Former Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has criticised government for the economic figures outlined in the 2025 Budget which he described as a deceptive document intended to tarnish the reputation of the New Patriotic Party.
Addressing the media on the 2025 Budget in Parliament on Thursday, March 13, Dr. Amin Adam said that the numbers provided by the Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson were inaccurate and purposefully designed to cast the NPP government in a negative light.
The address by the Minority in Parliament comes two days after Finance Minister Ato Forson delivered the 2025 Budget Statement to Parliament on Tuesday, March 11, criticizing the NPP government’s economic performance.
Ato Forson asserted that the NPP administration mismanaged the economy with excessive borrowing, fiscal mismanagement, and huge debt crisis.
However, Amin Adam disagreed with the Finance Minister’s claim insisting that the figures in the 2025 Budget were manipulated to court disaffection for the NPP.
“But colleagues, this is where it gets interesting. They have erroneously churned out this data in a bit to tarnish the image of the NPP administration by including 49.2 billion Ghana cedis in expenditure claims without any basis,” he told the media.
The Karaga MP stressed that the Finance Minister as per the budget presented did a “hatchet job”, claiming that the Minority sees contradictions in the figures presented.
“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 fiscal deficit on commitment basis of 7.6 percent of GDP and 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.”
