BREAKING NEWS:
Former managing director of GIHOC Distilleries, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has been picked up by national security operatives at his Kumasi residence.
I had a pleasant farewell meeting with Virginia E. Palmer, the outgoing US Ambassador to Ghana. We had a productive discussion about the strong ties between our two nations. I thanked her for her dedicated service and contributions during her tenure and wished her the very best in her future endeavours. Ghana deeply values its relationship with the United States.
Let’s get this clear , the clause the contractor on the Savelugu to Walewale project is attempting to use to get away with our $30m was deliberately modified as a ‘particular condition’ (NOT STANDARD) Why will any patriotic Ghanaian write this contract against the state?
A 15% increase in all data bundles currently offered by MTN. And I am pleased to announce the restoration of the GHS399 bundle which currently has been changed to GHS350 bundle that offers 92.88GB will henceforth be reinstated to 214GB for GHS399. - @samgeorgegh
Someone wrote a contract to give a contractor $30m as mobilisation. The same person says the contractor is free to go away with $30m if there is delay in releasing additional funding for the project. Will you approve this kind of contract if you love your Country Ghana ?
NDC360: Ghana will have 24-hour operating ports under the #Mahama24HourEconomy. This will enhance efficiency at the ports and create more jobs for the youth.
Dear fellow Ghanaians,
It’s disheartening to learn that the $190 million we negotiated for private sector participation in electricity distribution under the US Millennium Compact has been lost due to Nana Addo and Bawumia's corrupt, ‘yenkyendi’, and cronyistic governance practices.
This is unacceptable, and we deserve better as a people.
As I gear up to assume the presidency in January 2025, thanks to your votes and endorsement in this year’s election, I want to assure you that I will work diligently to enhance private sector efficiency in the electricity distribution system, including metering, revenue management, and fault response.
My administration will prioritise accountability and ensure a thorough investigation of the PDS scandal to hold those involved accountable.
We can work together to build a brighter future for Ghana's power sector that benefits citizens and businesses.
Let's stand together, fight against corruption and cronyism, and work towards building the Ghana we want.
#LetsBuildGhanaTogether
#Mahama4Change2024
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My government is in power but when my government comes, my government will change all the things that my government has done. My government will be better than my government.
#Bawuliar
THE GHS2.6BILLION DUBIOUS, DUPLICATIVE & DEADLY DIGITALIZATION DEALS IN GHANA’S HEALTH SECTOR — PART 1
Ghana’s health sector has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons.
A few months ago, 19 renal patients lost their lives at the Korle-Bu Renal Unit because government was unable to provide just GHS4million. The dialysis crisis has still not been resolved even as private companies like the First Sky Group come to the rescue.
Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have warned that all their dialysis machines except one and half have broken down without government intervention to replace them for several months.
KATH has been without a mammography machine to diagnose early signs of breast cancer for several years.
Prominent chiefs and opinion leaders continue to agitate about their abandoned hospital projects — most of which were almost completed by 2016.
Not too long ago, the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government could not provide childhood vaccines leading to a national emergency. Ghana had to fall on Nigeria for a bailout albeit under deceitful circumstances.
Numerous government hospitals are lamenting the lack of critical medical equipment needed to save lives. If MRI machines at prestigious hospitals such as 37 and Ridge have broken down for months without resources to repair or replace them, then one can imagine the situation in less endowned facilities.
Indeed, former Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu told Parliament not too long ago that Ghana has only 4 functioning MRIs in government hospitals across the entire country.
Funding for President Akufo-Addo’s flagship Agenda 111 has remained a huge challenge as he repeatedly misses his completion deadlines since the peak of COVID-19.
Doctors, nurses, midwives and other health workers continue to agitate for better working conditions. The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) revealed this week that already some 6,000 nurses have left Ghana since August 2023 in search of the proverbial greener pastures.
The GRNMA President, Mrs. Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo left many Ghanaians further depressed when she revealed that many heroic nurses who put their lives at great risk on the frontlines of the covid war have still not received the package they were promised by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government.
Ghanaians are yet to recover from the tragedy at the Tema General Hospital NICU which occurred a few days ago when the hospital was subjected to DUMSOR. Apparently, the standby generator to protect babies on oxygen was faulty. One mother insists she lost her precious baby because of this national disgrace.
Health facilities which were hitherto exempted from ECG disconnections no longer enjoy that dispensation.
As a Member of Parliament, I have been compelled to rely on my external network to equip hospitals and establish a surgical block in my beloved constituency.
With this shambolic state of health care in Ghana, one wonders why the current Akufo-Addo/Bawumia-led government will ignore the priorities begging for urgent solutions, and rather be fixated on dubious, duplicative and deadly so-called digitalization initiatives at a heartless cost of GHS2.67billion?
To our utter shock, the National Health Insurance Authority has submitted a 2024 allocation formula to Parliament which mindlessly and unpatriotically prioritizes the following:
1. Biometric ID Cards and Authentication System — GHS405.74million (this is despite the billions we have already spent on Ghana Cards)
2. Management Information System — GHS343.92million
3. Capturing of Claims Data — GHS112million
4. Ministry of Health (Health Provider - E-Health Solution) — GHS80million
5. Claims Processing Centres and E-Claims — GHS76million
6. Archival System and Document Management— GHS38.58million
7. Telecare Services Platform — GHS30million
8. Transfer of Data from NIA GHS10million
9. E-Pharmacy — GHS11million
The NHIA’s dubious and duplicative
Clearly, some of our NPP friends have a comprehension problem.
These guys are so naive, that they don’t even know the difference between a “mere mate”, which is what Bawumia falsely claims to have been to Akufo-Addo and a “spare driver”, which is what John Mahama rightly says he was to Prof. Mills of blessed memory.
Whereas, Bawumia claims that he has been a “mere mate”, to Akufo-Addo, ostensibly to dissociate himself from the mess of his own government, Mahama said in 2012, that he was a spare driver to Prof. Mills, (which is what we have insisted a VEEP is all along).
As you can see in the attached video, H.E. John Dramani Mahama owned up to, and defended the record of the Mills/NDC government that he was a part of as a spare driver and justified why the NDC, deserved another term to continue its good works. He never attempted to distance himself from any decision of the Mills government that he was a part of.
Again, John Mahama in 2012, campaigned on the basis of “continuity” as can been seen in the attached video, but today, dishonest Bawumia is preaching a “new path” with a promise to undo several of the key policies of his own government, as though he is an opposition leader in his own government.
Big difference!!!
Equalization “yaamutu”