The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection Lariba Zuweira Abudu has lost her bid to contest again for the parliamentary seat of the Walewale Constituency.
Undoubtedly, it is one of the fastest developing and vibrant constituencies in the North East Region, bustling with lots of activities, especially Walewale, the constituency capital, which is also the commercial centre.
Former Chief Executive of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Mr Senyo Hosi, has accused the Ministry of engaging in arm-chair analysis, clothed in a “culture of ‘knowing everything’, without adequate consultations and collaborations with industry," hence asked the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, to resign in…
Bawumia’s sister gab Walewale seat
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The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Northern Development Authority (NDA), Lariba Zuweira Abudu, was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the Walewale Constituency in the North East Region in the just-ended general election.
The MP-elect, who is a sister of Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, polled 32,294 of the valid votes cast, representing 51.21%, to beat two other contestants in the keenly contested election.
She had earlier defeated the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, in the NPP parliamentary primary election.
Ghana can’t ban GMOs Deputy Minister 10th Dec 2020 | Source: Graphic
Ghana can’t ban GMOs Deputy Minister
The government has rejected calls by some stakeholders in the agriculture sector to completely ban the production of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the country, citing food insecurity as the cause for the position.
It argued that even though agroecology was a very good method for agriculture production, which it had not lost sight of, Ghana risked encountering serious food security challenges immediately if the nation insisted on going solely by the method.
“So we have to be careful. These are ideas that we can pursue along some tangent but [for] the totality of our population, they need food and these other fast methods will also have to be used to be able to make us food secure. If we are not food secure, there can even be a war; there will not be peace in this country and at the end of the day we won’t even have time to think about agroe