The District Chief Executive of the Ayensuano District, Josephine Awuku Ansah Inkoom, has admitted she goofed in the amounts she mentioned as cost for repairing an old motor grader (bulldozer) of the assembly, and buying a new one.
According to her, those amounts she “mentioned in the video were in old cedis and it was a harmless slip of tongue when I stated that a new motor grader procured would have cost the assembly more.”
The DCE had said that it cost the assembly 4.5 billion to repair the old machine, but purchasing a new motor grader would have cost more.
She maintains, however, that the decision by the assembly to refurbish the old motor grader was “financially prudent.”
The DCE who clarified the issue in a statement she issued, accused the opposition NDC of putting “a spin” on what she said.
BACKGROUND
In a video that has gone viral, the DCE is seen and heard saying that the assembly spent 4.5 billion, but did not add whether old or current cedis.
She went ahead to say in the video that purchasing a new machine would have cost the assembly more.
Read her full clarification below
My attention has been drawn to an interview I granted UTV, which a spin has been put on and circulated virally on social media.
Without a shred of equivocation, I wish to set the records straight as follows:
1. That the amounts I mentioned in the video were OLD CEDIS and it was a harmless slip of tongue when I stated that a new Motor Grader procured would have cost the assembly more.
2. That the decision by the Assembly to not procure a new Motor Grader, but repair the old one was financially prudent and economically sound.
3. That the false narratives that the NDC and its surrogates have put on the viral video are purely propaganda and political mischief.
4. That the District Assembly’s annual budget is a public document.
Respectively, I entreat Ghanaians to disregard the false narratives attached to the video.
The Assembly is committed to putting to judicious use, every pesewa it receives to realize the government’s aim to scale up develop
