Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur has expressed worry over the wastage of Ghc 317 million state funds on the district assembly elections.
The money spent includes the EC’s normal operational expenditure on the elections.
The local polls which was earlier scheduled for March 3rd had to be called off after a seven member panel of Justices of the Supreme Court declared the elections as unconstitutional.
Speaking at the opening of the regional ministers conference in Cape Coast in the Central Region the Vice President said the situation will cost the nation million of cedis since it has to raise funds to organise another election.
“The thing that has happened is that we spent some money that we don’t have very much of to plan for this election. Now that money, and I am told it is in the region of GHC310 million is almost wasted and we have to now provide for additional resources.”
He said government will now have to restrategise on how best to manage circumstance that it is confronted with and devise means of extending the mandate so that there is no gap in the management of the affairs of the district assembly.”
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