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Member of Parliament for Abetifi, Bryan Acheampong has urged politicians to desist from politicising President Akufo-Addo’s foreign travels.
This comes following the President recent trips out of the country which became a topical issues in the media with many criticizing the president for abandoning the country’s presidential flight for expensive private jets.[ads2]
And recently the member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s filed two other urgent questions demanding disclosure of the full cost of President Akufo-Addo’s recent foreign trips without using the official presidential jet.
But according to Bryan Acheampong, there is the need for the President’s foreign travels to be kept highly confidential to enhance his security, as it will frustrate attempts to track his movements.[ads3]
“My advice to the National Security Minister is that he should reclassify the President’s travels; the present and past, from confidential to secret or top secret. We have to be sensitive.”
“If the President decides that he needs to make a quick trip to Mali, even if he decides to go with the presidential flight, using flight tracker, you will know this is the tail number of Ghana’s presidential flight, and you are able to track it. Is that how you want to expose our President?” he quizzed.
“We cannot play politics about it and make this a pedestrian issue; that is very elementary and basic” Bryan Acheampong said this in Parliament during the debate on the 2022 budget statement.[ads5]
