The Greater Accra Regional Peace Council (GARPC) has inaugurated a Peace Ambassadors Club amongst college students of the Holy Trinity Cathedral Senior High School (HOTCASS) in Accra as advocates of peace. The occasion additionally doubled as a workshop on battle prevention and violent extremism.
The Chairman of the GARPC, the Rt Rev. Samuel K. Osabutey, stated even though Ghana become the 0.33 maximum nonviolent united states of America in Africa, violence passed off sometimes throughout ethnic, religious, monetary, and political divides, with the young people at the vanguard of that violence and harassed the want for a feeling of peace to be instilled withinside the young people.
"The young people are feasible assets for spreading each nice and terrible energies. In Ghana and throughout the African continent, young people are utilized by egocentric politicians to perpetuate diverse risky sports, each to themselves and their society. The young people are recruited to bask in sports of hooliganism, political violence, infant soldiers, amongst others," he stated.
Initiative
The nearby peace council workplaces in Greater Accra, Ashanti, and Ahafo areas gained a task furnished from the Commonwealth Secretariat remaining September to install peace ambassadors golf equipment in a few senior excessive faculties of their respective areas. It become upon this that the Greater Accra workplace inaugurated the HOTCASS membership. The task could run for a year, with college students to be sensitized to battle prevention and violent extremism, early caution, ideas of dialogue, consensus constructing, and battle analysis. Rt Rev. Osabutey said that the members become to inculcate the vital attitudes and behaviors for sustainable peace among some of the college students of their groups and the united states of America at large.
He stated membership become additionally to "sell using non-violent approaches of resolving conflicts in faculties, educate college students on a way to perceive early caution signs, sensitize college students to the outcomes of violent extremism and approaches to fight it and improve the ability of college students to behave as peer mediators". The Headmaster of HOTCASS, William D. Agyei, stated the workout becomes vital, in particular, withinside the outside community. He stated the brand new membership initiative needs to be inculcated withinside the social research problem so that every college student could have expertise on what peace construction and battle control have been about. “We need to place it beneath neath social research in order that each scholar may be uncovered to it,” Mr. Adjei stated.
Peace
The Girls’ Prefect of the college, Stacy Kyere, in an interview, expressed gratitude that the college has been decided on for the pilot program. The membership, she stated, could instill in college students a feeling of peace, including that those college students could visit their diverse houses and groups and affect their colleagues, which could enhance the peace and balance the country enjoyed. She cautioned the young people to "appearance out for peace, allow move of conflicts and misunderstandings, and appearance out to securing a future", including that a rustic with conflicts had no danger of progress.
Use of pension benefits today easier - NPRA
The Chief Exec Officer of the particular National Pensions Regulating Authority, (NPRA), Hayford Attah-Krufi, has mentioned that pensioners perform not need legal professionals to gain access to their monthly pension benefits after old age. Mr. Attah-Krufi mentioned home buying when seniors were required to go by means serious find it difficult to access their benefits had been over as practical measures had already been set up for seniors to gain access to their rewards at ease. He or she said the specialist had directed the particular Social Security in addition to National Insurance Rely (SSNIT) to fast-track the claim techniques in order to avoid delays.
Throughout an outreach marketing campaign with the NPRA throughout Oti Place this week, typically the NPRA CEO explained contributors were as well encouraged to bring up-to-date information to be able to avoid the holdups hindrances impediments that wrong facts, and irregularities generally caused. He explained the measures possessed been accepted together and well implemented by simply all pension vendors, including SSNIT, for the benefit of pensioners.
A statement via the authority explained the outreach process was to sensitize the public together with inspire the typical sector personnel throughout the area to know and appreciate typically the real need to join together with actively participate in pension schemes. That said the week-long program saw fora on pensions on Kete-Krachi, Dambai together with Nkwanta, done in typically the Oti Region, to be able to educate the typical sector workers.
That said the NPRA also used typically the possibility to educate conventional sector personnel about pension issues impacting them. The staff also engaged marketplace women, drivers in addition to other traders from markets and van terminals, the assertion said. Mr. Attah-Krufi bemoaned the process wherever pensioners live unhappy lives after monthly pension chasing their rewards for years. He or she said when just about all processes were completed well and within time, accessing your pension benefit should neither be encircled by litigation nor conclusion in the particular law courts.
“After serving one’s nation, no one needs in order to experience any kind of stress to obtain what has credited him or the woman, ” he observed. The CEO, as a result, advised employees in order to regularly update their particular records with all the monthly pension service providers, specifically SSNIT to assist in the processing of their benefits. He talked about some of typically the causes of holdups hindrances impediments in the finalizing of pension-positive aspects as multiple appointments of birth, unevenness in contribution together with the change of labels.
He, consequently, encouraged employees to evaluate these kinds before their retirement. Mister Attah-Krufi said typically the third-tier pension program was designed to be able to ensure that typically the informal sector personnel participates throughout pensions to permit those to avert old-age poverty. He said it turned out about voluntary and some sort of privately managed prepared fund and personalized pension scheme totally funded by participants that ensured retirement life income to give protection to all Ghanaians.
'Given that Mahama is NDC's putative candidate', NPP will break up 8
The regulating New Patriotic Get together has welcomed what claims were a constructive analysis of the governance of Ghana by the Economist Intelligence Product (EIU). In a statement reacting to the latest conjecture by the EIU, that the level of resistance National Democratic Our elected representatives (NDC) provides the prospective customers of winning the 2024 general polls, the NPP’s Representative of Communications, Yaw Buaben Asamoa said "objective examination by the EIU extends the democratic tenet of totally free speech and provides perspectives competent of informing insurance plan reform. "
They explained that the EIU has to observe of reviewing Ghana’s governance systems, especially potential political effects, and buttress it is the prediction of the NDC winning the elections by a slim margin in 2024, the EIU touts its document of successful estimations over the years. Yet, he said the EIU truly does not tell how the NDC may come by its sleek majority in the Legislative house and that given that Mahama is already the putative candidate, the EIU can comfortably say “we told you so” when the NPP breaks the eight with quality leadership and strong policy performance.
Below is a copy of the NPP's affirmation
19th April 2022
PRESS RELEASE
NPP WELCOMES CONSTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION: EIU 2024
Typically the New Patriotic Get together (NPP) welcomes beneficial analysis of the governance of the country. This is because objective examination extends the democratic tenet of totally free speech and provides perspectives competent for informing insurance plan reform. The Monetary Intelligence Unit (EIU) has a document reviewing Ghana’s governance systems, especially potential political effects. To buttress it is a prediction of the National Democratic Our elected representatives (NDC) winning the Presidential election and the Parliamentary polls by a sleek margin in 2024, the EIU boasts its record of successful predictions over time.
The EIU weighs its prediction on the usual supposition. That presidential electrical power has been spinning over eight-year times in the next Republic is a fact until now. In the event that NDC wins, it will not be news. Although if the NPP wins, it could be an outstanding achievement that would demonstrate the approaching of growing older of electoral governmental policies in Ghana. In other words, an NPP victory in 2024, popularly named “breaking the 8” is a more strange event than an NDC victory structured on the record of elections in the 4th Republic.
However, EIU features a new and important double-edged factor in the eight-year cycle. That is the quality of leadership. EIU signifies that former Us president Mahama’s record of leadership is so poor when they become the Prospect, the NDC believed win increases in smoke. This is a huge boost to the NPP effort of “breaking the 8” since were comfortable that the NPP Candidate will have the governance document based on the cumulative achievements of the NPP in the 4th Republic.
The EIU cites slow governance advancement as an additional reason for the change in 2024. Unemployment, System, and Anti-Corruption. Typically the cumulative record of the NPP in the 4th Republic is preferable on all these factors than the NDC. Although more importantly, NDC has not proven any policy capacity competent at turning out and about better and faster outcomes in the areas listed. Without a doubt, the tendency is good for the NDC to set the country backside in respect of these factors when the eight-year pattern kicks in. Typically the NPP builds and the NDC ruins.
Political stability is yet a product of the NPP’s quiet yet hard work on the safety front. Despite increased threats of regional instability dumping over into Ghana, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, and often very extremist talk from anarchic elements, the EIU predicts without reluctance there will be political stability over the next several years. An important for free, fair, and violence-free polls.
Finally, the economic system. No country is immune to the twin scourges of Covid-19 and the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Typically the NDC’s solution to the monetary issues driven by these factors is to seek solace in the IMF. Get away from their leadership to the excuse of the IMF and feed off the crumbs of the harsh austerity procedures that would rotate back all the socially sensitive procedures the NPP is sustaining to the safety net the Ghanaian.
Having to ride over this difficult phase is a strong bureaucratic commitment to proficiently and effectively carry out the expenditure reductions and earnings procedures outlined by the Government. Given an impetus by increased collections on the e-levy, reliance on the external debt will steadily reduce, leading to increased expansion by 2024. However, the EIU would not tell us how the NDC will come by it is the slim majority in Parliament. But provided that Mahama is already the putative prospect, the EIU can comfortably say “we alerted you so” when the NPP breaks the ten with quality command and a robust insurance plan performance that goes on to deliver career, increased infrastructure, and a higher account against corruption.
…SIGNED…
Yaw Buaben Asamoa, ESQ.
(National Sales and marketing communications Director)
