TodayGhanamedia.com Serving With Integrity & Professionalism
The Member of Parliament for the Banda constituency who doubles as Deputy Minority Chief Whip, Hon. Ahmed Ibrahim has said that the government has refused to fund district assemblies on their operations.
According to him, the Akuffo Addo government and his party, the New Patriotic Party have trained its parliamentarians and executive officials to write and speak out very good plans for the various assemblies yet do not back it with action by doing otherwise.
He added that it was unfortunate for the government to have added 45 new district assemblies to the 216 that existed before with sugarcoated words of bringing development to the grassroots only to disappoint them.
He also said that the constitution mandates government to spend 5% of taxpayers’ money on the district assemblies yet the government refuses to do that and most times uses the money for something else.
Listen to the audio below :
He continued that, the government has only paid 300 million Ghana cedis out of the 2.6 billion Ghana cedis of the District Assemblies Common Fund owed to the assemblies since 2021 which leaves a huge remainder of the debt.
He explained that most local government officials try to fake being absent from the office in order to escape debt collection.
Listen to the audio below :
He stressed that the government lied about believing in local governance because it has not paid monies owed outgoing District Chief Executives and also, the appointment letters of newly appointed ones are being delayed by the government to escape paying them.
Listen to the audio below :
He made this statement when speaking on Accra based- Okay FM morning show monitored by TodayGhanaMedia.com
Source: TodayGhanaMedia.com
There are four types of content published on TodayGhanaMedia.com daily: curated content; syndicated content; user-generated content; and original content.
Send your news stories to Todayghanamedia@gmail.com and Chat with us via WhatsApp on +233 200818719
