Ashanti Today

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Samuel Sarpong has inaugurated a Security Taskforce that has the mandate to provide security and protection for the upcoming District Level Elections in the Ashanti region.  The Taskforce, with membership from the Military, Prisons, Fire Service, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Police, has the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCoP Nathan Kofi Boakye as its Chairman.  Inaugurating the Taskforce in Kumasi, Dr. Sarpong, who is as well the Chairman of the Regional Security Council, underscored the fact that the District Assembly and Unit Committee form the basic units of Ghana’s decentralization and governance structure, with the responsibility to spearhead socio-economic development of the citizenry at the grassroots.  However, the 1992 Republican Constitution has provided for the election of members of the Assemblies and the Unit Committee periodically to constitute the Assemblies and Unit Committees.  I

The University of Education, Winneba is to establish a fifth Campus at Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region, to be known as a College of Distance Education and Extension Services.  The opening of the campus forms part of the University’s core mandate as enshrined in Act 672, which enjoins the institution to establish additional campuses when necessary.  The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Akwasi Asabere Ameyaw disclosed this at a matriculation ceremony for Distance Education Students for the Northern Sector, in Kumasi.  This year the University matriculated a total of eight thousand and 34 students out of which half of the figure are in the northern sector of the country.  Among the fresh students are 809 who are pursuing a course in Technical and Vocational Education.  Prof. Asabere Ameyaw announced that most of the university’s study centres dotted across the country have been connected to the internet to enable students to have access to the us

A section of demonstrators The opposition New Patriotic Party, NPP, has organized a street demonstration in the capital of its stronghold, Kumasi to raise issues affecting the wellbeing of residents of the Ashanti region. The demonstration, which was forced to be held a day later than the original reschedule by the Police, was well attended by residents mostly members and sympathizers of the party. The demonstration was facilitated by a pro-NPP group called Movement for Change while the event itself was code-named “Yebre Demonstration”. It is believed to the second in a series of similar outdoor protests by the opposition party as part of what has been seen by many political watchers as a campaign strategy of the NPP in the run-up to the 2016 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections. The demonstrators, clad in mainly the traditional red or black mourning apparel, went through some of the principal streets of Kumasi amidst brass band music and dancing w