{"id":1134197,"date":"2022-06-25T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/25\/where-is-the-remaining-ghc13-5billion-dr-aseidu-to-finance-minister\/"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:36:31","slug":"where-is-the-remaining-ghc13-5billion-dr-aseidu-to-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/25\/where-is-the-remaining-ghc13-5billion-dr-aseidu-to-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is The Remaining GHC13.5billion? &#8211; Dr Aseidu to Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/14b03ab3c8db409a849ee77b18202382\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Pharmacist and CDD-Ghana Fellow, Kwame Sarpong Asiedu has challenged the Finance Minister to show Ghanaians where the remaining 13.5billion of the total COVID-19 funds that he did not\u00a0account during his presentation is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Dr Aseidu noted that if you listen to the finance minister&#8217;s presentation and analyse it, it is clear that he accounted for less than 50% of the Covid-19 funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He again said a total of $25.68 billion was the amount Ken Ofori Atta said was received from his financial statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Nonetheless, the Finance Minister only provided evidence for $12.02 billion which he said was the actual Covid-19 expenditure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He argued that if you do the subtraction,\u00a0there is a\u00a0remaining $13.5 billion unaccounted for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Dr Aseidu also stressed that he can&#8217;t understand why the finance minister provided accountability for less than 50% of the total money. He said \u201cAnd if you\u2019ve only accounted for 50% of what actually came in, the question I ask myself is \u2018why did the Finance Minister come to Parliament to account for less than 50% of what we actually got in for covid? Where is the account for the remaining 13billion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0had to be spent on budgetary support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">But if you look, 25.68billion was what came in. That is money we\u2019re sure came in based on the government\u2019s own acceptance. And you can look at it, 19.3billion in 2020, and 6.39billion in 202.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Source:myjoyonlone.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a70191a5ee594897b35becaecbe5f47d\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6bd80eedc7354ee68bc373c775c457af\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Lawrinda (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAseidu<br \/>\nCDD-Ghana<br \/>\nKwame Sarpong Asiedu<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacist and CDD-Ghana Fellow, Kwame Sarpong Asiedu has challenged the Finance Minister to show Ghanaians where the remaining 13.5billion of the total COVID-19 funds that he did not\u00a0account during his presentation is? Dr Aseidu noted that if you listen to the finance minister&#8217;s presentation and analyse it, it is clear that he accounted for less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6033,457,18904,1223,18905],"class_list":["post-1134197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-aseidu","tag-finance","tag-ghc13-5billion","tag-minister","tag-remaining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134197","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=1134197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}