Vice Presidential candidate for the Movement for Change in the 2024 elections, Kwame Owusu Danso
Vice Presidential candidate for the Movement for Change in the 2024 elections, Kwame Owusu Danso, Esq., has slammed critics, particularly members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who have questioned the use of a private jet by Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang.
Some NPP members, including the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, have criticised the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for what he described as extravagant spending in the face of national hardship.
According to him, Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang returned from a medical trip to the United Kingdom on Thursday, May 22, aboard a luxury chartered VistaJet that cost the country over $170,000.
Assafuah made the claim in a post on social media, citing the country’s erratic power supply, lack of medical equipment in hospitals, and ongoing strike actions by university lecturers as more pressing areas that deserve funding.
“While students study by candlelight, lecturers are on strike, and hospitals lack gloves, Ghana’s Vice President touched down from London on a VistaJet, a luxury chartered flight,” he wrote.
“Cost? Over $170,000 (20 billion old cedis). This is enough to:
Pay 250 striking university staff for a month.
Complete a CHPS compound or stock a hospital pharmacy for a year.
Fund electricity for 50 SHSs for a whole term.
Buy 150,000 exercise books for basic schools.”
Responding to the accusations by the NPP during a panel discussion on Pan Africa TV, Kwame Owusu Danso, Esq., dismissed the criticism, questioning whether the NPP expected the Vice President to arrive in the country using a commercial vehicle.
“Let’s talk about the propaganda some people in the NPP have been pushing—that she flew in with a private jet. I wonder if they wanted her to fly in with an STC bus. I wonder if they expected the Vice President to return home to us in an OA bus or a Sprinter. I wonder. She is the Vice President, for crying out loud.
But when you were in government, you had people flying abroad just to watch Arsenal and Manchester [United] play. One weekend, they would fly in and fly out. Are those people more human than the Vice President?
We had people who flew out to buy pizza and returned the same day. They would charter a plane, fly out to buy pizza, and then come back to Ghana. And those people—are they more human than the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana?
Ghanaians, we don’t respect. Did we expect her to come in a trotro? What is this?” Kwame Owusu Danso, Esq., who is the husband of Ama Pratt, spokesperson to the Vice President, questioned.
Was the vice president supposed to return home with an STC Bus??? I wonder…. pic.twitter.com/fdgat8EByE
— kwame Owusu Danso, Esq. (@kwameowusud) May 23, 2025
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