[ 2021-03-12 ]

Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu appointed ‘caretaker Finance Minister’
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has been
appointed as the caretaker Minister for Finance.

The appointment was communicated in a letter from
President Nana Akufo-Addo to the Speaker of
Parliament, Alban Bagbin.

President AkufO-Addo indicated that the Suame
legislator, who is currently the Minister for
Parliamentary Affairs, will handle the Finance
Ministry as a temporary additional
responsibility.

“I write respectfully to inform you that,
pursuant to Order 140 Rules 2 and 3, of the
Standing Orders of Parliament, I have assigned
temporarily responsibility for the Ministry of
Finance to the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs,
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Member of Parliament for
Suame,” the letter, as read by Alban Bagbin
said.

Ken Ofori-Atta, who served as Finance Minister in
Akufo-Addo’s first term from 2017 to 2021, was
nominated by President Akufo-Addo in January 2021
to serve in the same portfolio in his second term,
but he is yet to be vetted by Parliament’s
Appointments Committee due to health reasons.

Ahead of his scheduled date for vetting, the
Finance Ministry announced in a statement on
February 14, 2021, that Ken Ofori-Atta was being
flown to the UK to receive medical attention after
suffering complications from COVID-19.

According to the ministry, he recovered from the
disease but suffered some complications later.

His constitutional duty of delivering the 2021
Budget Statement and Economic Policy in Parliament
has already been tasked to Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
who will do that on Friday, March 12, 2021.

It remains unclear when Mr. Ofori-Atta will return
to the country, be vetted and take up the role as
Finance Minister if approved by the House.

Source - Citinewsroom

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