Members of the Minority Caucus on the Appointments Committee of Parliament have boycotted the vetting of the Deputy Minister-designate for Commerce and Trade, Kofi Ahenkorah Marfo.
Mr Marfo was scheduled to be screened at this time, July 2; nevertheless, the Minority Chief, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, issued a press assertion saying his caucus wouldn’t take part within the course of.
The minority chief cited the already massive measurement of “the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia authorities” and its poor financial efficiency as causes for his or her determination.
He stated, “We’re once more unable to help this nomination by President Akufo-Addo presently as a result of our nation has gone via (and continues to undergo) very tough durations, together with the crippling financial disaster, meals insecurity, debt default because of extreme borrowing, corruption in authorities and wasteful and reckless expenditures.
“With bizarre Ghanaians going via excruciating hardships and companies relocating from Ghana because of the excessive tax regime created by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia authorities, one would have anticipated the President to downsize his already massive authorities. This might have despatched a sign to the those who the President was conscious of the financial realities and was keen to do issues in a different way to revive the wanted confidence within the economic system.”
The minority members additional confused, “We is not going to, and can’t, participate in a call to additional burden the already struggling Ghanaian, particularly when the president is unmindful of the monetary penalties of his bloated authorities.”
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