– Majority Mocks Minority’s Economic Claims.
A war of words has erupted in Ghana’s Parliament, with the Majority Caucus fiercely ridiculing the Minority’s assertion that recent economic gains are merely a ripple effect of the previous Akufo-Addo government’s policies.
The Majority didn’t hold back, suggesting that if the Minority’s claims were true, then those “so-called policies” must have been “scared” of the former administration, rendering them ineffective during their tenure.
Adongo Unleashes Scathing Critique
Isaac Adongo, the outspoken Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolga Central and Chairman of Parliament’s Economic Committee, led the charge for the Majority.
Speaking passionately on the floor during discussions on the mid-year budget, Adongo dismissed the Minority’s narrative as utterly illogical.
“Mr. Speaker, I have heard people say that the gains we are experiencing now in the economy is because of policies that they implemented,” Adongo declared, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
“How do policies that could not turn the economy when you were there suddenly be performing magic when you are gone? It simply means that your own policies feared your leadership.
That your policies failed to perform when you were sitting there and when you disappeared they become friends with John Mahama and begin to perform. Please go and tell that one to class one children and not the people of Ghana!”
Minority’s “Propaganda Economics” Rebuttal
The Minority, fresh off a dramatic walkout during the budget presentation, resurfaced in Parliament on Tuesday, July 29, to launch their own broadside. They vehemently accused the Mahama government of “taking undue credit” for the country’s recent debt restructuring successes.
During a press conference, the Minority argued that any achievements being celebrated were firmly rooted in the groundwork laid by the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, particularly in areas like debt cancellation and external creditor negotiations.
Former Finance Minister Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, speaking for the Minority, branded comments made by his successor, Dr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, as “misleading and lacking in substance.”
Dr. Forson, in his budget presentation, had highlighted a significant drop in Ghana’s public debt-to-GDP ratio—from 61.8% in December 2024 to 43.8% in June 2025—attributing it to the current government’s “effective economic management.”
However, the Minority swiftly questioned this claim, demanding evidence of actual debt repayment to back such assertions. They stressed that it was the previous NPP government that secured the October 2024 Eurobond restructuring and achieved a whopping US$5 billion in debt cancellation with an additional US$4.7 billion in debt service savings.
They further cited a Fitch report from June 2025, which reportedly linked Ghana’s improved credit rating to the very restructuring efforts spearheaded by the previous administration.
The Minority didn’t mince words, accusing the current government of “hypocrisy” and labeling their economic narrative as “Propaganda Economics.” They sarcastically queried how the government could criticize an exercise while simultaneously praising its outcomes.
“Concrete Policies” Versus “Sloganeering”
In a sharp retort, Isaac Adongo countered the Minority’s arguments, attributing the economic gains to “prudent measures by the handlers of the economy.
” He scoffed at the idea that a sound economy could be built on “merely engaging in building a phantom national cathedral” or rolling out policies that “only hurt the country in the past years.”
“Mr. Speaker, the truth is that building national cathedral doesn’t turn around the economy,” Adongo asserted. “The truth is that running a government of 125 ministers doesn’t turn around economy, the truth is that when you print 80 billion Ghana cedis as if you are a yahoo boy it doesn’t turn around the economy.
It is concrete policies that turn around the economy and we are demonstrating that, we don’t need to be doing very big slogans. What we are doing is that we are going back to the basis, basis that you refused and you decided to cut you coat as if you were living in king’s paradise. No! Resources are limited and they must be used judiciously.”
Adongo then advised the Minority to humble themselves and seek guidance from the Finance Minister and his team on their economic management strategies.
“Mr Speaker, when you have a government that within seven months has moved inflation from 23 percent now to 13.7 percent you should begin trooping to Ministry of Finance to be learning from Hon. Ato Forson how he did that,” he challenged.
“When you have a minister in just a matter of seven months or even less moved the exchange rate from where it was to where it is today shouldn’t you be going for tutorials? And yet, instead of going for tutorials you are busy holding press conferences.
At the last count you have already done 58 press conferences. It is going to be a long journey, you will get tired.”
Minority Warned of Irrelevance
Adding to the Majority’s chorus, Nikyema Billa Alamzy, MP for Chiana-Paga constituency, accused the Minority of engaging in “marathon boycotts” and “press conferences,” warning that such actions could soon render them “irrelevant” in the august house.
Alamzy even recalled a prophetic statement by former President Akufo-Addo about Ghana’s economic woes. “Mr Speaker, the innovative leadership that we are seeing today is as a result of a prophecy by Nana Akufo-Addo when the latter part [of his administration] he was asked ‘how are you going to fix this economy’.”
He continued, “He said ‘a new leader will come and fix the economy’ and the new leader is the pragmatic John Dramani Mahama. So it was there I realized Akufo-Addo would have been a better prophetic pastor than a president. Probably, he would have been a senior prophetic pastor at Agraada’s ministry.”
Alamzy lauded the current government’s decision to uncap the GETFund to bolster school infrastructure and enhance the Free Senior High School initiative. He also expressed his elation over plans to construct selected roads, particularly the 166 special roads, as his own constituency of Chiana-Paga currently boasts “no single tarred road.”
“Mr Speaker, today I am very happy. Always I have been sitting here alone thinking how I am going to fix the roads of my people. I am running a rural constituency that is Chiana-Paga I don’t have single tarred road,” Alamzy shared.
“When I was campaigning wherever they tell me we don’t have roads I said I will fix it when I win. When I go they say we don’t have bridges I said I will fix it. I got here and the reality dawned on me that I might not be able to fix the roads.
But I was very happy when the Roads Maintenance Fund was indicated here that 166 constituencies that are in dire need of roads will be fix which my constituency I am sure come rain or shine will be part of it.”
