WENCHI PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED WANT THEIR RESULTS OF FINAL EXAMS

Persons with disabilities at the Wenchi Methodist Senior High School are complaining that they are yet to receive their results of the final exams after several calls to the authorities.
A Blind student at the school, Samuel Quartey explains that authorities promised them that their results will be ready after two months but unfortunately they are yet to receive their results.
He stated that the delay in the results hinders their opportunity to enroll to the universities.

Meanwhile, authorities at the examination council have stated that they are still carrying out investigations into the examinations malfeasance and that the results will release soon afterwards.

EXPERT CALL FOR IMMEDIATE LOCAL RESEARCH ON MOSQUITO RESISTANCE

A Board Member of Unibank Ghana limited, Professor Elis Badu has call for the agent need for a local research to be conducted to test the resistant ability of mosquitoes in the country.
He explains that the country should not always depend on other research conducted in other countries to draw conclusions in the fight of Malaria.
Professor Elis Badu emphasized that a local research team need to establish so that the country can develop a new trend to fight mosquitoes.
Professor Badu made this known in an interview with Adom news during a medical mission programme organized by the bank for over 2000 people in Accra as part of the activities lineup for their 10 years anniversary

Professor Badu stated that the government needs to reduce the prize of medicine so that the less privilege will be able to afford medicine for malaria and other treatment.
He added that poverty sometimes accounts for death of avoided illnesses.

Miss Akwambo winners accuse organizers of failing to give them prizes

The winners of this year’s Miss Akwambo Beauty Pageant have accused the organizers, Breezy FM of not giving them their prizes weeks after the event.
The pageant was held on August 1, 2011but the winners say the organizers told them they would be decorated with their prizes at public durbar but they have since not heard anything from the organizers and all efforts to get the prizes have proved futile.
Second Runner Up, Sandra Mensah told Adom News they promised to give the winner a refrigerator and GHC200; first runner up, a television set a GHC100 and she was to get a standing fan and GHC50 for coming third.
Doris Botwe, who was eventually crowned Miss Akwambo 2011 also told Adom News that all the six contestants paid GHC20 each to participate, and also provided their own costumes at their own cost.
“We are all students and we had to go hustle for the GHC20 to pay and participate because we had hope of going home with something – my father even picked up a quarrel with me because I paid to participate,” she said.
One of the Judges at the event, Abonzi Baby, a presenter on Breezy FM told Adom News the girls have been pressurizing her about the prizes and she had also been putting pressure on the organizers.
She said one of the organizers told her the chiefs of the area were supposed to have contributed money for the prizes but they have not so it had become the burden of the main organizers.
Abonzy Baby therefore assured the girls that within a matter of a week they would be settled.
Meanwhile at the time of going to press, one of the organizers told Adom News on phone that they were now holding an emergency meeting to find ways of getting the girls their prizes.

Story by: Samuel Mantey /Adom News/Ghana

KYEBI CHIEFS DENY KNOWLEDGE OF EXTRA GOLD WATER POLLUTION

The Kyebi Gyasihene in the Eastern Region Nana Barimah Amoako Darko Ampem says the chiefs and elders are yet to receive official complaints from the people of Apampamtua of the alleged pollution of water bodies by Extra Gold Mining Company.
He explains that they only heard the issue on Adom News this morning during Dwaso Nsem.
He blamed both parties for not informing the elders in the area before the issue got worsened.
Nana Barimah Amoako Darko-Ampem was reacting to the citizens’ threat to deal with Extra Gold Limited for taking their lands without the due process, polluting their rivers and using foreign dogs to harass them.
The Chief stated that they have not granted Extra Gold Company the go ahead to pollute water bodies.

Nana Barimah Amoako Darko Ampem assured the people that the palace will make sure the mining legislations are duly applied.