POLITICS

Businessman Seidu Agongo and his company, Agricult, did not cause any financial loss to the state by supplying the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) with Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser, a cocoa farmer who benefitted from the agrochemical, has told Justice Clemence Honyenuga’s court. According to Mr Thomas Amo Amankwaa, the fertiliser was a “great saviour” to cocoa farmers and must be brought ...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has said it terminated investigation into a complaint of alleged financial malfeasance filed against the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea for lack of evidence. The probe was stopped in July. The OSP said the “complainant admitted that he filed the complaint without any basis and that he was paid ...

The Ghana Union Traders Association (GUTA) has stressed on their calls for the government to discontinue the tax exemptions given to expatriate businesses and entities in Ghana. Spokesperson for GUTA, Joseph Paddy alleged that aside from being detrimental to indigenous businesses, the privilege of tax exemption for expatriates is seriously abused at the expense of the state’s revenue. “For example ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says a process to match biometric details of workers in the national identity system at the National Identification Authority (NIA) and same details at the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) has detected over 148,000 workers with multiple identities. “It may just mean that, maybe, they have not just registered for the Ghana Card. That ...

Founder and CEO of the Mikado Group of Companies, formerly the KAMA group Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo has urged the government to review the free Senior High School programme. According to him, despite the good intentions of the programme and the long-term benefit, the programme as it currently pertains is unsustainable. Speaking on Business Focus on TV3 Monday August 15, ...

Lawyers of Oliver Barker-Vormawor, lead convenor of #FixTheCountry Movement have described the Bill of Indictment (BI) filed against their client as “bad in law.” Justice Srem Sai, lead counsel for Oliver Barker-Vormawor told the Ashaiman District Court that the nature of the charges preferred against the accused offend the rules of “Duplicity and Multiplicity.” “Our argument is that the particulars ...

The military government in Mali has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of a “neo-colonial, paternalistic and condescending” attitude. The junta asked Mr Macron to stop his criticism of the Malian army and stirring “ethnic hatred”. It follows Mr Macron’s remarks last week during his tour in West Africa that regional states had the responsibility to ensure Malian people can “express ...

The Minority in Parliament has warned that the legal dispute between ENI/Vitol and Springfield Ghana may lead to a $7 billion dollar judgment debt. ENI/Vitol challenged a decision of then Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu, for a Unitization and Unit Operating Agreement with Springfield Ghana, at the Sankofa and Afina fields. A legal tussle subsequently ensued, with ENI/Vitol eventually initiating ...

Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, Samuel Nartey George, has asked the government to put on hold the fee collection for the SIM re-registration exercise until Parliament endorses the decision to charge fees. As far as Parliament is concerned, no approval has been given for fees to be charged by the government therefore, any attempt to take money from the people ...

A Professor at the University of Ghana Business School, Lord Mensah has asked the government to give Ghanaians tax incentives in the mid-year budget review following the rising rate of inflation which currently stands at 29.8 per cent in June 2022, up from the 27.6 per cent recorded in May same year. Prof Lord Mensah said he also expects that ...