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

Like elsewhere in Ghana, the Bongo District and for that matter, the Bongo Constituency also witnessed that one political  activity that  was simultaneous throughout almost the whole country except for a few constituencies. The activity in question was the National Democratic Congress' [NDC] parliamentary primaries conducted on Saturday, 24th August, 2019 against  the 2020 Parliamentary and Presidential elections. Hon. Edward A. Bawa, NDC's PC elect   In the Bongo Constituency of the Upper East Region, it was a two-horse race between the incumbent Member of Parliament [MP] for the constituency, Hon. Edward A. Bawa and his only contender, one Dr. Rainer Akumperigya.  Being the major opposition party in the country, the two competitors put up very vigorous and intensive campaigns to grab the  Bongo Constituency slot to represent their party, the NDC. My checks and "nosing around some sources", did not bring up any vote-buying allegations in t...

Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is in the country’s Upper East Region for a two-day tour which will afford him the opportunity to assess the impact of his government’s programmes and social interventions in the lives of his fellow countrymen. The President, as part of the tour, will also interact with the chiefs and people of the region through durbars during which he will update the citizenry about government’s development efforts and as well, listen to feedback from them. On day one of the tour, the President and his team made a first stop at the Bolgatanga Senior High School [BIG BOSS] where he addressed students and school authorities. He announced here that, he will undertake similar working visits to the Northern and Upper West Regions to see for himself the work his appointees such as municipal and district chief executives as well as ministers were executing on the field in order to actualise government’s mandate and promises and also, to better the lives of th...

Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga, District Chief Executive [DCE] for Bongo in the Upper East Region, has successfully filed his nomination forms at the New Patriotic Party’s [NPP] Bongo Constituency office this Thursday. This thus marks a formal declaration of his intention to contest the Bongo Constituency Parliamentary Primaries on the ticket of the NPP gearing up towards the 2020 general elections, to possibly unseat the current occupant of the seat, the opposition National Democratic Congress. Hon. Peter Ayinbisa (in green smock & hat) as he arrived at the party office The NPP’s Elections Committee Chairman and an elder of the party in the Upper East region, Mr. Robert Adjene in the company of an Elections and Research Officer, Mr. Solomon Azure and other executives, received Mr. Ayinbisa’s forms by late afternoon on August 1, 2019. They spent some time to comb through the forms and eventually signed them in as a true representation of all details required for entry into the ra...