The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K. Bagbin, has allegedly sent a request for more cash to cover his medical bills in Dubai.
Mr. Bagbin, who claims he travelled with four people on his recent trip, in less than a week after jetting out of the country, is said to have asked for an additional $50,000, having claimed $120,000 already, sources indicated.
With the latest request, Mr. Bagbin would have blown $170,000 on this current trip.
Information gleaned from the corridors of Parliament indicates that this is not the first time the Speaker is making such a request for extra money. According to a source, in July last year, when the Speaker made his first official trip to Dubai for his medical care, he went with a spending money of $150,000, after which he demanded an additional $100,000, but Parliament was able to raise $90,000, bringing the total to $240,000.
Mr. Bagbin’s trips to Dubai are making him the most expensive Speaker in the Fourth Republic, using the first 14 months of previous Speakers’ tenure as a yardstick.
The sources alleged that the Speaker stays in a four-bed suite in a hotel reserved for Presidents in Dubai.
The Speaker, who is on his fifth trip, where he spends an average of $200,000, has already spent $1.1million.
Alban Bagbin recently stirred the hornet’s nest with his unverified statement that he is the least travelled Speaker in the Fourth Republic.
He may have not travelled to several countries, but his constant trips to Dubai for medical care and number of days spent appear to surpass previous Speakers’ expenditure list.
The Speaker on March 7, 2022, in the course of defending his Dubai medical trips, claimed that he is the least travelled, and asked his critics to turn their attention to other leaders of the House.
Source: Vincent Kubi/Daily Guide
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It's very disheartening to be reading that the speaker is"wasting" so much money on his Dubai medical tourism. Why did we build the Legon Medical Center, Ridge Hospital, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Abetifi Hospital (?????). Our leaders are indeed very CALLOUS. The monies being spent on the speaker alone could build 20 of the so called Agenda 111 hospitals. Sometimes I think it is better for some of these leaders to pass on to eternity than to the younger generation with their selfish and wicked parochial interests. Period.
Let him r0t there in Dubai. What a wastefu1 man. Just a few months ago Bagbin was looking at retirement from parliament. Would he have been able to afford these luxurious so-called medical trips and expenses? Abr) person like him. I don't blame him. As the saying goes " the cr1pple thinks he is disadvantaging his mother by dragging his backside on the floor, it is his own behind that he me$$es up".
Mr Bagbin ,could stay comfortably in a hospital VIP section and have 5star experience in Dubai I am talking from experience ,why does he need a 4 bedroom? Dubai smh,politicians don’t care about us smh
Where is that boy Okudjeto Ablakwa? Can he tell Ghanainas how much has cost and still costing Ghana with Bagbin treatment at Dubai? Ghanaians demand to know from Okudjatu ablakwa sicne he is "master" of calculating offical foreign travels. Very big shame on NDC for not saying a word about bagbin trips and cost to the nation.
Nana Ado is rolling out measures to protect the falling of Cedi. In view of that no extra money will be given to Mr Speaker. The country is broke so he has to raise the needed funds by himself.
So where is the MP who is good at costing the travels of the presidency . Is the sharp teeth falling off. This is the hypocrisy of our leaders . When it suits you , then the noise gets louder at the roof top but when it does not suit you dumbness takes over. They are not bold enough to criticize evenly and fairly . It reminds me of this scripture Matthew 7:1-5 7 “Judge[a] not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what [b]judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Hypocrisy is one of the biggest problems our leaders have. Can we find some who are fair and even , no matter what?