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The Minister designate for Western Region, Mr Kwabena Okyere-Darko, has suggested the continued engagement of the people in the Western Region and investment in the area to help forestall agitations such as what has been witnessed in the “Niger Delta” of Nigeria.
Conflict in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria arose in the early 1990s over tensions between foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta s minority ethnic groups who felt exploited, particularly the Ogoni and the Ijaw.
Struggle for oil wealth has fueled violence between ethnic groups, causing the militarization of nearly the entire region by ethnic militia groups, Nigerian military and police forces, notably the Nigerian Mobile Police.
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The Builsa North Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the Upper East Region, Mr Jeffery Adda, has urged members of the public to disregard negative conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“It is obvious that the negative information about the vaccine cannot be sustained,” he said, and urged the aged and people with underlying conditions to get vaccinated when the vaccine was rolled out in the municipality.
Mr Adda said that when he addressed a community durbar organised by the NCCE in collaboration with the Information Services Department (ISD) to sensitise beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in the municipality to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The vetting of the Minister designate for Public Enterprises, Mr Joseph Cudjoe, was briefly put on hold yesterday after the Minority Leader questioned the legality of the portfolio the nominee would occupy.
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Two political scientists have called on members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament to ensure that only nominees who demonstrate clear competence are given the nod.
According to them, vetting of ministerial nominees was one of the mechanisms to ensuring accountability on the part of the Executive arm of government to the Legislature.
They argued that it was important for the committee to give the right signal of its willingness to assert its true role within Ghana’s democratic space by giving approval to nominees who qualify for the position.
The political scientists, a Public Administration expert, Professor Joseph Atsu Ayee and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo, said this in separate interviews with the Daily Graphic.