Indexing government scandals one at a time
The Minority in Parliament has raised red flags over an GHS18,000 allocation for the Ministry of Water and Sanitation’s entertainment allowance as well as another GHS18,000 allocation for clothing allowance purposes of the same ministry in the 2019 budget.
According to the Ranking Member of the Works and Housing Committee, Mr Sampson Ahi, there can be no justification for the allocations. Apart from the budget for entertainment and clothing, there is also an allocation of GHS36,000 for watchmen, which the Minority raised issues about.
This came to the fore during the debate of the ministry’s budgetary allocation of GHS246 million for the 2019 financial year in parliament on Wednesday, 12 December 2018.
Dec. 12, 2018
References: