It is looting in disguise - Domelevo on allocations to MPs to monitor GETFund projects
He wondered what happens to the monitoring units of the GETFund , Disroc Assemblies and the Ministry of Education following the approval of the allocation to the lawmakers.
“Shocking! Is it true that individual members of Parliament have been allocated funds to monitor GETFund projects? What happens to the monitoring units of GETFund, district assemblies, Ministry of Education etc responsible for that? We must prevent fruitless and wasteful spending – it is looting in disguise,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Parliament has approved an amount of GHC250,000 each for Members of Parliament through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) distribution formula.
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This allocation is intended to fund education-related projects in the constituencies of MPs. An additional GHC150,000 has been allocated to each Member of Parliament to monitor these projects.
The Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, reacting to the report on the floor of Parliament on Saturday, March 29, said, “At the deliberations, we also suggested to the minister [finance] that there should be some re-alignment.
“And following the pressures that MPs often come under, educational needs across the country, there should be some upward adjustments, relative project fund for MPs. And the administrator [GEFTund] and the finance minister complied and acceded to our requests.”
The Member of P arliament for Binduri, Issifu Mahmoud, also defended the GHC150,000 budgetary allocation, describing the amount as “woefully inadequate” to meet the diverse needs within their constituencies.
“They [critics] are right to some extent. But they can only be right if they don’t understand the nature of the job of a Member of Parliament in a constituency. Because this so-called GHC150,000 that is meant for us to do monitoring or whatever is woefully inadequate.
“Apart from we the poor MPs or we those who are starting, I know some senior MPs who even spend far more than the GHC150,000 in a week, in a month as far as the needs of their constituency are concerned. They pay school fees, they assist people in all sectors of life in their constituencies,” he told Citi TV.
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