The Ghana Police Service has arrested four men posing as national security personnel at the Ayawaso North Constituency voting center. One of them was seen with a side arm. Regional Police Commander, DCOP Iddi Lansah Seidu said the Police have the capacity to provide security for the constituency elections and asked other sister security agencies to stay off the voting process.

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Minister for Public Enterprises, Joseph Cudjoe, has said that he is an advocate of fat salaries for public sector workers who perform. At a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday, Joseph Cudjoe explained, however, that payment of fat salaries becomes an issue when the worker fails to perform his or her duties.

The Director of Labour Research and Policy for the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for a review policy that allows for a comprehensive pay structure for public sector workers. Dr Kwabena Otoo says the current system has created salary and allowance gaps that transcend into inequalities in amounts paid to pensioners.

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The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it is still on course with its modalities towards implementing the Electronic Transfer Law (E-Levy) on May, 1, 2022. The Commissioner-General insists that despite legal suits against the move, the Authority is yet to receive any directive to hold on with the scheduled roll-out.

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice says some lawyers belonging to political parties deliberately attempt to bring the judiciary’s image into disrepute. According to Godfred Dame, these lawyers resort to social media to achieve their target. He made these remarks when addressing the Bench, Bar and Faculty Conference on Thursday.

The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) has directed that teacher trainees start to fund their own feeding from May 8.

This directive is in response to the inability of Colleges of Education to make payments for food items supplied to them. According to PRINCOF, food suppliers who had continued delivering supplies to these Colleges of Education for months without payment have finally withdrawn their services till they receive the monies owed them.

The National Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa has rejected portions of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s report which tipped the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the party with a higher probability to secure victory in the next general elections. Mr. Asamoa contended that the NDC’s loss in the 2016 and 2020 general elections is a testimony to the party’s inability to govern the country, hence cannot win the 2024 elections.

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