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The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia , has urged the church to continue to use the pulpit and religious platforms to partner with the state to fight corruption and facilitate the development of the nation. Bawumia made the call at the ordination and consecration service of Very Reverend Dr Kotei Neequaye as the new Suffragan Bishop for the Church. Addressing the congregation, Bawumia touted the Anglican Church for using its platforms to preach against corruption. Bawumia enumerated scores of policies and programmes the government has put in place to fight corruption including the digitisation of the economy through address system, ports, the Ghanacard, passport office, DVLA, GRA, SSNIT, NHIS, Lands Commission, Ghana.Gov platform, and others as evidence of Government’s commitment to fighting corruption. These digitization efforts have reduced and in some cases eliminated bribery and corruption in the provision of public services. The Vice-President also alluded to the fact t

  General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has revealed why the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is having difficulty in passing the Electronic Transactions Levy aka E-Levy. Speaking to the media, he said the NPP government cannot mobilise the 138 parliamentarians to vote for the passing of the levy because some are against the levy. According to him, he is surprise that, the NPP keeps blaming the NDC on the levy claiming that they are preventing them but on this particular occasion, the Minority said they don’t agree and therefore won’t vote and not that they are preventing the NPP from voting. He added that, the Majority carries the vote and so they should mobilize their 138 MPs and vote on the levy but he thinks they are finding it difficult because even their own MPs are unwilling to vote for the passing of the levy. The NDC chief scribe also believes there has not been any vivid and substantial account provided by the governmen

  Deputy Finance Minister, Hon. John Kumah has hinted that, they will continue to engage the Minority in Parliament to approve the e-levy. A meeting between the Minister for Finance and the leadership of the Minority group over the controversial electronic transfer levy yesterday ended in deadlock. The engagement, which took place in Parliament, ended inconclusively following the failure of the parties to reach common ground. But the Ejisu lawmaker speaking to the media said, they will continue to dialogue on the issue to find an agreeable position on the tax measure that has sharply divided the house. The E-levy is a new tax measure introduced by the government in the 2022 Budget on basic transactions related to digital payments and electronic platform transactions. A charge of 1.75% will apply to electronic transactions that are more than GHS 100 on a daily basis. Hon. John Kumah noted that, the townhall meeting which was organized by the Ministry of Information on the e-

The spokesperson of the National Chief Imam Sheikh Nuhu Sharubutu, Sheikh Armiyao Shaibu has described the recent clash between gangs from the Nima-Mamobi areas as contradictory to the teachings of Islam. Speaking to the media, he noted that upon seeing footage of the clash he was shocked and disappointed. According to him, definitely the sight was one that evoked shock, disappointment, worry, anxiety, fear, sadness and everything that one can associate with these negative emotions as a result of such a development which in their view is a needless kind of development. He added that, the people involved in the clash failed to exercise Muslim values which included tolerance, respect for the sanctity of human blood and the sacredness of life and all those things are things that Islam upholds. Sheik Armiyao stressed that, for an area where you see, I mean, more than 5 times a day the blaring of the horns of the Azzan in an area of such nature and every day we hear the sermons and

A group calling itself Crossfire Ghana is calling on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to intervene in President Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin’s security heckling to avert the unexpected. Conveyor of the group, Nana Osei Tutu speaking to the media said, they are concern over the timing of the removal of military officers from the president’s office following recent events in parliament. According to him, everyone knows the current state of affairs of the parliament and the vocal nature of the current president, especially in the fight to make parliament truly independent against the best expectations of the executive hence its unnecessary to remove his military officers. He added that, “If indeed the reason behind this action as stipulated is to regularize the seizure, must the men be removed at the risk of the safety of the President before the said regularization can be effected”. H noted that, the safe