The Member of Parliament for Tano North, Dr Gideon Boako, a spokesperson for former Vice President , attempted to score some points during the vetting of Minister of Finance-designate Dr on Monday, January 13, 2025.
Dr Boako tried to make Dr Ato Forson apologise to Dr Bawumia for allegedly misleading the public during a public lecture he held to challenge some figures on the economy which the former vice president put out. "In your presentation, you put out some data, among which I found highly misleading information that you presented.
And to quote you verbatim, you said, 'Mr Chairman, the official data from the Ministry of Finance indicates clearly that the overall deficit by the end of 2016 was 7.8% of GDP (6.1% of new rebased GDP).' But the figure you quoted, Honourable Nominee, was utterly untrue. "And to back this with evidence, if you read the budget statements of 2017, the mid-year budget statement of 2018, and the mid-year budget statement of 2019, you will see that page 7, paragraph 14, of the 2017 mid-year budget puts that figure at 9.3% of GDP and not what you quoted.
Again, page 12, paragraph 45, of the 2018 mid-year budget puts the figure at 9.3%, not what you quoted.
