The Minority in Parliament has accused Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson of churning out misleading claims in his budget presentation with the aim of tarnishing the record of the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Former Finance Minister Dr. Amin Adam, addressing a press conference on Thursday, March 13, 2025, noted that the figures presented by the current Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, were erroneous and deliberately framed to paint the NPP government in a bad light.
He stated that although the current minister painted a picture of an economy in distress, the figures in the budget were manipulated to create a false narrative of economic mismanagement under the NPP.
“The 2025 budget was a hatchet job going to be the vehicle for confirming what had been perfectly rehearsed to crown the narrative by putting data to unfounded claims, and our intelligence has been confirmed that the finance minister did a hatchet job. The government churned out a fiscal deficit on a commitment basis of 7.6 percent of GDP and a primary deficit of 3.6 percent of GDP, and this will imply that the NPP mismanaged the fiscals.
“In fact, an economy with such strong revenue performance and expenditure controls as we have seen from the data that the minister presented cannot produce the kind of elevated fiscal outturns the minister announced; we see a lot of contradictions.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
