NPP EJURA Sekyedumasi Constituency

01/02/2024

20/08/2022

Blessed Birthday to our soon to become 1st lady Hajia Samira Bawumia.

Best wishes Hajia.

08/02/2022

Cost Benefit Analysis of John Mahama’s IMF Policy Credibility Bailouts Vis-A-Vis Nana Addo’s E-Levy Proposal

Benefits
1. Ghana received less than $1 billion LOAN from IMF

2. The money was released in three tranches ($330 million+ a year for three years)

Cost (Conditionalities)
1. Withdrawal of Teacher Trainee Allowances
2. Withdrawal of Nursing Trainee Allowances
3. Tertiary students were made to pay utility bills which were free before going to IMF
4. Utility Tariffs were added to the school fees of SHS students
5. Embargo placed on public sector recruitments
6. Removal of subsidies on Electricity Tariffs
7. Imposition of more taxes on Petroleum Products
8. Going to the IMF couldn’t end the dumsor under JM
9. The almost $1 billion dollars IMF gave to Ghana was not never free: it was added to Ghana’s Debt Stock for which we are still paying with our taxes

E-Levy
Cost
1. The poor Ghanaian will be taxed 1.5% on the money they transfer above Ghc100 a day.
2. This tax will be squeezed from our sweat as we transfer our little money above Ghc100 a day to our loved ones

Benefits
1. Your poor parents in the village whom you send some remittances to via Momo will not pay anything to Cashout or withdraw
2. Government is projecting to realize $1.2 billion a year which is than the entire amount that IMF gave to Ghana as loan within a period of three years under John Mahama.
3. YouStart which is aimed at giving startups to entrepreneurs to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth
4. More roads will be constructed
5. NABCO will be fully activated
6. Free SHS will continue
7. There will be no embargo placed on public sector recruitments
8. Government’s social intervention programs will not be canceled
9. Tertiary students will not have to pay Utility Bills
10. SHS students will not have to pay utility bills
11. One hot meal for SHS day students will not be canceled

Fellow Ghanaians, the choice is ours. In this life, there are always two sides to everything; it’s either good or bad just like the toss of a coin. There’s either a head or a tail.

Let me end with a few lines from Lade Wosornu’s Inspirational poem “The Master Brewer” for literature students and scholars who do connotative analysis of words to appreciate.

“The fuel for this distillery?
Your emotions, Willy-nilly
You stoke the fire as you vent your spleen
And another dram drips into the vat-unseen

The Master brewer is not the stars
Nor yet the gods. He is you your very self.
The final brew has no choice it must be bitter bile or sweet honey. But you can choose the magic portion which vouchsafes the taste:
Your intentions, your memories, your reactions.”

06/02/2022

Sometimes, I wonder if Haruna Iddrisu truly studied law as he claims. His positions on matters of the law leave so much to be desired.

The Minority Leader has made a point that only logically-deficient political pundits would associate themselves with.

According to Haruna, James Quayson is being persecuted for the E-levy to have a green light in Parliament, hence the numerous cases brought upon the beleaguered NDC MP.

To Haruna, getting Quayson out of the way would ultimately reduce the number of the Minority MPs, and that would pave the way for the electronic levy to be given a clean bill of health.

First of all, Haruna’s point is not only absurd but logically pathetic. It is as though the prosecution of Quayson commenced just two months ago for which reason there would be cause to believe that his prosecution is to decrease their number for easy passage of the E-levy bill.

Quayson was hauled before a Cape Coast High Court which found reasons to believe that he had flouted the laws of the land since he was not a Ghanaian as at the time he was filing his nomination. The court quashed his election and asked that fresh elections were to be held in Assin North.

The above narrative took place in the early part of 2021, a time when there was no E-levy. E-levy was promulgated some two months ago. That makes Haruna’s point moot.

Would the Minority Leader be kind enough to tell us when Ghana’s laws are to stop working in the country? Is he saying that because of E-levy, cases brought against Quayson should be stalled?

Ghana’s laws cannot be put on hold to satisfy the whims and caprices of a political entity that cares more about winning power than the welfare of Ghana as a country!

Ghana’s laws cannot be imprisoned because of the foreigner, James Quayson. They can read whatever meanings into this, the laws of the land reign supreme!

In his warped mind, Haruna Iddrisu fails to recognize the fact that cases of these nature can travel for months if not for years before final determinations. He should elevate the discussion.

P.K.Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.

28/01/2022

Dela Coffie Writes: A Mahama 2024 run is a terrible idea for the NDC

Like 2020, the political climate today favors change of leadership, and predictably, there are some folks who believes that after 8 years of NPP governance, it’s NDC's time and they've asumed the party has won even before we go to the polls.

To be fair to the proponents of the above argument, the NDC really should be streets ahead of the NPP, especially given that the NPP government seem to be losing its political goodwill and veering more and more towards far right politics, but the NDC has done very little to take advantage of NPP's apparent politcal downturn. Rather, there seem to be an agenda to return the same old failed Mahama leadership for the 2024 polls.

The fact that folks are working to bring back Mahama in 2024, should have all of us very concerned. Isn't it pretty obvious that the possibility of Mahama being able to motivate the coalition of voters that ousted him in 2016, and again voted against him in 2020, behind his 2024 bid is non existent? Why not a more viable and efficient fresh face with fewer skeletons in the closet and fewer debts to pay to the financiers?

Well, this is something that most folks will not like to hear but the data on the ground do not favour NDC victory if elections were held today, with Mahama leading the party, inspite of NPP's numerous governance problems.

Indeed, available data from the Electoral Commission shows the NDC has over the last three general elections performed below average. 50.7% in 2012, 44.4% in 2016 and 47.4% in 2020 with over 500,000 vote deficit.

A half a million vote is quite a number to overturn looking at the fact that in Ghana elections can be won with barely 50,000 (fifty thousand) votes. And so those who would like to pat themselves on the back with the chant; “we've closed the gap from the 2016 loss" ought to be doing some serious rethinking.

Let's look at the breakdown of the election data in the last election. John Mahama won 9 out of the 16 regions in the presidential election and was still outperformed by Nana Akufo-Addo.

When you do a deduction of votes obtained by Nana Akufo-Addo from Mahama's votes, it leaves you with the differences below;

☑ Bono East - 60,353
☑ Greater Accra - 73,310
☑ Northern Region - 66,587
☑Oti region - 77,156
☑ Savanna - 63,639
☑ Upper West - 117,742
☑ Upper East - 165,162
☑ Volta - 506,027
☑ Western North - 21,316

Totalling 1,033,550.

Again, Oti and Volta gave NDC combined votes of 583,183.

Now the kicker; Ashanti Region alone gave NDC 653,149. The difference between the NPP and the NDC in the Ashanti region is 1,142,675. It shows clearly that, the so-called swing region stuff isn't a big deal anymore. The difference in the swing regions of Central, Western and Greater Accra regions is 189, 460.

Then again, Ashanti Region votes cancelled all the vote difference of the NDC in the 9 regions it won and had extra, 109,125 votes.

Essentially, if the NPP is able to maintain its grip on the Ashanti Region, you can be assured that the NDC is going to remain in perpetual opposition. Which is why the NDC needs to take drastic measures to introduce a fresh face to secure more than 30% votes in the Ashanti Region to seal the deal for the party in 2024.

The party needs more than political competence, it needs a strategy overhaul. It also needs to realise that the changing demographics are totally turned against it, and that to attempt to continue with the failed course of Mahama would be as profoundly insane as it would be unforgivable, especially when any scope to change the course of events is rapidly ebbing away.

The Democratic National Committee in the US didn't just run Joe Biden in 2020 because he was the best man for the job. They calculated, correctly, that to beat Trump they needed to run the closest thing to Trump that they had--an elderly Christian white man with high name recognition and a reputation for charm and mendacity. It worked perfectly for them.

In similar vein, the NDC needs to be intuitive and calculative with the 2024 polls.

All good party folks in the NDC must do everything in their power to save democracy and advance the progressive agenda ahead of 2024. It is a danger to the NDC and Ghana for that matter not to act unanimously at such a critical moment.

Time to ditch Mahama and leave the NDC with a more viable options for 2024.

I shall return.

27/11/2021

Dear Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
Can you do Ghanaians a favor by telling us the cost of Bagbin’s medical trips to UAE with his current wife Alice (she is the sister of the original wife Bagbin r***d) plus 3 additional people. Bagbin took $1000 a day as per diem for 3 months in addition to his salary he takes in Ghana. I will not talk about the cost of his chemotherapy treatment in one of the most expensive health facilities in UAE. Alice, the sister of the wife he r***d was also taking $800 a day as per diem for 3 months. Sammy Gyamfi should tell us what job Bagbin’s 20 year old son does for the country for him to fly business class from Accra to UAE and also be taking per diem for 3 months on their first medical trip to UAE. They should tell us how much it cost abd still costing the country to pay his chemotherapy medical treatment. On top of that, Bagbin opted out of a very expensive hotel to an even more expensive 3-bedroom executive apartment in UAE. Alice was busily engaged in business, buying ‘abaya’ (the black shawl Muslims wear) to sell in Ghana. She bought 20 suit cases on the first 3 months trip. You abd your family are taking all this from the very state you have told ndc elements that you want to destabilize? You have very little chance of survival and I have intercepted a copy of your medical record. If you like let Ablakwa or Sammy Gyamfi provoke me to publish it here for the world to see the stage of the cancer you are treating. I have them. Why do you harbor so much evil intentions for a government and country that is sacrificing so much for your hopeless situation? Could you have afforded this had you not become a Speaker? Just tell Alice to stop her display of vulgar opulence with such impunity. You lot make us sick with your hypocrisy.

24/10/2021

Legendary Abdul Malik Kweku Baako writes:

SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT ON THE CONTROVERSIAL E-BLOCK SHS AT AFLAO

Contract was awarded to Messrs. Globacom Ltd in 2015 at GHC 8,030,372.15. Site was handed over to the Contractor for commencement of works on 14th July, 2015 for completion on 14th October, 2016. Currently, the project is 96%.

Completion was 12% on 22nd July, 2016; 16% on 3rd August, 2016; 23.47% on 18th October, 2016; 33.6% on 5th June, 2017; 45% on 25th September, 2018; 78% on 4th May, 2019. All these statistics are captured in the Summary of Payments based on the INTERIM PAYMENT CERTIFICATES( IPCs) submitted by the Consultant!

On 31st August 2021, the Consultant raised IPC No.7 in the sum of GHC24, 294.87. However, the Contractor disputed that based on capped fluctuations and payment of interest on delayed payment. The issue is being resolved between the Contractor and the Consultant, according impeachable official records!

Does the above trajectory indicate a project that was 95% complete in Janaury 2017? Or that has been ABANDONED since Janaury 2017?

cc all communicators and patriots and patriots.

22/10/2021

P.K. Sarpong writes~

When a political party lacks lucid thinkers, its members are misguided by the leadership all the time.

How on earth could these surrogates or apparatchiks of the opposition party get ‘mad’ at the President’s perfect response to that Aflao chief who is a politician in kente clothes?

This chief promised John Dramani Mahama in 2016 he would mobilize 100,000 votes for him despite the latter’s failure to build the very school he is now complaining about.

Mahama spent four years in power apart from the windfall he had as a result of Mills’ unfortunate demise. All these years, he never built this school even though he had promised to do so.

As at the time Mahama was leaving power, just the first floor of the building had been done. President Akufo-Addo has reached the final stages of the edifice as the additional floors have been constructed.

This chief didn’t think it ideal to pressurize Mahama or give him an ultimatum for not constructing the school but he is giving President Akufo-Addo an ultimatum to complete the project!

These gullible party members of the opposition NDC would not read and research but would jump on to the bandwagon of this interview and making nonsensical posts.

Well, the chief and the entire NDC troops can continue with their rants. The project will be completed by the Education Ministry but this chief would not be the one to determine when it should be done.

P.K. Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.

17/10/2021

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako writes:

"Was Sugar Ever Produced By The New Komenda Sugar Factory Prior To 2017?
...Excerpts Of Executive Summary Of Technical Audit Report Commissioned By The Ministry Of Trade & Industry In September 2017 & Dated 10th October, 2017(Part One).

"The Plant was commissioned by His Excellency the President of Ghana on 30th May, 2016. A project completion report submitted by the Contractor indicated that the project was completed in March 2016, seven months earlier than the expected date of completion (October, 2016).

THE REPORT ALSO INDICATED THAT THE TESTING OF THE SUGAR PLANT WAS CARRIED OUT AND SUGAR WAS PRODUCED SUCCESSFULLY. HOWEVER, FULL LOAD PRODUCTION, FOR ITS INSTALLED CAPACITY COULD NOT BE CARRIED OUT DUE TO INADEQUATE SUPPLIES OF SUGARCANE(PG.2 COMPLETION REPORT, MAY 2017). M/S Seftech Pvt. has also submitted a bill of USD $7.9 million as cost of the PARTIAL TEST RUN, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUSERY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PLANT.

"THE Factory has only been test-run during its commissioning. THE TEST-RUN DID NOT GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS TO PRODUCE SULPHURLESS WHITE SUGAR AS STIPULATED IN THE CONTRACT AS SOME SYSTEMS WERE BY-PASSED AND OTHERS WERE NOT INSTALLED. It took 17 days to crush the sugarcane to produce the raw sugar. This was due to a number of challenges the operators encountered during the test-run. IT HAS TO BE NOTED THAT, THE SUGAR PRODUCED WAS NOT WHITE REFINED SUGAR(at 50 ICUMSA) AS REQUIRED BUT SEMI PROCESSED RAW SUGAR HAVING MOLASSES( WHICH IS NOT EDIBLE). THIS RAW SUGAR WOULD HAVE TO BE REFINED TO PRODUCE THE WHITE CRYSTALLINE SUGAR.

"THE following were by-passed:
(a): Melt Clarification(Complete Section)
(b): Vertical Crystallizers (A-H and B-H)
(c): Dosing System
(d): MOLASSES Weighing System
(e): Begasse Compressor
(f): Weighing Bridge (20 ton and 40 ton)
(g): Grap(crane) at the cane yard
(h): Other Minor Parts

Effluent Treatment PLANT was not constructed at the time of commissioning. It was constructed in January, 2017 and would need to be tested . Modifications were made to some faulty equipment during and after the test-run which also need repairs".

Question: Was Sugar Ever Produced By The Komenda Sugar Factory Prior to 2017? If yes, what kind of SUGAR? Provide the correct answer for 10 points out of 10!

Stay tuned for more excerpts.

07/10/2021

Happy birthday to our humble, dynamic, affable and selfless VEEP Dr. Mahmudu Bawumia the next president of the republic of Ghana God willing.

06/10/2021

He will turn 58 years tomorrow in shaa Allah.

2008 - Vice Presidential Candidate, Npp

2012 - Vice Presidential Candidate, Npp

2016 - Vice Presidential Candidate, Npp

2017 to 2020 - Vice President Republic of Ghana.

2020 - Vice President and vice Presidential Candidate.

2021 to date- Vice President, Republic of Ghana.

There's is none in Npp with this set of experiences.

If we are serious to break the 8, he is the best person with the requisite experience to win the next elections.

Let's break the 8 with DMB.