Censure motion: Ofori-Atta’s speech empty, just like Akufo-Addo's economic address — Bridget Otoo

A female broadcaster with the Accra-based Metro TV, Bridget Otoo sees nothing useful in the submissions by underfire Finance Minister Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta facing the ad hoc committee.

She said the Finance Minister's comments are empty as President Akufo-Addo’s address on the economy.

“The finance minister is doing exactly what Nana Akufo-Addo did in his last address to the nation when he was “forced” to speak on the economy! Excruciating,” she said in a tweet today, Friday, November 18.

The committee in its third sitting today Friday, November 18 is hearing the motion of censure filed against the Minister of Finance by the Minority Caucus in Parliament.

The Minority Caucus represented by the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu and the Minority Spokesperson on Finance Cassiel Ato Forson at the first sitting of the ad hoc committee made several allegations including unlawful spending on the national cathedral from the contingency fund without Parliamentary approval.

In his defence, first on the allegation that he unlawfully spent some money on the national cathedral, he says they are false claims.

He indicated that the national cathedral is 100 per cent owned by the state and as such payment made from the contingency vault was lawful.

“All the payments made for the national cathedral were lawfully done and from the contingency vault under the government obligations and not from the contingency fund as alleged by the proponents,” he said.