{"id":1264109,"date":"2022-12-12T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/12\/i-am-not-aware-of-akufo-addos-meeting-with-majority-caucus-over-ofori-attas-dismissal-anyimadu-antwi\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T01:21:10","slug":"i-am-not-aware-of-akufo-addos-meeting-with-majority-caucus-over-ofori-attas-dismissal-anyimadu-antwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/12\/i-am-not-aware-of-akufo-addos-meeting-with-majority-caucus-over-ofori-attas-dismissal-anyimadu-antwi\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not aware of Akufo-Addo\u2019s meeting with Majority Caucus over Ofori-Atta’s dismissal – Anyimadu-Antwi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi says he has no knowledge about any meeting between President Akufo-Addo and the Majority Caucus over the dismissal of Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n

Some 89 NPP MPs in October held a press conference to demand the sacking of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta for what they say is the mismanagement of the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

Shortly after they announced their demand, President Akufo-Addo is reported to have called the Majority MPs to a meeting at the Flagstaff House and appealed to them to allow Mr. Ofori-Atta to conclude the IMF negotiations and present the 2023 Budget before he takes any action.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Probe<\/strong>, Sunday, the NPP MP denied knowledge of any such meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not aware that we have met the President on this. Apart from not being part of that meeting, I am not aware of any meeting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This is inspite of the fact the the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu issued a statement that informed the general public about the outcome of the meeting. Key among the outcome was the fact the President Akufo-Addo asked the NPP MPs to hold their horses until after the IMF negotiations and the 2023 Budget has been presented.<\/p>\n

It would also be recalled that when the NPP MPs called for the sacking of Ofori-Atta, Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu disclosed to JoyNews<\/strong>\u2018 Evans Mensah that a wealthy businessman held a meeting with the NPP MPs so they could back down on their demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m told on authority that some businessman came here and tried to do something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, Mr. Anyimadu-Antwi said he is unaware of any mediation by a wealthy businessman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not aware that we met any businessman,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr. Ofori-Atta has survived a censure motion by the Minority members to dismiss him from office.<\/p>\n

However, the President is yet to act on the demand of the NPP MPs who called for Ofori-Atta\u2019s dismissal since the IMF negotiations are still ongoing although the Budget has been presented.<\/p>\n

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Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi says he has no knowledge about any meeting between President Akufo-Addo and the Majority Caucus over the dismissal of Ken Ofori-Atta. Some 89 NPP MPs in October held a press conference to demand the sacking of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta for what they say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264109","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\/1264109","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=1264109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}