A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for the La Dadekotopon Constituency, Nii Amasah Namoale says news publications making rounds that he is ‘financially suffering’ is untrue.
He told NEAT FM’s morning show, 'Ghana Montie', that his interview with Accra-based Adom TV was twisted to mock him.
“It is never true that I said I am suffering, I don’t know why some Journalists would want to tarnish your reputation after granting them an interview,” he noted.
In a widely circulated publication, Nii Amasah Namoale was reported to have bemoaned the lack of state provision for former legislators, which has led to some of them facing a lot of hardships.
“In this part of our world, provisions have not been made to cater for former MPs. You won’t get a job when you are looking for one. I have tried to find a job several times, but I am not getting one, so I fall into my own business. If not for the support of people who help me with something to fall on, my business, and life would have been difficult.
“If you do everything right for the state, if you do everything right for the people, [they’ll help you]. Those I helped while I was a minister…I didn’t take any money from them for contracts, permits, licenses…once in a while, these people come and give me money for support,” he was reported to have said.
But in an interview to refute the claims, he told NEAT FM’s morning show host, Kwesi Aboagye that he is not “broke” as claimed.
“I never said I am looking for money for food. I spend money educating my children for years. The Journalist doctored the tape. This is so unfair. All that the Journalists said in the publication was not true,” he lamented.
Adding that, “I tried looking for a job, but I did not get any, that does not make me a pauper. I never said I am a pauper.”
The unhappy Nii Amasah Namoale, however, appealed to the government to put a mechanism in place that will help “not me but all former MPs to at least get jobs when they leave parliament.”
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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I don't get it. Politics is not by force. If you know you life will be tough for you when you are no longer with the executive arm of government or the legislature don't go in. You were once a deputy minister of food and agriculture. Where is your farm. If you have none kindly take to farming. Under no circumstances should any MP be catered for by the state after his/ her exit from parliament. You are not the only people who deserve a good life. You know you can't handle a V8 but because it's the poor tax payers money they are using to buy them you go in for one. Some former MP's have parked their V8's because they can't even fuel it much more maintaining it. If your water is not enough you wash your legs and hands with it, if you attempt to bath with it , you will end up with soap all over the body. Assembly members don't have pay but they are serving their people, if you want to know politicians are not representatives of the people say no more salary/ vehicles for MP's, bet me nobody will contest for parliament. If you want V8, buy your own. Nan niama. ' Stealers '
Aba! The government should help former members of parliament to get jobs. These are the people who are once our legislators.