The Coalition of NABCO Trainees, a group claiming to represent minority and majority MPs in Parliament, has backed calls for Ken Ofori-Atta to be fired as finance minister.
From the start of the program to its conclusion, the trainees claim that Ken Ofori-Atta was oblivious to their needs because they felt unimportant.
In a statement released on November 21, 2022, the Coalition claimed that the Finance Minister had purposefully postponed the transfer of cash necessary to pay their allowance.
“The finance ministry under the auspices of the finance minister has been insensitive to the plights of vulnerable NABCO Trainees from the beginning of the initiative to the end, in a posture we observed as a deliberate practice he instrumented to always delay the release of funds for the payment of our stipends because the NABCO initiative was never his priority,” the statement noted.
The Coalition further accused the finance minister of ordering the closure of the programme without giving specific timelines for payment of areas and allowances.
“The finance minister Honourable Ken Ofori Atta in His 2022 mid-year budget presentation, ordered the closure of the NABCO program without specifying reasonable timelines for the payment of all arrears as a means of mitigating inter alia, his abysmal performance of managing the economy.” the statement indicated.
See the statement below:
Meanwhile, Ken Ofori-Atta appeared before the ad-hoc committee probing a censure motion filed against him by the Minority in Parliament.
The vote of censure filed was based on seven grounds which include;
a. Despicable conflict of interest ensuring that he directly benefits from Ghana’s economic woes as his companies receive commissions and other unethical contractual advantages, particularly from Ghana’s debt overhang.
b. Unconstitutional withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund in blatant contravention of Article 178 of the 1992 Constitution, supposedly for the construction of the President’s Cathedral.
c. Illegal payment of oil revenues into offshore accounts, in flagrant violation of Article 176 of the 1992 Constitution.
d. Deliberate and dishonest misreporting of economic data to Parliament.
e. Fiscal recklessness leading to the crash of the Ghana Cedi which is currently the worst-performing currency in the world.
f. Alarming incompetence and frightening ineptitude, resulting in the collapse of the Ghanaian economy and an excruciating cost of living crisis.
g. Gross mismanagement of the Ghanaian economy which has occasioned untold and unprecedented hardship.