Hon. Dorcas Affo – Toffey launches a scholarship scheme to support brilliant and needy JHS students within her municipal

The ceremony occurred yesterday 10th April, 2022 at the Municipal capital Half-Assini.

The occasion was graced by chiefs and queen mothers, other key dignitaries of Nzema including Hon. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah – MP for Ellembele District and many other great personalities

The SHS is free although but expenses in it is high so after this support from Hon. Dorcas Affo TOFFEY, the parents ware happy and people of Jomoro appreciate that effort.

This Jomoro MP target is to support and improve education in her municipal. This is not the first time she has given this to students, She is building schools, giving out school dest.

This will never be the first and last, it will be regular and it will happen every year, she stated.

Hon. Dorcas Affo TOFFEY, people of Jomoro appreciate what you have done.

OKBE FOUNDATION also is thankful to you. God bless you.

One of the aim of this foundation is to help and motivate people who are doing good work.

There is a say that “we push the one who is climbing the good tree”. OKBE FOUNDATION on Wednesday 3th November 2021 donated Mathematical set with pen to MBEM M/A JHS, form 3 students.

We gave this tools to them in the form of motivation since they are the first batch to write the BECE said the CEO of the foundation (Oscar Kayah Boah Emmanuel). The CEO him self started his education carrier at Mbem D/C primary and understand the difficulties in school and learning as well.

I am not saying your parents can’t provide you this Mathematical set but the foundation want show you people how much they love you and how they will be very happy if you come out of good results, he added.

He added that you have at least less than two weeks to start your exams so tell everyone closer to you to give you time and make provision for your self and come out with accepted results since the chief and his elders also doing everything possible to support you.

Oscar Kayah Boah Emmanuel also stated that the foundation is giving to you this Mathematical set to let you know that the community and some companies are taking a look to what you people are doing.

We also have provision for our lovely teachers and they will be awarded at it time he added.

The students representative, Samuel Benekoni also assured the CEO of the foundation and the PTA that they will work hard to raise the good flag of the school. Samuel continued his talk that they know how much the community love them even in inter-schools sports competition.

The PTA chairman Mr. Danquah Kakari gave thanks to the foundation and also assured the foundation that they will do their good work to support the candidate to come out with good and better results.

The headmaster Mr. Twum Boateng finalized everything by saying ‘GIVERS ALWAYS RECEIVE BLESSING THAN RECEIVERS’ so God richly bless you Mr. Oscar Kayah Boah Emmanuel (New Day FM sports presenter)

Source: Global News GH.

Student’s over 450 enrolling at Anglican primary school at Tikobo No-2, in the Jomoro municipal have passionately appealed to the Government to consider adding them to the Ghana School Feeding beneficiary schools.

The students who spoke to New Day FM Journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari on Thursday August 5, lamented that most parent in the community doesn’t fund some of them to feed due to economic hardship in the community and it affects both enrollment and academic performance in the school.

“We are calling on the government to include our school onto the school feeding programme because some of our parents can’t provide money for schooling so some of us study on empty stomachs.”

They are also calling on the government to provide a befitting Kindergarten block and furniture for the School.

The Chief of Ehoaka Community Nana Baze Kpanyinli (II) who is also a teacher at the Anglican primary school bemoaned that, pupils keep leaving their schools to join others that are benefiting from the Ghana School Feeding Programme just to have free meals.

According to the chief, the little children normally depends on him for financial support for daily feeding which is gradually milking his purse.

He demanded from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, government appointees, the Jomoro Municipal Assembly and the Jomoro MP that their schools be included in the feeding programme or they will collapse.

The Assembly member for Tikobo No-2 electoral area, hon Augustine Marshall added that most of the pupils were from extremely poor homes and as a result had to come to school on empty stomachs.

According to him, they have made several petitions to the Jomoro municipal Chief Executive, hon Enerst Kofie and the Social Service Sub-committee at the Jomoro municipal assembly but they only receive assurances.

He commended one Mr Kenneth Afful, a resident at Tikobo No-2 who annually donate food items for the students as their only source of school feeding programme in the school.

Some volunteer caterers revealed during the school “OUR DAY” celebration sponsored by a resident, Mr Kenneth Afful that, the situation has affected the school because the Anglican primary school is non-beneficiary of the school feeding programme.

“most parents don’t give their wards any money for feeding and they don’t also cook for the children before they come to school. So therefore, when those hungry children see that in the other nearby schools they are enjoying free school feeding meals they quickly decide to join those schools” they told Kaakyire Kwasi Afari.

The students, according to the school caterers, only enjoy free meal ones in a blue moon.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari New Day FM and Global News GH (staff)

Hon. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, the Member of Parliament for Ellembelle Constituency in the Western Region, has donated Three Hundred (300) bags of cement to three communities in Anyinase North in Ellembelle district.

The charity according to the MP, will assist to renovate 3 Basic Schools namely; Wereko D/A primary school, Santasu D/A primary school and Amanokrom D/A primary school in the Anyinase North all in Ellembelle district.

The phase 1 of the donation on Friday, July 30, gave 100 bags of cement each to the three communities.

He further told New Day FM Journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari that he is committed to connect some farming communities that are not benefiting from electricity in the area onto the National Grid as part of measures to ensure security during the night and improve standard of living.

The NDC MP charged the communities to ensure effective use of the cement to complete the renovation on time and assured to reward with furniture to the first runner-up in the mini competition.

Pupils at Santasu D/A primary school are studying under poor conditions and are in dire need of good infrastructure including ICT lab for studies.

And what makes the situation frightening, is the fact that pupils at the lower primaries (from primary One-Six,) share a death-trap wretched and caked-mud classroom which building is almost on the verge of collapsing with part of it roofing hanging.

Mr Joseph Nyansu, the Headmaster of Santasu D/A primary school, speaking at the mini durbar for the donations lamented that all the classrooms with a total of 450 pupils, some of the walls have fallen, and there is no floor, all the classrooms are dusty and open.

The children often sit on the bare floor during lessons, whilst 4 pupils share a table and shaking desks.

The Odikro of Wereko community, Odikro Wereko expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Hon Emmanuel Armah Buah and prayed for God’s guidance and blessings for him in order to continue with the good works to better the lot of the people in the area.

According to the caretaker Chief, the track records of achievements by the Ellembelle MP qualifies him as the right person to serve as a running mate for the NDC party to secure victory for the party in 2024.

He describes the MP as “Second Kwame Nkrumah” due to his unprecedented transformation of change the MP has brought to Ellembelle district.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, New Day FM, Global News GH (staff)

The deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Mrs. Mavis Nkansah Boadu, on Thursday, 22, said she was satisfied with the progress of work being done by contractors on the number of town roads in Ellembelle district in the Western Region.

Her revelation came after completing a successful tour to the district to inspect the ongoing road projects.

She said, despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 encountered during the start of the project it was going on smoothly and expressed the optimism that all roads awarded to contract in the area would be completed as scheduled.

The road projects which is awarded to five contractors last year includes; upgrading to Bitumen a 35km Edwakpole, Akpandue AB Bokazo town roads, Princess Town roads, Teleku Bokazo to Nkruful town roads and Awiabo Town roads all in Ellembelle district.

The deputy Minister of Roads and Highways who doubles as a member of parliament for Afigya Sekyere East has disclosed that 120 kilometres out of 269 kilometres of roads are to be completed at the end of September 2022.

Mrs. Nkansah Boadu told New Day FM journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari that the work was in line with the vision of “the year of roads” agenda of the Government to develop and promote road infrastructure across the country.

The deputy Minister assured the people of Ellembelle of the government’s commitment to ensure that the ongoing road projects and those about to start were completed on schedule to promote commercial activities in the area.

The Ellembelle District Chief Executive, hon Kwasi Bonzoh again led the team to Ayinase to Menzezor road which caved in some weeks ago as a result of a downpour for the deputy road minister to obtain her first-hand information on the Ayinase to Menzezor road.

Mrs. Nkansah Boadu, the deputy road minister after accessing the havoc recommended a-40-meter concrete bridge and reconstruction of the caved potion over the Kpulake Kuma river on the Ayinase to Menzezor road in the Ellembelle District.

According to her, in the interim, a bailey bridge could be constructed by Memphis construction company Limited over the river within a possible timeline to aid human and vehicular movement.

The District Chief Executive of Ellembelle, Mr Kwesi Bonzoh, commended the ministry and the government for the swift action to provide a remedy to the situation before the permanent solution.

The DCE thanked the minister of Roads and Highways, hon Akwasi Amoako Atta and the President for the unprecedented road infrastructure projects in his district.

The Ellembelle District Assembly, he said, would provide the needed support and cooperate with the contractor to ensure that the temporary and permanent solutions were successful.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, New Day FM and Global News GH

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The deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Mrs. Mavis Nkansah Boadu, on Thursday, 22, said she was satisfied with the progress of work being done by contractors on the number of town roads in Ellembelle district in the Western Region.

Her revelation came after completing a successful tour to the district to inspect the ongoing road projects.

She said, despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 encountered during the start of the project it was going on smoothly and expressed the optimism that all roads awarded to contract in the area would be completed as scheduled.

The road projects which is awarded to five contractors last year includes; upgrading to Bitumen a 35km Edwakpole, Akpandue AB Bokazo town roads, Princess Town roads, Teleku Bokazo to Nkruful town roads and Awiabo Town roads all in Ellembelle district.

The deputy Minister of Roads and Highways who doubles as a member of parliament for Afigya Sekyere East has disclosed that 120 kilometres out of 269 kilometres of roads are to be completed at the end of September 2022.

Mrs. Nkansah Boadu told New Day FM journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari that the work was in line with the vision of “the year of roads” agenda of the Government to develop and promote road infrastructure across the country.

The deputy Minister assured the people of Ellembelle of the government’s commitment to ensure that the ongoing road projects and those about to start were completed on schedule to promote commercial activities in the area.

The Ellembelle District Chief Executive, hon Kwasi Bonzoh again led the team to Ayinase to Menzezor road which caved in some weeks ago as a result of a downpour for the deputy road minister to obtain her first-hand information on the Ayinase to Menzezor road.

Mrs. Nkansah Boadu, the deputy road minister after accessing the havoc recommended a-40-meter concrete bridge and reconstruction of the caved potion over the Kpulake Kuma river on the Ayinase to Menzezor road in the Ellembelle District.

According to her, in the interim, a bailey bridge could be constructed by Memphis construction company Limited over the river within a possible timeline to aid human and vehicular movement.

The District Chief Executive of Ellembelle, Mr Kwesi Bonzoh, commended the ministry and the government for the swift action to provide a remedy to the situation before the permanent solution.

The DCE thanked the minister of Roads and Highways, hon Akwasi Amoako Atta and the President for the unprecedented road infrastructure projects in his district.

The Ellembelle District Assembly, he said, would provide the needed support and cooperate with the contractor to ensure that the temporary and permanent solutions were successful.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, New Day FM and Global News GH (Staff)

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The member of parliament for Wassa Amenfi East constituency, hon. Nicholas Amankwah a.k.a Home Boy has urged Muslims in his constituency to remember Amenfi East in prayers as they finally climax the annual, month-long Ramadan fast.

Hon. Nicholas Amankwah during his presentation to the Muslims community in Amenfi East, he urged Muslims to use the blessings received from the Eid-ul-Adha to pray for the prosperity of Amenfi East and Ghana at large.

He made this remarks on Thursday, July, 22, when he presented 5 Cows to be killed and distributed to Muslims and non-Muslims in the municipal capital, Wassa Akropong and other communities in the area.

According to the MP, the donation was his modest contribution to support the Eid-ul-Adha celebration in Amenfi East by the Muslims to demonstrate love, fellow feeling and sacrifice for the work of Allah.

The MP urged Muslims to emulate and sacrifice what they have, not only to the glory of Allah, but to support Allah’s work at all levels.

The lawmaker also called for peace, tranquility, which he described as a tool for nation building, and urged all to ensure a violence free future that the people in Amenfi East would be proud of.

He said there was the need for Muslims to be steadfast, fear Allah and obey His commandments and love one and another.

Home Boy in his handing over address to the Muslim leaders, he revealed to New Day FM News that programs to improve Zongo Communities in Wassa Amenfi East in the Offing.

The member of parliament announced that he would soon start projects to improve on the lives of the people including those living in Zongo communities.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, New Day FM and Global News GH (Staff)

The member of Parliament for Jomoro constituency in the Western Region, hon Dorcas Afo-Toffey has launched Women Assistant interest free loan scheme to enable traders to expand their businesses.

The initiative according to madam Afo-Toffey were honoured as one of her major 2020 electioneering campaign promises she made to the women in the Jomoro constituency should they vote for her as a member of parliament.

She stated that, the loan scheme will go a along way to provide financial support to the traders in the era of Covid-19 pandemic.

Honourable Dorcas Afo-Toffey speaking to New Day FM journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, she said, the women assistant Fund is a collaborative initiative with Jomoro Rural Bank to give away interest free loans for 200 women in every month from the Constituency to expand their commercial business.

The Jomoro MP is confident that women empowerment is a gateway to eradicate economy hardships in our society if more women entrepreneurs are given the maximum push and support in their endeavours.

The Lawmaker who is an entrepreneur added that, women’s economic empowerment is one of the world’s most promising areas of investment with almost instant results, that’s, the reduction and eventual eradication of poverty and widespread unemployment which she seeks to embark.

When asked about her role she would play in regards to the loan scheme initiative, the NDC MP said, she will serve as a third party responsible for the payment of the interest on the loan for the women.

“What we are doing is that we have partnered Jomoro Rural Bank and I will pay the interest with part of my monthly salary as a member of parliament. So all the women in this constituency who will get the loan will pay exactly what they requested within six months” she stressed.

Officially, at Bonyere school park on July 18, the member of parliament handed cheques to some selected zonal coordinators for disbursement to two hundred market women to kick start the initiative.

The MP denied assertion the scheme was only opened to members of the National Democratic Congress, insisting it is open for women in general in the constituency.

She started by revealing that she will continue to give these loans to the women in her constituency till every woman gets funds to start or continue her business.

Hon. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, the member of parliament for Ellembelle, Hon. Samuel Akudzato Ablakwa, North Tongu MP, Hon. Kofi Arko Nokoe, Western Regional NDC representatives, Nzema Queen Mothers Association, assembly members were all present at the launching.

Obaahema Awube, on behalf of the Nzema Queen Mothers Association hailed the MP for the financial support for the traders in Jomoro municipal.

She also advised beneficiaries to use the money to work and faithfully pay back in the deadline provided to be used to support others.

The Queen mothers was optimistic that the loan facility will not only empower women in trade, but, also, described it as a timely intervention that will sustain their business to stand the COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, New Day FM and Global News GH (Staff)

The Shaip Africa Foundation led by its founder, Mr Clement Clinton Blay who is also the Patron of National Association of Nzema students has averted what could have been a sanitation crisis in the Uthman Bin Affan Senior High school with the building of a modern 4-seater water closet toilet facility.

The founder of Shaip Africa Foundation mentioned that the outcry born from the students and the school authorities during his last month presentation of bags of cements over the insanitary and dehumanizing conditions at the school’s place of convenience for female students motivated his NGO, the construction of the toilet facility completed in record time.

Work on the toilet facility resumed last month June. The contractors constructed the toilet facility, which included plumbing, tiling, roofing, painting and surface dressing to fully make the toilet operational.

Mr Clement Clinton Blay, who handed the facility to the school on Friday, July 16, said his foundation is committed to mobilizing resources to improve the conditions at the school.

The facility according to Mr Clement Clinton Blay, is a kind gesture to promote a clean environment and sanitation in the school to help academic works and improve personal hygiene.

He, therefore, urged the students to use the facility in good use and keep it clean.

The Headmaster of Uthman Bin Affan Senior high school located at Kamgbunli in Ellembelle district of the Western Region, Alhaji Usmanu Zakaria who received the donation on behalf of the school, described it as a timely intervention and said it will help the girls in their good health.

The Headmaster told New Day FM journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, that the girls visit the only old 4 seater toilet facility in turns because of unavailability of spaces in the morning affecting smooth academic works and proper health conditions.

He was hopeful that the project will go a long way to improving the educational lives of the students.

The Headmaster thanked Shaip Africa Foundation, the National Association of Nzema students and all individuals who contributed to making the project a success and called on more philanthropist and stakeholders to contribute towards the school infrastructure.

The girls prefect of the school, Mariam Issah on her part thanked the NGO for the edifice but, she however, said, sadly the school had no staff common room, no library, inadequate drugs for patients, lack of dining hall, inadequate infrastructure, and an old bus making transportation to new environment very unpleasant.

She told journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari in a sideline interview that, the school is also in dire need of a girls’ dormitory, a befitting science laboratory, a duty post, and more classroom blocks to accommodate the new intake of students.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, New Day FM and Global News GH (Staff)

Community Mining at Kwabre in the Jomoro Municipal of the Western Region, which was commissioned on Monday, 5th July to ensure responsible and sustainable small-scale mining has come under serious scrutiny as youth threatens to block it operations.

The youth group calling itself the Nzema Youth Association and Galamsey Action Group are on the ‘neck’ of the government to halt the operationalization of Kwabre Community Mining to allow proper plans or justification.

According to the youth, any mining at the area would pose a major threat of both health and flooding to all the central parts of Jomoro due to the critical watershed area.

“Many people in Nzema are worried, and rightful so, especially given the devastation that mining in Ghana (community or illegal alike) is disastrous as many as of our water bodies have been wreaked with the Miasma of cyanide and mercury thus causing serious birth defects in some Communities in Ghana”

Speaking at a presser at Awiaso on Wednesday, the Secretary to the group, Robert Morkeh added that, they cannot sit aloof to look those who would drink from the river to die from both chemical and other hazardous substances into water-bodies.

Mr. Robert Morkeh said they can never hate mining; but they need properly and regularized mining to ensure that water-bodies and environment are devoid of reckless activities.

The Nzema Youth Association says the community mining project is another backdoor approach by some “greedy politicians” to amass wealth without preserving the environment.

The youth clad in red bands also held placards with inscriptions “Wakeup Nzema youth”, Nzema Land not for sale,” “don’t destroy the environment”, say no to Community Galamsey”, “stop Galamsey in Nzema”, “shame crazy and hungry politicians”, “go away!! bastard political gold looters” among others.

They are also of the believe that the said Kwabre Community Mining is purely illegal mining in a disguise, therefore, they are calling on President Nana Akufo Addo, hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor, minister of Lands and Natural Resources, the caretaker municipal Chief executive of Jomoro, hon Ernest Kwofie to halt any plans with immediate effect.

He said, the government should rather focus their attention on genuinely solving the significant environment problem that’s been caused by the disastrous management mining in both Ellembelle district and Jomoro municipal.

The Vice president for Galamsey Action Group, Mr Michael Adebbah in a sideline interview with New Day FM News, on his part is asking the government how much compensation made available for the affected land owners whose lands are marked for the community mining project.

Moreover, the youth group also want to know, the real company or managers of the community mining and the available employment avenue allocated for the youth of Nzema.

Mr Michael Adebbah again lamented that many young people are transported from other regions and municipalities to Nzema-land to hold some key employment positions through protocol, adding that, poverty is unleashing on many Nzema youth due to huge number of unemployment.

According to the youth’s vice president, natives on Nzema-land whose lands are blessed with quantum of oil and gas are denied direct benefict from the resources, but sadly suffering from searing heat emanating from the processing of gas from the Ghana Gas culminating in skin rashes and other diseases.

They have therefore threatened to organise a demonstration to block all access route leading to the community mining site and prevent movement of government machinery that transport Gas and other resources from the Nzema-land if the government fails to heed to their grievances.

Source: Kaakyire Kwasi Afari New Day and Global News GH (Staff)