The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu Constituency, Hamza Adam, has claimed that opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of the House are "jittery and full of fear" due to the strength of the 2025 budget statement presented by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.

During parliamentary commentaries on the budget read by Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson on March 11, 2025, the NDC MP asserted that the budget's robustness, drawn from the party's manifesto, has unsettled the NPP.

"Our colleagues opposite are jittery and full of fear because of the robustness of the budget that has been provided. Mr. Speaker, what they do not know is that the budget was teased out from the People's Manifesto, a manifesto developed by the people who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the budget," he stated.

"They know that what is contained in the NDC's manifesto, by the time we finish implementing the promises in the NDC manifesto, the NPP would have collapsed. So, because of that, they are afraid," he said.

The Kumbungu MP described the 2025 budget as a generational budget that offers hope across all sectors of society.

"The budget that has been presented stands out from all angles. It is a generational budget because it is a budget that gives hope to men, a budget that gives hope to women, a budget that gives hope to young girls, a budget that gives hope to businessmen, a budget that gives hope to bankers, and everybody," he said.

Presented by President John Dramani Mahama's administration, which took office in January 2025 following the NDC's victory in the December 2024 elections, the 2025 budget outlines the government's economic policies and expenditure projections for the year.

It includes measures like scrapping the E-levy, betting tax, and COVID-19 levy—promises from the NDC's 120-day social contract with Ghanaians.

NDC leaders have praised the budget as a tool to "reset" Ghana's economy, while the NPP has criticised it, with some members claiming that it fails to build on the economic foundation left by the Akufo-Addo government, which recorded a 5.7% GDP growth in 2024, per the Ghana Statistical Service.

The NPP also argues that the budget's projected GDP growth rate of 4.0% paints a gloomy picture for the country.

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