2022 Budget Saga: Former NDC MP Bashes Haruna Iddrisu Over E-levy

Ras Mubarak, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu has shaded the Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, for the position he has taken on the E-levy proposal in the 2022 budget statement.

According to Ras Mubarak, Mr Iddrisu’s posture is the kind of shifty attitudes and “dangerous flip-flopping that make the public feel NDC and NPP are the same.”

His comments come after Mr Haruna Iddrisu who is also MP for Tamale South had said the Minority would accept the e-levy if it is reduced from 1.75% to  1% proposed in the budget statement, a position which totally different from the earlier decision of the Minority Caucus to reject the proposal entirely.

“A week ago, we said no, we won’t accept e-levy but having listened to officials in government, including the Minister of Finance, I am convinced to accept a departure from my original no to accepting a one percent e-levy,” Mr. Iddrisu said at the 10th-anniversary launch of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications in Accra on Thursday, December 2, 2021.

“We are not against it, but we want it fixed at one percent. We fear for double taxation because we already have the Communication Services Tax,” he said.

But, reacting to his comments in a post on Facebook, Ras Mubarak said Haruna Iddrisua has “completely lost the plot”.

“It’s the sort of shifty attitude and dangerous flip-flopping that make the public feel NDC and NPP are the same,” he wrote on Facebook.

Meanwhile, the Volta Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) Second Vice-Chairman, Ebenezer Amuzu has passed on.

Minister for Railway Development and Hohoe MP, John Peter Amewu took to Facebook to announce his demise on Sunday.

The cause of death is yet to be known.

Mr Amewu eulogised the deceased for his dedication and service to the party and the people of the Volta region as he extended his condolences to the bereaved family.

“He was a true party person and our party in the region is poorer because of his departure, my sincere condolences to his family, wife, and children.

“May his soul and the souls of the faithful departed rest and abide in the bosom of the Almighty until the Last Day of the Resurrection when we shall all meet again!” he mourned.