Mahama Ayariga, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, has claimed that the Ministry of Finance gives the Ministry of National Security about GH¢6million a month to handle the Bawku issue.

According to Ayariga, this amounts to GH¢18million every quarter.

Speaking on Woezor TV on Saturday, August 3, 2024, Mahama Ayariga stated that there is no proof of work being done in spite of the enormous amount of money allotted to the ministry.

He then challenged the National security minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah to answer his accusations.

"If it is not true, he should come out publicly and tell me that it is not true and I will show him the records that every quarter that this conflict has been going on, he takes 18 million Ghana cedis. This is scandalous, this is unfair, and inappropriate and the people of Bawku should know this.

"The people should know that the NPP government through its national security sinister signs a cheque of 6 million Ghana cedis every month, 18 million every quarter is given to them by the Ministry of Finance in the name of solving their problems. But how have they solved that problem? The problem has not been solved," Mahama Ayariga said, as reported by myjoyonline.com.

According to the former Minister of Youth and Sports, John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was unable to visit the town while on a tour of the area due to the unrest in the area.

He claimed that the youth's destruction of posters was an expression of their rage over John Mahama's choice to avoid the area on the advice of security experts.

"Even yesterday, John Dramani Mahama could not drive through the town. If you noticed, we had to bypass the town because many of the youth wanted to follow him on the tour, and he could not drive through the town with them for fear that anything could happen to anybody.

"The same way my uncle had difficulties in attending the rally and so they demanded that John Dramani Mahama should come to them and yet the security situation was not promising and everybody was growing cold feet. We didn't want to trigger anything and so when we decided not to pass through the town, you noticed that yesterday, they were very bitter and posters of mine and John Mahama were being burnt. It was because of the security situation and the fact that security experts advised us not to take the risk. It is painful and it hurts.

"But while all this is going on, the national security minister signs a cheque of 6 million Ghana cedis every month in the name of dealing with the Bawku security problem," he emphasized.

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