Tag Archives: BUDGET

The Minority side in Parliament has slammed the 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu for what they described as breaching the constitution and parliamentary standing orders in his exercising of a vote to up the Majority numbers to approve the 2022 budget on Tuesday, MyNewsGh.com reports. Parliament had …

Parliament rejects 2022 budget statement Majority calls the bluff of minority Parliament to reconvene on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 The Minority caucus in parliament, since the presentation of the 2022 budget statement on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, outlined five key issues it will not compromise on when it comes to the approval …

Parliament rejects 2022 budget Alban Bagbin exposes majority leader 138 MPs were present in parliament during budget voting, says Speaker The Speaker of Parliament has, for the first time spoken after the rejection of the 2022 budget in parliament. In a Facebook post, the Speaker of Parliament said the 2022 budget was lawfully rejected, therefore, …

Ad Ken Ofori-Atta will be presenting the budget statement today This is in accordance with Article 179 of the 1992 Constitution and Section 21 (3) of Act 921 The budget is described as the most anticipated budget in Ghana’s history Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will on behalf of the President …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed government’s recent policy towards fiscal consolidation as captured by the 2021 budget. Leader of IMF’s mission Carlo Sdralevich made these observations at the end of virtual meetings under Article IV between Wednesday, April 28 and Wednesday, May 12. “The 2021 budget’s recent policy …

  A declaration by the Minister for Youth and Sports that the country will spend $25million dollars on the 2022 Africa Cup and the World Cup has been met with anger by some Ghanaians on social media. The Minister, at a sports breakfast meeting with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo …

  The decision by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to insist on the removal of the capping of the budget of the legislature by the executive has paid off with the government forced to reverse its decision to slash the budget allocation of government. Bagbin, it would be recalled, had threatened …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has increased the budgetary allocation for the parliamentary service and parliament by over 180 million cedis. The sudden u-turn by the presidency comes weeks after the Executive slashed the budget estimates of the legislature by over 190 million cedis. The move was met with a …

Parliament has approved the 2021 budget by a majority decision Friday afternoon. This follows the rejection of the decision by 1st deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu who was presiding to rule in favor of the majority in the voice vote by deputy minority leader James Klutse Avedzi. Mr. Avedzi thus demanded …

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has indicated that the Speaker of Parliament does not have any power under the law to reject the budget. Speaker Alban Bagbin has threatened to reject the budget because there has been a slash in the budget for the Legislative and Judicial arms of government. In an interview monitored by GhanaWeb, the …