Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper wants a full-scale inquiry to be launched into claims that Nana Asante Bediatuo, Executive Secretary to the President, wrote a letter cutting down budget estimates for the judiciary and legislature on the blind side of President Akufo-Addo.
The President announced, in a letter to Parliament last week, that the budget for the Legislature will be slashed by ¢119 million while that of the Judiciary will go down by ¢77 million.
Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bons, speaking to JoyNews in an interview, revealed Nana Asante Bediatuo had unilaterally written a letter cutting down budget estimates for the judiciary and legislature.
He noted that the matter had not been concluded but ''on account of what had been happening earlier, the Secretary wrote the letter."
“I think its a yesterday issue but we have agreed that the proper thing should be done”, he added.
Discussing the issue on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', Kwesi Pratt was alarmed by the action of the Secretary to the President, wondering how the latter could act without the consent of the President.
''This is disturbing....for a Majority Leader to accuse the Secretary to the President that he's written a letter to Parliament on his own authority without the notice of the President, I think it's a serious matter...So, next time, when somebody gets a letter from the Secretary to the President, how are we supposed to treat that letter. That's the issue. So, for me, it's a very, very serious matter'', he stressed.
''Nana Asante Bediatuo is not a toddler. He is somebody who understands his job too well. He is a senior lawyer. So, how could he have committed such an error assuming he did?'', he queried.
He called for full investigations into the matter, stating emphatically ''you can't brush this matter aside. We have to thoroughly investigate it''.
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Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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So Agya Atta think he has written something sensible but he failed to even address the issue at stake if you have de majority leader in parliament make a statement to the effect that de secretary to de president wrote to cut down parliamentary budget without his bosses consent you think is a joke and u are joking with it if we are in a civilised country that guy should be in cells by now but wen ur government is full of family people no matter who you are as president you can't punished people wen they go wrong and dat is what is going on in npp and their ***barred word*** government, agya atta instead of addressing this issue he decided to talked about PNDC see the npp is a fake political party and they are quick to accuse people of wrong doing but anytime they are in government they do terrible things to the people of this country with de support of their clueless media,if that party is strong as they claimed they should have won greater accra massively because all the so called senior journalist were talking for dem and all de big media house were their partners yet they lost greater accra heavily so Mr atta come again
Typical of the NDC vague statements because they lack the ability to argue issues constructively to present alternative solutions. ' Agya-Atta, you wrote nothing'. For me, this statement depicts lack of own opinion to the issue in question or you don't have the competence to make logical, convincing statements, together, which make sense. Indeed, this incompetence cuts across the whole of the NDC-fabric. Theirs, is to get the political power by all means, By, as it were, making rosy promises, deciet, baseless propaganda to run the opponents down and when they so get the power, they tend to kleptocracy to maintain the status quo. That is the NDC political party democratic engagement. The NPP on the other hand is determined to change the dynamics because they have the competence to implement the policies that will impact positively the lives of the people. So that, that would be the basis for their reelection. The NDC sees it as a huge challenge and feel very uncomfortable because they lack the competence. Hence, quite often the NDC rushes to last minute uncoordinated infrastructure developments to get. votes.
Agya-Atta, you wrote nothing. Thank you
It is worthwhile to see Kwesi Pratt in his usual mood of hypocrisy and his paid-press manner of sensationalism in reacting to issues like this. On the other hand it is noteworthy watching NDC come of age and has taken-off the NDC-propaganda politicking-glasses. They can now appreciate their own NDC from the plain sight of facts, devoid of biases, diabolism, lies and the staged party polemics, dating back from, as it were, the old good days of the PNDC era. The case in question is the 100-exodus and Allotey & co. The lesson is the whole Party hierachy should learn to come in terms with present reality. The reality of a society which had politically grown into a powerhouse of making informed choices and hence give preference to competence, their wellbeing and the virtues of the democratic dispensation. Thus, the election machine of deceit, vote rigging and baseless propaganda has no future in present day Ghana. This last term of the present administration of President Akufo-Addo is going to be the icing on the cake in terms of making Ghanaians aware of how much they had missed under the NDC poor governace of rampant greed and corruption. The bottomline is no about of paid-press engaigements by the NDC can help NDC out of the woods, not even thousends of Kwesi Pratts. Always seeking to run your opponent down is not the way forward but constructive criticism and thouht-through alternative solutions to issues. Avoid Peacefm because they seem oblivious and not helpful to our course but we shall send Kwesi there. That kind of thing is for my taste, very chilldish.