- An honorable man, who is blaring and raucous but junky is Okudzeto Ablakwa. He is habituated to lying ; he is in the abyss between the NPP and this Country. He has the sole gravitation to awe the inhabitants with his contrived political agendas. Sometimes, he behaves to have the gift of the gab but that is will – o’ – the – wisp. His albatross now is to mind his P’s and Q’s or else, he could be a bona fide bummer parliamentarian in the chronicle of our republic. He is such corking and spanking man, but his histrionic disposition is what butchers him. We all thought as a budding parliamentarian, he might propel propitious policies to aid the youths, not knowing, he is there to stomach the obnoxious missions assigned to him by his dejected party.
In fact, he hasn’t been the pregnant tool we anticipated ! For the past days, I have perused through the plea he has yielded to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) in the various gazettes and eveningers apropos the Ambulance Spare Parts deal. Like it or lump it, we won’t kowtow to his adrift rumpus and ruckus anymore. I do find myself in a nest of bumps as to why, he has been earmarked as a parliamentarian, yet he lacks the credos related to it – i was philosophical about his denseness until I sussed that, he has fatalistic attitude towards his brainwashing, which ought to be blotted out of him. Okudzeto Ablakwa, let me assist you with the edification of the regulation governing this Ambulance Spare Parts saga ;
Though the Ambulance Service was established in 2001 by the erstwhile President, John Agyekum Kufour, but the formal and structural operations of the Service began in 2004 without any legislative backing. I mean, a bill thus seeks to publicly funded National Ambulance Service to provide a legal framework to specify standards, regulate operations as well as dispirit the inappropriate use and operation of ambulances in the Country had not been authorized. Therefore , Parliament enacted the National Ambulance Service bill, 2020 eventually to regulate this agency. Clauses 28 to 30 of it deal with the finances of the Service. In Clause 28, provision is made for the funds of the Service and there include ; moneys approved by Parliament, moneys from fees, loans, grants, donations and gifts, reimbursement from the National Health Insurance Authority and other Insurance Companies and moneys provided by the National Insurance Commission, established under the Insurance Act, 2006 ( Act 724 ), among others.
From the above regulation, it is no ifs, ands, or buts that, in such scene, it undergoes parliamentary process and review before it is approved eventually. Although, the primary function of Parliamentarians is law – making under article 93 (2) of our Constitution, but parliament has financial control also on the country’s budgets and expenditures. It was unparliamentary and puerile to have expressed that, Hon. Ken Ofori – Atta approved a particular amount within his latitude. How farcical and implausible it is. Per your act, you have cast indictment on the Speaker, who you are politically coupled with, such that, he is supine to spearhead Parliamentary affairs, since he is at the helm of these stuffs. On the same side of the coin, you have also undermined and calumniated the adroitness of your parliamentary confrères. Your la – di – da manners and chi – chi pansophical are wrecking your identity gradually.
Every Ghanaian is acquainted with the fact that, on the 28th January, 2019, the President, Nana Akufo – Addo commissioned and presented three hundred and seven (307) new, state – of – the – art ambulances to the National Ambulance Service. This index bespoke that, any budgetary amount endorsed by our adept Parliament in the procurement of these items has been fulfilled. Hon. Ken Ofori – Atta didn’t mushroom the amount licensed by Parliament either in the process or the latter part of this exercise or when he was on the verge of being vacated from his Parliamentary role, so you have to accept it, warts and all.
I venerate anyone, who is a proponent of anti – corruption. But Ablakwa’s own is instigated under the auspices of his partisanship. As a supposed anti – corruption performer, you must be holistic and consistent. Mr. Ablakwa, I hope you read and heard on this same issue ( the Ambulance acquisitions ) that, in December 2015, when your Party was in power, two hundred Ambulances were supposedly purchased by your party led by John Mahama , out of which only thirty arrived in the Country and even regarding the said thirty Ambulances, they were declared ‘ not fit for purpose because they had cardinal defects and did not come with any medical equipment ‘ ? What investigatory and criminal steps have you taken to apprehend your flagbearer, John Mahama ?
When it pertains to your party, you keep mum on it and acts in sanctimoniousness. Do you think Kissi Agyebeng esq. is credulous and that, you can thrust your lies on him for execution ? Then you might be in a rancid realm of your dream. He is an astute legal practitioner and won’t be fragile to your crafts.
However, the petition you have tendered to the Office of the Special Prosecutor is frivolous, because Hon. Ken Ofori – Atta is the toast of our partisan politics regime and as a result, wouldn’t taint his probity with any Janus – faced transactions.
By : Prof. Dinkum.
(The Buzzing Rapine of Erudition)E – mail : dinkumchoice@gmail.com
