MAHAMA'S NATIONAL SANITATION EXERCISE IS A TRAGIC WASTE OF VALUABLE RESOURCES AND TIME; A PRESS RELEASE BY UNITED FOR CHANGE MOVEMENT

Many were the Ghanaian youth who jumped with wild jubilation when former President Kuffuor introduced the National Youth Employment Scheme which had a component of sanitation module employing thousands of our youth.
Best practices informed the then President Atta Mills' administration to continue with what President Kuffuor had left behind.
Jospong Group of Companies represented by Zoomlion was contracted to manage the sanitation module with our taxes.
Things started deteriorating soon after the demise of President Mills. Filth began to spring up all over the country as though Ghana was a room without a window, a Nation without a leader.
As a matter of fact, the whole nation was being engulfed with filth.
People started asking very pertinent questions about the capability of Zoomlion to manage that department efficiently because of the way sanitation has been abandoned in the various towns, villages and cities.
To make a long story short, President John Mahama is now asking Ghanaians to pick up the mantle of cleaning their own environment which hitherto was in the capable hands of Zoomlion.
President Mahama's administration instituted
the National Sanitation Day which falls on the first Saturday of every month after the filth became
overwhelming resulting in a record breaking cholera outbreak.
The United For Change Movement is therefore asking these salient questions;
1. How much money was sunk into the previous exercises?
2. As refuse collectors and cleaners strike for not being paid, couldn't this money be channeled to the refuse collectors and cleaners to motivate them to undertake their work effectively.
3. What has happened to Zoomlion and Zoil?
4.Why must Ghanaians willingly get involved in this cleanup when people have been employed to do so?
5. What happened to our taxes? Are they not being used to pay Zoomlion and Zoil to clean the environment?
Why are we honouring the contract if Zoomlion and Zoil have failed to live up to expectation?
More to the point, filth gathered after the exercise are left close to gutters and on the street without being collected. This makes the filth go back into the gutters and streets making the exercise useless and worthless.
Retired General Nunoo-Mensah, not too long ago, threw cold water on the sanitation exercise, calling it an exercise in futility since we are paying people to clean the streets.
We are of the opinion that our villages, towns and cities have been overtaken by filth due to President Mahama's failure to sack and appoint competent and capable people to prosecute such duties and also failing to release the District Assembly Common Fund part of which is used to take care of our sanitation issues.
Why must Ghanaians suffer for the incompetence of the Mahama administration and that of his appointees?
In our considered opinion it is a tragic waste of time for Ghanaians to be compelled to jump into gutters with the sole aim of cleaning them whereas we have paid taxes for Zoomlion or Zoil to be paid to do their job.
Moreover, the whole exercise will be hijacked by politicians and be turned into a funfair with brassband music and all. A total waste of resources and time.
We therefore call on all Ghanaians to ignore this unholy call for all and sundry to vigorously participate in this cleanup exercise. They have taken us for granted for far too long.
They should start earning their fat salaries and allowances by cleaning the mess they've created.

SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447534455242
MR. KWADJO ANIM : 0507010101 /+4915210555432
P.K SARPONG: 024 888 9263
JAMALUDEEN A. ABDULLAH: 0246198919/0503274762
KATE PRATT: +44 7912 365690

SANCTIMONIOUS KWADWO AFARI DJAN MUST LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE!

The fact is irrefutable that Ghana's fledgling democracy will be put to another strenuous test in 2016 when the masses queue up to determine who their next leader should be. Of critical concern to many well-meaning Ghanaians is whether there will be a re-live of what was witnessed at the Supreme Court in case there is any attempt to suppress the sovereign will of the people by declaring a candidate president through some clerical and transpositional errors as was witnessed in the last elections. No one needs to possess the exceptional gift of a psychic to come to the ultimate conclusion that the courts would be ignored in 2016 should what happened in 2012 rear its ugly head again since the law, according to Justice William Atuguba and his partners in crime, is immaterial in such instances. The consequences may be dire, if the old path is retraced. It is against this background that the Afari Djan led-Electoral Commission must drop its recalcitrant posture by listening to the voices of reason!
It has been established variously that our electoral register is beyond bloated, and must be sanctified before the next general elections. Apropos the recommendations made by the Supreme Court in the famous elections petition, coupled with what some political parties have proposed, the EC has seen the need to vary and reform certain aspects of the laws pertaining to how elections are conducted. It gladdened our wailing hearts when Dr. Afari Djan announced a few days ago, that he, in close collaboration with the political parties and other stakeholders, is setting up a committee to delve deeply into the multitude of recommendations the EC has been flooded with. It is a step in the right direction for opinionated Afari Djan to condescend to the level of thousands of Ghanaians whose interest lies in Ghana going beyond 2016 in one piece.
Whilst we laud Dr. Afari Djan for this rare initiative, sight must not be lost of the fact that the problems besetting our electoral system far outweigh what the Supreme Court highlighted by way of recommendations!
United for Change Movement has sunk into our electoral register and have come out with facts and figures very incongruent with the population census conducted in 2010! There are about sixty- two (62) districts/constituencies whose 2010 population census figures make nonsense of what have been captured in the electoral register as those eligible to vote! For the sake of emphasis, let us dwell on six or seven of such districts which are also constituencies;
1. Ketu South's population stood at 160,756, but its voting population is 126,679. It means that 78.8% of the entire population was eligible to vote. We should not forget that the census figure did not exclude minors and strangers, and some might have died before the registration in 2012, yet we had these numbers of people voting in that district. This is intelligibly incohesive!
2. Ga East had a census figure of 259,688 and a voting figure of 231,684; representing 89.2%. This is bizarre, to say the least!
3. Obuasi with a population of 168,641, managed to register an amazing figure of 130,763; representing 77.5%, we find this figure to be wierd.
4. With a population of 143,762, Ejisu Juaben could strangely register an unbelievable figure of 108,980 as voting population. This represents 75.8% of the entire population of the district/constituency.
5. Bia district with a population of 116,332, the voting population was surprisingly 92,217; and this figure represents 79.3%.
6. Wassa Amanfi with a population of 88,688, the EC captured their voting population at an alarming figure of 110,192; representing an outrageous figure of 110%.
Fellow Ghanaians, in an ideal situation, the voting population of a constituency or country should not exceed 41% of its entire population, but what we have in these afore-mentioned districts/constituencies ridiculously outmatch normalcy! Attempts by some unscrupulous persons to create the impression that these figures are sacred because our annual population growth rate of 2.3% justifies these abnormal numbers should be treated with scorn since the numbers do not add up.
United for Change Movement is drawing the attention of Dr. Afari Djan and his allies that any reform made in our electoral system without addressing these concerns of the over bloated register will be counterproductive! We insist on a fresh register for election 2016 to ensure truly free, fair and transparent elections!
In their tendentious agenda to obfuscate the real issues surrounding this call for the electoral register to be sanitized to ensure controversy- free polls in 2016, the EC, led by Christian Owusu Perry, attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of Ghanaians with an explanation which was not only lame but absurd. We are scandalized with the example Mr. Owusu cited to buttress their claims that the register is not bloated. Charity, we say, begins at home! Why did Mr. Owusu Perry use Australia as a case study but not any other West African country or even African country? Perhaps, he knows very little about the age distribution of Australia's population and the current birth rate, so we can forgive him, but in all sincerity, using Australia as a case study is not only uninformed but miles off target! Christian Owusu Perry should cite African examples! He also alluded to the fact that the figures reported by the statistical service are in sync with our register in terms of Ghana's adults’ population, using this assertion to justify the figures captured in the register.
Owusu Perry and Afari Djan are not on the same wavelength then, because the latter, before the Legislature in 2012, was emphatic that there were too many minors in the register, lending credence to the long-held perception that our register is not a document worth trusting. Amadu Sulley and his allies should stop sounding funny with these weird explanations and allow the right thing to be done, which is, getting a new register for the next elections.
What is this fuss about the lexical items BLOATED and OVERBLOATED as Owusu Perry Afari Djan's deputy, sought to indulge in? Amadu Sulley should get the point that Ghanaians understand one thing; the indubitable fact that there are more names in our electoral register than required, and that is hugely unacceptable, and must be fixed! We are sick and tired of these semantics!
SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447534455242
MR. KWADJO ANIM : +233247651154/+4915210555432
P.K Sarpong: 024 888 9263
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah: 0246198919
Kate Pratt: +44 7912 365690

The Powerful Woman Behind Ruby's Cocaine Trade By United For Change Movement

 

Ruby Ametefe, Africa's narcotics Cleopatra, walked majestically like the Queen of England through the VIP lounge of Ghana's only international airport ,the Kotoka International Airport, carrying along with her a whopping 12.5kg of cocaine to the UK, hoping it was her day in the sun, only for her hopes to be dashed when the ever-reliable security offices at Heathrow busted her.
Nayele Ruby Ametefe, by every stretch of the imagination, is so dear to the faint hearts of the ruling party, leading to ministers, deputy ministers and self-acclaimed government communicators to debase themselves by appointing themselves unofficial spokespersons for enigmatic Ruby Mahama, a.k.a., 'Angel'. What was more worrying was the inconsistencies with which they passionately defended Nayele Ametefe.
The denials, lies and inconsistencies flew in from all angles even when Ruby had not whispered a word as to how she managed to travel through Kotoka with cocaine without notice. Suffice it to say that Ghanaians have been bombarded with information already supplied with our numerous press releases over this issue, so let us delve into the substantive matter.
During Ruby's trial, her attorney supplied the court and the world with a juicy info about a supposedly powerful lady being her prime accomplice. She also, through the same lawyer, alluded to the fact that there are some powerful government officials who are her partners in crime. This revealing admission is hugely in tandem with events which panned out when she was arrested. These questions are begging for answers;
1. Why were government officials, including ministers and communicators, gallivanting from one radio and television station to another vehemently defending debauched Naayele Ruby Ametefe if this administration isn't complicit in this saga? Their unholy defence of Ruby goes to show that government is in the known as to the officials who have always been in bed with Ruby.
2. Why is Mahama showing no interest in investigating this matter further to apprise Ghanaians of the nitty-gritty of this scandal that has caused an excruciating pain to our reputation as a nation?
3. Why are we not interested in the brains behind Ruby's uninhibited passage through the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport?
United for Change Movement is of the firmest belief that this NDC government is the owner of these criminals hiding behind the corridors of power, perpetrating heinous crimes against Ghanaians and the world in its entirety.
Government and its hired agents should spare us the absurdity of blaming other people for their naked incompetence in handling this issue!
Ladies and gentlemen, the Mahama administration cannot absolve itself from blame for this international debacle brought upon us, thanks to their dearest Ruby Mahama.
We must bring sunshine to this scandal, and Mahama must lead the way, and this is our genuine call!
SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447534455242
MR. KWADJO ANIM : +233247651154/+4915210555432
P.K Sarpong: 024 888 9263
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah: 0246198919
Kate Pratt: +44 7912 365690

Authorities Must Publicize Ruby Ametefe's Travelling Records Or Shut Up!

Ghanaians woke up to be greeted with the unsavory news item of a Ghanaian lady who had been busted at    Heathrow for trafficking a 12.5kg of cocaine. What was more worrying was the fact that she used the VVIP lounge at the Kotoka International Airport, an event which dented Ghana's already battered international image.
In their zeal to extricate themselves from this international debacle, government appointees and apparatchiks tried everything humanly possible to hoodwink Ghanaians into believing that indeed Ruby Mahama's 12.5kg cocaine was not state-sponsored, when the obvious fact is that she couldn't walk through the VVIP lounge without the assistance of government.
In order to further create the impression that government was in the dark as far as this case is concerned, the BNI quickly embarked on a venture which destination will be nothing more than a complete disaster. Not only did they arrest Alhaji Dawood but also two other ladies who they claim are her accomplices. As though some of us were clairvoyants, proceedings at the court are testament enough of the fact that the arrest was pretentiously executed to pull the wool over our eyes that the Mahama administration is hellbent in fighting drugs trafficking when the opposite is the case.
The argument being propagated by the prosecutors is so shallow that a 1st year law student would easily get this people off the hook. Evidence we've gathered so far clearly indicates that she has travelled over thirty times this year using the Austrian passport (passport number P4187659). United For Change Movement has further gathered she travelled to UK on seven different occasions and also went to other parts of Europe on several occasions, some of which she used a private jet.
We can also confirm authoritatively that she was always being picked up in vehicles on the tarmac; a case in point was her last trip when she was arrested in a chauffeur-driven vehicle that was expectantly waiting for her. We have every reason to believe that in all those occasions, she travelled with cocaine, but strangely enough she could not be fished out. This is a clear indication that officialdom played a key role in fascinating her rather profitable venture.
If government is denying these incontrovertible facts, the travelling records of Ruby Mahama should be published. Until that government and it's communicators should spare us these streneous efforts to wean themselves off this cocaine saga.
SIGNED:
Robbie Sarkodie Klinsman
P. K. Sarpong
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah
Eddie Nii
Kate Pratt

AFARI GYAN MUST BE ARRESTED

Group Demands Prosecution Of EC Boss, Afari-Gyan

By United For Change Movement

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Ghanaians, from all indications, have been living with a false sense of belief that our eccentric EC chairman is some god who does no wrong, a phenomenon that has led to others nursing the thought that the man lives poles apart from bribery and corruption.

However, events leading to the 2012 elections made some Ghanaians come to the momentous conclusion that Dr. Kwadwo Afari Djan was not just extremely corrupt but a wicked liar and very treacherous! It was being bruited around during and after the famous election petition which lasted a record 8 months in the political history of Africa, that the chairman of the EC was in close cahoots with the ruling NDC and had been offered billions of cedis as his unofficial retirement benefit just to sing the same song as Johnson Asiedu Nketia in the witness' box.

This premonition was confirmed by Victoria Hammer, a former deputy minister when she sought to drum into the dumb skull of Rachel Apor that a lot of water went under the bridge before John Mahama was declared the ultimate winner of the elections and eventually the shocking supreme court ruling. Truth was murdered and justice completely annihilated for cash, putting it mildly, and Dr.Afari Gyan couldn't have been an outsider when that evil machination was being hatched.

United for Change Movement finds it extremely difficult to come to terms with the fact that there is enough incriminatory evidence to put Afari Gyan behind bars permanently, yet our government and its security apparatus seem to have folded their arms, they are just sitting on the fence. On the 30th day of August, 2013, Christopher John Smith and his partner, Nicholas Smith, both from East Sussex, were charged with payments of bribes to the Afari Djan led-electoral commission and that of Kenya, Mauritania and Somalia, before the Westminster Magistrate Court.

Christopher was the chairman of Smith and Ouzman printing firm while Nicholas Smith was the director of marketing. The two were convicted on 22nd December, 2014, at the Southwark Crown Court as a result of a Serious Fraud Office investigations into corrupt payments made for the awards of business contracts to the company. Chris was convicted of two counts of corruptly agreeing to pay the electoral bodies of Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania and Somaliland. The younger Smith was convicted of three counts of agreeing to pay bribes for the awards of contracts in the above-mentioned countries. Sentencing will take place on the 12th day of February, 2015.

Dr.Kwadwo Afari Djan has been at the helm of affairs of our Electoral Commission since time immemorial, and has benefited immensely from these illegal payments. United for Change Movement finds this more than mind-boggling that nothing is being done by our loud-mouth security experts to bring sunshine to this darkness that seems to have engulfed our EC. It beats our wildest imaginations why Dr Afari Djan and his cohorts are not being investigated by the BNI. Our EC's complicity in this international debacle tacitly confirms our irrevocable supposition that the Dr. Afari Gyan led-electoral commission is a symbol of corruption, perhaps, second to none in terms of public entities deemed to be extremely corrupt.

If Mahama wants the world to rally behind him in his resolve to fighting corruption, it is about time he showed us by instructing our investigative bodies to delve deeper into the issues surrounding these corrupt deals at the Electoral Commission. Anything short of Mahama walking his talk will be met with a series of actions whose repercussions may be far beyond the reach of this administration, and that is all that United for Change Movement is asking for!

SIGNED:
Robbie Sarkodie Klinsman
P. K. Sarpong
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah
Eddie Nii
Kate Pratt
Johny Walker