Journalistic Works - News Articles, Features And More of P. ATOGEWE WEDAM

GAMBAGA WITCHES' CAMP, ANY HELP IN SIGHT? FEATURE BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM JANUARY 20, 2009 [JOURNALIST - ISD, GAMBAGA] In this day and age where there are so many human rights organizations including the statutory Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, CHRAJ that fight to intensify and uphold respect for human dignity and fundamental human rights, it saddens me that rights abuse still permeate certain corners of our beloved country Ghana. Where I worry much and habour grave concerns for victims of human rights abuse is the scenario where persons are coerced into confinement as a result of outmoded and barbaric traditional norms and beliefs. This thus leads me to bring to the notice of or perhaps remind human rights organizations and indeed other civil society organizations about the plight and appalling conditions of life of inmates of the Gambaga witches camp in the East Mamprusi district of the Northern region. Besides the Gambaga witch

The contractor's men on site doing what needs to be done GAMBAGA COMMUNITY GETS A NEW DAM BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM January 20, 2009 ISD, GAMBAGA A new dam to help meet the water needs of the people of Gambaga is under construction near Zimasa at Gambaga in the East Mamprusi district. The dam covers a land area of about six acres. The construction of the dam is a result of a compensation agreement reached between opinion leaders of the community and A&N Ghanem Limited, a contractor working on 10 kilometers of the Walewale- Gambaga road. Whilst the dam will serve as a source of drinking water to livestock and also aid dry season farming, the District Water and Sanitation Development Board is expected to mount its water treatment machines there to increase supply of potable drinking water to households in the district. An assemblyman for Imamfongu, Honourable Yakubu Abdulai disclosed that under the agreement the community

EMDA HOLDS THIRD ORDINARY SESSION December 19,2008 By Peter Atogewe Wedam ISD, Gambaga The East Mamprusi District Assembly, EMDA is to vote an amount of GH ¢50,000.00 from its common fund for use by the health assistance training school which is about to start academic work soon in the district. The money, according to the DCE of the assembly, Honorable Peter Wuni represents the assembly’s contribution towards the smooth operation of the school whilst it waits for proper funding from the Ministry of Health. Honorable Wuni who was delivering his address at the assembly’s third ordinary session for the year held at Gambaga also disclosed that the EMDA has reached a tenancy agreement with a landlord at Langbensi to procure accommodation to house police officers who will be posted to man the Langbensi police station. In this respect, the EMDA has earmarked over GH¢1,200.00 to cater for the officers accommodation over a period of five years. The DCE disc

WELL DONE TECHNOSERVE December 19, 2008 By: Peter Atogewe Wedam, Information Services Department – Gambaga Close to 15 communities across the length and breadth of the East Mamprusi district have benefitted from diverse intervention programmes from TECHNOSERVE, an American non-governmental organistion. These interventions ranged from agric input support including provision of fertilizers, improved seeds and land preparation, and in most cases, drilling of boreholes to provide potable drinking water to needy and deprived communities. A Programmes Advisor of TECHNOSERVE, Mr. George Bamombe in an interview with the Information Services Department at Gambaga disclosed that the NGO began its intervention projects in the district in March 2006 and will be working to provide business solutions to rural poverty over a five year period. He said 14 districts of the Northern region are among beneficiaries nationwide that are enjoyi