The Senior Presidential Advisor, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo has given reasons why he thinks the Agyenkwa 2022 Budget is one of the best-ever.
According to him, the budget makes provision for youth employment through entrepreneurship as well as skills development and the introduction of the Electronic levy (E-levy) to fund entrepreneurship ventures.
Mr Osafo-Maafo made this known today at the launch of the Ghana TVET Service today in Accra.
"Indeed, this current budget is one of the best this country has ever produced," Mr Osafo-Maafo said.
"Because, there are two things in it which are fundamental and these are some entrepreneurship training that we are putting as part of a responsibility of government to ensure that the youth is resourced financially to be entrepreneurial, that people cannot use access to funds as a handicap. That people can develop skills and become entrepreneurs.
"The introduction of the E-levy is extremely critical. These two things in this budget, people must hail it, it is fundamentally a good document".
Mr Osafo-Maafo charged the country's youth to move beyond the "I want a job mentality" to embracing a mentality of "I am creating a job for myself and others".
But the Minority in Parliament is expected to file a new motion against the approval of the 2022 budget.
According to the Minority, they will do so when Speaker Alban Bagbin returns from his medical review in Dubai.
“Obviously when Mr. Speaker comes, we will take this matter up to possibly submit another motion on it because we believe that [First Deputy Speaker’s] refusal to admit the motion was very biased,” the caucus’s Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, told journalists after a crunch meeting on Monday, December 13.
The Asawase MP was livid Joewise, as the First Deputy Speaker is popularly called, was more politically bias instead of doing the work of a Speaker of Parliament.
He stressed that that action by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP has given the Minority no option but to wait for Alban Sumana Bagbin, a long-time National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP until his election as Speaker, to come for a fresh motion to be filed.