I keep wondering why upon the presentation of the budget, Parliament seems to be content with restricting its arguments on the Income side of the budget, focusing on the Sovereign levies other than the Expenditure side. Are we letting Governments spend the money as they please? Taxation is used not just to raise revenue, but […]
In the last opinion piece I wrote under my Hansards of a Street Parliamentarian series, I gave five reasons why the majority group in Parliament got it all wrong with the budget process and also argued that in this 8th Legislature, “debates and victories during votes in Parliament will sometimes rely heavily on strategy rather […]
On Friday night, while in Dakar, my colleagues brought to my attention the news of the disapproval of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana for the year 2022. I was eager to learn more about this novel outcome, as I could not follow the proceedings in Parliament while I was […]
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei-Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, has emphasized the strategic role of the media in achieving national development in any society, noting that, “without the media no society can exist, much less develop and subsist” He stressed that a free press should not be seen as unnecessary usurpation of state power but critical […]
