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July 16, 2018
Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business had said government would find money to build the Donkorkrom campus of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development.
According to the Majority Leader so far as it has been mentioned government must look for money to build the campus there.
He however pointed out that, the fact that a campus is being constructed in Bunso does not mean is going to stop government from putting up campus at any other place.
“The loan agreement we have before us is much better than what the previous government got for us, the terms and condition should be what we should be interrogating”, he lamented.
In an interview with Journalists in Parliament after adjournment on Friday, when the ninety million dollars loan agreement was differed by the Second Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Owusu because of lack of quorum, Mr. Kyei Mensah-Bonsu further noted that the ninety million dollars would not be enough to construct a good campus and facility at Donkorkrom, “we need to construct roads, provide electricity, water, telephone and service the land”, he said.
“Government is not wrong to source for money to do anything outside Donkorkrom; it is unfortunate for the Minority to say because Bunso is close to the home town of the President Nana Akufo-Addo. They are using the floor of the House to incite tribal sentiment we should frown on that”, he lamented.
Also we should not be populist when it comes to debate on the floor of the House, before us was a loan agreement, the best thing was to interrogate it and look at the terms and conditions of the agreement, he said.
“Would I be right in saying, former President John Mahama’s step father is from the Volta Region that is why they took the University of Health and Allied Sciences there, this is outrageous claims and should not be entertained on the floor of the House” he pointed out.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com