{"id":449399,"date":"2017-12-22T18:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/im-ready-to-resign-hawa-koomson\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:58:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:58:55","slug":"im-ready-to-resign-hawa-koomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/im-ready-to-resign-hawa-koomson\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m ready to resign \u2013 Hawa Koomson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 22 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/86642145.295.jpg\" alt=\"Hawa Koomson Minister For Initiative\" title=\"Hawa Koomson Minister For Initiative\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Special Development Initiatives Minister Mavis Hawa Koomson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513969135_925_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has told a horde of journalists in parliament that she is \u201cready to resign\u201d over a budget scandal involving her ministry if that would please her critics.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Koomson has come under intense pressure from the Minority after it emerged that her ministry had allocated GHS800,000 for the creation of a website in her ministry\u2019s 2018 budget which was replete with what critics have described as outrageous allocations.<\/p>\n<p>Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, on Friday, said the explanation by Ms Koomson that her ministry meant to allocate GHS80,000 for the website rather than the GHS800,000 captured on paper, which she described as an error, smacks of incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Koomson had explained that the GHS800,000 figure was a typographical error.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Mr Forson told journalists in Accra on Friday, 22 December in parliament that Ms Koomson is trying to do damage control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the government is trying to do is an emergency landing \u2013 when you take a flight and you are struggling in the air, you want to land and that is what the government is doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are struggling, this is just damage control. I can give you documents we were given at the committee and it\u2019s clear that it is GHS800,000 certainly not 80,000,\u201d Mr Forson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the minister telling me that she is such an incompetent lady to the extent that she couldn\u2019t read and understand what is in her own document she brought to parliament for us to look at? This is gross incompetence, I don\u2019t think she deserves to occupy the high office of a minister, so she should go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is public outcry against the over GHS1bn budget.<\/p>\n<p>In it, 275 ambulances will be procured at a unit cost of GHS354,750 totalling GHS97,556,250.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty warehouses would be constructed at a unit cost of GHS1,652,469 totalling GHS82,623,480.<\/p>\n<p>Also, 1000 solar-powered mechanical boreholes would be constructed at a unit cost of GHS132,000 totalling GHS132,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 1000 \u201cwater closet institutional toilets with mechanised boreholes and solar panels\u201d would be constructed at a unit cost of GHS187,000 totalling GHS187,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty micro-enterprises would also be constructed at a unit cost of GHS550,000 totalling GHS 27,500,000.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the rest of the items in the budget approved for the ministry led by Mavis Hawa Koomson:<\/p>\n<p>275 projects at a unit cost of GHS1,100,000 totalling GHS302,500,000<\/p>\n<p>Construction of 100 markets at a unit cost of GHS1,100,000 totalling GHS110,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Internal Management or Organisations totalling GHS8,600,000<\/p>\n<p>Hiring of office accommodation for Middle Belt and Coastal Belt Development Authority and Regional Offices totalling GHS15,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Legal and Administrative Framework Review \u2013 GHS1000,000<\/p>\n<p>Maintenance, Rehabilitation and Refurbishment \u2013 GHS3000,000<\/p>\n<p>Procurement of Office Furniture and Fixtures \u2013 GHS6,500,000<\/p>\n<p>Local and International Affiliation \u2013 GHS2,500,000<\/p>\n<p>Procurement of Office Supplies and Consumables \u2013 GHS3,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Tendering Activities \u2013 GHS759,970<\/p>\n<p>Treasury and Accounting Activities \u2013 GHS500,000<\/p>\n<p>Procurement of Computers and Accessories \u2013 GHS1,500,000<\/p>\n<p>Manpower Skill Development \u2013 GHS3,500,000<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Training \u2013 GHS2,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Planning and Policy Formulation \u2013 GHS3,500,000<\/p>\n<p>Policies and Programme Review Activities \u2013 GHS1,500,000<\/p>\n<p>Publication and Dissemination of Policies and Programmes \u2013 GHS500,000<\/p>\n<p>Development and Management of Database \u2013 GHS400,000<\/p>\n<p>Research and Development \u2013 GHS1,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Development of Website \u2013 GHS800,000<\/p>\n<p>Budget Preparation \u2013 GHS2,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Budget Performance Reporting \u2013 GHS500,000<\/p>\n<p>Management and Monitoring of Policies and Projects \u2013 GHS3,000,000<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 22 December 2017 Source: classfmonline.com 2017-12-22 Special Development Initiatives Minister Mavis Hawa Koomson Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has told a horde of journalists in parliament that she is \u201cready to resign\u201d over a budget scandal involving her ministry if that would please her critics. 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