News:
August 10, 2017
Former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Member of Parliament (MP) for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a very clever party after creating cynicism among Ghanaians.
“Ghanaians can now not tell which political party is telling the truth, when it comes to dealing with the economy, they saw the effort of the NDC when it was in power and what NPP is telling Ghanaians now”.
He noted that, knowing that revenue is not coming as they predicted, so the promise of “one dam one village one factory one district and infrastructure for poverty eradication cannot come on as promised”.
They have decided to bring Bills to set up Zongo Development Fund and Authorities for the three belts of the Northern Region, all these aim at buying time knowing the money is not there to start anything, he said.
According to the Wa West law maker, the House is returning back from recess in October that is when structures will be created and funds established through legal means, one year will already be gone the only provision can be made for “these institutions in the next budget”.
He noted that there are interesting times ahead, the people of Ghana gave NPP four years, one year is almost gone nothing has been done, “no dam no factory and no infrastructure for poverty eradication.
You do not need any law to provide resources to carry out your promises, “absolutely no law”, because we have Regional coordinating councils, he said.
In the case of the Northern sector, it is SADA that they should use, apart from the different agencies of government who have the mandate to carry all these out, “all they need is money”, he lamented.
He noted also that the Bills he has seen in Parliament is to create jobs for NPP officials,”they want to create huge bureaucracy and appoint Chief Executive Officers for people to ride in four wheel drives and roam around the country”.
“Spending the little money that could have gone directly into the projects that is why I am saying this NPP people are clever”.
Also they said they were going to pay contractors immediately they come to power now they say 2019, they have no money and are failing to tell Ghanaians so, he said.
According to the former Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, it is wrong for the NPP government to say they did not know what the economic situation was, “they castigated us but knowing the resources constrain we have”. Their job was simply like we are doing just seeing everything that was right and wrong he reveal.
“They said we were over borrowing and turn around doing three times what we were doing, I told you they are very cleaver, what kind of life is this”.
Three years on judgment will be delivered by Ghanaians, but people need to understand, when politicians talk as if they do not know how governance runs.
“It is only in military take overs that you will say, that you did not know what was going when it comes to governance. They were part of all the approvals we were doing, just that they went on an over promise spree, it is not for me to say that Ghanaians should punish them”.