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A Deputy Finance Minister, John Kumah says Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, changed into sincere together along with his report of the general public authority's COVID-19 intake.
"The Finance Minister has been blunt with the uncooked numbers and has been predictable. Truth be told, the Ranking Member stated the Finance Minister has been dependable together along with his figures," he stated on Eyewitness News.
He made the experience that the Finance Minister's display changed into now no longer in a country of concord with earlier figures given via way of means of the President due to circuitous intake as a result of the general public authority.
John Kumah stated the backhanded use changed into this manner introduced to the general public authority's costs, prompting an ascent withinside the all-out figure.
"There have been consumptions that, due to Covid-19, we have been not able to elevate profits to do unique things, so we anticipated to get to do them. They are circuitous Covid-19 uses. We are seeing numerous figures, but it's far precisely the identical thing."
John Kumah changed into answering the Minority, who had stated the general public authority's statistics of the intake have been disconnected.
The Minority Caucus stated President Akufo-Addo and the Finance Minister had given numerous figures similar to how lots has been spent on the pandemic.
It, therefore, proposed the putting in of a particularly appointed board of trustees to check using COVID-19 property completely.
"We cannot live right here and say the Minister of Finance should be the primary one to symbolize the COVID sum. The priest chargeable for Finance is only a channel for turning in the cash. Yet, the monies have been spent at exceptional MDAs," Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam MP, Cassiel Ato Forson, stated.
The Speaker of Parliament hence asked the Finance and Health forums of trustees of the residence to check Ghana's Covid-19 profits and use.
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