Former Tamale Central Member of Parliament Inusah Fuseini said the $28 million presented to Parliament on Tuesday July 7, 2021 as car loans for MPs, could be a diversionary tactics employed by government to smuggle the emolument for spouses of both President and the Vice’s document into Parliament on the blind side of Ghanaians.
Mr. Fuseini believed that the announcement of the GHC28 million loan was no coincidence but was carefully planned to sway public discourse on the First and Second ladies emolument saga, especially the intensive public outcry that greeted the suggestion.
“Well there is no coincidence in the way things are done in this country presently. They are carefully planned, especially I’ve come to appreciate that under the NPP, there’s no coincidence”.
The Finance Ministry on Tuesday July 7, 2021 presented to Parliament a request by government for a $28 million loan from the National Investment Bank (NIB). The loan, according to the Ministry, is to finance the purchase of 275 vehicles for the members of the eighth Parliament.
However, Mr. Fuseini said it would be difficult for him to rule out the fact that the loan proposal to Praliament was just an orchestration by government, thrown into the public space to douse the public revulsion against the ongoing discussion on emolument for First and Second Ladies.
“They (NPP government) carefully orchestrate things and so I would not discount the fact that, throwing the $28m into the public domain, presently when the discussion is on the manifest unconstitutionality and illegality and the impunity with which the NPP is acting, is intended to deflate the intensity and impact of what they are seeking to do, and to confuse and kill the story”, he said to Noel Nutsugah, host of Statecraft on Zylofon 102.1 FM.
