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Battor resettlement home project gets boost
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Battor resettlement home project gets boost

Humphery Awuletey Williams (right) presenting cash to Mamaga Asieku IV, Paramount Queen of the Battor Traditional Area, and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for the area. A resettlement home project being developed to accommodate 300 displaced people in Battor and Aveyime areas in the Volta Region received a boost with a donation of GH¢150,000. Civil engineering and construction firm, Oswal Investment Group Limited, donated the amount. The homes, being developed at the two locations at Battor and Aveyime by Construction Ambassadors in collaboration with the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, are expected to accommodate some of the victims whose mud homes were completely washed away by the floods, which followed the spillage of...
We must consider decentralising our education system – Okudzeto Ablakwa
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We must consider decentralising our education system – Okudzeto Ablakwa

Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Member of Parliament for North Tongu and a former Deputy Education Minister, is advocating an effective decentralisation of Ghana's education system to produce good outcomes. "As a nation, we must start investigating education decentralisation…If our Local Government Ministry and Ministry of Education effectively decentralise, empower our teachers, and provide resources at the district level, we can have good outcomes," he said. Mr Ablakwa made the suggestion at the second graduation and Speech and Prize-giving Day of the Somanya Methodist Junior High School at Yilo Krobo in the Eastern Region. It was on the theme: "Preparing for Changing Work Environments, Leaving no Learner Behind." Decentralisation would enable the districts to have a platform ...
Response To Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s Claims On President Akufo-Addo’s Trip To Belgium And Rwanda
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Response To Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s Claims On President Akufo-Addo’s Trip To Belgium And Rwanda

  My attention has been drawn to a Facebook post by Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, stating categorically that “for President Akufo-Addo’s current trip to Belgium and Rwanda beginning Sunday the 19th of June, 2022 to attend the 15th Edition of the European Development Days Forum in Brussels, Belgium, and the 26th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations in Kigali, Rwanda; we can confirm a conservative bill of €480,000.00”. According to Hon. Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, the President’s trips to Belgium, and subsequently to Rwanda were aboard an Airbus ACJ319, registered D-Alex. He further adds that “the 480,000 Euros which is derived from 21 hours of total flight time plus other industry charges works out to some 4.1million Gh...
Ablakwa proposes a solution to curb the eruption of chaos in parliament
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Ablakwa proposes a solution to curb the eruption of chaos in parliament

Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has proposed measures to avoid further chaos in Parliament. Speaking on TV3 in an interview, the MP admitted that clashes in parliament is unbefitting of persons elected to represent their people. He said it is important that going forward, all members of the house follow the rules of engagement to avoid more fights in parliament. “The First Deputy Speaker himself, a few days prior, said that he knows he doesn’t have a vote so let us do things right. We all do not like the images that go out of parliament. We are decent people, we go to Parliament to debate, to do brain work, and to represent our people with the best of intentions, we do not go to Parliament with the mindset that we are going to some ...
Okudzeto Ablakwa lauds Ofori-Atta over 2022 Budget
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Okudzeto Ablakwa lauds Ofori-Atta over 2022 Budget

North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has commended the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta on modifications made to the 2022 budget. Mr Ofori-Atta, at a press briefing on Monday, announced parts of the budget statement have been amended, adding he has formally written to the Speaker of Parliament about it. The original budget statement delivered on November 17, 2021, made no mention of the construction of sea walls or other measures to counter coastal erosion. However, the Minority in Parliament asked the government to incorporate adequate measures to address the issue relating to the tidal wave flooding. They also demanded an allocation for the Blekusu Coastal Protection Project to find space in the budget. The Minister at the briefing announced...