MPs silence on the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (SADA) exclusion in the 2015 budget is a demonstration of their insensitivity towards alleviating the plight of their constituents.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t see why Members of Parliament in Northern Ghana will see this budget hailing it when you know that a critical aspect of it is not captured: something that would have been implemented or carried out to the benefit of your people, it is not there and you are not bothered, you are not concerned and you feel comfortable and trying to approve this budget, so the perception that they are selfish, the perception that they care very little about their constituents is true.\u201d<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”qJzRgEqI1s8aNFIggmoi8XxMP37r0e7q”]He fumed, \u201cOur northern MPs have over the years demonstrated practically that they are not in Parliament because of the people they claim to be representing: they are really self-seeking, they care very little about the welfare of the ordinary people they are representing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ayoriga Adongo Bismarck defended his standpoint saying, \u201cIt is common knowledge to all Ghanaians that government in the 2015 budget statement failed to make any resource allocation to SADA and this action of the government has led to many groups and individuals raising critical voices and expressing various forms of dissatisfaction on the matter but the northern MPs who are the true representatives of the people in the SADA areas have all remained silent.\u201d<\/p>\n
He exclusively told Citi News<\/strong> NORPRA was mobilizing discerning people from the three regions of the north to demonstrate against government\u2019s exclusion of SADA from the 2015 budget.<\/p>\nHe said the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has no excuse denying the people of Northern Ghana the meaningful development they deserved.<\/p>\n
He recalled, \u201cThe NDC in 2012 enjoyed the massive support of we the people in the three regions of the north but has done little to salvage the masses who are struggling with poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have started mobilizing people from three northern regions to engage government through series of well coordinated activities: we will not allow government to toy with the people of Northern Ghana,\u201d Adongo disclosed.<\/p>\n
He said NORPRA was convinced government intended scrapping the SADA programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know there are clear cut intentions of the government to abandon SADA and I assured you, we will stand up, we will speak out, government must ensure that SADA works and SADA works well for us to have the accelerated development in Northern Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ayoriga Adongo Bismarck commended MP for Effutu in the Central Region, Hon. Alexander Afernyo Markins and his surrogates in Parliament for openly demonstrating their commitment to protect SADA.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the budget was presented none of our Honorable Members of Parliament who are there because of you and I though it wise to raise red flags when they realized that SADA was missing in the budget or no allocation was made: they rather sat back comfortably and Members of Parliament in this country who are not in any way directly responsible or accountable to the people of Northern Ghana are up every second and every minute raising critical questions about why government took that ill-informed decision not to allocate resources to SADA.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Northern Patriots in Research and Advocacy (NORPRA) is a civil society organization which has since its establishment dedicated and committed itself to the cause of the poor in Northern Ghana.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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