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‘Ghana beyond Aid’: Govt to lay
document before Parliament
BY WILBERFORCE ASARE
PRESIDENT NANA
Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo has revealed
that a strategic document
prepared and
presented to him by
the ‘Ghana beyond Aid’ Charter
Committee will be laid before Parliament
soon.
Addressing the committee after
they presented the strategic document
as well as a two-paged Charter
to him at the Jubilee House,
President Akufo-Addo said, as
quickly as possible he would want
Parliament to have access to the
document, discuss it thoroughly
and approve it to give same a national
appeal in order to make its
content a guiding light for all state
actors.
“I have had the opportunity to
read the document and it provides
also very clear guidelines and a
roadmap for how we are to go
about things in Ghana and to go
about things in a collective sense.”
The President added that he
was, “so happy that very important
parts of the Ghanaian polity,
trades unions, business groups, academia,
young people, members
of the Executive, have all come
together to fashion this consensual
document.”
He further observed, “I don’t
know whether it will be appropriate
for me on Thursday as I deliver
the ‘State of the Nation’
message, to leave a copy with Mr
Speaker, but clearly if it is not
done on Thursday, it will be done
as soon as possible so that Parliament
becomes formally seized of
the document.”
“It is important that Parliament,
which is the main deliberating
chamber of our country, is
seized of it and also sees it as a
document that is going to guide
all the work of institutions of our
State; Executive, Legislature, Judiciary,
across board, social institutions
as well as public ones,” the
President said.
• President Nana Akufo-Addo (R) and Yaw Osafo Maafo, Senior Minister
Motivation for Setting
up the Charter Committee
Amongst other things, the
President indicated that there are
two essential reasons behind the
‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ agenda. The
first is to institute the “consciousness
that every Ghanaian needs to
have, in that no one is going to
come from anywhere to develop
Ghana for them other than
Ghanaians themselves”.
Secondly, the President noted
that, “The document is also going
to be a guide as to how we go
about applying the slogan [Ghana
Beyond Aid] for it to become
meaningful in the lives of the
thirty million Ghanaians in Ghana
and those outside Ghana.”
Chairman of the Committee
The Senior Minister and Chairman
of the Committee, Yaw
Osafo Maafo addressing the President
before presenting the strategic
document said, members of
the committee have invested a
great deal into the whole concept
of the ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ to develop
the document as well as the
Charter.
“We also decided, as a buy in
of the whole country, this document
must be presented before
Parliament so that we discuss it in
detail and seek the opinion and
views of all the country’s representatives
in Parliament,” the Senior
Minister said.
Members of the Committee
Yaw Osafo Maafo, the Senior
Minister, is the Chairman of the
‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ Charter
Committee; Ken Ofori Atta, Minister
for Finance; Ignatius Baffour
Awuah, Employment and Labour
Minister; Professor Gyan Baffour,
Minister for Planning; Hajia Alima
Mahama, Minister for Local Government
and Rural Development
are amongst the Ministers of State
who are on the Committee.
Dr Anthony Yaw Baah and
Mrs Philomena Sampson, both of
the Trade Unions Congress;
David Ofori Acheampong, Ghana
National Association of Teachers;
Nana Osei Bonsu and Kwaku
Agyemang Duah, both of the Private
Enterprises Federation; Dr.
Yaw Adu Gyamfi, Association of
Ghana Industries are also members
of the Committee from industry.
The Secretary to the Committee
is Dr Eric Yeboah of the Office
of the Senior Minister and a
Senior Policy Advisor at the Ministry
of Finance, Dr Yaw Ansu, is
an alternative member of the
Committee.
NDC shooting: My hands are clean – Yamin
BY KWADWO ANIM
FORMER ASHANTI Regional
Secretary of the NDC, Joseph
Yamin has denied his involvement
in the murder of Wasiu
Iddrisu.
The deceased was shot multiple
times Monday afternoon
at the party regional secretariat
following bloody clashes that
ensued between two alleged
factions.
Another victim, identified as
Abdul Rahman, who was also
shot by the gun-wielding thugs,
is nursing serious wounds at
the KATH.
An ongoing meeting between
some top party executives
was consequently put on
hold following the ensuing
melee.
Four suspects have been
identified by police and are
being pursued.
Speaking to newsmen after
honouring an invitation by the
Ashanti Regional Police, Mr
Yamin said he would be exonerated.
He questioned the motive
behind some faceless individuals
in the party who want to
tarnish his image, adding that
such agenda will not hold.
Meanwhile, Police say investigations
are ongoing to arrest
the suspects.
•Kwame Nkrumah
• Joseph Yamin, former Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC
He questioned
the motive behind
some
faceless individuals
in the
party who want
to tarnish his
image, adding
that such
agenda will not
hold.