Minority Chief Whip, Ahmed Bandana has urged all the National Democratic Congress (NDC) members of Parliament to be present in the Chamber on Thursday, November 10 to vote on the removal of the Finance Minister.
Speaking to the press on Monday, November 7, he said no member of the NDC caucus should be absent from the parliamentary sitting on Thursday.
According to him, the house will have a vote of censure on the said day to determine the fate of the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta. The MPs, he said, will debate and vote on the removal of the Minister.
Ahmed Banda said the NDC needs all its members on board to be able to vote on the truncation of the Minister's leadership.
All NDC MPs, regardless of their present location, must be in the Chamber on Thursday to debate and have the vote of censor.
He warned that members who absent themselves on that day will be penalized.
"The Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, has sounded a note of caution to all Minority MPs that all the 136 MPs must be in the Chamber on Thursday. Any member who absents himself on Thursday is at his own risk. ... On Thursday, whether we want Ken Ofori-Atta to be impeached or censored, the opportunity is being given to us," he said.
The Finance Minister, he said, will have the chance to defend himself in the Chamber on that day.
The NDC will need at least 46 MPs from the majority bench to vote in support of the motion since the NDC has 136 MPs and the law requires a total of 183 votes.
Ahmed Banda holds the conviction that the majority caucus will vote for Ken's dismissal since a party of them already called on the President to dismiss him.
He attributed Ghana's economic crises to the Finance Minister's recklessness and deemed it necessary to have him removed from office as a step to resolve the crises.
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