New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament have decided to boycott the vote of censure against Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta that is being pushed by the minority in Parliament.
The majority held a press conference early Thursday, November 10th 2022 to clarify that inasmuch as they are calling for Ken Ofori-Atta to be sacked, they would not support the NDC’s action which they claim is based on falsehood and propaganda.
“The cause of the NDC is premised on falsehood, propaganda and reasons that are not justifiable. Their position might look like ours but is not the same.” the MPs said in their press conference.
Earlier this month, an initial 80 NPP MPs called for Ofori-Atta and Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Adu Boahen, to be sacked.
Their numbers grew a bit more in subsequent days until eventually, Majority leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said that is the position of the entire majority caucus.
After their demand, the NDC took action by advancing a motion to censure the Minister over his poor handling of the economy.
However, the NPP MPs have now jumped ship and say they want nothing to do with the NDC’s motion.
“We are here to reiterate that, however much you heard us speaking that based on the intervention of the president, we will have to see the minister of finance do his work, read budget, see through appropriation and then the president will act.
“Over the days, we have heard the finance minister speaking and his speaking has influenced majority of us in the caucus, not only to state that we are back to the original position that we took, and that position is that the minister of finance must not be the one to read the budget, and must not be the one that would do the appropriation.
“We are here to tell you this morning that this will be very soon for you to see, the position of us and we are going to be positively defiant about that posture until that action is taken. However, we are not going to support the cause of the NDC in the chamber this morning,” the MPs said at the press conference.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com