[ 2014-11-22 ]

Is this our best?...All these gov’t appointees with big degrees are doing "Tinnnn"!!!
Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper would
have preferred the 2015 Budget Statement and
Economic Policy focused on the energy sector
instead of ‘so many sectors’.

The Finance Minister, Seth Terkper on Wednesday,
19th November, 2014 presented government’s
economic policy direction for the year 2015 in
Parliament.

The budget touched on education, oil sector,
health, agriculture, fisheries, trade and
industries, energy, water and other areas.

However, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, contributing to a panel
discussion on PeaceFM ’s “Kokrokoo ” Morning
Show, expressed the view that instead of the
various sectors, the budget should have focused on
how to solve the “dumsor dumsor problem…we are
in an extraordinary situation and we need an
extraordinary budget”.

“How can you raise revenue when you don’t have
light? All the debate about the budget is useless
because where is the light to raise the revenue?
Without light you cannot work and moreover the
real cause of the dumsor is not known… the
stories are too many that you don’t even know
which one to believe. We should have the courage
to tell the truth about the energy sector…

Instead of reading a normal budget, he (Seth
Terkper) should have said: we are in an emergency
and the power sector is key and so for the next
six months or one year, half of that revenue is
going into improving the energy sector…. Energy
should have been the key focus of this
budget...but we are not focusing on it and so
sometimes I ask myself the use of all these
government appointees having the big degrees…is
this their best…because they are not doing
tinnnn,” he fumed.

Source - Peacefmonline

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