Mathew Silas Amoah, the Bolgatanga East Unopposed Parliamentary Candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said, he will be able to blend his business with politics. Apexnewsgh.com report
Mr. Amoah who spoke to Ngamegblam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com said: “Every occupation has its own occupational hazards.
“Sometimes when you are involved in your business so much than politics, you risk it. That is why I made the argument that all our MPs run businesses but they don’t bring it to the public domain, because you don’t risk it being attacked. It could be attacked politically”.
“So, as much as we can, we always want to hide our businesses, not that we are shying away from making it Known to people but in terms of competitiveness, it can cause a lot of problems. So, that’s why we sometimes slow down in what we do and carry on politics”.
How many MPs in the region do you know their businesses apart from them being MPs? They will tell you we are farming and all that. But behind that, there are a lot of businesses they do on the side but they don’t bring it to the public domain.
So, I think because is Mathew Amoah, because am young they should be forcing me to come and say what I do and I will come and say it.
However, Mr. Amoah advised that anyone who has a contrary view about his business should report him to the appropriate authorities
“The laws are there in the country and if you feel somebody is doing something fishy, you have the right as a citizen to report to the right authorities. So, am a businessman”
Explaining further, Mr. Amoah told Apexnewsgh that, there was a campaign against his personality and people were surprised that somebody could out of his pocket help people with such an amount of money. They thought it was not normal, so they wanted to find something to attach to that.
“But what I know is that, if they say someone has gone for a ritual, they don’t spend his money, he keeps the money for himself. But I have never seen anywhere they say the way this person is given out money, he has gone for money ritual”.
I work hard, I have been in a situation of poverty, I have gone through rounds of poverty, my father, mother, and i. So, when someone comes to tell me I am unable to pay my school fees, I know how it feels and I don’t mind giving you my last pesewas to go hungry. Because if I want to tell you what we go through and God has blessed us, we have every right to do what we are doing” Mr. Amoah stressed
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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