{"id":1263239,"date":"2022-12-08T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/minority-vote-to-remove-ofori-atta-fails-as-majority-walks-out\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:36:07","slug":"minority-vote-to-remove-ofori-atta-fails-as-majority-walks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/minority-vote-to-remove-ofori-atta-fails-as-majority-walks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Vote To Remove Ofori-Atta Fails, As Majority Walks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minority in Parliament vote of Censure motion against Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has hit a gargantuan rock after hours of debating in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 136 out of the 137 Minority MPs voted to get the Finance Minister out of office which is below the required two-thirds majority of parliament which should be about 184 MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority was required to get at least 47 MPs from the NPP side but however failed to get them to their side.<\/p>\n<p>As a result the vote was lost and the minister still remains at post even though his side is pushing for his exit.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers on the Majority side of the House, staged a walkout before the commencement of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, they do not want to partake in a process they believe does not have proper grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Majority referenced Pontius Pilate washing his hands off the trial of Jesus Christ and stormed out of Parliament leaving many political and New Patriotic Party (NPP) fanatics stunned.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament of Ghana resorted to the secret ballot to determine the fate of Mr. Ofori-Atta after hours of debating the vote of censure motion against him.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with gross mismanagement of the economy by the Majority caucus in Parliament kick-starting a petition by the Minority Caucus calling for his removal.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Finance Minister in his defence, Ken Ofori insisted he is innocent.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cIf I say I am innocent they [the Minority] won\u2019t believe me and if I ask for the truth and proof, they won\u2019t be able to provide it. I have committed no crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Minority in Parliament vote of Censure motion against Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has hit a gargantuan rock after hours of debating in Parliament. A total of 136 out of the 137 Minority MPs voted to get the Finance Minister out of office which is below the required two-thirds majority of parliament which should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263239","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\/1263239","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=1263239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}