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news/ Protecting public buildings against earthquake: No funds for integrity audit …Engineering Council appeals to govt by Nina(f) : 6:40 am On Mar 08

The non-release of funds to undertake the comprehensive integrity audit of all public buildings and structures in the country, to check their capability to withstand earthquakes has stalled the project, Registrar of the Engineering Council of Ghana, Mr Wise Ametefe, has said.

He said the about GH₵200,000 needed to commence the audit at the theChristianborg Castle (Osu castle), the seat of government (the Jubilee House),  Parliament House, the National Theatre,  ministries, departments and agencies blocks and hospitals has still not been released.

Speaking to the Ghanaian Times in a telephone interview yesterday in Accra, Mr Ametefe said the Council would start the project immediately funds were released.

He explained that, the GH₵200,000was the estimated budget to commence the project in the capital, before extending it to the remaining regions.

Mr Ametefe said, many buildings would be audited to assess their strength to withstand any seismic activities, since most earthquakes experienced in the country mostly happen in Accra.

He said so far, six different committees made up of experts to undertake the project has been constituted and awaiting the release of funds by the Ministry of Finance.

Mr Ametefe explained that the funds would be used to purchase the needed gadget to undertake a non-distractive test, travelling expenses and accommodation for members as well as acquisition of some technologies.

“In fact it is getting to an embarrassing stage as members kept calling to find out when the Council would commence the President’s directive of auditing these buildings.

“The Council as we speak does not have the financial muscles to undertake the project, that is the reason why we are pushing to ensure the licensing of all practising engineers to enable us get some funds in carrying out our operations,” he said.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during a stakeholder conference to study a report compiled by a committee of experts that assessed Ghana’s state of preparedness for earthquakes carried by the Ghanaian Times in its April 9, 2021 issue, charged the Engineering Council of the Ministry of Works and Housing to undertake the project.

He also urged the Ghana Geological Survey Authority to advise the government on the logistical needs and equipment required by the authority to undertake round-the-clock monitoring of seismic activities for urgent action.

Ghana has a major active fault line for earthquake, stretching from the McCarthy Hill area in Accra westwards towards Kasoa-Nyanyanu in the Central Region and eastwards towards the Akuapem Ridge all the way to the Volta Region.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has indicated that critical infrastructure such as Tema Harbour, the Kotoka International Airport, Akosombo Dam and Weija Dam, and Jubilee House are on the fault tine.

According to Research Gate papers published by Ghanaian experts, Ghana has records of damaging earthquakes dating as far back as 1615 with the last three major events occurring in 1862, 1906, and 1939.

The 1939 earthquake was the severest with a local magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale, resulting in the death of 17 people and causing significant damage to property in Accra.

Since then, there have been reported occurrences of earthquakes, with the recent one occurring last year June which the Ghana Geological Survey Authority (GGSA) described as a signal of an imminent earthquake of greater magnitude.

BY BERNARD BENGHAN

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Family/ 68-year-old Ghanaian man who has never married opens up on why he’s single by Nina(f) : 4:56 am On Mar 12

For many, marriage is a blessing but for others, the institution has led to their failure in life for which reason they do not want to encourage others to join the institution.

In Ghana, the 2021 Population census indicates that 553, 065 people are divorced whiles 405,090 people are separated.

Speaking to Ghana’s biggest Radio personality Giovanni Caleb in an interview a Ghanaian security man who is based in London has indicated that even though he is 64 years old, he has never married.

According to him, the institution called marriage is one that he dreads and has not thought of being a part of.

To him, staying single and having peace of mind is one of his life’s dreams and he is living it to the fullest.

“I don’t have a wife and I don’t have children so..never had a wife before, never had children before. I don’t know why but I don’t want to bump into a woman that will come and finish me off.

Really I’m telling you, brother. I fear women, I respect women but I fear women because they can make you or they can break you so I always pray to God that he should help me get the right one,” he said.

Source: MyNewsGh.com/ 2022

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news/ Akufo-Addo now repaying big loans Mahama took for Greenbook projects – NPP MP by Nina(f) : 2:51 am On Mar 13

Member of Parliament for Akim Swedru has Kennedy Osei Nyarko has said President Akufo-Addo is currently repaying huge loans the erstwhile John Mahama administration contracted for infrastructure projects in their Greenbook. 

The Swedru MP was reacting to claims by the opposition that the government of Akufo-Addo has taken so much loans for only consumption and nothing to show. According the MP, the answer lies in the Greenbook projects.

According to him, some of the borrowed money and taxes collected by the Akufo-Addo government since 2017 has gone to pay off Greenbook projects’ loans Mahama took to execute them.

This is even after President Akufo-Addo and some senior members of the ruling described the projects of the Greenbook as “non-existent” photoshop. 

The NPP MP said:

“When the NDC and its surrogate media come asking you what Government have used all the monies it has collected or borrowed since 2017 for just tell them a greater chuck of it was used those revenues since 2017 were used to serviced loans Mr. Mahama and his NDC Government took.”, he wrote attaching documents with projects marked red. 

“All the red marked areas are loans contracted by the NDC which the Akufo-Addo’s Government had since 2017 been paying for it yet they keep accusing him. All this information provided here are contained in the annual debts management reports. A chunk of all the loans they took for the projects in their Green book are being paid by the Akufo-Addo’s Government. The figures are in both millions and billions.” He explained.

It will be recalled that during the commissioning of the first phase of the Tema Motorway Interchange on Friday 5th June 2020, President Akuffo-Addo threw a jab at the NDC for claiming Greenbook credit for projects he was commissioning.

According to the president, what the NDC touted as achievements were lies which only existed in their ‘greenbook’ and not on grounds.

Ahead of the 2016 elections, the NDC listed a lot of significant infrastructure put in one pamphlet and titled ‘THE GREEN BOOK’. This book was seriously ridiculed by the NPP as being full of Photoshop pictures.

Source: MyNewsGh.com/2022

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