US Embassy Makes U-Turn

The US Embassy in Accra whose refusal of visa to some senior government official sparked a national uproar have rescinded their decision to deny Mr. Atto Ahwoi Visa, Enquirer sources in government have revealed.

According to The Enquirer’s sources, The US Embassy contacted Mr. Ahwoi through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask Mr. Ahwoi to pick up a new visa form for consideration but Mr. Ahwoi has refused saying, all the information he has is what he provided in his last application.

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Mpiani & Wereko-Brobby to refund $360,000

Former Chief of Staff and Minister for Presidential Affairs, Mr. Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani, who was the Chairman of the National Planning Committee (NPC) of the Ghana@50 celebrations and his brother-in law, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, Chief Executive Officer of the defunct Ghana@50 Secretariat, and Mr. Sandy Osei Agyemang, Managing Director of United Africa Management Limited (UAML), are to refund an amount of $360,000 (C5.1Billion) in connection with the rental of Largus Forte Hotel during the Ghana @50 celebrations. full story

Kufuor is Angry

Former President Agyekum Kufuor, is boiling with anger over the findings of the Ghana @50 Commission of Enquiry and the trial of two of his closest allies, Dr. Wereko Brobby and Kwadwo Mpiani.

According to the President, all the government is trying to achieve is to try and get at him by persecuting innocent people .

“They can come for me directly, why should they go around and persecute innocent people just to get at Kufuor. If they think Kufuor stole something or did something against the constitution of Ghana, let them come for Kufuor straightaway and stop persecuting people who only tried to serve their country” He said. full story

Raymond Archer!.... The Face Of A Lying Coward!

Since Monday, when we published that he had claimed on a radio program that former President Rawlings and his wife had been paid five million dollars by the Atta Mills administration to complete their cocoa factory, Mr. Raymond Archer, the Editor in Chief of the Enquirer newspaper, has been going all out to accuse this newspaper and its editor, Mr. Kenneth Kuranchie, of peddling falsehood.

Mr. Archer has denied flat out ever saying that the Rawlingses had been given five million dollars by the Atta Mills administration! full story

Stop the “Money Bag Politics”

…NPP presidential aspirant warns

Ahead of what is turning out to be another heated flagbearership race for the opposition NPP, one of the first persons to declare interest in becoming president says the contest is becoming too expensive to run.

Heart surgeon of international repute, Prof. Kwame Frimpong-Boateng fears if what he calls “moneycracy” in Ghanaian politics is not checked and dealt with, it would deter noble people from going into politics.

Such heated flagbearership contests like the one witnessed in the NPP in the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary contests bring about what has become known as “Moneycracy or Vote buying syndrome,” in the politics of this country where delegates of political parties are given money before they meet political office seekers to listen to their campaign messages. full story

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