‘LET’S FAST AND PRAY FOR THIS SORRY REPUBLIC’ – Ablakwa Reacts To Ofori-Atta’s Reappointment

“Take note that Presidential Advisors and Special Envoys are not accountable to Parliament and cannot be summoned to answer parliamentary questions for their actions.

“Even when Ken Ofori-Atta was Finance Minister and was directly accountable to Parliament, that did not deter him from his illegal US$58million withdrawal for President Akufo-Addo’s scandalous cathedral pit, squandering US$12million on failed Agyapa, signing a dubious US$100million SML deal, collapsing the constitutional Contingency Fund and creating his own Contingency Vote and his infamous 2022 budgetary allocation of a whopping GHS241.9million for so-called e-Transaction Levy Services which I successfully scuttled,” Ablakwa wrote.

The MP also slammed President Akufo-Addo and accused him of being insensitive to the plight of Ghanaians.

He highlighted that despite the worsening state of Ghana’s economy, the president has resisted cutting down government expenditure. According to him, instead of Akufo-Addo reducing the size of his administration, he is rather appointing more individuals.

“It is also very troubling and most insensitive on the part of President Akufo-Addo that in this time of economic crisis and excruciating hardships when many Ghanaians expected him to take advantage of his belated reshuffle to reduce the size of his bloated government, the numbers are rather going up with many sacked ministers returning either as presidential advisors, ministers of state at the presidency or advisors to ministers.”