The recent comments by the Member of Parliament(MP) for New Juaben South, Michael Okyere Baafi,on the Electronic Transaction Levy in his constituency which was captured on video, is not only pathetic but shameful.
Among other things, he told the people gathered that if the E-Levy be rejected, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would ask the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government to cancel the Free SHS policy.
“Let us all support the E-Levy because there is one thing we haven’t said and that is should we go to the IMF, they will ask Nana Akufo-Addo to cancel the Free SHS. That will mean that your children will no longer be able to continue their education.
“I am a Member of Parliament and everyone: NDC and NPP MPs have all given their support to the bill. The NDC MPs have told us that they know when the E-Levy is passed, it will be beneficial to all of them but they cannot openly declare it and so the NDC people have told us to do whatever it takes to pass the E-Levy. So, please, let’s all support this so it benefits all of us,” he said in Twi and translated to English.
The comments of the MP, is a sharp reminder of the many horrible comments made by leading members of the New Patriotic Party, who have all tied the survival and progress of this nation on the passage of the E-Levy.
The comments of the MP, leaves much to be desired because as a first time legislator, he should be mindful of what he says both in the August House and his Constituency.
Such comments expose the incompetence of a government that has lost the trust of the people and is hanging onto to straw for survival.
Michael Okyere Baafi, owe his constituents the truth about why we are where we are toady, i.e. the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, wasted through corrupt means all the resources made available to it since 2017.
This government, has not only borrowed more than all the governments since Independence, but has collected more taxes, as well.
This newspaper can really imagine the nightmare the government is going through, but continuelying is disgraceful and worrisome.
