Akuffo-Addo To Embark On Another Lavish Trip Is A Mark Of Insensitivity – Minority

The Minority in Parliament claims that President Akuffo Addo’s trip on an expensive private plane demonstrates his insensitivity to Ghanaians’ situation.

According to the NDC MPs, the President’s choice to go on a chartered luxury private jet to various European countries and Guyana for another 10-day trip at a time when the government is attempting to implement E-Levy demonstrates the highest level of contempt for the sufferings of the people.

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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minority Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, stated to the media in Parliament on Friday that the President is going to splash over 4 million cedis on his trip.

“We have called this engagement to register our revulsion, our very strong opposition for the President’s continuous contemptuous and insensitivity conduct in chartering an ultra-luxurious executive jet when Ghana has a presidential jet which is in pristine condition.

“The shocking irony is that this latest conduct of the President happened at a time only yesterday when thousands of Ghanaians were in the street demonstrating against the regressive, the obnoxious and dreaded E-levy. Many Ghanaians are saying that this is a government that does not like to be accountable,” he disclosed.

Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, in a stinging retort, accused the Minority of engaging in unnecessary populism.

The E-Levy, according to the Effutu MP, is a game-changer that everyone should support. The road fund’s board chairman revealed that the fund is depleted.

Source: PressInformant