{"id":1234548,"date":"2022-10-25T23:16:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T23:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/minority-files-motion-for-ken-ofori-attas-removal\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T23:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T23:16:37","slug":"minority-files-motion-for-ken-ofori-attas-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/minority-files-motion-for-ken-ofori-attas-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority files motion for Ken Ofori-Atta&#8217;s removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"509\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1652432470_198_image_2021-12-21_125022-696x509.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Haruna Iddrisu\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament filed a motion on Tuesday for the dismissal of the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, moved the motion on behalf of the Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>The motion, according to the Minority, is to help in Mr Ofori-Atta\u2019s dismissal since President Nana Akufo-Addo is not willing to sack him over his abysmal performance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo has said calls for him to sack the Minister are unjustified.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Mr Ofori-Atta has discharged his duties \u201cexcellently\u201d and he cannot relieve such a person of his position.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Tamale MP who believes things are getting out of hand said the time to save Ghana is now.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, has urged the Majority to throw their weight behind the motion to garner the two-thirds majority of 183 MPs needed to push for the Finance Minister\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n<p>But the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, though agrees the economy is not in the best of shapes thinks it\u2019s not a good idea to remove Mr Ofori-Atta midway through the IMF negotiations which will affect the 2023 budget presentation.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"0Klfe8vOOPo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reassign Ofori-Atta and Adu Boahen if you can&#039;t sack them - AFAG Akufo-Addo -Badwam Mpensenpensenmu.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Klfe8vOOPo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament filed a motion on Tuesday for the dismissal of the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta. Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, moved the motion on behalf of the Caucus. The motion, according to the Minority, is to help in Mr Ofori-Atta\u2019s dismissal since President Nana Akufo-Addo is not willing to sack him over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234548","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\/1234548","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=1234548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}