The Majority in Parliament has replied to the Minority’s request that the accounts of both the First Lady and the Second Lady be checked.
Members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) called on the Auditor General on Tuesday, July 13 to initiate procedures to investigate Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s and Hajia Samira Bawumia’s accounts to see if they have sufficient funds to repay allowances collected during a four-year period.
Despite public outrage, the two decided to return any money collected since taking on their de facto positions in 2017.
However, the NDC MPs asked that the interest on those funds be returned as well.
“Refunding the money now, you must also compute the interests that the money would have accrued and pay same to the government,” Ketu North MP and Deputy Majority Leader James Klutse Avedzi demanded in a press briefing on Tuesday.
However, in response to this, Dr. Stephen Amoah, MP for Nhyiaeso Constituency, said that the uproar surrounding the matter led the First and Second Ladies to return the funds.
He demands that other First Ladies who got similar allowances in the past begin the process of refunding them.
“Some are saying [Mrs. Akufo-Addo’s] account should be checked. Thank you very much.
“If that is the case, the account of Lordina Mahama, Her Excellency, respectfully, we must start from her.
“We must start from all the First Ladies. All of them we have to. I agree to what [the NDC MPs] are saying but it couldn’t have been only one,” the former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loan Centre (MASLOC) said.
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SOURCE: ATLFM ONLINE
