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Deputy Majority Leader
January 31, 2022
Deputy Majority Leader Mr. Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin has said his side, the Majority caucus and Finance Ministers engagement with stakeholders on the E-Levy so far has been positive.
According to him despite the fact that consultations with the various stakeholders on the E-Levy Bill has not reached its possible conclusions, there has been a lot of positive news so far and assured Ghanaians that, leadership of the majority caucus and government would continue the discussions over the weekend in order to get the bill passed possibly this week.
Mr. Afenyo-Markin noted that, even though both the majority and government needs the E-Levy Bill passed, it has to be done in a very peaceful manner between the Majority and Minority in Parliament without generating any controversy or chaos as it happened on December 20, 2021.
At a media briefing, he pointed out that his side of the House deployed the Majority caucus across the country to engage so that Ghanaians would understand their position and where they are coming from.
Mr. Afenyo further said the passage of the E-Levy is a key factor to government for the country’s development, especially for the construction and maintenance of our road sector and also job creation for the youth during this era where COVID-19 has crippled almost every economy across the world.
“We cannot continue to allow our youth to walk the streets after completing school, so this are major steeps that government want to take to deal with two major problems in our county; roads and supporting the youth to create their business”.
And this needs engagement with stakeholders and that is what they are doing. They are getting somewhere and he believes this week they would have gotten somewhere, and getting the Bill passed would not be much of a problem.
“We have passed the budget and appropriation, and all of these were by consensus. What is left is the revenue to deal with the expenditure”.
Again, he said what you can achieve is to get their cooperation in disagreement when somebody disagrees and cooperate then it is all about nation Ghana “so we would get somewhere, whether we are able to reach consensus or respect their position to disagree with us, but cooperate within the remit of the process we would be able to determine this week”, he said.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com