Volta GJA Condemns recent NPP’s Attacks on Media, Calls on Police to Investigate

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October 14, 2018

By: Ewoenam Kpodo | Voltaonlinegh.com |

The Volta Regional Chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has condemned recent attacks on the media in the region by members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and called on the police administration to thoroughly investigate the alleged attacks.

The GJA in a release dated 0ctober 14, 2018 and signed by its Regional Chairman, A.B. Kafui Kanyi said “the Association considers the conduct uncivilized, act of lawlessness, lack of responsibility and attack on freedom of speech and condemns it in no uncertain term.”

The GJA’s release came after some activists of NPP led by Charles Seayor popularly known as “Kofi Original” forcibly entered the studios of a Ho-based Kekeli Radio last Friday and attempted assaulting panelists on the morning show being hosted by Israel Abotsivia, thus, disrupting the show for about an hour.

The next day, Saturday, there were reports that the newly elected Volta Regional Chairman of the party, Makafui Kofi Woanya and the Municipal Engineer for Keta, Samuel Domprey had jointly attempted an attack on two journalists, Akpagana-Kesedovo Logah and Eyram Kingsley Ameshi who were pursuing an investigation into shoddy works done in constructing some facilities in the Municipality at the Keta Municipal Coordinating Council.

It took the intervention of the police in the case of Kekeli Radio and the Coordinating Director, and some others in the case of the two journalists to keep both situations under control.

The Association decried how political parties “are gradually making radio stations the battle ground for their intra and inter-party conflicts” and advised all media houses, radio stations especially, “to tighten security at their premises and studios.

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Measles and Rubella Mass Vaccination Campaign Launched in Ho

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By: Darius Ahetto | Voltaonlinegh.com |

The Volta Regional Health Directorate has launched the 2018 Measles and Rubella (MR) mass vaccination campaign in Ho, the regional capital.

The launch on Thursday which was on the theme: “Measles and Rubella Kill, Vaccinate Your Child Now for Good Health”, will target about 400, 000 children between 9 and 59 months for the MR vaccine and Vitamin A supplement.

Deputy Volta Regional Director of Public Health, Dr. Yaw Ofori Yeboah who was the Guest Speaker at the launch charged partners Red Cross, Ghana Health Service workers and other stakeholders to work diligently for the success of the campaign.

He disclosed that the exercise will take place from 17^th-22^nd October, 2018 explaining that the exercise will have teams comprising community health nurses and volunteers stationed at specific places the in various communities to vaccinate all eligible children.

He further entreated all mothers and caregivers to send their children for vaccination during the stipulated time for the requisite protection against diseases and appealed to all to help make the exercise successful saying, “a healthy child is a healthy nation.”

A community health nurse from Ho Municipal Hospital gave a demonstration by administering an MR vaccine and Vitamin A supplement to a child signifying the 2018 MR Campaign duly launched.

In attendance were medical superintendents, district health directors, district health officers, community health nurses, Red Cross, trainee nurses and chiefs and traditional leaders.

Source: www.voltaonlinegh.com

GLOWDEP Marks International Day for the Girl Child at Mafi Anfoe

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By: Shallom Lumor | Voltaonlinegh.com |

Global Women Development Promoters (GLOWDEP), a non-governmental organisation has marked the 2018 International Day of the Girl Child at Mafi Anfoe D/A JHS in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region.

The day is observed on October 11 every year to address issues and challenges concerning the girl child.

The Assistant headmistress of Sogakofe Senior High School, Madam Peace Gokah in her keynote address at the event themed “With Her, a Skilled Labour Force”, said it was time for the education of the girl child to be tilted towards developing the skills of the girl child.

She said for ages, the place of the woman had been different but the time was due for boys and girls to have the same opportunities in the job market.

“Where there is no change, there is no progress, hence, Ghanaians and Africans as a whole must be ready to embrace the changing trends of the girl child.”

She added that everyone must collectively support girls with tools that can help them fit into the work force.

“These tools are empowerment, education, and training their skills to be relevant in the Ghanaian work force. We need more people to transform the economy and employable skills will change the economy in the next 1 to 3 decades.”

The Executive Director of GLOWDEP, Mrs. Victoria Norgbey in her welcome address noted that, this year’s celebration saw boys participating because with boys included, many of the issues concerning the girl child education agenda could be achieved.

She said the world “is evolving” and including boys in the girl child education campaign was the right gesture to getting closer to the goals.

She entreated parents and care givers to help their girls in identifying their skills.

The day which featured Women in Agriculture, specifically women within the poultry value chain, also had the Central Tongu chapter of the apex body of Women in Poultry Value Chain (WIPVAC- Apex), a national umbrella organisation of women working along the poultry value chain, inaugurated.

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[Article] Considering a Career in Human Resource?

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October 12, 2018

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By: Pearl Ama Akordor (Mrs) |Voltaonlinegh.com |

Human Resource (HR) practice involves the mobilisation of the right people with the right skills with adequate knowledge and technology to support the ultimate goal of an organisation. This clearly makes the work of an HR practitioner a strategic and a crucial one in the success or otherwise of any organisation.

In order for a successful mobilisation, it means therefore that the Practitioner must be someone who has good organisational skills. He/she must be ready and willing to do all the work underground.

How do you choose the right person with the right skills for a specific job without you having knowledge in the arts of making a good judgement of who will make a perfect choice for that position? This makes the HR a strategic forecaster for the organisation. It needs tact and diplomacy at the highest level to do that.

For any organisation to strive in the changing needs of the job market, you will need people who have adequate knowledge and technology to be able to compete in the competitive environment. Certificate alone does not make one competent. It behooves on the HR to be able to identify and make informed decisions about the applicant.

It must be noted that the Human Resource Practice in modern organisation is one that is geared towards having a competitive advantage over your competitors so as to meet the clients’ insatiable needs. It needs training and retraining of employees for an effective and efficient execution of daily routines.

So if you are considering a career in Human resource Management and Development, you must have all these and many others which will be addressed in my subsequent write ups.

NB: Writer is a Human Resource Practitioner and Women Activist.

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Volta Handball Set to Begin League with more Clubs

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By: Davis Nii Attuquaye Clottey | Voltaonlinegh.com |

The Volta Regional Handball Association (VRHA) after its stakeholders meeting on Wednesday, October 10, has set a date to begin the second edition of the regional league at the Ho Sports Stadium.

The League will be preceded by a gala to be held on Saturday, October 20 at the Ho Sports Stadium at 7am.

The school cum community-based league which saw the unplanned wrap up of the first edition in July 2018 has seen other schools and community clubs joining to battle for supremacy, promotion and laurels.

Sonrise Christian SHS, Akatsi College of Education, Dabala Youngsters and Unique Stars are new Clubs that have showed interest in the league that will have a different approach to ensure its effectiveness, with the production of good materials for national assets.

Being the second regional organized league in Ghana, the VRHA demands interested teams to show commitment with a non-refundable registration fee of GH₵150.00. A team is given the period between October 8 and December 30 to register and also allowed to register a maximum of 25 players, if not all at a go with passport size photographs for the period October 8 to February 27, 2019.

The league is pegged at Saturday, 27th October at the Ho Sports Stadium with more than 3 matches expected to be played each week and with matches on Sunday afternoon being considered.

In an interview with Voltaonlinegh.com, Chairman of the Association, Togbe Palmas Howusu, said, with the technical and review meetings done, they were sure of a good season this time.

“A whole lot of factors didn’t ensure the smooth ending of the league in the maiden edition. As human institutions, we only work on improving on previous works and so as we have sat to realise our lapses and found better ways out, the second season will be better. At least, we have also seen more clubs joining and it is a sign of good things to come. We shall keep improving and the fever will be all over the region.”

Stars of Asha male and TERESCO female won the maiden edition of the league and were presented with trophies on July 21, 2018 at the Ho Sports Stadium.

Interested clubs within the region are to call on the Association to register to partake in the gala and league.

Source: www.voltaonlinegh.com

Volta Boxers Secure Quarter Final Berth at National Championship

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By: Davis Nii Attuquaye Clottey | Voltaonlinegh.com

Three of the 6 boxers from the Volta Region exited at the quarter finals at the just ended National Individual Championship at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The 3-day championship which begun on Thursday October 4 and extended to Monday, October 8 saw Captain Prosper Afagbedzi, Holy Dorgbetor and Bernard Adzewoda reach the last eight in the Bantamweight, Lightweight and Light Welterweight divisions respectively.

The championship which was to select boxers into the Black Bombers team after the previous team which participated in the Australia 2018 Olympic Games was dissolved, also saw Osei Maxwell who faced a fellow Volta opponent Ameyaw Confidence reach the last 16 stage in the Middleweight division.

Veku Prosper and Agbo Wisdom who joined the Volta contingent also lost out to Daniel Oduro and Shakul Samir in the Welterweight and Middle weight categories.

Meanwhile, last year’s Lightweight silver medalist at the National Sports Festival, Nana Antwi was beaten by Accra-based Charles Tetteh in the preliminaries of the bantamweight.

Nana Antwi in an interview with Voltaonlinegh.com said he wasn’t getting time to train after he was promoted to JHS 3.

Head Coach Sadick Abubakar Akake was impressed with the entire performance of the team, believing their time to make it to the Black Bombers is near.

“My captain was supposed to make it to the national team because he is very good although he lost. In all, I think we have made a great impact at the championship and hope to get there very soon. We are only lacking financial muscle and enough training facilities. Should we get those intact, we will always triumph over Accra boxers anytime any day. For the Black Bombers, we will have Volta boxers in soon.”

Meanwhile the Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF) had selected winners of each of the 10 weight divisions into the Black Bombers team which included Super Heavyweight’s Felix Agboletey, Light Heavyweight’s Issah Inusah, Light Welterweight’s Jessey Lartey, Light Flyweight’s Theophilus Allotey, and Flyweight’s Abraham Mensah.

The rest were Samuel Y. Addo for Bantamweight, Abdul Wahid Omar for Lightweight, Abubakar Quartey for Welterweight, Mussah Rahman Lawson for Middleweight and Anani Kutsoke for Heavyweight.

According to the President of the GBF, George Lamptey, all losing finalists will also be invited to camp for preparations for Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The championship saw about 105 boxers from Greater Accra, Volta, Upper West, Central and Ashanti regions participating.

Source: www.voltaonlinegh.com

Children with Special Needs Deserve Equal Right to Education–HR Student

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October 11, 2018

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By: Fred Duhoe | Voltaonlinegh.com |

A Human Resource Management student, Emma Elinam Sallah has mobilised resources to start a special needs school to cater for children with special needs in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region.

Ms. Sallah who saw the need for the school, fell on her friends for support to rent an apartment and procure some materials needed to run the school.

She said the school, Anlo Special School at Tegbi has the endorsement from the Special Education Unit of the Keta Municipal Assembly and therefore called on parents to enroll their children in the school for better future for them.

Giving her reasons, Ms. Sallah noted that she feels unhappy about parents hiding their children with various forms of intellectual disabilities; hence denying them the opportunity to education.

She revealed to Fred Duhoe, a freelance journalist that “some parents want us to run a boarding system to permanently accommodate their wards but since running boarding facilities needs more financing and more hands, we will rather like to implement this system gradually.”

Anlo Special School – A Haven of Hope is under the Butterfly Ghana Foundation which seeks to champion the cause of children with special needs, their siblings, parents and the community as a whole as well as empower the youth within the Keta Municipality and surrounding areas.

The young determined Executive Director has started a sea foods business – Le Fresh Foods, as a fundraiser for the school.

Mad. Cecilia Gokah, the first parent to enroll her son with speech disorder after he was treated for cancer of the brain in an interview said “our educational system doesn’t have the conducive atmosphere to accommodate and teach our children with special needs, hence, my decision to bring my son here (Anlo Special School).”

In the whole of Volta Region, we have just one at Hohoe which is too far a distance. I don’t appreciate it when I see these vulnerable children helplessly on the streets begging for alms. It’s my desire for my son to become an interpreter someday” she stated.

Education in Ghana has done very little to address the plight of special needs children. Policies have been instituted to make education all-inclusive but this has not materialised over the years.

Much emphasis is rather placed on regular children to the neglect of children with special needs. Stereotyping, stigmatising and abuse of the rights in some cases is what parents of/and children with special needs suffer in society.

Source: www.voltaonlinegh.com

Demand for Oti Region not ‘Land Grabbing’ Agenda-Krachiwura

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By: Obrempongba Kwame Owusu | Voltaonlinegh.com |

Paramount Chief of Kete-Krachi, Nana Mprah Besemuna III has debunked claims that the demand for a new region in the northern part of the Volta Region is orchestrated at taking over ownership of lands in the north perceived to belong to Ewes.

According to him, persons circulating such claims are ignorant of the Ghanaian history.

He explained that dwellers in the Oti enclave occupied the lands under the Trans-Volta Togoland, administered as the Northern Territory before being added to the Ewes to form the Volta Region in 1950s by the colonial masters.

He was speaking at the durbar of this year’s yam festival at Krachi in the Krachi West District of the Volta Region.

Nana Mprah Besemuna who doubles as the Chairman for the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) of Oti Movement, the group leading the demand for a new region out of Volta.

He detailed the Oti enclave had received very little proportion of development in the Volta Region, hence, their demand for the new region.

The Krachiwura reaffirmed the commitment of chiefs and residents in the Oti enclave to vote yes for the new region

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Swerve: Volta Region Gets 5,000-Seater Capacity Youth Resource Center instead of 10,000

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The ongoing 5,000-seater capacity youth center

By: Eric Eli Adzie | Voltaonlinegh.com |

The 10,000-seater capacity Youth Resource Center promised the people of the Volta Region is not being fulfilled by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.

The 10,000 capacity sitting facility promised is being built by Wilkado Construction Company Limited at a cost of $2.4 million and will have a FIFA standard football pitch, an eight lane modern track, tennis, handball and volleyball courts.

It will also house a gymnasium, multi-purpose ICT center, an entrepreneurship center, counseling unit and a modern restaurant.

However, months after the sod cutting, a visit to the construction site revealed the capacity currently under construction is 5,000 contrary to the common knowledge of 10,000.

Confirming this, the Project Manager, Mr. Williams Akpih said he was aware of the promise made in regards to the expansion of the capacity to 10,000 but nothing official has been received in writing by the company hence work for a 5,000-seater edifice.

“It was promised but there is no paper work confirming it for 10,000, the 5,000 is what we are working on now because that is what was confirmed in the contract to us. The 10,000 has to be confirmed and issued on contract bases. When it comes, we will make provision for the 10,000 by enlarging the stands.”

It will be recalled that on the day of the sod cutting, the Warlord and Divisional Chief of the Asogli Traditional Area, Togbe Howusu Adzi Lakle expressed mixed feelings about the sod cutting for the construction of a youth resource center against the priority of a modern sports stadium.

He however, commended the government for the step taken to provide a befitting infrastructure that would afford the youth a place to train. He further appealed to the government to increase the capacity which was approved by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Asiamah.

The facility was originally estimated at $1.8m but had been increased to $2.4m due to the increment in the sitting capacity upon the request of Togbe Howusu Adzi Lakle.

Source: www.voltaonlinegh.com

We Can’t Complete Volta Youth Resource Center as Scheduled-Project Manager

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October 11, 2018

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By: Eric Eli Adzie | Voltaonlinegh.com |

Work on the Volta Regional Youth Resource Center is racing behind time as the 9-month stipulated time frame given by government can’t be attained.

The project which was announced to have a December 2018 completion deadline is still under construction with barely two months to end the year.

A visit to the construction site revealed only 45 per cent of total work done. The youth center which came as a blessing to the people of the region after a total neglect of the present Ho sports stadium is currently far from its realisation.

Project manager, Mr. Williams Akpih attributed the delay in work to the topography of the land and heavy downpours.

“The rains have been our challenge; the ground is such that when it rains no vehicles comes in which means no work goes on. This is the nature of the ground here.”

He further said the company must recourse to leveling the ground with quarry products to make the construction site accessible by both vehicles and human.

“We have to resort to other means of getting the ground conducive for work. We used query products to fill the tarries and this took a lot of time.”

He however assured that the facility will be ready by February 2019.

Meanwhile, during the sod cutting, the Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Yao Letsa echoed his readiness to see the project completed on time and further urged the contractor, Togbui Gbewoaza II of Wilkado Construction Company Limited to ensure the project was completed as scheduled to the specifications as spelt out in the contract document.

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