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Abena Osei Asare
July 13, 2022
The finance Ministry is seeking for the Mid-Year Budget Statement to be postponed to Monday, July 25, 2022. According to a deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare, the mid-year budget statement originally scheduled for Wednesday, July 13, 2022 has to be rescheduled to allow the Finance Ministry to have a fruitful engagement with the delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before turning its attention to the mid-year budget statement.
Addressing the press on Tuesday, Madam Abena Osei-Asare said the Ministry has started some negotiations with the IMF, which mission is for data collection, and they need all the space and time to enable them furnish them with all the data they are requesting for, and that is the reason they are requesting parliament to postpone the mid-year statement. She asserts that the IMF would leave by Wednesday and they can now get back to parliament for the budget statement.
She assured that they are almost done with preparations to deliver the mid-year statement and noting that they are still within time as the law stipulates July 31 as the deadline. She said it is not out of place to reschedule the date for such exercise; adding that “this is something we’ve been doing every time; and we scheduled the date for 13th before the announcement of the engagement with the IMF; so clearly as human as we are, we should all understand that in this data finding mission of the IMF, we need that space and time to address that and give them the what they want”.
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