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Volta News

Ex-President, J.J. Rawlings is back at Wume-Tefle in the Volta Region where he is helping with the removal of weeds from the Volta Basin to help fight water-borne eye diseases affecting the people.

He has been part of the ongoing project by the Volta River Authority to get rid of the weeds that have stagnated the flow of the river and allowing for the breeding of parasites that carry eye diseases. He was at the venue when fire gutted his residence and destroyed the family’s property on Sunday morning. 

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The Minster-designate for the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ho-East, Mrs. Juliana Azumah Mensah, has condemned the recent attack on Mr. Isaac Deku, a Junior High School teacher at Agortime Afegame, by unidentified persons.

Mrs. Azumah Mensah described the act as uncalled for, stressing that the teacher was discharging his duty, and should not have been treated in such a way. 

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Personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have been urged to resist enticements by the public to bend the rules in their favour.

Mr Matthias Homey, Assistant Director of Immigration in charge of Aflao, gave the caution in an apparent reference to a recent video clip capturing border operatives supposedly in acts of extortion.

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Workers of the Volta Star Textile Limited at Juapong in the Volta Region, have embarked on an industrial action to demand better conditions of service and the dismissal of the senior staff.

The workers claimed that Management was insensitive to problems facing them and called on the Board of Directors be make new appointments to run the factory efficiently.

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