We expect major expenditure cuts by govt to achieve fiscal consolidation - Minority | 3News.com

We note that, this allocation is an additional GHC400million compared with last year’s allocation of GHC993million

This will increase total staff strength at the OGM to 3,681.

If ever there was proof that this government has lost its way and shown itself unworthy of the trust of the people of Ghana, this would be it.”

“We in the Minority wish to make it very clear, that if we do not see significant improvement in the attitude of the Majority side and sector Ministers do not turn up to lead the Budget process on their sectors, we will withdraw from the Budget process.

On the Budget itself, he said “we note that far from offering hope and assurance of a quick turn-around in our gloomy economic situation, it is packed with measures that will exacerbate the suffering we are already enduring.

“We also note that no lesson has been learnt on how reckless and unrestrained expenditure have undermined the Ghanaian economy

The 2023 Budget continues on the same spending trajectory that has led to our collective economic doom.