SONA 2023: President Akufo-Addo Speech Fails to Address key Issues-Jirapa MP
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Jirapa, Hon Cletus Seidu Dapilah has berated President Akufo Addo for failing to tackle issues affecting the masses in his state of the Nation Address (SONA) to Parliament .
The MP expressed disappointment at the President for failing tell the real state of the country in terms of the Domestic Debts Exchange issues, insecurity , education, poor road networks and the shortage of vaccines for children immunisation in the country.
Speaking to EXPRESSNEWSGHANA after the President delivered the message to parliament on Wednesday, March 8, Hon Dapilah said he expected the President who is in charge of the country to accept responsibility and tell Ghanaians how come things are high, food price and fuel prices kept on rising but that did not happen.
“I think the people of Ghana deserves better than this. There are issues affecting live, you are aware there is shortage of vaccines in part o this country,” he said.
He described President Akufo-Addo led government as shambolic and lacking ideas for the solution to Ghana’s development problems.
He maintained that, the message the President delivered to parliament in his State of the Nation Addressed indicated that President Akufo-Addo has lost touch with the reality.
“For me the president message is empty and I was not impressed with the message. And I think the President probably is sleeping on the job and must wake up,” Mr Dapilah added.
While delivering the state of the nation, President Akufo-Addo rebuffed accusations his government has been reckless in its borrowing and spending.
The President said his government has spent the money on very urgent things including building roads and schools, training young people, and equipping them to face a competitive world.
“Considering the amount of work that still needs to be done on the state of our roads, the bridges that have to be built, considering the number of classrooms that need to be built, the furniture and equipment needs at all stages of education, considering the number of children who should be in school and are not, considering the number of towns and villages that still do not have access to potable water, I daresay no one can suggest we have over-borrowed or spent recklessly,” he said.
According to the President, he has been in a hurry to get things done that includes the massive developments in agriculture, education, health, irrigation, roads, rails, ports, airports, sea defense, digitization, social protection programs, industrialization, and tourism.
The government, he said, can justifiably be proud of the many things it has managed to do in the past six years.
“As I go around the country, I hear the pleas for roads, schools, and hospitals, and as the rainy season comes I wish, as every other Ghanaian does, that we would have built more drains than we have. And I wish we had the resources to do more,” he added.
But the MP for Jirapa said the president was completely out of reality and that, the so call roads constructed could not be traced anywhere in the country, and that if there were such roads, the President and his appointees would have rushed to commission them.
He further questioned the president’s claims that the One District one Factory has yielded dividends, saying, ” so if President says all these are working, then why is the country still importing more than exporting?
He said the minority would take time to interrogate the president message and exposed the incompetency in him and his appointyees.
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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