Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Allotey Jacobs has asked Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia to stop making excuses and rather concentrate on helping President Nana Akufo-Addo reshape the economy.
Lamenting on the previous administration's blatant abuse of the Public Procurement Act and proclivity for sole-sourcing of projects, Vice President Dr. Bawumia disclosed that a whopping $13.9 million is to be used to construct a new mansion to house Ghana's Vice President.
Delivering a speech at the Launch of the "Good Corporate Governance Initiative" at Kempinski Hotel in Accra on Tuesday, Dr. Bawumia stressed that he believes the bidding process for the establishment of the house did not "go through competitive tender".
The Vice President wondered what manner of house that was going to be constructed at a cost of 13.9 million dollars.
“There was this whole brouhaha about this Vice President’s residence, I am sure you heard about it, so in the context of discussing this issue, there is supposed be a vice president’s residence under construction . . . so I asked the question why this project has not been finished, why has it delayed and they said ‘well the contractor is owed a lot of money’ and I said how much is this money and am told well it is a lot of money.
“So [I asked] how much is this house actually costing and I was shocked when I was told, can you believe in Ghana we are building a house to house our Vice President and this house is supposed to cost 13.9 million dollars. I mean what sort of house is it supposed to be, is the gate made of gold, pavement made of gold, blocks of gold, a house in Ghana for 13.9 million dollars . . . I couldn’t believe it . . . and I am hundred percent sure it didn’t go through competitive tender . . . and there it stands uncompleted,” Dr. Bawumia said.
But Allotey Jacobs believes Dr. Bawumia is dabbling in propaganda.
According to him, Dr. Bawumia thinks he's still on the campaign trail and claimed that the information he disclosed is misleading.
“Having been bruised for so many years which today, we’ve character-assassinated till he’s become President, there should be something new. I believe sincerely....What the Vice President said, it should have been said by the Minister For Works and Housing, and not the Vice President . . . He, as a Vice President, needs to help Nana Akufo-Addo to come out with a different style of administration entirely," he stated on PeaceFM.
Allotey Jacobs hoped President Nana Akufo-Addo's government does not succeed to pave way for the opposition NDC.
“As a politician belonging to the NDC, I will wish and pray that they are not able to do all that they promised," he asserted on Peace FM’s 'Kokrokoo'.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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I hope somebody will tell that Village Champion by name Ohenmaa Sakyiwaa or whatever on that Adom Dwaso Nsem that she is just there to read the newspapers report. No one is interested in her village attitude and sentiments which she attached to issues. I hope she will sit back and listen to how folly her submissions are. All the guys (Nana Sei, Kofi Adoma, Nana Agyei CP) discusses the issues but with a bit of wisdom and facts and not sentiments with no facts. She should also know that the world is far bigger than her village Brekum Cato. Must everything be compared to Cato or whatever? Somebody should monitor and help her come of age at Multimedia.
...THIN-WITTED OAF, ALLOTEY JACOBS IS SPEWING SH.IT AFTER THEY HAVE TOTALLY DESTROYED GHANA'S ECONOMY OR HE IS ADMITTING GUILT?
The NPP running administration exposes all the evil mistakes and satanic machinations the NDC political grouping plotted, define them to the world for consideration even as the NPP political party plots solution to them. We need to see where the errors are, define them by their nature and then set out to prescribe the solutions. Ghana cannot live with raging evil men and women. Not ever again. They go removed.
I now understand why Ghana owes so much and it does not much infrastructure ,bloated contract .
I need the person at work as soon as practicable.
We cannot, as a people, continue to wish that our opponents fail so we can succeed them. It is Ghana which loses at the end of the day. I cannot believe he "hoped President Nana Akufo-Addo's government didn't succeed to pave way for the opposition NDC. That is not patriotic at all.
This NDC man is rash and reason-less in his accusation of the current VEEP. The Veep's analyses of the areas that he has been visiting have been very helpful for the public's political opinion about what NDC miscreants were up to. Yes it is his job to do something about these damming revelations,; but ,think of it, if he does not apprise the people and he takes them on he will get stuck at some point and ,there is every chance that people will blame him. Thus the need to expunge information into the public arena has become paramount for the VEEP and his Govt.(NPP). The role of this eminent economist has been elevated (as an OVER-SIGHTER for NPP)is commendable. He will give the govt and the people of Ghana 'VALUE FOR MONEY in the long-term. Thank you NPP Govt.
THAT IS HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WORK. THEY GO OUT AND CHECK THINGS OUT FOR THEMSELF.ALLOTEY PLEASE, WATCH THE UNDERCOVER BOSS.
THEN SCRAP THE POSITION "PROPAGANDA SECRETARY" FROM YOUR PARTY. THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK.DID YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOURSELVES WHEN YOU SPEAK AT ALL?
Massa; this NDC veranda boy Allotey Jacobs a fisherman graduate with Nigerian ancestry still do not get it !!!!!! ; the man still lacks simple reasoning and fails to see or understand the style of Dr Bawumia's utterances ; Dr Bawumia is not Amissah-Arthur because the latter has no credibility in the field of economic thought and can not analyse the basic thoughts of his existence ; if Amissah -Arthur the pearl of NDC economic thought cannot reason how much more Allotey Jacobs ; Dr Bawumia was piping on roof tops about the incompetence of the NDC government long before the elections ; Dr Bawumia was met with insults by Allotey Jacobs and these NDC thiffs; today the same Allotey Jacobs is saying Dr Bawumia is doing propaganda but then should help Nana Addo ; how can Dr Bawumia help Nana Addo if he does not go out to find out the criminality of wasting our monies on projects not fit for purpose ; how can you spend $13million on a house for the Vice President when you do not have incubators; medicine ; beds and other equipment for our hospitals; these are the basic things Dr Bawumia is looking ; Dr Bawumia is not a touch line couch vice President like Amissah -Arthur ; he goes out to find out what is happening so that he will not listen or be fulled by party varanda boys or so called foot soldiers; DR Bawumia is a street guy and different and VERY SMART VICE -PRESIDENTS NOT AMISSISAH_ARTHUR FROM FANTE LAND