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2010 budget is a pro-poor budget, revealed Kwahu South DCE
By Awudu Salami Sule, Ghanadot
Accra, Dec 2, Ghanadot -
The District Chief Executive (DCE) in the Kwahu South District
of the Eastern Region, Hon Joseph Omari has described the 2010
budget which was addressed in parliament by the Minister of
Finance and is still under consideration on the floor of
parliament as a pro-poor budget which the Attah Mills led
administration would implement next year to reduce poverty in
the country.
Hon Joseph Omari said in an interview at his Kwahu-Mpreaso based
that, one of the key campaign slogan of the then opposition
National Democratic Congress (NDC) was to reduce poverty in the
country and the 2010 budget sought to address that.
Specifically, the DCE made mentioned of the government intention
to pay for the school fees of disable students and this he said
was in the right direction.
"It is evidently clear in Ghana that the physically challenged
is in most cases being confronted with financial difficulties
and the government intention to pay for their school fees is a
good omen to them", he noted.
He further said that, another problem that has bedevilled the
educational sector in the country was the lack of classroom
blocks and this has resulted in many of the school children
especially in the rural areas sitting under a tree for classes.
"But the government has through the 2010 budget resolved to end
it and it has proposed to build modern classroom blocks to all
the schools that sit under a tress for classes" he added.
Hon Joseph Omari disclosed that, when the building of the
classroom block was to take off, the government had announce to
use local people in the beneficiary community to build the
classroom blocks and this would also create jobs for the
unemployed in that community.
He said, the Attah Mills led administration was commited to
reducing poverty in the country to the lowest level and it would
leave no stone unturned to achieve that aim.
"There are other good policies in the budget like constructing
some of the roads in the rural areas and in the major cities,
the expansion of the school feeding programme and the national
youth employment programme and host of other important social
policies which will help reduce poverty in the country" Hon
Joseph Omari revealed.
Ghanadot
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