General News of Monday, 11 November 2019Source: classfmonline.com2020 budget: Ofori-Atta cooking up figures – HarunaHaruna IddrisuGhana’s Minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has accused the government of planning to massage figures in the upcoming election-year budget to be presented in Parliament on Wednesday, 13 November 2019. According to the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will manufacture figures to deceive Ghanaians into thinking that the economy is healthy. “We know that the Finance Minister is preparing to come to Parliament with some … massaged numbers in order to justify that he is doing well,” he alleged. The computerised GIFMIS facilitates budget preparation and execution; accounting and financial reporting; cash management, assets management, as well as human resource and payroll management. “You should ask the Finance Minister: why is he paying things outside the GIFMIS platform?

Source: GhanaWeb November 11, 2019 14:14 UTC