Member of Parliament for Asawase in the Ashanti Region, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has scolded the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Efutu Constituency, Alex Markin for trying to create sensationalism out of government’s effort to invest GHC 47 million in guinea fowl project under the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).
Alex Markin yesterday challenged government to give a detailed account on the amount of money it has spent on the guinea fowl and tree-planting projects embarked on under the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).
According to him, there is no attestation to show the project is actually in existence. The investments according to him were allegedly made during the 2012 election year and so Ghanaians have the right to know the details of the project since it was not captured in this year’s budget.
In an attempt to rubbish claims by the NPP MP, Hon. Muntaka charged Ghanaians to take Hon. Markin’s message with a pinch of salt.
“If you take Hon. Markin’s message in parliament on the surface, you get the impression that government is squandering the nation’s monies on guinea fowl. Guinea fowl production is like working on a fish pond or a poultry farm. You can go around and find out the capital one needs to start such business. Even to produce five hundred broilers, you can go and find out the money needed. The project is to industrialize guinea fowl production and not the backyard production in the North”, he stated.
He argued that it was the duty of government to ensure that poverty is uprooted in areas where investments like this can be used to curb it.
Hon. Muntaka also blamed Hon. Alex Markin for trying to make political capital out of such a national project and urged journalists to unearth the truth by conducting their own investigation to know how government is handling it.
