Parliament is expected to begin debate today Thursday, November 10, 2022, on the motion of censure filed by the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrissu, for the removal of Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta.
The motion is anticipated to be introduced by the Minority in the House later today.
If this resolution is approved, President Akufo-Addo will be forced to fire his finance minister.
To get the Finance minister removed, at least two-thirds of Parliament must vote in favour of the censure.
However, the leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed members of the majority side not to take part in the exercise.
Meanwhile, the majority caucus in addressing the media in parliament in the early hours of Thursday, November 10, 2022, reiterated that they believe Ken Ofori-Atta must go but they will not support the motion filed by the minority.
“Let you not confuse yourselves about the cause of the majority and that of the minority.
It is not the same. Ours remain as it is, after the meeting this afternoon, we will come back to state our position and it will be that yes, our feeling is, the confidence in the finance minister is gone down”.
Also, they added that before Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war, the finance minister was doing well but “when people are hard pressed, they have no understanding to the logic of competence and hard work and when they lose confidence, the only sector that when you lose confidence it affects the market and it affects the pockets of the people, is the finance ministry.
For us, we have nothing personal against him, our position is clearly that if confidence has gone down with, he must go and that is not the same as that of the NDC”.
