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Kwame Akuffo

Also known as: Kwame Boafo Akuffo

Politics

MP Owiredu says Free Zones CEO should have been dismissed

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Abirem MP Charles Owiredu has criticised the CEO of the Ghana Free Zones Authority for her comments targeting the Church of Pentecost Chairman, saying she should have been dismissed. This follows the Pentecost leader's remarks about galamsey disrupting baptism practices in rivers, to which the CEO responded by telling him to stay in his clerical lane, though she later apologised.

19 hours ago · Joy Online

Yesterday

  1. MP Owiredu says Free Zones CEO should have been dismissed

    Abirem MP Charles Owiredu has criticised the CEO of the Ghana Free Zones Authority for her comments targeting the Church of Pentecost Chairman, saying she should have been dismissed. This follows the Pentecost leader's remarks about galamsey disrupting baptism practices in rivers, to which the CEO responded by telling him to stay in his clerical lane, though she later apologised.

    19 hours ago · Joy Online

  2. Illegal mining threatens water access, lawyer warns of future conflict

    Private legal practitioner Kwame Akuffo has warned that destruction of Ghana's water bodies through galamsey could lead to serious conflict over access to clean water if urgent action is not taken, describing it as an existential threat to the right to life. He argued that the government is spending money treating polluted water and that prevention would be more effective and less costly.

    19 hours ago · Joy Online

  3. Lawyer urges stronger action against illegal mining in Ghana

    Private legal practitioner Kwame Boafo Akuffo has called for more aggressive and decisive state action against galamsey (illegal mining), criticizing the current approach as too slow and ineffective. He argues that illegal mining endangers lives and natural resources, and urged a shift from what he termed a "Presbyterian approach" to enforcement toward more drastic measures.

    20 hours ago · Joy Online

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