Ho Central MP, Benjamin Kpodo has accused the Finance Ministry of failing to operate according to what the constitution prescribes.
In an interview on Joy FM’s Top Story on Wednesday, he stated that the ministry has perpetuated constitutional violations for some time now.
This is because “District Assembly Common Fund is a constitutional threshold and Article 25 22 mandates the Ministry of Finance to put in that fund not less than 5% of total revenue but this Ministry of Finance, particularly has failed to live by the provisions of the constitution.”
He made this comment due to the ministry’s delay in releasing the District Assemblies Common Fund, since 2018.
Currently, government owes the fund more than 6 billion cedis.
Providing data to back up the debt owed he said: “in 2018, the provided funds were short by 381.5 million cedis, in 2019, they are owing 636 million cedis, in 2020, they failed to transfer 1 billion 119 million cedis and in 2021, they did not transfer 1 billion 519 million cedis and then last year, they informed the common fund of how much is was entitled – 2.908 billion cedis out of which they released in cash only 300 million cedis.”
He went on to say that the Assembly Fund is the only source of funding hence the failure of the ministry to provide funding.
Meanwhile, the Minority in Parliament has threatened to block any business in Parliament that has to do with the Finance Ministry if the Minister does not immediately release funds to the District Assemblies Common Fund.
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