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In a presentation yesterday on Accra based Akan speaking TV station UTV, Communication Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi alleged that daughters of President Akufo-Addo had registered a Non Governmental Organization with the name ‘My Sister’s Keeper Foundation’ with which they go around soliciting funds from state agencies and institutions through opaque means. He provided evidence of some GH¢227,000 payment made to the NGO by the Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd also known as GCB Bank to buttress his point.
In defending the Akufo-Addos, a number of people including popular social media personality and musician, Kwame A Plus have pointed to a number of charity works carried out by the ladies as justification for whatever amount of money they received from the state institutions. Chief amongst their works include a center they out up for autistic children.
This justification is simply untenable for a number of reasons. First of all, if the Akufo-Addos were philanthropical as they want us to believe, why didn’t it occur to them to set up an NGO all these years until 5 months after their father was sworn into office as Ghana’s President? If their intentions were purely about helping people, couldn’t they have teamed up with the Rebecca Foundation which is their mother’s own foundation to help the poor and vulnerable? Was it only after their father became president that their philanthropical instincts got activated?
Secondly and most importantly, why should state institutions spend tax payers money funding people’s private initiatives when the state is confronted with lots of challenges to deal with? Coming out of the recent banking sector crisis, one wonders if this is the most efficient way a bank should be spending people’s monies when we were told that acts such as this led several banks to their graves during the crisis? Have we learnt any lessons at all? Should any ordinary person write to these institutions to seek support, will such a person stand the same chance of getting such assistance as quick as the President’s daughters had?
It must be placed on record that, the Akufo-Addos waste no time ravening on our taxes. It is their usual cup of tea to want to devour our resources with the aim of enriching themselves. The wife of the President herself through her foundation had received GH¢120,000 from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC). This […]