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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 with all the President to Paris in 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 from £15, 000 an hour, this thus cost us the colossal £345, 000. On the current exchange, that is a incredible ¢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 that this economy isn’t in a very good condition. ”
“Sadly, he regularly fails to lead by illustration in a period of austerity exactly where his government is attractive to struggling public sector employees to lower wage increase targets, ” Okudzeto Ablakwah stated 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 plane for his foreign travels 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 airplane, which is in perfect operating condition, adding that should the particular President have travelled over the Presidential jet instead, “it would have cost Ghana lower than 15% of this 2 . 8million Ghana Cedis. ”
“Alternatively, far more affordable travel preparations are available which could have in-line with the President’s rhetoric to get sympathy from the west just for African nations. ”
Okudzeto Ablakwa said the manufacturers explain the aircraft President Akufo-Addo hired as “the the majority of outstanding ambassador for Airbus Corporate Jets” – one of 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 to get 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 about this matter and ultimately in order to prick their conscience to finish this obscene profligacy at the moment of considerable economic struggles, ” he concluded.
