{"id":267257,"date":"2024-12-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/last-minute-recruitments-payments-are-legal-fatimatu-abubakar\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:30:00","slug":"last-minute-recruitments-payments-are-legal-fatimatu-abubakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/last-minute-recruitments-payments-are-legal-fatimatu-abubakar\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute recruitments, payments are legal \u2013 Fatimatu Abubakar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe question we should be asking is whether the government is doing anything illegal. If the government is doing something illegal, it does not matter whether it is taking place within the transition period or for the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything illegal ought to be prosecuted if they so desire. And I believe that the population of our country will stand with them if that is the tangent they want to go. But if that is not the case, they should not hide behind the transition team to place an embargo on the constitutional mandate of President Akufo-Addo,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Fatimatu Abubakar further explained that the activities in question are part of the approved 2024 budget, which was thoroughly scrutinised and passed by Parliament, including members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>She thus expressed surprise that the NDC, after participating in the budgetary process, would now raise concerns about ongoing activities, which she insisted remain within the scope of President Akufo-Addo\u2019s constitutional mandate until the transition is formally completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at all the activities they are complaining about, to the best of my knowledge, these are activities featured in the 2024 budget year. From November 2024, the budget was sent to parliament. They are part of that parliament that sat through the budget; as you know we have hung parliament. So, whatever budget was submitted, they could scrutinise, do the appropriation, and go to the committee and every aspect of the process that led to the passage of the budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were an integral part of that. When the finance minister went to parliament for reassignment during the midyear budget review, they were part of the same parliament that passed the same expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am surprised, that if there is an activity or an expenditure captured in this budget, and the NDC fully participated in them and were expecting the ministries that are responsible for executing those programmes and projects to have up to the end of President Akufo-Addo\u2019s mandate to do the same, why will they turn around all of a sudden and say there are some irregular activities,\u201d she questioned.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe question we should be asking is whether the government is doing anything illegal. If the government is doing something illegal, it does not matter whether it is taking place within the transition period or for the past eight years. \u201cAnything illegal ought to be prosecuted if they so desire. 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