{"id":1249296,"date":"2022-11-12T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/12\/ofori-atta-may-read-budget-on-nov-24-majority-leader\/"},"modified":"2022-11-12T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:59:45","slug":"ofori-atta-may-read-budget-on-nov-24-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/12\/ofori-atta-may-read-budget-on-nov-24-majority-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofori-Atta May Read Budget On Nov. 24 \u2013 Majority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has disclosed that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is preparing to read the 2023 budget statement On November 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the finance minister has nformed Parliament that he is working to ensure that the budget is presented.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, MP for Suame who made this known in Parliament on Friday November 11, 2022 explained that \u201cGiven the circumstance now, the Minister has informed us, in fact, he has written, that he would rather prefer to come here and work everything out in such a way that on the 24th, he will do the delivery here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Delay in the presentation of the budget on the aforesaid date instead of November 15 was attributed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal as indicated by Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking to journalists on Thursday November 3 prior to his latest statement, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs said \u201cI am yet to have discussions with the Minister responsible for Finance to determine exactly when he will be able to present to us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader of Government business in Parliament added \u201cit will be difficult to submit to the 15th deadline, I don\u2019t know, I am just conjecturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing should be done which will eventually become wishy-washy. They want to have the best to be able to uplift us from where we are as a country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that being the case, if we want to do a thorough job, I think there will be too much pressure if it has to be done on the 15th,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has disclosed that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is preparing to read the 2023 budget statement On November 24, 2022. According to him, the finance minister has nformed Parliament that he is working to ensure that the budget is presented. Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, MP for Suame who made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1125347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249296","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\/1249296","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=1249296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}