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The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has blamed the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin for all the commotion that characterised the debate on the 2022 Budget.
According to him, the chaos began on November 17 when the Budget was presented.
The Majority Leader of Parliament said prior to the Finance Minister’s presentation, Speaker threatened the Ken Ofori-Atta that he should either allocate 1.72 billion of the projected revenue to Parliament or have the budget thrown out.
This, he said resulted in the delay in the Budget presentation.
Speaking to the press on Thursday, the Suame MP stated, “we are where we are because in my view of the genesis of the presentation of this Budget, the day when this Budget came to be presented, we were in the chamber and we all saw that after the Finance Minister had walked in, we had to be at the Speaker’s office for close to 1 hour. We were not coming out.
“Why weren’t we coming out? We were not coming out because we had a Speaker who told the Finance Minister that because he had not given Parliament an amount of 1.72 billion, that he the Speaker has requested the Finance Minister to give to Parliament, he the Speaker was going to ensure that the Budget was rejected. That is what happened that day.”
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