Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\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>\nKen Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe 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
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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":[],"categories":[58,11],"tags":[4533,3,270,5095],"yoast_head":"\n
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