{"id":1251320,"date":"2022-11-15T18:58:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/15\/you-cant-teach-me-how-to-do-my-work\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:58:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:58:55","slug":"you-cant-teach-me-how-to-do-my-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/15\/you-cant-teach-me-how-to-do-my-work\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can&#8217;t teach me how to do my work&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The first day of the public hearing of the committee on the motion of censure against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, was characterized by heated exchanges and clashes between the Minority members and some members of the Majority side.<\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for the North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, also engaged in heated exchanges with counsel for the Finance Minister, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Otchere-Darko had sought to advise Mr Ablakwa to reserve some of his comments for a press conference and not the committee sittings, but in a sharp rebuttal, the North Tongu MP asked the seasoned lawyer not to attempt to teach him his job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t come here and teach me how to do my work,\u201d Mr Ablakwa said, adding, \u201cyou can\u2019t come here and throw your weight about. This is Parliament, you can\u2019t tell me what to do, you are not the chairman so don\u2019t tell me what to do,\u201d a livid Ablakwa retorted.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Otchere-Darko had earlier expressed concern that his client would be caught off guard by the evidence and requested \u201cfull particulars of the facts in support of the allegations against the [Finance] Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said there would not be enough time to scrutinise the evidence outlined by the Minority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would not be fair for the Minister of Finance to be ambushed right here without any preparation to start answering questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"MaMbrL-qXHo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ofori-Atta censure hearing: Gabby Otchere-Darko clashes with Minority over evidence\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaMbrL-qXHo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, also dismissed suggestions that the current economic crisis in Ghana was mainly caused by the war being waged on Ukraine by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Committee, the Tamale South MP said the \u201creckless borrowing\u201d and \u201creckless spending\u201d by the Finance Minister are the cause of Ghana\u2019s woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you borrow to support the war in Ukraine,\u201d Mr Iddrisu asked, arguing that, it was because of Ofori-Atta\u2019s recklessness that caused Ghana\u2019s economic woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of the public hearing of the committee on the motion of censure against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, was characterized by heated exchanges and clashes between the Minority members and some members of the Majority side. The Member of Parliament for the North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, also engaged in heated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251320","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\/1251320","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=1251320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}