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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Pratt has never seen any thing better with NPP.Your words are no more taking serious ever since you aligned yourself with NDC. I don't blame you for your negative comments on the bugget.
Look you moronic apparition. We could go on like this for hours.I however I can tell that you need help. I know an excellent psychiatrist who can help you and he is discreet, too.By the way ask your mother whether she hasn't on many occasions regretted haven't spawned a rat like you.Ask her!
I honestly don't understand why people gets so angry when Nana is described as a short man. When Mahama is called by names like Ot3ni ba or tall man I do not read people insulting. But when Nana is described by his physique some people get so offended. Let not be too emotional about these comments abeg you all.
Apon..kyi Joey you are a duff. Chaapandem wai. Gym.mi weed smoker. Tell short man I said he is a short man. To loose shoes of a short man is an abomination. You human worshipper. Boflot like you. I'll say it again and again the Nana Addo is a short man and that is a fact so why deny it. Aponk.yi ne ba. Bodamfo ne bodom like you. Go to the short man' s house and loose his shoes cos you are his slave. I am not a slave neither a human worshipper like you.
ey peacefm why do you give so much publicity to this ***barred word*** kwesi pratt? you have no important things to write about eh?
Hahahaaaaa, ma triky wo 419 budget. No impact on any suffering Ghanaian.
mr pratt, do you remember you said over you dead body that nana addo will win the 2016 elections? now you are callind him President nana addo you see how you have make a fuuulll of yourself? the man you have has now become your president.if you believe or not npp has been given the mandate to rule for four years stay cool to see haw nana and bawumia will bring developments to ghanaians. it will be better for you if you can shut your big mouth.
KOFI, your tongue invited the insult. There's an Akan language that says if you go to funeral ground with your thump up, you are escorted home with a slap. You called for the insult. If you think it is your right to insult the president, then you should know that the other person also have the right to insult you.
Kwesi pratt is mentally ill. i have a copy of his medical records.
@KK I agree completely with what KIssi posted. You and your family of Neanderthals don't deserve to be on planet earth.An ape like you should never be even allowed to exist.You are the one who should not dare open your halitosis laden mouth to spew gibberish.No wonder you are part of a group whose avowed aim is to st3a1.,murder and pillage the national treasury.I dare you to produce one;just one member of of your family of twerps who qualifies to tie the shoe strings of the president.Don't post bunkum on the net simply because you can.