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President Akufo-Addo’s latest private jet journey is estimated to price Ghana around GH¢4 mil, according to North Tongu MEGAPIXEL Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. The particular President is currently in Italy, Guyana, Belgium, Germany, as well as the United Kingdom on a ten-day operating tour. Mr. Ablakwa mentioned in a statement that the President’s latest trip is anticipated to cost the country more than 4 million cedis. In a longish post, he wrote: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo shown beyond any shred associated with doubt that his blatant contempt, gross insensitivity plus utter disdain for the Ghanaian people who made him Leader have no boundaries, whatsoever. Within the very same day and actually during the “Yentua March” simply by thousands of Ghanaians from every walks of life that took to the streets associated with Accra to register their revulsion in the strongest of conditions against the obnoxious E-Levy plus government’s profligate dissipation associated with current taxes, loans along with other resources which have led to the downgraded economy now within the ICU; President Akufo-Addo, within the most heartless, scornful plus outrightly insulting conduct however, opted for the umpteenth time for you to abandon Ghana’s Presidential Plane and fly out of the nation aboard his chartered US14, 000 an hour ultra-luxury professional jet — the Boeing 737-97Y(ER)(BBJ3), registered LX-DIO. Within grotesque imagery of a Chief executive who couldn’t be troubled or give a toss regarding the mass agitations of their employers — President Akufo-Addo took off from the Kotoka Airport terminal at exactly 13: 00 GMT — obviously, simultaneously, angry protesters were getting close to Parliament to present their request. The President’s reckless indiscretion is likely to make it to the Guinness Book of Records since the most provocative, thoughtless plus hard-hearted misconduct by any kind of democratically elected leader. 1 wonders if the President nevertheless felt no remorse whenever he saw from mid-air, the protestors, some of them over the age of him and others struggling moms worried about grim prospects for children. From our unimpeachable monitoring, President Akufo-Addo touched lower last night in France in 20: 50 CET. The comprehensive computation of the President’s flying time for their 10-day tour looks the following: 6 hours and 50min from Accra to Italy; 8hours and 30min through France to Guyana; 9hours and 5min from Guyana to Germany; 1hour plus 10min from Germany in order to France; approximately 1hour through France to Belgium; one more 1hour from Belgium in order to UK; 6hours and 30min from UK back to Ghana. This works out to some 34hours of air travel — with US14, 000 an hour, a preliminary bill of US$476, 1000 arises. In addition , we calculate incidentals such as: landing charges, ramp fees, segment costs, federal excise tax, 7-member crew oversight fees, 7-member crew per diem charges, wait time fees, brief leg fees, de-icing costs, reposition fees, international costs and one-way fees in order to amount to a conservative physique of US$300, 000. Within sum, for abandoning Ghana’s Presidential Jet and obstinately choosing an extravagant plus sybaritic option, the Ghanaian taxpayer should expect to dish out a staggering US$776, 000 or maybe the Cedi equivalent of GHS4, 979, 328. 16 when President Akufo-Addo returns. Actually, the cost is much higher than the particular GHS4. 6million government continues to be unable to release to the Learners Loan Trust since this past year, making it impossible for the SLT to cater for the needs associated with thousands of tertiary students for further than a year, as it surfaced in Parliament this week after i demanded answers from the Education and learning Minister. What should additional embarrass all well-meaning Ghanaians is the fact that our real-time monitoring reveals that none of the particular African Presidents joining Chief executive Akufo-Addo for these meetings are usually engaged in such unconscionable hedonistic misconduct. They are all making good use of their particular national presidential jets. For the President running away from liability as his Ministers unjustifiably and unconstitutionally hide at the rear of the cloak of nationwide security not to disclose the entire cost of his lavish skybath travels to us within Parliament, one would have anticipated that the President will reexamine his ways, particularly thinking about the now collapsed economy and exactly how the Ghanaian populace possess flatly refused to accept the particular E-Levy largely because of the President’s penchant for obscene wealth and impunity of not really accounting to the people who finance his aristocratic tastes. Such a terrible own-goal at a time Chief executive Akufo-Addo is contemptuously defying practically everyone and shifting mountains to force the particular passage of the dreaded E-Levy.
