General News of Thursday, 19 April 2018Source: rainbowradioonline.comMASLOC is no longer a national programme but a political tool - Chartered AccountantFormer MASLOC CEO Sedina Tamakloe was indicted a recent EOCO forensic auditA chartered accountant Jason Gyimah, has indicated in an interview that, the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) which is a microfinance apex body responsible for implementing the Government of Ghana’s (GoG) microfinance programmes targeted at reducing poverty is not longer a national policy but a political policy. He said although MASLOC and other governmental programmes were ideally established to help alleviate poverty, unfortunately those aspects of our policy has become a political policy. ‘’If it is a national policy, every government would have continued from where their predecessors left off but when a new government assumes office, they abandon projects undertaken by previous administration all in the name of politics. If we don’t change our ideas and how we manage these programmes, we will continue to be where we are,’’ he said. We need to raise and encourage people to create or set up their own businesses,’’ he told the host.

Source: GhanaWeb April 19, 2018 04:37 UTC