MP Swindles Women In His Constituency ?

The NPP Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Mr Okuley Nortey, has appealed to the police to investigate how some persons have taken advantage of his initiative to organise women for the Poverty Alleviation Fund to dupe them of monies running into millions of cedis.

He said some persons have formed themselves into groups going round and collecting monies from women ranging from 50,000 to 60,000 cedis as processing fees to qualify them for the PAF. Mr Okuley, whose name had come under intense criticism about the illegal operation of the groups in the constituency, was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview. He described the allegation that the groups are operating under his instructions as malicious and lies calculated to damage him.

Hon. Okuley said he has put in place measures to prevent such a thing from happening but wondered how the group easily swayed the women. He called on them to report whoever came to them to collect processing fees to the police. Some women groups have threatened to demonstrate against monies collected from them by the said group as processing fees.