Parliament suspends over GH₵‎2bn estimate for Finance Ministry

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu speaking on the floor of Parliament argued that, the budgetary estimate was untenable.

So if the the Ministry of Finance does not give a convincing explanation, we think that this is part of what they should be cutting from the budget to save the country the GHS1 billion.

Why are you giving this money to the Ministry of Finance.

But Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei Asare disagrees saying that the allocation is justified.

She maintained that part of the resource mobilisation seeks to strengthen institutional capacity for economic management.

“As part of the breakdown, we showed that GHS 5.2 million of this is going to be used for the strengthening institutional capacity for economic management

We also mentioned that, the Financial Sector Development project where we are going to maintain and operate the core banking system is also part of this allocation