Member of Parliament for Oforikrom, Michael Kwasi Aidoo
The Member of Parliament for Oforikrom, Michael Kwasi Aidoo, has described the 2025 Budget presentation by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, as neither surprising nor newsworthy.
Speaking in Parliament after the budget reading, he asserted that the majority of the content consisted of campaign promises made by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government during the 2024 Election.
He emphasised that the budget offers no new revelations and comes as no surprise to Ghanaians.
“This budget is not surprising to any Ghanaian. We’ve heard consistently that they were going to take out E-Levy, COVID Tax, Betting Tax and Emission Levy and all these things. So, this doesn’t come as a surprise to anybody; it’s not news to anybody,” he said.
According to the MP, he had anticipated that the budget would inspire hope among Ghanaians but he said it was rather dominated by lamentations for nearly 30 minutes.
He also addressed the finance minister’s announcement regarding plans to uncap the GETFund programme.
“What I feel is that it was supposed to rather drive a sense of hope to Ghanaians. But then it didn’t really incite that hope that we expected. And the Minister of Finance came and continued to do the lamentations that the president did. He used almost 30 minutes to lament, almost half of the time, and went back to say the few things that they had already promised in their campaign. And then interestingly, they also mentioned that they were going to uncap GETFUND.
“That’s a very major issue that we need to look at. Because when you uncap GETFUND, which is meant for infrastructure, what is going to happen to our various education institutions?” he quizzed.
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