Lawyer Barbara Serwaa Asamoah, Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has advised Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s wife Prof Angela Ofori-Atta, to advise her husband to resign.
Prof Ofori-Atta, she believes, should persuade her husband to retire because everything indicates that Ofori-Atta has lost control of Ghana’s economy and is now an embarrassment.
Lawyer Serwaa Asamoah stated that Mr Ofori-Atta has made enough money to support his generation and that he need not be concerned about losing his job.
“… he (Ofori-Atta) can’t do the job; none of his actions shows that he can do the job, so why is the president keeping him at post. So, should Ghana collapse because of one person?
“For the past six years, the money you have made can take care of your children, your great-grandchildren and your great, great-grandchildren. So, why all this fuss? What does he (the finance minister) want in addition?
“… he is disgracing his wife and his children. The woman who is the wife of Ofori-Atta is being disgraced too much. You (the Ofori-Atta family) must speak to him so that he will accept that he has to resign,” she said in Twi in an XYZ TV interview monitored by GhanaWeb.
Over 80 New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of parliament have reaffirmed their demand that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo remove Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
The MPs claim that they disagree with President Akufo-request Addo’s that Ofori-Atta read and view the appropriation for the 2023 budget.
On Thursday, November 10, Nana Ayew Afriyie, the MP for Effiduase-Asokore, spoke on behalf of the more than 80 MPs present in Parliament and stated that they had agreed that Ofori-Atta should neither read the budget or oversee the subsequent proceedings.
“Over the days, we have heard the finance minister speaking, and his speaking has influenced majority of us in the caucus, not only to state that we are back to the original position that we took, and that position is that the minister of finance must not be the one to read the budget, and must not be the one that would do the appropriation.
“We are here to tell you this morning that our position will be very soon for you to see, and we will be positively defiant about that posture until action is taken,” he said.
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