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Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu says it is paradoxical the government and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are begging for two and half years to do better and stabilize the economy.
He questioned what the government has been doing in the last six years that it should be asking for two years to do better.
“What did you do with your six years that you want us to believe in only two years you can do what you failed to do in six years,” he quizzed.
Concluding debate on the 2023 budget statement and economic policy of the government on Tuesday, November 7, in Parliament the Minority said that despite the NPP government’s high-flying promises, today the much-touted one-million-dollar one-constituency is effectively dead.
According to him, the Finance Minister and the government are deliberately avoiding mentioning this policy because the depreciation of the cedi now imposes more burdens financially to honour that promise.
He argued government built toilets in constituencies and claimed it was providing one million dollars for development and challenged any MP to show and demonstrate in the last six years of the Akufo-Addo administration one million dollars entered his/her constituency.
On the Electronic Transaction Levy (e-levy), Mr. Haruna Iddrisu stated the position of the Minority has not changed and reiterated it was a disincentive to Ghana’s quest to build a cashless economy.
The government, he said, should be taking advantage of the mobile phone infrastructure to accelerate development and to mainstream ICT in all aspects of national life.
He warned the Minority would not support the reduction of e-levy from 1.5% to 1% without exemptions and charged the government to care about the ordinary Ghanaian.
He urged the Finance Minister to provide for a threshold of at least GH¢300 even as the Minority still remains opposed to the tax in principle.
