Acting Chief Executive of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC), Sammy Gyamfi, has said the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the government has silenced the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He says the ill comments being made against the budget by the opposition NPP is just to excite their party base.
According to Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the behaviour of many NPP legislators during the budget presentation raises concerns about the party’s future.
He asserts their actions depicted a loss of hope in the NPP, exhibiting an imminent collapse of the party.
Gyamfi’s statement come on the back of comments by the former Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam Antah, that the budget presented by the Finance Minister to Parliament Tuesday, March 11, 2025, was a ‘sakawa budget’, meaning a scam.
But speaking in an exclusive interview on TV3’s NewDay Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the private legal practitioner indicated that the NPP has been overwhelmed by the budget and has resorted to making comments just to establish some relevance with their foot soldiers.
“They are completely dumbfounded by the details of this budget. They have been totally silenced but they just have to pull up some theatrics to ginger their party base,” he stated.
“Yesterday I was sitting at the gallery and from the look on the faces of some of their MPs, it was like, ‘our party will collapse’” he added.
Prior to the reading of the Budget Tuesday, Gyamfi had told TV3 in Parliament that the government’s fiscal policy was going to meet the needs and aspirations of the public as promised during the campaign.
“Aban papa aba (a better government is here),” he stated, adding that “the change we voted for is here.”
“The hope the people of this country need is here and I’m very optimistic that by the time the Finance Minister is done reading this budget, many Ghanaians will find hope in his words,” Gyamfi was certain.
Meanwhile, he has indicated that the government is not going to have challenges with the implementation of its promises to Ghanaians with recourse to the taxes it has promised to abolish.
He explained that those promises and tax cuts were well thought through before they were brought out, the reason the government is confident of fulfilling those promises to the people of Ghana.
Scores of Ghanaians are expecting the NDC administration to live to its reset mantra following what many have described as the shambolic performance of the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration leading to its humiliating defeat in the December 2024 elections.
The budget, as delivered by the Minister, proposes abolishing nuisance taxes introduced and retained by the last administration, subject to parliamentary approval.
The budget’s implementation is expected to bring relief to businesses and citizens through tax cuts, which many believe contributed to the economic downturn under the previous administration.
