I have struggled to keep quiet over the brouhaha of Houses for Ex-Presidents but I can’t anymore.<\/p>\n
For God-sake, what business has a man got to do with being President if he cannot provide for himself and family, the basic necessity of a home? The State literally funds every expense directly and indirectly of a President and his family, even taxes are waived.<\/p>\n
If you could not build a house before seeking to be president, why on earth did you not use your earnings to build or acquire one?<\/p>\n
Presidency is service not asset acquisition. If for nothing at all, wasn’t there anything to learn from the modesty of H.E. Atta-Mills? His wife continues to live in their old home. If you have an old home too, please move into it.<\/p>\n
I have heard arguments that $2,000 is inadequate to rent a house for the president’s stature.<\/p>\n
I am sorry but I think the $2,000\/month allowance is spirited to rather maintain an Ex-President’s own home. Build your house to the extent of your stature and use the $2,000 to rather maintain it.<\/p>\n
If every President spends just four years in office and takes a Government House(s) in Ridge, Cantonment or Labone, how many will be left in these prime areas in a 100 years for use by the State’s apparatus?<\/p>\n
What if the Ex-President opted to live in the Flagstaff\/Jubilee House, would that too have been retained?<\/p>\n
I will absolutely agree to the idea of an office in the capital and at worse, a Library providing Tourist opportunities for the hometowns of Ex-Presidents, but to ask for a house? I respectfully think, it\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n
The political elite ought to be very cautious. Our democracy is not a given.<\/p>\n
The debilitating dismissal of a sitting President at the December 7 polls after just one term is clear evidence that the Ghanaian is losing patience for the political elite.<\/p>\n
It is socially and democratically risky for the political elite to be seen by the “The people” as a group of persons conniving to rape the nation while masquerading as opponents.<\/p>\n
We struggle to pay our taxes, we fund you, don’t take us for granted.<\/p>\n
#OneGhana
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\nBy: Senyo Hosi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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