Good, Bad, And Ugly Blasts The One-Constituency-One-Million-Dollar Policy

The popular, much awaited implementation of President Ñana Akufo-Addo’s One-Constituency-One-Million-Dollar policy has been greeted with approval from just about everyone with one exception – one host of Diaspora Network Television’s The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly talk show.

The satirical show featuring three beautiful ladies who take turns playing the three roles of good bad and ugly took the president to the cleaners on Monday when they examined the policy from the front page of the Ghanaian Times.

It began with The Good, played by Ama Bempomaa delivering rave review of the policy and saying it amounted to promises made, promises kept by the president. She went on to praise the decentralization prospects of the policy since it sends money closer to the ground for the execution of local infrastructure projects.

But The Ugly, who ironically wore NPP colors, was not having any of that. Played by Aphia Gyaamah, The Ugly blasted the one-constituency-one-million policy saying that the policy should have been one-district-one-million to achieve better accountability.

“How can you say one-constituency-one-million when there is no constituency government in our political system,” Asked Aphia. “Now we have had to set up another bureaucracy such as the northern, middle, and coastal belts manned by people who have no connection to the constituencies to administer the policy,” she added.

Even more supportive of Aphia’s opposition was a graph she presented which showed a stunning disparity in the number of citizens per constituency. Apparently composed when Ghana had ten regions, the graph showed the average constituency in Greater Accra inhabited by 114,993 people contrasted by the number of inhabitants in the average Upper West Region of 61,615. “How’s this fair,” she asked.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a satirical review of the day’s front page headlines and it airs on Diaspora Network Television (DNT) on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8pm and repeated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 12:30pm.

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By: Frank Boakye, DNT News