Members of the majority caucus in Parliament say although they equally want the Finance Minister out of office, the NDC MPs motion is based on propaganda.
Speaking to the parliamentary press corps today, Thursday, November 10, 2022, MP for Effiduase/Asokore, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie, revealed that the cause of the NDC is premised on falsehood, propaganda, and reasons that are not justifiable.
“These are majority caucus MPs, and we’ve come this morning to inform you that not long ago, about 4 weeks ago, we held a press conference, and later on, the [majority] leader came to state that our position, our cause, is not a cause of a few, but a cause of the majority in parliament.”
“We the Majority MPs are here to reiterate that however much you’ve heard us speaking … that based upon the intervention of the president, we’ll have to see the minister of finance do his work, read the budget, see to the appropriation [bill] and then the president will act, over the past few days, we’ve heard the finance minister speaking and his speaking has informed the majority of us in the caucus not only to state that we are back to the original position that we took and that original position is to say that the minister of finance will not be the one who must read the budget and must not be the one who will do the appropriation”, Dr Ayew Afriyie told the press.
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“We are here this morning to say that this is going to be, very soon for you to see, the position of us and we are going to be positively defiant on that posture till that action is taken”.
“We are not going to support the cause of the NDC in the chamber this morning. The cause of the NDC is premised on falsehood, propaganda and reasons that are not justifiable. Their position might look like ours but it is not the same”, he explained.
Justifying why the majority will not support the minority’s motion, Dr Ayew Afriyie said: “You will not be able to come to the chamber to level 10 issues that border on criminality on a person, who is not there to defend himself. And we have come to let you know: Let you not confuse the public or yourselves about the cause of the majority and that of the minority. They are not the same. Ours remain as it is”.
“After a meeting this afternoon, we’ll definitely come back to state our position and it will be that: Yes, our feeling is the confidence in the finance minister is gone down but for COVID and the Russian war, he was doing very well, the economy was doing very well but when people hard-pressed, they have no understanding to the logic, competence and hard work but when they lose confidence, the only sector it affects the market and pockets of the people is the finance ministry and, therefore, for us, we have nothing personal against him but our position is clearly that if confidence has gone down in him, he must go and that is not the same as that of the NDC”, he added.
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