The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has told President Akufo-Addo to show leadership by stopping the sale of six hotels of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to Rock City Hotels Limited, owned by the Agric Minister, Bryan Acheampong.
Okudzeto Ablakwa was reacting to President Akufo-Addo’s directive to the Minister for Employment and Labour to engage the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on the said issue.
“This is not the time to be pretending to be solving the problem by asking for Labour to go and meet the Minister for Employment. The president should show leadership, he should show decisiveness.”
Okudzeto Ablakwa reminded President Akufo-Addo of his[President] warning to appointees not to use their positions in government to do business.
“This is the president who told us that none of his appointees should be allowed to use public office, the appointment that he will give them to do business, to do transactions, that will make them millionaires and billionaires, using public office and that if people want to make money, as for him his government is not for making money, they should stay in the private sector.”
The North Tongu MP challenged the President to prove that he meant what he said when he warned that people should not use government positions to enrich themselves.
“Now he is faced with a test, this is the time we are expecting him to show that what he told us, was not just one of those usual rhetoric as we have come to discover, so the president should issue a firm directive,” Ablakwa challenged.