Mr Dennis Miracles Aboagye, a Presidential Staffer of the former Akufo-Addo administration, has created a picture of Ghana under President John Mahama’s present administration after only three months in power.
Ahead of the 2025 budget presentation, Miracles Aboagye stated that the country is now experiencing an intermittent electricity supply (Dumsor), rising fuel prices, increased illicit small-scale mining (Galamsney), worker dismissal, and price increases for products and services.
He posted on Facebook that he will read the 2025 budget in 48 hours. Dumsor is on the increase, and Galamsey is escalating because the actual galamseyers have arrived in town, as NDC Galamsey kingpins finally take to the streets to battle security forces and chase them away from their galamsey locations. Our bodies of water are becoming more polluted than ever before.
“Thousands of Ghanaians have been laid off for no apparent reason, and fuel prices are rising as prices for products and services skyrocket. First-year university students experience an anticlimax after paying their own costs, despite the government’s pledge.
“A long-standing fact concerning some false neutrals and biassed CSOs has finally been revealed, as so-called neutrals race for political jobs while flaunting their NDC party cards in our faces after misleading a whole country into believing they advocated for love of country.
“Our country is undergoing a reset, some of which goes back to the dark days. In some circumstances, the consequences can be both negative and favourable.
We have a country to grow and a responsibility to keep our government on track to achieve its social contract with our citizens for the sake of our country’s future.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Joseph Obeng, President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), has informed Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson that traders do not expect new taxes in the 2025 budget statement.
He stated that GUTA will support any move by the government to broaden the tax net to include persons who do not pay taxes.
“We don’t foresee more taxes. We’re also not going to be concerned if new taxes are designed to encourage folks who aren’t already paying taxes to do so.
We won’t worry about that one. But what we’ll be concerned about is simply increasing the taxes on the minority of us who pay.
“Expanding the tax base is desirable. And whatever they do to bring in a lot more folks who are not on the tax rolls is also good news,” he continued.
The Ghanaian government has accepted the fiscal policy blueprint for 2025, which will be officially presented to Parliament on March 11.
This decision, announced during a special Cabinet meeting on Thursday, underscores the administration’s commitment to economic stability and long-term growth.
Minister of Administration Communications Felix Kwakye Ofosu told Ghanaians that the administration is still dedicated to implementing its social and economic commitments in a press conference following the meeting.
He affirmed that the fiscal strategy will mirror the administration’s 120-day pledges, which include eliminating the betting tax and COVID levy.
In addition, the budget will detail the financial situation that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government inherited, as well as offer hope and strategic goals for national growth.
