Former Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Professor Stephen Adei has expressed his displeasure over the manner in which MPs demanded the dismissal of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some 98 Majority NPP MPs earlier this month held a press conference in Parliament and demanded that President Akufo-Addo relieves his cousin of his post for what they described as mismanagement of the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minority in Parliament subsequently filed a censure motion to seek to remove the Minister from office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Prof. Adei is unhappy with the turn of events concerning the calls for Ofori-Atta\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, there are better ways to handle issues relating to his impeachment rather than tarnish the hard-earned reputation of Mr. Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur leaders [Members of Parliament] must be very careful when they want to impugn the person\u2019s integrity and almost branding him as a thief. I have no doubt at all that Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta has more integrity than 99 percent of all politicians I know in Ghana,\u201d Prof Adei said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking on Upfron<\/strong>t on Wednesday, the former GIMPA Rector said that two out of the seven charges leveled against the Minister by the Minority MPs were quite worrisome as they dented his high-earned reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe charges on conflict of interest and the fact that he was supposed to have stashed some 100 million dollars elsewhere which impugn on his integrity. I have known Mr. Ofori-Atta for almost 23 years, I can say that he is a friend, a businessman of high integrity and therefore, for me, those two charges were very troubling,\u201d he told host Raymond Acquah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI believe that the NPP came into power over-committing themselves, there is over-borrowing and you know, you might disagree with policy and of course, there were internal and external factors, but I do not think that it is fair to impugn on the integrity of Ken Ofori-Atta. I know him personally as a Christian, as a businessman and as a politician,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The former Board Chairman of the GRA noted that \u201cIf there is anybody in Ghana I can vouch for, none of his accusers can stand his integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Touching on some key policies in the proposed 2023 budget, he disagreed with the proposed 2.5% VAT increment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n joynews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Professor Stephen Adei has expressed his displeasure over the manner in which MPs demanded the dismissal of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. Some 98 Majority NPP MPs earlier this month held a press conference in Parliament and demanded that President Akufo-Addo relieves his cousin of his post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,9042,5249,1451,7489,9194,8927,10767,6412,9309,5196,12354,192,8214,7300,135,12234,483,8630,11743,2402,1153,1198,11698,3805,8817,10313,8383,1664,2067,8761,8632],"class_list":["post-27957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-borrowing","tag-budget","tag-businessman","tag-chairman","tag-charges","tag-christian","tag-conflict","tag-dismissal","tag-dollars","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-revenue-authority","tag-gimpa","tag-gra","tag-host","tag-ken-ofori-atta","tag-ken-ofori-atta-2","tag-majority","tag-mps","tag-ofori-atta","tag-parliament","tag-politicians","tag-president","tag-prof-stephen-adei","tag-professor","tag-revenue","tag-stephen","tag-stephen-adei","tag-thief","tag-vat"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}