Cabinet approves contract to dredge Korle Lagoon

President Rawlings nominates DCE for East Akim

Police arrest 40 in connection with Kitase chieftaincy dispute

Tweneboa heads Association of Accountancy bodies of West Africa

Accra (Greater Accra) 7 Dec. ’99

Cabinet has endorsed the recommendation made by the Central Tender Board for the award of contract for the dredging of the Korle Lagoon to Messrs Dredging International, for the sum of 26,168,421 dollars.

The dredging is part of the Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project, which involves the removal of approximately 2.5 million cubic metres of silted material and the improvement of the terminal section of the Odaw channel, primarily for flood control purposes.

This was contained in a statement signed by Mr J. K. Babaako- Mensah, Secretary to the Cabinet in Accra on Monday.

It also includes sanitation control measures involving the construction of treatment plants with a total capacity of 1,300 cubic metres per day, laying of 3,100 metres long network for the diversion of dry weather flows and the construction of a new sea outfall pipe of 1,000 metres length.

The statement said cabinet recommended for parliamentary approval a development Credit Agreement between Ghana and the International Development Association (IDA) for the second Community Water and Sanitation Project (CWSP II).

The IDA will give Ghana 25 million dollars under a programme to extend sustainable water and sanitation facilities to 85 per cent of the rural population in Ghana by the year 2009.

The Statement said Cabinet approved for further action, proposals for amendments to the Local Government Act, 1993, Act 462.

The proposed amendments are designed to respond to some practical difficulties encountered in implementing the Act, iron out some internal contradictions, correct identified errors and to incorporate views, ideas and recommendations of various stakeholders and commentators who have either worked with, analysed or commented on it.

Cabinet, the statement said also approved the establishment of a district education fund to support students in second-cycle and tertiary institutions.

The objective of the fund is to enable district assemblies to sponsor deserving but financially handicapped students from their districts through the provision of scholarships, bursaries and loan supplements, as part of the poverty alleviation programme of the government.

The fund is to be created out of 50 per cent of the existing mandatory 20 per cent allocation which District Assemblies are required to disburse for income and employment generation activities (popularly called "Poverty Alleviation Fund") under the District Assemblies common Fund.

A committee to be set up by each District Assembly will administer the fund.

The statement further said Cabinet recommended for ratification by parliament an agreement between Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago on Economic, Scientific and Technical Co-operation.

The purpose of the agreement is to establish relations in these areas for the mutual benefit of the two countries.

Cabinet recommended for the consideration of Parliament a loan agreement between Ghana and Kreditanstalt Fur Wiederaubau (KFW) of Germany for the sum of 76 million Deutsche Marks to finance the rehabilitation of the Tema-Sogakope (Aflao) road.

Cabinet also approved the proposal to declare Sunday, 26 March 2000 as Census Night.

Several activities would be organised on that day, throughout the country, as the reference point for the census, which would be conducted between March and April 2000.

Enumeration will start throughout the country soon after midnight on that Sunday, the statement added.

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Accra (Greater Accra) 7 Dec. ’99

President Jerry John Rawlings has nominated Mr Daniel Opoku Asiamah for the post of District Chief Executive for East Akim District.

An official statement issued in Accra on Monday said he replaces Mr Mike Odame-Darkwa who died on September six, 1999.

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Kitase (Eastern Region) 7 Dec. ’99

Forty people including six women and a former chief of Kitase near Aburi in the Eastern Region have been arrested following a clash between two factions in a chieftaincy dispute.

The Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Jonathan Kwame Abban, made this known to newsmen in Koforidua on Monday.

Inspector Abban said the Police had a tip off on Saturday, 4 December that Nana Twum Ankrah II, ex-Kitasehene, had organised about 100 of his supporters to prepare to install a new sub-chief for the town.

Chief Inspector Abban said supporters of Nana Ankrah met one Mr. Joseph Kpakpo Allotey alias Borkotey, said to be a supporter of the new Chief of Kitase, Nana Adu Ampomah II, chase him and allegedly attempted to shoot him.

Mr Allotey was alleged to have brought out a shot gun and fired at his attackers and in the process, Mr Eric Awuku, Mr. Daniel Oppong, Mr Kwame Ampofo, Mr. Kwaku Nimo, Madam Amma Oye and Madam Amma Akyiboa, all supporters of Nana Ankrah, received gun shot wounds.

They were rushed to the Tetteh Quashie Memorial Hospital at Mampong-Akwapim, where they were admitted.

Chief Inspector Abban said Mr Kwaku Nimo, whose condition was critical, was transferred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on Sunday 5 December.

Nana Ankrah has since been released on Police enquiry bail and ordered to report to the police daily, while the other suspects are being screened.

Mr Allotey is in custody and Policemen are patrolling the town.

The Mampong-Akwapim Police are investigating the incident, Inspector Abban said.

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Accra (Greater Accra) 7 Dec. ’99

Mr Francis D. Tweneboa, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG) has been elected President of the Association of Accountancy Bodies of West Africa (ABWA) at its fifth Congress in Abuja, Nigeria.

A statement issued in Accra said Mr Tweneboa would be in office for two years.

ABWA is a sub-regional regulatory body which aims at harmonising and ensuring effective professional accountancy practice in West Africa.

Mr Tweneboa, currently the General Manager of the Ghana Stock Exchange, has held many positions in various organisations including the Internal Revenue Service as an Inspector of Taxes and a Chief Accountant of Barclays Bank of Ghana.

He is a professional tax consultant and also a member of the Ghana Institute of Management and the Ghana Institute of Bankers.

The ICAG President was educated at the University of Ghana, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969.

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