The Ranking Member on Foreign Affairs Committee had earlier filed two urgent questions in Parliament demanding disclosure of the cost details of the President’s foreign travels.
Speaking to Citi News, Dr. Mensah Aborampa said the data on women must influence what he terms participatory planning.
In a statement, Joyce Bawah Mogtari says the latest statistics on the country’s population indicating that over 50 percent of Ghanaians are female should be enough reason for the de-marginalization of women in governance.
put under scrutiny with the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah stating on Wednesday, September 22 that the said pregnancy was fake.
Mr. Ablakwa further unraveled that, “at US$14,000 an hour, Ghanaians should be expecting to pay a staggering US$616,000; that is an elephantine 3.7million Ghana Cedis by the President’s return”.
Recounting; “This is the flight distance breakdown: [6 hours to Azores; 1 hour refueling; 10 hours to Houston; 3 hours from Houston to New York; New York to Accra 11 hours plus 1 hour of refueling break; 12 hours of pick up and drop off time — this works out to a total flight time of 44 hours)”.
“A cumulative sum of President Akufo-Addo’s recent three luxury trips abroad imposes a colossal GHS10million on the suffering Ghanaian taxpayer. Reflect on what GHS10million can do in the ailing health sector or the limping education sector of our dear nation”.
President Akufo-Addo recently launched a campaign targeted at “Ghanaian professionals accusing them of not paying taxes; the question is, even if some Ghanaian professionals aren’t paying up their fair share in taxes, why should they be motivated to do anything else when the President doesn’t give a hoot how much he squanders on his vulgar extravagance?”, he quizzed.
