Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga has said that the political class has failed to provide better roads infrastructure and efficient public transport system to the citizenry and should not be exempted from joining the vehicular traffic in town.
The legislator who was reacting to the Road Traffic Amendment Legislative Instrument (L.I) which has been withdrawn from Parliament, said he sympathises with the general public and the anger that has been expressed in response to the L.I. that was laid before the House.
He says the political class is supposed to provide a good transport system and has failed and cannot exempt themselves from it.
“Those of us in the political class, ministers, deputy ministers, government officials, we are responsible for delivering to the public an effective and an efficient public transport system. We have woefully failed in our responsibility to do that and there is huge traffic in town,’’ he explained.
He stressed the need for the political class to go through the suffering that the taxpayers are going through.
“People are spending their meagre salaries on fuel and diesel to transport themselves, and instead of us concentrating on solving that problem for the public, we are seeking to exempt ourselves from this suffering that members of the public who are the taxpayers on whose back we are all being paid, we are seeking to exempt ourselves from that suffering,’’ he queried.
“Let us all join the traffic, if it is difficult then let’s go and fix the problem,” the Bawku Central MP said.
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