Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has said that the cost of doing business in the country is extremely high and for that matter is arguing for the expulsion of the Minister.
He also mentioned how difficult trading is in Ghana as a result of the depreciation of the Cedi.
He believed the Finance Minister needed to resign since he had failed.
“The cost of doing business is unacceptably high for businesses. The pharmaceutical industry is complaining because it affects their import, and they are made to pay more.
“The depreciation of the Cedi has affected even Markola women who cannot trade effectively,” he said at the committee sitting on Tuesday, November 15.
The Tamale South lawmaker added that “His performance is disappointing that he is not fit to be Finance Minister.”
Dr. Dominic Ayine, one of the eight members of the committee looking into the charges against the Minister, stated during the hearing that the people who are supporting the move to censure Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are not the accusers.
The Minority MPs who signed the resolution, according to Dr. Ayine, just want the President to choose someone else as Finance Minister.
He said, “they are not accusers.”
“They just think that the president should not be giving him a place as Finance Minister.”
The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin set the committee to investigate the allegations made against Mr. Ofori-Atta by the Minority in Parliament, for which they filed a motion to get him removed from office.
