Member of Parliament for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has described the Nana Akufo-Addo-led government as an administration full of disrespectful old people.
“This government is a group of old men with no respect to the stakeholders of this country and have no respect to the good people of the countryâ€, he said.
He claimed that if the government respected Ghanaians, it would have finished the health projects that were started during the John Mahama administration to serve the needs of all persons in the country.
He made these comments when he led a group of media men to Sekyere Afram Plains District Hospital in Kumawu in the Ashanti Region as part of the Minority’s inspection of abandoned hospitals nationwide.
The United Kingdom Export Financing sponsored the building of the Fomena and Kumawu hospitals along with five other facilities and work was supposed to be completed in 2019 with the cost adding up to 173 million euros.
The government claims to have found only $38.3 million out of the initial amount that was to be used to complete the hospital.
Mintah Akandoh said: "What I have seen here is an affront to the mandate the good people of this country have given to the president. I think that this government is a group of old men who have no respect for the stakeholders in the governance of this country, they have no respect for the people of this country.â€
He stated that they had been to the same building a few years back and if the President really respected the decision of Parliament, he and his team would have made positive attempts to complete the building.
“We are paying interest on the loan contracted for this purpose meanwhile the people in this country have not benefited from this project. This project was awarded somewhere in 2015 which should have been completed by 2017 and we are in 2021 and we are in the weeds. When you talk they will sit in Accra and try to defend,†he said.
Paramount Chief of the Kumawu Traditional Area, Barima Safo Tweneboa Kodua, shared his disappointment in the government due to the delay in completing the Sekyere Afram Plains District Hospital.
The Paramount Chief stated that even though government a contractor had visited the site recently, government has not released funds for the project to continue.