Finance Minister Dr.
Cassiel Ato Forson has criticised the debt restructuring programme undertaken by the Akufo-Addo administration, describing it as poorly designed, cancerous, and fundamentally unfair.
Speaking on JoyNews' PM Express on Thursday, July 22, just hours after presenting the 2025 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review to Parliament, he questioned the very architecture of the debt overhaul he inherited. "First of all, the debt restructuring for me was not well structured, it was very badly structured," he told host Evans Mensah. "I say so in the sense that, you would ask, why do you restructure your debt and create such a hump?" The Finance Minister did not mince words, suggesting the design of the restructuring raised suspicions about the intent behind it. "Are you setting someone up to fail?
No one restructures a debt like this.
