Mid-Year Budget Review Full of Empty Rhetoric – Afenyo-Markin

By Godwill Arthur-Mensah Accra, July 23, GNA – Mr Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader in Parliament, has dismissed the Government’s Mid-Year Budget Review as uninspiring, describing it as “full of English and empty payment.

The Minority Leader maintained that the Mid-Year Budget Review offered little hope to ordinary Ghanaians, insisting that the Government’s policies were disconnected from the economic realities confronting citizens.” He accused the Government of engaging in the political prosecution of opposition members, citing the case of Mr Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, whom he described as a “political prisoner.