{"id":1253184,"date":"2022-11-18T08:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/natl-cathedral-ghanaians-will-find-out-today-that-ofori-atta-did-not-flout-the-law-ahiagbah\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:57:18","slug":"natl-cathedral-ghanaians-will-find-out-today-that-ofori-atta-did-not-flout-the-law-ahiagbah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/natl-cathedral-ghanaians-will-find-out-today-that-ofori-atta-did-not-flout-the-law-ahiagbah\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat&#8217;l Cathedral: Ghanaians will find out today that Ofori-Atta did not flout the law &#8211; Ahiagbah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"429\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1664364839_104_Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551-696x429.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"429\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1664364839_104_Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551-696x429.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr Richard Ahiagbah has said that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will demonstrate to the 8-member ad hoc committee that is investigating the allegations against him that he did not flout the law in supporting the National Cathedral project.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He stated that the Finance Minister does not require parliamentary approval to spend from the Contingency Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the thing we are likely to find out today is that, the finance minister did not flout the law, by supporting the National Cathedral project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minister does not require parliamentary approval to spend from the contingency vote,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta will be appearing before the committee today Friday November 18.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu in making a case for the removal of the Finance Minister\u00a0 when he appeared before the committee said among other things that the cost of doing business in Ghana is unacceptably high, a situation he blamed the Finance Minister for.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udccdMinority\u2019s Grounds for Seeking Ken Ofori-Atta\u2019s Removal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3NewsGH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3NewsGH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vGy6pqc6VL\">pic.twitter.com\/vGy6pqc6VL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #[email\u00a0protected] (@tv3_ghana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tv3_ghana\/status\/1592512693155819522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also indicated that the depreciation of the Cedi is making trading in Ghana very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, the Finance Minister has failed hence, must go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of doing business is unacceptably high for businesses. The pharmaceutical industry is complaining because it affects their import and they are made to pay more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe depreciation of the Cedi has affected even Markola women who cannot trade effectively,\u201d he said at the committee sitting on Tuesday November 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Tamale South lawmaker added that \u201cHis performance is disappointing that he is not fit to be Finance Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, a co-chair of the 8-member committee investigating the allegations against the Minister, Dr Dominic Ayine, has said the proponents of the motion of vote of censure against the\u00a0Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta\u00a0are not accusers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ayine said that the Minority MPs who signed the motion only want the President to remove him as the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cthey are not accusers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just think that the president should not be giving him a place as Finance Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr Richard Ahiagbah has said that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will demonstrate to the 8-member ad hoc committee that is investigating the allegations against him that he did not flout the law in supporting the National Cathedral project. He stated that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[24524,8458,288,29063,834,1498,9166,2089,285],"class_list":["post-1253184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ahiagbah","tag-cathedral","tag-find","tag-flout","tag-ghanaians","tag-law","tag-natl","tag-oforiatta","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253184","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=1253184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}