80 MPs Want Finance Minister Offori Atta sacked.
The Majority Members of Parliament have expressed their distaste of the service of the finance minister in a notice to the president to fire the finance minister Ken Offori Atta and his team because they have failed Ghanaians. And if the President fails to Honor their request, they will not partake in any business of government by or for the President.
This announcement was made known in to the media in Parliament on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. The signatures of 80 legislators of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are backing the call on the president to sack his finance minister and his deputy
Addressing the media on Tuesday, MP for Asante Akyem North, Andy Appiah-Kubi, said they have been compelled to come public on their demands because several appeals to the Presidency through the leadership have failed.
“Notice is hereby served that until such persons as aforementioned are made to resign or removed from office, we members of the Majority caucus here in Parliament will not participate in any business of government by or for the President [or] by any other minister,” he disclosed.
"If our request is not responded to positively, we will not be present for the budget hearing, neither will we participate in the debate,” Mr Appiah-Kubi stressed.
The former deputy information minster Felix Kwakye Ofosu for the NDC has said it is not enough for Ken Ofori-Atta and his team to go.
"Bawumia, who has been utterly useless as Head of the Economic Management Team, must be dismissed from that position together with all its members," he tweeted.