Mr. President, in these difficult economic times you have brought upon the nation of Ghana, you cannot lead the resolution, because you are an inherent part of the problem. Our people are suffering under your failed and mismanaged policies and stewardship, and your November 2022 Budget is going to impose further austerity upon Ghanaians. Listen closely to the echoes of history and avoid replaying the discordant notes of past Governments that cost this nation dearly – for as Mark Twain once said: “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme”.

In the wee morning of Saturday, 18th December 2021, the Parliament of Ghana approved the Appropriation Bill, 2021 for GH¢145.4 billion for the consideration and signature of President Nana Akufo-Addo to become law to govern the Government’s planned expenditure for 2022 fiscal year. The rhetoric of the rejected 2022 Budget and the Approved 2022 Budget which had formed the basis of the Nana Akufo-Addo’s one-party Kabuki dance ensemble ended successfully in the way the President knows best. He who pays the piper calls the tune! But patriots shall win against the compradors and political elite by continuing to put Ghana First!

The Ghanaian electorate had been hoodwinked with a circus of deceptions since 26th November 2021 of sham disagreements amongst the Nana Akufo-Addo one-party dance ensemble in Parliament. We are now at the stage of what the two caucus in Parliament wanted and anticipated the most in the 2022 Budget season – the Budget Committee hearings and specially the accompanying allowances of various forms and shapes. The Minority enabled the appointment of the Minister of Finance together with any 2022 Budget hardships he inflicts upon Ghanaians. Judas Iscariot repented. The NDC can do the same.

The shameless compromise of the one-party political elite against the Ghanaian electorate by an equally divided Parliament of 137 members from each side of the House has been ably resisted, disrupted, and thrown into disarray by the alertness of affected stakeholders and We the People outside Parliament. The extent of the Minority’s betrayal and sell out of its conscience and the people of Ghana will be known when it formally accepts in Parliament any amendment(s) to the rejected 2022 Budget based on the illegal rescission and approval of 30th November 2022 contrary to the letter and spirit of Order 50 of the Standing Orders.

The 30th of November 2021 will go down in the annals of Ghana’s history as the day of Ghana’s Great Betrayal by an equally divided Parliament of 275 Members with 137 members from the New Patriotic Party (NPP), 137 members from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and an independent member in their refusal or failure to perform their constitutional duties in holding the executive arm of Government to account without fear or favour, affection, or ill will. The one-party state prohibited by the spirit of Article 3 of the 1992 Constitution has slowly and imperceptibly crept into the governance style of our democratic-autocratic President…

The Parliamentary vote on 26/11 against the approval of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s 2022 Budget Statement and Policy presented to the Parliament of Ghana on 17/11 on his behalf by his Co-President and Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, was self-inflicted. Parliament meets today, 30th November 2021, amidst claims and counterclaims of the ability to undo the Parliamentary vote of 26/11 rejecting the 2022 Budget Statement and Policy presented by this government run on autopilot. Every patriotic Ghanaian, of whatever political persuasion, should be alert to the Kabuki dance in whatever futile form it takes to reverse the irreversible rejection of the 2022 Budget Statement by Parliament.