$ 200 million – 450 rooms "not so expensive" – Adei

General News on Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-07-17

Professor Stephen Adei, chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), said the estimated $ 200 million cost of a sloppy parliamentary chamber of 450 seats is not expensive.

Nevertheless, he said that the proposed project schedule was bad and was not a priority for the country.

"I think the cost of this building, and I repeat it as a builder, is not that expensive, but it's a mistake right now in terms of national priorities and needs of this country, "he told Benjamin Akakpo at the Executive Clbad91.3FM breakfast on Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

"To say that we have given you this meeting place and that you are going to spend about a quarter of a billion dollars when we can not make roads, it shows a feeling of insensitivity and I think the reaction of the media, even the brutal The first is a good message to our politicians that Ghanaians will not tolerate them … "said the former rector of the Institute of Management and Public Administration of Ghana (GIMPA) .

According to him, "in terms of leadership, you should be a role model. they were wrong and their fingers were badly burned. For me, I've never talked about it because I expected this reaction and if journalists and bad guys are going to do it, we'll just watch and see because politicians have to learn the hard way and I think that's they We have removed it and we have to do it for decades, because when they bring it back, they will see what people are going to do to them. "

The idea of ​​the 450-seat chamber has aroused the harsh opposition of ordinary Ghanaians, the media, civil society organizations and even some lawmakers. The move has since been suspended.