“If he isn’t there, can’t others current the funds? Nobody is indispensable. We have now utterly misplaced confidence in him as a result of, within the 2022 Finances, he [Ofori-Atta] promised that with an E-levy and Property Price, there will likely be no must go to the IMF for help… As we communicate now, that has not occurred, and the property price is even but to take off,” he instructed Citi FM in an interview.
“We aren’t satisfied that it ought to be Ken Ofori-Atta…,” he added.
The embattled Finance Minister is anticipated to current the 2023 Finances Assertion of presidency earlier than Parliament on Thursday, November 24, 2022.
The 2023 funds will forecast authorities’s expenditure and income for the 12 months.
There have been considerations in regards to the delay in its presentation as a result of authorities’s negotiation with the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) for a US$3 billion help.
Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh made the announcement whereas presenting the Enterprise Assertion of Parliament for this week.
“The committee has programmed for the presentation of the 2023 Finances on Thursday, November 24, 2022, and duly, the committee urges members to take observe and alter their calendars accordingly. We have now additionally programmed the debates in such a way that, we are going to maximize the time.”
In the meantime, Mr. Ofori-Atta has denied allegations that his “recklessness” has contributed to Ghana’s financial disaster.
“I’ve not been reckless within the administration of the fiscal operations of the federal government,” he instructed the Advert hoc Committee of Parliament listening to the censure movement introduced in opposition to him on Friday, November 18.
The Minority in Parliament has raised a censure movement in opposition to him over the Minister’s fiscal recklessness which has led to the crash of the Ghana Cedi which is at the moment the worst-performing forex on this planet.
