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Ken Ofori Atta Finance Minister <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The
\n mid-year budget review which will be delivered by Mr Ken Ofori-Atta,
\nthe Finance Minister, on July 29, will among others focus on augmenting
\ngovernment revenues to fund\u00a0outstanding\u00a0programmes of social and
\neconomic policies.<\/p>\n

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\n Minister, \u00a0Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who announced this at a\u00a0media
\nbriefing in Accra on Sunday, said the 1992 Constitution requires every
\nadministration to prepare a coordinated programme of social and economic
\n policies with which it will govern.<\/p>\n

He said the annual budget programme was designed to fund and execute a part of that programme each fiscal year.<\/p>\n

He said though the administration believes it was steadily executing its commitments to Ghanaians, the mid-year budget review will afford it the opportunity to take a second look at revenue availability to execute the remaining programmes, especially infrastructural development.<\/p>\n

The
\n Minister said revenue mobilisation, which was highlighted in the 2019
\nBudget, will remain a key feature in the mid-year review.<\/p>\n

This, he said, was to ensure that government mobilises sufficient resources to fully deliver on the outstanding commitments.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt
\n is refreshing to see the vigour with which Ghanaians have responded to
\nthe President\u2019s call to be citizens and not spectators and consequently
\nnotes calls for the government to deliver on some national issues with
\ndispatch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis same vigour will hopefully be translated into our revenue mobilisation efforts to ensure that we fully fund and fully execute outstanding programmes,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n

Mr
\n Oppong Nkrumah said the government has already commenced efforts to cut
\n some avoidable expenses, key among them, is the ongoing work on cutting
\n out capacity charges for power that we did not consume.<\/p>\n

He said it is the expectation of government that, the cutting out avoidable expenses while shoring up revenues, would create more fiscal space to fully fund and execute the outstanding programmes in the medium-term expenditure framework.<\/p>\n

Source: GNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n