{"id":449462,"date":"2017-12-22T23:44:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T23:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/calculation-mistake-bloated-budget-majority-leader-points-to-ndc-mischief\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T23:44:03","slug":"calculation-mistake-bloated-budget-majority-leader-points-to-ndc-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/calculation-mistake-bloated-budget-majority-leader-points-to-ndc-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculation mistake bloated budget &#8211; Majority leader points to NDC mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 22 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/93951679.295.jpg\" alt=\"Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu New11\" title=\"Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu New11\" width=\"295\" height=\"195\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu,  Majority leader<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513986243_567_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Majority leader Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu has accused the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) of playing mischief with a &#8220;bloated&#8221; figure in the 2018 budget for the Ministry of Special Initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>According to him, the budget for the ministry circulated by the NDC shows a wrong estimate for its website development.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained the correct document had \u00a280,000 and not \u00a2800,000 for building a website, a figure which has generated so much controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Development Initiative minister Hawa Koomson has been heavily criticised for presenting her ministry&#8217;s budget that showed pervasive bloated estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the initial  \u00a2800,000 for a website, six-unit classroom block is to be built for \u00a2770,000 while two million cedis was allocated for &#8220;budget preparation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The sector Minister says the figure provided for the website was an error and has taken steps to correct it.<\/p>\n<p>But the Minority MPs say the minister is incompetent and must resign.<\/p>\n<p>The Majority leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has explained, the whole saga is down to a calculation error. He said his version of the document in Parliament had \u00a280,000 as estimate for the website.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the \u00a2800,000 error on the budget was detected by the minister who then asked her staff to correct it and that was done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though it was \u00a280,000 if you did the addition the total was overshot by \u00a2720,000&#8230;the correction that was made did not reflect in the additions,&#8221; he said on Top Story Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Suame MP said the figure was corrected without paying attention to the totals which also had to change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For whatever reason, somebody went and pulled the original \u00a2800,000 and came and served the colleagues in the NDC  and that person was certainly up to mischief&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying the estimated cost of the six-unit classroom block for \u00a2770,000, the Majority leader said it is actually a 9-unit classroom block.<\/p>\n<p>He said he also had reservations about the figure but was told the classroom block also had an ICT center and is to have installed, solar panels hence the high figure.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"190\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/myjoyonline.com\/ghana-media\/audio_share.php?audio3=http:\/\/zeno-devlab.s3.amazonaws.com\/media\/35036\/5a3d5bf50201004b84165fa9\/TOP+STORY+22-12-17.mp3&amp;title=NPP blames NDC for mischief over bloated budget&amp;date=22nd December, 2017\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 62 updated by: 62 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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>General News of Friday, 22 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-22 Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu, Majority leader The Majority leader Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu has accused the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) of playing mischief with a &#8220;bloated&#8221; figure in the 2018 budget for the Ministry of Special Initiatives. 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