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FULL TEXT: Finance Minister's draft speech for 2023 budget

24th November 2022 12:06:28 PM

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In order to carry out his constitutional duty of presenting the government budget to the House, Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta is in the House of Representatives.

Article 179 of the Constitution of 1992 and Section 21 of the Public Financial Management Act of 2016 both apply to the presentation (Act 921).

Of what has been perhaps one of the greatest economic downturns in the fourth republic, the minister is delivering the 2023 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to parliament.

Ken Ofori-Atta has also come under a lot of backlash and pressure from both within and outside his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to either resign or be sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

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