There is no inconsistency in the government's expenditure on COVID-19; we have been transparent - Ofori-Atta to Parliament.
Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori has exposed claims that the public authority has not been straightforward with its COVID-19 consumption.
Tending to Parliament on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, the Minister said all customized, prepared and used reserves relating to the Covid pandemic have been bluntly announced in accordance with the public authority's obligation to responsibility and straightforwardness.
His show comes on the rear of the Minority NDC MP's interest for a review into all COVID-19-related costs over errors in government use information.
Be that as it may, answering inquiries, Mr Ofori-Atta said the public authority is straightforward on its use things and will keep on working an entryway strategy and welcome any an open door to participate in the public interest.
"Mr Speaker, at this crossroads, I wish to scatter the thought that there have been irregularities in government information on COVID-19. His Excellency the President suggested during that State of the Nation Address on 30th March 2022, that we had activated about Gh¢17.7 billion beginning around 2020 to battle the pandemic.
"We have thusly accommodated the information and I can report that as of end-May, 2022, we have prepared Gh¢18.19 billion to moderate the impact of the pandemic. Once more, when His Excellency the Vice President demonstrated on seventh April 2022 at the National TESCON Conference that Government had burned through Gh¢8.1 billion on Covid-19, it was inside the setting of consumptions for 2020 as I have previously shown," the Minister said.
The Minister made sense of that out of the Gh¢18.19 billion consumed to moderate the impact of the pandemic, GH¢1,550 million was dispensed under the Support to Households Program, GH¢1,049 million was distributed to wellbeing reaction supplies gear and help for wellbeing laborers, GH¢600 million was delivered to start the development the nation over and a further GH¢763.92 million has been delivered to proceed with the development of the 111 locale emergency clinics.
He said the public authority likewise customized an aggregate sum of GH¢875 million for security tasks, departure of Ghanaians abandoned abroad and coordination of MMDAs' sterilization and sanitization works out.
Also, he said in accordance with measures to balance out the economy after the staggering effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the public authority executed projects to rejuvenate the economy and safeguard occupations. This incorporates the GH¢600 million used under Coronavirus Alleviation Program Business Support Scheme (CAPBuSS) by the NBSSI now the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA).
With respect to immunization acquirement, the Minister demonstrated that GH¢929.30 million was dispensed. An aggregate sum of GH¢775.82 million was delivered for the acquisition of Sputnik V, the Janssen COV SARS 2 COVID Vaccines and the Emergency organization of immunizations in schools among another key government dispensing.
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