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Government Transition Team spends over GH¢30m on sitting allowances
Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot

Accra, March 11, Ghanadot - The government Transition Team, comprising 92 members over the course of six weeks have spent a total of about GH¢30million on sitting allowances and per diems.

A pressure group known as Democratic Movement for Ghana, disclosed this to Ghanadot in Accra.

The amount which was wasted in the first month of the new administration, the group said, could have built a 150Km stretch of motor road, or built a 136 unit classroom blocks and even three clinics for people in the rural areas who suffer from the lack of these social amenities.

The group the current transitional team's expenses to the that of the previous government that served snacks and no sitting allowances for the 16-member of its transition team.

The group therefore asked the government to make accounts of the government transition team public for scrutiny so as to bring wrong doers to book.

The Spokesperson of the Democratic Movement for Ghana, Mr. Manaf Ibrahim who read a statement on the state of the nation under the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government decried the government over the recent reduction of fuel prices.

According to him, it was improper on the part of government to have delayed the reduction of fuel prices in the country, because the government promised Ghanaians to reduce petroleum prices as soon as they are reduced on the international market.

However, fuel prices were reduced for about one and half weeks but there was no respective reduction in the country.

Mr. Ibrahim stressed that it was highly inadequate for government to have reduced five pesewase on every litre of petrol, adding that there in effect the exercise reduced the tax portion only and not the actual cost.

He therefore called on the government to reduce the fuel prices to the drastic stage that President John Evans Atta Mills promised Ghanaians during the 2008 general elections.

Touching on harassment of private individuals and political opponents, the group noted that it was an open secret that both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag bearer, Nana Akufo- Addo Danquah and his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia had been harassed and humiliated,  along with individuals like the Managing Director of Barclays Bank Ghana Limited and others by the NDC thugs; all in the name of recovery of assets.

The group pointed out that the approach was wrong in the sense that it caused embarrassment for all Ghanaians and would erode the international goodwill built over the years.

Furthermore, it said, the whole exercise of harassment had contributed to to the killing of investor confidence in the country because the right to own property without fear and intimidation was and should be paramount pre-requisite for international and domestic investors.

"It is sad that the leadership of the party has not openly condemned these over exuberant party members," the group said.

"We as a group therefore called on the NDC leadership especially the President, to openly come out and condemn these acts and not just issue statements of apologies which have woefully failed to curtail these embarrassing incidents," said Alhaji Ramadan Abu, a member of the movement.

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