Member of Parliament for Bimbilla, Dominic Nitiwul, has told the majority in Parliament and, by extension, the government to listen to the people of Ghana.
According to him, the people spoke to the previous government, and they did not listen so they were punished with a defeat in the 2024 election.
However, if the current government fails to listen to the people, they should expect that they will be sent back to opposition in the next four years.
To him, the finance ministry has become a challenge for every government, considering the power the ministry holds and therefore the government will have to curtail it before it becomes their downfall.
Making this known in a submission in Parliament, Nitiwul said, “what the minority leader put forward, the Majority should take it in good faith. It is not an insult, it is not a criticism, it is not an attack on the government; it is just facts.
Mr speaker, we all know the government is just five months but they say that when it wants to rain and you see the cloud you know that it will rain or not rain. The clouds that are gathering there is a huge rainbow across and when the rainbow is across it will not rain”.
Adding that “Let me be frank and state that one of the problems that every government faces is the power of the Finance Ministry. If you don’t curtail that power, you see you told us we didn’t listen, we are telling you and if you don’t listen you’ll sit here in four years time,” he remarked.
This week, Parliament passed what many have described as the Fuel levy, where GHC 1 is paid on every liter of fuel by the Ghanaian.
The decision to introduce this levy is to make enough money to offset the debt levels of the energy sector.
