{"id":1253557,"date":"2022-11-18T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/i-have-not-been-reckless-with-ghanas-economy-ken-ofori-atta\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:52:23","slug":"i-have-not-been-reckless-with-ghanas-economy-ken-ofori-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/i-have-not-been-reckless-with-ghanas-economy-ken-ofori-atta\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Not Been Reckless With Ghana&#8217;s Economy &#8211; Ken Ofori-Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/de4f64c450604b9c9c1a7b55329092e4\" alt=\"Africa's most politically powerful bankers: Hott, Kooli and Ofori-Atta\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, who is currently under fire for allegedly being responsible for the economic challenges, is facing the 8-member ad-hoc committee set up to probe the censure motion against him. The finance minister has denied all allegations leveled against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">According to him, the current economic challenges facing the country are not a result of his recklessness but due to the devastating effects of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">&#8220;I want to state that I have not been reckless in the management of fiscal operations of the government.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">He added that their keen efforts to protect the public purse have helped this government to achieve more than any government in every sector,  education, health, social welfare, policing, security in general, roads, railways, agriculture, industrialization, tourism, digitization, and funding for anti-corruption institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">The minority MPs are accusing the Finance Minister of making unconstitutional withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund meant for constructing the National Cathedral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta allegedly is found to have made &#8216;illegal&#8217; payments of oil revenues into offshore accounts and was &#8216;deliberately&#8217; and &#8216;dishonestly&#8217; misreporting economic data to the Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Kritiq (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nKen Ofori-Atta<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, who is currently under fire for allegedly being responsible for the economic challenges, is facing the 8-member ad-hoc committee set up to probe the censure motion against him. The finance minister has denied all allegations leveled against him. According to him, the current economic challenges facing the country are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1963,250,2087,2089,17486],"class_list":["post-1253557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-economy","tag-ghanas","tag-ken","tag-oforiatta","tag-reckless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253557","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=1253557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}