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| Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta - Ministry of Finance ,Ghana |
In a press
release, Mr Alhassan said, as Ghana heads to IMF, the organization, NGSJF,
stand on behalf of the voiceless populace to implore IMF to end the awarded
lump sum as Ex-gratia payment for Parliamentarians, Ministers of state, and
others every four years in Ghana.
He said, ‘’It’s an
elite payment, backed and protected by the elite’s system making it difficult
for the ordinary to question this compromised fraud, extortion, loot and share
by the leaders with exception of Togbe Afede XIV who deemed it inappropriate by
returning his GH¢365.392.6 ex-gratia to state coffers’’.
He added that the
GH¢365.392, that was given to Togbe Afedo XIV, can save 5000 street girls on
the streets.
According to Mr.
Alhassan, Ghana is corrupt, which is more compounded by the visible and vicious
culture of highest bidder bribed by MPs to party executives before getting the
nod to represent a political party enhanced corruption. Ex-gratia, he said,
‘’emboldens and funds the on-going bribery scandal by parliamentarians’’.
The release said,
his organization is encouraged to petition IMF, because, IMF recognizes the
interest of laypeople or small organization like the new Ghana , to make a
petition to shape policies for equitable distribution of resources.
The Founder of the
NGSJF, Mr Alhassan, said, his organization would like IMF to precondition Ghana
to divert the National cathedral project to rather construct a vocational and
housing unit to accommodate and provide training for the needy in our society.
‘’There are
countless lives found in our big cities and God/Allah would prefer shelter for
these homeless nursing mothers, girls, children and orphans than a cathedral’’,
he added.
He noted that the appeal is in congruence with the
existential NPP promised manifesto to provide accommodation for kayayei girls
at Tudu, Agbogloshie ,Tema Station etc locations , which to him, are very
close to the cathedral project .
‘’The cathedral
cost, totaling about 350million USD can
build and transform lives, solve the catastrophic kayayei phenomenon, poor
drinking water, school kids under trees, poor roads, underpaid lecturers and
other pressing issues at a time Ghanaians are squeezed and forced to pay taxes
through e-levy’.
‘’The public
shall be grateful should IMF heed to our plea and act accordingly’’, he
stressed.