The Call For The Removal Of Ofori-Atta Is Unnecessary Now – Tolon MP

Second Majority Whip in Ghana’s parliament, Habib Iddrisu has stated that, resurrecting calls for the removal of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is unnecessary now due the progress that has been made.

Ghana’s Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta has been under intense fire by a cross-section of the public for some months now over the weak Ghanaian economy.

Prior to landing an IMF bailout, some Members of Parliament belonging to the ruling party expressed their displeasure with the performance of Mr. Ofori-Atta and also impressed upon President Akufo Addo to remove him as Finance Minister.

However, the President requested that the minister be allowed to conclude the IMF negotiations which he had already commenced and after concluding the deal further asked for him to present the budget for the year ending 2023.

When the host of 3FM Sunrise Morning Show, Johnnie Hughes inquired from the Second Deputy Majority Chief Whip, Habib Iddrisu whether the ‘Ken Ofori Atta must go’ still holds; he stressed that it is not necessary at the moment.

“This is not something that I don’t think we need to comment on. It has been abandoned. As at December last year, inflation was around 54% which has been brought down to 42%, and trying to stabilize the cedi that was about GHS 14 to GHS 15 to a dollar as at December last year which has now come to GHS 11 and GHS 12 cedis over the past three months. That is what we are looking at. What you are talking about now is definitely irrelevant” Mr. Habib Iddrisu said.