Schools don’t have black boards: You talking about the president’s comfort, are you crazy?

Ace Journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr has slam the government over it decision to purchase a new presidential jet for the country.

According to him, Ghana was not in the position to buy a jet in the face of the many challenges confronting it.

He described as reckless and foolishness, the decision to buy a new presidential jet when schools in the country lack the basic materials to aid teaching and learning.

Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr was speaking on Good Morning Africa on Pan African TV on Thursday, September 30 monitored by GhanaPlus.com.

“We talk about the comfort of the President, comfort of the president, comfort of a president at a time when children don’t have black boards, what is a black board ? Go to the schools in the North… they don’t have black boards and you are talking about comfort of the President, are you crazy ? Comfort of the President? Why? Pupils in the schools they don’t have chairs to sit on, there are no text books, text books for the schools are insufficient and then we are talking of comfort for the president? Additional comfort for a president who runs round this country in 55 convoy,” he said.

He added no rational human being in the country at the moment would think of buying a presidential jet when the country practically depends on loans for virtually all its projects.

Ghana to buy bigger Presidential jet

The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin on Monday, September 27 told the media at a press briefing at the Presidency that government had begun processes to acquire a bigger jet to aid the President’s travels since the current presidential jet had proven inadequate for the purpose.

He said the bigger fit-for-purpose aircraft was part of a cost saving measure on the travels of the President and other key state functionaries.

The news, however, had not received favourable comment from the public including the members of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) who had sworn to make the purchase impossible.

Source: GhanaPlus.com