General News of Saturday, 7 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is happy he wasn’t heckled when he last appeared before Parliament• The minister on July 29 presented the mid-year budget review to lawmakers• He defends the government’s decision to stick to its budgetary appropriationFinance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has advanced a possible reason his presentation of the mid-year budget review went smoothly without the usual booing and jeering especially by opposition Members of Parliament. The minister in late July 2021 presented the mid-year budget to lawmakers with key takeaways being the decision not to ask for more money and not to introduce new taxes. “It must be that we are having a good year so far. “The issue is really in our forecasting and anticipating what we would need for the year and making sure that as finance minister, we stick to those numbers,” he added. Touching on the decision by the government not to ask for more money, Ofori-Atta put it down to a laid down plan that his outfit was committed to respecting.
