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Outspoken political commentator, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby says the John Mahama-led administration is borrowing too much but using the funds for unproductive things. According to him, the government is simply using the country's oil resources as collateral to contract more loans and piling up more debt. The Chief Policy Analyst at the Ghana Institute for Public Policy Options (GIPPO) said on Joy FM on Wednesday, the administration was trying to govern in a "smart" way, by paying workers' salaries while nothing is being done. "We cannot pay school fees, we cannot pay school feeding, we cannot pay tuition fees; all we are able to do right now is to pay civil service [workers'] salaries which is smart governance because, for the workers, if you tell them to do nothing and you pay their salaries they are happy". Tarzan as he is popularly called, also accused Parliamentarians of colluding with the executive instead of playing its role of putting checks on it. He said the "MP's are compromised and cannot put government in check."