Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
Majority Leader i Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has exposed the Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K Bagbin about his games which is recently causing chaos in the House.
According to the Majority Leader, the Speaker had warned the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, that without allocating about 2 percent of the country’s total revenue to Parliament “his budget is going to be thrown out”.
Addressing journalists in Accra on Thursday, December 23, 202, the Majority Leader noted that he met the top hierarchy of the clergy over Monday’s melee in Parliament and it is high time he made the truth known.
“Distinguished colleagues, I told you that some clergy men, the cream of Christendom in the country have met me [and] I am not going to speak for a long time but the people of this country should know what is leading all of us into this crisis.
“GH¢1.72 billion for what? He says that he has information that the total revenue of this country was going to be GH¢89 billion and that the Finance Minister should give him 2 percent of it and that works to GH¢1.72 billion.
“If he doesn’t give Parliament GH¢1.72 billion, then his budget is going to be thrown out. He was going to make sure the budget is rejected.”
There was free-for-all fight last Monday in the House among the lawmakers when the Speaker shockingly swerved members when the bill on the Electronic Transfer Levy was sheduled to be discussed.
The House has since adjourned to Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
The Majority Leader was optimistic that “I am hoping that this period that we have between now and the 18th of January, we will be able to get to the bottom of this and rally behind as one people with a common destiny and not submit to the whims and caprices of just one individual.”
By Vincent Kubi