Michael Kenetey Kofi

  Story: Michael Kenetey Kofi The Parliament of Ghana will resume sitting for its first meeting of the 8th Parliament today after it adjourned its sitting following its chaotic inauguration on the early hours of last week Thursday.  The House’s first engagement will be the resolution of who forms the Majority and Minority of the House. Three previous meetings between the leadership of both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Caucus and National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in the House to resolve the matter proved futile.  The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Bagbin is expected to bring finality to the matter in today’s sitting.  At a separate news conference in Parliament yesterday, both leaders of the NPP and the NDC caucus Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and Haruna Iddrisu said they expect the Speaker to give a fair ruling.  The December seven, 2020 elections left the NDC and NPP with 137 seats apiece, with one independent MP, Andrew Asiamah Amoah of Fomena,...

 Story by Michael Kenetey Kofi  To avoid losing their seats at the right side of the Speaker, some New Patriotic Party (NPP) legislators got seated in the House by 4 am. This is approximately six hours before the regular sitting of the House.  The action by the NPP MPs follows the take over of the majority side of the seat by their National Democratic Congress (NDC) colleagues on the eve of January 7, ahead of the inauguration of the 8th Parliament. The NDC MPs clad in white on January 7, then the Minority arrived in Parliament hours before sitting to take over the right hand side which is the majority side of Parliament. The situation left the members of the governing party in shock when they arrived in the House.  For about 20 minutes, Adansi Asokwa MP, K.T. Hammond, and former Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery along with former Defense Minister, Dominic Nitiwul tried though unsuccessfully to convince the minority to move back to their seats.  The situation subs...

 Story by Michael Kenetey Kofi The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) in Koforidua registered three hundred and 60 new vehicles at the beginning of this month. This includes 118 motorbikes, 171 private cars and 71 commercial vehicles. The Eastern Regional Director of the Authority, Sylvanus Markwei disclosed this to radio Ghana in Koforidua.  According to him, the authority also registered three thousand and sixty-six vehicles last year. This consists of one thousand five hundred and two private cars and one thousand five hundred and sixty-four commercial vehicles.  He further stated that the new vehicles registration system adopted by the authority began operation this year.  Mr. Markwei said the only challenge facing the new system is frequent interruption of internet service. Under this new system, he said one can get his or her vehicle registered within 20 to 30 minutes.  He pointed out that the system will helped eliminate the operation of middle...

 Story by Michael Kenetey Kofi A US/Ghana-based Non-Governmental Organization MKD Foundation has donated food items and cash to the tune of twenty five thousand Ghana cedis to some needy widows in Suhum.  The exercise dubbed, Widows Project was aimed at lessening the burden on widows who are financially incapable in taking care of their children.  In all, twenty-one needy widows benefited from the project. Items distributed included bags of rice, tins of milo, spaghetti, cooking oil, sardines, soft drinks, tomato paste, sugar and an amount of one hundred cedis to each widow. The Fund Raising Coordinator of the Foundation, Hannah Owusu-Smith urged individuals and organisations to reach out to widows. She disclosed that the exercise will be an annual affair to draw widows closer to God.  Some of the beneficiaries expressed their gratitude to the organisation. They noted that they never expected the organization to come to their aid and the donations came at the right t...