BRONG AHAFO NASPA DELEGATES ELECT NEW EXECUTIVES FOR 2011/2012 YEAR.

The newly elected executives with the Regional Director (in Smock, in front)

If you close your eyes thinking you are hiding and no one can see you...think again! By: D. D. Dzidula

The National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) delegates in the Brong Ahafo Region today December 21, 2011, have designated new sets of personnels for their executive positions for the 2011/2012 national service year.

Out of 110 delegates who were supposed to attend the meeting, 92 turned up to exercise their franchise.
Nominees for the presidential positions were Hon. Buertey Samuel Junior (NASPA President Tano south), Hon. Dsane Henry Niikoi (NASPA President Tano North), Hon. Anyandi Kwaku Edem (NASPA President Berekum), Hon. Obed Ofori Bangdome (NASPA President Wenchi), Hon. Agyapong Sebastian Thomas (NASPA Vice President Asutifi) and Hon. Osei Poku Jude (NASPA President Suyani Municipal).
Out of the 92 votes cast, Hon. Obed Ofori Bangdome emerged as the President by pulling 33 votes, whiles Hon. Buertey Samuel Junior, Hon. Dsane Henry Niikoi, Hon. Anyandi Kwaku Edem , Hon. Agyapong Sebastian Thomas and Hon. Osei Poku Jude attained 13, 8, 22, 8 and 8 votes respectively.
Four delegates contested for the vice president position and Honourable Amankwaa John (NASPA President Pru) obtained 45 votes to eventually occupy the slot.

Honourable General Secretary for Sunyani Municipal, Eunice Oduro qualified as the General Secretary above her opponent Hon. Lucy Vallent Nsiah (NASPA Secretary Sunyani west) by attaining a total of 56 votes.
Honourable Owusu Duodu Emmanuel (Vice President Techiman) won the Financial Secretary post by obtaining 53 votes over his two other opponents.

Honourable Osman Aliu John (Organizing Secretary Kintampo North) was elected as the Regional Organizing secretary when he obtained 46 votes over his other two contenders.
The regional director of national service scheme, Mr. A. A. Abubakar Ahmed said in his speech that this batch of executives stand a better chance of performing extraordinarily since the President elect was posted to the municipal with the National Service farm project.

The president elect Hon. Bangdome hinted that the campaign messages of the contenders who could not make it to their intended positions would be considered where necessary in drawing of the action plan. He thanked all delegates and wished them a merry Christmas and prosperous new year.

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Daniel Asante                                       DAVID OFORI - APPIAH

Trial judge in soda cocaine case was wrong – Committe

Whatever you do today might have effect on you some years to come By: Richard Nuakoh

The Chairperson of the committee set up by Chief Justice Georgina Wood to probe the cocaine-turned-baking soda saga says the trial judge erred in citing the Supreme Court case, Justice Smith v. KLM Dutch Airline, to back his order for a retesting of the substance.

Justice Agnes Dodzi said Mr Eric Kyei-Baffour's citation of the Supreme Court in the matter was wrong and asked why the state attorney at the centre of the case did not raise objections.

Justice Dodzi made this comments on the second day of the committee's sitting on Friday when the state attorney, Stella Arhin, faced the committee to answer questions about her role in the trial.

Stella Arhin told the four-member committee that the judge, Eric Kyei-Baffour, insulted her when she objected to a second testing of cocaine exhibits.

She accused the trial judge of highhandedness.
During cross examination at the committee hearing, attorneys of the court clerk were curious about why the state attorney failed to demand that the exhibit be destroyed after it was tendered in as evidence.

Her reason was; she forgot to inform the court.
The clerk's attorneys further asked whether she challenged the opening of the envelope that contained the evidence for ascertainment. According to Joy News Editor Samson Laadi Ayenini, Stella Arhin said she did not dispute it because it was a normal practice.

Attorneys of the clerk are said to have further impugned malice to the failure of the state prosecutor to remind the court to destroy the cocaine, alleging that this could be because there was a plan to swap the real cocaine with the baking soda.

They questioned the decision by the prosecutor to hear the analyst, who tested the evidence the second time at the Standards Board, in chambers instead of in open court.

One of the attorneys of the clerk, Capt. (rtd) Nkrabea Effah-Datteh, however indicated that their only intention during the hearing was to help the committee get to the bottom of the scandal.

Source: Myjoyonline