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DAILY HERITAGE, MONDAY, MAY 28, 2018 WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH
Parliament summons
administrator of
Common Fund
BY MOHAMMED AWAL
PARLIAMENT HAS summoned the
administrator of the District Assembly
Common Fund (DACF), Irene Naa
Torshie Addo, over her directive to
various assemblies to use 80% of their
allocation to fund central government
programmes.
The Government last month issued a
directive through the Administrator of
DACF, to all the various Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Assemblies to
deduct 40% of their share of the fund
for the Ghana School Feeding
Programme, 20% to pay the salaries of
Nation Builders Corps employees and
also 20% for the operations of Planting
for Foods and Jobs programme.
The directive has received mixed
reactions from the general public, local
governance experts, Civil Society
Organisations, including former District
Chief Executives and Members of
Parliament (MPs), as well as some
political parties.
The massive public outcry has
compelled the Second Deputy Speaker,
Mr Alban Bagbin, to summon the
DACF Administrator to appear before
the House this week in the company of
the Local Government Minister, Hajia
Halima Mahama, to explain the rationale
behind the directive.
Speaking to ‘Starr News’ on the
development, the Deputy Minority Chief
Whip and MP for Banda, Ibrahim
Ahmed, who requested the presence of
the DACF Administrator, accused the
government of robbing the assemblies
of the needed resources for
development projects.
According to him, the directive will
be an avenue for “grand corruption” and
therefore “we must not permit this thing
to go.”
He alleged that the government was
taking the 80% to spend in Accra,
leaving the District Assemblies to
suffocate.
He asked the Government to send all
the 100% to the District Assemblies as
their local needs are uniquely different.
He said: “What Accra people need is
different from what Nakpanduri and
Kpandai need. When Accra people,
Kumasi people are using computers,
Kpandai people are using their hands to
do double clicking.”
•Irene Naa Torshie, DACF Administrator
Afedo seeks re-election for Ho Central constituency NDC chair
FROM PATRICE SYLVESTER
SELORMEY, HO
pselormey2015@gmail.com
THE INCUMBENT Ho Central
constituency chairman of the
National Democratic Congress
(NDC), Ferg Divine Afedo, is
seeking re-election to enable him to
continue with his selfless and
devoted service to the party.
Mr Afedo, an accountant with
the Ghana Education Service, said
MORNING
SHOW gem,
Kwaku Owusu
Adjei, known in
media circles as
Patoo, has taken
over from celebrated broadcaster Fiifi
Banson as the new host of ‘Anopa
Kasapa’ on Kasapa 102.5 FM.
At a brief handover ceremony live
on air, Banson, whose three-year
contract with the media empire, EIB
Network, has ended, commended
Patoo for holding the fort with great
interviews anytime he was out of
town.
Patoo, now the morning show
host of ‘Anopa Kasapa’, has a vast
experience in the radio industry. His
presentation just few weeks after
taking over the baton as the new host
has been awesome and impressive.
Having worked as a morning
show host almost throughout his
media career, the Kasapa morning
show job was going to be an
extension of his 19 years’ journey
that has been beautiful in many
breadths.
Patoo started off as a DJ at
Dormaa FM in the Brong Ahafo
Region and later moved to join the
then growing Sky FM also in the
same region. At Sky FM, he hosted
he was poised to provide a
leadership of effectiveness and
efficiency for the 2020 general
election.
Speaking to the DAILY
HERITAGE over the weekend, Mr
Afedo said he would supervise all
the branches within the constituency
through constant interaction,
mobilise the core support base of
the party and make it attractive in
the constituency for victory 2020.
He said he was confident he
would be re-elected to provide
exemplary leadership that would
the morning show for a short period.
Indeed, he has worked with a number
of radio stations in the country,
which include Space FM; Classic FM,
Boss FM (Kumasi), Storm FM
(Sunyani), Moonlight FM (Sunyani);
he also worked with
Multimedia for about four
months and later left to join
EIB Network, where he has
been till date.
At Moonlight FM, he was
the General Manager and doubled
later as a morning show host for two
years.
And in the first few weeks of his
being on air, Patoo has justified why
the morning show host position was
just what he needed to chart a new
career path.
The proud father of two boys is
also the host of ‘Nyansapo’ on Agoo
TV, a political/current affairs show,
which airs from Monday to Friday
from 6p.m. to 7:30p.m.
In the media landscape, he looks
connect with the people at
the grass-roots level.
Sharing his thoughts,
political experience and
vision with the paper, he
said he was best suited for
the position.
He said the party had
achieved a lot in the
constituency despite
challenges it was faced with
under his tenure.
He said he was able to
marshal votes for the then
President Edward Mahama
Kwaku Owusu Adjei takes over
‘Anopa Kasapa
BY EDWARD ACQUAH
•Kwaku Owusu Adjei, popularly known as Patoo
Touting his experience and credentials as
the most credible person to occupy the seat,
he said he was a branch secretary, branch
chairman, vice regional chairman of
Varanda Boys and Girls, vice chairman of
the constituency and current chairman, and
is, thus, well positioned to organise all
organs of the party to actively participate in
all party activities.
up to Kwami Sefa Kayi, Kwaku Sakyi
Addo and the late Komla Dumor as
his mentors because of their passion
and commitment to what they do.
Having been around for many
years, Patoo knows all too well that in
order to build something unique he
would need the support of a solid
team. That has been catered for.
The morning show production
team is made up of a great pool of
talents who themselves had made
names on urban radio prior to
joining Kasapa FM. Kojo Preko
in the 2016 election and worked
hard to retain the parliamentary seat.
“Chairman’s work demands
dedication, commitment and
devotion to party work,” he said.
Touting his experience and
credentials as the most credible
person to occupy the seat, he said
he was a branch secretary, branch
chairman, vice regional chairman of
Varanda Boys and Girls, vice
chairman of the constituency and
current chairman, and is, thus, well
positioned to organise all organs of
the party to actively participate in all
• As Fiifi Banson bows out
•Kwaku Owusu Adjei
Dankwa, and Emmanuel Ohemeng
are behind what has so far been
praised as a strong morning show
force.
The two have shaped and properly
defined Patoo and Accra’s morning
in the last few weeks.
On Anopa Kasapa, listeners get
served with that feel of radio being
different for a good cause. They
experience how radio can be used to
get real time results and get treated to
a decent flow of conversations that
set the agenda, and build into the
general positioning of
working for the people.
In the next few
years, Patoo would
want to see Anopa
Kasapa being a
reference point for
morning shows. He
wants a show that
endears itself to the
growing community of
listeners he is building.
And that he says is
achievable.
Kwaku Owusu
Adjei, born Patrick
Owusu Adjei, on June
8, 1977 to Mr Jones
Owusu and Mrs Felicia
Owusu (COCOBOD,
Cocoa Services
Division) hails from
Japekrom in the Brong
party activities.
Sharing his
thoughts, political
experience and
vision with the
paper, he said he
was best suited for
the position.
Ahafo Region.
He had his primary and junior
secondary education at Jinijini, also in
the Brong Ahafo Region; from there,
he moved to Wesley College, where
he studied to become a professional
teacher.
His moniker ‘Patoo’ evolved out
of the name Patrick.
The morning
show production
team is made up
of a great pool of
talents who
themselves had
made names on
urban radio prior
to joining Kasapa
FM. Kojo Preko
Dankwa, and
Emmanuel
Ohemeng are
behind what has
so far been
praised as a
strong morning
show force.