Nketiah reacts to quit order...to ex-Ministers

Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, Member of Parliament for Wenchi West and former Deputy Minister of Agriculture said on Tuesday that since he, as an MP in the two previous Parliaments did not benefit from MPs accommodation due to his Ministerial appointment he should not be forced to quit his government bungalow.

According to the Ghanaian Times he was speaking on a local station in response to the order by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Kwamena Bartels that all former Ministers and Deputy Ministers still occupying government bungalows should quit by Friday.

Mr Nketia explained that 12 such MPs were still occupying the bungalows because they were not allocated MP allocation following their appointments as Ministers/Deputy Ministers. He said that after the elections, when they were out of power, they made several approaches to the leadership of the House but to no avail.

"I am ready to move the minute I am allocated an MP's duty post as other MPs have been allocated," he said. Mr Bartels in an interview on Tuesday said that he was not responsible for housing Members of Parliament. As such, all former Deputy/Ministers but now MPs still occupying government bungalows should quit by Friday.