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The NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia Constituency, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, is proposing that the �25m judgement debt money Waterville BV Holdings Limited has been asked to return to the government of Ghana, be invested in visible projects across the country. According to him, part of the monies should be used to rebuilt the market (Kantamanto, Makola and Kumasi Central) centres which were recently razed down by fires. Rubbishing calls by sections of the public not to politicize the order by the Supreme Court that Waterville BV Holdings Limited pays back �25m it received from the government of Ghana as judgement debt, the Manhyia MP said though the best advice anyone could give should be against the introduction of partisan politics into the discussion of the matter, �in so far as those who are supposed to protect the public purse have decided to create and share,� the issue is political. Speaking on Metro TV�s Good Morning Ghana, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh added that the said amount could be used for monumental projects that could go a long way to better the standard of living of Ghanaians. "The hockey stadium in Accra cost $10million...The money could solve the various demands made by about eight different labour unions when they embarked on incessant strikes this year," he said. He further suggested that the Waterville judgement debt money could be used to put up the Teshie hospital which costs $10million. He also added that government could construct more than half of the 10 District hospitals it intends to construct with the Waterville judgement debt instead of the $75 million loan it has procured to build seven district hospitals. Quite satirically, the NPP MP put forward that the yet to be constructed edifices be named �Judgment Debt Hospitals�. ��that fund should translate into building five hospitals in five districts and we can call it Judgment Debt Scandal Hospital or something,� he propositioned.