The Majority in Parliament has staged a walkout during the final debate to have the 2022 budget statement approved.
The Speaker, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has, therefore, suspended proceedings for five minutes.
Debate on the final day of the budget, christened Agyenkwa Budget, has been heated as the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, stood on the floor to make a spirited defence of it.
The Minister of Finance, Kenneth Ofori-Atta, who presented the budget on Wednesday, November 17 on behalf of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was also in the House to ostensibly win the sympathy of members to have the budget approved.
The walkout by the Majority members had been preceded by their delay to be in the House ahead of the start of Friday’s proceedings.
Majority Chief Whip Frank Annoh-Dompreh had explained that the leadership was in a caucus meeting with the Speaker as well as the Minority side’s.
This was, however, denied by the Speaker, who said he had no knowledge of the said meeting.
More to follow. . .
-By 3news|Ghana
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