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President Akufo-Addo goes on a trip abroad | Photo file
A member of the NDC legal team, Edudzi Tamakloe, said the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) cannot defend President Akufo-Addo’s use of luxury and expensive private jets.
Some NPP members have justified the use of expensive private jets by current President Nana Akufo Addo, which has been the subject of national discussions, by arguing that ex-President Mahama has also flown private jets.
But Eduzdi Tamakloe, in an interview with Ejura-based Naagyei FM Morning on the subject, told host Henry Lord that the nuclear power plant can in no way justify President Akufo-Addo’s theft of private jets. luxury when the presidential jet can make these trips.
“Former President John Mahama, during his tenure, used British Airways or KLM, which are not luxury jets, only when the Presidential Jet went for periodic maintenance in France where the jet has been fabricated.
Source: Naagyeifmonline.com
“This trip to Scotland by ex-President Mahama that the nuclear power station is so much about was made around the time the presidential jet was gone for maintenance. Even for this trip, President Mahama then chartered an Embraer plus jet. small with specifications far from those flown by President Akufo-Addo.
“The nuclear power plant should stop throwing dust in the eyes of Ghanaians. I can categorically state that there is no justification for what President Akufo-Addo is doing.
North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa launched a crusade for a national policy on presidential travel following another allegation of 3.46 million Ghc spent on a private jet by the president during his recent trips to England and Germany.
Ablakwa, who is enraged by President Akufo-Addo’s continued use of VIP charter jets for his trips to Europe, said such a policy is essential to avoid President Akufo-Addo’s abuse of discretion to the detriment of the taxpayer who suffers.
The MP for North Tongu revealed: “Using the conservative rate of US $ 14,000 per hour, the two trips to UK and Germany which require around 28 hours of round trip travel plus 13 additional hours of pickup and in return, the taxpayer was again burdened with a colossal burden of US $ 574,000.00. At the current exchange rate, this represents 3.46 million Ghanaian cedis. “
This follows massive public outrage over the president’s decision to spend more than 2.4 million Ghanaian cedis in May on private jets.
Ablakwa insists that this episode of President Akufo-Addo’s alleged profligacy will surely be subject to “surgical scrutiny” by the NDC caucus in Parliament when the August Chamber resumes.
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