{"id":1253489,"date":"2022-11-18T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/i-am-truly-sorry-ken-ofori-atta-says-as-he-appears-before-ad-hoc-committee\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:33:40","slug":"i-am-truly-sorry-ken-ofori-atta-says-as-he-appears-before-ad-hoc-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/i-am-truly-sorry-ken-ofori-atta-says-as-he-appears-before-ad-hoc-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"I am truly sorry \u2013 Ken Ofori-Atta says as he appears before ad-hoc committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dui-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has apologised to Ghanaians for the hardship being suffered in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the brunt borne by the populace due to the ongoing economic turmoil is unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>He said this at the Ad-hoc committee hearing probing the motion of censure against him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-200-1024x454.png\" alt=\"'I am truly sorry' - Ken Ofori-Atta to Ghanaians over hardship\" class=\"wp-image-10032211319\" title=\"'I am truly sorry' - Ken Ofori-Atta to Ghanaians over hardship\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet me use this opportunity to say to the Ghanaian people what I believe, with courage, every Finance Minister around the world may wish to say to their people now. \u2018I am truly sorry\u2019,\u201d he told the committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister took the stand on Friday to respond to the grounds which were presented by the Minority as justification for his removal.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is co-chaired by the Adansi Asokwa Member of Parliament (MP), K.T. Hammond and Bolgatanga East MP,\u00a0Dominic Ayine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-199-1024x569.png\" alt=\"'I am truly sorry' - Ken Ofori-Atta to Ghanaians over hardship\" class=\"wp-image-10032211317\" title=\"'I am truly sorry' - Ken Ofori-Atta to Ghanaians over hardship\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Other members of the Committee from the Minority side are: North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa; Klottey-Korle MP,\u00a0Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings and Akatsi South MP, Bernard Ahiafor.<\/p>\n<h3>Livestream: Ken Ofori-Atta takes the \u2018witness box\u2019 at censure motion hearing<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ad hoc committee hearing: Gabby Otchere-Darko is lawyer for Ken Ofori-Atta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"J7uIGo7HoII\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kenyasi Sh00ting: Youth thre@ten mayhem if Newmont security remains in the community (17-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J7uIGo7HoII?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has apologised to Ghanaians for the hardship being suffered in recent times. According to him, the brunt borne by the populace due to the ongoing economic turmoil is unfortunate. He said this at the Ad-hoc committee hearing probing the motion of censure against him. \u201cLet me use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253489","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\/1253489","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=1253489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}