{"id":448071,"date":"2017-12-19T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/19\/no-funding-for-senior-ministers-office-as-parliament-rejects-budgetary-allocation\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T08:36:57","slug":"no-funding-for-senior-ministers-office-as-parliament-rejects-budgetary-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/19\/no-funding-for-senior-ministers-office-as-parliament-rejects-budgetary-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"No funding for Senior Minister\u2019s office as parliament rejects budgetary allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/78229478.295.jpg\" alt=\"Osafo Marfo New\" title=\"Osafo Marfo New\" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Osafo Maafo, Senior Minister<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513672617_872_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Parliament on December 18 2017, withdrawn the controversial six million allocated to the office of the Senior Minister.<\/p>\n<p>This was after the minority protested against approving funding for an outfit that cannot be traced among the lists of ministries sent to parliament.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minority since the office of the Senior minister has not been covered by a legislative instrument it will be inappropriate to allocate that office with funding from the budget.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the Senior Minister has therefore been urged to depend on the office of government machinery for its expenditure in the ensuing year.<\/p>\n<p>Finance minister Ken Ofori Atta during the 2018 budget reading in March announced that GHC6 million had been allotted to the office of the senior minister.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osafo Maafo, Senior Minister Parliament on December 18 2017, withdrawn the controversial six million allocated to the office of the Senior Minister. 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