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Deliberate misreport of economic data to Parliament against me unfortunate – Finance Minister

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has clarified that he has at all times provided Parliament accurate information pertaining to the state of the economy.

The Ministry in Parliament who argue otherwise have accused Mr Ofori-Atta of misreporting economic data to the House.

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Appearing before the eight-member committee tasked to probe into the censure motion against him, the Finance Minister described such comments as “unfortunate” and “false”.

“The Ministry of Finance has never misreported data to Parliament,” he said.

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The Minority say that information on Ghana’s deficit are contradictory, but the sector minister says this is not so.

Mr Ofori-Atta also revealed that the government has provided accurate data to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) so far in their engagements.

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