CGM raises concerns over $3m NSS pick-ups

Pressure group Citizen Ghana Movement has sounded a corruption alarm over the purchase of 18 pick-up vehicles at $3million by the National Service Secretariat.

A member of the legal team of the movement, Kofi Bentil, speaking with Class News’ Naa Dedei Tettey, called on Ghanaians to demand information from government agencies to help fight corruption.

“We want information from the National Service Secretariat which I hear have bought 18 pick-ups for the sum of $3million” he stated.

“You can write to them and say you are a citizen of Ghana and under the right to information enshrined in our constitution you are requesting that they give you information regarding the 18 pick-ups that they have bought for $3million because you do not just understand. If a pick-up should cost an average of $35,000, why is it that they are buying one pick-up for over $110,000?”

According to him, Citizen Ghana Movement will make it their job to question such expenditures in government institutions.

“Citizen Ghana is here to take up the heavy stuff that you may not want or will not be able to take up,” he added.

Mr Bentil called on Ghanaians to show interest in demanding for accountability from state institutions, saying that duty should not be left on the shoulders of the movement alone.

“We do not want a situation where everything is on us and people think that we are the only people who can go for information but we might as well do this one,” he urged.

“I think we will do it, but I don’t think we should be the only people doing it. We want to urge that everybody tries it. If 10 people, if 12, if 50 people write and demand that information, we will have better results than if we did it alone.”