2022 was my most difficult year as Finance Minister

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta says 2022 was his worst year as the manager of Ghana’s public purse. Presenting the 2023 mid-year budget review in Parliament on Monday, July 31, Mr. Ofori-Atta indicated that the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic posed a great challenge for him and the governing New Patriotic Party forcing the government to run to the International Monetary Fund for respite. “2022 was the most difficult year for me as Ghana’s Finance Minister. On July 1st 2022, we took what was then a very difficult but necessary decision to request support from the IMF to implement…