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The Member of Parliament, Hon Sebastian Sandaare, yesterday, Monday, 30th August, 2021 donated some relief items to affected constituents of the  flood disaster that destroyed several properties leaving many of the constituents devastated.  As an interim intervention, the lawmaker presented items including bags of rice, cement, towels, plastic bowls, buckets, various types of soap, exercise books and pens the people through the district NADMO director and some Assembly Members. The items were presented at Fian in a short ceremony. Briefing the media after the presentation, he bemoaned the sad situation in the district. He said, the items presented are not adequate to take care of the havoc but would go a long way to help the affected people. He called on individuals, NGOs, government and the corporate world to come to the aid of the district.  The NADMO director, Hon David Kunbini after receiving the items thanked  the Member of Parliament for his show of compassion ...

On Monday August 23rd 2021, the Member of Parliament for Jirapa Municipal Hon Cletus Seidu Dapilaa handed over a Chip Compound to the people of Baazu who happens to be the largest Chip compound in Jirapa.  The project was sponsored and funded by Qatar Charity through the member of parliament who happen to be former DCE after he left office and has served for two years. Qatar Charity came to Ghana in 2017 and started helping the most vulnerable in 2018. Jirapa municipal has a population of over 111,000 people, out of these number, they have 47 functional Chip Zones. Out of these 47 functional chip zones, only 27 are having compounds, 1 hospital and 1 poly clinic and the facilities at hand is worthly inadequate to render services to the municipality.  Hon Cletus Seidu Dapilaa after he left office has not relent on the development of the District especially when it comes to health care delivery. He wrote numerous of letters to different organizations advocating for a chip compoun...

  With just eight months in office as Member of Parliament, Hon. Cletus Seidu Dapilah has continued where he stopped as DCE. He  continues to invest in health sector in the Jirapa Municipality for quality health care delivery for his people. In deed, this cements the saying that health is wealth. Today, the people of Baazu are grateful as the MP. Hon. Cletus Seidu Dapilah hands over a health facility to them. This facility is to help provide health care delivery at the door steps of the people of Baazu and other communities. It would help reduce the burden of travelling over long distance to the main health facility in Jirapa to attend to basic health problems. In a brief speech by the MP, he encouraged the people of Baazu to report early for treatment at the facility to avoid complications. He said " sound health is the principal need of the  people before any kind of empowerment".   According to him, the facility would serve neighboring communities around Baaz...

  .   The people in the Upper West Region of Ghana Wales for help as the region was hard hit by a torrential rainfall causing a massive flood of destruction to the people. The disaster occurred in the night of August 13th where there was a heavy downpour overnight.  It was a terrible incident and never before in history. All source of livelihood for the people are greatly affected and the magnitude of the destruction cannot be fathomed. Many properties are destroyed by the flood, buildings collapsed, farmland submerged and washed off, major bridges along the Trans-Ecowas road to Bukina Faso were cut off.  Lives for the people is now a destress and so devastating. Many people are homeless, Economic activities are shutdown as the people cannot travel any longer. Many buildings for animals collapsed leading many animals dead. There is an expectancy of great famine plaguing the Region as many farms were swept off.  The people of the affected region in grief cries fo...

The Member of Parliament for Daffiama, Bussie, Issa, Hon Sebastian Sandaare has described as unfortunate, a video being circulated where an Anglican Priest is seen kissing young ladies and describing same as a holy kiss.  According to the legislator who is also a medical doctor by profession, the act is not a normal and acceptable practice and he doubts whether it is in the Anglican Church. Describing the act as immoral and dangerous to the health of those involved, he says the Priest should be given a medical examination to ascertain whether he is normal and healthy. He made the comments on the GBC 24 Focus program on Tuesday, 18th August, 2021, monitored by straight news. The Rv. father is being bastardized on social media,  for what many consider as immoral and a breach of covid-19 protocols.

  A Coalition of aggrieved public sector workers are set to stage s thunderous demonstration tomorrow against the 4% public sector salary increment. The aggrieved workers see the increase as inadequate to minimise the cost of living in the country. The aggrieved workers are also not pleased with Union leaders for agreeing to the 4% increase, saying that did not reflect the welfare and interest of public sector workers.  As part of the arrangements, the Ghana police service released a statement, stating its willingness and readiness to provide adequate security for the demonstrators.

Kpaamah James president, NADSU  National. The National president of the Nadowli-Kaleo/Daffiama Bussie Issa (DBI) student's union, Mr. Kpaamah James on Saturday 14th August 2021 during the Union's send off/handing over ceremony at the University of Education Winneba calls on the member of Parliament for the Daffiama Bussie Issa (DBI) constituency, Hon. Dr. Sebastian Sandaare, who was the guest speaker for the ceremony to aid them (national executives) of the union in executing their yearly programmes and policies. During his speech at the ceremony, Mr. Kpaamah James enumerated some of their plans as a union for students of the constituency more especially students at the basic and senior high levels and therefore pleads on the member of Parliament to help them bring those plans to a reality. As part of their yearly plans, he said they intend to do a voluntary teaching exercise for basic school students in the constituency so as to help improve academic excellence in the constit...