the over lord of the Gonja Traditional Council Yagbonwura Sulemana tuntumba Bori Essa I has sermon the chief and youth of Kabalma Traditional Area in the Bole district over chieftaincy dispute.
The paramount chief charged the chief of Kabalma to bring a cow with two fowls for the chief priest to purify the land for peaceful co-substance among the chief and youth of Kablma.
The sermon was as a result of an alarm raised by the chief of Kabalma in relation to five strong guys who attacked him in his room to assassinate him.
The knives were brough to the Yabonwura's palace by the chief for investigation.
though the youth denied the allegation, the paramount chief asked them to bring two sheep with fowls for purification of the land.
The youth together with the Mbonwura thus the warriors of Kabalma, and Wangara insisted that the chief of Kabalma should be diskined for allegedly lying that the youth attempted killing him.
the case was first reported to Bole wura Amankawah Seidu Gbeadase II who in an attempt to find solution to the problem failed. The Wangara and the warriors were uncooperative and violent. He therefore called on the police in BOle for safety.
The Wangara chief was arrested and was first tried in the Bole Magistrate court.
The Yagbonwura in his wisdom called the Kabalma chief and the Bole wura to order and insisted a quick withdrawal of the case from the court.
He stressed that cheiftaincy disputes were better solved within the traditional council in the palace than the court.
He appealed to the youth to accept the chief.
BY ATULE REGINA
Thursday, February 10, 2011
CAMFED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) Ghana under the West Gonja District of the Northern Region held its annual general meeting in Damongo.
CAMFED is a non governmental organization which aims at supporting female students especially the poor and needy who cannot afford for their educational needs.
The support they provide include the following;
Safety net fund: This includes payment of school fees, uniforms, sandals, exercise books, pens etc.
Bursary: This is a full scholarship to enable girls complete the Junior and Senior High Schools.
Safer schools fund: This provides financial support for projects targeted at improving the quality of teaching and learning as well as the physical environment. Young women empowerment: grants given to young women to become economically independent.
The meeting was organised to among other things raise awareness of the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders of the CAMFED programme, measure achievements and assess challenges over the year and as well as they way forward.
A report by the district education committee chairperson of CAMFED Mrs Mercy Awuntomah revealed that, in the year 2010 they under took the follwoing activities in the partner schools.
- Selection of forty needy pupils from Larabanga, Busunu D/A, Jakpa, and Canteen JHS Schools with stakeholders for the safety Net Fund.
- Selection of forty needy girls from Ndewura Jakpa and Damongo Senior High Schools for the Bursary support.
- Distribution of Bursary items to 224 JHS and 70 SHS needy girls in the District.
- Monitoring of both the use of the Bursary items and the implementation of the school safer Funds Projects.
- Organization of capacity building for SMC/PTAs and Head teachers of beneficiary schools, on their roles and responsibilities and on child protection.
The following were some of the achievements said to be accomplished in the report.
Due to the intervention of the CAMFED Programmed in the district, the Basic Schools enrolment figures increased, Statistics were as follows;
YEAR LEVEL BOYS GIRLS TOTAL
2007 Primary 6811 6122 12933
JHS 1783 1444 3227
2008 Primary 6599 6221 12820
JHS 1873 1566 3437
2009-2010 Primary 6752 6507 13259
JHS 2101 1716 3820
Again, the report revealed that CAMFED have helped to retain the needy girls in school and also increased the gender parity index (GPI)as shown below.
S/N BASIC LEVEL GP1
1 KG 1.01
2 Primary 0.99
3 JHS 0.91
In addition, the school safer funds have supported the benegiciary schools to provide a gender friendly school environment as well as quality teaching and learning. Some of the schools used the safer funds in purchasing computers for the teaching of I.C.T in their schools.
Some of the challenges mentioned were as follows;
(i) Lack of commitment among some of the DEC members
(ii) Late submission of returns and reports by some beneficiary schools.
(iii)Most schools and parents were pressuring for inclusion in the CAMFED support.
(iv) Difficulty of getting Damongo Senior High School uniform
(v) West Gonja was faced with a challenge of not getting quota for selection.
Mrs. Mercy Ewuntomah advised headmasters/teachers to retire their expenditure and submit their reports in time.
She further advised the new elected DEC members to be committed to work so that the district can qualify for the selection quota this year.
She called on members to be serious about CAMFED activities.
Madaam Abukari Afishata leader of CAMA outlined some of their achievements and challenges.
On achievements shse outlined the following;
1. CAMA was able to get 105 dropout pupils enrolled in schools
2. Two CAMA members were trained on Child Health Protection as Peer Health Educators
3. Also CAMA members, two MSG members were trained on gender and child right etc.
Touching on challenges, Madam Afishata complained of lack of commitment among members, inadequate funds, and Lack of means of transport to reach some communities etc.
Delivering a speech on behalf of the District Director of Education, the Human Resource Manager Mr. Robert Sulemana Kawura acknowledged the initiatives carried out by CAMFED in the district.
He advised head teachers and teacher mentors to coordinate well with their activities to bring progress in the schools and the district at large.
He also advised that funds received form CAMFED should be judiciously used.
He however lamented that some head teachers could not use the funds received from CAMFED to benefit their schools and students.
Representing the DCE Mr. S.Y. Inusah who is the District Co-ordinating Director of West Gonja lauded the DEC memebrs of CAMFED and outlined the essence of Annual General Meeting.
The meeting brought together District Education committee (DEC) members, CAMA members, Teacher mentors, headteachers of beneficiary schools etc.
BY ATULE REGINA
CAMFED is a non governmental organization which aims at supporting female students especially the poor and needy who cannot afford for their educational needs.
The support they provide include the following;
Safety net fund: This includes payment of school fees, uniforms, sandals, exercise books, pens etc.
Bursary: This is a full scholarship to enable girls complete the Junior and Senior High Schools.
Safer schools fund: This provides financial support for projects targeted at improving the quality of teaching and learning as well as the physical environment. Young women empowerment: grants given to young women to become economically independent.
The meeting was organised to among other things raise awareness of the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders of the CAMFED programme, measure achievements and assess challenges over the year and as well as they way forward.
A report by the district education committee chairperson of CAMFED Mrs Mercy Awuntomah revealed that, in the year 2010 they under took the follwoing activities in the partner schools.
- Selection of forty needy pupils from Larabanga, Busunu D/A, Jakpa, and Canteen JHS Schools with stakeholders for the safety Net Fund.
- Selection of forty needy girls from Ndewura Jakpa and Damongo Senior High Schools for the Bursary support.
- Distribution of Bursary items to 224 JHS and 70 SHS needy girls in the District.
- Monitoring of both the use of the Bursary items and the implementation of the school safer Funds Projects.
- Organization of capacity building for SMC/PTAs and Head teachers of beneficiary schools, on their roles and responsibilities and on child protection.
The following were some of the achievements said to be accomplished in the report.
Due to the intervention of the CAMFED Programmed in the district, the Basic Schools enrolment figures increased, Statistics were as follows;
YEAR LEVEL BOYS GIRLS TOTAL
2007 Primary 6811 6122 12933
JHS 1783 1444 3227
2008 Primary 6599 6221 12820
JHS 1873 1566 3437
2009-2010 Primary 6752 6507 13259
JHS 2101 1716 3820
Again, the report revealed that CAMFED have helped to retain the needy girls in school and also increased the gender parity index (GPI)as shown below.
S/N BASIC LEVEL GP1
1 KG 1.01
2 Primary 0.99
3 JHS 0.91
In addition, the school safer funds have supported the benegiciary schools to provide a gender friendly school environment as well as quality teaching and learning. Some of the schools used the safer funds in purchasing computers for the teaching of I.C.T in their schools.
Some of the challenges mentioned were as follows;
(i) Lack of commitment among some of the DEC members
(ii) Late submission of returns and reports by some beneficiary schools.
(iii)Most schools and parents were pressuring for inclusion in the CAMFED support.
(iv) Difficulty of getting Damongo Senior High School uniform
(v) West Gonja was faced with a challenge of not getting quota for selection.
Mrs. Mercy Ewuntomah advised headmasters/teachers to retire their expenditure and submit their reports in time.
She further advised the new elected DEC members to be committed to work so that the district can qualify for the selection quota this year.
She called on members to be serious about CAMFED activities.
Madaam Abukari Afishata leader of CAMA outlined some of their achievements and challenges.
On achievements shse outlined the following;
1. CAMA was able to get 105 dropout pupils enrolled in schools
2. Two CAMA members were trained on Child Health Protection as Peer Health Educators
3. Also CAMA members, two MSG members were trained on gender and child right etc.
Touching on challenges, Madam Afishata complained of lack of commitment among members, inadequate funds, and Lack of means of transport to reach some communities etc.
Delivering a speech on behalf of the District Director of Education, the Human Resource Manager Mr. Robert Sulemana Kawura acknowledged the initiatives carried out by CAMFED in the district.
He advised head teachers and teacher mentors to coordinate well with their activities to bring progress in the schools and the district at large.
He also advised that funds received form CAMFED should be judiciously used.
He however lamented that some head teachers could not use the funds received from CAMFED to benefit their schools and students.
Representing the DCE Mr. S.Y. Inusah who is the District Co-ordinating Director of West Gonja lauded the DEC memebrs of CAMFED and outlined the essence of Annual General Meeting.
The meeting brought together District Education committee (DEC) members, CAMA members, Teacher mentors, headteachers of beneficiary schools etc.
BY ATULE REGINA
ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW MEETING
An annual performance review meeting of the Ghana Health Service under the West Gonja District was held in Damongo.
The meeting was organised to review the performance of the directorate in 2010 and to plan for 2011.
The District Director of Health Dr. Kubio Crysantus in his speech outlined some successes and challengers of the sector.
He stated that the District has one hospital, four clinics, one poly clinic and five CHPS compounds.
He added that, there was an increase of the utilization of the in and out patient service with a per-capital income from 0.7 to 0.8.
Also, the increase of CHPS compound from two in 2009 to five by 2010 resulted in a reduction of mortality rate from106 per 100 live births in 2009 to 78 per 100 live births in 2010.
In addition, personnel have work hard to maintain Antenatal Care by 30% for the past three years. Again, the 80% sustenance of materinity rate gives 26%.
He also revealed that, the District recorded no guinea worm care.
He therefore congratulated the sub-sectors and the health volunteers for working hard to eradicate guinea worm in the district.
The director disclosed that three quality improvvement teams will be going to the Netherlands for further studies.
He stressed that, they are all working collectively as a team to increase the accessibility of health facility, managing the limited available health resource towards the achievement of the middle income status, by creating wealth through health.
Touching on challengeds, Dr. Crysantus Kubio mentioned inadequate health personnel, water crises and poor road network amongst others.
Mr. Moses Laar a representative of the Regional Director of Health congratulated the workers for their efforts.
He urged them to consider their objective as against their achievement and challenges to improve upon their services.
He also advised them to be kindto their patient, since unfair behaviour always send a bad reputation of the health department to the outside world.
The District Health Directorate presentation was done by Mr. Paul Konka. In his presentation, he expressed worry at the level of performance of the sub-centres with regards to maternal care. He also expressed concern at the level of increase in teenage pregnacy in the District.
Mr. Paul Konka pointed out that though there has been an increase in skill delivering from 2.7 to 2.9% and prevalent rate has reduce from 0.3 to 0.2, much needs to be done to enhance effective health delivering in the District.
He urged personnel to always persuade nursing mothers to trun up for post antenatal care twice every seven days.
The Duputy Co-ordinating Director Mr. Patrick Aparik on behalf of the District Chief Executive congratulated the directorate and the participants for thier hard work.
He told participants that, the district assembly is keen at addressing the most challenging issues to enhance effective health delivery.
BY ATULE REGINA -DAMONGO
The meeting was organised to review the performance of the directorate in 2010 and to plan for 2011.
The District Director of Health Dr. Kubio Crysantus in his speech outlined some successes and challengers of the sector.
He stated that the District has one hospital, four clinics, one poly clinic and five CHPS compounds.
He added that, there was an increase of the utilization of the in and out patient service with a per-capital income from 0.7 to 0.8.
Also, the increase of CHPS compound from two in 2009 to five by 2010 resulted in a reduction of mortality rate from106 per 100 live births in 2009 to 78 per 100 live births in 2010.
In addition, personnel have work hard to maintain Antenatal Care by 30% for the past three years. Again, the 80% sustenance of materinity rate gives 26%.
He also revealed that, the District recorded no guinea worm care.
He therefore congratulated the sub-sectors and the health volunteers for working hard to eradicate guinea worm in the district.
The director disclosed that three quality improvvement teams will be going to the Netherlands for further studies.
He stressed that, they are all working collectively as a team to increase the accessibility of health facility, managing the limited available health resource towards the achievement of the middle income status, by creating wealth through health.
Touching on challengeds, Dr. Crysantus Kubio mentioned inadequate health personnel, water crises and poor road network amongst others.
Mr. Moses Laar a representative of the Regional Director of Health congratulated the workers for their efforts.
He urged them to consider their objective as against their achievement and challenges to improve upon their services.
He also advised them to be kindto their patient, since unfair behaviour always send a bad reputation of the health department to the outside world.
The District Health Directorate presentation was done by Mr. Paul Konka. In his presentation, he expressed worry at the level of performance of the sub-centres with regards to maternal care. He also expressed concern at the level of increase in teenage pregnacy in the District.
Mr. Paul Konka pointed out that though there has been an increase in skill delivering from 2.7 to 2.9% and prevalent rate has reduce from 0.3 to 0.2, much needs to be done to enhance effective health delivering in the District.
He urged personnel to always persuade nursing mothers to trun up for post antenatal care twice every seven days.
The Duputy Co-ordinating Director Mr. Patrick Aparik on behalf of the District Chief Executive congratulated the directorate and the participants for thier hard work.
He told participants that, the district assembly is keen at addressing the most challenging issues to enhance effective health delivery.
BY ATULE REGINA -DAMONGO
ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW MEETING
An annual performance review meeting of the Ghana Health Service under the West Gonja District was held in Damongo.
The meeting was organised to review the performance of the directorate in 2010 and to plan for 2011.
The District Director of Health Dr. Kubio Crysantus in his speech outlined some successes and challengers of the sector.
He stated that the District has one hospital, four clinics, one poly clinic and five CHPS compounds.
He added that, there was an increase of the utilization of the in and out patient service with a per-capital income from 0.7 to 0.8.
Also, the increase of CHPS compound from two in 2009 to five by 2010 resulted in a reduction of mortality rate from106 per 100 live births in 2009 to 78 per 100 live births in 2010.
In addition, personnel have work hard to maintain Antenatal Care by 30% for the past three years. Again, the 80% sustenance of materinity rate gives 26%.
He also revealed that, the District recorded no guinea worm case.
He therefore congratulated the sub-sectors and the health volunteers for working hard to eradicate guinea worm in the district.
The director disclosed that three quality improvvement teams will be going to the Netherlands for further studies.
He stressed that, they are all working collectively as a team to increase the accessibility of health facility, managing the limited available health resource.
The meeting was organised to review the performance of the directorate in 2010 and to plan for 2011.
The District Director of Health Dr. Kubio Crysantus in his speech outlined some successes and challengers of the sector.
He stated that the District has one hospital, four clinics, one poly clinic and five CHPS compounds.
He added that, there was an increase of the utilization of the in and out patient service with a per-capital income from 0.7 to 0.8.
Also, the increase of CHPS compound from two in 2009 to five by 2010 resulted in a reduction of mortality rate from106 per 100 live births in 2009 to 78 per 100 live births in 2010.
In addition, personnel have work hard to maintain Antenatal Care by 30% for the past three years. Again, the 80% sustenance of materinity rate gives 26%.
He also revealed that, the District recorded no guinea worm case.
He therefore congratulated the sub-sectors and the health volunteers for working hard to eradicate guinea worm in the district.
The director disclosed that three quality improvvement teams will be going to the Netherlands for further studies.
He stressed that, they are all working collectively as a team to increase the accessibility of health facility, managing the limited available health resource.
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