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Fidelity Bank Ghana has opened a new branch at Afienya to bring banking services closer to residents and businesses in the rapidly developing New Sebrepor-Gbetsile-Afienya corridor.

The Afienya Road Branch brings the bank’s total number of branches to 82 across 14 regions, as part of its strategy to expand its physical presence and improve access to convenient and quality banking services.

Speaking at the official opening, the Divisional Director of Retail Banking at Fidelity Bank Ghana, Godfred Attafuah, said the decision to establish the branch was driven by the growing needs of communities along the corridor.

He said the area had recorded significant growth in economic activity, with traders, small businesses, construction firms, young entrepreneurs and families contributing to its expansion.

‘For years, if you lived in the New Sebrepor-Gbetsile-Afienya corridor and needed to see your bank, you travelled. You went to Tema. Today, that journey ends. The Afienya Road Branch is open and it is yours,’ he said.

Mr. Attafuah said the expansion reflected Fidelity Bank’s belief that customers should have access to quality banking services irrespective of where they lived.

‘Being a Ghanaian bank means being within reach of Ghanaians. Not just in Accra. Not just where the numbers are obvious. Everywhere our people are,’ he said.

The Member of Parliament for Kpone-Katamanso, Joseph Akwetey Tettey, welcomed the bank’s decision to establish a branch in the constituency, saying its presence would support the area’s growing population and business community.

He said the Kpone-Katamanso area had a population of approximately 417,000 and noted that the new branch would help facilitate financial activities for individuals and businesses while creating opportunities for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).

‘I am happy that Fidelity Bank has taken this decision to come here. Your coming will help us a lot and facilitate business for individuals and also help us take care of the micro, small and medium enterprises around,’ he said.

The MP also encouraged Fidelity Bank to explore flexible financing arrangements to enable smaller businesses within the catchment area to access credit and expand their operations.

The Afienya Road Branch is the latest addition to Fidelity Bank’s national network, which includes branches in communities such as Jirapa, Tafo-Pamkrono, Tanoso, Bibiani, Sefwi Wiawso and Goaso.

In addition to its branches, the bank operates more than 8,000 agents nationwide, providing customers with access to basic banking services closer to their communities.

The opening comes as Fidelity Bank prepares to mark 20 years of operations in Ghana. From its beginnings as a discount house, the bank has grown into the country’s largest privately owned Ghanaian bank, with a nationwide branch and agency network serving millions of customers.

Mr. Attafuah said the bank would continue to invest in communities as economic centres across the country expand.

He expressed appreciation to the chiefs, religious leaders, government representatives, customers and residents of the New Sebrepor-Gbetsile-Afienya communities for welcoming the bank into the area.

A Business Desk Report

Why the developing world’s most travelled leaders keep returning from Singapore, London and Tokyo with photographs instead of change

By Ing. Prof. Douglas Boateng, Chartered Director UK | Chartered Engineer UK | Fellow, Institute of Directors UK | Fellow, Ghana Institution of Engineering | Governance, Industrialisation and Supply Chain Strategist | Founder, Boardroom Governance Summit | Founder and Scriber, NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom)

There is a peculiar ritual familiar across much of the developing world. A political leader, senior official or business executive boards a flight from Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg or Lusaka and lands in Singapore, Dubai, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Tokyo or Seoul, where the airport runs on time, the immigration process works, the roads are disciplined, the electricity is expected rather than celebrated, and public transport has the interesting habit of actually following its timetable. The delegation attends a conference on development or governance, takes its notes, poses for its photographs, perhaps produces a communiqué, and then flies home. Somehow the lessons remain in the suitcase. That is the uncomfortable question behind this reflection: most developing-world politicians and business leaders travel the world and see the best that developed nations have to offer, so what exactly is stopping them from building something similar at home?

We Can No Longer Claim We Have Not Seen What Works

There was once a time when geography restricted knowledge, when a policymaker in Accra could reasonably know little about how Singapore organised its ports or how the Netherlands managed its water. That excuse has disappeared. African presidents, ministers, mayors, engineers and senior civil servants travel constantly, our universities collaborate internationally, and our diaspora works inside some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions. We already know what functioning systems look like. The question has therefore changed from what should we do to why are we not doing what we already know should be done.

NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom): there comes a point when lack of knowledge stops being an explanation and lack of implementation begins becoming an indictment.

Singapore Did Not Become Singapore By Admiring Somebody Else

Consider Singapore, a country African leaders frequently cite. The World Bank describes its transformation from a low-income country at independence in 1965 into today’s high-income economy, with growth averaging around seven per cent annually and reaching about nine per cent during its first twenty-five years. Between 1963 and 1975 it received fourteen World Bank loans focused on fundamentals such as water, sewerage, electricity, telecommunications and ports, and by the mid-1980s those loans had been repaid. Today its GDP per capita sits around ninety-eight thousand US dollars and its sanitation coverage is effectively universal. There was no magic wand; Singapore built, maintained, enforced, learned, adjusted and continued, decade after decade. African delegations have visited Singapore for years, and perhaps we have now studied it sufficiently. The next study tour should sometimes be a study return, asking honestly what was learned last time, what was implemented, what changed, and who was held accountable, because otherwise study tours risk becoming little more than development tourism.

Africa’s Problem Is Not That It Has Never Seen Infrastructure

The contrast becomes painful measured against our own deficits. As of 2024, about 560 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still lived without electricity, and the continent retains the world’s largest electricity-access gap, with the World Bank estimating Africa’s infrastructure financing gap at more than a hundred billion dollars annually. Behind every number is ordinary life: a child studying without dependable power, a small manufacturer running a generator, a clinic struggling with reliability, a farmer unable to process produce locally. Infrastructure is not concrete; it is productivity. And many of the decision-makers experiencing these deficits at home have personally experienced infrastructure excellence abroad, so they know precisely the difference.

NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom): It is difficult to plead ignorance about darkness when you have repeatedly travelled to places where you have seen how the lights were kept on.

We Admire Maintenance Abroad And Neglect It At Home

Perhaps the greatest difference between successful and struggling societies is not what they build but what they maintain. We love commissioning ceremonies, with their ribbons, speeches and cameras, yet maintenance arrives later without any television coverage, so it apparently becomes less exciting. Drains block, streetlights fail, road markings disappear, and eventually somebody proposes an entirely new project rather than repairing the old one. The World Bank stresses that infrastructure quality is deeply connected to governance, to how projects are planned, selected and managed, and this affects both service delivery and public trust.

NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom): A nation that celebrates construction but neglects maintenance will eventually become very good at commissioning replacements for things it should never have allowed to collapse.

Why Do The Rules Suddenly Work For Us Abroad

There is another contradiction worth naming gently. The same person who discards rubbish carelessly at home discovers environmental consciousness on landing in Singapore, and the driver who treats a red light as a suggestion at home becomes remarkably obedient in London. What changed was not character; it was consequence, enforcement and system design. A society cannot endlessly preach discipline while quietly rewarding indiscipline. The cleanest cities are not clean because their citizens are morally superior, but because waste is collected, rules are enforced, planning is respected and offenders face consequences.

NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom): When the same citizen behaves differently after crossing a border, perhaps the problem is not only the citizen; examine the system waiting on either side.

We Do Not Need To Copy, We Need To Adapt

None of this means Africa should photocopy Singapore, Germanyor Japan, which would be intellectually lazy given how different our populations, geographies and institutions are. But principles travel even when systems do not: maintenance, planning, professionalism, merit, accountability and long-term thinking can all be adapted to local circumstances without being copied wholesale.

NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom): Learn globally, think locally, adapt wisely, because a borrowed solution becomes useful only after it learns the language of the problem it has come to solve.

The Real Enemy May Be Short-Termism

Development requires time, yet our politics frequently demands immediacy, with roads needing to be visible before the next election and projects needing to carry somebody’s personal legacy. Singapore’s transformation, South Korea’s industrial rise, Japan’s reconstruction and China’s economic leap all unfolded across decades, not electoral cycles. The challenge is building institutions capable of carrying national priorities across political transitions, so that a new government improves what works, corrects what does not, and does not behave as though national history began on its own inauguration day.

NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom): A nation cannot travel fifty years into the future if every political cycle insists on returning to kilometre zero.

Our Businesses Are Not Exempt Either

It would be convenient, and dishonest, to blame politicians alone. African executives travel too, visiting world-class factories and studying advanced supply chains, then returning home to tolerate late payments to small suppliers, weak maintenance and governance shortcuts. Standards should not change according to geography. UN Trade and Development estimates that small and medium enterprises account for roughly eighty per cent of employmentacross Africa, which means large businesses carry a developmental responsibility well beyond their own balance sheets, from paying suppliers fairly to developing local capability and investing in people.

We Travel More Easily Across Oceans Than Across Our Own Continent

Nowhere is the contradiction more visible than in African trade itself. We speak constantly about Pan-Africanism, yet intra-African trade remains only around sixteen per cent of the continent’s total exports according to UNCTAD, even though full implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area could support a market worth roughly 3.4 trillion dollars. Agreements cannot drive trucks, and declarations cannot clear customs; what Africa needs now is transport corridors, interoperable payment systems, efficient borders and the political willingness to make the vision real.

What Is Wrong With Us

Perhaps what is wrong with us is that we have become excellent admirers of other people’s discipline. We admire clean streets abroad while tolerating rubbish at home, admire long-term planning while replacing policies with political cycles, and admire meritocratic systems before quietly asking whose person got the job. The developed world is far from perfect, with its own inequality and institutional weaknesses, and Africa should never romanticise it. But where something demonstrably works, pride should not prevent learning, and where we already know what works, endless learning should not become an excuse for avoiding implementation. Perhaps every delegation should be required to produce an implementation note rather than a travel report, answering honestly what was learned, what applies locally, who will implement it, and what happened twelve months later. That is how exposure becomes development rather than décor.

From Admiration To Implementation

Africa does not suffer from a shortage of examples; we have seen Singapore, studied Germany, understood Japan and admired the Netherlands. What we have not yet consistently done is bring those lessons home and defend them long enough to become ordinary. The next frontier is not another journey outward but a journey inward, from seeing to doing, from groundbreaking ceremonies to maintenance, and from election-cycle thinking to generational thinking.

NyansaKasa (Final Reflection): When leaders have repeatedly seen what good looks like, travelled on it, slept in it and enjoyed its benefits, the question is no longer whether they know better, but what prevents all of us from demanding, building and protecting better at home. Nations are not transformed by the number of places their leaders visit; they are transformed by the useful lessons their institutions have the courage and persistence to bring home and turn into everyday reality for their own people.

About the Author

Ing. Professor Douglas K. Boateng is a strategist in governance, industrialisation and supply chains, and serves as a professional chairperson, an international Chartered Director (UK) and a Chartered Engineer (UK). A Pan Africanist and social entrepreneur at heart, he has spent his career working across public institutions, corporate boards and industrial policy, in Africa and beyond, guided by the conviction that strong institutions are built on honest decision at a time. His contributions to industry and academia have been recognised with more than six lifetime achievement awards throughout his career. He is the founder of NyansaKasa (Words of Wisdom), a collection of daily aphorisms he has written and shared since late 2019, distilling decades of experience advising governments, boards and enterprises on governance, accountability and institutional resilience into words meant to challenge and to endure. He convenes the Boardroom Governance Summit, Africa’s largest boardroom focused summit, and writes a widely read weekly opinion column

The Ghana Police Service has declared Barbara Asantewaa Kodua wanted for being behind the ‘Ghana Jollof’ account on TikTok used to hurl vile insults at government officials.

A poster shared on the social media pages of the Service pointed out that the suspect is currently ‘hiding’ in the United Kingdom and was last seen on August 4, 2022 at the Accra International Airport.

The woman, said to be 40 years old, is fair in complexion and is wanted for allegedly inciting violence through her social media videos.

‘Anyone with information about the suspect, should kindly contact the nearest police station or call 0500100010,’ the poster added.

Remand

In a related development, a Senior Nurse, Salomey Awiti Bafoh, has been remanded into custody for two weeks for allegedly aiding Barbara Asantewaa Kodua, a TikToker operating under the name ‘Ghana Jollof’, to publish and circulate false news on social media.

The Senior Nurse, who was reportedly arrested in the middle of the night in Techiman on September 12, and kept in custody for about five days, is accused of ‘serving as liaison for the said Barbara Asantewaa Kodua.’

She has been charged with one count of abetment of crime – publication of false news for her alleged role in the circulation of Ghana Jollof’s videos which many consider to be vile, further raising concerns about insults gaining their way into Ghanaian politics.

Although Barbara Asantewaa Kodua appears on the prosecution’s charge sheet as the second accused person, no specific charges were levelled against her.

The police, however, indicated in its summary of facts that she used her social media platform to produce and publish videos containing offensive and inciting statements with the potential to provoke violence.

They further accused her of threatening to ‘overthrow the Government of Ghana’, adding that Ghana Jollof said ‘she will burn Ghana amongst other things.’

Prosecution’s Facts

The brief facts presented to the Adenta Circuit Court ‘1’ indicate that investigations led to the identification of Salomey Awiti Bafoh as a collaborator of Barbara Asantewaa Kodua.

Court document says investigations ‘established’ that Bafoh assisted Kodua in the dissemination of the videos produced by Ghana Jollof, by recruiting other persons to redistribute and circulate the material through various social media platforms.

‘Investigations further revealed financial arrangement between the two accused persons whereby the 2nd accused (Ghana Jollof), while domiciled in the United Kingdom, remitted monies to the 1st accused (Bafoh) in Ghana in support of these activities,’ the document alleges.

It adds that Bafoh subsequently distributed portions of those funds to other persons involved in the redistribution and recirculation of videos produced by Ghana Jollof through various social media platforms.

The document further noted that investigations are ongoing to identify and locate other persons who participated in the redistribution of the videos.

Condemnation

The arrest of Salomey Awiti Bafoh has attracted condemnation from some sections of the public, particularly from some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Speaking to the media after her arraignment, her lawyer, Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, questioned the basis for her arrest and continued detention, particularly when the police admit that the main suspect behind the Ghana Jollof account is living in the United Kingdom.

‘Because you want to arrest Ghana Jollof, you have remanded her for two weeks. Meanwhile, you told the court that Ghana Jollof is in the UK,’ the lawyer, who is also the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South, said.

Meanwhile, the Advisor on Gender and Social Protection to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Akosua Manu, has raised concerns over what she describes as the arrest and detention of innocent women, in an attempt to identify the person behind the Ghana Jollof account on social media.

‘What is being reported cannot simply be normalised as ‘arrests.’ When individuals reportedly arrive at a woman’s home around midnight, identify themselves as security operatives, take her away, and her family is subsequently unable to establish with certainty which state institution is holding her or where she has been taken, we are confronting something far more troubling. This bears the disturbing hallmarks of an abduction and demands an immediate and credible explanation from the state,’ she said in a statement.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected the government’s current approach to the review of the 1992 Constitution, demanding the establishment of a Constituent or Consultative Assembly before proposed amendments are taken through Parliament and a referendum.

The party said the scale of the proposed changes and the level of disagreement between the government and the Constitution Review Committee required a broader national deliberative process to build consensus.

Presenting the NPP’s position on the constitutional review exercise at a press conference in Accra yesterday, the party’s Policy Coordinator, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said the proposed amendments were far-reaching and could fundamentally alter the country’s constitutional order.

He said the Constitution Review Committee had recommended amendments to 147 of the Constitution’s 299 Articles, representing about 49 percent of the Constitution, in addition to 59 entirely new provisions.

According to Mr. Oppong Nkrumah, the 206 propositions collectively represented an overhaul of the Constitution rather than routine amendments.

He said the NPP therefore believed that the exercise should not be treated as ordinary business under Chapter 25 of the Constitution, but should follow a broad and representative process similar to those used in the nation’s previous constitutional arrangements.

The NPP Policy Coordinator said the party was particularly concerned about the government’s decision to proceed with its own position on a significant number of the review committee’s recommendations.

He said, according to the NPP’s assessment, the government had fully accepted 22 recommendations and partially accepted 25, leaving 100 of the 147 recommendations as areas of disagreement.

Mr. Oppong Nkrumah said the government had handed a zero draft reflecting its accepted and modified recommendations to the 11-member Constitution Review Implementation Committee and instructed it to draft the proposed amendments.

He said the committee had been given a November 2026 deadline to prepare the first amendment bills, with amendments to non-entrenched provisions expected to go before Parliament, while changes to entrenched provisions would be subjected to a referendum alongside the 2027 District Assembly elections.

The NPP objected to what it described as a process in which contested issues would be drafted rather than negotiated.

‘The NPP therefore calls on the NDC government to bring a Constituent or Consultative Assembly Bill to Parliament and to establish a proper deliberative Assembly,’ Mr. Oppong Nkrumah said.

He stated that such an Assembly should bring together political parties, organised labour, professional bodies, the National House of Chiefs, religious organisations, women’s groups, persons with disabilities, students and youth, the private sector, civil society and representatives from the regions.

The party said the proposed Assembly would provide a platform for stakeholders to deliberate on the 100 issues it considers to be in contention between the government and the independent Constitution Review Committee.

Among the issues identified by the NPP are the proposed five-year presidential term, the size of Parliament, whether a new category of Members of Parliament (MPs) should be appointed rather than elected, whether MPs should be allowed to serve as Ministers, the method of selecting District Chief Executives, and the independence and funding of oversight institutions.

Mr. Oppong Nkrumah said the NPP was not opposed to constitutional reform, noting that the party had consistently supported amendments to provisions of the 1992 Constitution that could strengthen accountability, decentralisation and the country’s institutions.

However, he indicated the scale of the current proposals required a different approach, pointing to previous constitutional exercises in 1969, 1979 and 1992, where expert bodies prepared proposals that were subsequently deliberated upon by broad-based representative assemblies.

The NPP also criticised the declaration that consultation on the review had been completed, arguing that there was no mechanism for political parties, organised labour, professional bodies and other stakeholders to negotiate the outstanding issues.

Mr. Oppong Nkrumah said the party would not support efforts to bundle the government’s preferred amendments into a referendum in the absence of a Constituent Assembly or a comparable mechanism for negotiated consensus.

He said the party’s position was intended to ensure that any constitutional changes reflected a broad national agreement rather than the position of a single political party.

The NPP said it supported taking the eventual outcome of a broad-based deliberative process to a referendum under Article 290 of the Constitution.

It further called on the government to reconsider the current timetable and establish the proposed Constituent Assembly to deliberate on the outstanding issues before the amendments were finalised.

Industrial expert, Prof. Douglas Boateng will on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 deliver a keynote address at the largest professional gathering on supply chain and industrialisation in Livingstone, Zambia.

In a statement issued by African Supply Chain Confederation(ASCON) Communications said Prof. Douglas Boateng willaddress the largest professional gathering on supply chain and industrialization on the continent under the theme ‘Breaking down Barriers through Made in Africa,’

It stated that Professor Boateng will argue that African-manufactured products should progressively carry MADE IN AFRICA as a shared continental identity, qualified by country of production such as MADE IN AFRICA, Produced in Ghana; MADE IN AFRICA, Produced in Nigeria; MADE IN AFRICA, Produced in Zambia.

‘The country of production tells us where the product comes from. MADE IN AFRICA tells the world the economic family to which it belongs. A product can be proudly produced in Ghana and proudly Made in Africa. National pride and Pan-African economic identity should reinforce, not compete with, each other.’ it stated

The statement indicated that Professor Boateng believes genuine continental integration demands more than customs posts and trade agreements but rather requires dismantling the psychological, procurement and institutional barriers that keep Africans from producing for, trading with, and confidently buying from one another.

‘For too long, Africa has exported what it has, imported what it could progressively learn to produce, and then wondered why industrial jobs are being created elsewhere. We cannot continue exporting the seed, importing the finished fruit, and complaining that our young people cannot find work.’

‘Every significant procurement decision is potentially an industrialisation decision, when an Institution spends, it is also deciding whose factory receives demand, whose workers remain employed, and where tomorrow’s productive capability will be built’. Parts of the statement read

John Kirani, Secretary General of the African Supply Chain Confederation (ASCON), said the gathering will serve as an opportunity to connect Africa’s professional capability with its wider industrial ambitions adding that Prof. Boateng’s address will challenge them to connect national productive strength into a stronger African economic ecosystem.

While commending Prof. Boateng for his contribution to supply chain and industrialization across the continent, it added that the Africa people desired will not simply arrive at the ports in containers but should be imagine, financed, sourced, produce and trade in it themselves.

Ing. Professor Douglas Boateng is a pioneering international industrial, manufacturing and production systems engineer, governance strategist, and Pan-African thought leader whose work continues to shape boardroom thinking, supply chain transformation and industrialisation strategy across the continent and beyond. He is Africa’s first appointed Professor Extraordinaire in Supply Chain Management,

Rapper Medikal has says he prefers being rich than famous without money.

The rapper in a post on X on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, declared that he would choose wealth over fame, arguing that popularity means little when it comes with financial struggles.

‘I’d rather be rich than famous because there’s nothing worse than being famous and broke,’ he wrote.

His comment has since generated reactions on social media, with some users backing his view that financial security is more important than public recognition.

Others also shared similar sentiments, saying they would rather live comfortably without fame than enjoy celebrity status while struggling financially.

The entertainment industry is mourning following the death of musician and backing vocalist Ekua Adadzewa, popularly known as Adez.

The former TV3 Mentor 2 contestant died in the early hours of Wednesday, September 16, 2026.

Music producer Fred Kyei Mensah (Fredyma) announced the sad news, prompting an outpouring of tributes from colleagues and fans.

Adez was last seen in public about a week before her death when she attended the funeral of the mother of fellow vocalist SHE at the State House.

The Mentor star gained public recognition about 19 years ago as a contestant on Mentor 2, where her vocal talent earned her a following.

After the reality show, Adez established herself as a backing vocalist, working with several Ghanaian artistes on live performances and studio projects.

She also became a familiar voice on commercial jingles, lending her vocals to campaigns for brands, artistes and other projects.

Her sudden death has left colleagues and fans mourning a vocalist whose voice became part of several musical and commercial productions in Ghana.

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has awarded three spectrum lots in the 2.3 GHz band to Telecel Ghana to support the telecommunications company’s planned rollout of 5G services.

The award follows a competitive licensing process conducted by the NCA covering the 700 MHz, 2.3 GHz and 3 GHz spectrum bands.

Telecel Ghana secured all three lots for which it applied, which will strengthen its capacity to expand its network and improve mobile broadband services for customers.

The Director of External Affairs of Telecel Ghana, Komla Buami, said the additional spectrum represented an important step in the company’s preparations to introduce 5G services.

‘This award is an important step in our preparations for the rollout of 5G. It will provide additional capacity to improve the customer experience and contribute to the continued growth of Ghana’s digital economy,’ he said.

Mr. Buami said the spectrum assignment would enable Telecel to expand its network capacity in response to growing demand for mobile services while improving the quality of service available to customers.

He also expressed the company’s support for the NCA’s efforts to rationalise spectrum resources and promote their efficient use across the telecommunications industry.

‘We look forward to continued engagement with the Authority on spectrum rationalisation. A well-planned spectrum framework will support network investment, improve service quality and provide the capacity required to meet the country’s growing demand for mobile services,’ he said.

Five lots were made available in the 2.3 GHz band under the licensing process, with Telecel applying for and securing three of them.

The assignment was subsequently completed in accordance with the provisions of the Request for Applications issued by the NCA.

The latest award forms part of broader efforts by the communications regulator to release additional spectrum to support mobile broadband services and expand 5G connectivity in Ghana.

The additional spectrum will provide operators with greater capacity to accommodate increasing data consumption and support the development of advanced mobile services.

For Telecel, the acquisition of the three spectrum lots provides additional resources for network investment as the company prepares for its 5G rollout and seeks to respond to the growing demand for high-speed mobile connectivity.

Actress, Priscilla Opoku Agyeman, popularly known as Ahuofe Patricia, has revealed that marriage is currently not a priority for her.

The actress said although she sometimes feels lonely, especially following the death of her mother, she would rather have a child than rush into marriage.

Speaking on Okay FM with Nana Romeo, Ahuofe Patricia said the increasing number of divorce stories she encounters has made her cautious about marriage.

‘It gets very lonely, and at this point, I wish for anything, a child, but not a man. I wish I had a child,’ she said.

She wants to give her future child a stable, strong foundation, which is why she isn’t ready to marry simply to settle down.

Ahuofe Patricia explained that she has not had a child because she has not yet met a man whose intentions align with hers.

‘I haven’t met the man who wants to impregnate me. The person’s actions and attitude would make me notice whether he wants to take me seriously and settle down,’ she stated.

The actress, however, stressed that she remains open to marriage if the right man comes along.

‘I am not really motivated to get married right now. There are a lot of things that scare me. I know someone who got married for only three weeks,’ she said.

She further disclosed that she is a virgin, adding that she wants to be certain about the foundation she will provide for her future child before taking any major step.

The Citizens’ Platform on Constitutional Reform (CPCR) has called on the government to commit to a clear implementation roadmap to help protect the proposed constitutional reforms, ensure transparency and prevent the process from being abandoned as a result of changes in political regimes.

Speaking at a press conference in Accra, Chairperson of the Citizens’ Platform on Constitutional Reform (CPCR) steering committee, Prof. Akosua Keseboa Darkwah, said the implementation process should be backed by law to prevent it from becoming merely a statement of good intentions.

She said, ‘Based on past experiences, we believe that the implementation process should not remain a statement of good intentions or a process that can be changed at any time. This is why we are asking that the process should have the force of law.’

According to the CPCR, the country’s previous experiences with constitutional reform demonstrated the need for a legally protected roadmap noting that in 2012, an implementation committee chaired by Professor E. V. O. Dankwa was established to implement recommendations from the earlier Professor Fiadjoe constitutional review exercise.

She also cited the 2019 attempt at local government reforms, where a referendum was announced and preparations began but the process was eventually cancelled after consensus could not be reached between the two main political parties.

‘We didn’t follow through with the amendments that the implementation committee drafted. We believe that as a country, we must all learn from those lessons and act differently now to safeguard the process,’ Prof. Darkwah added

According to the CPCR, these experiences demonstrate that establishing an implementation committee, preparing bills and announcing a referendum are insufficient without clear rules, firm timelines and broad national agreement adding that ‘even the most promising reform process can lose momentum and eventually come to nothing’.

The proposed implementation roadmap she said should clearly define the sequence in which reforms would be undertaken, the institution responsible for each stage and the time within which each stage must be completed while establishing firm milestones covering public consultation, the preparation of legislation, parliamentary consideration, civic education and, where required, a referendum.

The CPCR noted that more than 50 amendments were being contemplated, alongside more than 14 bills, including new and amendment bills. Given the scale of the programme, it said the reforms could not realistically be completed within the life of a single Parliament and could extend beyond an election and potentially continue under a different government.

She said the committee should not be restricted to simply translating the government’s position paper into amendment bills but should rather have the authority to facilitate genuine consensus-building and recommend changes to the government’s positions where the national interest requires it.

The CPCR called on the government to commit that it would not place more than 20 different amendments before voters as a single package requiring one ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer but ensure there are manageable number of clear questions, with amendments grouped only where they genuinely deal with the same subject and unrelated proposals not bundled together for convenience.