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March 16, 2025
Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga has urged his colleagues to take the 2025 post budget workshop seriously; stating that they should not assume that ones the budget is presented everybody understands it.
“We need to enhance the opportunity for all of us to understand the budget beyond just reading it”, he stated in his open remarks on Saturday, March 15, 2025, at the post budget workshop.
“I hope we accept that it is our responsibility to accept and reject the budget; that is what we are to do. The budget statement contains policy statement and also estimates figures; not all of us are good with policies and figures”.
Mr Ayariga further noted that the post budget workshop is to help MPs understand the budget and policy statement and what is contained in the figures and the implications for their constituents, for the market women, okada riders, teachers and students.
“We are not all economists and finance experts; whiles experts in the various fields have been assembled to help us in this direction to understand the policy document, when all is done, we expect the Majority side MPs to relate this figures and policies to the commitment we made to Ghanaians based on which they elected us, and how this would help in achieving the reset agenda.
For the Minority, we expect you to be very critical of the document and to see how they can expose the weakness in the budget, so that as a country we can be well guided when we are considering the approval.”
The Leader of the House urged the MPs to pay attention and learn, cautioning them not to assume they know it all and avoid the exercise.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com