Ranking Member for Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has condemned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his insatiable taste for luxurious air travels. Ablakwa who is also the Member of Parliament for the North Tongu constituency was reacting to the government’s decision to procure a new presidential aircraft to replace the 11-year-old Falcon 900 EXE existing presidential jet. Speaking to Mugabe …

The Minority Caucus in Parliament fully supports its Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee on the subject of presidential travels and the ‘fight’ against recent plans by the government to purchase a new jet. Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu in his first public comments on the issue stressed that North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s views on the presidential jet saga reflects that of …

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has expressed solidarity with North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, over his ‘activism’ in the matter of luxurious presidential travels. According to Pratt, he believes that most of Ablakwa’s colleagues on the Minority Caucus will not fully agree with him on the fight that he has taken upon himself in the …

  Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Presidency, has indicated that Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has peddled falsehood with his allegation that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo travelled with a luxurious aircraft on his recent trip abroad. Speaking to the media at the Jubilee House on September 27, Arhin said President Akufo-Addo on his recent trip to the global education summit in the UK …

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North Tongu, has alleged that there is some form of disquiet within the ranks of the Ghana Air Force with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s preference for luxurious aircraft operated by a foreign crew. According to him, the Ghana Air Force personnel believe they are professionally trained with unquestionable loyalty to guarantee the security of the …

•Okudzeto Ablakwa maintains that President Akufo-Addo flew a $14,000-per hour aircraft to the UK and Germany •He says the president used the plane on his recent trip to the US •His allegations were rejected by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu has chided the Director of Communications at …

A former National Youth Organiser of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ernesto Yeboah, was arrested yesterday in Parliament by security men in the chamber for disrupting proceedings of the House. He continuously shouted ‘drop that chamber!’ on top of his voice, which forced the security men to arrest him. He was leading a group of people from a pressure group …

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is unhappy about the parliamentary board’s failure to give them prior information about issues regarding the controversial 450-seater chamber. According to him, Members of Parliament ought to have been briefed so they have adequate knowledge to be able to respond to questions that may be raised by their constituents on the …

Most Members of Parliament on the side of the minority are suffering from the “incompetence disease”, the Ashanti regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party has said. In a follow up to a write-up by the MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in which he spoke against Parliament’s decision to construct a new chamber, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, established that …

Government has rubbished claims of the Minority in Parliament that, it has breached the Constitution following President Nana Akufo-Addo’s announcement of a visa waiver with Jamaica. During his recent trip to the Carribean, President Akufo-Addo visited Jamaica and a host of other countries and announced a visa waiver between Ghana and Jamaica. The waiver is set to begin on July …