WASSA FIASE CHIEFS CALL FOR THEIR MINERAL ROYALTIES FROM GOVERNMENT

The Wassa Fiase Traditional Council is appealing to government to quickly release the mineral royalties which has been in arrears since 2012 to enable the smooth running of the Council.

Osagyefo Dr. Kwamena Enimil VI
(The Paramount Chief, Wassa Fiase Traditional Council) 

The Paramount Chief of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Council, Osagyefo Dr. Kwamena Enimil VI in his address at the Council’s first General Meeting for the year 2015 in Tarkwa noted that the unpaid mineral royalties by government is hampering the progress of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Council. 

According to him, the chief’s share which comes from the nine percent mineral royalties received by the District Assemblies from the Central Government is their major source of revenue for the council.

"The issue is worrying and as our major source of revenue in running the council, if care is not taken, the Traditional Council's activities will come to a halt".

He said all the scholarships for students from the Wassa Fiase Traditional Council has been put on hold for some time now till the mineral royalties are duly paid to them.

Osagyefo Kwamina Enimil believes the prompt release of their mineral royalties which has been in arrears since 2012 will help the chiefs and the Traditional Council function properly. 

He has therefore appealed to Government of Ghana 
He therefore pealed with the government to release their share of the mineral royalties to them for the good of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Council. 

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17 CHINESE NATIONALS ARESTED IN KUTUKROM IN THE WESTERN REGION

Seventeen Chinese Nationals suspected to be engaging in illegal mining operations in the western region have been arrested and are currently in the custody of the Police and the Ghana Immigration Service assisting investigation.

Since the Presidents inaugurated the Inter Ministerial Task Forces to deal with the illegal (galamsey) menace in the country, the Western Regional police command has recorded an arrest of fifty-one (51) foreigners prominent among them are Chinese nationals in separate galamsey operations on different dates at different locations.

This latest operation on the fight against galamsey took place at Kutukrom in the Ellembele District of the Western Region and arrested thirteen (13) Chinese working with Gianhua Mining Investment Limited on the concession of Kutukrom Resources Limited owned by Philip Akuffo a Ghanaian.
Four (4) Chinese were also arrested at container village near Kutukrom.

Items retrieve from them include two registered pump gun and seven cartridges.
Briefing Pressmen at the Police Headquarters in Sekondi on Tuesday afternoon, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Kofi Boakye noted that seven (7) out of the seventeen (17) suspects do have resident and working permit but as to what exactly they came to do in the country, they are yet to find that out through their investigations.
But all the suspects in this operation are being processed for court as soon as possible.
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DANGER LOOMS AT FIASEMAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, TARKWA.

Dilapidated building serving as schools assembly and dining hall at FIASEMAN Senior High School in Tarkwa is posing serious threats to the lives of students and both teaching and non-teaching staffs in the school.

With the current student enrolment of thousand six hundred, FIASEMAN Senior High (FIASEC) stands with a grate deficit to infrastructural facilities. This in adequacy has compelled the authorities convert some of the class rooms to administration block and staff common hall.  

Parts this science laboratory block for the school is now used as the girl’s dormitory and a home for the schools house mistress and her family.

The school’s assembly hall which doubles as the dining hall and the kitchen is gradually sinking into it foundation. A condition the girls lament to metro news gives the boys in the science class the privilege to invade their privacy at their dormitory.

This uncompleted structure which was started some 16 years ago was to serve as the schools administration block but the project has turned into a white elephant on the compound of the school and the where about of the contractor is also not known.

Some of the teachers in the school who spoke to our correspondent noted that the school is sitting on a time boom waiting to explode and as teachers they dread for their lives and that of their pupils.

According to them several petition to Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education as well as other stakeholders has all note materialized for more than thirty years now yet the population of the school keeps increasing.

Authorities of the school are pleading for urgent attention now which they say will enable conducive atmosphere for teaching and learning.

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NDC BREAKS THE HORNS OF NPP IN THE WESTERN REGION

NDC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has succeeded in broken the horns of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the western region as the party wins more parliamentary seats in the region.



The voting pattern of the electorates in the western region of Ghana since 1992 where they voted massively for the NPP has changed astonishly in this year's elections. The popularity of the NPP in the western region started diminishing in the 2008 general elections held in Ghana where the NPP lost three parliamentary seats to the NDC in the western region. In the just ended general elections, the NDC has increased their parliamentary seats from 11 to18 out of the 26 parliamentary seats in the western region leaving the NPP with only 8 seats.

The recent parliamentary seats lost to the NDC in the western region are, the Ahanta West Constituency, Evalue-Ajomoro Gwira Constituency, Jomoro Constituency and the Wassa Amenfi East Constituency.

Some of NDC party faithful’s living within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis told REPORTS PLATFORM Correspondent that, the western region no longer remains the strong hold for the NPP even though the NDC lost massively in all the six constituencies within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. However, this year's presidential and the parliamentary election result indicted clearly that the NDC has succeeded in crippling the strength of the NPP in the western region.

The party executive of the NPP are still in a state of shock as they could not factor out what exactly when wrong that they cloud loss some more parliamentary seats to the NDC in theregion.

Meanwhile before the December 7 polls, the western regional chairman of the NPP Nana Owusu Ankomah had told two radio stations in Takoradi that at the end of this year's election, the NPP will regain the three parliamentary seats NDC took from them and even take some other seats as well. While the regional chairman for NDC, Nana Toku also stated on the same radio stations that the NDC is going to win more seats in the western region after this year's general elections.

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DISGRUNTLE CHIEFS GOES TO COURT OVER ELECTION OF NEW EXECUTIVE

Some disgruntled chiefs in the Western Region House of Chiefs have decided to contest the election of new executive of the house at the high court since according to them proper lay down procedure of the house was not duly followed.

Awule Agyefi Kwame II

The disgruntled chiefs include Awule Agyefi Kwame II, Awule Angamatu Egyan II, Awule Annor Adjei III and Ogyeahouo Yaw Gyebi II. In a press briefing held in Takoradi on Wednesday, the chiefs indicated that the recent elections held by the Western Region House of Chiefs which was supervised by the regional electoral commission was not in sink with lay down procedure of the house and they therefore describe the elections as nal and void.

The aggrieved chiefs insist the notice of meeting on 3^rd December 2012 was improper as it was not even issued by the proper officer reorganized by the house.

Adding that six out of the twenty-two members of the house converged that day and they were not up to half of the membership of the house so they wonder how they cloud go on and elect new president and his vice as well as five other members to represent the house at the national house of chiefs and the EC also supervised this lawless conduct by some of their colleagues.  

In the rit presented to the press, they are calling on the high court to declare the 3^rd December 2012 elections held in the House at Sekondi to elect new executive as nal and void and a consequential order setting same aside.

They are also seeking an injection restraining the third to the sixth respondent from acting or holding themselves out as persons elected as president and vice president of the western region house of chiefs as well as members of the national house of chiefs.

According to the aggrieved chiefs, they do not recognize the Omanhene of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area, Osagyefo Kwamina Enimil VI as the president of the western region house of chiefs including the vice and the other executive members as their leaders and the right persons to represent the house at the national house of chiefs.

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"WILSON ARTHUR IS NOT A LOSER", ADJEI MENSAH SAIDS SO

WILSON ARTHUR
(Skyy Group of Company's)

The elected Member of Parliament (MP) on the ticket of the ruling NDC for the newly created Wassa East District in the Western Region, Isaac Adjei Mensah has challenged his close contender in the just ended general elections Wilson Arthur to come on board with him to deliver to the people of Wassa East if he really have the concerns of the people at heart.

According to the MP elect Mr. Adjei Mensah, he was not worried at all about the caliber of his competitor Wilson Arthur from the camp of the NPP because he knew NDC is well granted in the Wassa East constituency. “My worry was the gap, I wanted to make sure it was a big win and that is why his control on the media or his advantage on the media platform was a bit of a worry but not necessary that he is going to take the seat”.

Mr. Isaac Adjei Mensah however throws a challenge to Mr. Wilson Arthur who is also the CEO for Skyy Group of Companies to come on board with him to deliver to the people of the Wassa East Constituency if he really has the people’s plight at heart.

He added that, Wilson Arthur has not lost but he only competed a race and someone won and “I request that he comes on board and indeed demonstrate his commitment to the development of Wassa as he proclaims to be”. But according to Isaac Adjei Mensah, he has not seen any concerted effort from Wilson Arthur to demonstrate his effect of help developing the Wassa East District.

Out of 33,657 valid vote cast, Isaac Adjei Mensah who contested the seat on the ticket of the NDC pulled 19,242 whiles Wilson Arthur who also contested the seat on the ticket of the NPP pulling 13,996 vote and Moses Twumasi-Ankrah from the camp of PPP managed to pull 419 vote making Isaac Adjei Mensah the winner of the newly created Wassa East constituency seat for the ruling NDC from 2013-2016.   

Meanwhile Wilson Arthur has remained silent over the issue as he says “no comment on this subject matter for now”.

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