Any Minister Can Be Nominated To Read The Budget – Majority Leader | Politics

The Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has indicated that any Minister of State, whether or not for Roads or for Communications, could be nominated by the President to current the finances assertion to Parliament.

At the time of the presentation, he defined, that particular person will act because the Minister liable for Finance within the interim.

Speaking in Parliament on Friday November 11, the Leader of Government Business in Parliament mentioned “Article 179 states that the President shall trigger to be ready and laid earlier than Parliament at the least one month earlier than the top of the monetary 12 months, estimates of the revenues and expenditure of the Government of Ghana for the next monetary 12 months.

“The finances assertion and financial coverage is the President's personal work program for the nation into the following monetary 12 months. The President refers that to Parliament by way of the Minister of Finance.

“Any Minister of State is able to being nominated by the President of Ghana to do this. At the time, that Minister might be described briefly, as Minister liable for Finance, it would not essentially imply that it must be carried out primarily by the Minister of Finance. This explains the rationale why the opposite day, when the Minister of Finance was indisposed, I used to be tasked to face in for him.

“I will suggest to you that we could even have the Minister responsible for Communications or the Minister responsible for Roads to be here. We could have also have the Minister responsible for Finance to be here to do that. The answer, as I told you, lies in Article 179, the language is clear.”

Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu additional indicated that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has knowledgeable the legislature that he's working to make sure that the 2023 finances assertion is offered to the House on November 24.

“Given the circumstance now, the Minister has informed us, in fact, he has written, that he would rather prefer to come here and work everything out in such a way that on the 24th, he will do the delivery here,” he mentioned .

The finances was alleged to have been offered on the fifteenth of November however Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu indicated earlier that it was going to be pushed ahead as a result of ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

He mentioned this to journalists on Thursday November 3.

“I am yet to have discussions with the Minister responsible for Finance to determine exactly when he will be able to present to us,” he mentioned.

The Leader of Government enterprise in Parliament added “it will be difficult to submit to the 15th deadline, I don't know , I ma just conjecturing.”

“Nothing must be carried out which is able to ultimately turn out to be wishy-washy. They wish to have the perfect to have the ability to uplift us from the place we're as a rustic.

“And that being the case, if we want to do a thorough job, I think there will be too much pressure if it has to be done on the 15th,” he added.