Former Finance Minister, Dr. Amin Adam has criticized the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of using the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to tarnish the image of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
This comes as a response to the presentation of the 2025 Budget, which was read by the current Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson in Parliament on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
Addressing the press on Thursday, March 13, 2025, Dr. Amin Adam revealed that the figures presented by the Finance Minister were misleading and deliberately infused into the 2025 Budget to paint the NPP as ineffective in managing the country’s finances.
According to Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson upon his presentation of the 2025 Budget, he criticized the NPP of mismanaging the country’s finances, and was characterized by excessive borrowing, debt crisis, and poor fiscal management.
These, according to Dr. Amin Adam, are untrue as the NPP government handed over a strong economy.
“The 2025 Budget was a hatchet job going to be the vehicle for confirming what has been perfectly rehearsed to crown the narrate by putting data to unfounded claims and our 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 fiscal,” he stated.
“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.”
