{"id":1101602,"date":"2022-05-27T17:25:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/27\/bagbin-summons-ken-ofori-atta-to-account-for-covid-19-expenditure-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T17:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:25:49","slug":"bagbin-summons-ken-ofori-atta-to-account-for-covid-19-expenditure-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/27\/bagbin-summons-ken-ofori-atta-to-account-for-covid-19-expenditure-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagbin Summons Ken Ofori-Atta To Account For Covid-19 Expenditure | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin, has asked the Finance Minister to appear before the House and account for the COVID-19 expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of a motion moved by the Chairman of the Finance Committee, Kweku Kwarteng for the approval of \u20ac75 million for the Covid-19 health response project.<\/p>\n<p>This motion was met with strong resistance from the Minority especially as there have been previous calls for government to account for the COVID-19 Funds and it has been turned down.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker intervening directed that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta\u00a0&#8220;appear before this House and account for all the monies that have been approved for the utilisation of Covid-19 management&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is only then that this motion would be expressed on the floor again to approve or disapprove . . . people of Ghana have been blaming the executive arm of government for some of these things, but I think it is Parliament that should be blamed. We have all it takes to make sure the right thing is done so it is Parliament that is weak,&#8221;<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Peacefmonline.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . Please report any inappropriate  to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin, has asked the Finance Minister to appear before the House and account for the COVID-19 expenditure. This comes on the back of a motion moved by the Chairman of the Finance Committee, Kweku Kwarteng for the approval of \u20ac75 million for the Covid-19 health response project. This motion was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[4403,3456,261,268,2087,2089,1753,2526],"class_list":["post-1101602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-account","tag-bagbin","tag-covid19","tag-expenditure","tag-ken","tag-oforiatta","tag-politics","tag-summons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}