The Buem MP, Kofi Adams is pushing for the annual post budget workshop to be held in Parliament House in Accra.

Annually, MPs are taken out of Accra for a residential workshop on the budget presented before debate and consideration.

Parliament has been informed that this year's post budget workshop will be held from Friday, 17th November to Sunday, 19th November, 2023 at the Rock City Hotel, Kwahu Nkwatia.

This will be after the 2024 Budget Statement and Economic Policy is presented to Parliament on November 15.

But speaking on the floor, the NDC MP cited the recent economic hardship and called on the leadership of the House to reconsider and hold the workshop in Parliament to save money.

“The Business Committee should rethink and consider that the savings that we would be making by organising the workshop here [Parlaiment], will help to support many things.

“...We can use part of this to get water to support the flood victims. I am trying to persuade leadership to consider this,” he appealed.

But the Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin, turned down his request.

According to him, he believes the request is opportunistic and propagandistic which just seeks to put Parliament in a bad light.

He added that “This is a decision of the committee, it is not about leaders being insensitive."

“I want to encourage members to be mindful of their choice of words and the approach they take on some of these matters. Otherwise, then we should say that we should not take salaries at all as Members of Parliament and we use all of that for community service. Such an approach is inappropriate, we do so to mislead the public and we the political class become victims,” he said.