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General News of Monday, April 1, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-04-01
Dr. Alexander Y. Adusei Jr
The minority in parliament has questioned the controversial appointment of a private lawyer, Dr. Alexander Y. Adusei Jr., to the post of director of a non-existent Keta port in the Volta region.
According to the minority, the action of President Nana Akufo-Addo "is not only absurd [and] exasperating, but attempts to cause a voluntary financial loss to the state. "
Describing the appointment useless, the deputies of the minority asked Monday to Nana Akufo-Addo to reverse the situation.
The Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiama, in a letter dated March 19, 2019, announced that the President had appointed Dr. Alexander Y. Adusei Jr to the post of Director of the Port of Keta and had asked the President of Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority (GPHA) to "take the necessary steps". give effect "to the appointment.
The news of the appointment announced last Friday by 3news.com has raised questions about the legitimacy of such an appointment while there is currently no Keta port.
The Akufo-Addo government has since taken office to complete the Keta port project, but the work is not yet complete.
At a press conference held on Monday on this topic, the minority expressed shock at the nomination. She said that this was done to ridicule and ridicule the people of the Keta region who aspired for the project to transform their local economy and create jobs.
Keta MP Richard Quashigah said their audits revealed that after the president with an executive instrument had declared Keta's coastline a seaport, the GPHA had since initiated the necessary legal procedures to acquire the littoral of the project.
However, there is no active seaport in Keta, saying "unfortunately, there is no seaport in Keta today for which a director is needed".
He added that the confusion currently created by the appointment of Dr. Adusei Jr by the president could be compared to the sending by the Ghana Education Service of a head teacher in a community where he does not. There is no school, no teacher, no student, no person.
The MP said that he did not even know whether the government had found a serious investor for the construction of the port of Keta, apart from the interest shown by the Diamond Cement Company 2014 to build a jetty for facilitate the transport of clinker and also its subsidiaries in the enclave of Keta.
"As far as we know, the protocol of agreement between the government and investors has suffered a shock, the investor being uncomfortable with certain clauses of the protocol. agreement, "Quashigah said.
"Nothing happened, with the exception of a visit to the project site planned in Kedzi to Keta by the board of directors headed by the chairman of the board, Mr. Peter Mac Manu, in August 2018.
"Thus, appointing a director for Keta's nonexistent seaport with the status of director of Tema and Takoradi is not only absurd and infuriating, but also an attempt to cause voluntary financial losses to the state," he said. Mr. Quashigah.
He baderted that there are currently two directors each for the ports of Tema and Takoradi, and elsewhere "two of these directors are redundant"
"If for nothing, why would the president not appoint one of the licensed directors as an administrator for the imaginary Keta port rather than appoint Dr. Adusei Jr, which would bring to five the number of directors?" Port administrators while only two are needed, "he added
According to him, "this appointment is unnecessary and constitutes a rape on the resources of the GPHA and, in this case, the Ghanaian taxpayer.
He based his argument on the fact that it cost about 150,000 cedis to maintain a harbor master in one month, given the benefits that flow from it.
"I … solemnly plead with President Akufo-Addo that he will come back on the horrible decision of an appointment," Quashigah said, pointing out that what the people of his constituency want, Is a functional port that they have wished to create over the years.
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