Minority Invites Bawumia for Mid-year Budget Review Debate

The minority caucus in Parliament has extended an invitation to the Vice President of the country, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to join them on the floor of Parliament beginning today, July 25, 2024, for the debate on the Mid-year Budget Review.

In a statement released earlier, the group’s Deputy Chief Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim said it’s a perfect opportunity for the Chairman of the Economic Management Committee who has been craving for a debate on the economy with the opposition party.

Citing Article 110 of the 1992 Constitution, he posited that Parliamentary rules permit a sitting Vice President to participate in debates on the floor of the House.

“Pursuant to the Vice President’s recent call for a debate on the economy, this invitation presents Alhaji Bawumia an excellent opportunity and forum to debate and account for his stewardship over the last seven and a half years (7.5 years) as Chairman of the Economic Management Team.”

He also noted that a team of highly knowledgeable and competent members of his group had been prepared to “debate Vice President Bawumia and further expose the abysmal economic performance of his government.”

“For a government that has completely destroyed Ghana’s economy, rendered 33.3% of Ghana’s population extremely poor, and about two million Ghanaians facing acute food and nutrition insecurity, according to the World Bank, and about 35% of Ghana’s youth unemployed (the highest in the Fourth Republic), the Minority finds it bewildering that Alhaji Bawumia still has the audacity to call for a debate on the economy.”