Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central Muhammed Murtala Ibrahim has appealed to leadership of the House to reconsider their decision of Monday, December 12, 2022 sitting because some lawmakers had to engage with their constituents on Sunday and Monday.
According to him the 2023 budget is critical hence the need to have interactions with their constituents especially those of them from up Northern Ghana, and by the time they get back to Accra they will be very tired.
He stated that their ability to deliver as lawmakers hinges on how convenient it is to them to prepare and have enough time and that must be considered.
He argued that just about few weeks ago, about eighty-nine of their colleagues on the Majority side who held a press conference for the removal of the finance minister and stated that it was their constituents who informed them to take those decision; and now they equally have a decision to take on the budget statement and they have to consult their constituents which can only be carried done during the weekend and per the distance, Monday sitting would inconvenient them, especially those from the northern parts of the country.
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And as a budget meeting with the ongoing second ordinary session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja Nigeria, “transfer collection of levies is becoming problematic and from the discussions and views of lawmakers, colleagues from Cape Verde collection has been done but transfer is problematic”.
Hon Barrow further noted that when it comes to preparation of Country report where the issue of payment of Community levies would come out, country representatives should be able to have their status report from their Finance Ministries.
In addition, the former Majority Leader pointed out that Gambia is one of the few countries that do not owe Community levy, any time as a delegation when they get back to their country they check to ensure that the funds are transferred to ECOWAS.
As a country you do not enter into these things and you do not have the capacity to become more industrious economy, you have very few industries in your country to produce, “where do you sell at the end of the day we become recipient, you become the damping ground of finished goods. As a sub-region we should be prepared to produce to send to other regional blocks not only creating the market?”
The President made the call when he addressed the staff, management and guests of the NLA, at their 60th anniversary celebration on Friday 9 December 2022, at the forecourt of the office complex of the NLA in Accra.
“One of the things that is most threatening to lottery that gives back to good courses are those illegal folks who do nothing. They don’t pay any taxes, they don’t give any money to good causes and they don’t follow the same rules and standards that those of us who are government sanctioned follow” the WLA President, Rebecca Paul said.
he Majority Leader, Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, after having his bit on the debate as the final contributor announced that his side would not be part of the ballot process and that they have washed their hands from the rest of the process.
The failure however, was due to the fact that the Majority group staged a walk out just after the conclusion of the debate.
They have visited the National Assembly of Senegal and Amy Ndiaye at the hospital.