Minority leader fumes over Ghc3.6m re-branded buses

The buses are embossed with pictures of Ghana's incumbent President and Ex Presidents both alive and dead.

Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has kicked against the Transport Ministry’s decision to expend an amount of  Ghc3.6 million to re-brand 116 metro mass transit buses.

Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu said, “Information that I have is that the ministry has made provision of 3,649,000 of ABFA to re-brand the 116 buses that are parked here at the premises of Parliament.”

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He quoted these figures from the 2015 annual report on the Petroleum Funds and noted that the money allocated translated to thirty-one thousand Ghana cedis cost per bus re-branded.

Contributing to the debate to approve the 2016 annual budget estimates of the Ministry of Transport on Tuesday, the Minority Leader said the GH 31,457.28 for each bus is too huge and cannot be tolerated.

“Thirty one thousand Ghana cedis for the re-branding of one bus. Three hundred and ten million old cedis on the re-branding of one bus? That cannot be tolerated; and the Minister of Transport must explain herself” he firmly stated.

The Minister of Transport, Dzifa Ativor, who was in Parliament when the Minority Leader made the comment, could not immediately explain the expenditure, but promised to furnish the house with the details later.

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana