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\u201cWhat he [Speaker] did was very unfortunate, and we are considering whether we should not come with a substantive motion about the conduct of the Speaker,\u201d Mr. Mubarak said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the greatest respect to him\u2026 what he did was wrong. He abused the Minority which was just not fair. We are going into a caucus meeting to determine whether we can come using our rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minority Chief Whip also suggested that, Majority MPs were not serious about government business.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they knew they were going to approve their policy, by 10:00am, all the 169 Majority MPs should have been here. We should not\u00a0have been struggling over\u00a0the numbers,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n The passing of the budget took place after the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, presented four Bills to Parliament for the proposed tax cuts in the 2017 budget.<\/p>\n The bills presented were; the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, Special Petroleum Tax (Amendment) Bill, Special Import (Amendment) Bill and Customs and Excise (Petroleum Taxes and the Petroleum Related Levies (Repeal) Bill.<\/p>\n The 2017 budget is\u00a0seeking\u00a0to abolish and review 15 key taxes, but the proposed tax cuts can only take effect after it has received parliamentary approval through amendment of existing Bills.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parliament has approved the Akufo-Addo government’s 2017 budget, amidst protests from the Minority Members of Parliament. According to the Minority, the House lacked the\u00a0quorum at the time of the budget approval. In a Citi News interview, the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, accused the Speaker of Parliament, Mike Ocquaye of exhibiting bias in the matter. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,11],"tags":[4533,3,270,5095],"class_list":["post-301990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-budget","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-parliament","tag-muntaka-mubarak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ken](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/minister-of-finance-ken-ofori-attah.jpg\")