Rosemond Obeng has received government appointment

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Rosemond Obeng, a former assistant to ex-NPP flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as a Senior Presidential Staffer, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed.

Rosemond Obeng, popularly known as “People’s Mother” resigned from the NPP to join NDC few days to the December 2024 Election and has now been rewarded with an appointment.

Tagged a “betrayer” by the NPP, Rosemond Obeng who is a former National NPP TESCON coordinator joined the likes of Alhaji Inusah Issaka, Kakra Essamuah, Frances Essiam etc., among other high-profile figures to have switched allegiance between the two major parties in Ghana from 1992.

The now NDC Senior Presidential staffer in charge of Government Communications works in the office of Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the minister responsible for Government Communications in the Jubilee House.

Few days to the December 2024 election, Rosemond Obeng who was reportedly close to the then NPP Flagbearer launched a media campaign badmouthing her former boss after her defection to the then opposition.

Appearing on GHOne’s “State of Affairs” program in late 2024, Rosemond Obeng stated that based on her experience working with the then NPP flagbearer, he lacks the courage and leadership qualities to steer Ghana’s affairs.

“We require crucial leadership, and I am aware that my father and former boss are unable to provide it. We get bad results, output, and performance from bad leadership,” she said.

In 2022, Rosemond posted on social media how her now former Boss Dr Bawumia helped her to pursue further studies and expressed appreciation to him.

Edem Agbana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Ketu North, has declared that the NDC will go into the Ablekuma North election rerun without fear or favour.

According to Edem Agbana, the NDC will go to every lengths to ensure that Ewurabena Aubynn, their candidate, is declared the winner of the Ablekuma North election.

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Kennedy Osei Nyarko is the Akim Swedru Member of Parliament

Akim Swedru Member of Parliament, Kennedy Osei Nyarko has condemned the government’s decision to build 600 CHPS compounds across the country by the close of 2025.

He argues that there are hospitals that are being built across the country, and therefore, resources should be invested in them rather than building CHPS compounds.

Making his position on the matter known in a Facebook post, he said even if the current government does not support the Agenda 111 Hospitals, Ghanaians back it and therefore the government needs to ensure they are completed.

To him, it is about time the country criminalizes the decision of successive governments to abandon ongoing projects and start new ones just for political reasons.

His post read “I think we are a sick nation. We have over hundred district hospitals currently ongoing with some at even 70% completion and instead for us to complete them to serve as a primary health care facilities that can handle all major medical conditions at the district level we are rather interested in building 600 new CHP compounds at villages.”

He added, “Where will the CHP facilities refer all the major cases to at the district level? We should not allow politics to destroy this country. Ghana is the only country we have. The NDC Government may not be interested in the previous administration’s Agenda 111 hospital projects but the good people living within these (111) districts needs them. They can’t continue traveling to other districts or cities to seek for medical care.

“We must not allow politicians to do this to the country. We must criminalize the decision whereby successive Governments abandons ongoing projects and start new ones just for political reasons”.

Background

Minister in charge of Government Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, announced an ambitious healthcare infrastructure project aimed at boosting access to basic health services across Ghana.

Speaking during an interview with the media, Kwakye Ofosu disclosed that the government plans to construct over 2,000 Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds within the next four years.

According to him, the initiative has already kicked off with a directive for each district to build two new CHPS compounds within the year, a move that is expected to result in nearly 600 new facilities by the end of 2025 or, at the very least, the commencement of work on them.

“Each district is required to construct two new CHPS compounds this year,” he said.

“So if you put that together, we are talking about almost close to 600 CHPS compounds that will be put up this year alone — or at least work on them will start this year.”

Kwakye Ofosu, who confirmed that his District Chief Executive (DCE) is fully on board with the initiative, emphasized that this strategy forms part of a broader effort to decentralize healthcare delivery and bring services closer to underserved communities.

“If we maintain the tempo, that should give us over 2,000 CHPS compounds in the next four years,” he stated.

“This is a significant step towards improving healthcare services for the people of Ghana.”

The CHPS strategy is designed to provide basic primary healthcare, maternal and child health services, and preventive care — especially in rural and peri-urban communities where access to hospitals is limited.

play videoKwame Nkrumah shared many broadcasts from his exile in Guinea

The first ever coup d’état Ghana experienced took place on February 24, 1966. And to make it even more historical, it was Ghana’s very first president, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah who was overthrown.

Dr Nkrumah was not in the country when this took place, as he was in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, executing an assignment on behalf of Ghana.

Kwame Nkrumah was on a peacemaking trip over the Vietnam War, leaving a 3-person presidential commission in charge of the country.

But that became his undoing when he was overthrown by Col EK Kotoka, Major AA Afrifa and the then Inspector-General of Police, JWK Harley, on the dawn of February 24, 1966, while Nkrumah was still on the peace mission in Asia.

To announce the coup, the plotters used the state radio, with the words; “Kwame Nkrumah is overthrown, and the myth surrounding him is broken.”

Unable to return to Ghana from Hanoi, Kwame Nkrumah found refuge in Guinea, from where he occasionally shared radio broadcasts with Ghanaians.

In one of those broadcasts, as is with the one captured in this article, Nkrumah lamented the attempts, through his overthrow by neo-colonialists, to take over all the gains he had led Ghana to chalk.

He made the broadcast via Guinea’s “Voice of the Revolution” radio station.

Read the full contents of his address below:

Fellow countrymen, my heart is heavy as I witness the damage which this clique of neo-colonialist conspirators are doing to our country at the bidding of their overseas neo-colonialist masters. They are dismantling the work of 15 years. They are telling you that Ghana is bankrupt. They are telling you that our country is in debt to the extent of some £240 million. What fools they are! How ignorant for them to think that you believe these stupid lies!

Open your eyes and look around you. See for yourself. See the splendid new Tema Harbour. See the mighty Volta Dam. See the fine roads which we have built under the leadership of the Convention People`s Party and its government. See the schools, the colleges and the universities. See the clinics, hospitals, health centers and the facilities which we have created. See the factories which are already springing up. These are no debts. These are not debts! They are investments in our future as an independent nation. These are the physical guarantees of the bright new future which I have promised you and which I have been working for.

Together, we can put our Ghana firmly and squarely on its own feet. Together, we can create the things we need for ourselves instead of going cup in hand for charity handouts from foreign powers whose only wish is to exploit us and make us vassals to their interests. I know these are hard and trying days for you. I have never tried to conceal from you that real independence, that is to say economic independence, does not come without hard struggle and sacrifice. Unlike the cheats and deceivers the liars and traitors who are now trying to lord it over you I have never promised you any easy road. I have respected your good sense, your capacity for work, your pride in yourselves and your sense of national dignity. Why do you think these traitors, these agents and lackeys of colonialism and of international intrigue to destroy the independence of Ghana chose this moment to perform their dastardly act? I will tell you.

Less than one month before they struck to destroy all our hard work, we had inaugurated the first electricity from the Volta Dam. Only three days before this treachery we had signed a new agreement to irrigate the mighty Accra Plains. At last we were on the threshold of a great new victory. We had in 1957 won our political independence after years of struggle. Now in 1966 we were at the threshold of winning our economic independence. The same people who tried to sabotage our winning of political independence nine years ago have now struck to sabotage our economic independence and are systematically dismantling our Socialist gains and achievement.

Before the traitors and the rebellious national ‘liberation’ council tried to usurp power during my absence from Ghana, Ghana was a haven to which the oppressed from all parts of Africa could come to carry on that struggle. It was a haven for Freedom Fighters for independence and against colonialism. The name of Ghana was revered all over the African continent as a staunch friend of the oppressed. African brothers from South Africa, from Rhodesia, from Mozambique and Angola, from the so-called Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands and other oppressed colonial areas were given hospitality amongst us. Do you think that this was something for which we needed to be ashamed? Not at all. On the contrary it was something of which we should be justly proud. Haven’t we proclaimed that independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa? Now hundreds of these brave freedom fighters who came to our country trusting us to look after them and help them in their struggle against colonial oppression and believing as we do that Africa and the struggle for freedom is indivisible. These brave men and women have been sent back, bag and baggage by this traitorous clique to the countries from which they had fled to seek refuge, inspiration and protection in Ghana.

Countrymen, a new phase of the African Revolution has been reached. This revolution must overcome and triumph over imperialism, racialism and neo-colonialism. It must finally usher in the total emancipation and the political unification of our continent. Africa must be free. Africa must be united.

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Parliament will begin extended sittings from Monday, July 7, 2025, as the House moves to complete pending legislative business ahead of its scheduled adjournment on Saturday, July 12, 2025.

The announcement was made by the Majority Leader, Mr Mahama Ayariga, when he presented the Business Statement for the seventh week on the floor of the House.

He explained that the additional sittings, including Mondays and Saturdays, will help speed up the processing of Legislative Instruments (LIs) that must mature before the end of the session.

Mr Ayariga, who also chairs the Business Committee, said the coming week will be packed with ministerial appearances. Fifty-five Ministers of State, along with the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama, are expected to respond to questions from Members of Parliament.

He added that new Bills may be introduced and, if considered urgent, could be passed through all the required stages in one sitting, as permitted under Standing Order 160.

He also noted that Papers could be laid and committee reports presented for consideration.

“Motions may be debated and their consequential resolutions, if any, taken during the week,” Mr Ayariga said. “In accordance with Standing Order 216(2), and subject to Standing Order 67, the Committee submits to the House the order in which business shall be taken.”

During discussions on the Business Statement, the Minority Leader, Mr Osahen Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, called on the Majority Leader to include a briefing from the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Jean Mensa, regarding the rerun of parliamentary elections in 19 polling stations within the Ablekuma North Constituency.

Parliament’s decision to extend its sitting days comes at a time of growing public interest in the passage of legislative instruments and increased scrutiny of electoral processes, particularly as the House nears the end of its current meeting.

Abdul-Nasser Alidu is the Head of Strategy for the 24-Hour Economy

The Head of Strategy for the 24-Hour Economy, Abdul-Nasser Alidu, has responded to claims by Kofi Bentil, Vice President of IMANI Africa, that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) may emerge victorious in the pending parliamentary election rerun at Ablekuma North.

According to Alidu, Bentil’s suggestion reflects the trust Ghanaians have imposed in the ruling NDC government.

He asserted that if the people prefer an NDC victory, their wishes should be respected.

“I hear Kofi say here that if they rerun the election today, NDC is going to win, which to me suggests that that is what the people want. If that’s what the people want, then why not give them what they want?” he said while speaking as a panelist on JoyNews Newsfile on July 5, 2025.

Alidu also rejected claims that the Electoral Commission is acting in favor of the NDC, which some have cited as the reason for the announced rerun.

He argued that if the commission were indeed seeking to curry favor with the government, it would have conducted the rerun in the 62 polling stations, not just 19.

According to him, the NDC has consistently maintained that the rerun should cover the 62 polling stations at Ablekuma North.

“My understanding is that the NDC’s position has always been that 62 polling stations need to be rerun, not 19. So, I find it difficult to jump to the conclusion that the EC is doing the NDC’s bidding because if the EC were to do NDC’s bidding, they’d be running 62 polling stations, not 19 polling stations,” he argued.

He added, “The EC’s position has been that they want to finish collation because three were outstanding, but at the end of the day, what we are hearing is that they managed to get pink sheets for 18 out of 37 that was outstanding, and they can’t get consensus on 19 and what they want to do is to rerun the 19.”

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Meanwhile, watch as Electoral Commission’s decision divides opinions among voters in Ablekuma North

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Legends say the chief from Kyebi could control bats

A remarkable legend from Kyebi in Ghana’s Eastern Region has endured for generations: a powerful chief who ruled not only his people, but the bats of the night.

Before his death, he is said to have maintained a spiritual bond with hundreds of bats; his personal guardians.

Among the Akan and other Ghanaian clans, totems play a deep role in culture and identity. Each clan, a foundational social group, is linked with an animal or plant believed to be a spiritual relative or ancestral protector.

Among the eight matrilineal Akan clans, like Asona (crow), Asakyiri (vulture), Aduana (dog), and Bretuo (leopard), Asenie (bats), totems are more than symbols.

They are sacred: members must never kill, eat, or harm their totem animal. These totems reinforce group identity, guide social rules such as marriage taboos (you cannot marry someone of the same totem), and even help conserve wildlife, since harming a totem bring spiritual and social consequences.

In this context, the chief, according to a video shared on Facebook, held an extraordinary spiritual link to bats.

Stories tell of him commanding these nocturnal creatures as if they were pets, protecting them from local hunters who saw them as bushmeat.

The bats reportedly respected him, gathering around him and obeying his call.

When the chief fell ill and was taken to Accra’s 37 Military Hospital, his followers did something rarely seen: the entire colony of bats relocated with him.

They settled in the mahogany and neem trees that stood guard outside the hospital. After his passing, legends say the bats refused to leave.

To this day, you can see them, winging across the hospital at dusk, only to return by dawn.

Every evening, just as dusk approaches, the bats take to the sky to search for food across Accra, but no matter how far they roam, they always return to the same trees at the 37 Military Hospital to rest.

Over the years, efforts were made to chase them away, some of the trees were cut down, hunters even fired shots to drive them off, but the bats would simply move to the nearby Afua Sunderland Park for a while, then come back home to the hospital grounds.

Decades later, they still guard the place where their chief drew his last breath, never missing their spiritual home, no matter how far they fly each night.

Watch the video below:

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Legal luminary, Tsatsu Tsikata, has once again reiterated that there is nothing to forgive former Ghana president, John Agyekum Kufuor, after he was jailed under very contentious circumstances.

Tsatsu Tsikata revealed that he had never had any bitterness or grievance against former President Kufuor.

According to him, John Agyekum Kufuor did atrocious things against him for whatever reason to get him to go to prison.

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