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Hon Samuel Atta Mills
April 6, 2022
Member of Parliament for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem, Samuel Atta-Mills has expressed worry over the current development in Ghana where everything is becoming partisan, warning that if care is not taken, and one goes to the hospital for an emergency “they may ask you for your party card before they take care of you”.
According to him the problem now is that the private sector is not thriving and because of that whatever you do in the country you have to depend on the party in power. He further noted in an interview that he has stayed in the United States of America for over thirty years and did not care about who the president was.
As whoever the president was did not have any concern on one’s job or contract or whatever; but in Ghana everything is controlled by the government or by the party in power that makes it very disturbing.
He believed by working on this aspect of our life as a country on improving the private sector all these things would be a thing of the past and as a result shows in our actions in parliament.
“These politicians who are saying no, privately they come to you and say yes, most of them are hypocrites, and I think they need to be honest with themselves. According to him, with the E-Levy, there were people from the Majority side who did not like it because it was going to affect their business in their constituencies, but they could not openly criticize it because of where they belong on the political divide.
He stated that because the approval was done through public voting, they have to pretend they like it; they are worried about it. “Posterity would judge us all”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com