The Ranking Member on the Finance Committee and Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Mr. Cassiel Ato Forson wants President Akufo-Addo to lay off what he calls the “over staffing of footsoldiers” at the Presidency to enable him pay contractors.
“You don’t need thousand people to work at the Flagstaff House,” he told Kasapa 102.5 FM, adding, reducing the numbers drastically will bring efficiency urging for cutbacks in government expenditure to help balance the budget.
Speaking on Anopa Kasapa, Mr. Cassiel Ato said the negative growth, seen in the last two quarters(-8.5%) in the Construction sector just this year alone is problematic.
Meanwhile, the minority spokesperson on Finance has criticised an existing arrangement between the Finance Ministry and Fidelity Bank to pay outstanding debts to contractors.
According to him, the payment of the contractors through a borrowing and factoring mechanism is alien to the country’s fiscal regime and must be discouraged.
Under the scheme, the affected contractors are to enter into an agreement with Fidelity Bank and have their monies paid at a significant discount ranging between 10 and 14%.
Cosmetic accounting
Mr. Ato Forson also slammed government for the “Cosmetic accounting” that posed a positive primary balance for two consecutive years at a time when the public debt has ballooned to GHS 204 billion.
“All the government is trying to do is to create false impression in the minds of Ghanaians and the international community that they are doing better than the previous administration. However, the public debt will always expose you,” he argued.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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look at this man too. Why do these NDC guys talk like this? Why didn't you do what you are advising now when you were in control? And how much at all do you think can be saved to pay these contractors? What mistake did Ghanaians make at all to have such empty barrels lead us? This man and Adongo shouldn't be NDC's finance guys 'cos to me they lack the requisite know-how to make sound arguments and contributions. How did we arrive here???
hen's brain
Look at this Fanti man. What did he do for his own Central Region or his town when he was in power.
You are not serious.
Hon Cassel Ato Forson is just one of the empty barrels in parliament who thinks noise making is the best way to win votes. Well my advise to him is to consider his next line of action since the double salary issue is almost in court for prosecution because the NPP government knows what it is doing for Ghanaians
Listen to this former DOUBLE-PAID SALARY Minister. His DOOM day is near..
All these guys are loaded for the sake of politics he was just a watchman in london he's now rich in dubious transactions made when he was deputy finance minister in ndc government he felt that he can get raid of it watch it his final will soon count down they think Ghanaian's are frogs time will tell they got nerves to talk upon their abysmal governance
If it was so easy, why didn’t your us3l3ss and incompetenttt Government pay them , but allowed it to pile up till NPP came to power. Besides you could have used the double wick3d salary monies to pay them us well
When you received DOUBLE salaries, did yo have contractors at heart? Nnaaapo, NDC!
Why couldn't ndc pay their contractors then and why didn't they leave money for their contractors payment! I hate their nkwa*sea akeka. You were in power for 8 years you cancelled teacher and nurses trainee allowances, you created unemployed graduates association, you sent the country t9 IMF f I r credibilty, you left debt at the NHIS, SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM, MASLOC, YEA and every sector of the economy even including GET FUND, MMDCE and every where and you think Ghanaians have short memory as you've said so we have forgotten what you did to this country so trying to throw dust in po ur eyes it won't work ! We love npp footsoldiers in the Jubilee house because they are all doing fantastic work to help Ghana move forward ! in any case, this is not what Ghanaians want to hear we want your policies and programs, we want your visions and dreams ,we want to hear what your coming has for Ghana but not rantings what you doing will never help you ! ndc is spent force bereft of ideas ! if ndc had advised john mahama to use the roads instead of the helicopters ndc could have saved money for their contractors to be paid ! ndc is confused and talking anyhow and they thought npp is ike them but forgot npp were not broke before they got into politics, they forgot npp don't behave like them, they forgot npp is a serious political party which want good things for Ghana but not ha*te, env*iness and jealousy , npp wasn't formed to use power against their enemies like the ndc. Ndc will rot in opposition, ndc will never come back to power ! We the good people of Ghana want npp nepotism to ndc nepotism, we love npp footsoldiers at the presidency to ndc footsoldiers at their headquarters ,we made up our minds already for who to take care of our country and definitely not the ndc ! We can't afford to hand over our cuntry to people who can't even think for themselves, people who can't organize their party how can they organize and manage a country ! ndc is TOAST !