Ghana’s Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta is expected to appear before the eight-member bipartisan ad-hoc committee probing the minority group of Ghana’s Parliament censure motion filed against him today Friday, November 18, 2022.
The beleaguered Finance Minister had prayed the chair on Tuesday to be granted 48 hours to amply examine the documents tendered in evidence for his response today at the ad-hoc committee sitting.
At least 18 documents were submitted for consideration by the committee as part of evidence in the minority’s censure motion case seeking for his removal from office.
Ahead of the first sitting, the finance minister through his lawyer Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko had written to demand all documents the minority group will be relying on to ground their motion for his removal.
On Tuesday, the proponents of the motion represented by the minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, and Ranking member on Finance, Ato Forson, were the first to be heard by the censure committee.
This was followed by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) appearing before the committee on Thursday.
The economist has lost control of managing Ghana’s economy, which inflation at the moment is measured at 40.4. In contrast, the local currency of Ghana has depreciated to the US dollar at 14-15 cedis worse in the last decade.
The majority group of parliament of Ghana at a press Conference in Parliament told the President, Nana Akufo Addo to sack the finance minister whom they describe as “incompetent’’.
The group threatened to boycott the government’s 2023 budget reading in parliament if the finance minister dared enter the parliament chamber to read the budget statement.
