The Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon and Minister-designate for the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, addressed the 2019 by-election violence for the first time during her vetting on Tuesday, March 5. Responding to inquiries, Madam Alhassan clarified that her aim during the election was to win and serve her constituents without resorting to violence. “The incident …

Lydia Seyram Alhassan, the Minister-Designate for the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, has attributed the filth in Accra to reckless and unconcerned human behaviour.Asked about the progress of the president’s initiative to make Accra the cleanest city and what she will do to continue with the initiative, she indicated that the unsanitary conditions in the capital are purely attitudinal. …

A private legal practitioner, Richard Dela Sky, has applied with the Supreme Court, seeking a declaration that the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, commonly known as the anti-gay bill, is null, void, and of no effect. Sky contends that the passage of the bill violates Article 33(5) of the Constitution of 1992, as well as the provisions of Articles …