{"id":1253403,"date":"2022-11-18T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/censure-motion-against-finance-minister-in-parliament-i-have-not-breached-the-constitution-ofori-atta\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:15:38","slug":"censure-motion-against-finance-minister-in-parliament-i-have-not-breached-the-constitution-ofori-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/censure-motion-against-finance-minister-in-parliament-i-have-not-breached-the-constitution-ofori-atta\/","title":{"rendered":"Censure motion against Finance Minister in Parliament: I have not breached the Constitution \u2014\u00a0Ofori\u00a0Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong><em>Live Updates<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cI have not breached the Constitution\u201d<\/h4>\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>11:40 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ken Ofori-Atta the Minister of Finance has said before the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee\u00a0on\u00a0Censure that he had not breached the Constitution in making payments to support the National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have taken no money from the contingency fund to support the National Cathedral,\u201d Mr Ofori-Atta said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n<h4>Traditional rulers at Censure Committee sitting to support Ken Ofori-Atta<\/h4>\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>11:20 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-attachment-id=\"241277\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/2022\/11\/traditional-rulers-at-censure-committee-sitting-to-support-ken-ofori-atta\/censure-ad-hoc-committee-chiefs-support-ken\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Censure-Ad-hoc-Committee-Chiefs-support-Ken.jpg?fit=1011%2C623&#038;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1011,623\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"1668768782\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"1\"}\" data-image-title=\"Censure-Ad-hoc-Committee-Chiefs-support-Ken\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Censure-Ad-hoc-Committee-Chiefs-support-Ken.jpg?fit=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Censure-Ad-hoc-Committee-Chiefs-support-Ken.jpg?fit=1011%2C623&#038;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1011\" height=\"623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1668777338_912_Censure-Ad-hoc-Committee-Chiefs-support-Ken.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241277\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Accra, Nov. 18, GNA \u2013 Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, Friday morning appeared before the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee\u00a0on\u00a0Censure.<\/p>\n<p>Some traditional rulers and members of Government are also in attendance to lend support to\u00a0Mr\u00a0Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister is appearing before Parliament\u2019s Ad-Hoc Committee in Accra today to respond to a motion of Vote of Censure against him for poor management of the economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Minority had brought the motion, admitted by Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, for which he set up a seven-member committee to investigate the motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kobina Tahir Hammond, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi Asokwa, and Co-chair of the Ad-Hoc Committee, at a sitting the first sitting on Monday, said the matter had elements of criminality, political and civil responsibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the committee had decided that there must be evidential basis for the allegations that were made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"028c58450a6849d6338dd493-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; 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