The Minister of Trade and Industry, KT Hammond, has taken a swipe at the Minority Caucus in Parliament for opposing the Export and Import (Restrictions on Importation of Selected Strategic Products) Regulations 2023.
The government presented before Parliament a legislative instrument that requires importers of 22 restricted items to obtain licenses from a committee established by the Minister of Trade and Industry.
But the minority opposed the instrument.
Speaking at the launch of the 3rd edition of the Made in Ghana Bazaar at the Accra International Conference Centre, KT Hammond expressed his disappointment over the matter.
He said the presidential candidate of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama supported the move publicly hence it sounds strange for the Minority to oppose it.
“In keeping with their preferred political philosophy of triangulation, which is the opportunistic adoption of political positions for situational advantage, the opposition party took up arms. They wouldn’t permit me to lay my paper, even though Article 11 of our Constitution granted me absolute authority, but horror of horrors.
“Just a little while after his party members in opposition had threatened to cause the heavens to fall if my legislative instrument was not withdrawn, the opposition party’s flagbearer and former president, John Dramani Mahama, made a public declaration, a pronouncement that in the very remotest possibility that his party ever won elections again in Ghana, he would introduce the same import restrictions in Parliament.
“What can I say for logic? Opportunism scruples in this opposition party which is bound to remain in opposition.”
By: Rainbowradioonline com/Ghana
