Ashanti Today

The scene at the Kejetia Terminal in Kumasi this morning was that of dejection, disappointment and frustration as the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, KMA, has had to forcibly eject traders plying their businesses.  At the time of Ashanti Today’s visited the Terminal reports that the traders were taken aback when they reported early in the morning to start their trading only to realize that the entire terminal had been barricaded amidst heavy security presence with no room for any vehicle to enter. The measure is meant to prepare the place for actual work to start on the redevelopment of the Kejetia Terminal being the first phase of the comprehensive Central Market reconstruction project.  Eyewitnesses told Ashanti Today that the KMA used barely two hours from about 1 am today, to complete the fence around the terminal. As part of the fortification of the security at the place, metal containers as well as the Water Canon vehicles of the Police have been place...

A 38-year old professional teacher, Emmanuel Gallo, has been elected the new Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Convention People’s Party, CPP.  Mr. Gallo polled 281 of out of the 327 total votes cast to beat his two contenders, R. O. Frimpong who managed only 29 of the votes while A.S. Osei Yaw   had just 17.  The incumbent Regional Secretary and Lecturer at the College of Technology or the University of Education, Winneba, Daniel Essien lost to one Issah Abdul Salam.  While Sallam had 247 of the votes, Essien could only poll 78. In the race for the Regional Organer slot, Madam Dorothy Gifty Antwi defeated her only contender, David Anning, with 250 votes to 77 with Samuel Frimpong being elected to become the new Regional Education Secretary of the party.  Suleimana Mohammed was also elected as the new Regional Treasurer after he beat his challenger, Rita Nti Agyei who had just 79 of the votes.  The Regional Youth Organizer position was given to Le...

The National Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party, CPP, Samia Yaba Nkrumah, has announced the withdrawal of the party’s candidate for the upcoming Parliamentary bye-election in the Talensi Constituency in the Upper East region scheduled for the 7 th of next month.  Instead, the CPP has thrown its support behind the candidate being put forward by the People’s National Convention, PNC and has assured of fully campaigning for that candidate to boost his chances of winning the Talensi seat for the Nkrumahist parties.  Madam Samia Nkrumah announced this in Kumasi during the Ashanti Regional Delegates Congress of the CPP. About 445 delegates converged at the GNAT Hall in Kumasi to elect nine members to reconstitute the Ashanti Regional Executive Committee of the CPP ahead of the completion of the CPP/PNC unity agenda.  At the congress were almost all the members of the National Executive Committee of the CPP as   well as a former National Chairman...

  The Paramount chief of Tepa in Ashanti region, Nana Adusei Atwenewa Ampem, has handed over to President John Dramani Mahama legal documents covering a 40-acre parcel of land reserved in the traditional are for the establishment of the proposed Institute of Jewelry and Technology.  The government is yet to initiate negotiations with the management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KUNUST, on the modalities for the successful construction of the Jewelry Institute. If eventually established, the Institute of Jewelry and Technology will primarily add value to gold ore mined in Ghana for enhanced marketability before exports.  he handing over of the land documents was at Tepa during a grand durbar of the chiefs and people from Tepa and Maabang which are neighbouring traditional areas,   in honour of President Mahama as part   of the President’s two-day working tour of the Ashanti region.  President Mahama noted that he wil...

Was there an an issue of over voting in the just-ran NPP Parliamentary primaries in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency in the Ashanti region? Details of the official figures declared by the Presiding Officer very soon!!.

The embattled Ashanti Regional GJA Chairman, Listowel Yesu Bukarson says the Ghana Journalists’ Association is yet to formally communicate the its decision asking him to step down to him.  According to him, he has only heard of the issue through the media adding that when contacted this morning, the National President of the Association, Affail Monney denied making any such claim.  He has also challenged the leadership of the Association to invoke the law that bars him from contesting a parliamentary seat on the ticket of a political party, if there is any.     Mr. Bukarson was speaking to GBC’s Garden City Radio in Kumasi in reaction to a decision by the GJA asking him to step aside for allegedly violating the Association’s ethics.  But Mr. Bukarson emphasized that he will be surprised if the rumours is eventually confirmed.  According to him, any such decision will be against the tenets of the current Constitution of the Associ...