Kan-Dapaah receives GHS6m monthly to manage Bawku conflict– Mahama Ayariga alleges

Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga claims that the Finance Ministry pays the National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah, around six million Ghana cedis (GHS6,000,000.00) per month to oversee the Bawku crisis. 

This, according to Mr. Ayariga, amounts into a hefty eighteen million Ghana cedis (Ghc18,000,000.00) per quarter.

Speaking on Woezor TV on Saturday, August 3, the outspoken MP stated that despite the large number of money granted to the Ministry, there is no indication of work completed.

Later, he challenged Mr. Kan-Dapaah to answer to his charges.

"If it is not true, he should come out publicly and tell me that it is not true and I will show him the records that every quarter that this conflict has been going on, he takes 18 million Ghana cedis. This is scandalous, this is unfair, and inappropriate and the people of Bawku should know this."

Albert Kan-Dapaah is Ghana's National Security Minister 

"The people should know that the NPP government through its National Security Minister signs a cheque of 6 million Ghana cedis every month, 18 million every quarter is given to them by the Ministry of Finance in the name of solving their problems. But how have they solved that problem? The problem has not been solved" he said.

He went on to say that the persistent unrest prevented his party's presidential candidate, John Mahama from visiting the town during his tour of the region.

He claimed that John Mahama's choice to bypass the region based on security expert advice sparked fury among the young, who burned posters.

"Even yesterday, John Dramani Mahama could not drive through the town. If you noticed, we had to bypass the town because many of the youth wanted to follow him on the tour, and he could not drive through the town with them for fear that anything could happen to anybody."

"The same way my uncle had difficulties in attending the rally and so they demanded that John Dramani Mahama should come to them and yet the security situation was not promising and everybody was growing cold feet. We didn't want to trigger anything and so when we decided not to pass through the town, you noticed that yesterday they were very bitter and posters of mine and John Mahama were being burnt. It was because of the security situation and the fact that security experts advised us not to take the risk. It is painful and it hurts" he remarked.

"But while all this is going on, the National Security Minister signs a cheque of 6 million Ghana cedis every month in the name of dealing with the Bawku security problem," he stressed.

Source : Lead News Online