Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has likened some aspects of the maiden budget of the Nana-Addo administration to a Kweku Ananse story.
Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta presented the 2017 budget in parliament on Thursday. Contents of the budgets were welcomed with ecstasy for those it favoured and scepticism among the minority.
Speaking to the budget during a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji, Kwesi Pratt suggested that the Finance Minister was as smart as Kweku Ananse.
“The minister is very clever…he is so clever and smart. There is this ananse story; Kweku Ananse was sharing two fingers of banana with his two sons; he called the first son and says the banana is only two and the three of us have to share it so you take one and give me half. And he calls the second son and says this is the situation so you too take one and give me half; in reality he’s taking one and giving his two sons one to go and share. There is an aspect in this budget which is simply put a Kweku Ananse story and it is very similar to Kweku Ananse sharing two fingers of banana with his two sons".
Explaining which part is similar to the Kweku Ananse story, he said "…one village one dam, one constituency one million, one district one factory; all of that goes to districts. Now we have announced a budget which says that the district assembly common fund is going to be slashed; cut. The district assembly common fund goes to the villages for their development so we are going to cut it; so after we have cut what normally should have gone to the districts, villages and towns, then we make one million dollars available to the same districts; so it is not necessarily an increase in the quantum of resources going to the districts; in any case when these promises were made, the assumption was that every year, one million dollars will go to every one of the 275 constituencies for development projects. This budget tells us that no, no, no, don’t rush, don’t jump to conclusions. What we are actually going to do is to create three development authorities; one development authority for the northern sector, a second development authority for the middle belt and a third development authority for the coastal areas and that these resources will go to the development authorities to finance projects in the constituencies…I guess this is why some of the minority MPs were shouting matrikiwo budget…so on the surface, the NPP has fulfilled its promises but in reality not much has changed."
However, he added that “it is not in the interest of any Ghanaian irrespective of the political party for the new patriotic party to fail; it cannot be in our interest. If the NPP is to fail, public confidence in our kind of politics will collapse completely…and the NPP itself must make every effort not to fail. If the NPP is able to revamp the national economy to embark on projects which will close the gap between the rich and the poor, it will affect every Ghanaian…so the NPP must make progress…they must show signs that they are ready to listen and that they are ready to take constructive criticisms”.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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Kwesi Pratt speaks differently on Radio Gold because he's paid to do that. Who is more of a Kweku Ananse than you?
Why NPP you call your party an educated party whose members are highly scholarised.But you don't tolerate diverse views from others.Is it how to build a nation?.Are you nationatilst?
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Nana said, during the electioneering campaign, that the District Assembly Common Fund as is presently applied, does not go down to the people intended to reach. In view of that, NPP is going to redistribute the fund. So he said, 1Million of that fund will be given to each constituency for specific projects like sanitation, wealth creation, small scale developmental projects,provision of water, etc.
FREE SHS 400 MILLION CEDIS NOT SUFFICIENT BY 800 MILLION CEDIS FREE SHS TO COST $1.2 BILLION (¢4.8 BILLION) A YEAR – KOFI BENTIL The Vice President of IMANI Ghana, Mr. Kofi Bentil has disclosed to GhOne TV that the free Senior High School Program will cost government 1.2 billion dollars a year,i.e 4.8 billion cedis for form one to form three. This postulation according to him stems out of a number of extensive researches that IMANI Ghana has done on the free SHS program. Although, he acknowledged that the free SHS program is doable, he also admitted that it will be an opportunity cost for Ghana. “The free SHS is doable but it means that Ghana would have to cut down on a number of things to roll out this program. But the question is what do we cut? Government must cancel some social intervention programs like the LEAP, GYEEDA, MASLOC among others depending on its priority areas to facilitate the free SHS. We have to also cut down on corruption, tax evasions and deal with all leakages in the system to fund the free SHS,” Mr. Bentil explained. Mr. Bentil recognized that Ghana has what it takes to get the free SHS program running but ruled out the use of the heritage fund and expressed excitement that the Finance Minister, Hon. Ken Ofori Atta has retreated on that consideration. However, he recommended the free SHS program should be progressive as lumping up all the other components together for a full start could pose a challenge. “I believe this program must be progressively free. For example, we can start with SHS 1 for the time being and graduate to the other levels but l don’t think it should cover boarding for now,” he added. In his opinion, if government does not pull up a tight plan to sustain the program it might get stalled along the way. Discussing the funding of the free SHS on ‘State of Affairs’ on GHOne TV, the Project Officer, Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas, Mr. Chideze Ezekiel also indicated the use of the heritage fund for the fee SHS policy was unlawful and defeats the purpose for its establishment. He also recommended citizen consultation or engagement on how the program will be funded so that the will of the people will not be subverted. “After all, the president said in his inaugural speech that we should be citizens not spectators. So we need to open the source of funding for this program to a national debate for a consensus to be reached for all stakeholders to be happy,” Mr. Chideze argued. He also advised government to graduate the free SHS program from one level to the other while giving serious consideration to access and quality. Both guest on the show, lauded the free SHS policy and urge government not to follow due process to make the program sustainable. Source: Enerst Lartey
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