{"id":1257264,"date":"2022-11-24T13:19:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/government-bans-use-of-v8s-v6s-by-officials-from-2023\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:19:56","slug":"government-bans-use-of-v8s-v6s-by-officials-from-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/government-bans-use-of-v8s-v6s-by-officials-from-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Government bans use of V8s, V6s by officials from 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/76FA0387-BD11-4850-971F-55A2DB54F8C3-1024x683.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Government has placed a ban on the use of V8 and V6 vehicles by officials effective January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta during the 2023 budget presentation on Thursday, November 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the use of such vehicles will be permitted for travels outside Accra. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7qfJ5b04P4o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Government bans use of V8s, V6s by officials from 2023\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qfJ5b04P4o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cA ban on the use of V8s\/V6s or its equivalent except for cross-country travel. All government vehicles would be registered with GV green number plates from January 2023,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, the purchase of new vehicles will be restricted to locally assembled ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimited budgetary allocation for the purchase of vehicles. For the avoidance of doubt, purchase of new vehicles shall be restricted to locally assembled vehicles,\u201d the Minister added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta also announced that fuel coupons for MDAs, MMDAs and SOEs have been reduced by 50%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll MDAs, MMDAs and SOEs are directed to reduce fuel allocations to Political Appointees and heads of MDAs, MMDAs and SOEs by 50%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis directive applies to all methods of fuel allocation including coupons, electronic cards, chit systems, and fuel depots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, 50% of the previous year\u2019s (2022) budget allocation for fuel shall be earmarked for official business pertaining to MDAs, MMDAs and SOEs,\u201d he concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has placed a ban on the use of V8 and V6 vehicles by officials effective January 2023. This was announced by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta during the 2023 budget presentation on Thursday, November 24.\u00a0 However, the use of such vehicles will be permitted for travels outside Accra. \u00a0 \u201cA ban on the use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257264","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\/1257264","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=1257264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}