Minority rejects finance minister’s claims of blocked GH¢350m flood relief fund

The Ranking Member on Parliament's Works and Housing Committee, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah, has questioned the Finance Minister's explanation that a court order freezing Ghana's constitutional contingency fund hindered the government's response to recent flooding in Accra, describing the claim as both surprising and inconsistent with earlier assurances given to Parliament."If the Cabinet of Ghana could convene and brainstorm on measures to mitigate subsequent floods and decided to assess money from the contingency fund and it never occurred to Cabinet, of which the chief legal advisor to the President, Attorney-General, is a member, and they did not know that the contingency fund had a garnishee order, then it's quite strange."There is no way the Attorney-General who sits in Cabinet, chief legal advisor, wouldn't have known the state of this contingency fund.