By Rashid Mbugri, GNA
Duunyin (N/R), Jan 06, GNA – The Minority
Leader in Parliament, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has called on the Bank of Ghana (BOG)
to provide full details for printing the new GH¢100.00 and GH¢200.00 notes to
show transparency and accountability.
He said Ghanaians deserved to know from
Government the full procurement details and the rationale for printing currency
notes of such higher denominations.
“We demand better and further explanation
from the NPP [New Patriotic Party] Government and BoG for the cedi denomination
of such magnitude to be printed without a notice to the Ghanaian public,” he
said.
Mr Iddrisu who is also a Member of
Parliament (MP) for Tamale South Constituency, made the call over the weekend
when he commissioned a CHIPS compound equipped with medical equipment and
supplies.
He used his (MPs) share of the District
Assemblies’ Common Fund to put up the health facility, which cost GH¢300,000.00
at the Duunyin community in the Constituency.
In November 2019, the Central Bank
introduced two new higher denominations, GH¢100.00 and GH¢200.00 and a two
Ghana cedi coin to complement the existing currencies in circulation.
The MP said it was necessary for government
to have pre-informed the public of its intensions and provide specimen of the
new cedi notes with public notices countrywide, as to when citizens should
expect them among others, before issuing the denominations.
On the Electoral Commission’s proposal to
produce a new biometric voter register, Mr Iddrisu said the National Democratic
Congress would not accept or support the initiative.
He said the Voters’ Register established in
2012 was still credible given the fact that it had been successfully used
recently in the local elections and other national assignments affirmed its
credibility.
“We know that the same Voter’s Register that
the NPP is trying to discredit, was the same register that was used to elect
the NPP government into power, used in the referendum for the creation of
additional new regions and election of assembly members among others,” he
stressed.
“We don’t need a new voter register for the
2020 elections.”
GNA
