News:
February 29, 2020
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has appealed to the European Union to release funds meant for projects in Ghana.
He lamented over the inadequate release of resources meant for the Labor Market Information System.
According to Mr. Iddrisu, Ghana need a data system to help it know in real terms the unemployment rate in the country especially matters to do with young people looking for employment.
Mr. Iddrisu recounted that as far back as 2015 funds pledged had not been released and in one of his visits to Brussels, he saw in a newspaper seventeen EU undisbursed projects, and Ghana was listed among the countries.
“EU’s poor release, this is not helping in policy implementation in Ghana. There is the need to take a second look at this”, he told an EU Parliamentary delegation that called on the Speaker, Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye.
In a related development, the Minority Leader told the visiting EU lawmakers at the outdoor of a joint Africa-EU Summit that the strategy was to reduce donor finance relation.
“Our President Nana Akufo-Addo has articulated that in Ghana beyond aid agenda, our President does not want that relationship my view is that it seat sufficiently with paradigm shift relations with the EU, we support him in that enterprise”.
He further pointed out in his remarks that he looks forward for a stronger bond between Ghana’s Parliament and that of the EU.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com