The Minority caucus in Parliament has accused the government of manipulating Ghana's fiscal data, labeling it as "statistical thievery." According to the former Finance Minister, Mohammed Amin Adam, the government distorted the country's fiscal balance by including multi-year arrears as if they were accumulated in 2024 alone.
Speaking at a press briefing on the 2025 Budget Statement, Amin Adam questioned why the government altered its reporting methodology in the fourth International Monetary Fund (IMF) review after three previous reviews adhered to a different approach. "We've gone through three successful IMF reviews and the technical people never told us that we needed to compile claims from several years and include it in the fiscal framework as if they were accumulated in 2024 alone.
Why they will do that in the fourth review we don't understand.
And this is why the IMF has to speak because you cant have inconsistent methodology." he said.
