Kweku Baako is blaming both the executive and Majority leadership for the rejection of the budget
The Majority walked out from Parliament on Friday when the budget was rejected
It was, however, approved on Tuesday, November 30
Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, has laid the blame for the Minority Caucus in Parliament‘s initial rejection of the 2022 budget statement squarely on the leaders of the Majority Caucus and
Kwami, timelines, timetables for the presentation of the budget was known to all of them they also knew how long the debate will take and when the voting will take place, where was the full complement of their numbers?
“Look, there were three or so of them outside the jurisdiction, some has been there months before and such an important document and they knew that it will be subjected to votes, especially [when] the signals began on one stage that the Minority will decide to play hardball. It wasn’t going to look like the normal one, the 2017 budget, 2018 budget, 2019 budget.
Certain things had been hyped giving signals that you don’t continue to think that, ‘oh, some good will be generated and that voice vote will just carry everything along, then the ‘ayes’ have it.’ You prepare! You anticipate, especially when the signals came up!! Get all your members back to the jurisdiction and you see how they quickly organized them back in ‘an emergency form’?”
He concluded that the Majority leadership wasn’t sharp and smart in respect of this particular issue.
