GENERAL NEWS: Akufo-Addo to firm-up school reopening after Cabinet meeting on December 30

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  President  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo  is receiving briefings from  COVID-19  Technical Taskforce on limited school re-openings and would make a firm decision on school reopening in January 2021 after a Cabinet meeting on December 30, 2020. Addressing a news conference in Accra on  COVID-19  Updates on Tuesday, Information Minister,  Kojo Oppong Nkrumah , said the  COVID-19  Taskforce would work throughout the Christmas period to brief the President and analyse the impact of the  COVID-19  pandemic on students, during the limited school re-openings in July, August, September, and October, this year. Government in July allowed final year students in the tertiary education institutions to complete their semester courses and wrote their exit examinations. The final year senior high school students also returned to complete their term courses and wrote the West African Examination Certificate (WAEC), while the final year Junior ...

Koku Anyidoho likely to be granted bail tomorrow

Embattled Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho will be bailed tomorrow, Thursday after spending a night in police custody over a ‘treasonable’ comment, sources say.

This comes after former President John Mahama and some NDC bigwigs visited him at the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) Headquarters to show solidarity as well as intervene in the matter.

Koku Anyidoho was arrested and charged with treason for suggesting that President Akufo-Addo will be overthrown just like his father and the late Dr. K. A Busia due to the ratification of the controversial defense cooperation agreement between the US and the government of Ghana.

“Somebody should tell Nana Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself. On the 13th of January 1972, a certain Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led an insurrection that removed the progress party from power. Busia was the Prime Minister and Akufo Addo’s father was the ceremonial President. Someone should tell Akufo-Addo that history has an interesting way of repeating itself,” Anyidoho warned on Accra-based Happy FM.
“There will be a civilian coup d’état. There will be a social revolution. We [NDC] are starting it on Wednesday. The movement is starting on Wednesday. Nana Addo will have sleepless nights. He will suffer diarrhea. He said he wanted to be president, but we will make sure he will be fed up on the seat,’’ he noted further.
A number of NDC members throng the CID headquarters to demand the release of Anyidoho but the police employed the use of water cannon vehicles and the firing of teargas to disperse them. The police said they had to use force to expel the crowd after diplomacy and negotiations had failed.

Former President Mahama who arrived from election-observation duties in Sierra Leone was driven to the Police CID headquarters, Wednesday evening to commiserate with Anyidoho. 

Mahama was accompanied by Asiedu Nketia, NDC General Secretary; Julius Debrah, former Chief of Staff; and Betty Mould Iddrisu, former Attorney-General. He is said to have negotiated a bail for the NDC executive


Source: www.ghanaweb.com

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