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September 18, 2017
Medical examination should be conducted on those suggesting that, Members of Parliaments’ (MPs’) common fund should be scrapped and rather directed towards the free Senior High School (SHS), George Nartey MP for Ningo-Prampram said in an interview.
“Whoever said that is not thinking far, the person should be called and lashed, when you come to the constituency common fund is about 53,000 Ghana cedis, it does not meet demands made on the MPs for even two weeks”.
He questioned, if someone has funeral, would you ask the person to go and take the dead body and place it on the desks use for free SHS? Again when someone is ill and comes to you for support, will you tell the person to go and sit in the classroom and he will have his healing?
“If you do not think through a policy well, you want to punish MPs for your inefficiency, at the end of this month we are in the third quarter we have common fund for only first quarter”.
Clearly government is rushing this policy, how do we pay for students who come to us for support for their school fees hospital bills, he lamented.
Given the complexity of the policy and if you want to do it well take your time, the appropriation bill will come, we are here just first year you having this challenges then when the second and third year comes on board we will see, he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com