Lawmaker and Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa will attend a demonstration Organised by the Greater Accra Regional branch of Labour Union of Trades Union Congress slated for February 13, 2024.
Samuel Okudzeto who appeared on Good Morning Ghana has explained that the action has become necessary due to the government’s insensitive imposition of a 15% Value Added Tax on residential consumers of electricity.
Although the Finance Ministry has given a directive for a suspension of the tax, Organised Labour will still go ahead with the demonstration as their aim is for a total revocation of the 15% tax.
“Let me salute the TUC boss and all leaders of Organised Labour who are resolute on this matter, and I was preparing to join them on February 13, I have not changed my mind, all of us must continue to be in solidarity with Organised Labour, we cannot take the excruciating hardship anymore,” said Okudzeto.
Okudzeto Ablakwa also bemoans the government’s fervent rant to move the country from taxation to production when it was campaigning for power, only to do the exact opposite of what it promised.
He expresses dissatisfaction with the fact that Ghana is the only country still paying covid-19 levy even after the pandemic.
“It’s incredible to think that this is a group that promised to move us from taxation to production, we are the only country as we speak still paying taxes on covid, still paying sanitation levy which was linked to Covid, we are still, paying them, pollutions levy, emissions levy, I mean why what have we done to deserve this,” Okudzeto posited.
By: Vanessa Edotom Boateng | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
