Deputy minister-nominee for finance, John Kumah says Ghanaians cannot blame the country’s problems on expensive V8s and other privileges enjoyed by Members of Parliaments.
Appearing on the Monday, May 10, 2021, edition of Citi TV’s Point of View, the Ejisu Member of Parliament noted that MPs buy their V8s with their own money out of a loan given them.
According to him, the country requires long-term planning to fix some of its structural problems and not taking away the privileges of MPs.
“I totally agree with you. What I am saying is that when these savings have been done, we will still come back to ‘people are suffering’ because these are structural issues and we need long-term planning and ideas to resolve them. Sometimes, in your attempt to deprive certain opportunities for those who are serving, you may even be compounding the solution rather than allowing them to be able to drive well to go to work and do the same work,” he said.
“Let me tell you, the Member of Parliament’s V8 is bought with his own money, it’s a loan. I don’t get the point we are making. Are you saying that you are the same as the Member of Parliament? The car that he drives, he is buying it with his own money,” he stated.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
