Muntaka Describes Akufo-Addo’s $1M Per Constituency Promise As ‘Monumental Failure’

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The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has “monumentally failed” to fulfil his promise of giving every constituency one million dollars per year.

Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, addressing the media at the first edition of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) weekly press briefing, noted that after assuming office for nearly four years, and despite getting the most resources as President in the history of Ghana, the Akufo-Addo’s led government, has nothing better to show for his flagship promise of a million dollars, a year, per constituency.

The Asawase MP further mentioned that three and half years into its administration, the government, which owes every constituency four million dollars each as a result of President Akufo-Addo’s promise, has only a few toilet facilities, warehouses, markets mechanized water systems, ambulances and sub-standard dugouts to show.

“It is instructive to note that per the one million dollars every year per constituency promise of President Akufo-Addo, each constituency should have received a total of US$3 million, which leads to a total of US$825 million by now (excluding that of the year 2020), or benefitted from development projects equivalent to that amount by now,” he said.

The lawmaker, however, emphasized that per the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives own data submitted to Parliament in the 2020 Budget Statement, the total cost of capital expenditure projects undertaken so far under the one million dollars per constituency promise from 2017 – 2019 is a paltry GHS462,979,103, equivalent to just US$81 million.

The amount spent so far, Muntaka, indicated represents just a meagre 9.8 percent of the total of US$825 million that the government was supposed to have released by now in fulfilment of its promise to give every constituency one million dollars every year.

He also debated that the entire amount of $US81 million which has so far been spent on the one million dollars, per constituency promise, is far less than just what the Community Water and Sanitation Agency under the Ministry for Works and Housing did under the erstwhile NDC-Mahama regime.

Source: ghgossip