{"id":743686,"date":"2019-11-13T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/13\/no-excessive-spending-in-2020-finance-minister\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T14:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:45:52","slug":"no-excessive-spending-in-2020-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/13\/no-excessive-spending-in-2020-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"No Excessive Spending In 2020 &#8211; Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ken Ofori-Atta <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has assured that the perennial excessive spending which characterizes election year would not be recorded in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will go to polls in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Stakeholders, especially civil society organizations and policy think tanks are concerned about likely election year budget overrun in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But presenting the 2020 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s government, Mr. Ofori-Atta assured that <br \/>\u201cIn spite of the year being an election year\u2026President Akufo-Addo and his Government will ensure that the perennial excessive spending during such periods, will not happen in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cwe shall work within the 2020 appropriated resource envelop and adhere to the Fiscal Responsibility Act to maintain fiscal discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, \u201cWe will do so, not because we are complacent of our chances. No. We will do so because the nation needs it and we are not prepared to throw away all the sacrifices and gains the people and their Government have made in the last three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BY Melvin Tarlue <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has assured that the perennial excessive spending which characterizes election year would not be recorded in 2020. Ghana will go to polls in December 2020. Stakeholders, especially civil society organizations and policy think tanks are concerned about likely election year budget overrun in 2020. But presenting the 2020 Budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Excessive Spending In 2020 - Finance Minister - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/13\/no-excessive-spending-in-2020-finance-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No Excessive Spending In 2020 - Finance Minister - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has assured that the perennial excessive spending which characterizes election year would not be recorded in 2020. 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