Join Abubakari Sadiq (Righteous DJ) with your comments on 92.1mhz Super Morning Show, 8.00 to 10.00am on the stories below or call in to the studio on 0206997655 ...... 1. NPP returns to court over injunction suit An Accra Fast Track high Court will today hear an application in which two members of the opposition New Patriotic party( NPP) are seeking an interlocutory injunction on the party’s October 18 congress. Two members of the party, Rexford Agyei Frimpong and Oppong Kyekyeku sought an order against the National Council to comply with the provision of the NPP constitution and fix a new date for the congress but an Accra Fast Track High Court adjourned the case indefinitely. The court application follows calls from flagbearer aspirants, Alan Kyerematen and Addai Nimoh that the party’s leadership should reconsider the date for the congress. 2. Martin Amidu Strikes Again…Petitions JDC Over $5.5m Payment Mr Martin Amidu, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, has petitioned the Judgement Debt Commission in Accra over payment made to Yakubu Kasule of Gbewa Civil Engineering Limited. According to the petition, proper legal procedures were not followed during the settlement of the case by the then Minister of Justice Attorney General, Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu, which led to the payment of $5 million as judgement debt to the Gbewa Civil Engineering Limited. 3. Ghanacards could cost just $10m not $115m – Chinery-Hesse Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse, a technology engineer, has disclosed that the National Identification Authority (NIA) can locally produce the new national identity cards at a cost of only $10 million. The NIA has contracted a $115 million loan facility from the Exim Bank to undertake a fresh registration of all Ghanaians under an “expanded registration project.” The decision to register Ghanaians anew comes six years after the Authority began a mass registration exercise, completing it in seven regions and parts of the three northern regions; and card distribution exercises in parts of the Greater Accra Region. 4. Akufo-Addo clears air on alleged memory loss It has now emerged that nowhere in his speech in Kumasi did Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo say that there were 230 Members in Ghana’s Parliament, as reported by pro-government tabloid, Daily Post and other NDC propagandists on social media networks. The pro-NDC paper claimed that Nana Akufo-Addo, two-time standard-bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), told delegates at the Georgia Hotel in Kumasi last Friday that there were 230 MPs in Ghana’s Parliament instead of the 275, attributing it to memory loss on the part of the NPP strong man. Office of the Nana Addo has since made the tape-recording of the speech he delivered on the occasion available.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:50:04 +0000