A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Team, Louisa Kwakye, has taken a swipe at the New Patriotic Party (NPP), accusing them of hypocrisy and mismanagement, particularly regarding alleged fraudulent payments under the National Service Scheme (NSS).
Expressing shock over the situation, she questioned the credibility of the NPP in addressing national issues.
“I’m so surprised at the angle they are coming from. I was in shock, wondering how a political party like the NPP would expose their own hypocrisy to the population,” she said on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana.
According to her, the NPP must explain how they allegedly allocated millions of Ghana cedis monthly at the expense of developmental projects.
“They want to tell us the real state of the nation? They should tell us how they took 50 million Ghana cedis every month while developmental projects suffered. How they sat aloof and did not conduct a headcount over NSS personnel, leaving an alarming 80,000 ghost names on the payroll,” she stated.
She further highlighted discrepancies in the NSS database, citing an instance where multiple people with the same name were fraudulently registered at a university that had not even admitted them.
“One of the painful instances is how, in one university, over 263 people bore the same name in the same department, yet the institution said it had not even admitted that number of students with that name,” she said.
Louisa Kwakye also questioned how elderly individuals, including a 93-year-old man, could be listed under a scheme meant for young graduates.
“If the system is supposed to exempt people over 40, why do we have 93-year-olds, 60-year-olds, and 80-year-olds on the payroll?” she asked.
She challenged the NPP to use their upcoming “True State of the Nation” address to clarify the situation.
“If they fail to do that, then hypocrisy is really an understatement of an adjective to describe who the NPP truly is,” she asserted.
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