Mr. Mahama Ayariga, Member of Parliament for Bawku Central has alleged that the National Security Ministry led by Mr. Albert Kan-Dapaah, is given some six million Ghana cedis (GHS6,000,000.00) monthly by the Finance Ministry to manage the Bawku conflict.
This, according to the lawmaker, translates into a whopping eighteen million Ghana cedis (Ghc18,000,000.00) for every three months.
Mr. Ayariga who was speaking on Woezor TV on Saturday, August 3, alleged that despite the huge sum of money allocated to the Security Ministry there is no evidence of work done on the ground.
Mr. Ayariga went on to he dared Mr. Kan-Dapaah to respond to the allegations.
“If it is not true, he [Alber Kan Dapaah] 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 GHc18 million. This is scandalous, this is unfair, and inappropriate and the people of Bawku should know this.” – He dared 
“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 added
Explaining further, the MP said the ongoing conflict made it impossible for his the flagbearer of the NDC, Mr. John Mahama to visit the town during his tour of the region adding the decision by the former President to bypass the area was based on advise from security experts leading to the anger expressed by the NDC youth through the burning of 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. 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.
