The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Haruna Mohammed, has given the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government a one out of ten rating for its governance performance, citing questionable spending practices.
He made the comments on Channel One TV’s weekend news analysis programme, The Big Issue, on Saturday, January 10.
Haruna Mohammed argued that the government’s claims of a “lean government” are misleading, given the actual cost of operations. He compared the current administration’s expenditure with that of the previous government, highlighting what he described as inconsistencies.
“If I am to rate them based on governance, I will give them one out of ten. You mentioned lean government. We all know that if you study production management, you look at the number of people you use during the work and the cost associated with that. They promised a lean government, they brought the lean numbers. That lean number in terms of compensation will spend GH₵2,711,180,829, I am reading from Appendix 4A of the 2025 Budget, office of Government Machinery and MMDAs expenditure. So approximately 2.7 billion for the lean government. Whiles there has been an accusation and pointing of fingers to the previous government of having a huge number, that previous government was spending GH₵326,907,847.”
He emphasised that the inflated spending under the lean government contradicts the administration’s stated goal of efficiency. According to him, such practices undermine public trust and fail to deliver tangible benefits to ordinary Ghanaians.
“They have not been fair to the good people of Ghana,” he said.
