{"id":1263060,"date":"2022-12-08T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/we-dont-want-you-anymore-its-not-by-force-to-serve-us\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:23:09","slug":"we-dont-want-you-anymore-its-not-by-force-to-serve-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/we-dont-want-you-anymore-its-not-by-force-to-serve-us\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t want you anymore; it&#8217;s not by force to serve us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo has asked the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to humbly resign and allow someone with fresh ideas to take over.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the debate on the report by the ad-hoc committee of Parliament that probed allegations against the Finance Minister on Thursday, Mr Adongo said the majority of Ghanaians do not want Mr Ofori-Atta to continue as the Finance Minister and called on NPP MPs to ensure that the Minister is removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe voted for you, and we are saying we don\u2019t want you anymore, it is not by force to serve us, just go,\u201d the tough-talking MP said on the Floor of Parliament on Thursday, December 8, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the evidence against Mr Ofori-Atta is incontrovertible and demands that Parliament does the honourable thing to remove the Finance Minister from his position.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dominic Ayine, a co-Chairman of the ad-hoc committee also claimed that unassailable evidence of misconduct was established against Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering his remarks on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, the Bolgatanga East Member of Parliament called for a secret ballot to determine the fate of the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, even though Mr Ofori-Atta was exonerated on some allegations levelled against him, evidence discovered during the committee hearing is enough for the Minister to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>A co-chairman of the committee, K.T Hammond, however, disagreed with his colleague stating that no findings or recommendations were made against the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Ac8-ZVLotLg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Economic woes not my fault; We are in cataclysmic and near apocalyptic times - Ken Ofori-Atta\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ac8-ZVLotLg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo has asked the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to humbly resign and allow someone with fresh ideas to take over. Contributing to the debate on the report by the ad-hoc committee of Parliament that probed allegations against the Finance Minister on Thursday, Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1246560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263060","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\/1263060","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=1263060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}