{"id":451203,"date":"2017-12-31T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/31\/amissah-arthur-cuts-ofori-atta-into-size-blames-him-for-bloated-ministry-budget\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T13:28:27","slug":"amissah-arthur-cuts-ofori-atta-into-size-blames-him-for-bloated-ministry-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/31\/amissah-arthur-cuts-ofori-atta-into-size-blames-him-for-bloated-ministry-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Amissah-Arthur cuts Ofori-Atta into size, blames him for bloated Ministry budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday, 31 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-31<\/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\/99618406.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Ofori Attah Ff\" title=\"Ken Ofori Attah Ff\" width=\"295\" height=\"206\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta<\/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\/1514726907_739_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ex-Vice president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur says Ghanaians should blame Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta for the \u201cbloated\u201d budget of the Special Development Initiative Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>He has accused the Finance Minister of shirking his responsibilities, arguing he failed to thoroughly vet the budgets submitted by the various ministries as required of him.<\/p>\n<p>The inflated cost of some items in the budget of the Ministry that is under the Office of the President is an indication that Mr Ofori-Atta slept on the work, the former Governor of Ghana\u2019s Central Bank registered grave disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>The budget of the Special Development Initiative Ministry came under sharp focus the past weeks after it was revealed it had budgeted GHS800,000 for the creation of three websites.<\/p>\n<p>The widely circulated document also showed GHS2million had been quoted as an expected cost for the Ministry\u2019s budget preparation.<\/p>\n<p>The government has said there was a mistake in the typing of the figures, claiming the original amount budgeted for the creation of the websites is GHS80,000 and not GHS800,000.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Amissah-Arthur has described government\u2019s response as laughable, saying it could do better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe explanations I am getting, I don\u2019t accept them because even if it was a mistake the total should have reflected that but that is not the case,\u201d the one-term Vice-president told Joy News&#8217; Central Regional Correspondent, Richard Kwadwo Nyarko.<\/p>\n<p>He said there are \u201csubject specialists\u201d at the Finance Ministry who could have assisted with the elimination of the discrepancies in the budget, but he believes they also failed the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Under his characteristic tone, he forcefully said: \u201cIf they did not do their work well, I will not excuse them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 49 updated by: 49 --><\/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 Sunday, 31 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-31 Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta Ex-Vice president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur says Ghanaians should blame Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta for the \u201cbloated\u201d budget of the Special Development Initiative Ministry. 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