Ashanti Today

The National House of Chiefs is to revise its Code of Conduct for chiefs                 across the country to ensure strict compliance with the legal injunction on traditional leaders not to play active part in partisan politics.  Before the revision of the Code of Conduct, the President of the House, Togbe Afede, has apologized to Ghanaians on behalf all chiefs who flouted the Constitutional restrictions in the run up to the December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections and subsequently pleaded for pardon for such erring traditional leaders.  Togbe Afede made the plea in Kumasi at the first General Meeting of the National House of Chiefs for this year.  The Paramount Chief of Assin Kushia, Ahunuabobrim Prah Agyensem, was fficially admitted to the House.  He was led to take the Oath of a Member of the National House of Chiefs by the President of the House, Togbe Afede. He was later led by a Kumasi High Court Judge, Justice Nicholas Abodakpi, to take the Judicial Oath an

  Panelists on GBC’s Garden City Radio’s Super Morning Flight in Kumasi have been unanimous in calling for a thorough investigation into the claim of an attempted bribery by a member of the Minority’s side of the Parliamentary Appointments Committee, Mahama Ayariga that one of the then Ministerial nominees during the vetting of the first batch of Ministers-designate tried to pay his way through Parliamentary approval of his nomination.  The panelists agreed in their views that it is only through a non-partisan probe that can unravel all the circumstances surrounding the claim to allow for proper sanctions to be meted out.  The Ashanti Regional Communications Director of the NPP, Akwasi Kyei, noted however, that an investigation would eventually exonerate persons accused of engaging in bribery.  Mr. Kyei wondered why out of the Minority’s 10 members on the Appointments Committee, only three of them are claiming an illegality in the approval of the said Ministerial no

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, Serebuor Quaicoe, says nine persons who picked Nomination Forms to contest for the Ashanti region’s slot on the Council of State failed to submit the Forms by the close of nomination last Thursday.  He said a total of 28 persons collected the Nomination Forms before the close of the nomination period.  Speaking to Ashanti Today in Kumasi, Mr. Quaicoe said the submitted Forms have already been forwarded to the national Head office of the Electoral Commission for the printing and publication of the Notice of Poll ahead of the actual regional election of the only slot on the 9 th of February in Kumasi.  According to him, no complaint has been received about the eligibility of any of the 19 persons who have submitted their completed Forms.  All the 30 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the region are to delegate two members each to constitute the 60 member Regional Electoral College for the election.

Report available to Ashanti Today indicates that about 40 cows grazing within the Afram Plains portion of the Asante Akyem North district of Ashanti have been massacred days after the launch of an exercise code-named ‘Operation Rid Farmlands of Cattle’.  The report has it that only one of the carcasses was brought home by security personnel involved in the exercise, leaving the rest in the wild.  ‘Operation Rid Farmlands of Cattle’, an initiative of the MP for Asante Akyem North, Andy Appiah Kubi, is being jointly carried out in collaboration with the National Security Council to protect both farmlands and citizens against attacks by nomadic herdsmen and their cattle.  When contacted, Mr. Appiah Kubi confirmed the launch of the exercise last week, adding that two of the Fulani herdsmen have also been arrested by the Agogo Police and are being investigated to determine whether or not they are legal or illegal migrants.  Mr. Appiah Kubi, could not confirm or deny