Collapsed NPP Pressure Group, Fixing The Country Movement Wants Approval Of Unpopular 2022 Budget

Pro-government pressure group, Fixing The Country Movement, is belatedly demanding that the Parliament of Ghana pass the 2022 Budget and Financial Statement.

In a press statement read by its Convener, Ernest Owusu-Bempah, the Movement said the Budget which contains the controversial e-levy and other unpopular taxes is good for the country and therefore should be passed.

“After a careful reading and studying of the 2022 budget statement, the Fixing The Country Movement deems it fit to add our voice to the call by well-meaning Ghanaians for the august house of Parliament to approve the budget proposals in the national interest,” he said.

It is unclear where Owusu Bempah is getting his zeal from, given the fact that the movement had virtually collapsed following the disengagement of its core founders on grounds that some financial misappropriation had happened within the group.

A few days ago, the main conveners of the group, Hopeson Adorye and Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC informed the group that they are out.

The so-called Fixing The Country Movement is a pressure group that was formed by the Akufo-Addo government to counter the activities of a youth Movement, #FixTheCountry which had been demanding that the Akufo-Addo government deliver on its numerous failed promises.

Ernest Owusu-Bempah, the man who holds himself out as the Convener of group is Akufo-Addo’s appointee as the Head of Communications at the Ghana Gas Company.

Basically, therefore, the demand for the Budget to be fixed is the demand coming from the Akufo-Addo government speaking through surrogates.