Deputy Education Minister Dr Clement Apaak has accused the Minority in Parliament of deliberately attempting to link the Mahama government to a fabricated scandal over the alleged overpricing of sanitary pads for female students.
During the debate on the 2026 budget, the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, questioned the allocation of 292 million Ghana cedis for the procurement of 6.6 million sanitary pads.
He argued that the figures do not reflect prevailing market prices and suggest possible cost inflation.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, November 26, Dr Apaak maintained that the Mahama administration has no intention of shortchanging the public and dismissed the claims.
“For the Honourable Member of Parliament to disingenuously perform what the Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has described as chop bar arithmetic, we can only conclude that it is yet another desperate attempt to try and impute the existence of a scandal to the John Dramani Mahama-led government so that the decomposing elephant can seek to equalise. There is no scandal. There will never be a scandal,” he said.
