{"id":1257970,"date":"2022-11-25T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/2023-budget-is-eka-mp3-dede-budget\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:15:00","slug":"2023-budget-is-eka-mp3-dede-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/2023-budget-is-eka-mp3-dede-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 budget is &#8216;Eka mp3 dede&#8217; budget"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-11-24-at-10.44.14-AM-2-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ken Ofori-Atta reads 2023 Budget in Parliament\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haruna Iddrisu <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1389663964&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has described the 2023 Budget as <em>Eka mp3 dede<\/em> budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Tamale South MP passed this comment after the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, presented the statement in Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He explained his<em> Eka mp3 dede<\/em> statement was in relation to the Minister\u2019s declaration that Ghana is now considered to be in high-risk debt distress due to the current debt sustainability analysis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis budget puts the country on the path of debt restructuring which he announced as a debt exchange programme. So this budget is eka mp3 dede,\u201d he said amidst laughter from colleague parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker added his expectations were that Mr Ofori-Atta will regularise his borrowing in accordance with the Bank of Ghana\u2019s (BoG) amended act 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 Budget: Ofori-Atta sends strong message to govt officials over use of V8, V6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 Budget: Govt freezes public sector employment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister explained the sustainability of Ghana\u2019s debt has been continuously affected by the negative impact of exchange rate depreciation, particularly on external debt, as well as the crystallization of significant contingent liabilities in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that government will continue to strengthen its oversight of all State Owned Enterprises, in particular, financial and energy sectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Play audio above:<\/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=\"5C2BYapsgdk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Budget Statement for 2023: E-levy rate reduced to 1%; Ghc100 threshold removed (24-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5C2BYapsgdk?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>Haruna Iddrisu Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has described the 2023 Budget as Eka mp3 dede budget. The Tamale South MP passed this comment after the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, presented the statement in Parliament on Thursday. He explained his Eka mp3 dede statement was in relation to the Minister\u2019s declaration that Ghana is now considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257970","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\/1257970","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=1257970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}