POLITICS

The Ashanti Regional branch of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has served notice that billboards and paraphernalia advertising some personalities seeking to lead the party in the 2024 general elections, will not be tolerated at the party’s delegates’ conference slated for 17 to 20 December 2021. The party has warned that the wearing of T-shirts bearing the portraits of ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described President Akufo-Addo’s style of governance as one dominated by intolerance, violence and machoism. In a message to commemorate the first anniversary of the 2020 election, the NDC said it recalls, with sadness and sorrow that eight Ghanaians were needlessly murdered by agents of the state under the ultimate control of the presidency during ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says government will take measures to block attempts by individuals to evade the E-levy proposed in the 2022 budget. According to him, E-levy is currently the best option to draw in more people into the tax bracket. “On the matter of the E-levy, having regard to its serious fiscal implications, we will continue our consultations with ...

The Minority Caucus in parliament, in the view of ex-special prosecutor Martin Amidu, “has now specialised in Orwellian doublespeak deceptions” and “shamelessly compromised” itself and “sold out on the rejected 2022 budget”. In his latest article on the budget stalemate – rejection by a Minority Caucus-alone parliament and subsequent approval by a Majority Caucus-alone parliament – the former attorney general ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed he has written to the Speaker of Parliament over his modifications of portions of the controversial 2022 budget following public reaction. Below are details of the letter: “Mr. Speaker, I hereby write to confirm the details of these modifications: i. with regards to Agyapa Royalties Ltd, we shall amend paragraphs 442 and 443 to ...

The government of Ghana has apportioned GHS10 million cedis for feasibility studies on the sea defence project in coastal areas affected most by erosion, including the coastal belt of the Volta Region, where some 6,000 locals were recently displaced by tidal waves. At a press conference on Monday, 6 December 2021, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said the government is exploring ...

A former Senior Governance Adviser at the United Nations, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah says the ongoing impasse between the Majority and Minority in Parliament over the 2022 Budget is preventable. Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr Thursday, Prof. Agyeman-Duah stated that the current composition of Parliament should inform the government on how to deal with issues in the House. According ...

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has asked the Minority in Parliament not to mislead Ghanaians regarding the approval of the 2022 budget statement. He said on the floor of the House on Wednesday December 1 that “Nobody should attempt to throw dusts into the eyes of Ghanaians.” This was after the Minority had argued that the ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Wusu (Joewise) has justified the approval of the 2022 budget statement. During deliberations in the House on Wednesday December, 1 he stated that a Deputy Speaker could not be described as a Speaker hence, arguments being against the number of MPs in the chamber as of the time of the approval of ...

A private citizen Richard Sky has filed a writ at the Supreme Court challenging the Speaker of Parliament’s decision to allow 137 members of parliament vote to reject the 2022 budget. Last Friday, Speaker Alban Bagbin allowed 137 Minority MPs to vote on the budget. The MPs voted to reject the budget but many including the Majority said what the ...