{"id":468909,"date":"2018-03-01T21:47:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/ras-mubarak-jabs-napo-for-misusing-ghs1-3m\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T21:47:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:47:21","slug":"ras-mubarak-jabs-napo-for-misusing-ghs1-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/ras-mubarak-jabs-napo-for-misusing-ghs1-3m\/","title":{"rendered":"Ras Mubarak jabs Napo for misusing GHS1.3m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  1 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/86766338.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mubarak Napo\" title=\"Mubarak Napo\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ras Mubabrak has accused  Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh of misusing state funds<\/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\/2018\/03\/1519940841_396_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ras Mubabrak, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu, has accused Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh of blowing GHS1.3 million of state funds on what in his view was a needless programme outside Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Mubarak, the amount could have been used for something beneficial in the country but was rather spent on a needless education programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists after parliament\u2019s sitting on Thursday, 1 March 2018, Mr Mubarak indicated that the amount for the entire duration of the programme as explained by Dr Prempeh did not meet value-for-money standards \u201cbecause GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) organises similar programmes in leadership and governance here in Accra and instead [the minister is] spending more to register 13 people to go to the United States of America for three days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the expenditure is \u201coutrageous and scandalous\u201d because to him, the National Service Scheme (NSS) is struggling to pay allowances of national service persons, yet \u201cNSS can come up with $300,000 for a three-day programme in the United States of America. 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