Despite that, and the equal number of MPs on the Minority side, Parliament passed the COVID-19 Health Recovery Levy during the last sitting of the first meeting of the first session of the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic. Haruna Iddrisu (NDC- Tamale South MP), the Minority Leader, stated that his side could not support the new levy because the Ministry of Health failed to justify how the COVID-19 funds were expended at the height of the pandemic. He further stated that despite the suspension of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, there has been lavish spending under the guise of addressing the novel coronavirus pandemic. Haruna Iddrisu described the bill as a regressive tax which “will impose further hardship on the Ghanaian”. For this reason, he backed the motion to pass the COVID-19 Health Recovery Bill 2021.

Source: GhanaWeb March 31, 2021 06:56 UTC