Captain Smart has jabbed Parliament for their calls to get Kenneth Ofori-Atta out as Finance Minister, including his deputy.
According to the Onua Maakye host, when Ofori-Atta was submitting budgets that were not in consonance with the needs of the citizenry, the Majority were singing ‘Abamu awie’ (It has been fulfilled already).
He says the Majority cannot turn around to cry foul when the very minister they hailed despite his glaring abysmal record has now worsened things.
Ranting on the show Thursday, October 27, 2022, Captain Smart said the MPs should join the Finance Minister and his deputy to excuse themselves from public office since they are all to blame for the mess now.
“Ofori-Atta will not go anywhere. If he is leaving then he will go with the MPs. Were you not the ones who approved all the loans he brought before you? Were you not the ones who were hailing him when the Minority were complaining? You sang ‘abamu awie’ You’re not serious. You helped Ken to cause the damage,” he maintained.
Calls for the sacking of the Finance minister has been on the lips of many who believe his poor administration has plundered Ghana into the current economic disaster.
But President Akufo-Addo described those making the calls as hungry unemployed people who are jealous of his cousin the Finance minister.
However, in Parliament Tuesday, October 25, 2022, some 80 Majority MPs in a media briefing asked the President to sack Ken Ofori-Atta and his Deputy, Adu Boahen to relieve Ghanaians from the economic misfortunes currently confronting the country.
According to them, “the recent happenings is not pleasing and after consulting our constituents and informing the leadership of Parliament, we want the President to set aside the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta and the deputy minister of State in charge of Finance Charles Adu Boahen for government business to continue.
“If the president refuses to heed to our call, we will not participate in any business for the government,” Andrews Appiah Kubih said on behalf of the group.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
