The largest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), insists that the Ford vehicle gift President John Mahama received from a Burkinabe contractor constitutes a bribe or kickback by every description. According to the party, a report by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) which cleared the president of bribery and conflict of … Read more
The sight of President John Mahama clad in a military uniform has apparently shocked quite a number of people. And for a very good reason. Few in Ghana remember military rule with fondness. For however well military rule begins, the end is usually ruinous. It comes with the territory: if you are trained to do … Read more
Minority Leader Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu says he is scandalised that the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) report failed to establish conflict of interest allegations against the president in the controversial gift saga. He believes CHRAJ just took President John Mahama’s response to the allegations, hook, line and sinker and reproduced a conclusion … Read more
A Ghanaian US-based lawyer and academic Professor Stephen Kweku Asare has slammed the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) for exonerating President John Mahama in the controversial Ford gift saga. Prof Azar argues CHRAJ completely misconstrued what conflict of interest means in arriving at its conclusions. The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), the youth … Read more
The largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)’s clearance of President John Mahama in the Ford gift saga, does not settle the controversial matter. (CHRAJ) in a 78-page report cleared Mahama on the accusations of conflict of interest and corruption variously made against him by … Read more
Ernesto Yeboah, a youth leader of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has said the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) report in relation to Mahama’s Ford gift Saga released Thursday, September, 29, should be a compelling interest for Parliament to probe Mahama. Ernesto contends that the President per the report has violated oath … Read more
The Deputy Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul has said he is not convinced that President John Mahama paid taxes on the Ford vehicle he received as a gift from the Burkinabe Contractor, Djibril Kanazoe According to him, claims by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) that the president satisfied all laws were not … Read more
Speaker Edward Doe Adjaho may have arbitrarily used his discretionary powers to quash the impeachment motion sponsored by the New Patriotic Party-led Parliamentary Minority, but President John Dramani Mahama was not completely able to dodge the bullet as Speaker Adjaho and his fellow National Democratic Congress (NDC) scoundrel associates had hoped. For starters, although the … Read more
Speaker Edward Doe Adjaho may have arbitrarily used his discretionary powers to quash the impeachment motion sponsored by the New Patriotic Party-led Parliamentary Minority, but President John Dramani Mahama was not completely able to dodge the bullet as Speaker Adjaho and his fellow National Democratic Congress (NDC) scoundrel associates had hoped. For starters, although the … Read more
The Majority in Parliament has indicated that they will reject any move by the Minority to remove President John Dramani Mahama from office before December’s general elections. The Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho, dismissed a motion filed by the Minority on Thursday] to initiate a probe into the Ford gift saga by Parliament. The Minority believed … Read more
The leader of the Majority in Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has dismissed claims that the President compromised his integrity by accepting the Ford gift from the Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe. Bagbin insisted that the president’s acceptance of the gift did not constitute conflict of interest and rubbished the claims that the gift was meant to influence … Read more
Steps taken by the Minority in Parliament to cause a Parliamentary probe into a controversial gift to the President was rejected on Thursday. Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, single-handedly shot down the Minority’s motion which occasioned a recall of Parliament. Below is the Minority’s full statement I thank you for the opportunity to move … Read more
We must get one thing clear: Contrary to what the General-secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) would have Ghanaians believe, the leadership of the country’s main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) committed absolutely no wrong, much less financial loss to the country, by causing Parliament to be recalled in order to consider a … Read more
Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says a petition that could lead to impeachment proceedings against President John Mahama over a Ford vehicle gift from a Burkinabe businessman is not a witch hunt. “I don’t have anything personnel against the president,” he told Joy News’s Elton John Brobbey in an interview. The Suame MP has … Read more
Vision In Progress (VIP) is currently made up of Abdul Hamidu Ibrahim (Lazzy) Emmanuel Promzy Ababio (Promzy) and Joseph Nana Ofori (Prodigal) but initially also included Bone & Friction. Their initial involvement with music started way back in the early 90s, at Nima a suburb of Accra. As a group they easily embodied the greatness … Read more
A 21-year-old student from Ghana has been arrested by police, after angry residents threatened to kill him because they suspect he is gay. Police in Walewale, a small town in the northern region of Ghana, made the arrest for fear the suspect could be lynched and killed by angry local residents. Peacefmonline.com, a local radio … Read more