Kweku George Ricketts-Hagan, the member of parliament for Cape Coase South, expressed surprise when the finance minister presented the 2023 budget in the face of opposition.
He claimed that he was astounded by the minister’s ability to find his way and read the budget.
“The fact that Ken Ofori-Atta was reading the budget caught me completely off guard.
I had previously claimed that Ken Ofori-ability Atta’s to understand the budget would rank among the seven wonders of the world.
It is very astounding how he has been able to negotiate his way through, in any jurisdiction, he shouldn’t be the one reading the budget,” he is quoted as saying by 3news.com.
He stressed,” Miracles have been made for Ofori-Atta to be made the Finance Minister.”
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, was in parliament to fulfill his constitutional mandate by presenting the government budget to the House.
The presentation was in accordance with Article 179 of the 1992 Constitution and section 21 of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921).
Ken Ofori-Atta has also come under a lot of backlash and pressure from both within and outside his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to either resign or be sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
But the President had asked members of the NPP to allow the Minister to present the 2023 budget and also conclude negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.
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