We will impeach Akufo-Addo if he fails to remove Ofori-Atta after censure vote – Muntaka
The Member of Parliament for Asawase and the Minority Chief Whip in Parliament, Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, has said that Parliament will impeach President Akufo-Addo if he fails to remove Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta after a vote of censure.
The Minority in Parliament is set to move the motion for the vote of censure against the Finance Minister on the floor of Parliament today, November 10, 2022.
About 80 per cent of the Majority Caucus has called for the Finance Minister to be removed. Following that, the Minority tables a motion for the vote of censure.
Speaking on the censure vote against the Finance Minister, Alhaji Munatak, said, “Let’s pray we get two-thirds and then President Nana Addo says that ‘o, even though two-thirds of you have said that I should remove him I’m not removing him’, I can assure you, the next day we’ll file another process to remove the President from office”.
“That means now the country’s problem has moved from the Finance Minister to the President himself. So now we’ll move the heat from the minister you can’t remove to you yourself, and then we’ll start the process. And interestingly, it’s the same two-thirds that you’ll need to remove the President. So if he won’t remove the minister, then he will have to be removed,” he indicated in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on Joy News.
He continued: “One thing I can assure you is that this is a game of politics. If we can get two-thirds to remove the minister, you can rest assured that that same two-thirds will be ready to remove the President”.
“Because if that two-thirds will not remove the President, they will not remove his minister, especially as he has publicly said he’s supporting him. He’s giving him all the praises and what have you”.
The woes of the economy are making life unbearable for most Ghanaians, and that is the major reason most MPs are asking Ken Ofori-Atta to step down for another person to steer the economic affairs of the nation.
Meanwhile, the National Patriotic Party (NPP) have issued a communiqué to the Majority Caucus to abstain from the censure vote against the Finance Minister.