The 2018 Budget estimates for the Office for the Senior Minister has been withdrawn from parliament. The withdrawal is because the office is not a legal creation and cannot be given budgetary allocations. The sum of six million sixty-two thousand was allocated to the office. Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, argued that the office has not been gazetted and the house needs evidence that the President Nana Akuffo Addo acted appropriately and legally by creating the office by an executive instrument.The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei- Mensah-Bonsu, said the Office of Senior Ministers Budget has been singled out for reasons of transparency as this will help to trace and track the expenditure of the office.
Meanwhile the budgetary allocation of the Ministries of Employment and Labour, Regional Reorganisation, National Labour Commission, Railways Development and Aviation have been approved.
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