{"id":1243157,"date":"2022-11-03T20:09:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/buying-v8s-for-public-officials-denies-youth-capital-to-grow-wealth-for-state-agriculturist\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:09:22","slug":"buying-v8s-for-public-officials-denies-youth-capital-to-grow-wealth-for-state-agriculturist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/buying-v8s-for-public-officials-denies-youth-capital-to-grow-wealth-for-state-agriculturist\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying V8s for public officials denies youth capital to grow wealth for state &#8211; Agriculturist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Akoto-Boateng.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>An Agribusiness and Sustainability Practitioner, Kojo Akoto Boateng has cautioned the government to be mindful of the expenditure it incurs on behalf of public officials.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on <strong>Asempa FM\u2019s Ekosiisen<\/strong> on Thursday, Mr Boateng said that when money is spent on luxuries at the expense of agriculture, it denies the youth capital to create wealth for the state through agribusiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity for the state is also to look at some of our expenditure in some of these areas to know that the cost of wasting money on some of these luxuries for our public servants is denying the youth the capital and opportunity to grow wealth for the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_dl6saaHjlQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Spending on public officials\u2019 luxuries denies youth capital to grow wealth for state&#039;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_dl6saaHjlQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to him, when a public servant rides in a land cruiser, the youth in the agribusiness sector are denied tonnes of rice.<\/p>\n<p>This, he explained, is due to the high volume of fuel consumed by such vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most recent model of land cruiser 300 costs around $160,000. So, if you make a policy in which one of the most important things for you to do is to buy a land cruiser for $160,000, which is enough to buy rice, build a rice mill, and ensure that we don\u2019t import rice, there must be something wrong with you, if you are in authority and make such a decision,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, advised the government to cut down on luxurious expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boateng also urged churches to invest in the agribusiness sector. According to him, churches can also put some funds aside to buy lands to be allocated to their members for agricultural purposes.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Churches should \u201chave policies in place for the unemployed members, so we stop buying land cruisers and patrols for pastors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Agribusiness and Sustainability Practitioner, Kojo Akoto Boateng has cautioned the government to be mindful of the expenditure it incurs on behalf of public officials. In an interview on Asempa FM\u2019s Ekosiisen on Thursday, Mr Boateng said that when money is spent on luxuries at the expense of agriculture, it denies the youth capital to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1243159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[28485,3920,2056,66,708,3643,2154,2742,28486,2080,582],"class_list":["post-1243157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-agriculturist","tag-buying","tag-capital","tag-grow","tag-officials","tag-public","tag-state","tag-v8s","tag-wealth","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243157","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=1243157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}