{"id":1251076,"date":"2022-11-15T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/15\/censure-motion-ad-hoc-committee-of-parliament-begins-public-hearing\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:46:00","slug":"censure-motion-ad-hoc-committee-of-parliament-begins-public-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/15\/censure-motion-ad-hoc-committee-of-parliament-begins-public-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Censure Motion: Ad-hoc Committee of Parliament begins public hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Iddi Yire\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Accra, Nov. 15, GNA \u2013 The eight-member bipartisan Ad-Hoc Committee of Parliament Tuesday began a public hearing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority Caucus\u2019 motion calling for a vote of censure against Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Caucus is alleging mismanagement of the economy by the finance minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Committee is co-chaired by Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga East, for the Minority side, and Mr Kobina Tahir Hammond, MP for Adansi Asokwa, for the Majority Caucus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta, who was at the Committee\u2019s hearing, was accompanied by his lawyer, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rest were Dr John Ampontuah Kumah and Mrs Abena Osei Asare, both deputy ministers of finance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-attachment-id=\"240675\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/2022\/11\/censure-motion-ad-hoc-committee-of-parliament-begins-public-hearing\/ken-ofori-atta-at-censure-motion-hearing-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ken-Ofori-Atta-at-Censure-motion-hearing-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C760&#038;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,760\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"1668516218\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"1\"}\" data-image-title=\"Ken Ofori-Atta at Censure motion hearing 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ken-Ofori-Atta-at-Censure-motion-hearing-1.jpg?fit=300%2C178&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ken-Ofori-Atta-at-Censure-motion-hearing-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C608&#038;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ken-Ofori-Atta-at-Censure-motion-hearing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240675\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>GNA<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"00535b87d22f6f92313dc19e-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; 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