Ranking Member on Parliament’s Health Committee, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has accused government of deceiving Ghanaians about the Agenda 111 initiative.
According to him, President Akufo-Addo is prepping Ghanaians ahead of time, to accept his failure to deliver on the said initiative.
Speaking in an interview with Emefa Apawu on Top Story on Wednesday, the NDC lawmaker stated that right from the outset, President Akufo-Addo knew that he could not build 111 hospitals under 18 months.
The MP said, the President only made that promise for political expediency; adding that Akufo-Addo’s new timeline for the completion of the Project is an evidence of government’s deception regarding the Project.
Clearly the President was preparing the minds of Ghanaians towards failure. This is clearly what the President was doing. All this while, you know that consistently, we have been criticising the Agenda 111 project, and its rather unfortunate that what the President says out there is always different from what they bring before us in Parliament.
In the 2021 Budget, it was clearly stated that that 101 hospitals have been awarded. That was the language used in the Budget. Now in the 2022 Budget, the language then changed to cadastral plans being ready. This is clear deceit”, he stated.
The Juaboso MP also added that, funding for the project has not been made clear by government; an evidence of the insincerity on the part of the President.