News:
August 18, 2017
Former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development under late President John Mills Joseph Yieleh Chireh is calling on government to bring serious business to the House when Members of Parliament return from recess in October.
He noted that business is slow in the House because there is no serious government business on the floor of the House.
If you appoint 110 Ministers they need to settle and find their levels in the Ministries more especially when majority of them are MPs, he remarked.
“We hope that when we return they will bring very meaningful arrangement to the House”.
According to the Wa West legislator expectations of Ghanaians are very high, otherwise we will all have understood President AkufoAddo’s government especially the promises they made during the election.
Again if they had started working on policies that require approval in Parliament either as legislation by now we will have done more work but they are now looking at the realities on the ground.
The Ghanaian economy has not been transformed “just by word of mouth no”, it takes practical action, all the economic operators will depend on concrete things and not what we are saying, the former Minister said.
“A government that is in a hurry, we were hoping they will be in a hurry to come with proposals and now specialized in loan taking, by now loan agreements will be coming in their numbers”.
Mr. Joseph Yieleh Chireh remarked that a government was shouting about a Chinese loan agreement, I was thinking by now the Chinese would have leverage their money against our natural resources.
“I can understand I have been in government before, every government requires some time and if only they stop being in their campaign mode sit down and look at the hard issues we will move forward”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com