{"id":1230446,"date":"2022-10-21T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/the-president-spends-over-gh%c2%a2120-million-to-carry-his-chair-only-mr-wilson-see-the-calculations\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:50:27","slug":"the-president-spends-over-gh%c2%a2120-million-to-carry-his-chair-only-mr-wilson-see-the-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/the-president-spends-over-gh%c2%a2120-million-to-carry-his-chair-only-mr-wilson-see-the-calculations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe President spends over GH\u00a2120 million to carry his Chair only\u201d &#8211; Mr Wilson. See the calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/24f40d52ec2147559f49e529cf2ec269\"\/>The outspoken broadcaster, Blessed Godsbrain Smart, popularly known as Captain Smart in the media space, came out wild to speak his nind again on TV, following his arrest and bail stress the previous night, <span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking live on his morning show \u201cOnua Maakye\u201d, Captain Smart, <span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">in his submission, reiterated his point that the presidency is actively involved in illegal mining.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/76dd0f454d1b440c90c25cab6edbd12f\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Having Mr Emmanuel Wilson Junior on his show, the Chief Crusader of \u201cCrusaders Against Ghanaian Corruption\u201d worked out and revealed that the President\u2019s seat only spends about 120 million Ghana Cedis, just to transport it along with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/25ad29de41ef4800baee2dfc02c88935\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Following a news report from the President\u2019s Ashanti Regional Tour, Mr Wilson drew the attention of Captain Smart and his listeners\/viewers to something very keen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">\u201cThe President is just in to waste the taxpayers\u2019 money. He gets pleasure in wasting taxpayers\u2019 money\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Why this statement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">He drew minds to countless number of times and events within Ghana, where the President takes along with him the Presidential chair to sit on, wherever he goes.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7703a8273f3749e5a090f051e449e6ac\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Now the question was \u201cHow is this chair Transported?\u201d He continued to reveal that the President\u2019s usual convoy which is mostly made up of over 15 vehicles, has one particular vehicle (V8) dedicated for the carrying of the President\u2019s chair whenever he travels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">\u201dAnytime the President travels within Ghana, there is a particular V8 amongst the convoy whose duty is to carry the President\u2019s chair along. That particular V8 is driven along with a driver and a security, who protects the Presidential Chair.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/f39c36d2632349e4bc9052d73470ab85\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calculation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using a <strong>conservative figure<\/strong>, the V8 spends an <strong>average<\/strong> of \u00a21000 on fuel when it moves 200km.<\/p>\n<p>Supposing the President\u2019s schedule is such that he travels at least 50 times every month;<\/p>\n<p>50\u00d7200km= 10,000km (monthly)<\/p>\n<p>Average distance for a year = 12\u00d710,000km = 120,000km<\/p>\n<p> President spends \u00a21000 on fuel,<\/p>\n<p>= \u00a21000\u00d7120,000 = \u00a2120,000,000<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/c84c494ec6434e48b9d1435e026ea4c1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This implies that the President spends about 120 million cedis for fuel, on only one V8 which carries his Chair along with him, without involving the expenses of the other V8 vehicles he uses for his convoy, his security men, and other mechanical injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d6f4b0ed0a914cec92eaa761baef6167\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo sat on a bench when he made appearance at Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wilson drew a sensible conclusion that, the President sitting on a bench doesn\u2019t change the fact that he is a President.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo was also spotted sitting in a bus with other African Leaders during the Queens Burial. Yet, it also didn\u2019t change the fact that he\u2019s President.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ac68d61dbd5c42afb3ab9689f65717c1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet when the President comes to his own country; where the Cedi-Dollar is something we can\u2019t even talk about; a country where we cannot feed our SHS students; a country where NABCO workers are unpaid for several months; a country which has inflation; the President feels so comfortable to spend millions of cedis on fuel because he\u2019s carrying just a chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President knows no shame, and he cannot be a father.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/73ccf84c5b114d75bfe4a9c77eb8e067\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Money which could be used to pay NABCO workers who have also got families to feed, is being used to fuel a V8 to carry a chair?<\/p>\n<p>Can this person be a father\u201d &#8211; Mr Wilson bemoaned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rZ6Zw2ehstc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nana Akufo-Addo Addo&#039;s V8 that carries his seat cost us not less than ghc12,000.00 every month\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZ6Zw2ehstc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p> <iframe><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Quik.news_ (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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Speaking live on his morning show \u201cOnua Maakye\u201d, Captain Smart, in his submission, reiterated his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24391,2019,3740,26586,290,275,4949,16617],"class_list":["post-1230446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-calculations","tag-carry","tag-chair","tag-gh120","tag-million","tag-president","tag-spends","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}