Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has stated that appropriate measures will be taken to retrieve money spent on sports related issues particularly those connected to building of infrastructure.
He said this in an exclusive interview with ChannelOne Sports when responding to a question about the future of Youth Resource Centres in the country should the National Democratic Congress (NDC) get voted into power after the 2024 Ghana Presidential and Parliamentary Elections on December 7.
The Resource Youth Centres have come under intense scrutiny over stalled construction despite (at the time of writing) most of the centres being near complete but have been left to rot.
The NDC Parliamentary Candidate for the Odododiodio Constituency indicated that the NDC will take steps to retrieve money wrongly spent.
“Any facility that government and the taxpayer’s money has been spent on will definitely be completed and used for the purpose for which it was constructed but there will be nothing wrong with government also probing to see whether money has judiciously been used for such things and where it is found that monies have not been used judiciously, appropriate measures will be taken to retrieve government money that have been wrongly spent. Where it’s been used judiciously, no problem.”
“If by the grace of God almighty, I find myself in a position where I need to ask certain questions and demand certain answers from my predecessor, I will do so. I don’t care who my predecessor was. I will do so because I will not inherit a problem for which I’m not the cause of and I wouldn’t want to inherit a problem that I would not have answers for when I’m asked about it tomorrow.”
