Haruna Iddrisu Pushes For Law Against Starting Government Projects Without Adequate Funding

The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu is advocating for the passage of a law to prevent the governments from starting new projects they have not secured adequate funding for. According to Haruna, this will prevent the phenomenon of uncompleted and abandoned projects scattered all over the country. Haruna Iddrisu made this known at the post-budget workshop in Volta Regional

capital, Ho, for Members of Parliament to analyse the 2021 budget. He said such a law is urgent and will be critical to ensure value for investments the state makes in projects. Mr Haruna said many ministers of state were responsible for such developments. There are many ministers who initiate projects even when there are no budgetary allocation or provision for it. It’s about

time we (Parliament) say no to that. No project should commence unless project is supported by adequate availability of funds for its initiation and completion, he said. The most instructive of the 2021 budget was its theme which is also economic revitalization through completion, consolidation and continuity and I should urge you as colleagues (MPs) be encouraged to cause

the theme of the budget to sit within the meaning of Article 35(7) of the 1992 constitution and it won our hearts that there is also a policy decision to complete outstanding projects. That is how it should be and this should necessarily improve those outstanding projects initiated by the NDC under the former President, John Dramani Mahama. But that reminds me, Mr. Speaker that even though Ghana has passed the Public Financial

Management Act, we need to do more. Meanwhile, the Tamale South legislator says this year 2021 budget presented to parliament last Friday is without hope and therefore urged all Ghanaians to brace themselves for more hardships. There is no hope and Ghanaians must brace themselves up for increased hardship and also increased suffering because it means that there will be petrol hikes with ESLA that they [NPP] described a few years ago as a nuisance tax, he said.