The Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has accused the Mahama administration of failing to submit key documents on its flagship programmes to Parliament for scrutiny months after their launch.<\/p>\n
He noted that the government\u2019s continuous delay in presenting official policy documents for initiatives such as the\u00a024-Hour Economy<\/strong>,\u00a0Big Push<\/strong>,\u00a0Feed Ghana<\/strong>,\u00a0Committee on Youth Exports<\/strong>,\u00a0National Apprenticeship Programme<\/strong>, and the\u00a0One Million Coders<\/strong>\u00a0programme undermines parliamentary oversight and transparency.<\/p>\n Speaking at a press conference organised by the leadership of Parliament on Wednesday, October 22, Mr. Afenyo-Markin expressed concern that, despite the government launching several high-profile initiatives and Parliament approving substantial budget allocations for their implementation, legislators have yet to receive the relevant documentation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government has failed to furnish Parliament with programme documents for the flagship programmes it has launched. Since the swearing-in, Parliament has approved billions of cedis for various ministries ostensibly to execute these programmes. Sadly, to date, none of the documents have been presented to Parliament to enable us properly commence oversight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He added that the absence of such documents raises questions about transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 24-hour economy programme, the One Million Coders programme, the Agri-for-Economic Transformation initiative, the labour export programme, and the National Apprenticeship Programme, among others, have all not seen parliamentary scrutiny.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are projects funded with public resources approved by Parliament. Why Parliament is being kept in the dark can best be explained by the executive,\u201d the Minority Leader stated.<\/p>\n Mr. Afenyo-Markin noted that while the policies themselves are commendable, proper oversight cannot take place without official documentation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not relent in our demand that the government make these flagship programmes available for scrutiny to ensure transparency, fairness, and value for money. Oversight cannot happen when the basic programme documents are not laid before Parliament. It is imperative that the government demonstrates commitment and avails these documents for proper parliamentary oversight,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has accused the Mahama administration of failing to submit key documents on its flagship programmes to Parliament for scrutiny months after their launch. He noted that the government\u2019s continuous delay in presenting official policy documents for initiatives such as the\u00a024-Hour Economy,\u00a0Big Push,\u00a0Feed Ghana,\u00a0Committee on Youth Exports,\u00a0National Apprenticeship Programme, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3525,41,18],"tags":[1167,4153,2901],"class_list":["post-13700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-24-hour-economy","tag-ghana-headlines","tag-minority-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13702,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700\/revisions\/13702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}