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NDC Gloats Over 137 MPs No Alternatives Offered

by John Kekeli
December 1, 2021
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Budget Chaos ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ – OB Amoah

Mr John Boadu, NPP General Secretary accuses NDC of sabotaging government business

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The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has challenged the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to present their tax and public funding alternatives if the minority believes the revenue generation measures in the 2022 budget are not good for the country.

It said the minority is always gloating about its numbers to block government business without offering any alternatives to Ghanaians.

Mr John Boadu also condemned what he said was an attempt by the NDC to dictate the content of the budget statement from opposition.

This, he said, is an assault on the clear provisions of the 1992 Constitution, which vests executive authority in the President in Article 58 and empowers him to present the budget under Article 179.

The NPP General Secretary stated these when he addressed the media in Koforidua last Sunday in response to some six conditions the Minority Caucus gave the government before the 2022 Budget will be approved.

He argued that the 1992 Constitution does not offer the right to Parliament to write budgets or to force the hand of the Executive the way the NDC is doing.

Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, NDC General Secretary

Mr John Boadu noted the Minority is determined to move beyond constitutional rights and duties of a Minority Caucus as enshrined in the Constitution and the Standing Orders of Parliament.

“It is no secret that the Minority intended to reject the Budget statement as a show of political force. To the Minority, the near even number of members in Parliament is an opportunity to obstruct the Government’s financial statement for political embarrassment.

“The Minority NDC could care less if this posture leads to a crisis of payments, including salaries, as long as they believe they look politically good,” he added.

Parliament and taxes

Mr John Boadu noted that the combined effect of Parliament intervention in respect of taxes may be to seek a reduction because the legislature is not entitled to reject a budgetary tax measure of the Executive because it is unreasonable as the NDC have referred to the E-levy.

Unreasonableness, he said, is not a constitutional or legislative ground for refusal to approve a budget statement.

“Therefore, the NDC’s ultimatum demanding for explicit inclusion of funds for disaster relief may be overreaching the constitutional authority of the Minority in Parliament.  

“These are examples of the havoc that a misuse of the notion of a ‘hung Parliament’ can cause.

“If indeed the NDC purports to love the Republic as it seems to be saying in its statement, then the best way forward would be to continue with the Parliamentary process and consider the Budget statement per Standing Order 140 (4) and (5), which gives Parliament enough room to bring forward objections to any provision of the budget within the limits of the Constitution,” he said.

According to him, the current posture of the NDC Minority is problematic for Constitutional development.

 The NPP, he said, believes the e-levy is the most sustainable way forward for boosting public finances at a time when government reliance on petroleum levies, grants and loans to fund infrastructure has become unsustainable.

He averred that the proposed e-levy offers the opportunity to break into a future of self-mobilised and self-controlled resources, and pointed out that the NDC ultimatum does not seek cancellation of the e-levy altogether.

“It rather talks about suspension for consultation. So it is clear the NDC appreciates the wisdom of the e-levy but is posturing for public acclaim rather than biting the bullet”, Mr John Boadu concluded.

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