our communities in general and Savannah Region in particular, devoid of personal interest, are our utmost priority.
On that score, we wish to pat our gallant press men and indeed, all Gonjalanders on the back for the individual sacrifices and collective effort towards the creation and subsequently, the strive towards the development of the infant Savannah Region. Indeed, it was never promised to be easy, but with a true-blue character and unity of purpose, “we shall surely see visions”. (Rephrased).
Ladies and gentlemen, we have invited you here today to share our thoughts with you on the state of affairs in the newly created Savannah Region of ours.
Comrades, it’s instructive to note that, the quest for the creation of the Savannah Region was to accelerate Socio Economic Development and to enhance administrative efficiency.(This is as contained in the petition for the creation of a new region in Gonjaland).And many sons and daughters of our dear land who toiled tirelessly for decades to have a Savannah Region would have wished to share in the glory we have today.
This toil dates back to a meeting that was held from the 18th to 19th of April,1981, when the idea of requesting for a region was first mooted with loud applause. What a privileged generation we are?
It is therefore important for us to seize the golden opportunity provided by the region to refine ideas, listen to one another and develop Gonjaland. We therefore, cannot afford to betray the toil, sacrifices and silent wishes of our forefathers and mothers as they sleep silently with the hope of a promising and prosperous Savannah Region.
The Overlord of the Gonja Kingdom,Yagbonwura Tutumba Boresa 1,deserves a ceremonial embrace as the chief petitioner for the creation of the Savannah Region.We in the youth parliament, therefore share in the wisdom contained in his directive that, all the decentralized departments of the Regional Coordinating Council should be located at the Regional Capital, Damongo.
In an interview with PAD FM on 1st October,2019,after a closed-door meeting with the Regional Minister, the Registrar of the Gonja Traditional Council,Mr.Abutu Kapori,disclosed that, it will be a betrayal of trust if Yagbonwura accepts a region with such dispersed departments.
According to him, the Overlord has directed the minister to relay to government that he has not accepted and will not accept an arrangement to decentralize departments.
“Yagbonwura wants all the regional departments to be sited at Damongo….This was the reason why he demanded for the region.Yagbonwura says if he was to be aware that this was the way the region was going to be structured, he wouldn’t have asked for it.When you look at the youth that came to my palace to protest against the decision, they are made up of different tribes. The teaming youth have indicated that they will feel highly betrayed and disappointed if the Overlord accepts such a decision, since that was not the region they fought and voted for,” he reiterated.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, the wisdom in Yagbonwura’s declaration reflects the wishes and aspirations of the youth and people of Gonjaland as expressly expressed in the petition for the creation of the Savannah Region, not the afterthought proclamations best couched as a mirage.
Compatriots, it’s important to note that, Yagbonwura’s directive is sequel to an attempted protest by the youth of the region under the aegis of Damongo Youth Parliament (DYP) against the unpopular decision. A protest which was put on a temporal hold.
We thought the declaration by the Overlord has ended the raging controversy, since he is the chief petitioner with a final say and symbolizes the entire region and Gonjaland.We the youth therefore, rested our case with the hope of a better structure for a coordinated development within the Savannah Region.
What beats our imagination however, is the subtle disclosure by the Savannah Regional Minister, Mr.Adam Salifu Braimah,in a speech read on his behalf at the recently held Savannah Star Awards that, the various MMDCEs’ in the Savannah Region have been tasked to allocate pieces of lands in their districts for the construction of the various Regional Departments as advertised by government.Meaning,he intends to go ahead with the decentralization policy, despite clear instructions from the chief petitioner against such a decision.
We have also become aware that, most of the Heads of the Decentralized Departments have started reporting to the Regional Capital, but are being coerced against their will to move to their so-called designated districts.
Comrades, ladies and gentlemen of the press, we consider this desperate move an affront to the authority of Yagbonwura who symbolizes the entire Gonjaland and a betrayal of the wishes, conscience and aspirations of the people. The people must be seen as owning the region!
I should like to state that, the disadvantages of decentralizing bureaucratic departments far outweigh the advantages, especially for Savannah Region with its dispersed settlements.
Friends, it’s instructive to note that, the various regional departments are only to serve as coordinating agencies,thus,coordinating the development within the region, and dispersing these coordinating agencies of the RCC will increase the cost of administration as the departments will have to communicate and share relevant documents, resources and information on a regular basis. Our recurrent expenditure will increase unnecessarily through commuting expenses.
Information we have sourced indicates that at present, an amount of Gh50,000.00 is used per month to fuel the hitherto eight and now seven vehicles of the Savannah Regional Coordinating Council… Averagely, each vehicle would have been consuming an amount Ghc7,143.00 of fuel per month which translate to 1,343 litters of fuel.
This is less the outstation and traveling allowances inter alia.
We are just wondering where the cost will be pegged with dispersed decentralized departments, where the Heads of Departments will have to cover several kilometers to attend official meetings among others.
Lest we forget, we will soon be raising some critical questions and issues about our missing RCC vehicle with registration number ER 3516-19 and chase’s number AHTKK8CDD200679016.Information about the progress of investigations remain sketchy and we are concerned, since it’s a matter bothering on public interest and public good. Coming soon….
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, the policy so proposed may work well in any other region, but for Savannah Region, the disperse nature of our settlement patterns makes it impractical to reason about. It will only end up in promoting inefficiency and ineffectiveness in administration. The efficiency ingredient which was key in requesting for the region will be defeated with a decentralized bureaucracy.
Take the distances from the regional capital to the various towns in the North East Region for instance:
The travel distance between Nalerigu to Gambaga is 7kms, Nalerigu to Walewale;57kms, Nalerigu to Cheripony which happen to be one of the farthest towns in the region is 112kms and Nalerigu to Bunkurigu is 61kms.
Bono East Region which is also closer in proximity to the Savannah Region presents a similar picture:
The travel distance from Techiman to Kintampo is 72.6kms, Techiman to Atebubu;143.4kms, Techiman to Yeji;212.9kms, Techiman to Nkoranza is 29kms and from Techiman to Wenchi is 31.8kms.
The time and resources that will be needed to access scattered departments in the Savannah Region however, presents a somewhat Scary picture with cost implications.
You can imagine the head of a particular decentralized department having to travel 341kms to and from Bole and Daboya for an official meeting or duty.
How about a nurse in Salaga having to travel 252.4kms to Daboya to sign his/her documents because, the Regional Health Directorate is located there. Can you imagine the time, resources and stress?How about a contractor in Bamboi covering a distance of 455.1kms to Salaga to access the Feeder Roads Department and another 341kms to Bole to access the Agric department. You see what we are talking about?
See the table below for a better appreciation of the above analysis.
TOWN TRAVEL DISTANCE IN Kms
Damongo to Salaga 239
Damongo to Bole 99
Damongo to Daboya 89.3
Bamboi to Salaga 455.6
Tuna to Salaga 346.7
Bole to Daboya 188.3
Buipe to Salaga 218.5
Such a system will create access crises and slowdown the bureaucracy of the region, thus promoting ineffective administration and underdevelopment. It will unnecessarily overburden clients who will be accessing these departments.
Damongo was settled on as the regional capital because of its generally accepted central nature…About four of the six districts in Gonjaland are closer in proximity to Damongo. It is centrally placed and best fit to coordinate development within the region.
Developing Damongo as the pride of Gonjaland like Tamale, Kumasi, Accra, Koforidua ad infinitum, does not take away anything from the other districts in the region. These Regional capitals gained the prominence they have today, as a result of the concentration of regional departments which propelled growing population.
Such a dense population easily attracts investors who will want to take advantage of the numbers to do investments.We are already picking information that, potential investors are being scared away from our region because of the unpalatable decision to decentralize, since it will not make investment sense to put so much into a town that cannot attract traffic and the numbers needed to drive business.
Friends from the media, we are told the president mentioned about decentralization of development and government installations, whilst presenting the Savannah Region with its Document of Attestation and Constitutional Instrument (CI 115), to give effect to the creation of the region.
Decentralization of development is the way to go. That is why we entreat the president to embark on massive infrastructural development within the Savannah Region. We want to see more scattered higher institutions of learning, factories, better road networks, markets, district hospitals and CHPS compounds inter alia.
For the question of government installations, the meaning maybe opened to varied interpretations. But if that was meant to direct that bureaucratic departments should be scatted; we appeal to the conscience of the president to reconsider his decision. This is not the Savannah Region we intended. This is not the Savannah Region we must own, when we don’t have a say in how departments should be structured. Decisions and policies are made and can be unmade.
If we are really committed to decentralization, let’s rather impress on government to create more districts in the newly created Savannah Region and resource these districts together with the existing one’s to take charge of development.
Ladies and gentlemen, lest we forget, what criteria was used by the RCC to determine that the Regional Agric Office is best fit to be sited at Bole. How about the Regional Health Directorate and Feeder Roads? Who designed that criteria? Which people were involved or consulted in arriving at this crucial decision? We need to know…
It is important to note that, the departments in themselves are just structures responsible for coordinating development and don’t constitute development in themselves.Structures in themselves mean nothing if they don’t contribute to development.
It’s very difficult to fathom the motivation behind such acts of destructive desperation aimed at implementation a decision that is not in consonance with the popular will and wishes of the people.
We, within the youth parliament as key actors in the region wish to add our strong voices to this important debate.
We didn’t fight for a region that will at last, be a burden to the people. We intended to have a region that will enhance administrative efficiency and effectiveness.
As coordinating agencies, easy access to these departments is practically necessary if we mean development. Any attempt to scatter these departments will be counterproductive, as our meagre resources will be disbursed in running administrative cost of the region, rather than developing.
It will be a clear affront to the authority of the Overlord who is the chief petitioner to scatter these coordinating departments. And it will be clearly against the wishes and aspirations of the people for whose reason the region was created.
What is insulting and somewhat authoritative is that, the decision to decentralize was taken at the blind side of the Yagbonwura and the people of Gonjaland.Yagbonwura disclosed in one of our engagements with him that he only heard of the “somewhat unpopular” decision when PAD FM broke the news.
Is it now consultative development in a democratic Savannah Region or authoritative decisions defined by the whims and caprice of some “faceless individuals hiding under the cover of a so-called petition? We thought we collectively fought for the region and must plan its development together.
Friend, the so-called petition which we are told is the basis for this decision is not only non-existent, but it’s a total fiasco and a prime afterthought. So, the lest we talk about it, the better.
Such a decision was never the understanding of Yagbonwura, his chiefs and the people of Gonjaland.
We the youth are therefore, prepared to protest against this “blasphemous decision. We will not sit aloof and watch the authority of Yagbonwura to be flaunted with impunity.
We will resist any attempt to implement such an unpopular decision which does not fit into our developmental paradigm and does not resonate with the wishes and aspirations of the people.
Your Excellency, we are aware you just called off the holding of the Referendum of 17th December,2019, citing the lack of broad, national consensus among key stakeholders and the populace.
The decision to decentralize the regional departments of the Savannah Regional Coordinating Council was taken without broad consultation and consensus among key stakeholders and the populace.
We therefore, call on the president of the Republic of Ghana, His excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo-Addo to as a listening president use his powers to reconsider this rather unpopular decision. Let the people of Savannah Region be seen as owning the region.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, if by the 16th of December,2019, we don’t receive any positive response and reason to believe that the decision to decentralize was an afterthought but not intended; we will stage a massive demonstration to register our displeasure….
We are citizens, not spectators.
May the good Lord bless us all…
Long live Ghana!
Long live Gonjaland!Long live Savannah Region!
Long live Damongo Youth Parliament!
In one accord we remain faithfully yours,
ANANPANSAH,B ABRAHAM
(SECRETARY)
0241129910
MUMUNI MOHAMMED
(LEAD COORDINATOR)
0249077693
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Philip Liebs
Tamale, Ghana – The Damongo Youth Parliament, a civic rights group based in Damongo the Savannah Regional capital is supporting demands by the King of Gonja (Yagbonwura) to have all key government departments centralised in the capital.
The group has also served notice that if by December 16th, 2019 the president of the republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo does not rescind his decision to decentralise such key departments, they will stage a protest in Damongo.
Departments such as Health, Feeder Roads, Urban Roads, Roads and Highways, Agriculture, Education, Births and Deaths, Lands Commission, Survey, Planning and Cooperatives among others are currently being shared among other districts of the newly created region.
But at a press conference held in Damongo on Monday, Ananpansah B. Abraham, Secretary to the group, said the proposed government policy may work well for other regions, but not the Savannah Region. “… the disperse nature of our settlement patterns makes it impractical to reason about. It will only end up in promoting inefficiency and ineffectiveness in administration. The efficiency ingredient which was key in requesting for the region will be defeated with a decentralized bureaucracy.
“The time and resources that will be needed to access scattered departments in the Savannah Region however, presents a somewhat Scary picture with cost implications.
“You can imagine the head of a particular decentralized department having to travel 341kms to and from Bole and Daboya for an official meeting or duty.How about a nurse in Salaga having to travel 252.4kms to Daboya to sign his/her documents because, the Regional Health Directorate is located there. Can you imagine the time, resources and stress? How about a contractor in Bamboi covering a distance of 455.1kms to Salaga to access the Feeder Roads Department and another 341kms to Bole to access the Agric department. You see what we are talking about?”, he quizzed.
According to Mr. Ananpansah, “It will be a clear affront to the authority of the Overlord who is the chief petitioner to scatter these coordinating departments. And it will be clearly against the wishes and aspirations of the people for whose reason the region was created.
“ What is insulting and somewhat authoritative is that, the decision to decentralize was taken at the blind side of the Yagbonwura and the people of Gonjaland.Yagbonwura disclosed in one of our engagements with him that he only heard of the “somewhat unpopular” decision when PAD FM broke the news.”
Below is the full statement read at their press conference:
PRESS CONFERENCE
DAMONGO YOUTH PARLIAMENT(DYP)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2019
IMPLEMENT WISHES AND ASPIRATIONS OF PEOPLE OF SAVANNAH REGION BY DESISTING FROM ANY ATTEMPT TO DECENTRALIZE REGIONAL DEPARTMENTS OF SAVANNAH REGIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL
Warm salutations to you our gallant press men, fellow Gonjalanders, friends, ladies and gentlemen; all protocols dully observed.
With a heart filled with gratitude and warm fuzzes, I wish to welcome you all on behalf of the rank and file of the youth parliament to this all-important press conference.
As a youth parliament, the common good of the youth and our communities in general and Savannah Region in particular, devoid of personal interest, are our utmost priority.
On that score, we wish to pat our gallant press men and indeed, all Gonjalanders on the back for the individual sacrifices and collective effort towards the creation and subsequently, the strive towards the development of the infant Savannah Region. Indeed, it was never promised to be easy, but with a true-blue character and unity of purpose, “we shall surely see visions”. (Rephrased).
Ladies and gentlemen, we have invited you here today to share our thoughts with you on the state of affairs in the newly created Savannah Region of ours.
Comrades, it’s instructive to note that, the quest for the creation of the Savannah Region was to accelerate Socio Economic Development and to enhance administrative efficiency.(This is as contained in the petition for the creation of a new region in Gonjaland).And many sons and daughters of our dear land who toiled tirelessly for decades to have a Savannah Region would have wished to share in the glory we have today.
This toil dates back to a meeting that was held from the 18th to 19th of April,1981, when the idea of requesting for a region was first mooted with loud applause. What a privileged generation we are?
It is therefore important for us to seize the golden opportunity provided by the region to refine ideas, listen to one another and develop Gonjaland. We therefore, cannot afford to betray the toil, sacrifices and silent wishes of our forefathers and mothers as they sleep silently with the hope of a promising and prosperous Savannah Region.
The Overlord of the Gonja Kingdom,Yagbonwura Tutumba Boresa 1,deserves a ceremonial embrace as the chief petitioner for the creation of the Savannah Region.We in the youth parliament, therefore share in the wisdom contained in his directive that, all the decentralized departments of the Regional Coordinating Council should be located at the Regional Capital, Damongo.
In an interview with PAD FM on 1st October,2019,after a closed-door meeting with the Regional Minister, the Registrar of the Gonja Traditional Council,Mr.Abutu Kapori,disclosed that, it will be a betrayal of trust if Yagbonwura accepts a region with such dispersed departments.
According to him, the Overlord has directed the minister to relay to government that he has not accepted and will not accept an arrangement to decentralize departments.
“Yagbonwura wants all the regional departments to be sited at Damongo….This was the reason why he demanded for the region.Yagbonwura says if he was to be aware that this was the way the region was going to be structured, he wouldn’t have asked for it.When you look at the youth that came to my palace to protest against the decision, they are made up of different tribes. The teaming youth have indicated that they will feel highly betrayed and disappointed if the Overlord accepts such a decision, since that was not the region they fought and voted for,” he reiterated.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, the wisdom in Yagbonwura’s declaration reflects the wishes and aspirations of the youth and people of Gonjaland as expressly expressed in the petition for the creation of the Savannah Region, not the afterthought proclamations best couched as a mirage.
Compatriots, it’s important to note that, Yagbonwura’s directive is sequel to an attempted protest by the youth of the region under the aegis of Damongo Youth Parliament (DYP) against the unpopular decision. A protest which was put on a temporal hold.
We thought the declaration by the Overlord has ended the raging controversy, since he is the chief petitioner with a final say and symbolizes the entire region and Gonjaland.We the youth therefore, rested our case with the hope of a better structure for a coordinated development within the Savannah Region.
What beats our imagination however, is the subtle disclosure by the Savannah Regional Minister, Mr.Adam Salifu Braimah,in a speech read on his behalf at the recently held Savannah Star Awards that, the various MMDCEs’ in the Savannah Region have been tasked to allocate pieces of lands in their districts for the construction of the various Regional Departments as advertised by government.Meaning,he intends to go ahead with the decentralization policy, despite clear instructions from the chief petitioner against such a decision.
We have also become aware that, most of the Heads of the Decentralized Departments have started reporting to the Regional Capital, but are being coerced against their will to move to their so-called designated districts.
Comrades, ladies and gentlemen of the press, we consider this desperate move an affront to the authority of Yagbonwura who symbolizes the entire Gonjaland and a betrayal of the wishes, conscience and aspirations of the people. The people must be seen as owning the region!
I should like to state that, the disadvantages of decentralizing bureaucratic departments far outweigh the advantages, especially for Savannah Region with its dispersed settlements.
Friends, it’s instructive to note that, the various regional departments are only to serve as coordinating agencies,thus,coordinating the development within the region, and dispersing these coordinating agencies of the RCC will increase the cost of administration as the departments will have to communicate and share relevant documents, resources and information on a regular basis. Our recurrent expenditure will increase unnecessarily through commuting expenses.
Information we have sourced indicates that at present, an amount of Gh50,000.00 is used per month to fuel the hitherto eight and now seven vehicles of the Savannah Regional Coordinating Council… Averagely, each vehicle would have been consuming an amount Ghc7,143.00 of fuel per month which translate to 1,343 litters of fuel.
This is less the outstation and traveling allowances inter alia.
We are just wondering where the cost will be pegged with dispersed decentralized departments, where the Heads of Departments will have to cover several kilometers to attend official meetings among others.
Lest we forget, we will soon be raising some critical questions and issues about our missing RCC vehicle with registration number ER 3516-19 and chase’s number AHTKK8CDD200679016.Information about the progress of investigations remain sketchy and we are concerned, since it’s a matter bothering on public interest and public good. Coming soon….
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, the policy so proposed may work well in any other region, but for Savannah Region, the disperse nature of our settlement patterns makes it impractical to reason about. It will only end up in promoting inefficiency and ineffectiveness in administration. The efficiency ingredient which was key in requesting for the region will be defeated with a decentralized bureaucracy.
Take the distances from the regional capital to the various towns in the North East Region for instance:
The travel distance between Nalerigu to Gambaga is 7kms, Nalerigu to Walewale;57kms, Nalerigu to Cheripony which happen to be one of the farthest towns in the region is 112kms and Nalerigu to Bunkurigu is 61kms.
Bono East Region which is also closer in proximity to the Savannah Region presents a similar picture:
The travel distance from Techiman to Kintampo is 72.6kms, Techiman to Atebubu;143.4kms, Techiman to Yeji;212.9kms, Techiman to Nkoranza is 29kms and from Techiman to Wenchi is 31.8kms.
The time and resources that will be needed to access scattered departments in the Savannah Region however, presents a somewhat Scary picture with cost implications.
You can imagine the head of a particular decentralized department having to travel 341kms to and from Bole and Daboya for an official meeting or duty.
How about a nurse in Salaga having to travel 252.4kms to Daboya to sign his/her documents because, the Regional Health Directorate is located there. Can you imagine the time, resources and stress?How about a contractor in Bamboi covering a distance of 455.1kms to Salaga to access the Feeder Roads Department and another 341kms to Bole to access the Agric department. You see what we are talking about?
See the table below for a better appreciation of the above analysis.
TOWN TRAVEL DISTANCE IN Kms
Damongo to Salaga 239
Damongo to Bole 99
Damongo to Daboya 89.3
Bamboi to Salaga 455.6
Tuna to Salaga 346.7
Bole to Daboya 188.3
Buipe to Salaga 218.5
Such a system will create access crises and slowdown the bureaucracy of the region, thus promoting ineffective administration and underdevelopment. It will unnecessarily overburden clients who will be accessing these departments.
Damongo was settled on as the regional capital because of its generally accepted central nature…About four of the six districts in Gonjaland are closer in proximity to Damongo. It is centrally placed and best fit to coordinate development within the region.
Developing Damongo as the pride of Gonjaland like Tamale, Kumasi, Accra, Koforidua ad infinitum, does not take away anything from the other districts in the region. These Regional capitals gained the prominence they have today, as a result of the concentration of regional departments which propelled growing population.
Such a dense population easily attracts investors who will want to take advantage of the numbers to do investments.We are already picking information that, potential investors are being scared away from our region because of the unpalatable decision to decentralize, since it will not make investment sense to put so much into a town that cannot attract traffic and the numbers needed to drive business.
Friends from the media, we are told the president mentioned about decentralization of development and government installations, whilst presenting the Savannah Region with its Document of Attestation and Constitutional Instrument (CI 115), to give effect to the creation of the region.
Decentralization of development is the way to go. That is why we entreat the president to embark on massive infrastructural development within the Savannah Region. We want to see more scattered higher institutions of learning, factories, better road networks, markets, district hospitals and CHPS compounds inter alia.
For the question of government installations, the meaning maybe opened to varied interpretations. But if that was meant to direct that bureaucratic departments should be scatted; we appeal to the conscience of the president to reconsider his decision. This is not the Savannah Region we intended. This is not the Savannah Region we must own, when we don’t have a say in how departments should be structured. Decisions and policies are made and can be unmade.
If we are really committed to decentralization, let’s rather impress on government to create more districts in the newly created Savannah Region and resource these districts together with the existing one’s to take charge of development.
Ladies and gentlemen, lest we forget, what criteria was used by the RCC to determine that the Regional Agric Office is best fit to be sited at Bole. How about the Regional Health Directorate and Feeder Roads? Who designed that criteria? Which people were involved or consulted in arriving at this crucial decision? We need to know…
It is important to note that, the departments in themselves are just structures responsible for coordinating development and don’t constitute development in themselves.Structures in themselves mean nothing if they don’t contribute to development.
It’s very difficult to fathom the motivation behind such acts of destructive desperation aimed at implementation a decision that is not in consonance with the popular will and wishes of the people.
We, within the youth parliament as key actors in the region wish to add our strong voices to this important debate.
We didn’t fight for a region that will at last, be a burden to the people. We intended to have a region that will enhance administrative efficiency and effectiveness.
As coordinating agencies, easy access to these departments is practically necessary if we mean development. Any attempt to scatter these departments will be counterproductive, as our meagre resources will be disbursed in running administrative cost of the region, rather than developing.
It will be a clear affront to the authority of the Overlord who is the chief petitioner to scatter these coordinating departments. And it will be clearly against the wishes and aspirations of the people for whose reason the region was created.
What is insulting and somewhat authoritative is that, the decision to decentralize was taken at the blind side of the Yagbonwura and the people of Gonjaland.Yagbonwura disclosed in one of our engagements with him that he only heard of the “somewhat unpopular” decision when PAD FM broke the news.
Is it now consultative development in a democratic Savannah Region or authoritative decisions defined by the whims and caprice of some “faceless individuals hiding under the cover of a so-called petition? We thought we collectively fought for the region and must plan its development together.
Friend, the so-called petition which we are told is the basis for this decision is not only non-existent, but it’s a total fiasco and a prime afterthought. So, the lest we talk about it, the better.
Such a decision was never the understanding of Yagbonwura, his chiefs and the people of Gonjaland.
We the youth are therefore, prepared to protest against this “blasphemous decision. We will not sit aloof and watch the authority of Yagbonwura to be flaunted with impunity.
We will resist any attempt to implement such an unpopular decision which does not fit into our developmental paradigm and does not resonate with the wishes and aspirations of the people.
Your Excellency, we are aware you just called off the holding of the Referendum of 17th December,2019, citing the lack of broad, national consensus among key stakeholders and the populace.
The decision to decentralize the regional departments of the Savannah Regional Coordinating Council was taken without broad consultation and consensus among key stakeholders and the populace.
We therefore, call on the president of the Republic of Ghana, His excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo-Addo to as a listening president use his powers to reconsider this rather unpopular decision. Let the people of Savannah Region be seen as owning the region.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, if by the 16th of December,2019, we don’t receive any positive response and reason to believe that the decision to decentralize was an afterthought but not intended; we will stage a massive demonstration to register our displeasure….
We are citizens, not spectators.
May the good Lord bless us all…
Long live Ghana!
Long live Gonjaland!Long live Savannah Region!
Long live Damongo Youth Parliament!
In one accord we remain faithfully yours,
ANANPANSAH,B ABRAHAM
(SECRETARY)
0241129910
MUMUNI MOHAMMED
(LEAD COORDINATOR)
0249077693
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Philip Liebs
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