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Thursday, August 18, 2011

A simple Request - taken from GLU

Kwaku,

These 3 days have been interesting.
However, friends, let us remember that we can easily be distracted and take our eyes off the ball, so to speak.
The President's staff or campaign has released an interesting 25 minute Youtube video showing him commissioning, opening new classroom blocks in the North, and lots of fanfare to demonstrate his love and hard work.
Some of us think it is the job of the President to manage the huge amounts of loans incurred in just over 2 years, doubling the national debt in 2 years, from $8.1 billion to what I have been told is now close to $20 billion.
I would love for us to demand and insist that the President share with the public, as an obligation and duty to the nation, the list of the loans and grants, the targeted Projects, How much money, who the Project Managers are to hold responsible, how long, and Payment terms for the loans.
A simple Spreadsheet table from the office of the President or the Ministry of Finance to the Media will suffice.
I consider it our constitutional duty for the government to release this information, our duty to demand it.
Obviously we don't want the Presidents security urinating in the street around his house at Regimanuel, and defecating around the Presidents or Regimanuel Grays residence should be against the law! If the CEO of the company has made an offer of a gift in rental and/or estate property for the President or to the government, it is fine, provided there is full transparent disclosure and there is a leadership guideline on such matters.
It is my feeling that the transition from Chieftaincy to Presidency has not been clearly explained to our people, and a friend told me of how many Chiefs would arrive at Kufuor's residence every morning, some with goats and sheep as gifts.

Folks, what makes me sad is the possibility that our seniors who have attained the status of President seem to have closed their minds as to their responsibility to set guidelines, rules, laws, for our people who seem lost in the wilderness of modern global jungle.
In the year of our Lord 2011, electricity, water, phone lines, Internet service are being rationed, and no new road designs are in the plan while a typical worker takes 4-6 hours daily in city traffic.
Such things os social neglect and negligence in the duty of our Presidents to set new guidelines to bring our nation at par with the world needs to be our emphasis.
Whether Colonel Koku Anyidoho got his tight muscles by sparring with Arnold Schwarzenegger or from his previous job at a block factory should be totally irrelevant, let alone whether he know the difference between rental and purchase, gift or deed.
Folks, please let us jointly hold the President responsible for ensuring the delivery of the needed basic human needs such as water, roads and transportation for our people and communication
And other services for us to conduct business.
We have another 4 months to see results or find another President. This is very critical. Please let us make our President aware the status quo will not suffice and he owes us all as a people a duty to tell us what he doing with and how he is managing the loans, grants, toll collections, duties and taxes, NHIL levies.

Thank you.
PS - I wanted to donate some shirts but can somebody tell me the size for Colonel Anyidoho?

1 comment:

Prince Adjei said...

The loans started with Kuffuor. They both kill us with debts.