[contextly_sidebar id=”AxaET5uc77zT5t3hy9IQtVO39ujv8ByB”]Members of the group, who were clad in black and red attire, marched through the streets of Hohoe, and later knelt in the streets on Friday night to plead with government bring jobs to the region.

The leader of the group, Malcom Selasie Asamoah, said that government has no excuse to deny Volta Region youth job opportunities.

“We are on our knees, begging our president that the youth of Volta Region need jobs, that the youth of Volta region are awake, that we’ll not take any excuse. Come next year, there’ll be no excuse for NDC, there will be no excuse for CPP, and there will be no excuse for NPP. All we need from our parties is that every one of us here must have a job,” he said.

He pointed out that even those who are self- employed need support from government.

“I know that some of you are self-employed. Look, you need support. You can’t do it on your own. You need the support of government.”

Selasie also warned that the group will be marching to the offices of the Ministry of Employment next month.

“I want to tell government, through the minister of employment, Honorable Haruna Iddrisu, that next month, we are marching to Ministry of Employment.”

In 2010, the government placed a ban on the recruitment of employees in the public sector to reduce the increasing wage bill.

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[contextly_sidebar id=”kjKQGiRQ2r5LmRuEw7POiFThvTxgAh3q”]The suspect, Clement Danso Yeboah was arrested upon a tip off. The arrest brings to 10 the number of persons who have so far been arrested in connection with the incident.

Last month some aggrieved youth, numbering about five, stormed the town on motorbikes and shot indiscriminately at some residents resulting in the fatalities recorded.

Confirming the latest arrest to Citi News,Techiman Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Twumasi Ankrah indicated that the police is resolved to bring all persons connected to the crime to book.

“all the arrests have been made upon information and the arrest of Clement Danso Yeboah too was  made upon information to the police, he was arrested in Tuobodom, we had information about him sometime ago that he was staying in Techiman, …so yesterday in the evening that we got the information that he had come to Tuobodom town that is how we got him arrested,” he stated.

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This is according to the Central Regional Minister, Aquinas Tawiah Quansah.

[contextly_sidebar id=”rgTdGHyw7PFqPpH3S05t8O6eDYRGZjp1″]According to him, UNICEF has the problem captured in it’s report and was planning to collaborate with the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) to mitigate the situation.

Through the UNICEF/PPAG collaboration, child prostitutes in the metropolis would be mobilised and given some vocational training to help them generate income, since poverty could be the top-most factor for engaging in such activity.

The result of the survey also comes three months after the Regional Minister had stated that child prostitution was on the rise in the metropolis.

Mr. Quansah was speaking as the guest of honour at the official opening of the 15th Biennial Delegates’ conference of the Cape Coast Diocese of the Association of Methodist Church Choirs Ghana (GHAMECC) at Elmina over the weekend.

He also appealed to the Methodist Church to think of ways to help keep the children out of prostitution.

The four-day conference is on the theme “Witnessing to Christ, Holistic Spirituality and Service for Current and Succeeding Generation.”

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About 218 high debtor customers owe the ECG approximately 3.6 million Ghana cedis.

According to the ECG, the defaulters are yet to settle all debts despite being served with demand notices after being disconnected.

[contextly_sidebar id=”0nelQzpxv3RcO2ojMD8bnfd7vRrbxKkt”]Manager of the Volta regional office of the ECG, Ing Joseph Mensah Forson said the decision to go to court was a last option to resort to if the debtors fail to respond to the demand notices.

Demand Notices are the final reminders issued by ECG to customers who fail to pay their arrears despite being disconnected for non-payment of bills.

Also customers who have received the Demand Notices have a maximum of fourteen (14) days to clear the arrears in full or risk being sent to court.

Defaulting customers in the Volta region who have been served include individuals, District Assemblies, schools, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Ghana Post etc.

Ing Joseph Mensah Forson further stressed the commitment of ECG to retrieve to the last pesewa, all monies owed the company.

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The Children’s home is likely to be closed by government officials by December 2015, if it fails to meet some conditions presented to it by the Social Welfare Department.

The decision, according to the Department of Social Welfare is as a result of the inability of the management of the orphanages to meet certain conditionalities.

[contextly_sidebar id=”D7OhpEYRnf1TGhFIlhpsCgk1xFm3zdFO”] The minister gave the assurance at a ceremony to mark his 48^th birthday which he spent with the inmates of the Damango Redemption Centre,

“We’ve just been told by the department of social welfare that they have given you some conditions to meet. Don’t keep those conditions to yourself make them available to us let us know what they are, so that the little way we can do to support ,we’ll make sure that we’ll do it before December,” he stated.

The Social Welfare Department has stated that it will clamp down on all orphanages that do not conform to certain conditions including; the number of children per care taker (that should not exceed 7), that inmates should not be housed in a storey building as well as ensuring an improvement in the general welfare of inmates at the various orphanages.

Currently, twenty five out of the thirty three orphanages in the Northern Region have been shut down.

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The building collapsed at about 9:30 am on Sunday morning and there were initials fears from neighbours that people might be trapped under the debris.

[contextly_sidebar id=”K0BEH2EhzXjaUvz45GqEDbf1itRE0PBf”]However, those fears have been allayed as the only occupants were not in the building at the time of the collapse.

Officials from the Abuakwa District police command and the fire service are at the scene and have cordoned off the area.

Residents who spoke to Citi News suggested that the ‘dilapidated’ building’s weak foundation was responsible for the collapse.

Building collapses not a rare thing

There have been several building collapses in recent years, often attributed to poor contsruction work on these structures.

Earlier this month a 22-year-old student of the Nyankumasi Ahenkro Senior High School in the Assin South District, was killed after the building in which she was sleeping collapsed on her following a heavy downpour.

Another person died in December 2014 when a restaurant under construction collapsed at Cantonments in the Greater Accra region.

And it’s almost three years since the Melcom shop at Achimota in Accra collapsed, claiming the lives of about 14 people and injuring several others.

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The displaced residents said the strong tidal current has been an annual ritual affecting the community. The wave which was described as one of the fiercest destroyed some low-lying houses and ripped off some roofs.

Speaking to Citi News the assembly man of the area Wilberforce Gbetor-Sosah called for an urgent attention to be paid to their plights.

‘’My appeal to the government is to construct a sea defence wall to protect the coast from the ravages of the waves’’. Explaining that ‘’the seas is destroying houses along the coast, especially along the coast from Hovi to Denu,”

The Municipal Chief Executive for The Keta Municipality Sylvester Tornyeavah who is currently in Kumasi on official duties told the citinews the incidence was devastating. He said updates from NADMO officials revealed over twenty houses have so far been affected.

He said the only solution to the annual disaster is the construction of a sea defence; a project he disclosed government has already started but in phases.

‘’Government has begun the construction of sea defence at Akplor-Atokor with works on Dzita and Horve expected to start later this year.’’ he disclosed.

He however assured the people of government efforts to bring a lasting end to their plight. Notwithstanding the forgoing the MCE disclosed to Citi News temporal measures would be taken to curtail the situation.

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Seven officers drawn from Rural and Community Banks operating in the Northern Region were duly elected with Osman Ali as the regional Chairman.

In a Citi News interview, the newly elected Chairman Osman Ali kicked against some financial institutions’ engagement of personnel on contracts beyond six months.

[contextly_sidebar id=”w7sIj87RzIZQxAj09BemCnL1srxMFMEc”]According to him, the exploitation of personnel, which is characteristic of Rural and Community Banks operating in the country is a clear violation of their fundamental human rights.

He therefore called for the incorporation of all contracted personnel who have worked with banks over six months.

Osman Ali served notice of his administration’s commitment to embark on a vigorous campaign to ensure that Rural and Community Banks subscribed to the nation’s Labour Laws.

“Contractualization and casualization has become another issue which we have identified where people are being contracted for over six months without being considered as permanent staff: you see some organizations still doing because of lack of job opportunities, they find a way of taking advantage of that to keep people on contract which the union is intended to fight against.”

He maintained that Council will zealously safeguard the civil liberties of all members of the ICU, Ghana.

“Another bigger challenge that we are facing as a union that we have also come to realize is people are not following laid down procedures when it has to do with labour issues: Management as it were sometimes take arbitrary decisions and dismiss people which we are intended to fight against,” Osman Ali remarked.

“We have over the time realized that workers have been denied their rights: these days you hear in other organizations that individuals have been dismissed just because people don’t know what their rights are,” he stated.

Osman Ali also admonished personnel to refrain from dubious acts which contributed to the liquidation of some Rural and Community Banks.

“As leaders of this council, we will advise members to be committed to their duties and ensure that they are actually distanced from creating problems that will lead to the collapse of the banks such as fraud or doing anything untoward that will lead to the collapse of the bank.”

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Ghana, Deputy General Secretary (Operations), Morgan Ayarwine said the Union was in the process of completing the formation of the Regional Consultative Council Executive Committees.”

This, according to him will pave way for the establishment of the National Consultative Council of Rural and Community Banks.

“It is the desire of the ICU to exemplify its leadership qualities by ensuring that unionized workers in the financial sector of the economy continue to play their yeoman’s role in the socio-economic development of the country.”

He added, “As our members go through a debilitating economic hardship, it is our hope that the association of Rural and Community Banks will consider a better deal for our hard working members when the upcoming collective bargaining negotiation commences.”

Morgan Ayarwine impressed upon the newly elected leadership of the Northern Regional Consultative Council Executive Committee to avoid dictatorship during the discharge of their core mandate.

“I urge the newly elected leadership of the PMSU at the Regional Consultative Council level to serve members but not to lord it over them.”

He further encouraged staff of Rural and Community Banks to readjust to the competitive nature of that sector.

“In our era of competition such as this, staff of the Rural and Community Banks must rededicate themselves and work to increase productivity.”

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According to Citi News’ Eastern Regional correspondent, Appiah Kubi, “most of the buildings in the village had their roofs ripped off by the rainstorm which also contributed to several loss of properties in the area.”

He said the incident happened on Saturday evening.

He noted that the inhabitants are pleading with government and philanthropists to come to their aid to provide them with shelter.

Meanwhile, a similar incident, which happened in Tolon in the Northern Region some months ago, ripped off the roofs of some classrooms in the area.

One of the affected schools was the Woribogu Ahmadiya Primary School where teaching and learning materials got soaked by the continuous rains.

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[contextly_sidebar id=”j6QJNTsNADT7UGqoxUIXQ4UAj9GbTolX”]He said it is not true that the relationship between him and his deputy, Mr Joseph Yarmin, the Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Mr Kojo Bonsu and the Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Yaw Owusu Obimpeh, had soured.

This was contained in a press statement signed by his Public Relations Officer, Clement C. Kegeri.

It is a reaction to public pronouncement by a group calling itself “Coalition of NDC Foot Soldiers” which sought to create the impression that there is bad blood between Mr Sarpong and the trio.

The group, led by one Ben Abdalla, lashed out at the three officials in a Kumasi-based radio station.

Mr Sarpong, however, disassociated himself from their vile attacks and stated categorically that he had no links with the group.

He said he did not know of the existence of the group and disapproved of its activities, especially, when there was every indication that it could create cracks in the party.

The Regional Minister demanded that Abdalla and his group render unqualified apology to the officials.

Also, he urged the Regional Executive of the NDC to set up a Disciplinary Committee to deal with aberrant party members out there who were creating confusion.

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