The National Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised government to reset its priorities.
According to Sammy Gyamfi, there is a need for government to check on its spending while considering a cut in the number of appointees.
“The first and most important alternative we [NDC] have as this country and for the consideration of this government has to do with the need for us to reset our priorities as a people. The waste, the needless expenditures on misplaced priorities is just too much,” he said on Joy FM’s Top Story on Monday.
In these difficult times, where vaccines cannot be provided to protect babies, he questioned how 333 political appointees could be appointed to the Presidency.
He continued “how can we be spending GHȼ350 million on a so called National Cathedral? And after spending about 58 million dollars on that so-called National Cathedral, all we have to show for is biggest pit in the whole world.
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“How can we be wasting the taxpayers money? In nine months alone last year, 59 million cedis was spent on the so-called operational enhancement of the President. Another GHȼ50 million was spent on common car tyres and batteries in only nine months.
“Another 4.8 million cedis was spent on cabinet retreat, you don’t have to be NDC member to know that we are on the path of destruction.”
This, he attributed to the government’s failure to live within its means and spend on things that matter.
According to him, when that happens, “you will end up as a bankrupt person or institution as Ghana has ended up as a bankrupt country.”
