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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has accused Chief executive Akufo-Addo of blowing people money on extravagant personal jet travels even as the nation goes through economic hardship.
Based on the North Tongu MP, among May 16 to twenty five, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo spent a whopping £345, 000 i. e. GH¢2, 828, 432. 80 in the current exchange rate in the recent 9-day visit to Italy, Belgium, South Africa and to Ghana.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said he came from the total amount through their personal findings and computations which indicated that it was used on a “top-of-the-range luxury aircraft” rented by Acropolis Aviators at £15, 000 each hour.
The interior of the Chartered G-KELT aircraftIn a post upon social media, Okudzeto Ablakwa mentioned: “Per Flightradar24, the G-KELT aircraft left Accra using the President to Paris over the 16th of May — a 6 and fifty percent hour duration. Airlifted the particular President from Paris in order to Johannesburg for 11 hrs on the 23rd of Might. ”
“Then Johannesburg in order to Accra on May twenty five, was a five and fifty percent hour flight. This gives all of us accumulated flight travel associated with 23 hours, so in £15, 000 an hour, this thus cost us the colossal £345, 000. In the current exchange, that is a shocking ¢2, 828, 432. eighty. ”
The interior of the Chartered G-KELT aircraftAccording to Okudzeto Ablakwa, “President Akufo-Addo [who] has been a top voice for debt forgiveness in the international arena continues to be imposing additional regressive fees back home, with the justification how the economy isn’t in a very good condition. ”
“Sadly, he regularly fails to lead by instance in a period of austerity exactly where his government is attractive to struggling public sector employees to lower wage increase targets, ” Okudzeto Ablakwah mentioned in a recent opinion item circulated to the media.
Samuel Okudzeto’s concerns stem through President Akufo-Addo’s decision in order to charter a private luxurious airplane for his foreign excursions that cost the Ghanaian taxpayer £15, 000 one hour.
The interior of the Chartered G-KELT aircraftHe described this since outrageous since Ghana currently owns a Presidential plane, which is in perfect operating condition, adding that should the particular President have travelled in the Presidential jet instead, “it would have cost Ghana lower than 15% of this 2 . 8million Ghana Cedis. ”
“Alternatively, far more affordable travel agreements are available which could have in-line with the President’s rhetoric meant for sympathy from the west intended for African nations. ”
Okudzeto Ablakwa said the manufacturers explain the aircraft President Akufo-Addo hired as “the many outstanding ambassador for Airbus Corporate Jets” – probably the most luxurious and the most expensive within the Acropolis fleet.
“The paradox is that President Akufo-Addo involved in this fantastic extravagance in the way to France to go plead President Emmanuel Macron intended for debt cancellation. Needless to include that President MacRon will not travel in such splendor, ” he opined.
The interior from the Chartered G-KELT aircraftOkudzeto noticed that such lavish investing in such a period of austerity transmits the wrong message not only towards the foreign powers whom the particular President was beseeching designed for debt cancellation but towards the Ghanaian citizens who in recent years have been agitating for #FixTheCountry.
“I have therefore submitted an urgent question within Parliament to compel the particular Akufo-Addo administration to be responsible to the Ghanaian people with this matter and ultimately in order to prick their conscience to finish this obscene profligacy at the moment of considerable economic challenges, ” he concluded.
