George Mireku Duker (right), MP for Tarkwa-Nsuaem, congratulating Shadrack Oteng, the Overall Best Teacher, who won a brand-new car as his prize George Mireku Duker (right), MP for Tarkwa-Nsuaem, congratulating Shadrack Oteng, the Overall Best Teacher, who won a brand-new car as his prize The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Tarkwa-Nsuaem, George Mireku Duker, has rewarded 11 teachers in the constituency for their dedicated and meritorious service.
At the Teachers Awards Day, which the MP instituted in fulfillment of a promise he made to teachers, the award winners from basic and second-cycle schools in the constituency, received refrigerators, water dispensers, and 50-inch Samsung televisions as gifts.
Winners
The head teacher of the Ningo M/A Basic School, Shadrack Oteng, won the Overall Best Teacher award and took home a brand new saloon car valued at US$18,000. In the primary school category, Sampson Joe Abban emerged as the best teacher, with Francisca Asante and Love Amewudzo coming second and third respectively. Lucinder Benyiwa Aggrey was the best teacher in the Junior High School Category while Eric Danso and Faustina Arkor placed first runner-up and second runner-up respectively. The Senior High School Category saw Andrew Amoah Donkor picking the best teacher award with Vida Asare being the first runner-up and Vivian Aku Kudzoszi coming third. Vida Asare prevailed as the best head teacher. The second and third places were picked by Vivian Kudzoszi and Yaw Beyuo respectively.
Praise
Addressing the gathering at the event on Monday, March 8, 2022, Mr. Duker, who is also the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources in charge of Mines, could not hide his pride in the work of all the teachers in the constituency. He sang their praises and extolled them for their sacrifices to the constituency which he observed had resulted in an improvement in the performance of the municipality in the West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). He indicated that the awards had now been institutionalized and would be held annually to recognize their role in shaping the future of the children in the constituency.
Teachers Fund
Mr. Duker announced the setting up of the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Teachers’ Fund that would, among other things, sustain the awards scheme. The purpose of establishing such a fund was to help address the genuine pressing needs of teachers in the municipality. According to him, since assuming the role of MP, education had remained a priority and he had demonstrated his commitment to improving the standard of education in the constituency.
Sustainable growth
Mr. Duker described education as a tool for sustainable growth. In that respect, he said, he had put in efforts to ensure the construction of classroom blocks, and donation of motorbikes, mathematical sets, furniture, computers, building materials, and other items to boost education.
CHRAJ boss pushes to get laws to decriminalize petty offenses
Typically the Commissioner of typically the Commission on People Rights and Management Justice (CHRAJ), Frederick Whittal, wants typically the government to swiftly up the guidelines of laws that decriminalize petty accidents. The legislation, he/she said, would merge the country’s impression as a bright spot of democracy together with human rights throughout Africa. The office was speaking on a national discussion on the decriminalization of petty accidents in Ghana and ended up saving in Accra. But because of the Commonwealth People Rights Initiative (CHRI), in collaboration having CHRAJ and typically the Open Society Project for West Cameras (OSIWA), the discussion was in the motif: "Decriminalizing Petty Accidents: The State, typically the Offender, the society".
Small offenses are modest offenses for which usually the punishment will be approved legally in order to carry a caution, community service, the low-value fine, or even the short term associated with imprisonment, often with regard to the failure to spend the fine. These people include loitering, pleading, being a vagrant, failing to spend debts, being the common nuisance plus disobedience to mother and father, creating a general public nuisance, hawking plus vending, urinating in public, and cleaning clothes in general public amongst others.
The particular conference brought with each other stakeholders in the particular criminal justice program working inside the nation and on the particular continent. The meeting was a system for human legal rights activists and stakeholders within the justice field to drum house the advantages associated with petty offenses in order to draw alternative punishments instead of custodial phrases.
Former CHRAJ Office, Emile Short, stated the criminal proper rights system in the particular country discriminated contrary to the poor and susceptible, citing how the particular police treated susceptible suspects and held them in guardianship beyond the required 48 hours without having to take them in order to court. He stated the petty accidents laws were "vague, arbitrary and extremely dependent on law enforcement discretion for police arrest and therefore motivated police corruption, extortion, arrest, and illegal detention".
He stated because many had been unable to pay for the particular fines, they frequently finished up in jail which compounded the particular congestion in the particular prisons. Justice Brief expressed worry that will no change experienced occurred despite many years of decriminalization associated with petty offenses. A Deputy Lawyer General and Minister of Justice, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, said the particular government efforts finished upheld been produced to reassess the particular effect of a few minor offenses, yet public safety plus order must not be lost.
He said plea-bargaining arrangements in legal cases were in advanced stages, whilst a new sentencing bill was going through review towards presenting alternative modes associated with sentences to reduce incarceration of the particular disadvantaged in the community. The Director associated with CHRI Africa Workplace, Mina Mensah, stated the organization might not relent in its advocacy for the creation of particular laws.
NDC to win 2024 elections if... instructions EIU
The Economist Intelligence Unit (ElU) has predicted how the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) can win the 2024 general elections, nevertheless, the party needs to be able to revitalize its command to enhance its prospective customers. In the report, typically the EIU said typically the NDC has a new higher prospect regarding winning the 2024 elections.
“The subsequent parliamentary and presidential elections are thanks in 2024. “Under constitutionally mandated name limits, the incumbent President Akufo-Addo, can not run for the 3rd term. “The past president, John Mahama, is reportedly taking into consideration running again, although we expect typically the opposition NDC to be able to try to revitalize its prospects using a fresh prospect. “Our [EIU] baseline outlook is that ongoing public dissatisfaction together with the slow pace regarding improvements in governance—such as infrastructure enhancement, job creation and even easing of corruption—will trigger anti-incumbency components and push typically the electorate to search for an alteration.
“The NDC, therefore, stands a new reasonable potential for earning the 2024 polls. ”Mr. Mahama led the NDC and won typically the 2012 elections although lost two future elections in 2016 and 2020 to be able to the New Devoted Party's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In accordance with EIU's five-year outlook for Ghana unveiled on Wednesday, spring 13, 2022, typically the opposition party provides a higher probability of being victorious in typically the next general polls. The Economist Brains Unit could be the exploration and analysis split of the Economist Group, providing foretelling of and advisory companies through research and even analysis, such while monthly country studies, five-year country economical forecasts, country chance service reports, and even industry reports.
The regulating New Patriotic Get together (NPP) has welcome what claims seemed to be a constructive research of the governance of Ghana by Economist Intelligence Product (EIU). In a new statement reacting to be able to the latest conjecture by the EIU, that the competitor NDC has typically the prospects of earning the 2024 basic elections, the NPP’s Director of Sales and marketing communications, Yaw Buaben Asamoa said the "objective analysis by EIU extends the democratic tenet of absolutely free speech and even provides perspectives competent of informing insurance plan reform. "
They explained that typically the EIU has a new record of researching Ghana’s governance methods, especially potential personal outcomes also to reinforce its prediction regarding the NDC earning the elections by way of a slim margin in 2024, the EIU touts its document of successful estimations over the decades. However, he mentioned the EIU truly does not tell how an NDC will be available by its sleek majority in the Legislative house, and this given of which Mahama is typically the putative candidate, typically the EIU can pleasantly say “we advised you so” if the NPP breaks typically the eight with top quality leadership and a new strong policy functionality.
Fraction Leader, 2 MPs file injunction against implementation of E-levy
The Minority Chief in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, and two other NDC MPs have filed an injunction at the Supreme Court against the implementation of the Electronic Transfer Garnishment (e-levy). Mr Iddrisu, Mahama Ayariga, and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa are urging the apex court to restrain the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) from implementing the e-levy until the final determination of their suit challenging the constitutionality of its passage by Parliament.
Typically the injunction application registered by their legal professional, Godwin Kudzo Tameklo, today (April nineteen, 2020) avers that millions of men and women will suffer irreparable injury if the E-Levy Act is not put on maintain and the court docket determines that their passage was out of constitute. According to them, the GRA would struggle to repay the millions who have paid the e-levy while the 1992 Constitution which is the great law of the land would have been undermined.
“That the Plaintiffs having raised a prosecution of a break of the Cosmetic in the verse of the Electric Transfer Levy Behave, 2022(Act 1075), to avoid an incalculable destruction, injury, and trouble not only to the people of Ghana but as well as shorting the Constitution which is the great law of the land, the rights of the watch case demands that the implementation of the Electronic Shift Levy Act, 2022(Act 1075) is put on hold until the final willpower of the instant suit, ” the injunction application explained.
Typically the three MPs in their substantive suit want the top court to announce the passage of the e-levy as unconstitutional and so null and void. That is their circumstance that Parliament would not have the right quorum to pass the e-levy as stipulated under Article 104(1) of the 1992 Cosmetic which had just lately been interpreted by the Supreme Court docket. According to them, as at the time the second reading for the passage of the e-Levy was done, there are only 136 MPs present in Parliament as opposed to the required 138. They really want the court to therefore declare the complete proceedings including the second reading, 3 rd reading, and voting to pass the e-levy as out of constitute, null, void, and of no result. The plaintiffs are also seeking an order from the court to put beside the passage of the e-levy by Parliament.
