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February 10, 2020
As Parliament is saddled with a lot of papers in conducting its business, Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak is courting the support of the World Bank to fast truck and conclude the E-Parliament programme.
According to the Minority Chief Whip, the process was started with the chamber screen but the screens were not user-friendly.|
“I am talking about five to six years ago; sometimes it is so embarrassing if you look at the volume of papers we have to carry around when it could be easily distributed to enhance our work efficiency, for our work to be quick and fast”.
He further pointed out that the House had to suspend sitting sometimes jut to wait for some papers to be run.
“This World Bank project is a very important one and it should be fast tracked we need to help us enhance the work we do here”.
The Minority Chief Whip made this comments when the new country director of the World Bank, Pierre Jean Laporte to Ghana paid a courtesy call on Speaker Professor Aaron Oquaye.
In a related development, he called on the World Bank to help Ghana address its challenges. “Poverty in urban cities in Ghana is really growing up, you see people sleeping on the streets outside at East Legon, and you are getting slams there too but unfortunately you design your programmes but the emphasis is more on the rural areas”.
He also emphasised the need to tackle urban poverty with the number of people moving into the urban centers putting pressure on facilities there.
“When you want to assist us, have a look at our plans we have developed, instead of coming down with your own models of what you want done, as the amount of money you are offering push us to give up on our plans”.
Mr. Mubarak also noted that if the World Bank really want to help Ghana get out of its challenges, they should look at development agenda that Ghana has and look at how they can tap into it to help.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.co