Local manufacturers were not ready to deliver furniture – Minority Leader

Minority Leader of Parliament Osei-Kyei Mensa-Bonsu has jumped to the defence of the House for importing furnishing equipment for the refurbished chamber, saying local contractors were not ready to deliver within the time constraints.

He said a contractor he spoke to earlier had told him a "good" and "satisfactory" job would be delivered between one-and-a-half and two years, a situation which would have retarded Parliament’s work, according to the Suame Constituency MP.

“Could Parliament be put on hold for one-and-a-half, two years for a local contractor to do that?” he wondered.

Mr Mensa-Bonsu expressed these in an interview with TV3’s Evelyn Tengmaa on Wednesday, November 5.

“It was not as if the door was shut to local contractors but these are the difficulties.”

Parliament’s use of imported facilities in the main chamber has incensed a large section of the public especially when calls for patronage of made-in-Ghana goods have been highly trumpeted by the Executive.