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The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA), Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called for another look at the composition of the membership of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) to build the confidence and trust of the people in policy documents it produces on national development.
According to him, the composition of the NDPC had become a source of worry that could trigger mistrust in the commission’s work and recommendations.
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, however, said a balanced representation would ensure that a long-term national development plan by the commission would become a source document for all governments to ensure sustained development.
Govt secures $15m to fix Bole-Sawla-Wa road
April 12, 2021 Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has announced that work will soon begin on the deplorable Bole-Sawla-Wa road this year.
Announcing this at Sombo in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region on Thursday, he stated that Parliament had agreed for the government to secure a US$250-million loan facility for the project.
“Government has already secured US$15 million of the amount for the first phase of the project and sod will soon be cut by the Roads and Highways Minister, Mr Kwesi Amoako Atta, and his entourage for the work to officially commence,” he stated.
Government has agreed to secure a US$250 million loan facility to reshape the Bole-Sawla-Wa road, Mr Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader in Parliament, has said. He said US$150 million had been secured as the first part. He said the Roads and Highways Minister, Mr Kwesi Amoako Atta, would perform the commissioning for work to start on the road, which had developed terrible potholes. Mr Mensah-Bonsu said this at the thanksgiving mass for the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, at Sombo, his hometown, in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region. He said the deal was agreed through his collaboration with the Minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu.
Journalist Gordon Asare-Bediako has waded into the New Patriotic Party (NPP) controversy over who becomes the next flagbearer for the party.
As the party gathers momentum to contest the 2024 Presidential elections in hope of winning the seat of government again, a fierce campaign has already begun as the party faithful tick the right candidate to lead the party into the elections in the offing.
Two big names, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen, have cropped up with some party folks rooting for Dr. Bawumia while others also vouch for Alan Kyerematen.
However, there are arguments that the NPP has had two Akan Presidential candidates and so giving the flagbearer position to Dr. Bawumia would be a fine opportunity to remove the Akan tag on the party as some political disciples are of the impression that the NPP will never accept any person not of Akan origin to hold the flagbearer position.
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