{"id":1234979,"date":"2022-10-26T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/26\/ndc-mps-wear-black-use-strong-adjectives-in-push-for-ofori-attas-exit\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:15:36","slug":"ndc-mps-wear-black-use-strong-adjectives-in-push-for-ofori-attas-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/26\/ndc-mps-wear-black-use-strong-adjectives-in-push-for-ofori-attas-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC MPs wear black; use strong adjectives in push for Ofori-Atta’s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NDC MPs in Parliament have employed a basket of adjectives to fuel their demand for the dismissal of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n

At a short press briefing on Tuesday, the Minority spokesperson on finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, spared no superlatives in painting the embattled Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, as \u2018super incompetent\u2019.<\/p>\n

In expressing their grievances, the MPs wore black outfits to communicate their displeasure with the current state of the economy.<\/p>\n

Here are the NDC\u2019s adjectives-filled justifications for Ken Ofori-Atta\u2019s removal, which was read at the presser in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Despicable conflict of Interest ensuring that he directly benefits from Ghana\u2019s economic woes as his companies receive commissions and other unethical contractual advantages, particularly from Ghana\u2019s debt overhang.<\/p>\n

Unconstitutional withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund in blatant contravention of Article 178 of the 1992 Constitution, supposedly for the construction of the President\u2019s Cathedral:<\/p>\n

Illegal payment of oil revenues into offshore accounts, in flagrant violation of Article 176 of the 1992 Constitution:<\/p>\n

Deliberate and dishonest misreporting of economic data to Parliament 5. Fiscal recklessness leading to the crash of the Ghana Cedi which is currently the worst-performing currency in the world:<\/p>\n

Alarming incompetence and frightening ineptitude, resulting in the collapse of the Ghanaian economy and an excruciating cost of living crisis;<\/p>\n

Gross mismanagement of the Ghanaian economy which as occasioned untold and unprecedented hardship<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Deputy Minority Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim says his side has already filed a motion of censure against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n

The Banda Ahenkro MP said both Majority and Minority leaders have already commenced discussion about the vote of censure against Mr. Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n

The sentiments of the Minority came to bear after some New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentarians had earlier petitioned President Akufo-Addo to sack Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n

The MPs, numbering about 80, held a press conference on Tuesday to impress on the President to relieve his cousin of the responsibility of managing the national purse.<\/p>\n

The MPs also threatened that they would withhold their support for government business in Parliament if their demands are not met.<\/p>\n

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They aggrieved legislators also want the Minister of State in charge of Finance at the Ministry of Finance, Charles Adu Boahen, to be subjected to a similar fate of dismissal.<\/p>\n

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NDC MPs in Parliament have employed a basket of adjectives to fuel their demand for the dismissal of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. At a short press briefing on Tuesday, the Minority spokesperson on finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, spared no superlatives in painting the embattled Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, as \u2018super incompetent\u2019. In expressing their grievances, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234979","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\/1234979","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=1234979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}