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The Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has accused the government of deliberately reducing expenditure in an attempt to present a more favourable picture of its fiscal performance, arguing that the move is negatively affecting job creation, infrastructure development and the implementation of government programmes.
According to the former Information Minister, the government’s decision to under-execute its budget has resulted in several promised projects remaining incomplete while communities across the country continue to wait for development interventions that were announced.
Speaking during the debate on the 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review in Parliament on Tuesday, July 28, Oppong Nkrumah criticised what he described as the government’s failure to spend allocated funds as planned, insisting that the approach is hurting economic activity and limiting opportunities for employment.
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The Ofoase-Ayirebi legislator claimed that the government had made commitments to execute projects and programmes worth billions of Ghana cedis but had failed to meet those targets by the middle of the year
“This government made promises to create jobs and execute projects and programmes to the tune of GH¢30 billion which it has not executed as of half-year. As of half-year, they had under-executed the budget and that is the reason there are no projects in some constituencies.
“That GH¢30 billion is jobs, projects and programmes that they promised to deliver and so it was therefore baffling to hear the Finance Minister say he is not spending as much as he was programmed to spend because the NPP signed up with the IMF on a 1.5 percent Primary Balance…you refuse to spend so that your books will look good on paper.”0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
