Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the ranking member of Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, has accused the John Mahama-led NDC of abandoning its major promises to Ghanaians.
Oppong Nkrumah challenged the NDC government to account for the broader set of promises it made.
According to Oppong Nkrumah, the government appears to have shifted its focus towards a few areas it can showcase.
He argued that the NDC government’s performance should instead be measured against the specific targets it set for itself in its 2025 and 2026 economic programmes.
Speaking on Citi Fm’s Eyewitness News, Oppong Nkrumah stated, “There are only about three games in town. Everything else that they listed, literally they have abandoned it”.
“You were here when they said we were going to build 600 CHPS compounds in the first year, and now they said they were going to do about 35 Agenda 111s,” he said.
“In sports, they said we’re going to build about seven stadia in, I think, the first or second year,” he said.
“The major outcomes that they listed, they’ve literally abandoned all of them,” he said.
Oppong Nkrumah also linked the situation partly to the government’s fiscal strategy.
He argued that revenue mobilisation had not grown strongly enough to match the size and demands of the economy, adding that the limited fiscal space has made it difficult for the government to pursue the wide range of programmes it initially promised,
“We have a theory of why they have abandoned all of those and are just clinging onto about two or three things as evidence that their government is performing,” he said.
Also, Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has slammed the John Mahama government for eyeing a third term in office.
According to Afenyo-Markin, the Mahama government is not performing but wants a third term, adding that the NPP are watching them with an eagle eye.
Speaking in contributing to the debate on the 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review presented by Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson in Parliament, Afenyo-Markin stated, “And finally, you claim you want a third term, third term, third term. You are not performing. You said third term… eh, I’m Ato Forson. You are here presenting a budget, and beneath it is a third term agenda where you are going to spend money.
For people to be calling for a third term, we are watching you with eagle eyes. You won’t get the third term today or tomorrow; focus on the 24-hour economy. You promise one job, three shifts. You promise industrialisation. Ghanaian businesses have lost confidence in you. You cancel the 1D1F, which was creating opportunity for the private sector.
In its place, no policy alternatives. Electricity tariffs have gone up over almost 30%. Then you get up, you say you are promoting a 24-hour economy. You have sacked public sector workers. Many of the Ghanaian youth lost their jobs. You sacked them”.
He added, “Today you are here instead of promising to restore them into their rightful places in the job market. You are not doing so. Then you come, you say we should praise you. Who is going to praise you if you don’t pay and you are holding the money, and then you are there tightening belts and only paying your party members, then we should praise you?
We are not interested in the books. We are interested in the economy in our pockets. People are suffering, Mister Speaker. People need jobs. Your youth, even your MPs, they are praising you here. A lot of them are hungry. Your backbenchers, they can’t go back home. Your backbenchers and you here, you say we should praise you. We will not praise you. It is the same old story. As I stand here now”.
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