The event, which is yearly organized under the leadership of Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe, CEO of Peace and Love Hospitals, will be held on October 14 this year, at the Koforidua Jackson’s Park.

Speaking at the official launching of this year’s BCI WALK FOR THE CURE, the Busumbruhene of the New Juaben Traditional Council, Nana Bugye Asante, speaking on behalf of the Traditional Council, pledged to join the walk to create awareness and help save lives.

“I must say the Chiefs in New Juaben are very happy that this year’s event is being organized here, it has coincided with this year’s celebration of Akwantu Kesei Festival and we believe it’s a blessing in disguise.”

Nana Bugye Asante added that, “on 14th October, no chief in New Juaben will put on traditional clothes, we will all be in sneakers and trainers to join the 30,000 Ghanaians who will be taking part in the walk. We want the world to know how as chiefs we cherish our women in the society, our challenges are their challenges and their concerns are ours also.”

“From here, I will be visiting all the Chiefs to rally them and get them ready for the walk, so I am pleading with the organizers to make available a number of t-shirts which will be used for the walk because we will be coming with the queen mothers.”

On her part, the CEO of Peace and Love Hospitals, and the President of Breast Care International, Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe, showed appreciation to all who are contributing to make the walk a success.

“I must say we are impressed with what we have seen so far when we got to Koforidua. The chairman of the local organizing committee, Eric Kwakye Darfour, the Eastern Regional Minister, together with his able deputy, Joseph Tetteh, have been very helpful and we are grateful.”

“My sincere gratitude also goes to every member of the local organizing committee, you have worked tirelessly and we are proud of all of you, we will not rest until all women in the country make it a regular habit of getting breast examination for early detection and treatment. Breast Cancer can be cured, it is curable and before one can get help, then the cancer needs to be detected early, so the onus lies on us all to create massive awareness on it, breast cancer should not kill any woman again”she said.

Over 30, 000 people which includes personnel and wives of police, fire, army, immigration and prison officers, keep fit clubs, association of hairdressers, beauticians, dressmakers, driver’s unions, teacher associations and other civil societies, are all expected to take part in the BCI WALK FOR THE CURE on Saturday October 14th.

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By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The presidential system gives autonomy to the President over the Executive arm of government.

It is a system of government where the Executive branch exists separately from a Legislature, to which in most cases; the former is generally not accountable to the latter.

According Mr. Mensah Bonsu, the flaws in the presidential system outweighs its positives thus, the need to switch to a better model.

He therefore recommended the Westminster system as the ideal model of governance for Ghana since it has been proven to be the best through several studies.

The Westminster system is a democratic parliamentary system of government modelled after the politics of the United Kingdom.

It is used, or was once used by most Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth nations upon being granted independence.

This system has Parliamentary privilege, which allows the legislature to discuss any issue it deems relevant, without fear of consequences.

After Ghana gained independence in 1957, the country practiced the Westminster system of governance from the year of independence to 1960.

The Minority leader is of the firm believe that Ghana should revert to this system of governance to allow Parliament scrutinize pertinent national issues.

He noted that in Ghana currently, “politics is becoming monetized” recalling that, in the lead up to election 2012, politicians spent huge sums of money on campaigning.
“…just one bill board was priced at GHC 9,500 so almost GHC 10,000. The President had many more in my constituency and mine is a very compact constituency. The President cannot finance this himself and people will come in to assist, some of them for free, but nobody is into politics as a father Christmas so they expect the President to payback somehow after his election,” he remarked.

The Suame MP insisted that the time has come for Ghana “to revisit this and to see whether or not it will not be better for us to visit the Westminster way.”

He buttressed his point by pointing out that “a study conducted indicating that emerging economies especially, the small unitary countries are better off with Westminster systems than Presidential systems.”

By: Benjamin Epton Owusu/citifmnline.com/Ghana

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