The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given the assurance that the 2020 Presidential and The Parliamentary election will fair to all political Parties.
The President gave the assurance through the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta as he delivered the 2020 Budget dubbed: “Nkosuo and Nkabom” financial statement on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.
According to the Minister, “all the needed resources required shall be marshalled for the Electoral Commission to ensure that we have credible, free and fair elections”.
He said Ghana remains one of the most stable and peaceful countries in the world and they intend to maintain it that way.
He also added that “in spite of the year being an election year, President Akufo-Addo and his Government will ensure that the perennial excessive spending during such periods, will not happen in 2020”.
We shall work within the 2020 appropriated resource envelop and adhere to the Fiscal Responsibility Act to maintain fiscal discipline, he noted.
“We will do so, not because we are complacent of our chances. No. We will do so because the nation needs it and we are not prepared to throw away all the sacrifices and gains the people and their Government have made in the last three years”.
Story by Edzorna Francis Mensah
