I have SRC President's 'attempted bribery' evidence - UG IT expert

The IT expert who developed the software for the conduct of the University of Ghana Student Representative Council (SRC) elections, Stephen Forson has revealed that he has in his possession valuable items of the sitting SRC President to prove he attempted bribing him.

The items which he refused to disclose when he spoke on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen are ones which could be obtained only after a visit to his residence.

“…KABA, tell him that his valuables are still with me…also extend my greetings to his fair-coloured girlfriend…,” he insinuated on the show.

The undisclosed items, he said, are all evidences to prove his alleged claims that current SRC President, Joshua Dogbey, GRASAG President, Reginald Arthur and one of the candidates in the election, Muhammad Mikdad tried to bribe him to manipulate the elections in favour of Mikdad.

Mr. Forson on Friday, April 17th, 2015 cited his pregnant wife as his witness. He added that the team from Legon promised to extend his contract with the University SRC if he does their bidding for their candidate to win.

IPRO Solutions Ltd has a five year contract with the University of Ghana (2012-2016), and also runs elections for all the polytechnics and some universities in the country.

"When they tried and they didn’t succeed, they thought others have also done so…the executioner fears to always lie with his head up of course…,” said.

But these allegations, the Presidents of the two student groups said are unfounded stating on the show that they never visited the house of the IPRO Chief Executive Officer.

While Reginald Arthur insisted he only met the IT Expert on the election day, Joshua said meetings between them were for ‘purely administrative matters’ and added that the meeting 

was about a month before the elections and not when the election was approaching.

Joshua said the venue for such meetings were his office on campus.

But Mr. Forson insisted that he still has in his possession certain evidences to prove his allegations.

“Ask them, how I got hold of those items if they had not been to my house…at least as a concerned lady, my wife passed by to look at them…,” he said.

He also added that despite him putting his phone off and the Legon team also taking their phones out during the midnight meeting, he still has in his possession certain evidences to prove they were present in his house.

Mr. Forson who insisted he was acting on the advice of his lawyers said he would provide details when he appears in court with the Legon team.

He further denied a said leaked report from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) which alleges the software for the elections was tampered with.

“At least when we met the BNI, they denied leaking any report to the media and I have not admitted to anything of that sort…,” he said.

Source: Ghana | adomonline.com | KWAKU NTI

Presby Church to build more Health Training Schools

The Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev. Dr Samuel Ayete-Nyampong, has said that the church will continue to build more health training institutions to train more health professionals.

He said it was for that reason that the church had decided to convert all its vocational training centres into health training institutions.

He said the health coordinating unit of the church, with support of the committee on health and environment, had been charged to accomplish this task by 2020.

Rev. Dr Ayete-Nyampong said this when he opened the 21st annual performance review meeting of the Presbyterian Health Services at Abokobi in the Ga East District in the Greater Accra Region.

He reiterated the church’s commitment to promote quality healthcare delivery to ensure productivity.

Rev. Dr Ayete-Nyampong said over the years the Presbyterian Church of Ghana had extended the delivery of quality health care to almost every corner of the country, adding that it would continue to provide both logistic and infrastructure support for its health facilities.

Vocational institute

Rev. Dr Ayete-Nyampong said last year the church handed over the Duayaw-Nkwanta Girls Vocational Institute to the health unit of the church to convert it into a midwifery training school. 

He said the process had already begun, with the first batch of students expected to be admitted in the 2016/2017 academic year, adding that the vision of the church in the health sector was to serve the poor through the provision of holistic, affordable and quality health service in fulfilment of Christ’s mandate “to go and heal the sick and tell them about the Kingdom of God.”

Rev. Ayete-Nyampong said the church would continue to be a key player in health service delivery in the country.

Health facilities

He said currently the church had 51 health facilities made up of four district/municipal hospitals, one regional eye clinic, nine primary healthcare outreach centres, 31 health centres and clinics, one nursing and midwifery training school, one nurses training college, a midwifery training school, a health technical maintenance unit and two community-based rehabilitation centres, making it the third largest provider of health services in the country.

Rev. Dr Ayete-Nyampong said without doubt the government alone could not shoulder the responsibility of developing the health sector. He, therefore, gave the assurance that the church was prepared to continue partnering the government in its development efforts.

NHIS indebtedness

The Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana, (CHAG),  Mr Peter Kwame Yeboah, expressed concern about the National Health Insurance Authority’s (NHIA) indebtedness to the health institutions, which was making it difficult for them to perform some of their activities effectively.

He said the CHAG leadership and the churches would continue to engage the government to resolve this important national issue.

Mr Yeboah commended the Presbyterian Church of Ghana for its contributions to health delivery in Ghana.

Source: Graphic Online