It appears Mr Akufo Addo received’t have any sympathy over authorities’s plan to buy a brand new Presidential jet. The Nationwide Communications Officer of the opposition Nationwide Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, is the most recent to tackle the President for such a thought. Mr. Gyamfi is of the view that the choice to incur such an
expenditure presently is insensitive. Debate on the presidential jet has been within the information for some months now after the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Okudzeto Ablakwa, filed pressing questions demanding disclosure of the complete value of President Akufo Addo’s current overseas journeys with out using the official
presidential jet. Nonetheless, the federal government has stated it’s nearly by in getting a brand new plane to cater for presidential travels; the reason is that the present jet is solely not fit-for-purpose. However the vociferous Sammy Gyamfi insists the transfer is an insult to the citizenry and should not be allowed to face. I submit forcefully that
the choice by the Nana Akufo-Addo-Bawumia NPP-led authorities to purchase a brand new presidential jet is a misplaced precedence and can quantity to a waste of the general public purse whether it is allowed. The mere considered it presently is insensitive to the plight of the atypical Ghanaian and an insult additionally to our sensibilities. Mr Gyamfi made these
feedback on Saturday, October 2, 2021. Already, the Minority in Parliament has made it clear that it’s going to resist the transfer. Chief of the caucus, Haruna Iddrisu, believes the federal government’s quest to buy the jet is one more reckless use of taxpayer’s cash whereas many voters reside in penury. What is that this that we hear
that as a result of the President can’t bathtub within the present Falcon, he should purchase a brand new jet, after which we ought to be involved in offering for the consolation of the President when Ghanaians are reeling beneath financial hardship? That is misplaced precedence, it’s misplaced expenditure and due to this fact must also not get our assist, Haruna Iddrisu intimated on the Level of View on Wednesday, September 29, 2021.
