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Explainer: These Are The Reasons Why Mr. Armstrong Should Be Elected As GNAT Chairman For B/A

Ghana National Association Of Teachers (GNAT) has been known for it great achievements they have made through Teachers in the country and how they have used some hard working teachers to build the association for some years now.

GNAT is about to elect a lot of leaders to fill up position in the association across the country and one of the most hard working Head teacher who is campaigning to become the chairman of the association in the three Bono Region is Head teacher, Mr Asante Thomas Armstrong.

Mr. Thomas Armstrong has been known for his hard work all over the years to assist Ghana education service in the country especially where he teaches. Mr Thomas Armstrong is a Head teacher at Wamanafo SHTS in Dormaa District and have successfully help fellow teachers and Ghana education service to achieve the following.

His Work Done So Far.

Armstrong Asante Thomas has influenced distance education for non professional members and taught them RME in Betco, Hwidiem, Techiman and Nkoranza.

Through his efforts, most members have been made heads of basic schools in the country.

He has helped in furnishing of two offices with modern gadgets in Dormaa East(Wamfie) and West(Nkrankwanta).

He has also helped in renovation of Dormaa main office to a modern standard to give comfort to teachers.

Through his leadership, he has helped in purchasing of lands for teachers as building plots in Dormaa Ahenkro in collaboration with Teachers Credit Union.

He built foundation for secretariat with floor cast before district projects were suspended by headquarters.

Through his efforts, there is provision of T&T for IPPD coordinators in all 3 districts to send inputs of teachers to headquarters.

He provided 2,500 nose masks for all members in the district when covid-19 pandemic hits Ghana and the entire world.

However, he was tasked by the his Director to establish Dormaa Education Welfare and he executed it perfectly. Members are now enjoying benefits.

Armstrong Asante Thomas’s Achievement At School Level.

He has helped in collaboration with his brother(Chief) has established Adehyeman SHS and there is tremendous academic and infrastructural development.

He established an assembly hall for Wamanafo SHTS through IGF of the school.

He lobbied for a 12unit classroom(single storey)building is ongoing.

Through his effort, there is an 8unit dormitory with 2masters bungalows(single storey) under construction.

There is new school bus under his leadership.

Helped to build 2 pavilions for staff members who used to sit under trees.

Helped in purchase of 4 mowers to help weed school compound to enable students to have ample time to learn.

According to sources all these achievement by Armstrong Asante have been done within two years of his leadership in Wamanafo SHTS.

Mr. ARMSTRONG is number one on the ballot papper and he always says that “#THE MAN WITH A MESSAGE IS ARMSTRONG”.

His new agenda for GNAT association if voted into office is below in a picture form.

Story by: Ahiatroga Seyram

NSS Is Twelve Months Not Six Months-Gifty Oware

The Deputy Executive Director for National Service Scheme (NSS), Gifty Oware-Aboagye says the Scheme is twelve months not six months.

Speaking to Nana Kwabena Wiafe Akenten[Mr. Bones], on Ewiase Day Break on Ewiase 95.7 FM, Gifty Oware-Aboagye said the secretariat has notice that some personal spend only six months instead of the twelve months schedule for the service.

“The service is twelve months and not six months therefore any personal who does not complete his/her service fully will not get his/her national service certificate,” she cuationed.

Gifty Oware intimated that personals who does not like their posted areas should manage and work there because that particular area is also part of Ghana and therefore has no reason to complain.

Story by: Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko [Ewiase FM-Wenchi]

FIX THE COUNTRY POSSIBILITY OF DEGENERATING INTO STATE OF ANARCHY-MAJOR WRITES

According to Bob Marley “You can fool some people sometimes but you can’t fool all the people all the time”.

When custodians of state resources decide to use them for personal gain at the detriment of the larger populace; insurgency, civil revolution, demonstrations, civil disobedience, riots, protest, strikes etc., becomes the order of the day.

Ghana, a country endowed with abundance of almost all the natural resources God has given to mankind, with a population of just thirty (30) million and yet its citizens mostly the youth continue to live in tatters and abject poverty as a result of failure on the part of leadership of successive governments.

If Dr. Kwame Nkrumah were to be alive today, I would have asked if he still stand by his words that “the black man is capable of managing his own affairs”.

To borrow the words in the book of revelation, I looked and I saw the possibility of the emergence of a strong wave in the shape of the Arab Spring occurring in the West of Africa with starting point in Ghana.

I do not seek to insight the youth against authorities of state neither do I have any predetermined agenda against any government. But truth must be told, the increasing population of the youth of this country without employment is so devastating that it will take only civil revolution and continual demonstration for the voices of the youth to be heard. Otto Von Bismarck once said, “The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decision but by iron and blood” During electioneering campaigns, we are being promised honey and milk but in return what we see is political corruption, human rights violation, energy crisis, sanitation issues, poverty, inflation, kleptocracy and the commercialization of politics across the length and breadth of the country.

Many of these factors and the others triggered the spontaneous reaction within the Arab world in the early 2010s and so must serve as a word of caution to the government of the day.

Call for details BENJAMIN SARBENG [MAJOR] 0245119755

Story by Adom-nana Piesie Yaw PREKO [Ewiase FM]

If We Want Competent MMDCEs, Then We Have to Vote-Major Quizzes.

A Political Activist and social commentator, Mr. Benjamin Sarbeng widely known as Major, says the time is right for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) considering the high number of persons applying for those positions.

He made this statement in an interview with Wenchi based Ewiase FM which was monitored by Klassic News.

According to him, conducting an election is the surest way of getting competent individuals to serve in those roles.

He noted that while the election of MMDCEs is important, he does not agree with plans to make the election partisan.

“I totally support the idea for the election of MMDCEs. I believe that we should open up for qualified Ghanaians irrespective of political affiliation. If we want to get competent people to be able to man the MMDAs, we should open up so that people apply, and when they apply the right person is selected” he said.

In 2019, a national referendum was scheduled to take place to amend Article 55 (3) of the Constitution, which currently bars political parties from participating in district-level elections.

The referendum was eventually canceled because there was no bipartisan consensus.

No significant commitment has since been made to ensure the election of MMDCEs, even though it was a major campaign promise of the New Patriotic Party prior to the 2016 election.

MMDCEs are currently appointed by the President, however, amending Article 243 (1) of the 1992 Constitution would enable the public to vote for these local government officials.

In his interview with Ewiase FM, he added that he does not see anything wrong with loosing MPs vying for the MMDCEs position.

Story: Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko [Ewiase FM]

Wenchi MP Unified Wenchi Township With Football Competition (Photos)

The member of parliament for wenchi constituency in the Bono Region, Hon Seidu Haruna has unified wenchi township with football (gala) competition after Eid Ul-Fitr Celebration with Muslim brothers and Christians in the community on Friday, 14th May to Sunday 16th May 2021.

The New member of parliament for Wenchi constituency has stated that he is focused to bring Wenchi together.

Hon Seidu Haruna speaking to the media said that he wants to save the youths in Wenchi Municipality from bad activities that they usually involved themselves into after 30 days of fasting and prayers which he thought it’s not good.

According to him, Muslim youths after ending the Ramadan fasting and prayers in Wenchi Municipality, most of them usually visits places where jams are played for the first 3 days and dance in ungodly ways and involved themselves into bad activities which is not good, and mallams are against it and he had decided that, he will use football activities to save them from such act this year.

Hon Seidu Haruna added that the football competition has attracted 22 to 24 football teams coming from Wenchi constituency mixing with christians and Muslims together. He hope that it will continue next year by extending hand to other Municipal assemblies to join them with their various football teams in the football competition.

“I was born and raised in Wenchi and I know how some youth after 30 days of Ramadan fast goes around involving themselves into bad activities for the first 3 days, dancing at jam centers in ungodly ways and as far as our mallams don’t support what the youth usually does, I have decided to save them by using this football competition to unified them and the entire Wenchi constituency” he said.

It will not end here. Next year it will involved a lot of football teams from Kumasi, Sunyani and other places where people used to come from and have fun in Wenchi after the fasting and prayers ends.

“I pray this build a strong unity among Wenchi people and I will make sure the youth turned away from their bad activities after this three days football competition and I am happy with the responses from Wenchi people towards the competition”, he said.

A lot of prominent people and former football players for Kumasi Asante Kotoko SC from Kumasi visited the play ground to see how the youth and the entire Wenchi Township is reacting to the football competition.

Notable football players like Eric Bekoe and Ussif Alhassan Chipsah were spotted at the venue having fun with the Youths.

The New member of parliament who beats Hon. George Gyan Baffour with closed to 2000 votes in the last election was very happy to organized the football competition to unified wenchi township.

Story by Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko of Ewiase FM.

Alhaji Seidu Haruna, Yusif Alhassan Chipsa and Eric Bekoe

Wenchi Deputy Communications Officer commends 2020 WASSCE Students

In March 2021, Ghana swept all the top three International Excellence awards instituted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) which seeks to honour candidates with outstanding performance in WASSCE.

The trio, Cecil Tetteh Kumah, Godfred Aseda Obeng and Afua Manukure Ansah took first, second and third position respectively and were awarded at the 69th annual council meeting of the organisation in Accra.

Out of the 465 candidates who had aggregate ‘A’ in eight subjects in the examination, 411 of them were Ghanaians. Also, the three Overall Excellent Awards were taken by Ghanaian students which leads to the commendations from both the President and his Vice.

Reacting to this in an interview with Adom-nana Piesie Yaw of Ewiase FM, the Deputy Communications Officer for the biggest opposition party NDC in the Wenchi Constituency in the Bono Region, Mr. Abdul Mumin Carlos who is a teacher commends his fellow teachers and the students for such performance.

He sited the Monday, August 3, 2020 incident at Tweneboa Kodua SHS when students vandalized school properties to register their displeasure for the “strict” nature of invigilators during their exams. Similar cases were recorded in some schools where students bitterly complained about the sitting arrangements which they say hindered them from cheating and some students insulting the President as some of the incidents which makes him doubt the credibility of the results.

“I am very happy for the performance of the students as Ghanaian but I don’t want to believe that the performance is as a result of examinations malpractices as it speculated when the students were writing the exams”, he said.

Story by: Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko [Ewiase FM]

Wenchi MP calls for motivation of Teachers.

The Wenchi Chapter of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) holds their 6th Quadrennial Delegates Conference in the Wenchi Municipality to elect new executives.

Speaking at a forum at the 6th quadrennial delegates conference of Ghana National Association of Teachers [GNAT] in the Wenchi Municipality, the Member of Parliament for Wenchi Municipality, Hon. Seidu Haruna said the era when teachers were motivated by words is a thing of the past, adding that teachers have to be considered the brain behind the development of a nation.

Speaking on the theme; “Teachers contribution towards nation building,” Hon. Seidu Haruna said all the necessary things needed by teachers to ensure smooth teaching and learning process must be provided to Teachers to achieve their goals for the betterment of the nation.

To ensure smooth running of the activities of the Ghana National Association of Teachers in the Wenchi Municipality, Hon. Seidu Haruna donated an amount of Five Hundred Cedis [Gh¢500] to the association.

THE NEWLY ELECTED DISTRICT EXECUTIVES

1- CHAIRMAN = HENRY OPOKU NYAMEKYE

2-VICE CHAIRMAN=OPOKU FRANCIS

3-TREASURER= GEORGE MICHAEL NUTSUGAH

4-TRUSTEE=SALIA A. ISSAH

5-YOUTH COORD=ABDULA ABDUL-MUMIN(CARLOS)

6-GNATLAS COORD.= GIFTY TWUMWAA

7-BASIC SCH. REP= TANGBA KUNYEB

8-2ND CYCLE REP. BERNICE SALIFU B.

EDUC. OFFICE REP.- MARTIN GYAN.

Story by: Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko [Ewiase FM’s Wenchi]

Wenchi Muslims Receives Generous Donation from Alhaji Seidu Haruna.

Hon. Seidu Haruna, the Member of Parliament for Wenchi Constituency, has presented assorted items to the Muslim community as they observe the holy month of Ramadan.

The MP donated items, including bags of rice, packs of tin milk, milo, sacks of sugar and boxes of tea leaves, for distribution to all Muslims in the constituency.

Hon. Seidu Haruna said the donation would help the adherents of Islam in the Holy month as they seek the intervention, mercy and goodness of Allah.

He commended the Chief Imam and the Muslim community for their support and prayers.

“I wish all Muslims Ramadan Mubarak, and asked for Allah’s blessings to all his constituents, especially the Muslim Ummah,” he said.

Sheikh Alhaji Issah Ibrahim, the Municipal Chief Imam, received the items and expressed gratitude to the MP on behalf of the Islamic community for his kind gesture and unending benevolence.

Story by: Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko