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Company News of Friday, August 2, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-08-02
Parliament
The Supplementary Estimates Appropriation Bill, GH 6,335,355,925.82, will be pbaded today, while Parliament is expected to rise before the end of its vacation.
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday presented the biannual review of the government's 2019 budget statement and subsequently requested an additional budget of 6.3 billion GH ¢ to meet certain requirements, including in the energy and transport sectors.
He said it was urgent that the Supplementary Estimates attack the growing debt in the energy sector, which galloped as interest accrued, as well as the The need to pay some road contractors and fund important roads in the country.
Parliament unanimously approved the supplementary budget on Wednesday after a lively debate between the majority and the minority on the biannual review and the supplementary budget.
Haruna Iddrisu, leader of the minority, called on the government to publish the audit report carried out on all the cocoa route contracts pbaded under the Mahama administration, but stopped after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ), the government took office in January 2017.
He said the NPP should pay attention to the way it canceled or canceled road contracts under the previous government of the National Democratic Congress (NEC) so that the country does not suffer heavy judgment debts.
The minority leader also asked what the government was using the Road Fund. He lamented that with the existence of the Road Fund, the government is still beholden to many road contractors in the country.
He urged the government to quickly settle the arrears of entrepreneurs who are in serious financial difficulty.
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