A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Team, Alfred Kojo Thompson, has said that President Mahama calling an emergency Cabinet meeting only to instruct the Finance and Energy Ministers to plan fuel price cuts is “a joke”.
Speaking on Angel FM’s morning show on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, he argued that President Mahama could have called the ministers and directed them to work together, then bring a proposal to Parliament on the matter, rather than travelling back from France to convene an emergency Cabinet meeting only to reach that outcome.
Mr Thompson also questioned the cost of the trip, saying that the fuel used to power the private jet transporting President Mahama from France to Ghana could have been put into the energy sector to help reduce fuel prices.
“Isn’t this a joke that you call an emergency cabinet meeting because of that?
“The biggest joke of the century, these are your ministers, it is just a phone call away, instructing them to work together and bring a proposal to the cabinet to make a quick decision.
He added that the calculations and decisions could have been completed within a day, noting that Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) had already sat down after the meeting and determined that the government should reduce fuel prices by GHC 1.65 to ease the burden on the people.
He claimed that the failure to implement the reduction suggests that the NDC administration is “playing with Ghanaians.”
“So I have called my ministers, and I have instructed them to go sit down and plan how much they can deduct. CSOs sat down within one day and gave you GHS1.65 to be deducted; it tells you that this government is playing with us.
“Up till now, they have not done it because they have made up their mind that they will not do it,” he said.
Source: Vanessa Elizabeth Nkum
