A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Team, Abdul Razak Chacha, has said the John Dramani Mahama administration has achieved its first major target of stabilising Ghana’s economy within its first two years in office.
He argued that the government did not promise to resolve all of Ghana’s challenges within two years but rather sought a four-year mandate to address the country’s economic difficulties.
Speaking on Ghanaians’ expectations of the yet-to-be-read 2027 Budget Statement, the Development Policy Analyst said the stabilisation of the economy was the first commitment made by the NDC government, insisting that it had delivered on that promise.
“The NPP, as a political party, must be thankful to the John Dramani Mahama administration for what it has achieved in two years. We [the NDC] never promised Ghanaians that we would solve all of Ghana’s problems in two years. We said we have a four-year mandate.
“The first thing we said was to stabilise the economy. Has the economy been stabilised? Yes! The NPP should understand that destroying something, as they did to our economy, is easy, but fixing it, as the NDC government has begun doing, is not easy, even though we have stabilised it within the first two years of our mandate,” he said.
Highlighting the 2027 Budget Statement, which is expected to be presented under the theme “The New Economy”, Mr Chacha indicated that the government was building a new economic direction on the foundation of the stabilisation achieved so far.
“So the New Economy is what we are building based on the stabilisation of the Ghanaian economy.”
Mr Chacha further maintained that the economic conditions under President Mahama and his Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, were beginning to make a tangible difference in the lives of Ghanaians.
