President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has spent in excess of GHS70 million on foreign trips and hotels in the past nine months, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minority spokesperson on finance has revealed.
The Ejumako Enyam Essiam MP said on Thursday, 19 December 2019 that speculations about the President’s travel budget were laid to rest when the 2020 budgetary allocation of the Office of Government Machinery was presented on the floor of the House.
The document, he said, gives the breakdown as GHS62 million for foreign travel costs and expenses; 5.85 million cedis as hotel accommodation, and GHS1.9 million for refreshment.
The amount has incurred the wrath of the Minority who want the Chief of Staff to provide a detailed breakdown of how she expended the GHS3.4 billion approved by Parliament in 2019.
Mr Forson told Class FM in an interview that: “Within the last nine months, it will surprise you to note that his excellency the President has spent almost GHS63 million on foreign travels”.
“It will surprise you to know that apart from the foreign travel cost, for domestic or local accommodation, he spent GHS5.8 million in accommodation. Which is in excess of $1 million.”
“Again, the operational enhancement support expenses he spent; GHS68.9 million.”
Source: Class News
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Little minds talk about and drive on emotions without common sense. Iron sharpeneth iron and money begets money. Just the Year of Return is raking in snout 2 billion dollars as a result of the President's travels. Has infantile Ato and his Mahama and ilk, who brought down economy from 14.1% to a miserable 3.6%, not aware of this benefit? Is that money going into the President' s pocket? So you people really get happy when the people are poor and unemployed? I said it and will repeat it, 'propaganda makes a fine gentleman a moron'.
Mr Forson this will not make some of us change our mind. In 2016 your NDC government over spend the budget and remember this current government has 5 ministries under the presidency.Namely Special Initiative,Regional re-organisation,1D1F,Railways and Zongo development.
Whats the ***barred word*** for? Yesterday on Joy-news you were dawging questions posse by Evans. Parliament which You are part of approved for that office to spend 3.4bn and in 9months , they spent 70million, still within budget and you are crying. When Evans asked you that in the same period during the NDC tenure, your President and chief of staff over spent the budget by 7times, and you were fumbling on that. Your govt overspent and we kept quite. This time they are spending within the budget and you are compalining. Oh NDC...WHAT A PARTY.SO EVIL AND DIRTY MINDED
And so what? THE BATTLE IS STILL, THE LORDS period.
IT IS NOT SURPRISING JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS STAGED A COUP D'ETAT SOME DECADES AGO AND RECEIVED MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM THE MASSES (ORDINARY PEOPLE). IF PEOPLE WILL ACCUSE ANOTHER GOVERNMENT OF CORRUPTION TO LURE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA TO VOTE FOR THEM TO COME TO POWER AND FOR THREE YEARS NOT A SINGLE PERSON FROM THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN OR CAN BE PROSECUTED AND YET WHEN THEY (CURRENT GOVERNMENT) IS SO NECK-DEEP IN CORRUPTION THEY ARE READY TO INSULT GHANAIANS TO SHUT-UP THEIR MOUTHS AND ALSO TO JUSTIFY THIER EVIL CORRUPTION, THEN I WONDER WHERE THIS COUNTRY IS HEADING TO. WHAT IS MORE CORRUPT THAN MISMANAGING STATE RESOURCES. PEOPLE LIKENED JOHN MAHAMA TO CORRUPTION FOR TAKING A FORD CAR FROM A NATIONAL OF ANOTHER COUNTRY. HOW MANY OF US HAVEN'T RECEIVED GIFTS FROM FRIENDS AND CRONIES? SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO WRONG AND EVIL IN THIS COUNTRY AND NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TALK. LETS CONTINUE AND WAIT FOR THE DAY OF RECONNING TO COME AND WE WILL SEE WHO OWNS THE COUNTRY MORE THAN THE OTHERS.
NDC should tell us what they will give to ghanaians uf they are given power to rule which even though will not happen..can NDC guve us the reasons for these travels. If the have given us the expenditure ,then we need benifits also and the budget for travels. Ghanaian are matured and will not take this cheap politics.
Ooh my Gosh, how did these get the opportunity to become MPs . No s3nse at all. Did he travel to transact his private business at expense of the state, come on, you guys should get serious, Parliament is for serious business and not this conc3rt party jokes. What kind of checks and balances are these, Ato Forson should name one trip which the president shouldn’t have embarked upon. People were shouting, we needed young men in parliament, are these people the young men were talking about, this Chaff, waste,blockheads,Dumpx. Ooh we are lost.
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This is nkurase s3m politics.Tell me how much Mahama spent in 4 years jet happy.You huys should tickle yourselves n think you are doing something aaa ma.Asanteman and Western and Eadtern will deliver the vote to Nana
This kind of infantile analysis will not win a single vote..... Tell us how much Kanazoe Ford Mahama trips cost first....