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30-07-08
THE National Identification Authority (NIA) has reviewed its strategy for the national identification registration exercise for the effective coverage of the country.
Under the review, the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions would be divided into three, while the rest of the regions would each be divided into two for the rest of the registration exercise to ensure that everyone is covered.
As part of the review, each registration centre will also have two, instead of one machine to capture data of people who call to be registered to speed up the process of registration.
The Head of Information Department of the NIA, Ms Bertha Dzeble, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, said “we realised in the Central Region that many people queued up at registration centres and so we want to reduce that”.
She said the logistics for the next registration exercise, which would begin in the Western Region on July 31, 2008 and end on August 26, 2008, had been dispatched, adding that there were enough registration materials for the exercise.
Ms Dzeble explained that out of the 13 districts in the region, six — Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Wassa West, Wassa East, Ahanta West, Nzema East and Jomoro — would be covered from July 31 to August 11, 2008, while the other seven districts would be covered from August 15 to 26, 2008.
She said registration officers had been advised not to wait till they ran out of registration forms before calling their supervisors for more, adding that once they start running out of stock they should call the district supervisors for replenishment.
Ms Dzeble said the situation where some centres ran out of forms in the Central Region was the fault of registration officers who failed to call for more forms until all they had had run out.
On the registration exercise in the Central Region, she said the NIA was yet to get the total number of people who registered as “we had to move to the Western Region immediately the Central Region exercise ended”.
Commenting on the registration of foreign nationals, she said foreign nationals were supposed to be registered under the exercise, but not as Ghanaians.
She said if anyone could prove that a foreign national was registering as a Ghanaian, the person should draw the attention of registration officials.
The registration exercise, which began in the Central Region, saw people sleeping overnight at some registration centres, especially at Kasoa, in order to be at the front in queues to register. That was as a result of the slow pace of the exercise.
Registration officers attributed the problem to the inadequacy of the machine used for capturing data of people, as each centre was given one machine. The registration officers said to speed up the process, there was the need to increase the machine to three for each centre.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Kwahu Educational Trust Fund launched
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28-07-08
THE Omanhene of the Kwahu Traditional Area, Daasebre Akuamoah Boateng II, has inaugurated a nine-member Board of Trustees for the Kwahu Educational Trust Fund (KETFund) in Accra.
They are Professor J.S.K. Ayim, Chairman of the National Accreditation Board; Nana Kwame Kumnipa IV, Twenedurasehene and Wirempehene of Kwahu; Mr David Osei Asare, a legal practitioner; Mr Dan Kwadwo Anyan, a civil engineer; Mr Eric Owusu-Acheaw, a banker; Mr Jackson Atuobi-Ansong, an accountant, Mr Eric I.A. Odame, a business executive; Mr Richard Addo, a business executive, and Ms Augusta G. Tenkorang, educationist.
The Kwahu Development Association (KDA) has provided GH¢100,000 as seed money for the fund.
At the ceremony, Nana Boateng said the fund was aimed at supporting brilliant needy students from the traditional area.
According to him, those who were not financially sound but were academically good needed to be supported to contribute their quota to national development.
He said the board members were selected based on trust, and urged them to work hard to justify the trust reposed in them.
Nana Boateng cautioned the members against nepotism and corruption, and charged Kwahu citizens, home and abroad, to support the association to generate more money for the fund.
Prof. Ayim thanked the chiefs and people of Kwahu for the task assigned them, and pledged that they would work to perfection.
The Chairman of the Executive Council of KDA, Mr E.R. Ofori, said the objectives of KETFund were to provide financial support for the education and training of brilliant needy students from the Kwahu Traditional Area, as well as provide educational facilities and materials.
The fund, he said, was also to assist educational institutions and teachers in the provision of facilities or equipment needed for the training of students, offer scholarships/grants to students, and engage in activities that might promote education, among other things.
He said the board shall be solely responsible for the security of the fund and invest in other areas that might be approved by the Board of Trustees, adding that “the fund shall be held upon trust and shall consist of donations from the associations and such other sources as may be identified by the board”.
The Kwahu East District Chief Executive, Mr Raymond Osafo Gyan, pledged the support of the Assembly to the fund to enable it to achieve the desired objectives.
28-07-08
THE Omanhene of the Kwahu Traditional Area, Daasebre Akuamoah Boateng II, has inaugurated a nine-member Board of Trustees for the Kwahu Educational Trust Fund (KETFund) in Accra.
They are Professor J.S.K. Ayim, Chairman of the National Accreditation Board; Nana Kwame Kumnipa IV, Twenedurasehene and Wirempehene of Kwahu; Mr David Osei Asare, a legal practitioner; Mr Dan Kwadwo Anyan, a civil engineer; Mr Eric Owusu-Acheaw, a banker; Mr Jackson Atuobi-Ansong, an accountant, Mr Eric I.A. Odame, a business executive; Mr Richard Addo, a business executive, and Ms Augusta G. Tenkorang, educationist.
The Kwahu Development Association (KDA) has provided GH¢100,000 as seed money for the fund.
At the ceremony, Nana Boateng said the fund was aimed at supporting brilliant needy students from the traditional area.
According to him, those who were not financially sound but were academically good needed to be supported to contribute their quota to national development.
He said the board members were selected based on trust, and urged them to work hard to justify the trust reposed in them.
Nana Boateng cautioned the members against nepotism and corruption, and charged Kwahu citizens, home and abroad, to support the association to generate more money for the fund.
Prof. Ayim thanked the chiefs and people of Kwahu for the task assigned them, and pledged that they would work to perfection.
The Chairman of the Executive Council of KDA, Mr E.R. Ofori, said the objectives of KETFund were to provide financial support for the education and training of brilliant needy students from the Kwahu Traditional Area, as well as provide educational facilities and materials.
The fund, he said, was also to assist educational institutions and teachers in the provision of facilities or equipment needed for the training of students, offer scholarships/grants to students, and engage in activities that might promote education, among other things.
He said the board shall be solely responsible for the security of the fund and invest in other areas that might be approved by the Board of Trustees, adding that “the fund shall be held upon trust and shall consist of donations from the associations and such other sources as may be identified by the board”.
The Kwahu East District Chief Executive, Mr Raymond Osafo Gyan, pledged the support of the Assembly to the fund to enable it to achieve the desired objectives.
Kasoa Police nab 3 armed robbers
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28-07-08
The Kasoa police have arrested a 28-year-old man described by the police as a notorious armed robber and two other accomplices who, for sometime now, have been harassing and terrorising residents within and outside the Kasoa township.
Yaw Konadu, aka Akobam, who is the main suspect, and his accomplices, Alex Aseidu, 20 and Ibrahim Fusseni, 20 were picked up at about 1am at their hideout in the Kasoa new town area by a military/police patrol team. Items retrieved included cutlasses, hammer and other instruments.
The Kasoa District Police Commander, Superintendent Isaac Buabeng, told the Daily Graphic that on July 26, 2008, the patrol team was able to round up the suspects with the assistance of the community watch group at Kasoa New Town .
He said following their arrests, there was wide jubilation by the people who had been terrorised by the robbers for a very long time.
He said the suspects were able to send them to the place they normally converged before embarking on criminal activities, saying that at that place, two other suspects-Razak Kassim, 20 and Suleiman Mumuni, 20, were caught working on dried leaves suspected to be indian hemp.
Superintendent Buabeng explained that Moses Mensah, a welder at Amanfrom junction, identified the suspect and his accomplices as those who attacked him at knife point and made away with his two mobile phones.
A drinking bar operator, Kweku Akom, he said, was on December 28, 2007 attacked by the three men, adding that while Akobam used a broken bottle to inflict multiple wounds on his head, one of his accomplices began pulling his testicles.
He said they managed to take away his mobile phone estimated at GH¢200 and GH¢100.
Superintendent Buabeng said the police were compiling all the cases against the suspects, and appealed to people who had fallen victims to report to the police.
After that, he said, the suspects would be put before court.
28-07-08
The Kasoa police have arrested a 28-year-old man described by the police as a notorious armed robber and two other accomplices who, for sometime now, have been harassing and terrorising residents within and outside the Kasoa township.
Yaw Konadu, aka Akobam, who is the main suspect, and his accomplices, Alex Aseidu, 20 and Ibrahim Fusseni, 20 were picked up at about 1am at their hideout in the Kasoa new town area by a military/police patrol team. Items retrieved included cutlasses, hammer and other instruments.
The Kasoa District Police Commander, Superintendent Isaac Buabeng, told the Daily Graphic that on July 26, 2008, the patrol team was able to round up the suspects with the assistance of the community watch group at Kasoa New Town .
He said following their arrests, there was wide jubilation by the people who had been terrorised by the robbers for a very long time.
He said the suspects were able to send them to the place they normally converged before embarking on criminal activities, saying that at that place, two other suspects-Razak Kassim, 20 and Suleiman Mumuni, 20, were caught working on dried leaves suspected to be indian hemp.
Superintendent Buabeng explained that Moses Mensah, a welder at Amanfrom junction, identified the suspect and his accomplices as those who attacked him at knife point and made away with his two mobile phones.
A drinking bar operator, Kweku Akom, he said, was on December 28, 2007 attacked by the three men, adding that while Akobam used a broken bottle to inflict multiple wounds on his head, one of his accomplices began pulling his testicles.
He said they managed to take away his mobile phone estimated at GH¢200 and GH¢100.
Superintendent Buabeng said the police were compiling all the cases against the suspects, and appealed to people who had fallen victims to report to the police.
After that, he said, the suspects would be put before court.
VODAFONE DEAL OKAY-Says GT management-But union disagrees
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28-07-08
TWO of the key stakeholders in Ghana Telecom (GT) — the company’s management and the Communications Workers Union (CWU) — have taken divergent positions on the proposed sale of GT to the British giant, Vodafone.
The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr Dickson Oduro-Nyaning, has described the proposed sale of 70 per cent of GT shares to Vodafone as an opportunity to make the company more viable and strengthen its capacity to compete effectively on the market, but the CWU has expressed its opposition to the sale and rather called on the government to recapitalise the company, saying the current management has the capacity to effectively manage it, given the needed resources.
Stating the management’s take on the transaction, which is now before Parliament, Mr Oduro-Nyaning said the sale would inject $500 million into the company by Vodafone and that would help GT to properly roll out the network and improve the national fibre optic backbone.
Speaking with the Daily Graphic during an interaction with the management team of GT, Mr Oduro-Nyaning said the company needed a strategic partner like Vodafone to make it more competitive locally and internationally, adding that the GT was currently competing against foreign-owned telecommunication operators.
He explained that the investment would enable GT to bring in a variety of Vodafone products and services and the required investment to regain its market share, complete the fibre optic network, bring high-speed broadband and fixed-line services, expand the coverage and quality of the mobile network, among other things.
For instance, he said, as a result of the company’s current state, its mobile network, Onetouch, which was second best in mobile telephony in the country last year, was now third as a result of financial difficulties.
He explained that the economic viability of the company was not the best, saying that with the capital injection by Vodafone, GT would become viable and the remaining 30 per cent shares of the company left would appreciate for Ghanaians.
Mr Oduro-Nyaning said Vodafone would make GT part of an international network and that would make the company enjoy a new range of products and services, such as the mobile money transfer service (which enabled people without bank accounts to access financial services) and low cost, high quality mobile devices which would lower the cost of access to telecommunication services.
Vodafone, he said, would also bring revenue from mobile phone roaming voice and data traffic to GT, access preferential pricing for using GT’s mobile voice and data services.
“The Vodafone deal is good and we have to see the benefit that will come out of it,” he said, noting that Vodafone would invest in staff through customer service and IT skills, ensure that the Ghanaian management was nurtured and promoted with the company and offer international career opportunities to local talents.
Mr Oduro-Nyaning said once the Vodafone deal was through, GT would be better positioned to bargain with vendors and equipment suppliers, thereby receiving more favourable terms than was previously the case.
On the fate of GT’s 4,200 workforce, comprising technical and support staff, he said any worker who would be laid off or redeployed following the take-over would be adequately compensated according to the conditions of service of employees.
Members of management believed that the offloading of 70 per cent of the company to Vodafone must be done without any further delay.
They all agreed that the takeover be done now to position it on the international market, in view of the stiff competition from other telecommunication companies.
Advancing the position of the CWU, the National Chairman of the union, Mr David Korley Clottey, indicated that the company had the right expertise to run it to enable it to compete effectively with other telecommunications companies on the market.
“We the workers do not support the sale of GT per se. Our priority is to have a capital injection into GT,” he said, adding that the current management would be able to manage GT with the needed capital injection.
He told the Daily Graphic that the government could secure a long-term loan to revitalise the company, saying that it was possible to get people who could provide such a loan.
He conceded that the decision whether or not to sell GT lay with the government, but noted that as a Ghanaian “I wish GT would stay as a Ghanaian company”.
He expressed the fear that once an investor took over, it would retrench or lay off workers, saying, “This is our main concern.”
Mr Clottey charged Ghanaians to patronise the products of the company to make it economically viable.
Meanwhile, information available to the Daily Graphic showed that all the companies that have conducted due deligence on GT such as France Telecom, Etisalat from United Arab Emirates, Portugal Telecom and Vodacom last year to own 66.67 per cent of the shares, brought large contigents of people some numbering more than 40 to interact with GT staff at every level.
The information said the audited accounts for 2006/2007 showed that the current liability of the company far exceeded the current assets by three times which is against the industrial norm or practice.
In November last year, the major vendors of GT, Alcatel Lucent threatened to withdraw their maintenance and support staff for non-payment of accumulated maintenance fees and vendor supplies payment.
According to the report in February this year, IRS issued garnishment order to all GT bankers directing them to channel GT bank deposits and lodgements to IRS accounts following investigations conducted by IRS into GT for 2004/2005.
The amount was said to be about GH¢20 million(¢200 billion).
The Daily Graphic was told that as of now, GT has equipment locked up at bonded warehouses which it cannot clear due to its poor financial position.
A document on the Vodafone-GT transaction indicates that Vodafone has more than 269 million customers world-wide, 72,000 staff across the world, equity in 26 countries, partner networks in more than 40 countries, wholly-owned fixed line (voice and broadband) services in Germany, Italy and Spain, as well as fixed broadband services through wholesale agreement in the UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland and Egypt.
Its Africa assets include 54 per cent ownership of Vodafone Egypt, 40 per cent ownership of Safaricom in Kenya, 50 per cent joint venture in Vodafone with Telkom South Africa, in India 67 per cent ownership of Vodafone Essar, 100 per cent ownership of Vodafone Turkey, among others.
28-07-08
TWO of the key stakeholders in Ghana Telecom (GT) — the company’s management and the Communications Workers Union (CWU) — have taken divergent positions on the proposed sale of GT to the British giant, Vodafone.
The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr Dickson Oduro-Nyaning, has described the proposed sale of 70 per cent of GT shares to Vodafone as an opportunity to make the company more viable and strengthen its capacity to compete effectively on the market, but the CWU has expressed its opposition to the sale and rather called on the government to recapitalise the company, saying the current management has the capacity to effectively manage it, given the needed resources.
Stating the management’s take on the transaction, which is now before Parliament, Mr Oduro-Nyaning said the sale would inject $500 million into the company by Vodafone and that would help GT to properly roll out the network and improve the national fibre optic backbone.
Speaking with the Daily Graphic during an interaction with the management team of GT, Mr Oduro-Nyaning said the company needed a strategic partner like Vodafone to make it more competitive locally and internationally, adding that the GT was currently competing against foreign-owned telecommunication operators.
He explained that the investment would enable GT to bring in a variety of Vodafone products and services and the required investment to regain its market share, complete the fibre optic network, bring high-speed broadband and fixed-line services, expand the coverage and quality of the mobile network, among other things.
For instance, he said, as a result of the company’s current state, its mobile network, Onetouch, which was second best in mobile telephony in the country last year, was now third as a result of financial difficulties.
He explained that the economic viability of the company was not the best, saying that with the capital injection by Vodafone, GT would become viable and the remaining 30 per cent shares of the company left would appreciate for Ghanaians.
Mr Oduro-Nyaning said Vodafone would make GT part of an international network and that would make the company enjoy a new range of products and services, such as the mobile money transfer service (which enabled people without bank accounts to access financial services) and low cost, high quality mobile devices which would lower the cost of access to telecommunication services.
Vodafone, he said, would also bring revenue from mobile phone roaming voice and data traffic to GT, access preferential pricing for using GT’s mobile voice and data services.
“The Vodafone deal is good and we have to see the benefit that will come out of it,” he said, noting that Vodafone would invest in staff through customer service and IT skills, ensure that the Ghanaian management was nurtured and promoted with the company and offer international career opportunities to local talents.
Mr Oduro-Nyaning said once the Vodafone deal was through, GT would be better positioned to bargain with vendors and equipment suppliers, thereby receiving more favourable terms than was previously the case.
On the fate of GT’s 4,200 workforce, comprising technical and support staff, he said any worker who would be laid off or redeployed following the take-over would be adequately compensated according to the conditions of service of employees.
Members of management believed that the offloading of 70 per cent of the company to Vodafone must be done without any further delay.
They all agreed that the takeover be done now to position it on the international market, in view of the stiff competition from other telecommunication companies.
Advancing the position of the CWU, the National Chairman of the union, Mr David Korley Clottey, indicated that the company had the right expertise to run it to enable it to compete effectively with other telecommunications companies on the market.
“We the workers do not support the sale of GT per se. Our priority is to have a capital injection into GT,” he said, adding that the current management would be able to manage GT with the needed capital injection.
He told the Daily Graphic that the government could secure a long-term loan to revitalise the company, saying that it was possible to get people who could provide such a loan.
He conceded that the decision whether or not to sell GT lay with the government, but noted that as a Ghanaian “I wish GT would stay as a Ghanaian company”.
He expressed the fear that once an investor took over, it would retrench or lay off workers, saying, “This is our main concern.”
Mr Clottey charged Ghanaians to patronise the products of the company to make it economically viable.
Meanwhile, information available to the Daily Graphic showed that all the companies that have conducted due deligence on GT such as France Telecom, Etisalat from United Arab Emirates, Portugal Telecom and Vodacom last year to own 66.67 per cent of the shares, brought large contigents of people some numbering more than 40 to interact with GT staff at every level.
The information said the audited accounts for 2006/2007 showed that the current liability of the company far exceeded the current assets by three times which is against the industrial norm or practice.
In November last year, the major vendors of GT, Alcatel Lucent threatened to withdraw their maintenance and support staff for non-payment of accumulated maintenance fees and vendor supplies payment.
According to the report in February this year, IRS issued garnishment order to all GT bankers directing them to channel GT bank deposits and lodgements to IRS accounts following investigations conducted by IRS into GT for 2004/2005.
The amount was said to be about GH¢20 million(¢200 billion).
The Daily Graphic was told that as of now, GT has equipment locked up at bonded warehouses which it cannot clear due to its poor financial position.
A document on the Vodafone-GT transaction indicates that Vodafone has more than 269 million customers world-wide, 72,000 staff across the world, equity in 26 countries, partner networks in more than 40 countries, wholly-owned fixed line (voice and broadband) services in Germany, Italy and Spain, as well as fixed broadband services through wholesale agreement in the UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland and Egypt.
Its Africa assets include 54 per cent ownership of Vodafone Egypt, 40 per cent ownership of Safaricom in Kenya, 50 per cent joint venture in Vodafone with Telkom South Africa, in India 67 per cent ownership of Vodafone Essar, 100 per cent ownership of Vodafone Turkey, among others.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Ayekoo Foundation to honour 80 JHS
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24-07-08
Eighty Junior High Schools nationwide will be honoured in the second edition of the National Basic Education Awards to be organised by Ayekoo Foundation.
This year’s event is an improvement over last yea’s and would see the honouring of 40 public and 40 private schools as against only 40 schools last year. The 2008 event which will be held on August 16, 2008 at the National Theatre is on the theme: “ Quality Basic Education for All, Access for All”.
The National Basic Education Awards is considered as a unique platform to acknowledge the immense importance of quality basic education in the country.
Briefing the press on this year’s event, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the foundation, Mrs Barbara Gyamfi, said the academic excellence category, one of the categories for this year’s event, was competitive and would be based on the mean aggregate of students who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) last year.
She further said that the special recognition category, which was non-competitive, was in three sub categories.
Under this category, she said, the best male and female students would be honoured alongside four individuals who had made outstanding contributions towards quality basic education, and two people who defied all odds to obtain basic education.
Mrs Gyamfi disclosed that the awards, aimed at facilitating healthy academic competition among students was to create role models for all basic school students in the country, and that the award would be expected to encourage Ghanaians to contribute their widow’s mite towards the promotion of quality basic education in the country.
The annual National Basic Education Awards was launched in 2006 by Ayekoo Foundation in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to highlight the importance of primary education which appeared to have been neglected.
The foundation is a locally-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) which aims at promoting quality basic education in the country through innovative programmes and activities like donation of teaching and learning materials to basic schools and the organisation of capacity building workshops for directors, headteachers and proprietors of basic schools.
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24-07-08
Eighty Junior High Schools nationwide will be honoured in the second edition of the National Basic Education Awards to be organised by Ayekoo Foundation.
This year’s event is an improvement over last yea’s and would see the honouring of 40 public and 40 private schools as against only 40 schools last year. The 2008 event which will be held on August 16, 2008 at the National Theatre is on the theme: “ Quality Basic Education for All, Access for All”.
The National Basic Education Awards is considered as a unique platform to acknowledge the immense importance of quality basic education in the country.
Briefing the press on this year’s event, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the foundation, Mrs Barbara Gyamfi, said the academic excellence category, one of the categories for this year’s event, was competitive and would be based on the mean aggregate of students who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) last year.
She further said that the special recognition category, which was non-competitive, was in three sub categories.
Under this category, she said, the best male and female students would be honoured alongside four individuals who had made outstanding contributions towards quality basic education, and two people who defied all odds to obtain basic education.
Mrs Gyamfi disclosed that the awards, aimed at facilitating healthy academic competition among students was to create role models for all basic school students in the country, and that the award would be expected to encourage Ghanaians to contribute their widow’s mite towards the promotion of quality basic education in the country.
The annual National Basic Education Awards was launched in 2006 by Ayekoo Foundation in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to highlight the importance of primary education which appeared to have been neglected.
The foundation is a locally-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) which aims at promoting quality basic education in the country through innovative programmes and activities like donation of teaching and learning materials to basic schools and the organisation of capacity building workshops for directors, headteachers and proprietors of basic schools.
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National ID exercise ends in CR
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24-07-08
THE national identification registration exercise in the Central Region ended yesterday with a call on the National Identification Authority (NIA) to set up district registration centres to cater for those who were not able to register during the national exercise.
Residents of Kasoa made the call in separate interviews with the Daily Graphic during a tour of some registration centres in the town.
They said although the move by the NIA to take the national registration exercise to the doorstep of people was commendable, there was the need to have district centres, since moving from one geographical area to the other would be an extra cost to people.
"I can't move from Kasoa with my four children to Takoradi to register. The cost would be too much for me to bear, so we need a registration centre in our district for those who missed the national exercise," Ms Rose Atiga, a resident, said.
The NIA had indicated that the national identification registration was neither time-bound nor geographically bound.
A trader, Janet Wiafe, who said she had gone to the registration centre near her house on four occasions without being able to register, suggested that the NIA should declare a day out of the period for registration for schoolchildren so that academic activities were not disrupted.
She said the manner in which both adults and schoolchildren competed to register was not healthy, hence the need to have a day solely for schoolchildren.
That suggestion was supported by the head teacher of the Odupong Kpehe Primary School, Mr G.P.K. Damalie, who said teachers could also assist to get students to register.
Other residents expressed their anger and frustration at the slow pace of the registration exercise, which they said had discouraged others from registering.
They said standing in long queues had put a lot of people off, adding that those who were yet to register were more than those who had registered.
This assertion was also supported by some registration officers.
A registration officer, Mr Charles Obo-Donkoh, who estimated that about 65 per cent of the population had been registered, said as of Tuesday, he had registered 1,927 people.
He showed this reporter some filled registration forms of residents, saying that if the owners failed to pick them up and take their photographs, they (forms) would be regarded as rejected.
Another registration officer, Mr Osei Ampadu, attributed the slow process of the registration in the Kasoa area to the slowness of the mobile registration work (MRW) operators who transferred the data of persons from the registration forms to the computer, adding that most of the operators were too slow as they were not trained typists.
He called for trained typists to be made to transfer the data of persons to quicken the process of registration.
Mr Emmanuel Otoo, a registration official, said the inability of some residents to provide their personal details contributed to the slow registration in the Kasoa area.
For Charles Addison, a registration officer, the exercise was smooth at his centre, as he had registered 1,138 as of Tuesday.
24-07-08
THE national identification registration exercise in the Central Region ended yesterday with a call on the National Identification Authority (NIA) to set up district registration centres to cater for those who were not able to register during the national exercise.
Residents of Kasoa made the call in separate interviews with the Daily Graphic during a tour of some registration centres in the town.
They said although the move by the NIA to take the national registration exercise to the doorstep of people was commendable, there was the need to have district centres, since moving from one geographical area to the other would be an extra cost to people.
"I can't move from Kasoa with my four children to Takoradi to register. The cost would be too much for me to bear, so we need a registration centre in our district for those who missed the national exercise," Ms Rose Atiga, a resident, said.
The NIA had indicated that the national identification registration was neither time-bound nor geographically bound.
A trader, Janet Wiafe, who said she had gone to the registration centre near her house on four occasions without being able to register, suggested that the NIA should declare a day out of the period for registration for schoolchildren so that academic activities were not disrupted.
She said the manner in which both adults and schoolchildren competed to register was not healthy, hence the need to have a day solely for schoolchildren.
That suggestion was supported by the head teacher of the Odupong Kpehe Primary School, Mr G.P.K. Damalie, who said teachers could also assist to get students to register.
Other residents expressed their anger and frustration at the slow pace of the registration exercise, which they said had discouraged others from registering.
They said standing in long queues had put a lot of people off, adding that those who were yet to register were more than those who had registered.
This assertion was also supported by some registration officers.
A registration officer, Mr Charles Obo-Donkoh, who estimated that about 65 per cent of the population had been registered, said as of Tuesday, he had registered 1,927 people.
He showed this reporter some filled registration forms of residents, saying that if the owners failed to pick them up and take their photographs, they (forms) would be regarded as rejected.
Another registration officer, Mr Osei Ampadu, attributed the slow process of the registration in the Kasoa area to the slowness of the mobile registration work (MRW) operators who transferred the data of persons from the registration forms to the computer, adding that most of the operators were too slow as they were not trained typists.
He called for trained typists to be made to transfer the data of persons to quicken the process of registration.
Mr Emmanuel Otoo, a registration official, said the inability of some residents to provide their personal details contributed to the slow registration in the Kasoa area.
For Charles Addison, a registration officer, the exercise was smooth at his centre, as he had registered 1,138 as of Tuesday.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
'Proprietor fails to register 30 students'
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23-07-08
THE fate of 30 students who paid GH¢100 each to the proprietor of Top Progressive Institute at Adenta to register them for the November-December West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is still not known because of the proprietor’s alleged failure to register them for the examination.
The proprietor of the privately owned school, Mr Ibn Issah Mohammed, was picked up following reports made by the students to the Adenta Police.
He was given bail last week and is expected to reappear in court, the Adenta District Police Commander, DSP Yao Tettegah, has disclosed.
The District Commander said although the proprietor was able to register other students for the examination, he was not able to register the 30 but denied failing to register them when he was arrested.
He said although Mohammed claimed that he had registered the students with a consultant, when the police got to the consultant’s place they realised that the students had not been registered.
DSP Tettegah said although the consultant said he started with the first phase of the registration of the students, he had to stop because they failed to attach the expected amounts to their forms and pictures.
He said Mohammed was subsequently prepared for court and remanded. He was charged with defrauding by false pretence and had pleaded not guilty to the charge.
23-07-08
THE fate of 30 students who paid GH¢100 each to the proprietor of Top Progressive Institute at Adenta to register them for the November-December West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is still not known because of the proprietor’s alleged failure to register them for the examination.
The proprietor of the privately owned school, Mr Ibn Issah Mohammed, was picked up following reports made by the students to the Adenta Police.
He was given bail last week and is expected to reappear in court, the Adenta District Police Commander, DSP Yao Tettegah, has disclosed.
The District Commander said although the proprietor was able to register other students for the examination, he was not able to register the 30 but denied failing to register them when he was arrested.
He said although Mohammed claimed that he had registered the students with a consultant, when the police got to the consultant’s place they realised that the students had not been registered.
DSP Tettegah said although the consultant said he started with the first phase of the registration of the students, he had to stop because they failed to attach the expected amounts to their forms and pictures.
He said Mohammed was subsequently prepared for court and remanded. He was charged with defrauding by false pretence and had pleaded not guilty to the charge.
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