...to raise funds for malaria control
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Posted:Tuesday, July 22, 2008
41year old Richard Mosiah Ababba Allen has opted to walk from Ghana to Ethiopia to raise funds to save the lives of Africa’s children.
The walk which covers a distance of 5,400 kilometres begins in August.
It is intended to raise funds to provide affordable homes, orphanages, malaria and HIV/AIDS prevention, schools, hospitals and a host of other beneficial projects.
Dubbed ‘Africa millennium health and peace walk’, the walk which is being organised by a Non Governmental Organisation, Africa’s Welfare and Peace Foundation will take Ababba through several African countries including the war ravaged Sudan to raise a targeted amount of US$1million for its intended purpose.
He will walk through Sudan with a White Flag for his own safety and people's awareness of Unity, for all Africans.The walker man considers this as an opportunity to emphasize his health and peace mission.
Barring any unforeseen circumstance, Ababba, who has been doing these brisk and extensive walks for the past 20years, hopes to complete the walk within two months.
On a good day, Ababba walks 7 kilometres per hour or more.
“As you can see on the above, there is a lot we have to do, to make the lives of thousands of people more desirable, nobody should live in poverty anymore, we living in 2008” Ababba emphasized.As humans, he believes each and everyone can make the difference, with a little contribution to promote this course.
At a press briefing in Accra, President of the Foundation, Jacob Holslag made a passionate appeal to individuals and corporate institutions to help this course to salvage the future of the continent by contributing monies towards the project at the Trade Fair branch of Barclays bank.
“Any donation or help is welcome, donations in the form of the above items or money.We really count on you, without your help we can't do this. Please give what you can so that Africa and her people can show the world that we can do it and claim unity and prosperity for everyone”, he said.
Our aim is to get funding for several projects in Africa for the unfortunate people in the African Countries.The walk is also for promotion of peace, love, stability, unity and awareness for malaria and HIV/AIDS.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
NPP is making vain promises
...free secondary education is not achievable
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Posted:Saturday, July 18, 2008
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised Ghanaians to be weary of the promises of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The party believes the era of vague promises by politicians was outmoded at birth and for that matter Ghanaians should not allow any individual or group of politician to give them vague promises, stressing that “it must be frowned upon by all Ghanaians.”
This was contained in a statement written and signed by the Eastern Regional Chairman of the party, Julius Debrah.
“I wish to advise Ghanaians to be weary of NPP/Nana Akufo Addo’s sweet promises.”
Mr. Debrah said it became necessary for him to send out this word of advise to Ghanaians because at the recent NPP rally at Kasoa, he heard Nana Addo promising that when elected as President of Ghana, he will make Secondary or High School education in the country absolutely free of charge amongst many other promises.
“Therefore if Nana Addo is promising Ghanaians heaven on earth, I wish to advise Ghanaians not to take such promises at the face value, but rather ask the pertinent questions of how he is going to fund such projects and schemes”, he emphasised.
In making these promises, he noted that what Nana Addo failed to add was “at least a single sentence explaining how he was going to fund such a project.”
According to the Regional Chairman, the answer given by Nana Addo at the recent forum organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) to a questioner who asked him to explain why the NPP promised to make the position of District Chief Executives (DCEs) and Municipal Chief Executives (MCEs) an elective one, but have not been able to implement that policy was an indication that he could not proffer any tangible solution to the country’s teething problems.
Nana Addo’s answer was essentially to the effect that when they got into office, the NPP government realised that it was not feasible to implement it.
For him, the list of such examples are endless, making specific reference to President Kufour’s assertion that he could not reduced the number of his Ministers as promised during his campaign for the 2000 elections.
“A physician who does not diagnose his patient well before prescribing medication can at best be described as a quark doctor-and that is NPP for you”, he emphasised.
At the just ended NPP mammoth rally held at the Kasoa old market, at which it’s Presidential Candidate was outdoored alongside several other Parliamentary Candidates, Nana Akufo-Addo among other things promised to make Secondary or High school education free to complement the efforts of President Kufuor who has managed to make basic education free.
This is what have caught the attention of the members of the NDC who believes Nana Addo’s promises were nothing but mere rhetoric and cheap political talk.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Posted:Saturday, July 18, 2008
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised Ghanaians to be weary of the promises of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The party believes the era of vague promises by politicians was outmoded at birth and for that matter Ghanaians should not allow any individual or group of politician to give them vague promises, stressing that “it must be frowned upon by all Ghanaians.”
This was contained in a statement written and signed by the Eastern Regional Chairman of the party, Julius Debrah.
“I wish to advise Ghanaians to be weary of NPP/Nana Akufo Addo’s sweet promises.”
Mr. Debrah said it became necessary for him to send out this word of advise to Ghanaians because at the recent NPP rally at Kasoa, he heard Nana Addo promising that when elected as President of Ghana, he will make Secondary or High School education in the country absolutely free of charge amongst many other promises.
“Therefore if Nana Addo is promising Ghanaians heaven on earth, I wish to advise Ghanaians not to take such promises at the face value, but rather ask the pertinent questions of how he is going to fund such projects and schemes”, he emphasised.
In making these promises, he noted that what Nana Addo failed to add was “at least a single sentence explaining how he was going to fund such a project.”
According to the Regional Chairman, the answer given by Nana Addo at the recent forum organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) to a questioner who asked him to explain why the NPP promised to make the position of District Chief Executives (DCEs) and Municipal Chief Executives (MCEs) an elective one, but have not been able to implement that policy was an indication that he could not proffer any tangible solution to the country’s teething problems.
Nana Addo’s answer was essentially to the effect that when they got into office, the NPP government realised that it was not feasible to implement it.
For him, the list of such examples are endless, making specific reference to President Kufour’s assertion that he could not reduced the number of his Ministers as promised during his campaign for the 2000 elections.
“A physician who does not diagnose his patient well before prescribing medication can at best be described as a quark doctor-and that is NPP for you”, he emphasised.
At the just ended NPP mammoth rally held at the Kasoa old market, at which it’s Presidential Candidate was outdoored alongside several other Parliamentary Candidates, Nana Akufo-Addo among other things promised to make Secondary or High school education free to complement the efforts of President Kufuor who has managed to make basic education free.
This is what have caught the attention of the members of the NDC who believes Nana Addo’s promises were nothing but mere rhetoric and cheap political talk.
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