Franklin Cudjoe, Founding President of IMANI Africa, has described the National Democratic Congress’s handling of the Ayawaso East parliamentary primary controversy as “some sort of comedy of errors,” following the party’s decision to allow Baba Jamal to contest despite findings of vote-buying. Mr Cudjoe’s comments come after the NDC cleared Mohammed Baba Jamal Ahmed to […]
IMANI Africa Vice President, Bright Simons, has warned that the Gold for Reserves programme’s structure is creating an uneven playing field that disadvantages private sector participants. Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile, the policy analyst revealed that independent, self-financed gold aggregators are raising serious complaints about their inability to compete with the state-designated apex aggregator, Bawa Rock […]
A former Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), Dr Edwin Provencal, has stated that he is not opposed to any lawful investigation into the Gold-for-Oil (G4O) programme, emphasising that due process should be applied if any untoward findings are uncovered. Responding to a forensic risk assessment report by policy think […]
The loud silence of IMANI and other Civil Society Organizations on the issues of LGBTQI stems from the fact that, these CSOs receive funding and support from organizations that are strongly behind the LGBTQI community. Therefore any attempt to hold Government accountable on the LGBTQI would automatically affect their sources of funding. IMANI led by […]
President of Policy think tank IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has opined that ex-president John Dramani Mahama’s chances of winning the 2020 elections could be affected after the administration he served in as Vice President and later President, was cited in the Airbus corruption scandal. UK court documents said between 2009 and 2015, some top Ghanaian […]
Ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) strongman, PK Sarpong has blasted the founding president of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, describing him as a giant tree with a huge hole in it. According him, Mr. Cudjoe’s assertion that former president John Dramani Mahama’s 280 thousand votes in the opposition National Democratic (NDC) presidential primaries should trouble the […]
A call has been made to government to reduce the price of natural gas, which will translate into a reduction in electricity tariffs to fuel industrialisation and bring relief to domestic consumers. A research and analysis on Gas Price Formation in the country emphasised the need for natural gas price to be reviewed downwards. About […]
The approach of the Ghanaian government and its regulators to “managing” struggling banks in Ghana has evolved yet again. From majority state-owned banks doing “purchase and assumption”, we moved to “resolution and consolidation”, and now we are on the cusp of state-directed, privately financed, transactions to “save” solvent but capital non-compliant banks. Instead of the Government bearing […]
President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe is asking all Ghanaians to make a pact with God and promise to do something for Him in order to be blessed. ‘’I urge all of you on this Sunday to make a pact with God and promise God something to change the fortunes in your life. I will […]
IMANI Centre for Policy & Education has petitioned parliament to seek answers to a litany of issues raised by the policy think-tank in respect of a 10-year contract awarded to UNI-PASS to provide trade facilitation at Ghana’s ports. It explained that the petition has become necessary because since June 2018, IMANI has sent a number […]
Policy think-tank IMANI Africa has described the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare as a confused man who has lost touch with arguments being adduced by the think-tank on why Ghana does not require the use of drones for medical supplies at this time. In what it described as a […]
Ruling New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has once again turned his guns on president of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, calling him an idiot for describing Members of Parliament and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCE’s) as drunks. Mr. Cudjoe who is on […]
