Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has reacted to the rising cost of living whiles wondering if the same would have been allowed by the government in an election year.
In a May 9, 2022, post on his Facebook timeline, the lawmaker lamented “soaring hardship” which he said had been brought on by among others, “unbridled price hikes, excruciating cost of fuel, 20% increase in transport fares, proposals by ECG for a 100% tariff adjustment, historic unemployment at 13.4% and a draconian E-Levy.”
His post titled: ‘Perhaps Ghana should hold national elections every year,’ added that there was the need for the sensitivity of politicians to remain the same before and after elections.
“Sensitivity levels of Ghanaian political leaders must remain the same before and after elections,” it read in part citing the Hungarian situation where the Prime Minister is said to have capped fuel and food prices after winning elections last month.
In Ghana, prices of two utilities are expected to go up after the Ghana Water Company Limited, GWCL, and the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, requested tariff adjustments from the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, PURC.
The GWCL wants a 334% increment in tariff whiles the ECG has proposed a 148% increment. Already, some transport operators have hinted that they will increase fares because of the rising cost of petroleum products.
Read Ablakwa’s full post below
Perhaps Ghana should hold national elections every year.
Soaring hardships caused by unbridled price hikes, excruciating cost of fuel, 20% increase in transport fares, proposals by ECG for a 100% tariff adjustment, historic unemployment at 13.4% and a draconian E-Levy wouldn’t have been tolerated the least if this was an election year.
Sensitivity levels of Ghanaian political leaders must remain the same before and after elections.
In Hungary, despite winning his April election, Prime Minister Viktor Orban continues to cushion Hungarians by placing a cap on fuel and food prices which he has extended to July 1.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Who will pay for the cost of election each year? Ablakwa talks anyhow. Think before you speak.
***barred word*** MAHAMA COMING WHERE SUPREME COURT CASE THROWN OUT YO PEOPLE ABLAKWA, HURUNA, TAMACLOE ARE REAL LOOOOSERS MAHAMA COMING WHERE PURE ***barred word*** LOOSERS THIS MAN JOHN THIE F MAHAMA IS COMMUNICATION MAJOR TRAINED IN USEL ESSSSSS RUSSIA DOESN'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ECONOMICS AND LAW BUT WANT TO BE A LEADER AND MESS OUR ECONOMY AS HE DID DURING HIS TERM IN OFFICE SIGNED ALL KINDS OF TAKE OR PAY AGREEMENTS WITH POWER PRODUCERS AND ENI THE GAS SUPLLIER AT A HIGH COST THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. GHANA AND GHANAIANS DON'T NEED SUCH A USE LESS LOOOSERS WHO CANNOT GET IT AS A LOOOSERS NO MATTER WHICH WAY YOU SPEAK TO THIS MAN IN PLAIN ENGLISH STILL DOESN'T GET IT ***barred word***, CREATED THE GRADUATE UNEMPLOYMENT AND BUT STILL DOESN'T GET IT, COMPLETE ***barred word***.
(P)NDC ruled this country for close to 30 years.... and you couldn't make Ghana like heaven. You guys just enriched yourselves. Masa sh.utt the fc.uk up make we think.
Ablakwa we tire for you. Your stomach is more important than Ghana.
The only thing NDC thinks about is power. But given power, they MESS up BIG time! NDC, NEVER AGAIN!
My brother both parties are the same .
***barred word*** FooI
Ablakwa speaks as if he has authority more than anybody in Ghana. He takes his ex gratia every four years and turn around to speak ***barred word***. Why can’t he advocate for all the unnecessary benefits given to politicians to be canceled if he is sincere.
The woyome gargantuan stealing, bus-branding, depressing dumsor, among others during ndc governments, should rather have necessitated yearly elections, according to this okudzeto never-worked-before boy's warped logic. ***barred word*** and foul-mouthed speaker!! ***barred word***!!