Church of Pentecost Donates Visibility Post to Police

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By: Rita Kafui Nedjoh | Voltaonlinegh |

The Church of Pentecost, Ho Area has completed and handed over a police visibility post and a washroom to the Volta Regional Police Command.

The Area Pastor, Apostle Moses Kwame Ahiakor along with other pastors handed over the facilities to the Volta Regional Police Commander, DCOP Edward Oduro-Kwarteng on Wednesday, July 31, in Ho in a short ceremony.

The GH¢12,000 police visibility post project at Mawuli Estate was an initiative of the Ho Area branch of the church while the about GH¢3,000 washroom project at Ho Central Police Station was by the Ho-Dome branch.

The church also donated some blankets, toiletries and detergents to the police to be used at the two facilities.

Area Pastor, Apostle Moses Kwame Ahiakor explained that the church was a stakeholder and needed to support the police provide security and fight crime in their locality and Ghana as a whole.

Apostle Ahiakor indicated that the church deemed it appropriate to take the initiative after a tent which was mounted at the site as the police visibility post was ripped off by rains some time ago compelling the police to stop coming to the area.

On the urinal, the Area Pastor said “cleanliness is next to Godliness” hence the decision to renovate the structure.

He said the church realised that members of the community were urinating around which was unhygienic making the area uncomfortable for the police to stay and discharge their duties.

He commended the police for ensuring peace and security in the municipality and asked that they keep it up while calling for the maintenance of the facilities to make them stand the test of time and serve the purpose for which they were constructed.

Volta Regional Police Commander, DCOP Edward Oduro-Kwarteng who commissioned the facilities commended the Church of Pentecost for their immense support for the Ghana Police Service and assured that the facilities would be maintained and used for their intended purposes.

DCOP Oduro-Kwarteng called on other faith-based institutions and individuals to emulate the gesture of the church to support the police to help them provide security and ensure peace in the region.

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Gender Dept Holds Girls Empowerment Camp, Calls for Action

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By: Ewoenam Kpodo | Voltaonlinegh |

The Volta Regional Director, Department of Gender, Lena Alai has called for concerted efforts by key stakeholders especially parents and guardians to help empower girl children in the region to guarantee the future of the region and the country at large in terms of human resource.

Madam Alai bemoaned Volta Region currently recording first position in teenage pregnancy prevalence in the country as “a very bad story” which needed to be addressed through empowering the girls with the right information to ensure they make the right choices.

She warned that if nothing was done to mitigate the increasing rate of teenage girls becoming pregnant, “at the end of it, the poverty cycle gets intensified” and the region would ultimately suffer “because these children coming from dysfunctional families will grow up in some ways and cannot develop completely to contribute to the development of the society.”

Madam Alai said even if the girls would not further their education, they should learn skills to be self-reliant.

“There are skills these girls can learn so that they can fend for themselves. We know that some of these girls who became pregnant needed little little things like pad for example and that’s how come they had fallen victims to boys and/or men.”

The Director was speaking on the sidelines of a 2-day Girls’ Camp for out of school adolescents held on July 30 and 31 at Ave Dakpa Senior High School in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region.

The camp organised by the Department of Gender under the auspices of the Volta Regional Coordinating Council formed part of its implementation of the 7^th Country programme of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to educate girls on their reproductive rights to empower them make the right choices for a brighter future.

The mentoring camp which had about 60 adolescent girls, teenage mothers and pregnant teenagers drawn from Ho, Agotime-Ziope and Akatsi North districts, saw various activities and presentations on sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexual and gender-based violence in schools and community, meeting with role models, open forum, introduction to vocational skills, film shows among others.

Project Officer at Savana Signatures, a non-government organisation, Richard Bonny who was the resource person educated the campers on how to take proper care of themselves and shun promiscuity to pursue their education/vocation to the highest level devoid of any obstruction.

Mr. Bonny insisted that those sexually active girls who would at all cost indulge in sexual activities use condoms to prevent them from becoming pregnant and contracting STIs but added that the best way was to stay away from sex.

He introduced the girls to SHE+, a mobile platform created by Savana Signatures to provide opportunity for young people in Ghana to access private and confidential Sexual Reproductive and Health Rights information and services through direct interaction with health professionals.

Akatsi North District Girl Child Education Officer, Augustina Aku Modzakah called for self control among teenage girls saying, without it, girls could sleep with anything as they climbed ladders in life which they would later suffer for.

Madam Modzakah observed that though there were numerous factors contributing to teenage pregnancy including broken homes, poverty and lack of parental control, girls needed self control to surmount such challenges else the future would be bleak as there would not only be broken homes but “scattered and flying homes.”

She disclosed that there were school-based facilitators in the schools taking girls through money-generating activities in order to support themselves financially “so that those of them who follow men just because of pad, those issues can also be things of the past,” to ensure Akatsi North did not remain on top of the district teenage pregnancy league in the region.

She appealed to teachers and peers of pregnant teenagers to make the school environment friendly for them so they could remain in school saying, some of these pregnancies were by accident while advising pregnant girls to overlook their current situation, regain their confidence and resolve to make their dreams come true.

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Be Guided by Motto of ‘Service with Integrity’ at All Times – COP Yeboah

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By: Rita Kafui Nedjoh | Voltaonlinegh |

The Director-General Administration of the Ghana Police Service, COP Ken Yeboah has called on recruits to at all times be accountable for their actions to the people they serve and be guided by the motto of the Service in performing their duties.

COP Yeboah said, “at all times, be guided by the motto of the service, ‘Service with Integrity’ which calls for honesty, respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights, professionalism, dedication, effectiveness and efficiency.”

He made the call at the passing out parade of 141 new recruits who underwent a six-month intensive training at the Ho Police Training School in the Volta Region on Tuesday, July 30, 2019.

The all-male recruit squad was trained in Criminal Law and Investigation, Community Policing, Practical Police Duties, Criminal Procedure, Law and Evidence, Basic Officer Skills, Police Service Instructions, Arts and Decrees, Professional Policing Ethics and Report Writing.

Other academic disciplines included English and French language, Fundamental Human Right, Child Friendly Policing, Map Reading, First Aid, Client Care and Weapon Training.

COP Yeboah who reviewed the parade stated that the unprofessional conducts exhibited by some personnel in the Service such as extortion and brutality had resulted in loss of public confidence in the Service hence bringing the image of the Ghana Police Service into disrepute.

He however, charged the new recruits to be agents of change to strive and uplift the image of the Service, increase public confidence and coherent partnership with the public.

The Director-General indicated that crime prevention was a shared responsibility and that the public must take it upon themselves to feed the Police with information which would assist them in providing security for the citizenry.

He congratulated the recruits for a successful completion of their training while warning that people whose conducts and performances would be recorded contrary to the ethical and professional expertise of the Service during their 18-month probation period would be discharged and dismissed.

Deserving recruits were awarded in the various disciplines with Randolph Alexander awarded the overall best trainee.

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MUSIGA Endorses Ghana International Music Clinic

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By: Gladys Afetsi | Voltaonlinegh |

The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has endorsed the Ghana International Music Clinic (GIMC) scheduled to take place at the National Theatre, Accra on November 20, 2019 from 8am to 5pm.

MUSIGA indicated its happiness in endorsing the event and hoped that it would help lift the standard of live stage musical performances in the country and the sub- region.

President of MUSIGA, Bice Osei Kuffour (a.k.a Obuor), an enthusiastic stage performer with multiple awards, and skills in playing musical instruments on stage was optimistic about the objectives of the Music Clinic.

Obuor’s America and Europe tour some years ago was as a result of his conscious lyrics amplified by his animated live stage musical performance which gave his audience a good feel.

The advocate for live stage musical performances had no doubt that the expertise of facilitator for the Clinic, Carl Golembeski would help participants advance their performances.

The MUSIGA President said the organisation of the event was timely and would give participants the needed skills and techniques to advance their performances during this year’s Christmas events.

The organisers, Institute of Professional Event Management (IPEM) were confident that the clinic would offer participants in Ghana and the sub-region the opportunity to be the game changers in live stage musical performance saying, transforming studio quality to live stage performance was the best way to give the audience an exciting experience.

According to IPEM, there had been occasions that music lovers left many live music events disappointed by the performances of the artists because their live stage musical performances did not reflect the quality of their studio recording.

The organisers observed that in order to thrill music fans, live musical performers should always be at the their very best adding, musicians and sound engineers could only achieve this through acquiring the right training and urged them to show up at the event.

Carl Golembeski, the facilitator for the GIMC has for the past four years, worked as American singer, Beyoncé’s Vocal Fx Engineer developing a system to take her studio fx seamlessly into a live sound environment for real time control.

Carl is a sound artist, vocal fx engineer and music producer in various sonic territories with most of his career being in the form of live sound. He has toured the world with artists such as Bruno Mars, Carlinhos Brown, and Mary J. Blige and served organisations like Ram Dass LSR Foundation and Joseph Campbells Audio Archives.

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Ketu South NDC Raises Concerns over NIA Registration

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By: Nelson Ayivor | Voltaonlinegh |

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ketu South Constituency of the Volta Region is livid over what it says are attempts by some officials of the National Identification Authority (NIA) to politicise the ongoing Ghana Card registration in the municipality.

In a communiqué issued on Tuesday, July 30 by the Constituency Communications Officer, Bright Dzila, the NDC bemoaned the undesirable conducts of some NIA officials who it alleged were known card bearing members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) bent on deliberately frustrating the public and abusing the registration process for political expediency.

The communiqué said, “we have received tonnes of complaints about the priority been extended to NPP members to register at the expense of the general public.”

“We have also received overwhelming reports about delays in issuing the cards and in some instances, turning down potential registrants on the flimsy excuse of not being captured in the supposed ceiling of 30 people per day,” it added.

The release further stated that some NIA officials stationed at Adina, a fishing community in the municipality usually closed at 1:30pm, hours before the stipulated 5pm.

The NDC is therefore calling on the NIA boss, Prof. Ken Attafuah to immediately address these issues in order to facilitate the smooth conduct of the exercise in the municipality. It also hopes to see a radical change in the conduct of the NIA officials.

Meanwhile, the Ketu South Constituency Chairman, NPP, Samuel Petit Haligah in an interview with local radio stations in reaction to the release, described the NDC’s claims as concocted saying that nothing untoward was happening and that the exercise was going on smoothly without any problems.

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My Candidature Will End NDC’s Reign in Ketu South-David Quarshie

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By: Ewoenam Kpodo | Voltaonlinegh |

Aspiring Parliamentary candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ketu South Constituency of the Volta Region, David Tiahno Quarshie is calling on delegates in the constituency to endorse his candidature to pull a surprise in the 2020 general elections.

Mr. Quarshie said a vote for him would mean an end to the long reign of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the constituency considered as “World Bank” of the “World Bank” (Volta Region) of the NDC.

The businessman and poultry farmer who picked and filed his nomination form on Friday, July 26 said he “is the sure bid for the NPP in the upcoming 2020 elections” and “the best and the very solid choice of the voting masses” that would deliver victory for the NPP.

Speaking to Voltaonlinegh, Mr. Quarshie said he had the clout, the exposure and the track record and asked delegates in the orphan constituency (constituency without a sitting NPP Parliamentarian) to consider his works and give him the nod in the party’s primaries on September 28.

According to him, having risen from the position of a polling station Chairman to an electoral area Coordinator, Victory 2016 (V-16) Coordinator and a member of the Finance Committee from 2012 till date, he believed he had what was needed to be given the nod.

Mr. Quarshie fell on various contributions he made in the party and for people in the constituency which according to him, increased the electoral fortunes of the party during the 2016 general elections and argued that he would not only increase the votes in 2020 but wrestle power from the NDC candidate.

Such contributions included purchasing and branding Toyota Tundra Pick Up for use, printing over 2500 party branded Lacostes for members, supporting some schoolchildren with uniforms, supplying maize seeds to selected farmers, organising football galas and organising vocational training in liquid soap and bead production to impact lives.

Others were helping to fund two major party rallies and the inauguration of the well planned V-16 initiative which were attended by NPP bigwigs from the regional and national levels including the then Presidential candidate and the Vice, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and helping the communications team in the performance of their functions.

According to the aspiring Parliamentary candidate, he “represents hard work, a win for the NPP” adding, “I am incorruptible and easy going for the job as I am loved even by my opponents because of my hard works.”

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Electricals Company Equips 42 with Skills

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By: Ewoenam Kpodo | Voltaonlinegh |

An Aflao-headquartered company specialised in general electricals, satellite and disc installations, Napoleon Electricals has opened a two-week skills training programme to train 42 youths in Satellite Dish and Decoder Installation at Aflao, capital of Ketu South Municipality in the Volta Region.

The training, the fifth of its kind in seven years by the company had participants drawn from various parts of the region including Keta, Ketu North and South and Akatsi South Districts and from the capital of neighbouring Togo, Lome.

Speaking at the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Napoleon Electricals, Napoleon Gbeti, disclosed that the company has since 2012, trained over 250 beneficiaries with various skills.

Mr. Gbeti mentioned Network Setting/Scanning, Connecting signal cable from dish to decoder, Types of decoders, Multi TV decoders and dish measurements, Dish parts, Multi TV and DSTV frequencies, Polarizations, Symbol rates and Atmospheric challenges as areas of training.

He underscored the importance of the training to the development of the youth saying, it would help them to be self-reliant noting that past trainees were doing well with some of them being recruited into the security services such as the Police and the Fire services.

The CEO quoted the training fee of GH¢200 paid by each trainee and explained that it covered kits, field training expenses and other costs, adding, trainees would receive installation fees any time they helped in executing installation contracts and hinted of plans to expand the scheme to the entire region to empower the youth.

Ketu South Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Elliot Agbenorwu commended Napoleon Electricals for the initiative to train the youth with employable skills saying, it was in line with government’s agenda of encouraging the youth to acquire job skills to help reduce unemployment in the country.

“What you are doing here would create employment and reduce crime, including armed robbery and stealing and placing the trainees on the platform for future progress and we laud you,” Mr. Agbenorwu said.

He called on the youth not to rush into motor riding business but try to acquire skills to secure their future while assuring the trainees of the Ketu South Assembly’s support through the MASLOC Fund to establish them.

The trainees who spoke to the media were gratitude to the company for the opportunity to acquire skills that would enable them fend for themselves and their family and expressed hope that others would get the same opportunity as them to empower themselves.

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Keta MCE Completes 100 Days in Office Tour

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Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Keta, Godwin Edudzi Effah has completed a tour of all electoral areas in the municipality.

The week-long tour which ended on Friday, July 26 was to mark Mr. Effah’s 100 days in office as MCE for the area.

Accompanying the MCE on his tour included government appointees of Keta Municipal Assembly, Elikem Sewordor, Papa Gobah and Clemence Ansah.

The visits afforded the MCE the opportunity to interact with his people and discuss pressing issues including livelihood improvement in the municipality.

Speaking to the people, he assured that such visits would be regular during his tenure so that he could get to know about the real issues of importance to them in order that together, they could help take the municipality to the level it deserved.

Mr. Effah used the opportunity to brief citizens of the municipality on some developmental projects that the assembly in partnership with key stakeholders was working to achieve to benefit the people.

These projects included a new Town Hall for Keta, Abor Magistrate Court and Astro Turf at Keta. Others were a concrete bridge at Agorvinu, classroom blocks at Sasieme, Lawoshime and Aborlove-Nolopi.

He also mentioned a two-storey hostel facility for Keta Nursing and Midwifery Training College as an additional facility in the offing.

The residents received the MCE and his entourage well by turning out in their numbers and actively participating in the discussions.

They encouraged him to never relent in his open door leadership style and continue to work hard to help improve the living conditions of the people and take Keta Municipality to another level of progress and development.

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Scare as Dilapidated Health Centre Closes down

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By: Benjamin Owusu | Voltaonlinegh |

The people of Kwaakuae in the Krachi West District of the Oti Region are raising concerns over closure of the health centre in the area saying it will deprive them of access to health care delivery.

The only health centre in the farming community has been closed down due to its dilapidated nature to avert any unforeseen happenings to the staff and the general public who will be accessing it but residents fear its closure will be disastrous.

Visibly developed cracks in the building

A visit by Benjamin Owusu to the community revealed that the shut-down clinic had visible cracks and was vacated by the staff who took the decision for fear of a possible collapse leading to their entrapment.

The reporter also found out that a newly constructed health centre attached with yet to be completed staff quarters remained under lock and rather serving as an abode to reptiles.

Other checks revealed that another health facility at Bobodin with its auxiliary structures has also remained in the bush after completion and not serving the purpose for which public funds had been advanced for its construction.

The yet-to-be-used new health centre at Kwaakuea

Speaking in an interview with the Assemblyman for the area, Francis Manu, he bemoaned the closure of the only health facility in the community saying, it remained a big headache as residents were being compelled to walk for long distances to nearby communities to have access to health care services.

Mr. Manu disclosed that the contractor at site abandoned the project as a result of lack of funds of which he (Mr. Manu) prompted the Member of Parliament for the area, Helen Adjoa Ntoso for assistance.

He appealed to the appropriate authorities to act swiftly and complete the staff quarters and get centre operational to take care of the health needs of residents.

Some residents who spoke to Voltaonlinegh argued that if the facility was not completed on time and operational, many might lose their lives to sicknesses because of the distance they needed to travel to access a health facility.

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Voice Ghana Advocates for Inclusion of PWDs

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By: Christopher Pappoe | Voltaonlinegh |

A Ho-based disability focused organisation, Voice Ghana has raised issues of inclusion of persons with disability (PWDs) and particularly called on the Central Tongu District Assembly to as a matter of urgency change drawings and construction of public places to conform to the Disability Act.

Parliament enacted the Persons with Disability Act 2006, (Act 715) meant to improve the life of PWDs by including them in the mainstream society especially in terms of accessibility and per the Act, public places ought to have access ramps to enable PWDs who will be wheelchair-bound to have access to the buildings.

The Act also stipulates that ten years after the passage of the law which had since elapsed, old public buildings must be provided with appropriate facilities to make it accessible to and available for use by PWDs.

Programmes Manager of Voice Ghana, Charles Nyante said “every public place especially clinics, health centres and CHPS compounds should have access ramps to aid even the sick who cannot walk have access to these facilities.”

Mr. Nyante lamented the no access ramp leading to a crucial institution such as the Social Welfare Department saying, “persons living with disability lose their self confidence once they have to drop from their wheelchair and crawl to have access to any public office.”

Central Tongu District Coordinating Director, Ruben Akufo acknowledged the call from Voice Ghana and noted that the assembly had the welfare of PWDs at heart and promised that the assembly would continue to construct projects which will be friendly to persons living with disability.

Presiding Member of the assembly, Davidson Michael Ezuh encouraged Voice Ghana to continue making the voices of PWDs to be heard across the region and asked that it be extended to other parts of the country.

Mr. Ezuh assured that they would as assembly members make the assembly deliver on their promises of making buildings in the district disability-friendly.

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