January 11, 2019

 

The Minority has given indications that they would boycott the approval of the financial policy of government ending 31st December 2019 if proper explanation is not given to the ballooning number of person working with government machinery.

According to the Ranking member on Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, as the House prepare to approve the estimate of the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government.

“We would raise this matter and scrutinize further we would put our issues strongly across, we need a ceiling the way we are going, we complain that there is no money the little money we get we are using that to pay a ballooning government?”

Mr. Samuel Okudzato Ablakwa lamented that as a nation we are always increasing the ceiling, in 2019 for government machinery we are looking at one thousand, six hundred and fourteen, where we are going is that the best way to use our scares resources.

In an interview ahead of debate on the budget estimate approval he pointed out that there are a lot of duplications and role conflict, “it is a total waste of the tax payers’ money, we cannot continue to waste the tax payers’ money.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com