{"id":740401,"date":"2022-01-08T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/govt-intends-sending-soldiers-back-to-parliament-to-force-passage-of-e-levy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:18:12","slug":"govt-intends-sending-soldiers-back-to-parliament-to-force-passage-of-e-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/govt-intends-sending-soldiers-back-to-parliament-to-force-passage-of-e-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt intends sending soldiers back to parliament to force passage of E-Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75339148.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mensah Thompson is the Executive Director of ASEPA\" title=\"Mensah Thompson is the Executive Director of ASEPA\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mensah Thompson is the Executive Director of ASEPA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>E-Levy introduced in 2022 budget <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chaos breaks out in parliament <\/p>\n<p>NDC MPs bent on rejecting the 1.75% E-Levy<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director for the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has alleged that the government is bent on passing the 1.75% Electronic Levy (E-Levy) by using the military to enforce this. <\/p>\n<p>He alleges that the government intends to force the hand of the law-making body to approve the controversial E-Levy, even if it means using the soldiers to physically the National Democratic Congress MPs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sources at the Jubilee house contacted me again yesterday and the information is simple, they have resolved to pass the e-levy at all cost when Parliament resumes. In fact, they intend to send the military to Parliament again when the e-levy debate degenerates into a scuffle and their plan is to assault the NDC MPs if they attempt to resist like the other time,\u201d he alleged. <\/p>\n<p>Mensah Thompson made this known in a Facebook post, adding that there is the need for members of the Minority to be on guard.<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned what the fear is with the government returning to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if the need be. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minority must be on their guard, the plan for the e-levy is big, they intend to pass it all cost or they have to go to the IMF and that is exactly what they don&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the question is why are they sooo afraid of going to the IMF?, some people have said oh, they don&#8217;t like the propaganda or they don&#8217;t want to feel ashamed for taking us back to the IMF&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhanaians Paa, smh!!&#8230; For how long would we understand that these guys are shameless and they don&#8217;t give a shit about your propaganda?\u201d his post said. <\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that a year ago, when this parliament was being constituted, chaos broke out on the floor of the chamber, leading to some military men invading the House.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Read the ASEPA boss\u2019s full post below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmanuel.thompson1%2Fposts%2F10222302992744332&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mensah Thompson is the Executive Director of ASEPA E-Levy introduced in 2022 budget Chaos breaks out in parliament NDC MPs bent on rejecting the 1.75% E-Levy The Executive Director for the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has alleged that the government is bent on passing the 1.75% Electronic Levy (E-Levy) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740401","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=740401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}