Ofori-Atta Must Go Now Or We Boycott 2023 Budget – NPP MPs Caution Akufo-Addo

Andy Appiah-Kubi, MP for Asante Akeem North in the restive region, has renewed a call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akudo-Addo to immediately sack Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.

Appiah-Kubi, who was the leader of a group of lawmakers from the New Patriotic Party, NPP, who demanded Ofori-Atta’s sacking and another latest ruling over mismanagement of the economy, said they were backing away from an agreement with the president. .

The group of 80+ MPs, known as ‘Ken Must Go’ MPs, agreed after a meeting in the Presidency on 25 October that Ofori-Atta should end the ongoing preliminary negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, the IMF. Present the 2023 budget and see its appropriation before Akufo-Addo decides on their demand.

Appiah-Kubi said the compromise had collapsed and MPs were returning to their earlier threat to boycott the reading of the budget if Ofori-Atta was appointed, whenever it was ready.

In an interview on the PM Express program on JoyNews on November 15, 2022, Appiah-Kubi said: “Our position has not changed and we still believe that Ken Ofori-Atta should go. We will not do the presidency through Ken Ofori-Atta. Somebody else will come, we will deal with him.”

The troubled minister is currently the subject of a vote of censure and is appearing before an ad hoc committee of parliament to speak on the seven grounds brought against him by the minority caucus.

“The process by means of a vote of censure shall return to the President with a prayer that he may relieve him of his duties.

“The President has an obligation to sack him or make the minister resign. There is nothing personal in our call for his sacking. We are not afraid of being victims,” ​​he insisted