Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a senior NPP member, has made a plea to the Minority caucus to work with the Majority to ensure that the 2023 budget is read and approved without incident.
On November 24, when the 2023 budget is scheduled to be presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, MPs of the Minority and Majority sides have given notice that they will not attend.
On Tuesday, the NPP Council of Elders and National Executives intervened to break the standoff between the NPP Majority Caucus members and the President over the demands for the dismissal of the Finance Minister.
The Majority MPs were advised to hold off on making new demands until the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout negotiations are finished in a statement jointly signed by the Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, and the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Koduah.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Mr Otchere-Darko who is also a cousin of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the passage of the 2023 budget is critical to the country’s revenue generation measures.
“Thursday’s 2022 budget is crucial. It can’t suffer a fate similar to the 2022 budget and its revenue measures. It could completely derail negotiations with the Fund if not passed. Critical to this are its revenue generation measures. We plead the NDC joins NPP in this for Ghana.”
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
