2021 Budget: Minister For Finance To Request GHS27.4 billion For 1st quarter expenditure Next year

The Parliament order paper has revealed that the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta is set to request GH¢27.4 billion for the running of the country for the first three months of 2021.

The Finance Minister is to ask Parliament to approve “by resolution, the withdrawal of the sum of twenty-seven billion, four hundred and thirty-four million, one hundred and eighty thousand, five hundred and twenty Ghana cedis (GHS27,434,180,520.00) from the Consolidated Fund.”

“This is for the purpose of meeting expenditure necessary to carry on the services of the Government in respect of the period expiring three months from the beginning of the financial year or on the coming into operation of the Appropriation Act in respect of the 2021 financial year.”

Source: GhanaFeed.com