Is Nana Addo taking $5,000 per diem per trip? - NDC asks

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July 20, 2017 1:16 PM

The NDC National Chairman Kofi Portuphy asked at a press conference on Thursday to assess the president’s first six months in office.

The president, Nana Akufo-Addo must disclose how much he takes as per diem per foreign trip, the opposition National Democratic Congress has said.

“Is it $5000 or $4000 as is being rumoured?” “How much do his aides also take? Is it $2000 or $1000 as being rumoured?” NDC National Chairman Kofi Portuphy asked at a press conference on Thursday to assess the president’s first six months in office.

The NDC also believed that Akufo-Addo must scrap “useless” and “amorphous” ministries as they are putting a burden on the state purse.

But the New Patriotic Party has described the $5,000 per diem claims as bogus.

Communications Director of the NPP, Yaw Adomako Baafi told said: “It is quite funny and embarrassing that a person of Kofi Portuphy’s stature could stoop so low to this level of irresponsible, groundless allegation”.

“They (NDC) were in power for eight years, if these people would be honest to tell us even for one year their per diem, I think it will settle everything”, he told Accra-based Class FM.

He believes that the government is not mandated by law to disclose such allowances to the public, adding that presidents over the years have not disclosed such information.

Meanwhile, the NDC has accused the president, Nana Akufo-Addo of being a “legal alien” and one who is not abreast of issues.

According to him, the president spends most of his time outside the country and he is therefore not on top of issues.

Portuphy argued that the president could have done better at the media encounter as he failed to answer most of the questions posed to him.

“We are not surprised because he spends more time abroad than at home… Akufo-Addo is a legal alien,” Mr. Portuphy said.

“Where is the Free SHS, where is the one district-one factory, where is the one village and one dam promises and the $1 million promised in Ghana Must Go bag for every constituencies?” Mr. Portuphy asked, adding that the president has failed citizens.

He also touched on security in the country, saying that there is an “unprecedented upsurge in violent crimes to the disbelieve of Ghanaians.”

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