ModernGhana Newsletter - Issue #44

A directive by Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin on Thursday to Roads and Highways Minister Kwasi Amoako Atta

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has made finally opened up about his ill-health following rumours of his unusual physical changes in public.

The Minority in Parliament has asked the Majority to better stop disrespecting the Speaker of Parliament and accord him all the dignity he deserves.

Member of Parliament (MP) for Sagnarigu in the Northern Region, Alhaji Alhassan Bashir Fuseini has blasted government over the introduction of Electronic Levy.

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu South in the Volta Region, Mr. Fiifi Kwetey has described Vice President Dr.

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has pledged government’s commitment to decongest the country’s prisons by implementing other forms of sentences.

Ghanaian boxing legend Azumah “The Professor Nelson has attributed Ghana” inability to produce more boxing Champions to lack of focus and indiscipline on the part of the current crop of boxers.

The Ministry of Roads and Highways says its directive on the cessation of the collection of tolls on public roads and bridges was intended to save lives and property and not to suspend the law.

Ghana’;s urban population has increased from 50. 9 per cent in 2010 to 56. 7 per cent in 2021 with a total population of 30.

An auditor and a former NDC parliamentary aspirant at Cape Coast South Constituency, Mr Thomas Hughes Amissah says government’s decision to tax mobile money transactions is a lazy approach.

The Roads and Highways Ministry has clarified that the directive for the cessation of the collection of tolls on public roads was not to set aside the laws for toll collection.

Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Fiifi Kwetey has said government is not only being wicked and insensitive with the introduction of taxes in the 2022 Budget Statement but also hypocritical.

Minister of Energy, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh affectionately called Napo has described the 2022 Budget Statement as revolutionary.

A Deputy Minister of Finance, John Kumah has kicked against the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin’s directive asking the Roads and Highways Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, to reverse his decision to suspend the collection of road tolls.

The People’s National Convention (PNC) claims the introduction of the E-Levy, (a very high rate) coupled with a proposed 15% increase in fees and charges by state institutions, would not ease the suffering of the masses

The People’s National Convention (PNC) has said although tollbooths are a nuisance in terms of the traffic they cause