Maxwell Kofi Jumah, former Member of Parliament for Asokwa says the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office is nothing but sheer ridiculity.
Responding to the coalition’s call, Mr Jumah said:
“Nana Akufo-Addo made a promise and it spans for four years. But to put a gun to his head and give him an ultimatum of 100 days, that is what is ridiculous.
If they know how to give ultimatums, I think that they should redirect their ultimatum to the previous government.
No government can act without first going through parliament for financial support. They have to put up a budget. A budget basically is an outline of what we intend to do and we present it to parliament.
Parliament will have to go through and approve it then you can begin to execute what your plans are.”
I was expecting enlightened people to suggest that we expect Nana Akufo-Addo to put together a budget that will guide his administration so that he will be able to implement some of the things that he said he would do and that would have been a more enlightened approach, but the way they are stating it, they look like a bunch of ignoramuses: they don’t know anything, they are ignorant people. It’s even unfair for them to come out like that.”