{"id":986558,"date":"2022-02-11T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/ofori-atta-shocked-at-rejection-by-free-shs-graduates-audio\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:28:14","slug":"ofori-atta-shocked-at-rejection-by-free-shs-graduates-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/ofori-atta-shocked-at-rejection-by-free-shs-graduates-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofori-Atta shocked at rejection by Free SHS graduates [Audio]"},"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=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dui-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta<\/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\/1213962724&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see the energy, especially with which graduates who have gone through free SHS are against\u00a0 E-levy,\u00a0 I ask whether they are calculating\u00a0what the cost is,\u201d Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has lamented.  <\/p>\n<p>According to him, he cannot fathom why a policy that is for the greater good of the people will be vehemently resisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo assuming I divide this 7 billion by 21 million\u00a0of us, it is about 300 cedis a year for each person, divide by 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when I see the energy especially with which graduates who have gone through free senior high are against\u00a0E-levy,\u00a0I ask whether they are calculating what the cost is and I ask in truthfulness that does any graduate make more than\u00a0 8,000 or 5,000?\u201d he queried. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the government\u2019s third Town Hall Meeting on the E-levy in Tamale, he indicated it was important for the focus to be on the resources needed to fund policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssuming you are a graduate and you even made\u00a0 100,000 cedis a year and you transfer all of that through MoMo, how much will that be? 10 per cent of 100,000\u00a0 is 10,000, so a third of that is\u00a03,000. So\u00a0 3,000 cedis for your roads, for your free education, for all of that and you are up in arms,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He further questioned how government can mobilise the resources for development if Ghanaians do not want to pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo truly who should be paying for it? You have every responsibility to ask me to account for it. But we as a people can\u2019t pretend that we don\u2019t need these resources to do what we are doing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the 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=\"KOB_FCpH3Y8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GFA Referees, Your new Black Stars Technical Team is set up to Fail - Fire 4 Fire on Adom (10-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KOB_FCpH3Y8?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>Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta \u201cWhen I see the energy, especially with which graduates who have gone through free SHS are against\u00a0 E-levy,\u00a0 I ask whether they are calculating\u00a0what the cost is,\u201d Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has lamented. 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