The Public Accounts Committee has started public hearings on the report of the Auditor-General on the Public Accounts of Ghana- Ministries, Departments and Other Agencies (MDAs) for the year ended 31st December, 2020.
At its first sitting on Monday, January 16, 2023, the Chairman of the Committee, Dr. James Klutse Avedzi and the members of the Committee invited the Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare, Directors from the Finance Ministry and Officials from the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to answer queries cited in the Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Sector Accounts of Ghana (General Government) for the year ended 31st December, 2020.
The Committee also considered the report of the Auditor-General on the Consolidated Statement of the Foreign Exchange Receipts and Payment of the Bank of Ghana for the year ended 31st December, 2020.
Directors and officials from the Bank of Ghana, led by the Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison appeared before the Committee to respond to infractions cited in the Auditor-General’s Reports.
The Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare, hinted that the Ministry of Finance will soon bring before Parliament a comprehensive report covering the entire government expenditure on COVID-19 for consideration. She made this known to the Committee since the Auditor-General’s Report was prepared during the era of the COVID-19 and most MDAs made purchasing they didn’t budget for.
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Mr. Buah pointed out at a press conference that per research done by the Minority, there has not been even distribution of factories in each district as promised; stating that out of the so called 296 1D1F factories at various stages of implementation, about 76 are in Accra, 54 in Kumasi whiles majority of the factories are existing factories. He also questioned where the massive employments promised under the 1D1F are?
According to him, to boost access to energy, there is the need to achieve a sustainable renewable electricity generation hence the world needs to promote international cooperation and collaboration around access to technology knowledge and capital.
“We need healthy partnerships and mutual cooperation to promote investments in the sector, which cannot be left to the Executives alone”.
The Member of Parliament for the area, Alexander Akwesi Acquah successfully lobbied the District Assembly Common Fund to intervene to fund and complete the project.
He promised that the Akim Oda Market project will start and complete in his tenure as MP, while assuring that roads and hospital are also in the pipeline.
The session of the Assembly and related meetings will gather global leaders and energy decision-makers to take stock of operational plans and policies, and highlight the concerted action undertaken to implement the energy transition across countries, regions, and the world.
As Parliament is on recess, Member of Parliament (MP) for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Samuel Atta-Mills is using the opportunity to engage and interact with his constituents.
The exercise which is dubbed “Time with your MP” the Elmina zone had their turn where very critical issues were raised and discussed and suggestions were offered on the way forward for the constituency.
In a statement issued by the Ranking member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, he said “whereas the, Minority is against the misconduct of the eight students, and condemns same, we wish to state that the decision by the GES to dismiss them is harsh and retrogressive, we believe the eight students like every other Ghanaian child deserve to be in school in line with Article 25 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and also Goal(4) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”.
The lawmaker thanked his constituent for the opportunity given him to serve and recounted that in the 2020 Parliamentary elections he had the highest vote over seventy percent (70) and he does not take that for granted.
Education Committee which would look after educational issues and further noted, he had a call from a member of the Committee pointing out to the fact that the number of calls they have coming through were in huge volumes.
He asserts that constituents would have complained that the MP was hard to access particularly during school placement processes but it was easy to access them (constituents) when he wanted to the elected as MP. But thanks to the Education Committee it was easy for constituents to have the needed support in this regard.
He said as an MP, it behoves on him to lobby for projects in his constituency hence the Project and Infrastructure Committee. Others include Institutional and Public Relations Committee billed to showcase what the MP is doing.