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IMF has no control over BOG Amendment Bill- Dr. Akoto Osei

According to Dr. Akoto Osei, parliament is a sovereign entity whose powers cannot be questioned by an organisation like the IMF.

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The IMF team in charge of Ghana’s three-year bailout program has expressed displeasure at the passage of the BOG Amendment bill which keeps thresholds of the  Central Bank’s financing of government’s budget at 5%.

However, as part of conditions under the $918 million bailout program with Ghana, the Central Bank is required to reduce its five percent financing of the annual budget to 0%. This was supposed to be solidified by the amendment of the BOG Amendment Bill which hitherto placed the threshold at 5%.

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The move has led to the suspension of the release of the third tranche of Ghana’s IMF funds, which should have been transferred in August.

Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, however  says, “Parliament is a sovereign body and parliament thought that for the nation Ghana, that was not the best option so parliament kept to that side. If they [IMF] had an agreement with government that parliament did not like, parliament has the right to reject it,” he said.

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