Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Okudzeto Ablakwa, has added his voice to calls by stakeholders, urging the government to completely abolish taxes on sanitary pads in order to make them affordable.
Ghana largely imports disposable sanitary products with a 20 percent import tax, resulting in high cost.
This according to stakeholders, has made it expensive and inaccessible to some women in the country.
In a Twitter post, the North Tongu MP said he supports calls to government to remove the 20 per cent import duty, a 15 per cent Import VAT and other import levies on the product and pledged to continue supporting school children in his constituency with sanitary pads.
“I fully endorse demands for taxes on sanitary pads to be abolished. As MP, I will continue with my intervention of providing free sanitary pads to vulnerable school girls in my beloved North Tongu. We must end period poverty.”
I fully endorse demands for taxes on sanitary pads to be abolished.
As MP, I will continue with my intervention of providing free sanitary pads to vulnerable school girls in my beloved North Tongu. We must end period poverty.
I hope those who attacked former President Mahama & pic.twitter.com/eWjk7QD5ZD
— Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa (@S_OkudzetoAblak) June 1, 2023
He further added that ” I hope those who attacked former President Mahama and former Minister of Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang for our free sanitary pad initiative have regretted their actions. Together, we can unite and stand up for the vulnerable. Ghana First.”
