The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Minority Caucus in Parliament has sharply criticised the government’s handling of the economy, arguing that its policies prioritise short-term political gains instead of long-term development, job creation, and structural economic reform.
Responding to the 2026 Budget Statement presented by Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the Ranking Member on the Economic Committee, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, questioned the government’s spending priorities.
He referenced plans to purchase two new executive jets, saying, “You don’t have fiscal space, but you have space to buy two new executive jets.”
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Mr Oppong Nkrumah warned that without strong revenue performance and strategic investment in productive sectors, the country’s economic challenges, high inflation, joblessness, and sluggish growth would worsen.
He stressed that young people would ultimately bear the brunt of these policy failures.
He also criticised the government for what he described as excessive reliance on manual labour within road projects, noting that “almost five hundred thousand of the eight hundred thousand jobs announced in the budget are going to be manual labour on road budgets,” instead of industrial or value-adding employment.
Calling for a shift in policy direction, he urged the government to focus on agriculture, the real sector, and investments that drive long-term economic transformation, warning that short-term fixes will not deliver the sustainable growth Ghanaians need.
