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Ken Ofori Atta \u2013 Finance Minister<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New\nPatriotic Party (NPP) government has so far paid a total of GH\u00a2283 million\njudgement debt since it took over power in January 2017 out of the GH\u00a2482.4\nmillion judgeme"},"modified":"2019-07-15T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:55:35","slug":"government-pays-gh%c2%a2283m-judgement-debt-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/15\/government-pays-gh%c2%a2283m-judgement-debt-since-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Pays GH\u00a2283m Judgement Debt Since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n

Ken Ofori Atta \u2013 Finance Minister<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New
\nPatriotic Party (NPP) government has so far paid a total of GH\u00a2283 million
\njudgement debt since it took over power in January 2017 out of the GH\u00a2482.4
\nmillion judgement debt inherited from the previous National Democratic Congress
\n(NDC) government.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Finance
\nMinister Ken Ofori-Atta, who made this known in parliament last week in
\nresponse to a question by a Member of Parliament (MP), said since the NPP
\ngovernment took over power, it has presided over a number of judgement debt
\ncases pending in courts, which have crystallised into an additional amount of
\nGH\u00a2197 million, bringing the total debt to GH\u00a2679.4 million from which the GH\u00a2283
\nmillion has been paid so far.<\/em><\/p>\n

The question
\nof how much judgement debt has been paid by the present NPP government since
\nJanuary 2017 stood in the name of the NDC MP for Mion, Mohammed Abdul-Aziz.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to
\nthe minister, the NPP administration is committed to protecting the public
\npurse and ensuring value for money and has, therefore, made it a policy to
\nrenegotiate as much as possible judgement debts with beneficiaries.<\/em><\/p>\n

He indicated
\nthat through renegotiation of judgement debts, the NPP government has been able
\nto save a whopping GH\u00a290 million for the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Ofori-Atta
\nsaid, for instance, that in one case, the government was supposed to pay a
\njudgement debt of GH\u00a2180 million but through government\u2019s efforts, the
\njudgement debts was renegotiated to GH\u00a2130 million, saving the nation an amount
\nof GH\u00a250 million.<\/em><\/p>\n

The minister
\nexplained that the payments of judgement debts have been made at a huge cost to
\nthe taxpayer and in most cases have distorted government budgets.<\/em><\/p>\n

He said these
\nhave occurred as a result of unpredictable breaches in contracts and unethical
\nbehaviour of public officers who have been entrusted with the responsibility of
\ntaking care of the public purse.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Ofori-Atta
\nadded that when these breaches occur, the government is forced to pay these
\njudgements through court orders.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Speaker,
\nthe issue of judgement debts is a horrible situation in our country which is
\nseriously affecting our public purse and, therefore, the Akufo-Addo government
\nis very much committed to minimising the incidents of judgement debts in the
\nsystem basically through renegotiation process,\u201d he mentioned. <\/em><\/p>\n

He added that
\nthe NPP government will prioritise all judgement debts with the legal offices
\nat the various ministries, departments and agencies and start any renegotiation
\nand when there is need to go to court, the government will be attending courts
\nregularly to defend such cases.<\/em><\/p>\n

The ranking member of the Finance Committee and NDC MP for Ajumako\/Enyan\/Essiam, Ato Forson, said the amount of judgement debts paid by the present NPP government so far will be interrogated by the minority in parliament as to who and who have benefitted from the GH\u00a2283 million paid so far. <\/em><\/p>\n

By Thomas Fosu Jnr<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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