{"id":1234310,"date":"2022-10-25T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/akufo-addo-to-meet-npp-mps-over-demand-for-ofori-attas-dismissal\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:29:29","slug":"akufo-addo-to-meet-npp-mps-over-demand-for-ofori-attas-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/akufo-addo-to-meet-npp-mps-over-demand-for-ofori-attas-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo to meet NPP MPs over demand for Ofori-Atta\u2019s dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Akufo-Addo will later this evening meet with NPP MPs over their demand for the sacking of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is information gathered by JoyNews\u2019<\/strong> sources at the Presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some NPP MPs at a press conference on Tuesday, October 25, demanded the immediate sacking of Mr. Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister.<\/p>\n

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President Akufo-Addo with Ken Ofori-Atta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The MPs threatened not be present for the 2023 budget hearing and the government risks losing their support for its business going forward if President Akufo-Addo does not heed to the call.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf our request is not responded to positively, we will not be present for the budget hearing, neither will we participate in the debate,\u201d Mr Appiah-Kubi, spokesperson for the Majority caucus and MP for Asante-Akim North Constituency indicated.<\/p>\n

They also urged President Akufo-Addo to remove the Minister of State in charge of Finance at the Ministry of Finance, Charles Adu Boahen.<\/p>\n

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

In a related development, the Okaikwei Central MP, Mr. Patrick Boamah said the call for the reshuffle of the Finance Ministry is a good one if the Akufo-Addo-led government wants to succeed and break the cycle of eight per party at the helm of the country\u2019s governance.<\/p>\n

Mr. Patrick Boamah asserted that, if it requires Akufo-Addo to sack all his cabinet ministers and set up a new government, the MPs will support him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good call that as a concerned Majority, we want our government to succeed.<\/p>\n

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Okaikwei Central MP, Patrick Boamah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSo whatever it takes for the government to put in place the right measures, if it requires removing all the cabinet ministers and setting up a new government, we will support it\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

Due to this demand, President Akufo-Addo is expected to meet the Caucus as currently, there is no petition before him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Minority caucus have already filed a motion of censure against the embattled Minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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President Akufo-Addo will later this evening meet with NPP MPs over their demand for the sacking of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.\u00a0 This is information gathered by JoyNews\u2019 sources at the Presidency.\u00a0 Some NPP MPs at a press conference on Tuesday, October 25, demanded the immediate sacking of Mr. Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister. President Akufo-Addo with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234310","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=1234310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}