IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has asked Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta to account for the savings made to the Covid-19 fund.
The Minister will tomorrow Thursday, July 23, 2020, present the mid-year budget in Parliament to spell out the state of the economy and what government intends to do for the rest of the year.
In a statement issued Wednesday, July 22, 2020, the policy think tank indicated “while there is no gainsaying the fact of COVID’s adverse effects on the country’s fortunes, IMANI has become worried about the continued absence in the economic discussion of the equally real fact of SAVINGS being made due to COVID.”
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The statement adds it “would be disappointing, therefore, if tomorrow the Minister of Finance makes no special effort to explain clearly how the Government has taken advantage of the pandemic to restructure certain expenditures, eliminate waste, rationalise many commitments, freed up resources, and more effectively utilised the savings thus generated in a creative effort to overcome the many woes he is sure to lament about tomorrow.”
Read full statement from the link below:
http://IMANI Alert: Government Should Also Account for COVID-19 Savings in Tomorrow’s Budget