Parliament of Ghana
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima Mponua, Isaac Asiamah, has accused government of deliberately holding back his share of the Common Fund.
The MP raised the issue in parliament on Wednesday October 19 as Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Alhaji Collins Dauda, appeared on the floor of the house to answer questions bordering on his sector.
“I have the letters to a number of requests and they are all here – as far as January this year, but we are currently in October,” Mr Asiamah lamented on the floor of the house.
Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, who had to intervene, entreated the MP to make copies of the letters available to the Minister as well as parliament before Wednesday October 26, for the issue to be resolved.
The disgruntled MP, who later had an interview on the sidelines with Class FM’s Parliamentary Correspondent, Ekow Annan, insisted that the Minister should have brought bank statements to parliament to give clarity on the disbursement of the Common Fund. “That will show you income and expenditure, you cannot just come here and put some figures there. Please, for me it was a lazy work and the breakdown does not say anything,” he added.
The MPs’ accounts are there and the statement is there to show “this was a shoddy work and part of the incompetence we have been talking about. He should have asked the DCE for the bank statement” before coming to parliament, Mr Asiamah added.
