Dr Cassiel Ato Forson: Minority Leader describes 2024 budget as “uninspiring, cruel and insensitive”
“Families are broken because bread winners can no longer afford to put food on the table,” he said.
The Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has described the 2024 Budget Statement and Economic Policy document as “uninspiring, cruel and insensitive.”
Mincing no words during the conclusion of the debate on the budget, the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam MP expressed deep concerns over the perceived shortcomings in the fiscal plan, outlining a scathing critique of its potential impact on various sectors of society.
Accusing the government of lacking foresight and compassion, Dr. Ato Forson argued that the 2024 budget failed to address the pressing needs of the citizens, particularly those in vulnerable communities.
“This is the bye bye budget of the group of people who promised to move the economy from taxation to production and yet ended up inflicting tax, tax and more tax on the people of Ghana. This budget is uninspiring, cruel, insensitive, and completely out of touch with the realities of the people of Ghana.”
“This government promised the people of Ghana heaven yet delivered hell; this government was high on promises and low on delivery! Never in the history of the Fourth Republic was a government so hyped up, with massive goodwill and huge fiscal space enough to transform the country as the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government. Yet this government and the NPP have gone down as the worst government in the history of Ghana!”
The Minority Leader also lamented how several livelihoods have been destroyed as a result of the harsh economic policies being implemented by the Akufo-Addo led government.
“Families are broken because bread winners can no longer afford to put food on the table,” he said.
