The citizenry have been advised to refrain from pestering ministers of state under the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for personal demands as this could affect them in the discharge of their mandated duties.
“We must stop harassing them for personal gains. The era of pestering ministers for monies for outdoorings, funerals and weddings must be a thing of the past. It does not augur well for our development,” Nana Ampem Darkoaa III Mawerehemaa-Koasehemaa of the Techiman Traditional Area advised.
According to her, such practices she described as shameful, does not also give the ministers the free state of mind to execute their mandate urging residents to rather make demands that will inure to the benefit of their communities.
“It will be better to either ask the minister to help you get your ward enrolled into a higher institution of learning, be recruited into the police service, military, fire service or any of the forces provided he or she is qualified. It is however absurd to be asking a minister of state of money for outdoorings, weddings and funerals. How will that benefit the community the minister is coming from”, she asked.
At a short ceremony at the palace of the Paramount Chief of the Techiman Traditional Area to introduce Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah as the Deputy Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Development to chiefs, he advised residents to move away from such practices.
She observed that such incessant demands push the ministers especially the younger ones into dipping their hands into the state purse to satisfy the selfish interest of their kinsmen indicating that when that happens and the appointee is caught, it is his/her hometown that is disgraced.
“I don’t think we should subscribe to this at all,” she concluded.
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