He said his request was meant to allow lawmakers and Ghanaians to discuss whether or not the country should spend a portion of the fund to close the fiscal gap due to the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, households and the economy.

“Mr Speaker, there are issues of jobs losses that we need to consider and we pray that as we debate and go through the Stabilisation and Contingency funds that you (Parliament) truly relook at the Heritage Fund to reassess how best to trigger it without wasting it, knowing that the most important thing is to save lives because our best resource are our people,” he said.

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Addressing Parliament on Friday, April 3, Mr Ofori-Atta said that what he proposed, while preparing the 2019 budget, did not include the Heritage Fund to solve the current problem facing the country.

Source: Graphic.com.gh